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Global News Podcast

Turkey's president admits quake response 'shortcomings'

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking as more than 22,000 people confirmed dead in Turkey and Syria. Also: Ukraine renews threat to boycott 2024 Olympics if Russians compete, Amsterdam to outlaw cannabis smoking in red-light district and new Harry Potter video game controversy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.1

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 10th of February.

0:11.2

The Turkish President admits the earthquake rescue effort is too slow,

0:15.5

while relief workers in rebel-held areas of Syria accuse the UN of not acting impartially.

0:21.5

We report from the shelled border town in Russia backing Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.

0:27.2

And China tries to encourage couples to have more babies.

0:32.8

Also in the podcast, the Dutch city of Amsterdam is cracking down on drugs tourists.

0:38.0

They want to attract more of what the mayor has controversially referred to

0:43.0

as the right kind of tourists talking about people who will visit the museums and art galleries instead.

0:49.0

And why summer calling for a boycott of the new Harry Potter video game?

1:06.7

The earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria in the early hours of Monday morning is now officially

1:11.5

the sixth most deadly this century, with more than 22,000 people officially confirmed dead.

1:17.6

And yet, more than 100 hours after the quake hit, people are still being pulled alive from the rubble,

1:24.0

including a 10-day old baby. But for many more families, it is a tale of despair,

1:29.4

as Quentin Somerville reports from the southern Turkish city of Antakia.

2:00.0

You can't see anyone on out digging under the rubble to try and retrieve some,

2:05.5

but what there is up there is an overpowering smell of dead bodies.

2:10.5

In the first second and third day of the rescue mission, you're finding a lot of people.

2:16.9

This lot pulled out maybe a couple of dozen, including very old children from buildings all along here.

2:25.0

They say these buildings, if you look at these buildings, they've collapsed on their side,

2:32.3

and then you have these buildings which are flat and completely, these are the most dangerous buildings,

2:37.0

they say, the ones that are still teetering, but the ones that have collapsed completely,

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