In the coming week, Turkey and Syria struggle to respond to earthquakes.

Iran's regime considers pardoning thousands of protesters, and Brazil's President Lula meets President Biden in Washington.

It's February 9, 2023 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carly Ann Robbins.

So Bob, nice to see you and certainly nice to talk to you.

So let's start, sadly, with the devastation in Turkey and Syria.

This past Monday is 7.8, which is an extraordinary number.

Earthquake hit the border region of the two countries. And the aftershocks are continuing,

compounding the destruction. The estimated death toll as a Thursday is close to 20,000 and is certain

to climb. And while the window for rescue is closing fast, it's incredibly cold there.

Both Turkey and Syria have huge tasks ahead of providing relief for the tens of thousands of people displaced and eventually rebuilding.

How well are they doing is the aid getting in?

Are they getting enough support from the international community?

And getting aid in particular to Syria, given its outcast state, is a tricky one when you

consider as well that, you know, most of the people who have been killed and displaced are in an

opposition region, and Assad has not been kind to those people.

Yes, it's two very distinct national contexts. And obviously, earthquakes know no boundaries.

This one was particularly pernicious in the region that was hit, especially in Syria.

So I think I'll take it one country at a time, Carla. So Turkey, which is bearing a bigger area and a bigger impact, both in damage and in lives lost, is scrambling to try

to deal with it.

It's got difficulties in getting to some of these places.

If you look at some of the footage that's come in so far, you basically have the whole

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