Turkey-Syria quake worst natural disaster in a century
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Alex Ritz and in the early hours of Sunday, |
| 0:08.6 | the 12th of February, these are our main stories. |
| 0:12.0 | The UN humanitarian chief says the Turkey Syria earthquake |
| 0:16.0 | is the worst natural disaster in the region in a century |
| 0:19.6 | as the WHO warns that nearly 26 million people have been affected. |
| 0:24.8 | Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said |
| 0:27.7 | a US military fighter jet acting on his orders |
| 0:31.2 | has shot down a high-altitude airborne object |
| 0:34.2 | over the North-Western Yukon territory. |
| 0:37.1 | And a rare glimpse into what's going on inside Iran |
| 0:40.6 | on the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. |
| 0:47.0 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:48.6 | a crowd break their way into a police station |
| 0:51.7 | in Pakistan to kill a man accused of blasphemy. |
| 0:55.2 | And the curator who needs your help to track down this. |
| 0:59.0 | David Bowie famously wore a mystific dress |
| 1:02.0 | on the cover of his album, The Man Who Sold the World. |
| 1:05.0 | We don't know where that dress is, |
| 1:06.9 | so that is the dream piece that we would love to know where it is. |
| 1:12.6 | Almost a week after earthquakes, |
| 1:14.9 | struck southern Turkey and northern Syria. |
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