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Global News Podcast

Turkey-Syria quake worst natural disaster in a century

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The comments were made by the United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths. Also: Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has said a United States military fighter jet, acting on his orders, has shot down a high-altitude airborne object over the northwestern Yukon territory, and we get a rare glimpse inside Iran on the 44th anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

Transcript

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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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