UN says over 50,000 missing after Venezuela quakes
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The number of people killed in Wednesday's powerful double earthquakes in Venezuela has risen to more than 900, with over 3,000 injured. Also: the US strikes several targets in Iran in retaliation for an alleged attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's Revolutionary Guard reportedly responds by targeting US sites in the Gulf. Israel and Lebanon sign a framework agreement brokered by the US. Scientists find evidence of vast hidden magma systems inside Mars. The symphony orchestras playing live film scores in cinemas. The influence of the Spice Girls 30 years on. And the German mathematician who's predicted the winner of every World Cup since 2014.
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Photo: People standing outside a collapsed building in La Guaira, Venezuela, on June 26, 2026 after back-to-back earthquakes. Credit: REUTERS/Maxwell Briceno
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Pete Ross, and in the early hours of Saturday, the 27th of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:18.6 | The search for earthquake survivors in Venezuela continues as the UN confirms more than 50,000 people are still missing. The US says it's |
| 0:26.4 | launched what it describes as retaliatory strikes on Iran. President Trump's |
| 0:30.8 | former national security adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified information. |
| 0:39.8 | Also in this podcast... |
| 0:41.8 | We thought that this kind of complex system was associated |
| 0:45.6 | and could only form through plate tectonics, |
| 0:48.3 | but our results suggest that Mars found another way. |
| 0:51.8 | Scientists find huge magma systems on Mars that point to the potential to sustain life. |
| 1:03.6 | We start this podcast in Venezuela, where the number of dead after Wednesday's devastating |
| 1:08.8 | twin earthquakes is rising dramatically as more |
| 1:11.8 | bodies are recovered from collapsed buildings. The latest official figures say over 900 people |
| 1:17.4 | have been killed. The United Nations says more than 50,000 people are still unaccounted for. Those |
| 1:23.0 | figures alone give us a sense of the scale of this disaster. The northern state of Laguaida was one of the |
| 1:29.0 | worst hit areas. Our reporter, Vanessa Silva, is there. The level of devastation has no words |
| 1:36.1 | to explain what we have seen in this area of this coastal town of Venezuela. The one that was |
| 1:43.5 | hit with more |
| 1:46.1 | force with the earthquakes |
| 1:48.0 | that shake the country on |
| 1:50.0 | Wednesday. You can see there's so |
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