UN warns children are at risk of exploitation in Venezuela
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, has warned that children in Venezuela are at an increased risk of exploitation and trafficking, a week after the country was hit by two devastating earthquakes. It also said some 680,000 children were among 1.8 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Two thousand three hundred people are known to have been killed, but tens of thousands are unaccounted for, and rescue teams are still searching through the rubble of collapsed buildings. The country's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, has declared seven days of mourning. Also: we look at why millions of travellers in Europe have been suffering long delays. Canada becomes the latest country to join the Eurovision song contest. And how the powerful opiod fentanyl is affecting the Somali community in the US.
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| 0:33.2 | Warnings that children in Venezuela could fall victim to traffickers as a number of dead from the earthquakes a week ago rises to well over 2,000. |
| 0:44.1 | We look at why millions of travellers in Europe have been suffering long delays and how the powerful opioid fentanyl is affecting the Somali community in the US. |
| 0:56.7 | Also in this podcast, Canada is joining the Eurovision Song Contest from next year. |
| 1:02.2 | I think it's an amazing opportunity in terms of Canada actually presenting how excellent and how exciting. |
| 1:08.8 | Our musical products have been for decades and that just really |
| 1:12.9 | haven't been seen outside of our specific borders. |
| 1:18.9 | A week on from the devastating double earthquake in Venezuela, the number of dead has now risen |
| 1:24.7 | to 2,300. With tens of thousands more still unaccounted for, the interim |
| 1:30.8 | president, Delci Rodriguez, has announced seven days of mourning. Local communities frustrated and |
| 1:37.3 | angry over the government's slow response are working with rescue teams from around the world |
| 1:41.9 | in the frantic search through the vast piles of rubble, |
| 1:45.9 | hoping against hope after the rescue of a three-year-old boy on Tuesday that more lives can be saved. |
| 1:52.9 | Yagito Limei has been speaking to the little boy's aunt and sent this report from one of the |
| 1:57.8 | worst-hit areas, LaGuira. |
| 2:00.3 | Most countries in the world would struggle to |
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