UN says over 50,000 missing after Venezuela quakes
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What is the current situation in Venezuela after the earthquakes?
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Pete Ross and in the early hours of Saturday the 27th of June, these are our main stories. 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 launched what it describes as retaliatory strikes on Iran. President Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified information. Also in this podcast... We thought that this kind of complex system was associated and could only form through plate tectonics, but our results suggest that Mars found another way. Scientists find huge magma systems on Mars that point to the potential to sustain life.
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We start this podcast in Venezuela, where the number of dead after Wednesday's devastating twin earthquakes is rising dramatically as more bodies are recovered from collapsed buildings. The latest official figures say over 900 people have been killed. The United Nations says more than 50,000 people are still unaccounted for. Those figures alone give us a sense of the scale of this disaster. The northern state of La Guaida was one of the worst hit areas. Our reporter Vanessa Silva is there.
The level of devastation has no words to explain what we have seen. In this area of this coastal town of Venezuela, the one that was hit with more force with the earthquakes that shake the country on Wednesday. You can see there's so many destruction. Wherever you see is a building collapsed. This building at my back is just completely destroyed. lining to one side is about to collapse and there is so many places and you can see people struggling with their own hands trying to remove the rubble, the concrete,
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everything in the searching of the loved ones, but it's a lot of work that is needed. The international rescue teams are arriving to Venezuela, but still it's not enough, still it's not deployed in all the places that we are seeing today. I mean, we literally see the floor open, the earth breaks in this area of La Guaira.
Vanessa Silva in La Guaira. Just to the south of there in the capital Caracas, our Latin America correspondent Will Grant has been back to the neighbourhood where he used to live.
I'm standing on the very corner of my street and only a matter of metres away is a completely flattened building. I used to walk past it every day. I lived three doors down. A very, very strange feeling to be looking at that building so devastated, knowing that as the earth moving equipment moves in now to pull out rubble and make a situation safe for rescue crews to try and go back in again. That sort of game of stopping earth moving to listen again and see if there's any signs of life.
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It's just harrowing to see, with all the neighbours sitting out on their porches, waiting for information, crossing their fingers, praying and so on. And I'm looking right as we speak at homes that have had the complete front of them sheared off, apartment blocks that will never be possible to be inhabited again. I've seen... groups of architects and surveyors, presumably from the city and some private firms, trying to work out what is safe, what can be salvaged and what eventually will need to be demolished. But for right now, I think the majority of the focus of most Venezuelans is on this shocking, this awful figure of 50,000 missing.
Yeah, that's quite an overwhelming figure. Do we have any updates on what more we can expect from that? And can you describe the sort of response? I understand that it's quite chaotic. The earthquake perhaps is exposed.
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You know, the fragility of the medical system there due to economic reasons, etc. What exactly is going on with that as well?
Well, let's start with the numbers. I mean, we've seen the number of dead creep up from, you know, around about 100 to then over 200 and now closer to a thousand. And the fears are that those numbers, that shocking number of 50,000 missing, will start to be converted into, unfortunately, numbers of dead in due course.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the current situation in Venezuela after the earthquakes?
0:00–1:36
2
What retaliatory actions has the US taken against Iran?
1:36–2:50
3
What new discoveries have scientists made about Mars?
2:50–4:00
4
How are symphony orchestras enhancing the movie-going experience?
4:00–4:53
5
What impact did the Spice Girls have on the music industry?
4:53–5:54
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How has a German mathematician accurately predicted World Cup winners?
5:54–6:42
7
What challenges are European countries facing due to extreme heat?
6:42–7:41
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How does climate change relate to the current heatwave in Europe?
7:41–31:00