Refinitiv Newscasts - Hopes fade for more survivors of Turkey quake

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11/02/2023 16:50

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Description: Rescuers in Turkey pulled more people from the rubble early on
Saturday (Feb. 11), some five days after the country's most devastating
earthquake since 1939, but hopes were fading in Turkey and Syria that many
more survivors would be found. Lauren Anthony reports.
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Video Transcript:

[inaudible 00:00:00] >> A woman pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building
in Turkey, DR. back here after being trapped for 122 hours following the
regions deadly earthquake. It's a brief moment of relief in a tragedy that's
killed more than 25,000 people. Although some are still being pulled from the
debris on Saturday, few rescue efforts now result in success. Hopes of fading
in both Turkey and Syria that many more survivors will be found. Sites like
this one in Gausian tap house dozens of empty graves ready for mass burials.
Is now been some five days since Monday devastating, 7.8 magnitude quake,
Turkeys worst since 1939. In Cal, her mama rash, close to the quakes
epicenter, there were fewer visible rescue operations amid the concrete mounds
of fallen buildings. You and a chief Mark Griffiths, visiting the area on
Saturday. >> What happened here on Monday the epicenter of the earthquake was
the worst event in 100 years in this region. We have a clear plan tomorrow,
the next day to give an appeal for a three-month operations to help the people
of Turkey with humanitarian assistance and we will do some similar one for the
people of Syria. >> Across the devastated region. People were still awaiting
news of missing loved ones. In Syria, relief efforts are complicated by the
more than decade old civil war. Very little aid has entered. Even after the
Damascus government said on Friday, it would allow convoys to cross
frontlines. In normal times, the UN delivers aid to the region across the
border with Turkey via a single checkpoint. A policy that Damascus criticizes
as violating sovereignty. The quake has raised questions over Turkey's
earthquake planning and response time. The president Tayyip Erdogan said on
Friday that authorities should have reacted faster. On Saturday he said his
government is looking at how to rebuild destroyed areas. [inaudible 00:02:14].
>> We will quickly begin debris removal and reconstruction activities. We are
making plans to reconstruct hundreds of thousands of houses with their
infrastructure and superstructure. Or more precisely, to rebuild our cities
that suffered great destruction in the earthquake. In a few weeks, we will
begin to take concrete steps. [inaudible 00:02:40]. >> The disaster Hertz is
under one prepares for national elections scheduled to be held by June. And at
a time when his popularity was already eroding amid the soaring cost of living
and a slumping Turkish currency. Simmering anger over the delays in a delivery
and rescue efforts is likely to play into the election