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Weekend: Turkey and Syria death toll continue to rise

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Turkey and Syria death toll continue to rise

12/02/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Turkey and Syria death toll continue to rise

More than 28, 000 people now known to have died in Turkey and Syria earthquakes.

More than 28, 000 people are now known to have died in Turkey and Syria as a result of this week's earthquakes.

Also in the programme: The US military has shot down a new unidentified object over Canada's northwestern territory of Yukon.

And we speak to Thinlay Chukki the representative of the Dalai Lama at the UN in Geneva ahead of the China’s Review by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other stories are  Colleen Graffy, Associate Professor of Law, Caruso School of Law, Pepperdine University in California.  She's also a former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Ramy Inocencio, the CBS News Foreign Correspondent in London.

(Picture: Seho Uyan, who survived a deadly earthquake, but lost his four relatives, sits in front of a collapsed building in Adiyaman, Turkey February 11, 2023. Credit: REUTERS/Sertac Kayar)

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