| | | | | | | High in the Atlas Mountains, traumatised earthquake survivors are still waiting for help after Friday's earthquake. Our correspondents bring you moving accounts. There's a powerful report from Fergal Keane, on work to identify those killed in Bosnia's Srebrenica massacre. And for some light relief, scroll down to find out how the UK's only Georgian lido has been given a new lease of life. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | Quake rescuers using bare hands | | | | Blocked roads are hampering efforts to get lifting equipment to remote villages. Credit: EPA |
| | On the third day since a 6.8-magnitude tremor destroyed homes, blocked roads and ruined villages in Morocco, rescuers are digging with bare hands in an increasingly desperate search for survivors. The number killed has risen to more than 2,100, with almost 2,500 more injured. From Tafeghaghte, near the epicentre in the Atlas Mountains, Nick Beake says 90 of the 200 villagers are dead. Family tragedies are coming to light. Alice Cuddy hears from a man who faced a heartbreaking choice between saving his parents or his son. Heavy-lifting equipment is struggling to reach affected villages. “We need help, please help us,” one woman, whose family have spent three nights in a tarpaulin tent, tells Tom Bateman. The Moroccan government has received aid from Britain, Spain, Qatar and the UAE. Here's why it hasn't yet accepted more. | | | | |
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| | | | | | World headlines | | • | North Korea: Kim Jong Un has reportedly set off for Vladivostok, where US officials say he's likely to discuss supplying weapons during a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Here's what we know about the armoured train Mr Kim uses to get about. | | • | Historic deal: After signing an agreement to strengthen ties with Vietnam, President Joe Biden is denying the US is trying to stem China's international influence. From Hanoi, our correspondent Laura Bicker runs through what's in it for both sides. | | • | Dam row: Ethiopia hopes a newly filled hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river will double the electricity output in a country where half the 127-million population lacks power. But Egypt has branded it "illegal", saying it shows "disregard" for the water security of countries downstream. | | • | Spy claims: A UK Parliament researcher arrested under anti-espionage laws, amid claims he was spying for China, says he's "completely innocent". The arrest prompted calls for Beijing to be categorised as a threat. Our Newscast team explains what information is accessible to Westminster staffers. | | • | Football chief: He's weathered suspension, ministerial criticism and a mass walkout by players. But Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales has quit, three weeks after kissing forward Jenni Hermoso at the Women's World Cup final. Katie Falkingham tells the story of the kiss that shook football. |
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| | | | AT THE SCENE | Tuzla, Bosnia | | The long quest to name the dead | | Nearly 30 years after the Srebrenica massacre, in which an estimated 8,000 Bosnian Muslims died at the hands of Bosnian Serb soldiers, anthropologist Dragana Vucetic still works to identify the dead. | | | | "A thousand families are waiting on our phone call," Dragana says. To find a lost son, father, brother, husband is to rescue the dead from the anonymity into which the killers cast them. "It means the families can have a funeral," says Dragana. "There is a set of remains, and a grave where they can go to mourn." The air in the warehouse is suffused with the musty smell that comes from the remains of the long-dead. To those of us who have witnessed genocide as journalists, it is a familiar, oppressive scent. |
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| | | | Beyond the headlines | | Air pollution and suicide | | | | Some research suggests long-term air pollution exposure may increase the likelihood of depression. Credit: Getty Images |
| | Some studies have suggested that in cities where levels of particulate matter - the stuff emitted by wood burners, wildfires or construction dust - goes up, so does the risk of people killing themselves. BBC Future editor Richard Fisher explores the puzzling link between air pollution and suicide. | | | | |
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| | | | Something different | | Why we need pain | | And the mystery around where some pain comes from. | | |
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| | | | And finally... | | In writing Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, Jane Austen took inspiration from the thriving spa resort of Bath. And the English city used its festival celebrating the author, who lived there in the early 1800s, to reopen a relic of the Regency period. The UK's oldest lido, Cleveland Pools, opened in 1815 and - having lain unused for almost 40 years - has had a £9m ($11.25m) revamp. See how it looks. |
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