In the magnitude of 25 to 30 seconds which is very long for an earthquake only adding to the panic and damage felt by this powerful quake that turkey obviously is sadly no stranger to or earthquakes are the rescue teams equipped to deal with this particular situation that were witnessing right now because weve already heard countries are at the ready to help. Yes youre right the whole of turkey is prone to major quakes and in fact most of turkeys main cities at some point have been hit by powerful of quakes and this has led to a development of a great deal of expected teams in in getting people out of collapsed buildings and as we speak now those rescue teams are coming from all over the country president no one has said no expense and effort will be spared on helping those in izmir turkey does have a great well of expertise to draw with a turkey will need International Help is is far too early to say depends on the magnitude of the damage and destruction in the scale of the rescue eff
Problems now this is a Large Population millions of people now face a prospect of of been outside of their homes even even though city even though the buildings have been collapsed there is a danger that they may be badly damaged and could possibly fail if another after structure shocks struck the city so they are trying to find refuge on the streets in parks along the coastline anywhere and of course this will add to concerns about the spread of the pandemic of. The moment the main worry of people is just to find safe shelter. All right dorian jones. Thank you. And to poland now where abortion rights activists are holding with they say will be their largest march so far capping off a week of mass demonstrations and as you can see in these live images from Warsaw Police are on hand as protesters gather. Over last weeks Court Decision banning abortions in cases where the fetus has congenital defects while that ruling has left poland with a near total ban on abortion women there can now
And hurrican zita slams into the u. S. State of louisiana the 5th major storm to hit the region this year. Tough new measures are being imposed across europe and fears hospitals are about to be overwhelmed by a growing number of coronavirus patients geminis imposing restrictions to last a month its closing restaurants and bars but keeping schools open in italy dining out after 6 pm is now banned and theaters and gyms are shot its a similar situation in spain which is declared an 11 pm curfew and limited gatherings and in the last few hours french president emanuel as announced a 2nd National Lockdown that will last until the 1st of december all nonessential businesses will have to shut that schools. Factories will be allowed to remain open bottle reports from paris. In a soviet t. V. Address french president emanuel said a new lockdown was necessary because frances Health Situation had deteriorated rapidly. Because of what we learned in the spring down will be adapted schools will stay
Accusations of foul play. Thank you for joining us germany is imposing a posho law down from next monday to try and stop the record rise in corona virus infections johnson im going to merkel says is needed to avoid a National Health emergency germany recorded nearly 15000 new cases on wednesday as ring in need who is following developments from london so germany needs to germany have been praised for the way its handled this pandemic until now but they seem to be overwhelmed tell us more for us about merkel what merkel has announced. One local service she was responding to a very serious situation indeed she said that the doubling time for the virus housecoat shorter and the numbers in intensive care were doubling every 10 days she said shes been Holding Meetings with the leaders of germanys 16 different federal governments have largely been able to set their own coronavirus rules but what shes looking for is a nationwide concerted effort to bring the spiraling figures under control so
Corona has taken a toll on the cultural sector including on the summer festivals back in still rocking in germany. And whats it like in venice where there have been more fish than overseas tourists. How is moscows art scene reviving after the strike lockdown. And how cells work celebrating the 100th anniversary of its festival a cultural tour of europe and the time. It may seem as if bill is normal on stage in salzburg austria with some of us performing Richard Strauss opera electra but there are strict safety rules in place at the festival and its hardly normal outside salzburg is not as it was the city is almost empty the atmosphere in subdued. This was not have a summer Music Festivals 100th anniversary was supposed to be. But its a minor miracle that the festival is happening at all with the pope at 19 pandemic 1st of all president hegar harbors starved law made it possible. To insist i would have been ashamed of our current us if weve not had a festival this year. After all it was