BBCNEWS Fault Line July 6, 2024
you're watching bbc news. now it's time for fault line: the un and the quake in syria. screaming. the earthquake strikes. un aid arrives in turkey immediately, but take several days to reach northwest syria. bbc news arabic investigates. un teams are supposed to deploy within 48 hours of a request. in northwest syria, that didn't happen. what matters in terms of responding to an earthquake is time and what the sort of, the immediacy of the response. and the un just stood there, like, completely paralysed. in this film, we ask, "what took the united nations so long?" to deliver humani...