Morocco Earthquake, Trump rally, Antibiotic Resistant Infections
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More than eight hundred people are dead after a earthquake hits the historic city of marker.

Rescuers scrambled to save people from under the rubble. Scores of people are injured. Will have the latest details from iraq. I am a character, and this is up first from M P, R news at .

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the south koa governor? Christine, no, me have a chance to be as running man. Also, antibiotic resistance infections are .

killing thousands of people around the world. Most people I could die. Air pollution may be to blame for their eyes.

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There hasn't been an earthquake like this in iraq since nineteen hundred. The U. S. Geological survey says quakes in this area were uncommon, but not unexpected authorities.

They say that more than eight hundred people have been killed. They expect that number to rise. Hundreds of more people were wounded as rescuers scrambled to try to save them from the rubble. And he is sure like to ines from wrong proof. Thanks so much for being with us.

Thank good.

What's the latest to hear from the region?

Well, what we know is this earthquake hit in the night on friday, and the epic is just over forty miles south of the historic city of marrakech. There's video footage posted online from earthquake region and IT shows people panicked, running through the streets in the dark amid these clouds of dust as they are trying to find some kind of safety. This was a powerful earthquakes.

Cott about six point eight and magnitude, according to the U. S. Geological survey. And IT lasted several seconds. And then the agency said another earthquake of four point nine magnitude hits about nine, nine minutes later.

The APP center is in the atlas mountains, and the problem with that is the damage spanned about across about five provinces to remote villages that are hard to reach. So emergency workers have been trying to get through impossible roads in some places, powers said, to be down in several towns and villages. Rescuers have been working through the nights, but the death toll has been rising quickly.

Course america, hes historic and story, what? What do we know about the damage there?

Well, you know, like you said, this is a historic in in mark h itself, dates back as the city, back to the eleven century. So many of the buildings there are, you know, made of these stone blocks and traditional Masonry. And they're not necessarily built to withstand earthquakes.

In amErica itself. We know that the custodia mosque, which dates back to about the twelve century, has apparently suffered some damage. This video of the sixty nine meter high minorets of the mosque shaking and dust billowing from the top, and there's also videos s showing damage to parts of the famous red walls that surround the old city, which is a unica herit site.

Look, we don't know the full extent of the damage. We won't know for some time. IT does seem though that you know, initially much of the historical part of the city has been spared.

There's lots of tourists that visit the city from around the world. And you know we're hearing reports of some of these tourists lining up at hospitals alongside merokles, offering to donate blood. Rose.

what do we know about the rescue effort?

Well, you know, like I mentioned, a big part of the problem here is that a lot of the damages in these remote areas, so a lot of the work right now is about clearing roads for ambuLances to even be able to pass, to even be able to get to these areas. As some of the roads said, to be covered in rubble. The government is sending aid. Also, there's a trucks filled with blankets, food, camp cuts and other help snaking up through the mountains. President joe biden is among several world leaders that often to spend help as france, france and germany and lots of other countries, but the american government needs to formally request that help before outside rescue, e crews can come in and bears routh.

your luck and duty, forest and rome. Rove, thanks so much for being with us.

Thanks so much scot.

Former president Donald trump at a campaign stop in south to koto last night .

is his first rally since his fourth entitled lee .

Steve injure themselves to code a public broadcasting was at the event and joins us. Now please, thanks so much for being with us. Yeah you bet got and and why did mister trump come to south kota?

Yeah with trump facing numerous felon charges, he came to south kota where his support is strong uh, he attended a state republic and fundraising and in return trump was able to secure a key endorsement from republican governor Christie noe. Here he is introducing the former president last night.

He is a man of significance. He is the leader, the fighter that our country needs. He has my fall and complete endorsement for president of the united states of america.

So this should come as no surprise to those who follow known closely. But there has been speculation the second term republican governor might run for president, but in the last few month she's taken to saying there is no path went in the nomination with trump in .

the race and more recent speculation, however, that he could join donal trump as a running mate. Help us understand what he might bring to a ticket .

yeah none has been a strong supporter of trump and and loyal for years. She's able to paint a narrative of south kota being red state success story because of trump. A Normal rising politician should appear regularly on fox news to talk about national issues and push back against by administration policies and SHE often missing that national narrative to how he says that affects out the kota.

None started gaining national attention for her handling of the cobi pandemic. SHE likes to bring that up a lot. And during the rally, there even appeared to be efforts to plant the idea of noma are running, made in trump's mind.

When no one was giving a speech, science were passed around with both their names on IT. And when trump walked out on stage, a trump known twenty twenty four sign flashed on the big screen in the arena um but that you know ticket wasn't really hard for attends to imagine you. Throughout the speech, trump projected what his second presidency might look like and supporters here even embraced in the idea with his numerous legal chAllenges. His recent mugshot appeared on a wanted for president poster and there are t shirts, uh, saying, never surrender.

What was the mood like at the rally?

IT felt like a typical trump rally. Um he'd spent a lot of time talking about his accomplishments during his presidency. However, he did talk about what he called the fake and phony charges against him. He said they were ordered by current president joe biden. We should note that there are four separate investigations being conducted by state and federal prosecutors. A, towards the end of trump speech, he issued a ten minute element under a bed of music that ranged from weapon zing, the FBI, the Green new deal and electric powered military tanks to airports that he described as a dirty, crowded mass.

You sit and wait for hours and then are notified that the plane won't leave and they have no idea when they will, where their ticket Prices have tripled. They don't have the pilots to fly the planes. They don't seek qualified air traffic controllers and they just don't know what they're doing. Much of the speech .

mired things that we heard during the first presidential campaign, painting a picture of american decline and that he alone can fix IT IT really felt like he was a workshop in the speech before he reaches bigger stages, closer to the convention next year.

Least two have been jure from self to cut a public broadcasters. And thanks so much for being with us. Yeah.

you bet.

Any biotic resistant infections are causing more and more deaths around the world.

experts say. By twenty and fifty, almost ten million people, ear could die from these so called super books.

and air pollution may be to blame. mrs. Gabriel spitzer has been looking into research and he joins us now. Welcome.

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So for us to talk about any biotic resistance and how IT spreads, can you give us a refresher on exactly what IT is?

sure. So when someone takes an antibiotic, the meds kill off most of the bacteria, the vulnerable bacteria, but sometimes a few hard to your microbes survive the other biotic attack. And those resistant bacteria are then free to thrive and spread and cause infections that resist our best drugs.

So that could look like mca. Those really stubbing staff infections that we hear about, or soot up versions of tb are gonna rea. And the thing is, antibiotics aren't only used for you know strip throat or an even infection or whatever. They are also used on a gigantic scale in farming and agriculture.

So so what is IT that's ending up in the air? Well.

it's not an antibiotics or are leaking into the air and exposing people. It's the germs. So all those activities, like agriculture and sewage treatment, even the handling of hospital waste, they leave behind a lot of resistance bacteria and deposited in the soil, in the waterways.

Then there's also all this free floating genetic material from the bacteria that mixed in with those deposits, including some that Carry the genes for resistance to anti microbial, and those can actually spread resistance all on their own. So ultimately, that material doesn't just stay in the soil or the water. The wind can kick up particles and area sales, and the microbes catch a ride. And once they are in the air, they can be inhaled by people.

So these bacteria are basically hit hiking on the particles of air pollution, and then that spreading infections.

Well, yeah, it's still a little unclear whether the airborne bacteria and genes are actually making people sick with annabel tic resistant infections. But this new study basically looked at the correlation between the two and found that all over the world, higher levels of particulate air pollution seemed to correspond with higher levels of anti microbial resistant infections.

And the research team, who are mostly based at the university in china, tried to control for a bunch of other factors that might fact the resistance, things like socioeconomic status and how much people spend on health care. And the link was still there. But it's not the saying that issue that the levels are the same everywhere. The study finds that much of africa and south asia seem to bear the highest burden from both the pollution and the drug resistant infections. Now those tend to be lower income countries as well as the places where the data is the least complete.

So how much of a problem is this? Like like how much of this big global health problem is because of air pollution? Specifically, the study .

doesn't prove that, that pollution is causing the infections, but they found that the portion of resistance that's associated with particular pollution IT adds up to a big chunk of the increase in antibiotic resistence over the past couple of decades, like twelve percent, and that translate tes to about four hundred eighty thousand premature deaths over that period.

wow. I mean, and that's on top of all the other well known really nice y health effects from particulate air pollution, you know like lung .

disease yeah, that's right. And and the authors point out that this could mean that reducing air pollution is another lever to control in a biotic resistance. So if you bring down the pollution, you might get this extra benefit of reducing the spread of superbugs.

That's Gabriel spizza of mp r science death. Thank you so much, Gabriel. And you can learn more about this topic.

Can see an illustration of the flying bacteria on our goats. And soto. Bg r right?

That's exactly.

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