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Rescuers Scramble to Find Survivors of Indonesian Quake

Survivors give dramatic accounts of the Sulawesi quake and tsunami

The search for survivors continues after the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia but why was a new, international early-warning system not up and running? Professor Louise Comfort from the University of Pittsburgh led the US side of the project.

Also in the programme: a key referendum on Macedonia's name fails to muster enough votes and we take a look at films that glorified the seedier side to US college life in the 1980s

(Photo: Search and rescue workers evacuate a survivor trapped in a collapsed restaurant in Palu, Indonesia. Credit: Antara Foto/Muhammad Adimaja/ via REUTERS)

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Sun 30 Sep 201820:06GMT

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