00:00Asia is once again facing heavy rains and storms that are causing destruction and deaths
00:06in several countries across the region.
00:09Our correspondent in China, Bruno Falci, has more details.
00:14Greetings to my colleagues at Telesur and the audience joining us in this transmission.
00:20I'm here in the capital of China to inform you this time that intense rains are hitting
00:27South and Southeast Asia, triggering floods and landslides across wide areas of India, Nepal,
00:36China, Vietnam and Thailand.
00:40Millions of people have been affected by the flooding, evacuations have been made and damage
00:46have been suffered in the infrastructure of this country.
00:50In India and Nepal, authorities confirm more than 70 deaths and the hardest hit areas of
00:57areas are in the mountains regions, in the frontier between India and Nepal, where, in
01:04the Nepal regions, 37 victims have been reported.
01:09In Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, the level of the Koshi River remains above the safety
01:15limits and several communities remain isolated.
01:21In Vietnam, the Tifon Madmo caused eight deaths and five missing persons, as well as destroying
01:2915,000 homes and vast agricultural areas.
01:35In China, the Tifon also caused strong winds and 150 kilometers per hour and struck the province
01:45of Guangdong and Hainan, prompting the evacuation of 314,000 people.
01:53The effect of this of this Tifon also reached the Philippines and Thailand, where alerts were
02:01put in place for persistent rains and flood risks.
02:06This link the intensification of these events to global warming, which raises ocean temperatures
02:14and strengthens typhons and monsoons.
02:19According to the World Meteorological Organization, Asia is now the continent most affected by extreme
02:28weather events.
02:30Authorities warn that more rain is expected in the coming days, across several parts of Asia.
02:39With this report from the Global South, we return to Telesur Studio in La Habana, Cuba.
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