China: Intense rains are hitting South and Southeast Asia, triggering floods

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Asia is once again facing a wave of heavy rains and storms that have unleashed destruction and claimed lives across several countries in the region. From China, our correspondent Bruno Falci reports that torrential downpours have triggered widespread flooding, affecting infrastructure, agriculture, and thousands of families. Authorities in multiple provinces are on high alert, with emergency teams deployed to assist in evacuations and rescue operations. The regional impact extends beyond China, with neighboring countries also grappling with landslides, submerged roads, and rising death tolls.  #teleSUREnglish #AsiaFloods #ChinaStorms #BrunoFalciReports #ClimateEmergency #RegionalAlert

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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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