Monsoon floods and landslides leave more than 600 dead in Southeast Asia

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00:00Homes are destroyed and hundreds are dead or missing after floods raged across Southeast

00:05Asia, hitting Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka.

00:10On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, nearly 80,000 people were evacuated, according to

00:15the country's disaster management agency.

00:18Families are returning to find everything destroyed.

00:22This was my home.

00:25I have nine of my family members here.

00:28We have nothing left.

00:30Everything was gone.

00:32We only have the clothes on our backs.

00:35We couldn't bring anything else.

00:41In Thailand, conditions are similarly dire.

00:45The government has announced it will compensate up to $62,000 for households that have lost

00:49family members in the flood.

00:51In Sri Lanka, hit by Cyclone Ditwa, a state of emergency was declared by the government,

00:56which has made pleas for international aid.

01:03It rained nonstop for three days.

01:06We heard about the warnings of flooding, but we didn't expect water levels would get this

01:11high.

01:12As usual, we moved our belongings that could be moved to a higher level.

01:16But that didn't help.

01:17Everything is underwater.

01:22According to authorities, a third of Sri Lanka's population is still without electricity and

01:26running water.

01:28The cyclone, the country's worst natural disaster since 2017, is heading to neighbouring India

01:33next.

01:34The storm was canceled.

01:44So we don't take action.

01:45There were no other birds, but the birds were going to be killed by the storm, which was

01:50in fact, with the flood and the sea.

01:52And that seems like the fact that the storm, which was particularly late in the ocean, has

01:55been burned by the storm.

01:56And that's the source of water.

01:58What was the means?

01:59The storm is coming over, it's coming over.

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