A water bottle. Its one of the largest in the world and its being severely tested by the worst floods china has seen in decades the 3 gorges dam was once a school for great and National Pride but what impact of such megaprojects have on people and the environment and how is beijing now we considering how it manages rivers this is inside story. And welcome to the program im laura caro its been described as a once in a generation event floods have swamped large parts of southern and Central China after the worst torrential rains in decades many people of dead or missing whole villages are inundated a 1000000 of people displaced the Economic Losses in dollars all believed to be in the billions nearly 2 months of intense rains have swelled 433. 00 rivets with water in some reaching record levels trying to authorities or raise flood alerts and deployed soldiers to evacuate people and shore up levees seasonal rains a common in china but this year as flooding has been exceptional and early so
Of a civil war and a shattered economy is likely to stay at the helm of many years to come. Im rebecca riches welcome to the Program European union late is holding a summit in brussels to try to Reach Agreement on how to share out a 750000000000 euro fund to help members recover from the pandemic there are deep divisions over whether grants or loans should be given to help the hardest hit member nations germanys chancellor Angela Merkel is presiding over the summit and she admitted that finding a compromise will be difficult. Masks on and gloves off european leaders are back in brussels for the 1st time since the beginning of the Current Crisis with the blocks finances at the top of the Agenda Council president ial michelle expects negotiations to be exceptionally tough a lot is at stake to secure the decision to diffuse the i know it will be very difficult because its not only about money its a question of the future of europe please if you want a stronger more stable euro hope for ce
Of normandy ranked 1st in the water breaks it will deny them access to water has destroyed the livelihoods. Of them to the royal we begin in hong kong where an ongoing political crisis is deepening further the citys leader has invoked emergency laws to postpone septembers legislative election by a full year. Coronavirus as the reason for the delay she also said it will be up to beijing to decide how to fill the vacuum in the citys legislature caused by the delay it comes after beijing imposed a Controversial National security law on hold called a major blow to the citys prodemocracy movement. Thing the announcement i have to make today is the most difficult decision ive made in the past 7 months the Legislative Council general election is held every 4 years it is really a tough decision to delay it but we want to ensure fairness we want to ensure Public Safety and health. If your partner has more. Constitution gives no provisions to delay these elections for more than 2 weeks which mea
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Its one of the largest dams in the world and its being so barely tested by the worst floods china has seen in decades the 3 gorges dam was once a school for great and National Pride but what impact of such mega projects have on people and the environment and how is beijing now reconsidering manages rivers this is inside story. Thank you. Thank you. And welcome to the program im laura caro its been described as a once in a generation event floods have swamped large parts of southern and Central China after the worst torrential rains in decades many people of dead or missing whole villages are inundated a 1000000 of people displaced the Economic Losses in dollars all believed to be in the billions nearly 2 months of intense rains have swelled 433. 00 rivers with water in some reaching record levels trying to authorities or raise flood alerts and deployed soldiers to evacuate people and shore up levees seasonal rains a common in china but this year is flooding has been exceptional and ear