welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we begin in south asia. a third of pakistan is underwater. that s according to the country s climate change minister, who called the devastation caused by extensive flooding a crisis of unimaginable proportions. at least 1,000 people have been killed, and 33 million are affected. that s 1 in every 7 pakistanis. provinces like sindh and balochistan in the south are the worst affected but mountainous regions in khyber pakhtunkhwa have also been badly hit. 0ur correspondent pumza filhani sent this report from the city of sukkur. a moment of quiet in the middle of chaos. inside a crowded hall, families that have been displaced by the floods in northern pakistan have found temporary refuge. for many, it was
centre, the way it implemented the public health response, i feel that pakistan has learned a lot of lessons, there are tools in the playbook that will allow it to get direct cash out when the waters recede, doing quick assessments using satellite imagery and then do the very hard task of reconstruction because let s be honest, this country has been through a lot, through earthquakes, through floods, and i think the government will bounce back and deal with this crisis but it will need a lot of help to pull this off. just a quick look at the politics in the country because it has been a bit of a rollercoaster in pakistan recently, has that affected the response to this crisis? so far not yet. the prime minister has set up a nationalflood response and co ordination centre, there is a lot of bickering in the mainstream politics of pakistan on a daily basis for the last few months but i think the opportunity is there for the elite and citizens alike to unite. polarisation is tearing the c
of the floods. we had a home and it was enough for us. now all our belongings are buried under 12 13 feet of water. when i left with my children, i saw my house collapse. the rivers are swelling, and all many can do is stand and watch. the raging floods and mudslides have forced people to flee to higher ground. 0n the other side of the country, in sindh, there s been some reprieve from the rains, but swathes of land are still under water and unlivable. many families have settled near major roads, or wherever there is still dry land. families have been displaced across pakistan, but the people that have been worst affected are the poor, people who had very little to begin with. the community that we found here used to live on the banks of the indus river, which has been over flooding for weeks. they came here because this was higher ground, many of them
national operation centre, the way it implement the public health response, ifeel way it implement the public health response, i feel that pakistan has learned a lot of lessons, there are tools in the playbook that will allow it to get direct cash out when the waters recede doing quick assessments using satellite imagery and then do the very hard task of reconstruction because let s be honest, this country has been through a lot, two earthquakes, two floods, and i think the government will bounce back and deal with this crisis but it will need a lot of help to pull this off. just a cuick of help to pull this off. just a quick of of help to pull this off. just a quick of the of help to pull this off. just a quick of the politics - of help to pull this off. just a quick of the politics in the country because it has been a bit of a rollercoaster in pakistan recently, has that affected the response to this crisis? 50 affected the response to this crisis? . affected the response to this
this is bbc news. the headlines: the government in pakistan says a third of the country is underwater. at least a thousand people have been killed, homes abandoned and 33 million affected in extreme monsoon floods. parts of the north of the country have been cut off as infrastructure crumbled. street fighting is continuing in iraq between security forces and supporters of the shia cleric muqtada al sadr. at least 20 people have been killed and heavy weapons heard around the parliament in baghdad. on monday, al sadr s supporters stormed the presidential palace after their leader announced he was withdrawing from politics. ukraine says it s broken through russian defences in several sectors of the front line near the city of kherson, which has been occupied by russia since the early days