we ran for our lives without taking anything. her bed tonight is the floor. one of the 1.2 million people the government here said was affected by these floods. out of the city, north, the rain was still coming down and the rescuers were still rescuing. we ve just come from a place where they are tidying up and trying to get back to normal but 30 kilometres north, here, it s still a recovery operation. rescue workers there in fluorescent life jackets. and if ijust swivel you around to the right, well, this is a road that s turned into a river, a lake, call it what you like. 100 metres down there, the water is at knee level. even further it s at chest level. so the rain has stopped for now but this is still a crisis. from above, the huge scale of what happened here becomes clearer. the electricity supply and mobile phone coverage is not fully restored, but the worst of the rain seems to have passed for now which leaves time for other things. fishing. . . in an underpass?
baking business was wiped out in minutes. translation: everything was washed away. - nothing was left. ijust dug my clothes out. the water was up to my chest. we ran for our lives without taking anything. her bed tonight is the floor. one of the 1.2 million people the government here said was affected by these floods. out of the city, north, the rain was still coming down and the rescuers were still rescuing. we ve just come from a place where they are tidying up and trying to get back to normal, but 30km north here, it s still a recovery operation. rescue workers there in fluorescent life jackets and if ijust swivel you around to the right, well, this is a road that s turned into a river, a lake call it what you like. 100m down there, the water is at knee level. even further, it s at chest level. so the rain has stopped for now, but this is
were still rescuing. we ve just come from a place where they are tidying up and trying to get back to normal but 30 kilometres north, here, it s still a recovery operation. rescue workers there in fluorescent life jackets. and if ijust swivel you around to the right, well, this is a road that s turned into a river, a lake, call it what you like. 100 metres down there, the water is at knee level. even further it s at chest level. so the rain has stopped for now but this is still a crisis. from above, the huge scale of what happened here becomes clearer. the electricity supply and mobile phone coverage is not fully restored, but the worst of the rain seems to have passed for now which leaves time for other things. fishing. . . in an underpass? robin brant, bbc news, zhengzhou in eastern china. china has rejected a plan by the world health organization for a second phase of an investigation into the origins of covid 19. a senior chinese health official said the proposal
the water was up to my chest. we ran for our lives without taking anything. her bed tonight is the floor. one of the 1.2 million people the government here said was affected by these floods. out of the city, north, the rain was still coming down and the rescuers were still rescuing. we ve just come from a place where they are tidying up and trying to get back to normal but 30 kilometres north, here, it s still a recovery operation. rescue workers there in fluorescent life jackets. and if ijust swivel you around to the right, well, this is a road that s turned into a river, a lake, call it what you like. 100 metres down there, the water is at knee level. even further it s at chest level. so the rain has stopped for now but this is still a crisis. from above, the huge scale of what happened here becomes clearer. the electricity supply and mobile phone coverage is not fully restored, but the worst of the rain seems to have passed for now which leaves time for other things.
this woman told us how her baking business was wiped out in minutes. translation: everything was washed away. - nothing was left. ijust dug my clothes out. the water was up to my chest. we ran for our lives without taking anything. her bed tonight is the floor. one of the 1.2 million people the government here said was affected by these floods. out of the city, north, the rain was still coming down and the rescuers were still rescuing. we ve just come from a place where they are tidying up and trying to get back to normal but 30 kilometres north, here, it s still a recovery operation. rescue workers there in fluorescent life jackets. and if ijust swivel you around to the right, well, this is a road that s turned into a river, a lake, call it what you like. 100 metres down there, the water is at knee level. even further it s at chest level. so the rain has stopped for now but this is still a crisis. from above, the huge