more than a thousand people have now died in pakistan, where floods have been described by the country s foreign minister as a catastrophe. bilawal bhutto zardari told the bbc the disaster was on a scale he has never seen before. pakistan s government has issued a fresh appeal for more international aid. heavy rains have caused flooding sincejune, overwhelming rivers. around a sixth of the population are said to have been affected, with millions left homeless. officials in the southern province of sindh are warning that more floods and landslides are likely there, as waters come downstream. our correspondent pumza fihlani has the latest. local aid agencies in pakistan say they are doing what they can, but there simply aren t enough resources for everyone. as seen here within minutes, the food runs out. ..and the team is forced to leave quickly. the picture is the same around the country. translation: we left our homes in a hurry and couldn t gather- all our supplies to cook
difficult for the state to respond effectively. michael in washington. respond effectively. michael in washington, thank respond effectively. michael in washington, thank you - respond effectively. michael in washington, thank you for - washington, thank you for joining us. let s get some of the day s other news. austria says it s now backing an eu wide cap on electricity prices, as they continue to rise in line with soaring gas prices. austria is heavily dependent on russian gas, but most of its electricity comes from renewables. austrian chancellor karl nehammer says the eu must not allow president putin to determine its electricity price every day. dutch police say the number of people killed, when a truck veered off the road and rolled into a village barbecue, has risen to six. seven others are being treated in hospital. the incident happened on saturday south of rotterdam. police say the 46 year old spanish driver was suspected of causing the accident, and was not under the in
dollars to pay for the wall i don t think. you can do is any appetite. for war. funding the poor war a national security force. unanimously say one thing or person. around a quarter of the u.s. federal government has gone into shutdown the scene is in the house of representatives a reconvening in washington on saturday in the hope of a very full scale crisis over the holiday period. it s spring and michael in washington for us this evening michael will we see a little make is and the white house strikes some compromise deal to end this shutdown. well there is one rule in covering the trumpets ministration and that is that you can t really predict anything having said that. it is very unclear how this could play out and the easiest thing for everyone
afghanistan and these people are saying that whatever you you may think about madison other experienced officials leaving now the at least had a restraining fixed on president trump and with them leaving or already gone there are really starting to worry people are really starting to worry here in washington what lies ahead all right michael. spun in washington for us thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world a team of u.n. monitors has arrived in given to observe a cease fire in the rebel held city offered a job fighting around humans mean fourth has raised fears that supplies could be cut off to the millions of yemenis who are experiencing severe food force shortages . the spanish government has reportedly allowed a rescue ship carrying more than three hundred migrants to disembark in spain this offer both at the end melissa said they would bar the proactive open arms from
back, and we have michael shearer, the white house correspondent for the new york times who wrote the article this week about the president s edgy tv picks. welcome to all of you. michael in washington, i ll start with you. i m reading through your list, obviously there was an error in your reporting because up with steve kornacki was not on the president s list, clearly an oversight. but i ll let that one go for right now. you write in this article, it is obviously difficult to discern what any of this really means or tells us about the president s psyche or politics or anything like that. you wrote the most sort of notable entry on the list might be homeland. well, yeah. i think the thing that struck me, some of these have been known in the past. you start assembling the whole list, the thing that struck me was the point you made earlier, which is he this guy goes into the oval office, comes back at night, dealing with war, terrorism, you know, economic calamity, all sorts of pro