in the town of nowshera. along one of pakistan s busiest motorways, a makeshift camp. poor families forced from their homes, floodwater submerging everything they own. i m in so much pain, i can t even express it, says this woman. we ve even lost our honour. where else can we go? wading through the suburbs of the northern city of nowshera, families trying to reach their homes. we haven t been able to get to our house. just look at the road, says this woman. how can we get there? no one is helping us. this man, a chef, hasjust returned to his home for the first time. will you be able to buy all of these things again, rebuild this house? no, he says, i m just asking god to help us get enough food for now. we ve got nothing left. we couldn t save anything, just our children s lives. look at all of this.
position will be different in the region. the international commentato us and europe cannot simply turn their back away, because if iraq breaks down, the system breaks down, it will affect stability in the region the international community and the us. international pressure can help put iraq back on the right track, certainly, and change and mend his political process. change and mend his political rocess. . , ., ., , , process. laith kubbah, that has been so helful. process. laith kubbah, that has been so helpful. thank process. laith kubbah, that has been so helpful. thank you process. laith kubbah, that has been so helpful. thank you for process. laith kubbah, that has been so helpful. thank you for sparing - so helpful. thank you for sparing the time. that is laith kubbah, former iraq government adviser. we started with the situation in pakistan, we turned to the situation in iraq too. now we go to australia. a man hasjust been convicted in a 40 year old
the country, and the volume and scale of water that has come down is so consistent and without gaps for eight weeks that there has been no where to put the water. when we drain it out, where do put it? the southis drain it out, where do put it? the south is like one large ocean. south pakistan described there as one large ocean . 0ur correspondent pumza fihlani is at a displacement camp in sindh province. 0fficials officials say about 60% of pakistan is underwater. they ve also reported that 33 million people have been affected by this year s floods. the numbers on the whole are alarming, but it is when you get to the ground and you realise that these are not numbers, these are people, and especially poor people have been the most affected. this community were fine a few weeks ago, they were in their homes, they could feed their children, they had clothes, and when the floods came, their homes were
building years ago. starting from ten years ago, if we have started building resilience against these kind of problems, we could have been in a much better position. and of course, climate change looms over all of this. a warming atmosphere makes extreme rainfall more likely. pakistan s climate minister spoke to the bbc she s clear this is a climate disaster. this has been a climate linked disaster. this has been a climate linked disaster, for the simple reason. a cascade disaster, for the simple reason. a cascade of disaster, for the simple reason. a cascade of climate events, the whole year cascade of climate events, the whole year 53 cascade of climate events, the whole year. 53 degrees that is unlivable! floods tripling in their intensity. unlivable! floods tripling in their intensity, coming down the mountains intensity, coming down the mountains in the intensity, coming down the mountains in the north, intensity, coming down the mountains in the north, the glac
after heat wave, so we have heat wave after heat heat wave, so we have heat wave after heat wave, ruining our forest covei’, after heat wave, ruining our forest cover, fires after heat wave, ruining our forest cover, fires and now this. we are already cover, fires and now this. we are already reeling from a climate shock, already reeling from a climate shock, since literally march, because shock, since literally march, because we never had a spring. we ust because we never had a spring. we just went because we never had a spring. we just went straight from winter into a scorching summer. we ve seen those extreme weather events happen throughout this year in pakistan. as the country s former environment minister said. and the head of the un had this message to the world. people living in these hotspots are 15 times people living in these hotspots are 15 times more people living in these hotspots are 15 times more likely people living in these hotspots are 15 times