and revelling in its return the notting hill carnival comes back to london s streets for the first time in three years. good evening. the devastation caused in pakistan by extensive flooding has been called a crisis of unimaginable proportions by its climate change minister. she says that a third of the country is now underwater. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. provinces like sindh and balochistan in the south are the worst affected but mountainous regions in khyber pakhtunkhwa have also been badly hit by heavy rainfall and swollen rivers. sindh province is low lying and it s received eight times its average rainfall for august. the catastrophe is not yet over water is still surging down the mighty indus river, with fears it could cause more flooding and landslides down river. the bbc has been filming across the country, including our correspondent pumza filhani, who has sent this report from the city of sukkur. a moment of quiet in
salt. they re claiming that we are in this situation for last one month. a lot of people who actually said, we travelled approximately four hours by foot to reach here just to get some kind of relief. translation: we left behind the kids and came here. - i have been coming here for three days, and no one here has anything to eat. my toenails have broken, - and they re bleeding from climbing the mountains to get here. i spent 15 years in - the army before retiring. translation: i have around 13 children. i we don t have anyone looking out for us, and we don t know any of the officials to refer to. we only have god to watch over us. if you can see here, officials there, people are complaining to them, people are talking to them. they re actually asking them to write their names so that relief operation could reach to them. new figures show that change store closures of stock by 30% in the first six months of this year. compared to the previous 12 months but there are fears
Would happen soon. With more, heres our correspondent wyre davies from jerusalem, and a warning, you may find parts of his report distressing. The human toll in gaza is mounting. These casualties brought to the al aqsa hospital in central gaza are outside the zone from which israel had told civilians to flee. Its not known from where the victims came, but many of the dead and injured are children. Some images, too distressing to broadcast, show the bodies of at least a dozen children. Translation we have been here since the Crack Of Dawn L and the bodies have completely filled the hospital yard. This is in addition to the bodies in refrigerators which are full. We dont have enough shrouds for the dead because the numbers are huge. Israeli air strikes in response to the massacres of october 7th are against what it calls strategic hamas targets. They have left parts of the gaza strip looking like a wasteland. Such bombing, say palestinians, is indiscriminate by its very nature, resulting
have to isolate for five days and in germany only allows uk citizens to come in for humanitarian reasons, like bereavement, and then if they do they have to do 14 days isolation. angela merkel said britain is everywhere travelling anywhere in europe should be subject to two weeks quarantine britain s. the concern in the eu is about the delta varied and it is expected to be the dominant variant by the end of august across europe and if there is a peak of cases across europe that could cause real problems, because where as to in three adults in the uk are fully immunised, it is only one in three in the eu, so there are big gaps and there is big potentialfor this more transmissible variant to cause more problems. ailiilur transmissible variant to cause more roblems. .., ., , problems. our medical editor fergus walsh talking problems. our medical editor fergus walsh talking to problems. our medical editor fergus walsh talking to us problems. our medical editor fergus walsh talking