were afraid. were afraid. and as japan struggles were afraid. and as japan struggles to were afraid. and as japan struggles to host - were afraid. and as japan struggles to host tokyo l were afraid. and as japan - struggles to host tokyo 2020 we have a special report on the small towns trying to keep the olympics excitement burning. hello and welcome. the sheer scale of the flooding disaster that s hit western germany and parts of belgium and the netherlands is only now becoming clear. at least 70 people are believed to have died and many others have lost their homes. the german chancellor angela merkel called it a catastrophe and linked the events in the region to climate change. our europe correspondentjenny hill reports from one of the worst hit areas in western germany. there was, many here told us, no warning. homes destroyed, lives lost, in a matter of minutes. the water ripped up the roads, tossed cars aside like toys. we met margaretta just as she arrived back in
and as japan struggles to host tokyo 2020, we have a special report on the small towns trying to keep the olympics excitement burning. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the sheer scale of the flooding disaster that s hit western germany and parts of belgium and the netherlands is only now becoming clear. at least 70 people are believed to have died and many others have lost their homes. the german chancellor angela merkel called it a catastrophe and linked the events in the region to climate change. our europe correspondentjenny hill reports from one of the worst hit areas in western germany. there was, many here told us, no warning. homes destroyed, lives lost, in a matter of minutes. the water ripped up the roads, tossed cars aside like toys. we met margaretta just as she arrived back in the village of schuld. she and herfamily fled last night. at the very last minute, she says, a fireman got us out. the family are safe, though her son was in
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of the pfizer vaccine for children aged 12 to 15, as the country battles a surge of infections with the omicron variant. a fire that devastated the houses of parliament in cape town on sunday has reignited. firefighters went back to the scene, trying to put out the blaze which was burning through the roof. those are the headlines on bbc news. hello, welcome back to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are sonia sodha, the chief leader writer at the observer, and harriet line, who s the chief political correspondent for the daily mail. back with us again, and we are very grateful to them. let me bring you up to date. we have had a few more papers in the last hour or so. the guardian says a number of nhs trusts have now declared critical incidents and parts of the health services are in crisis, due to mounting pressure and staff shortages caused by coronavirus. commuters and schoolchildren face covid chaos, according to the daily mail. some
systems are facing up to the threat of flash flooding and i ll be asking what can be done to keep travellers safe in extreme rainfall. also on weather world, sudden and savage. disaster in the usa hit by one of its largest tornado outbreaks in history. how one canadian province found itself at the epicentre of 2021 s climate change fuelled extremes. it is the effects of these extreme events that can be devastating and lead to loss of life, loss of livelihoods. this is why we are concerned about climate change, exactly. and melting in the tropics the ice that s disappearing from some of africa s highest mountains. i ve come to cairngorm mountain in the heart of the scottish highlands. the ski resort here has been growing since the 19605 and whilst the weather can vary significantly from one season to the next, a recent report on the effect of climate change here predicts fewer snow covered days and an increasing chance of more days with the temperature above the threshold