stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. earlier i spoke to the our china media analyst kerry allen. she told me about the unprecedented scale of the flooding and the damage. for the last couple of days, there had been this really extreme flooding in beijing and as stephen says, you don t normally see this in the city. there s been acknowledgement from officials that this really is unprecedented weather. you ve got rivers that have flooded their banks, roads that are completely submerged, houses as well, some areas you can literally only see the roofs. and there has been this dramatic video footage of, for example, people being rescued out of cars because the water has suddenly, in some communities, where it is close to mountains, for example, so there have been landslides and mudslides, the water has just rushed so quickly that it has been a life or death situation for some people. as you re talking we are seeing more of the pictures, and they re quite startling. 50,000 people have alread
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