Catastrophic flooding across western Europe 2021

 

Flooding across western Europe...

More than 120 people have died and many more are missing after the worst flooding in western Europe for decades in Germany, paramedics are searching for a missing massacre and chancellor Angela Merkel describing the floods as catastrophic heavy rains and devastating areas of Belgium Netherlands and Luxembourg flooded rivers The museum's arrow and rave hit towns and villages destroying homes leaving many left in the air Germany houses are completely submerged and landslides demolished parts of the city well our reporter jenny hill spent the whole day in the air and is now in the valley s rive where tonight the water begins to recede slowly in the region but the number of deals expected to continue to rise today in Germany

President Frank Walter Steinmeier described what happened

it happened as a tragedy that left him stunned.

It is a common perception in this area and not at least in the city you mentioned about the city of erfdstat where paramedics have been doing search and rescue work since last night the ground collapsed in Altstadt where houses collapsed overnight as water jumped into another shocking country due to its losses very quickly another officer said

there was no time for rescuers but this morning

Authorities here said people trapped in their homes were calling for help and in many cases, they could not reach them as they came to shelters like this where we met Johannesburg where he and his wife won security last night and arrived naked and sweaty and thought I had left my cat behind and said johannes has lived here for over 70 years there have been floods he told us but not like this you can escape the fire but not in the water tens of thousands of people are still strong and are at low water levels that have dropped in some areas but few here

feel safe you can see how weak the power here is and what worries people in this area that just by the river there is a dam expert 

They are still unsettled but people here think that if the dam breaks the water and goes straight to the study and every hour the news of the deaths of many people is still lost on mobile networks it is hard to know how many have made it safe 'We wish to get help here this was a cottage how to start clearing we met the owners

We still look shocked we have been here since 1979 we have never seen anything like this if we don't get the help we will have to continue to get good benefits, corrupt Germany is a country famous for its power its security feels in danger now jenny hill well many survivors talk about

As soon as water levels rise as rain falls and tonight some villages and villages are still being threatened thousands of people in the Netherlands and Belgium are being urged to leave their homes. Our reporter Anna Colligan has more details on homes covering all villages dumping parts of the dormitory.

Rescuers are still roaming the western part of the city of popinster

the military is mobilized to help those trapped in the world and the spirit and for some, it is a desirable way to find out if their loved ones are doing so

My wife is looking for her mother who lives in a nearby village but we have no means of contact.

we had to go through a revision we had to live with the covid we were

hopefully, we will get back on our feet and now this was in the Netherlands

Roman city swathes have disappeared and the region has been declared a disaster area for the remains of businesses

the spa town of Valkenburg while paramedics are busy trying to bring back electricity and safe places people have come together to try to bring some kind of order to these ruined roads while Covitz kept them separated and otherwise this problem has caused the community to come out united we need to stay hopeful we can cry all day but this will not help anything better smile and keep working slow but the threat here and in major European cities is not over yet anna hooligan well some politicians in Germany say extreme weather The effect of global warming and their call for improved climate protection measures to speed up our environmental journalist Justin Roloff looks at the role of climate change in rain record records now affecting parts of Europe German floods are not the only severe weather we have seen this summer with extreme heat

Canada and the western united states last month and Russia Mexico and New Zealand have all been experiencing unusually high temperatures and now climate science is clear on this prediction not only for years but decades that if we continue to pump large amounts of carbon dioxide into space we will experience levels temperatures are extremely high and because the warm air retains a lot of moisture which means heavy rain also and therefore floods well you should only look at pictures of these destructive floods to know that we need to do better

it is wrong for this population to die in 2021 due to floods so the next obvious question is a country that is doing enough to deal with climate change again

The obvious answer is not the UN saying we need to reduce carbon emissions by seven percent every year for the next ten years if we are to have the opportunity to live in what is considered to be

the safe limit is 1.5 degrees centigrade we have now achieved