[ti:Millions in Pakistan Struggle Against Record Floods]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:04.74]in VOA Special English.
[00:07.73]Much of Pakistan faces
[00:10.51]more storms in the coming days.
[00:13.01]Heavy rains have already
[00:15.89]caused more than two weeks
[00:18.24]of record flooding.
[00:19.87]Health officials worry about
[00:22.78]disease spreading because of
[00:25.32]a lack of clean drinking water.
[00:27.76]The United Nations wants
[00:30.49]four hundred sixty million dollars
[00:33.13]to provide immediate help
[00:35.66]to fourteen million people
[00:38.15]affected by the flooding.
[00:39.84]The appeal this week came
[00:42.83]as estimates put the number of dead
[00:45.77]at about one thousand six hundred.
[00:48.80]The Pakistani ambassador
[00:51.68]to the U.N. says the floods
[00:54.63]could limit his country's
[00:56.72]economic growth this year.
[00:59.21]The cotton industry has been
[01:02.14]especially hard hit.
[01:04.32]Pakistan has cancelled official
[01:08.17]Independence Day celebrations
[01:10.49]that were set for Saturday.
[01:12.88]The United States military
[01:15.93]has been helping rescue people
[01:18.42]and transport emergency
[01:20.57]supplies by helicopter.
[01:22.96]The chairman of the Senate
[01:25.11]Foreign Relations Committee,
[01:27.35]John Kerry, is expected
[01:29.29]to visit Pakistan next week.
[01:32.31]He helped push for a big program
[01:35.64]of civilian aid that Congress
[01:38.63]approved last year for Pakistan.
[01:42.07]Separately, Russian officials
[01:45.49]are reporting progress against
[01:47.99]wildfires that have blackened
[01:50.53]parts of the country
[01:51.92]and polluted the air.
[01:54.57]Russia has requested
[01:56.76]technical assistance.
[01:58.75]President Obama called President
[02:01.65]Dmitri Medvedev on Thursday
[02:04.13]to tell him that American
[02:06.22]firefighting equipment is on the way.
[02:09.77]The fires are not the only problem.
[02:13.25]President Medvedev says Russia
[02:16.63]has lost about one-fourth of
[02:19.82]its grain crops this year
[02:22.06]to heat and dry weather.
[02:24.64]Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has
[02:27.98]banned grain exports
[02:29.87]until the end of the year.
[02:32.31]Russia is a major wheat exporter.
[02:36.25]But crops have been hit hard
[02:38.89]by the record heat this summer.
[02:41.67]During the past week, bread prices
[02:45.06]in Russia have jumped by twenty percent.
[02:48.74]But skies cleared over Moscow
[02:51.97]after days of heavy pollution,
[02:54.77]and there were cooling rains.
[02:57.31]The city set a new record for itself
[03:01.34]when temperatures reached
[03:03.33]thirty-nine degrees Celsius
[03:05.92]on July thirtieth.
[03:07.98]American scientists reported Friday
[03:11.71]that this July was the second warmest
[03:15.34]worldwide in records dating
[03:18.22]back to eighteen eighty.
[03:20.91]The government report said
[03:23.36]the average temperature
[03:25.40]for January through July
[03:27.84]was the warmest on record.
[03:30.92]In China, heavy rains on Friday
[03:34.01]interfered with efforts
[03:36.89]to reach people trapped
[03:38.98]by new flooding and landslides
[03:41.97]in the northwest.
[03:44.06]Weeks of flooding have killed
[03:46.65]at least two thousand people
[03:49.25]across China.
[03:51.31]In Africa,
[03:54.33]the U.N. Refugee Agency says
[03:57.38]flooding has left thousands
[04:00.12] homeless in Chad.
[04:02.31]The heaviest rainfall
[04:04.64]in forty years comes
[04:06.59]after two years of drought.
[04:09.35]Now, some crop fields
[04:12.09]have been flooded.
[04:14.04]And, finally, scientists say
[04:17.02]an island of ice broke off
[04:20.55]from a glacier in Greenland
[04:23.49]earlier this month.
[04:24.23]The piece is four times bigger
[04:27.51]than Manhattan Island in New York.
[04:30.59]Some people are blaming this
[04:33.48]and recent weather events
[04:35.92]around the world on climate change.
[04:38.81]Others say breaks in the Arctic ice
[04:43.59]are normal and the only thing
[04:45.88]unusual this time is the size.
[04:49.76]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:51.91]in VOA Special English.
[04:54.55]I'm Steve Ember.
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