CHINA: Flood-hit provinces battle rat invasion
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Severe flooding is continuing in the central and eastern Chinese provinces of Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu. Almost half a milllion people have been evacuated amid what's developing into the worst floods from the region's Huai River in half a century. More than 130 people have died and around four-million hectares of crops have been lost since major rivers broke their banks two weeks ago. One of them is the massive Yangtze - and floods from that river have led to an invasion of up to two billion rats into Hunan province.
Presenter: Girish Sawlani
Speakers: Gu Qing Hui, Regional Disaster Management delegate from the International Red Cross; Tan Lu Lu, of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, Hunan Province
