Description
Added on the 07/08/2023 21:31:47 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Winter storm Eleanor sweeps into France, Belgium and the Netherlands after tearing through England and Northern Ireland, cutting power to tens of thousands of people and forcing airports and train services to halt operations. IMAGES
Residents of the village of Saint-Leger, northern France, try to clear the mud that has invaded streets and homes in this municipality, following a storm that brought heavy rain to the region causing mudslides. IMAGES
Gabriel Attal is visiting the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France to see the progress being made in cleaning up the river to reduce the risk of flooding like the one that hit the region hard at the end of 2023. "We're going to make sure that next autumn we don't experience the same thing as last autumn," said the French Prime Minister during his meeting with local representatives and residents. IMAGES
Heavy rain in southern Brazil has caused a huge landslide along the RS-446 national highway. The rivers of southern Brazil are once again in flood as rescue operations intensify and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva admits that the authorities were "unprepared" for a disaster of this scale. More than 600,000 people have been displaced by the heavy rain, flooding and mudslides that have ravaged the south of the state of Rio Grande do Sul for around two weeks. IMAGES
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visits the country's south, where the death toll from floods caused by torrential rains has risen to 13, taking part in an emergency meeting with authorities of Rio Grande do Sul state. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI34QP8HD_EN
Cars drive through flooded water during heavy rainfall in Arbil, the capital of northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region. IMAGES