Good morning. I’m Josh Halliday, and I’m standing in for Archie today. We’re going to focus on the catastrophic floods in Pakistan that have left the country facing what its prime minister called the “toughest moment” in its history.
More than 1,100 people have been killed by the “monster monsoon” that has left at least half a million people without homes and a third of the country under water. Pakistan’s government says that in total, more than 33 million people have been affected. A new appeal for aid was launched yesterday in the UK as satellite images were published revealing that the River Indus is now effectively a “long lake” tens of kilometres wide.
