00:00The devastating flood that struck the China-Nepal border lived with hundreds dead and missing and caused severe damage on
00:07both sides.
00:08Our correspondent in China, Bruno Falschi, has the details in this report.
00:14Hello, comrades. I'm here in Beijing to inform you that the emergency operations are continuing after the disaster that struck
00:23the China-Nepal border on Wednesday.
00:26In Nepal, around 500 people have died and nearly 1,000 remain missing.
00:34The floods destroyed homes, roads and bridges, particularly in areas along the border with China.
00:43On the Chinese side, the Jirong border port in Tibet was also severally affected.
00:50Three people died and 558 remain missing.
00:56More than 1,000 residents, workers and tourists were moved to safe areas.
01:02Chinese Premier Li Chang arrived in Jirong to oversee the response and visit the affected area,
01:11following instructions from the President of China, Xi Jinping.
01:15The debris blocked waterways and caused barrier lakes to form.
01:22One of them, upstream from Jirong, has already begun to overflow and contains more than 2,500,000 cubic meters
01:33of water.
01:34Authorities warned that another 3 million cubic meters could enter the lake in the coming days.
01:41As a precaution, rescue teams and vehicles were temporarily moved to safe area,
01:49while drones and aerial monitoring are being used to track the lake's development.
01:55China activated a level 2 national emergency response and allocated 220 million new ones,
02:06120 million to rescue, evacuation, assistance to those affected and risk mitigation,
02:14and another 100 million to the recovery of the damaged infrastructure.
02:20With this news, from here, the capital of China, we go back with you in the studios.
