00:00Good evening and welcome to a new episode of your show, What's Happening?
00:04Today is Sunday the 20th, 9-20-26, 20 September 2026 and the 9th of Rabi Al-Akhir.
00:15In the previous episodes, we saw the massive floods that hit the Maghreb countries,
00:20but the Maghreb countries were not the only ones.
00:23And let's talk about the Western Mediterranean Sea.
00:26The southern part of the Mediterranean is the Maghreb countries, Algeria and Morocco,
00:31where we observed the floods.
00:34And the northern part of the Mediterranean itself is countries like Spain and Italy,
00:39which were also hit by these massive floods.
00:42And as we mentioned before and talked about a lot,
00:45the reason is the giant El Niño phenomenon or Super El Niño,
00:49which played its role in raising the temperature of the Mediterranean Sea.
00:52And this rise always helped increase the level of the Mediterranean Sea
00:58and the water vapor that forms in the sky.
01:01This rise is almost like the spark that causes all these floods,
01:06these rains and these massive storms later.
01:10Earlier, we talked about Spain and saw floods,
01:14how they destroyed Spain or some areas in Spain.
01:17This time, let me go to Italy.
01:20Let's see.
01:21These floods swept through the city of Agrigento
01:25on the Italian island of Sicily
01:29after heavy and very intense rains.
01:33They were accompanied by thunderstorms.
01:37The rainfall exceeding 140 millimeters.
01:44140 millimeters of rain fell in just three hours,
01:48in just three hours,
01:49which is a very large and significant amount.
01:53This led to floods sweeping through many neighborhoods
01:57here in Italy on the island of Sicily.
02:02Let me move on to the second clip
02:04and let's see how the streets turned into waterways as well.
02:09This clip is from Sicily
02:11and the water was flowing like waterfalls.
02:14That means even waterfalls formed in Italy
02:18and these waterfalls came down on the cars
02:21or attacked the cars in a rare scene.
02:25And this also stopped.
02:26This is the second clip from Italy as well.
02:30Let me take you this time to Georgia,
02:33to the city of Batumi as well.
02:35Let's see how the floods and torrents swept through the streets.
02:41Where a person appeared using an inflatable boat
02:44to be able to survive
02:46or to cross
02:47or to walk
02:49or to travel
02:50or to move around.
02:52Let's say rather from one place to another
02:55and this is evidence that the floods were catastrophic.
02:58But since we are still in Europe,
03:01let me stay in Reyes, in Turkey.
03:03Let me go to Turkey.
03:05The disaster was bigger in Turkey,
03:08specifically in the Turkish province of Reyes.
03:13Massive rains, very heavy rains,
03:16extremely heavy rains,
03:17caused many landslides
03:19affecting at least nine neighborhoods
03:21and seven villages.
03:25This is the dangerous thing
03:27you're seeing in front of you on the screen.
03:29This pushed the authorities in Turkey
03:32to evacuate residents from many homes.
03:34Initial information says
03:36that at least 10 homes
03:38have been evacuated so far.
03:40So Turkey,
03:41if we can put it this way,
03:43some people consider Turkey part of Europe.
03:46So what happened in Reyes
03:47and what is happening now,
03:49unfortunately,
03:50is dangerous,
03:50very dangerous.
03:51Anyway, that was everything for this segment.
03:53We will keep you updated
03:54with the latest developments.
03:55I'm Ahmad Al-Durama,
03:56the host of the What's Happening program.
03:58Stay safe and well.
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