More Sydney areas to evacuate over major flooding risk

The Premier of New South Wales in Australia has described the flooding in parts of Sydney as a once in fifty year event. Gladys Berejiklian said another four thousand people may be asked to leave their homes.

Also in the programme: Helen Zia, a leading figure in the Asian American community speaks to us about hate crime in the United States; and an experiment in Covid-safe music festivals in The Netherlands.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are: Lance Price, broadcaster, writer and political commentator and Dr Chandrika Kaul, a reader in Modern History at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

(Photo: Volunteers making and providing free sandbags to residents in New South Wales, Australia. Credit: EPA/Dean Lewins)