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World Service,22 Jul 2021,49 mins

Death toll climbs in China floods

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The Chinese province of Henan experienced a year's worth of rain in just a few days, the subsequent flooding has left at least 25 people dead. We'll have the latest on the rescue operation. In France a new wave of coronavirus infections has triggered a new wave of restrictions, to try and keep the disease at bay. And a complex of unexplained buildings neat St Petersburg in Russia, prompts suspicions of a 'private prison'. But no sooner were they discovered than they were mysteriously bulldozed.

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