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World Service,30 Sep 2022,26 mins

Billions of dollars in damage as Pakistan battles flooding

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The former head of climate change at the United Nations, Christiana Figueres, tells us it's time Pakistan received climate reparations, as the country tries to deal with the economic crisis caused by flooding. We look at how that could work. We hear more about a BBC News Arabic investigation which has found potentially deadly levels of toxic air pollution from oil fields in Iraq where BP is the lead contractor - the British oil company says it's "extremely concerned" by the findings. Alex Trescott, a dual US-Russian citizen living in Moscow, explains the dilemma he faces after the US Embassy urged all US citizens to leave Russia immediately, earlier this week. And we're joined from Cape Town by the CEO of Mekaish Group, Barry Berman, to discuss how personalised number plates have become big business in South Africa. (Picture: Internally displaced flood-affected people take refuge in a camp at Kotri in Jamshoro district of Sindh province, Pakistan. Credit: Getty Images)

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