Floods

Parts of south-east England are put on flood alert as the heavy rain that plagued parts of Wales at the weekend moves east.

With damage likely to run into the millions after yesterday’s west Wales flooding, residents of Pennal village have been evacuated over fears of a flood risk from a cracked reservoir.

A man dies as his car is trapped in a fast-flowing flood in Hampshire. Elsewhere, heavy rain forces the cancellation of the Badminton horse trials in Gloucestershire.

Millions of homes are at risk of being left without adequate flood defences as MPs warn that further funding is needed to maintain properties.

Victims are swept out to sea as killer floods tear through the south of the country during the night.

A summary of a report by the UN’s IPCC says there is some evidence extreme weather linked to global warming will increase, but there is strong evidence of hotter temperatures and more rain worldwide

Alex Thomson returns to Ishinomaki’s Okawa primary school in Japan, where he finds harrowing reminders of the lives of the 74 children and teachers who died in the tsunami there eight months ago.

A group of international aid agencies is warning that relief efforts in flood-hit Pakistan, where millions of people have been affected, are under threat because of a lack of funds.

Thai officials say central Bangkok has escaped the worst of Thailand’s most severe floods in half a century, but aid groups are now warning of the threat of water-borne diseases.

The authorities are fighting to save the Thai capital from being submerged under three metres of water.

The Thai capital Bangkok is under threat from the country’s worst flooding in 50 years.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra defends her government’s response to the worst floods in 50 years as Bangkok braces itself for a deluge.

Despite escaping a deluge from heavy monsoon rains and high tides, Thailand’s capital remains in danger from flooding, says Bangkok’s governor. Channel 4 News’s John Sparks is there.

With over 200 already dead, Channel 4 News Asia Correspondent John Sparks sees for himself the devastation caused by the worst monsoon season Thailand has ever recorded.

Aid agencies say Pakistan’s perceived links to terrorist groups is undermining their ability to raise funds internationally to tackle a second successive year of devastating floods.