Typhoon hits Japan causing landslides and cancelled flights
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What is the scale of evacuation and disruption caused by Typhoon Dujuan in Tokyo?
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I'm Ankridisai, and at 4 o'clock GMT on Monday, the 21st of September, these are our main stories. A powerful typhoon is being felt in Tokyo, with police urging more than one and a half million people in the Tokyo area to evacuate. A huge Belgian-led international police operation targeting drugs gangs has seen nearly 500 people arrested, mainly in Latin America. Officials in Gaza have announced plans to evacuate. and demolish more than two hundred and fifty buildings because they're at risk of collapsing. Also, in this podcast, as expected in Russia's parliamentary elections, President Putin's United Russia Party is on course to retain its constitutional majority. So what impact will this result have?
And a trial in the UK monitors how gadgets and sensors might help people with dementia live in their own homes.
That's the power of technology. We're trying to spot early signs that things might be going wrong and we can keep people at home and out of hospital.
We begin in Japan where a powerful typhoon is battering the country's capital, Tokyo. Typhoon Dujuan has forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights and prompted warnings of record breaking rainfall. One point nine million people have been urged to evacuate and several major events have been cancelled. This typhoon is the latest in a wave of storms in the Pacific, made more intense by this year's Super El Nino. I got the latest from our correspondent in Tokyo, Kurumi Mori.
It sure is powerful. I mean I woke up this morning to quite light rains here in Shubia, which is where the Tokyo BBC studios are located and it turned. I mean it was heavy rains, strong winds this afternoon and just in the past hour it's gotten way dark and the rain has been stronger and stronger. There have been special warnings all day coming from the government. I've had mobile alerts go off All day. Something we are watching right now is this river called Meguro River that runs through Tokyo from Shibuya, Setagaya, Meguro, and into Tokyo Bay.
How many people were arrested in the Belgian‑led transatlantic operation against drug gangs?
I just spoke to a resident uh who lives near there and he's been seeing over the past just two hours just the rise in the level of this river. And so he's concerned. We want to make sure that residents are evacuating if they They are on the ground floor, the elderly, uh but it's definitely something we're watching here in Tokyo today.
And Karumi, I guess the the wider impact is it's impacting rail services, air services and also some of the big events as well that are taking place. We've got the Tokyo Games Show and of course the Asian Games where over athletes from over forty countries are attending.
That's right, a lot of impact here. This is Silver Week, which is a holiday week for Japan. Today, tomorrow and Wednesdays are their public holidays. So although there are not many commuters out on the streets, thankfully, there are a lot of tourists here, a lot of people hoping to travel, but uh a lot of cancellations happening, whether it's the local trains, the bullet trains, the Shinkansen bullet trains, and also flights. Now we're seeing about four hundred cancellations at two of Tokyo's major airports, Haneda and Narita. Uh also Prime Minister Takaishi was set to leave for New York. Her flight has been delayed to now eleven PM tonight for the UN GA. Uh and then events. Uh Tokyo Game Show cancelled its last day today because of the typhoon and the Nagoya Asian Games have some events in Tokyo like swimming and equestrian.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the scale of evacuation and disruption caused by Typhoon Dujuan in Tokyo?
0:00–3:09
2
How many people were arrested in the Belgian‑led transatlantic operation against drug gangs?
3:09–7:05
3
Why are Gaza authorities planning to demolish over 250 buildings and how will they evacuate residents?
7:05–11:10
4
What does the latest Russian parliamentary election result mean for President Putin’s United Russia party?
11:10–14:40
5
How are smart sensors and gadgets being used in a UK trial to keep dementia patients safe at home?
14:40–18:27
6
What impact has the typhoon had on major events like the Tokyo Game Show and Asian Games?
18:27–22:46
7
Why did a dispute over a sun lounger on a Greek beach turn deadly, and what does it reveal about “sunbed wars” in Europe?
22:46–25:58
8
How are rising tensions over sunbed reservations affecting tourism across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East?
25:58–29:17