Floods in southern Russia and Kazakhstan forced tens of thousands of people out of their homes.
Melting snow has caused the Ural River to surge, and flood-defenses around the city of Orenburg to collapse. A rescue operation is underway, but locals say not enough was done to prevent the flooding in the first place.
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00:00 Could the Orenburg floods
have been prevented?
01:58 DW Reporter Dmitry Ponyavin in Latvia
05:30 Maria Shahgedanova, Professor of Climate Science
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