Extreme Weather Events Strike Countries Around the World

Flooding, drought and extreme heat are striking countries around the world.

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00:00 Brazil's far south, underwater. In 12 hours, the city of Porto Alegre got as much rain

00:07 as it typically does in a month. And that's after a month of even more downpours that

00:11 have killed at least 163 people.

00:14 Fresh rainstorms have undone days of cleanup work and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate.

00:19 Elsewhere in the Americas, scorched fields harden under an unrelenting sun. Mexico is

00:41 baking under the third heatwave of the year. Temperatures in parts of the country have

00:45 broken 45 degrees Celsius, and sources of water are drying up everywhere. In the city

00:51 of León, some Roman Catholics have turned to the only option left - prayer.

00:55 And the

01:20 eastern hemisphere hasn't been spared extreme heat either. This family in Lahore, Pakistan,

01:25 is struggling with temperatures of close to 50 degrees Celsius, and frequent power cuts

01:29 that turn off their fans. The family sleeps on the roof to keep cool, but during the day,

01:34 expensive ice from the market is the only way to handle the dangerous temperatures.

01:39 They're happy just to have access to water.

02:05 Changes in the climate are making intense weather events like these more common in more

02:08 places, straining whole countries and economies, and putting lives around the world at risk.

02:14 Andy Hsu and John Van Triest for Taiwan Plus.

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