00:00and typhoon dolphin continues to cause severe impacts in china where authorities remain on
00:04alert for extreme rainfall and flooding following the cyclones passage along the eastern coast
00:09our correspondent bruno falci has more details
00:14greeting comrades i'm reporting from beijing where the typhoon dolphin the strongest typhoon to hit
00:20china this year has weakened into a tropical storm as it moves inland however authorities continue to
00:28enforce emergency measures due to the risk of flooding and landslides as of tuesday authorities
00:36have reported fatalities and missing persons more than one million and a half people have been
00:43evacuated as a precaution mainly in zenzhen province and shanghai where the storm brought record rainfall
00:52and forced the cancellation of more than one thousand and three hundred flights after making
00:59landfall twice in zenzhen the storm moved into hubei province when an orange alert remains in effect for
01:08torrential rain flash floods and landslides weather alerts also remain in place across parts of the
01:16central and northern china as heavy rainfall persists the system has also affected the philippines where
01:25monsoon rains intensified by the dolphin triggered flooding and landslide leaving dozens of dead as
01:34rescue and emergency operations continue with this news from here the capital china will go back with you
01:43in the studios
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