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Weekend: Pakistan braces as floods worsen

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Pakistan braces as floods worsen

27/08/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Pakistan braces as floods worsen

Authorities are calling on people living near rivers to move to higher ground

Authorities are calling on people living near rivers to move to higher ground.

Officials in Pakistan say people living near rivers should move urgently to higher ground, as the country's flood emergency worsens.  We get the latest on the devastating floods which have killed more than 900 people.

Also, the pharmaceutical firm Moderna files a lawsuit alleging its rivals, Pfizer and BioNTech, copied its coronavirus vaccine technology.

And why Chinese censors are changing the endings of Hollywood films.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Alex von Tunzelmann, a British historian, film and TV scriptwriter, and author; and Dipo Faloyin, an author and senior editor at VICE News in London.

(Image:  Pakistani flood victims wade through flood water following flash flood in Mirpur Khas town, in southern Sindh province, Pakistan. Credit:  AHMED ALI/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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