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BBC OS: 2024/06/04 16:06 GMT: Germany Floods

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Germany Floods

2024/06/04 16:06 GMT

2024/06/04 16:06 GMT: Germany Floods

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Flood waters are continuing to rise in parts of southern Germany

Flood waters are continuing to rise in parts of southern Germany.

Five people are now known to have died since heavy rain led to rivers bursting their banks in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany. We hear a message from an affected resident.

Official figures from India's general election show an alliance led by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, is poised to win a third term but with only a narrow parliamentary majority. We hear a conversation between three young Indians for their thoughts on the results. Divya Arya in Delhi takes us through a walkabout in the bureau in India with her colleagues who have been covering the election. Our South East Asia editor Ethirajan Anbarasan answers listeners' questions on the election.

Since September, the Marubo, an isolated Amazon tribe, have been connected to high-speed internet through Elon Musk’s Starlink, a satellite internet constellation. Jack Nicas, The New York Times’s Brazil bureau chief, visited the tribe’s remote Indigenous villages to see how the internet has changed life for them and explains what he discovered.

In Japan, authorities have searched the headquarters of the giant car maker, Toyota, as part of an investigation into a breach of vehicle inspection standards. BBC Business reporter Annabelle Liang has more.

(Photo Floods in Germany. Credit: Anna Szilagyi/EPA-EFE/REX

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