Nearly 1500 people are estimated to be dead. Damages so far have been put at about $30 billion. 90% of crops have been ruined. Fama Gopi has been sleeping in an open field for a week. Our homes are gone. We have nothing. I can't even feed my children.
After catastrophic flooding, Pakistani people are demanding better disaster management from their government. Their government wants reparations from wealthy countries.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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