Hello, I'm Nulamagovrin on the BBC World Service, and this is BBC OS conversations, Extreme Weather.

As the impact of Extreme Weather is felt around the world, experts discuss why nature can help counter the effects of these events.

And we hear from those affected by flooding in Germany and Belgium and wildfires in Canada and the United States

where one couple escaped with their lives but lost their home.

Once all that brush started catching it started going so fast and then our winds picked up just made it worse and I said look we got 15 minutes grab what you can.

It's been an extraordinary few weeks. There have been huge wildfires in Siberia and

North America as a result of heat waves and in Italy on a summer's day

a hailstones fell that were so large they damaged cars caught in traffic.

Meanwhile in China thousands were evacuated after severe floods hit Hernan province.

That was the sound of a baby girl been rescued from a building that had collapsed as a result of the floods in Jong Jo, Hermann's capital.

The city sits on the banks of China's Yellow River and recorded the equivalent of a year's

average rainfall in just three days.

Unfortunately, that baby's mother was among the 100 or so people who died,

as the rain caused railway tunnels to flood and roads turned into rivers.

And we've been hearing from people in that city about their experiences.

Hello, I'm Debbie. I'm in Junjou City now.

It had been raining for about five hours and I have never seen so heavy rain very soon my school was filled with water

Although it was very dangerous. We are on summer holiday nowadays and there were only few students at school.

But I heard 12 people died in a flooded subway line.

My name is Wann Chiang Chiang Jojo.

I was lucky staying at home but the rain is so heavy and we felt that we're going to wash away.

I watched the news afterwards because many people was still at work

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