This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 10th of April.

These are our main stories. Nearly 100,000 people have been forced from their homes in Kazakhstan by what's been described

as the worst flooding in almost a century.

A significant meeting has taken place between Taiwan and China.

President She has hosted the former leader of Taiwan in the first such meeting in Beijing since the founding of Communist China.

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We start in Kazakhstan where more towns and cities across the country and in southern Russia are being evacuated

following the worst flooding in the region in decades.

Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes due to melting snow caused

by unseasonably warm temperatures.

The Russian authorities are facing criticism over their response in some of the worst hit areas

in the city of Orsk, protesters gathered shouting shame. The Russian presidential spokesman Dimitri Pescov warned the situation was likely to get worse. The problem was likely to get worse.

So far the forecast is not favorable.

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