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

I'm Gareth Barlow and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 13th of September, these are our

main stories. More than 5,000 people have died, with thousands more still missing after

devastating floods in the east of Libya. President Putin has promised help for North Korea's

space programme during a meeting with Kim Jong Un at a Russian Cosmodrome.

And aid agencies are racing against time to save earthquake survivors in remote regions

of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains.

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We begin the podcast in Libya where floods have devastated the eastern part of the country,

described by the United Nations as a calamity of epic proportions. At the time of recording

this podcast official say more than 5,000 people have died, with thousands of others still

missing.

The port city of Dernab witnessed the worst destruction, heavy rains and the collapse

of two dams along with four bridges submerged much of the city.

Our correspondent, Joe Inwood reports.

Nothing could resist the waters.

As the river Dernab swelled, then broke its banks.

Higher districts of the city were washed into the sea.

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