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

I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 hours GMT on Thursday the 31st of October,

these are our main stories.

As rescuers in Spain, race to find survivors after deadly flash floods, anger grows over the authorities failure to send out alerts in time that could have saved lives.

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We start in southern Spain where rescuers are working tirelessly in a race against time to find survivors after the flash floods that have killed more than a hundred people.

Hundreds of soldiers have been sent to Valencia, the hardest hit

region to help with the operation. Some places can only be reached by a helicopter

as roads are blocked by mud, debris and piles of cars. The Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who's visiting

areas devastated by the flash floods, said the authorities were using all their resources

to find the missing, to restore basic services and to rebuild.

I would like first of all after this meeting to pass on to the people who live in Valencia and also Castellion, please, the high-altitude

isolated depression continues. Please do not go out. Stay home. Follow the alerts from the emergency services, follow all their

requirements, all their recommendations, because at the moment the most

important thing is to save as many lives as possible. But many have questioned why before the flash floods the authorities

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