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

I'm Jonat Jal and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 1st of November, these are our main stories.

More than 200 people are now confirmed dead in the flash flooding in Spain.

Hundreds more troops are drafted in to help with the cleanup operation.

A political earthquake in Diamond-rich Botswana. Its governing party, in power for nearly six decades, is roundly defeated in elections.

Also in this podcast, in an unusual move, Thailand recognises hundreds of thousands of stateless people living there as Thai citizens.

And the rats fighting crime.

Lots of rats all over the world detecting landmines.

And from there, it just sort of expanded and looked into what else can they do.

Thanks to their sense of smell.

We begin in Spain.

Where an extra 500 military personnel have joined the search and cleanup operation on top of a thousand or so soldiers

already deployed. The number of dead from Tuesday's flash floods has now risen to more than

200, nearly all of them from the region of Valencia. Dozens of people are still missing.

Streets and homes are covered in brown mud. And as we record this podcast,

fresh warnings are in place for more heavy rains, with people in the affected areas told to

stay at home. Tarrantial rain has been falling in the southern andalithian region of Velva.

Meanwhile, anger is growing that the warnings on Tuesday came too late

for people to act. Lucy Begley is a teacher at a school in Valencia. On Tuesday late, around

8 o'clock, everyone got an alarm on their phone saying, stay inside, it's very dangerous. However, by

this point, already, many people were trapped, many people very dangerous. However, by this point, already many people were trapped,

many people were flooded. The government responded far too late to what was going to happen

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