Hello and welcome to Newsa from the BBC World Service coming to you live from our

studios in Central London I'm Julian Marshall.

Storm Boris is battering much of Central and Eastern Europe with gale-force winds, torrential

rain and widespread flooding.

At least four people have lost their lives in Romania and and Natch spoke of the scale of the devastation.

It destroyed everything.

I don't have anything left.

The beds are filled with mud, the pillows are filled.

I have nowhere to sleep.

We don't have food, water, clothes. The neighbor gave me a dress.

It killed the docks, the peaks, it killed all the chickens, all the grains. We have nothing left.

Well in Slovakia a state of emergency has been declared in the capital Brata's lava, one person is reported to have drowned in Poland where

hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes.

Record wind speeds have been recorded in Austria with warnings that there is worse to come, while in the Czech

Republic several people are reported missing as around a thousand firefighters have been

deployed to deal with the flooding and falling trees.

Let's hear about the situation in two of the countries affected by the flooding.

First of all, here's the BBC's Rob Cameron in the Czech capital Prague.

Here in the capital in Prague and it looks and feels pretty bad but actually the situation here in Prague is perhaps not as critical as elsewhere in the country.

Certainly in parts of northeast Moravia in cities like Ostrava, towns like Opava, Kurnov, Chesky, Cheshire.

There they are evacuating thousands of people

with one town high up in the mountains.

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