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STORY Asia floods WMO - UNICEF
TRT: 2:17”
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NATS
ASPECT RATIO: 16:9
DATELINE: 2 DECEMBER 2025 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Exterior wide shot: Palais des Nations, Flag Alley.
2. Medium shot: Speakers at the podium of the press conference.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) – Clare Nullis, spokesperson, World Meteorological Organization (WMO): “Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam are among the countries currently most affected.”
4. Wide shot: Speakers at the podium of the press conference; speaker on screens; journalists in the Press room.
5. SOUNDBITE (English) – Clare Nullis, spokesperson, World Meteorological Organization (WMO): “It's a combination of monsoon-related rainfall and tropical cyclone activity. Asia is very, very vulnerable to floods.”
6. Wide shot: Speaker on screens; journalists in the Press room.
7. SOUNDBITE (English) – Clare Nullis, spokesperson, World Meteorological Organization (WMO): “Tropical cyclone Senyar brought torrential rainfall and widespread flooding and landslides across northern Sumatra in Indonesia, peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand. Tropical cyclones are rare so close to the Equator, so it's not something that we, that we see very often and it means the impacts are magnified because local communities, you know, have got no experience in this.”
8. Medium shot: Speakers at the podium of the press conference; speaker on screens.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) – Clare Nullis, spokesperson, World Meteorological Organization (WMO): “One meteorological station in central Vietnam recorded a national 24-hour rainfall record of 1739 millimetres - that's really, really enormous. It's the second highest known total anywhere in the world for 24-hour rainfall.”
10. Medium shot: Journalists in the Press room.
11. SOUNDBITE (English) – Ricardo Pires, spokesperson, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF): “Cyclone Ditwah made landfall on the east coast in Sri Lanka, impacting over 275,000 children who are amongst the over 1.4 million people affected across Sri Lanka. And with communications down and roads blocked, the true number of children impacted is likely even higher. Homes have been swept away, entire communities isolated, and the essential services children rely on, such as water, healthcare and schooling have been severely disrupted.”
12. Wide shot: Speakers at the podium of the press conference; speaker on screens; journalists in the Press room.
13. SOUNDBITE (English) – Clare Nullis, spokesperson, World Meteorological Organization (WMO): “Rising temperatures increase the potential risk of more extreme rainfall events because the warmer atmosphere holds more moisture. That's the law of physics. So we will, we are seeing more extreme rainfall and we will continue to do so in the future.”
14. Medium shot: Journalists in the Press room.
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