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To people who have been affected by this and she is giving her thoughts right now to journalists, and she spent the last hour going around one of the villages that was hit hardest, that is a few kilometres from here, very pretty tourist destination, lots of old medieval, half—timbered, wooden houses. some of those were partially destroyed, others were swept away by the water. angela merkel has been talking to survivors of that flood and that is notjust a political gesture. she has been talking...

People are comparing this to a war zone. there is debris everywhere, about half the houses in most small villages in the valleys are either partially or entirely destroyed, so it is a devastating scene, that is why angela merkel has been visiting the region right here. a few kilometres away from me, she is right now giving a speech. as we speak, she is talking to people who have been affected by this and she is giving her thoughts right now to journalists, and she spent the last hour going aroun...