{"id":47988,"date":"2022-08-31T00:26:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/30\/guterres-pakistani-people-facing-a-monsoon-on-steroids-video"},"modified":"2022-08-31T00:26:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:26:51","slug":"guterres-pakistani-people-facing-a-monsoon-on-steroids-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47988","title":{"rendered":"Guterres: Pakistani people facing a &#8216;monsoon on steroids&#8217; \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistani people are facing a &#8216;monsoon on steroids&#8217; said UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, as the country struggles with floods that have killed 1,136, including at least 75 in the last 24 hours. &#8216;Millions are homeless. Schools and health facilities have been destroyed. Livelihoods are shattered, critical infrastructure wiped out, and people&#8217;s hopes and dreams have been washed away,&#8217; said Guterres in a video message. He added: &#8216;It is outrageous that climate action is being put on the back burner as global emissions of greenhouse gases are still rising, putting all of us everywhere in growing danger.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The UN has issued an urgent new appeal for $160m (\u00a3136m) to support the Pakistani government&#8217;s efforts to help affected people, as Islamabad warns of further floods.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/pakistan-monsoon-on-steroids-flooding-warning-antonio-guterres\">Pakistan faces \u2018monsoon on steroids\u2019 as more flood warnings issued<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/aug\/29\/monster-monsoon-why-the-floods-in-pakistan-are-so-devastating\">\u2018Monster monsoon\u2019: why the floods in Pakistan are so devastating<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/29\/pakistan-floods-drone-footage-shows-scale-of-destruction-video\">Pakistan floods: drone footage shows scale of destruction \u2013 video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/30\/guterres-pakistani-people-facing-a-monsoon-on-steroids-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistani people are facing a &#8216;monsoon on steroids&#8217; said UN secretary general Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, as the country struggles with floods that have killed 1,136, including at least 75 in the last 24 hours. &#8216;Millions are homeless. Schools and health faci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,455,313,60,61,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47989,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47988\/revisions\/47989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}