as patrick fock reports, many borrowers have been left in dire straits, the zones as you approach this part of han and province by train. you see it bears all the hallmarks of china's growing crisis in the distance, unfinished construction projects scattered across the city. this is, drew my dea, a city of around 7000000 people in southern had an province meacham bought a home here in 2018 for just over half a 1000000 new on equivalent of around 75000 euros. the developer was meant to complete the project in 2020 but ran out of funds. lead in want to show his face on camera fearing possible retribution. but he was fed up and desperate to speak out about what's happened to him or the monumental longo. i bought the apartment in 2018 la. earlier on the it was agreed. it will be ready in 2020 raj, another throng. why? they stopped working? 2019 issue and they're still not working on it now. the mayor was on the 3rd, the apartment has been left to rot ever since the law, illinois chandler, i'm here with the wall the day we visit other home buyers come to meet lee as well . among them an eld

patrick fock, al jazeera, chunking, china, and in europe, one of the most important rivers for farming industry in commerce is threatening to run. try the ryan flows through 6 european countries. it's germany's most important shipping route for transport and coal, iron, and other natural resources. dominic cane reports from cologne on how germany's coal supply is now under threat. it could almost be a picture postcard of the rhine goods barges chug up and down the river while children explore the pebbles on the bank. and yet a closer look, show something else for in most summers, much of this area would be submerged. but months of high temperatures and little or no rainfall have changed things. or we see right now with a low or water levels in rivers is the new normal or it's even worse of the new normal will be even more extreme. we have seen a global temperature increase of 1.2 degrees on global average right now seen from overhead. the situation is clear, this satellite image of nearby dusseldorf shows the river. now, this one how it was in the same place, 12 months ago, if the scie

patrick fock reports from chung ching, the hardest hit regions. it's faint for being one of china's furnace cities with the longest summer's and hottest temperatures. but in the last couple of months, the heat in the southwestern city of cha ching has been oppressive even by its own standards. mercury levels have frequently talked 40 degrees celsius and had an all time record high of 45 degrees. earlier this week, paula: yeah, it's what is hell, i'm melting. many tourists come to cha. ching, to marvel at it. sights jarling river might be what's most i catching now. it's a major tributary that meets the yen see further south, and it's dried up so much people can walk half way across it. again, i'm definitely worried, it could effect residence and face that need to use the water. for classes of warned, the dry spell could last well into september. authorities began discharging water from the 3 gorges dam to replenish the yanks in its offshoots. but normal floes could still be months away. here in the city, people are cooling off wherever possible. t

patrick fock has more from john king city. all of the last couple of weeks chunks. you really has been suffering under this intense heat wave which has caused bush fires. it's cause power outages, crops and livestock have really been struggling as well. so this really is a dramatic change in weather conditions. temperatures have gone from daily highs about 40 degrees celsius, right? down to the mid twenties and there's also been this rain for which began on sunday and is still ongoing. and as you can see, it's really helped to replenish the yangtze river right behind me. just a few days ago, parts of this river had dried up. so much you could walk half way across it, but the concern now for a thought is, is the threat of possible flooding. one of the things the heat wave did, is it really bates the soil around this region and has caused it to crack and loosen and that increases the possibility of natural disasters. so authorities have issued a flood alert warning. they've evacuated more than 100000 people to safe grounds and rain is expected to persist in some parts