they will probably recover eventually but it could take a long long time tony berkeley al-jazeera tika central mozambique. well al jazeera malcolm webb has made it to some of the west hit areas of mozambique and he joins us now from the city action lawyer malcolm what's topping the list of priorities for the relief and rescue efforts at the moment that. the priority i think still certainly through the use of helicopters to rescue people who are still stranded of which there are some the water levels gone down a lot now over the last few days that some of the areas where it's still highest are still people who are stuck in poverty number one but what we have seen is little bits of food aid reaching the people who are now managed to return to their villages where the water has receded because they've lost everything homes have been destroyed crops have been destroyed food supplies food there was no hunger a massive problem we traveled from villages on low lying plains. where river burst its banks to be destroyed everything that a few hundred people waiting for food to tell me vengefully

more isolated pockets they are out of sight out of mind three families live in this small hut new tika seventy kilometers north of beera the cyclon destroyed their huts and crops they now survive on bananas and maize maria's home was demolished when the psycho struck she thought she was going to die all that often anyone in it would when i saw the danger to first thing i did was to protect myself and my son i couldn't stop the water stripping away our clothes blankets and everything is gone we're suffering. water levels are dropping after two days of relatively good weather but the damage left behind is hampering aid efforts up until three days ago this whole area and this road was completely devastated by the psycho and covered in water it made passage impossible come along these roads it shows you how difficult delivering any kind of meaningful aid by road will be the main focus is by air people being rescued by helicopter but that's only making a small fraction of a difference. many of the dirt track roads in the countryside have been seriously affected aid is trickling in but the d

more isolated pockets they are out of sight out of mind three families live in this small hut new tika seventy kilometers north of beera the cyclon destroyed their huts and crops they now survive on bananas and maize maria's home was demolished when the psycho struck she thought she was going to die all that often anyone in it would when i saw the danger to first thing i did was to protect myself and my son i couldn't stop the water stripping away our clothes blankets and everything is gone we're suffering. water levels are dropping after two days of relatively good weather but the damage left behind is hampering aid efforts up until three days ago this whole area and this road was completely devastated by the cyclonic covered in water it made passage impossible come along these roads it shows you how difficult delivering any kind of meaningful way by road will be the main focus is by people being rescued by helicopter but that's only making a small fraction of a difference many of the dirt track roads in the countryside have been seriously affected aid is trickling in but the death co

more isolated pockets they are out of sight out of mind three families live in this small hut new tika seventy kilometers north of beera the cyclon destroyed their huts and crops they now survive on bananas and maize maria's home was demolished when the psycho struck she thought she was going to die all that often any learning would be when i saw the danger to first thing i did was to protect myself and my son i couldn't stop the water stripping away our clothes blankets and everything is gone we're suffering. water levels are dropping after two days of relatively good weather but the damage left behind is hampering aid efforts up until three days ago this whole area and this road was completely devastated by the cyclonic covered in water it made passage impossible come along these roads it shows you how difficult delivering any kind of meaningful aid by road will be the main focus is by air people being rescued by helicopter but that's only making a small fraction of a difference many of the dirt track roads in the countryside have been seriously affected aid is trickling in but the d

they will probably recover eventually but it could take a long long time tony berkeley al-jazeera tika central mozambique. reports from barrow where a fisherman is doing all he can to help desperate people. this is a domicile a man's fourth trip to brew z. in two days the fisherman is using his boat to risk you as many people as he can who are stranded in the flood hit area after cyclonic die struck mozambique. water now reaches as high as eleven meters but was a bit disappointed when i first saw a woman with babies on their backs crying for help saying they're dying i knew i had to do something what i saw there was a catastrophe it reminded me of two thousand and eight when another disaster struck i'm supportive. on the boat is a mother desperate to save her child she's come from the capital she last received word from her daughter days ago but there's been nothing since what you think you know i hear as. i say yes as a mother i had to make this bold decision even though the rest of my family was against me coming here nobody thought i could survive this by i have to save my daughter

more isolated pockets they are out of sight out of mind three families live in this small hut new tika seventy kilometers north of beera the cyclon destroyed their huts and crops they now survive on bananas and maize maria's home was demolished when the psycho struck she thought she was going to die waiting there for fairly long in the woods when i saw the danger to first thing i did was to protect myself and my son i couldn't stop the water stripping away our clothes blankets environment and everything is gone we're suffering. water levels are dropping after two days of relatively good weather but the damage left behind is hampering aid efforts up until three days ago this whole area and this road was completely devastated by the cyclonic covered in water it made passage impossible come along these roads it shows you how difficult delivering any kind of meaningful by road will be the main focus is by people being rescued by helicopter but that's only making a small fraction of a difference. many of the dirt track roads in the countryside have been seriously affected aid is trickling i

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they will probably recover eventually but it could take a long long time tony berkeley al-jazeera tika central mozambique narcan webb has made it to some of the worst hit areas of mozambique and joins us now from the city of chinmoy you malcolm what are the priorities right now for the rescue and relief efforts. they're still trying to rescue people who are in areas where they're stranded cut off on small pieces of high land cut off by the water or treetops on the roofs of buildings in the in the areas where there is still a relatively high water level of course the search and rescue operations take priority but now in many other areas where the water has receded or started to recede people are in desperate need of food and many of them haven't even now for about a week we traveled to some villages on a low lying plain next to a river so far from here yesterday people that were really struggling desperately hungry many of them to survive for days i don't stand in needy people in water having climbed into trees to survive the flood now that the water has receded they're desperately hung

they will probably recover eventually but it could take a long long time tony berkeley al-jazeera tika central mozambique still ahead on al-jazeera south american leaders form a new regional club but does it have any hope of solving them as well as crisis us from the get the impact of what's been called a bond cycle in the u.s. midwest. hello there for many of us in china there's going to be a fair amount of wet weather to be seen over the next few days doesn't like the rains will be gathering not only as we head through the day on saturday but all safe sunday as well so this system hey gradually increases in volume and gives us heavier rain as we head into sunday so lots of weather to be found here for the southeast though here the showers that we're seeing should gradually break up force on sunday so an improving picture for us a bit further towards the south and for many of us here this plenty of dry fine weather including for many of us in the philippines which isn't necessarily good news because we could really do with some rain here instead the heaviest showers are over parts of