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00:00from Beijing. Firstly, bring us up-to-date with the latest on this
00:05typhoon. As you have been saying this morning, all flights and some
00:14trains coming in and out of Shanghai have been cancelled. The
00:18city's 25 million people have been told to stay at home. If they
00:22weren't among those hundreds of thousands of people who were
00:25already told to evacuate, authorities have issued their
00:28highest red typhoon alert across the region. Severe gales and heavy
00:33downpours expected along China's southeast coast before Beibingka
00:38is to move more inland towards the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui
00:42and Zhejiang. By then, it should somewhat have weakened. This is
00:47the most powerful storm to hit the city in seven and a half decades
00:52because usually this type of weather phenomenon stays much further
00:55south, so it is very rare for Shanghai to experience something
00:59like this. Beibingka landed just as China's three-day bank holiday
01:03kicks off. It is a mid-autumn festival here, a time of year a lot
01:07of Chinese people use their time of work to travel. It has also only
01:12been just ten days since Typhoon Yagi pummeled through Guangdong
01:16province and Hainan Island. That cyclone left a trail of devastation
01:22in southern China and in southeast Asia with Vietnam and Myanmar
01:27particularly affected.