Members of Spain's Emergency Military Unit (UME) work overnight to clean the streets of Paiporta, the area hardest hit on October 29 by Spain's worst floods in generation. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announces fresh measures worth almost 3.8 billion euros to help stricken citizens recover from the disaster that killed 222 people.
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00:30We are estimating that the measures approved today, in conjunction with those adopted last week,
00:41will be able to help around 400,000 workers to maintain their incomes
00:51and around 30,000 companies to reactivate their activities
00:56and around 100,000 households to meet the basic needs.
01:01There are measures that are linked to the first and second phase,
01:04the immediate response and also the reconstruction of the affected areas,
01:09but there will also be other structural measures that we have,
01:13and it was also the subject of your questions,
01:15that we urgently proposed and modified,
01:18because this climate emergency, unfortunately,
01:22will occur recurrently throughout the Iberian Peninsula.