News Wrap: Heavy rain batters Spain days after catastrophic floods killed at least 200

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• Amna Nawaz:

  The day's other headlines start in Eastern Spain, where heavy rain has battered Barcelona.

  It comes just days after catastrophic floods pummeled the Valencia region down the coast, killing more than 200 people. The search for bodies continues there as frustration builds over the government's response.

  ITV Europe editor James Mates has this report.

• James Mates:

  Deep under a shopping center in the suburbs of Valencia, the water is as deep as ever,this car park still barely accessible to rescue workers. In some places, only a canoe is good enough.

  It's in places like these that they fear many more victims are still to be found. Being caught in your car when the floods hit was often fatal. Finally now, but much too late, the full resources of the Spanish state are being deployed in the city. The anger here is that it took five days for the army and its heavy equipment to be on their streets in these sort of numbers; 7,800 are now at work here.

  What a difference it might have made to Valencians if they'd seen them the morning after the floods. Instead, they're not just desperate at the loss of almost everything they own. They're angry too, anger they took out on their king and queen yesterday afternoon, spattering them with clods of the mud that had invaded their homes.

  "We have to give them hope," the king said late last night, "give them hope and guarantee to them that the state in all its power is present."

  Almost unbelievably, it's still raining torrentially on Spain's Mediterranean coast,Barcelona Airport partially evacuated today, roads nearby turning into minor rivers, though nothing like as dangerous as the wall of water that hit Valencia. Some of the streets of Tarragona, south of Barcelona, are also awash.

  Back in Valencia, the search has moved downstream not so much for survivors as for bodies in vehicles swept miles away by the water. Nighttime infrared pictures show the moment a sniffer dog alerts its handlers to the presence of a possible victim along a riverbed. These searches could be going on for many days yet.

  Longer still, though, will be the anger and recrimination at both the lack of warning and lack of help.

  James Mates, ITV news.

• Amna Nawaz:

  In the Middle East, Israel says it's terminated a decades-old agreement that officially recognizes UNRWA, the U.N. agency providing aid and services to the Gaza Strip.

  That comes a week after Israel's legislature passed two laws that would sever ties with the agency and stop its operations there. Israel says the organization has been infiltrated by Hamas terrorists. UNRWA says it's purged any suspected Hamas from its ranks.

  In the meantime, health officials in Gaza say today there are no emergency crews left in the north, where Israel has waged a renewed offensive for nearly a month.

• Eyad Zaqout, Palestinian Health Ministry (through interpreter):

  There are no longer any ambulances in the Northern Gaza Strip governorate to carry out the duty of transporting the injured. A large number of injured people are bleeding on the roads and in the places of various targets. And there are no civil defense or first aid crews to perform humanitarian duties and transport and provide the necessary medical assistance to them.

• Amna Nawaz:

  Separately, health officials in Lebanon say that more than 3,000 people have been killed during the last 13 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The Iran-backed group began firing rockets into Northern Israel the day after the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. Last month, Israel began a ground invasion into Lebanon to target Hezbollah fighters there.

  Turning now to India, authorities say at least 36 people were killed when an overcrowded bus plunged into a gorge earlier today. The accident happened in the remote Almora district and the mountainous north of the country. Onlookers at the base of the 200-foot ravine watched as emergency crews pulled bodies from the wreckage and attended to the survivors. At least 20 people were injured, in addition to those killed.

  Officials say that the bus was poorly maintained and may have skidded before swerving off the road.

  Western leaders have welcomed the reelection of Moldova's pro-European president. Maia Sandu defeated a Russia-friendly opponent in a race that was marred by claims of Russian interference and voter fraud. In a statement, U.S. President Joe Biden congratulated Sandu on her historic reelection, saying — quote — "Russia sought to undermine Moldova's democratic institutions and election processes, but Russia failed."

  Sandu campaigned on a promise to push forward Moldova's candidacy for European Union membership. The country applied to join the E.U. shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

  The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a long-running dispute over redistricting in Louisiana involving two mostly Black districts. The decision marks at least the third time the justices will step into the battle over voting lines in the state. A lower court had invalidated the most recent map, saying it relies too heavily on race. But the justices allowed it to be used in this election cycle after civil rights groups appealed.

  The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year, with the decision expected by the summer of 2025.

  In Ohio, a white former police officer has been convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man. A jury delivered the verdict to Adam Coy in a Columbus courtroom today. Coy had testified that he thought 47-year-old Andre Hill was holding a silver revolver when he shot him four times in a garage nearly four years ago.

  The object turned out to be keys. Coy faces at least 15 years in prison. His sentencing is set for later this month.

  On Wall Street today, stocks ended lower as investors hold their breath for tomorrow's election. The Dow dipped about 250 points. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 also lost ground.