Record rains in southern Brazil have displaced almost 600,000 people. A month later and roads remain blocked, the airport is closed and many people will never return home.

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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has declared it a “climate catastrophe”. Officials are writing off whole neighbourhoods – telling residents these places can never be made safe. Caitríona Perry speaks with BBC Brasil reporters Daniel Gallas and Leandro Prazeres, who have been finding out what this means for people in the flood zone, and asks if there are lessons for all of us in a warming world.

00:00 Introduction
01:07 Shock at scale of flooding
01:49 Fleeing houses overnight
02:37 ‘Like an area that had been bombed’
03:09 What is Rio Grande do Sul like?
04:08 Three months of rain in two weeks
05:13 Reactions from around Brazil
05:57 Footballers and Olympians help out
07:36 Logistical difficulties after the flood
08:07 The people ‘felt lost’
09:14 What people have lost
09:47 Abandoned neighbourhoods
10:38 Promise of new homes
11:37 Impact of climate change
12:42 How Brazilians think and talk about climate change
14:19 Why is the water not going away?
15:19 Plans for helping displaced people
16:12 Political importance of the floods
16:39 ‘Depressed’ outlook of people in Porto Alegre

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