ANPToday the peak of the water level is expected.
NOS Nieuws•dinsdag, 07:24
Good morning! The water in Dutch rivers continues to rise. The peak is expected today. And in Gavere, Belgium, the cyclo-cross World Cup is being contested.
First the weather: on Boxing Day, cloud fields and sun alternate. In the north there may be a few showers, elsewhere mainly dry. It will be a maximum of 9 or 10 degrees. Tonight it will clear up and cool down further than in recent days.
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What can you expect today?
The water level in Dutch rivers continues to rise. Yesterday this already led to nuisance in many places and the peak is expected today. The Rhine and IJssel Water Board expects that the water in the rivers Rhine, Waal and IJssel will rise to about 3.5 to 4 meters above normal. The cyclo-cross World Cup starts in Gravere, Belgium. Mathieu van de Poel, Wout van Aert, Fem van Empel and Puck Pieterse will compete in the mud for the title. The women start at 1:40 PM and the men at 3:10 PM. The competitions can be seen live in the NOS app and on NOS.nl. There is a Pokémon fair in the Brabanthallen in Den Bosch. Pokémon fans can go there for rare cards and merchandise.
What did you miss?
There is also flooding in Germany. There, 500 residents of a village in the state of Thuringia were evacuated. In some places in the village there was a meter of water. No place in Gaza is safe anymore, says the leader of a UN humanitarian team in the Gaza Strip. According to Gemma Connell, Gaza has become “a chessboard” for displaced people, with residents moving from one supposed safe zone to another.
Other news from the night:
The United States has carried out retaliatory strikes on several targets in Iraq after a drone strike that injured three American soldiers. Ukraine has denied that Russia captured the eastern Ukrainian town of Marjinka. There has been heavy fighting in and near the frontline town in eastern Ukraine for a year. “The fight for Marjinka continues,” an army spokesman said.
And then this:
In the annual Christmas speech, the king criticized the hard culture of settlement: “If we were to spend our energy on finding solutions, we would get much further.”
King criticizes harsh settlement culture in Christmas speech
