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20 October 2011 Last updated at 10:46 ET

Flooding 'to hit Bangkok areas'A boat sails past a flooded temple just outside Bangkok on 20 October 2011

The Thai government says it will be impossible to protect all of the capital from flooding, as the PM calls the floods a "national crisis".


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