German officials rejected suggestions that they had done too little to prepare for last week’s floods and said warning systems had worked, as the death toll from the country’s worst natural disaster in almost six decades rose above 160, write Andreas Kranz, Leon Kugeler Reuters TV, Holger Hansen, Anneli Palmen, Andreas Rinke, Matthias Inverardi, Bart Meijer in Amsterdam Maria Sheahan and Thomas Escritt.

