of the wildfires is being investigated mounting evidence shows downed power lines could have played a role. 0ur correspondent, sophie long, is on the ground in maui. ever since the this tragedy happened and we started to learn about the loss of life, we ve heard from people who escaped that night and how they heard no warnings. everyone has demanded to know why they didn t get more warning. they knew that a fire was burning. they knew that there were very high gusts of wind. and yet maui has a very, very good outdoor alert system. and those sirens were not used there in place to alert people to wildfires and tsunamis mainly. and those sirens were not sounded on the day. instead, we heard harrowing tales from survivors as they fled with heat burning their back. now, yesterday, on wednesday, the head of maui s emergency management agency defended the decision not to sound those sirens.
more than 100 people have been arrested in pakistan after muslim crowds burned churches and vandalised the homes of christians. the violence in the city ofjaranwala, in punjab, was triggered by claims that two christian men had torn pages from a copy of the quran. they ve now been been arrested. 0ur pakistan correspondent, caroline davies, has more details. narrow streets with destruction at every turn. you can see the. the enormous damage that has been done here. this is jaranwala s christian quarter. yesterday, angry protesters stormed these homes, including sonam s. we lost everything, she tells me. inside, blackened, overturned, smashed. she describes how her bed was thrown from the window and on her roof, how she heard an announcement from the mosque calling for people to come out to protest. translation: people came l to our houses with their sticks.
will find those responsible. 0ur pakistan correspondent, caroline davies, reports from islamabad. we ve now heard from the amaq news agency that the so called islamic state in kp. this is the province where the suicide blast took place that that group has now claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that took place on sunday afternoon so far, taking the lives of 45 people. now, this has come through the amaq news agency, which is quite often the outlet that the so called islamic state tend to use to announce when and claim various different attacks and the same thing for their affiliate groups as well. now, while this declaration did include the name of the individual that they say was the suicide bomber, it hasn t contained any further details of the motive and the intention behind it. but the fact that this has happened and this is not the first time that the so called islamic state has carried out attacks in pakistan. this many people are already suggesting that this appears t
and the new york police that came down in the hundreds, which i ve been advocating for for months and months and months and months, and nothing has happened. ambassador, thank you so much for speaking with us today. thank you. you re wonderful. an affiliate group of the islamic state, the iskp, is claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing at a political rally in pakistan. mourners are burying the dead after sunday s attack that killed at least 5a people in the north of the country and injured hundreds more. pakistan s goverment says it will find those responsible. 0ur pakistan correspondent, caroline davies, reports from islamabad. we ve now heard from the amaq news agency that the so called islamic state in kp. this is the province where the suicide blast took place that that group has now claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that took place on sunday afternoon so far, taking the lives of 45 people. now, this has come through the amaq news agency, which is quite often th
precipitation levels in beijing and other cities across northern china have already reached record levels. in worrying news, driving rain is expected to continue over the next 2a hours. and then, another typhoon will hit southern china. stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. let s now turn to pakistan where an islamic state affiliate group, the iskp, has said one of its militants carried out sunday s suicide attack that killed dozens of people in the north of the country. amaq news, usually the first outlet to carry information related to is, has reported the claim and identified the attacker as abdullah muhajir. the blast killed dozens of people at a pro taliban election rally of an islamist party, in the bajaur tribal district of khyber pakhtunkhwa province. 0ur pakistan correspondent, caroline davis, reports from islamabad. we ve now heard from the amaq news agency that the so called islamic state in kp.