some sort of certainty the next 2a hours. or, are they going to try to delay it? thereby living the passengers at the airport waiting for that flight to hopefully take off. that is the question, and that is what the logistics teams and airlines across uk at the moment are trying to work out, that is, what to do. it is not great for the passengers waiting to take off. but, they want to make sure that when those planes do take off, they can land them back here in the uk. that is the issue that they are dealing with at the moment. aha, is the issue that they are dealing with at the moment. is the issue that they are dealing with at the moment. a busy day for the logistics with at the moment. a busy day for the logistics teams. with at the moment. a busy day for the logistics teams. thank- with at the moment. a busy day for the logistics teams. thank you - with at the moment. a busy day for the logistics teams. thank you veryj the logistics teams. thank you very much. now, we speak to
hundreds of people spending the night at the airport waiting to catch early morning flights today. officials here asking people respect cancel your vacations. do not come to maui, save the resources for those who need it. let s bring in the director of the department of business economic development and tourism for the state of hawaii. thank you for your time. we re sorry to speak with you considering all that is happening. when we last heard from you, it was tough to even assesses hotel zones, the challenges there because of the infrastructure problems. roads closed. do you have a better idea of the destruction and damage in those areas now? we do. we re leaving the information to the residents of maui first.
in niger, as european nations begin evacuating hundreds of citizens from the country, the first of three french planes sent to evacuate european citizens from niger has arrived back in paris with more than 250 people on board. another french aircraft is still at the capital s airport waiting to bring more people back. some countries in the region have come to the new leadership s defense, including burkina faso, mali and guinea declaring that any military invention in niger would be considered a declaration of war. niger is located in the sahel region. it s a key region for western countries in counterterrorism operations. for more on how western governments are responding to the crisis, our africa correspondent catherine byaruhanga sent in this report.
as the tourism minister said. they re expecting to continue their operations. another thing to show you, though, is what happened to these easyjet passengers. they were waiting on the tarmac for about three hours before their flight took off. you can see them there fanning themselves with the in flight safety instructions. and we have had word that this flight, while it did take off, had to land in milan because the crew had timed out. so these people still not home. their destination was london. another thing to show you is the amount of people that are in the airport waiting for flights, and some of them may be waiting for some time for the reasons we ve outlined. and we know that the uk foreign office is sending a support team to help british nationals at the airport. some of the things they ll be focusing on is getting people emergency documents. many of these people may have headed to the airport without those documents, not able to go back to the resorts and hotels where they wer
spending days on end here at the airport waiting for flights out. of course, we have people stationed there speaking to them. also there is the british foreign office. they ve got a team that that has been sent to help people who may not have their documents. they might have left hotels in a hurry or made their way from other destinations and not been able to go back to their hotels and resorts to get the documents and baggage, so they are on hand to help that. just talking about the level of impact of this fire, after the tourism minister s comments about on the 10% being affected can see the areas are marked in fire, but it has all the way up to the seaside year where a lot of the hotels and resorts are. certainly having an impact and we know 19,000 people had to be evacuated from homes. certainly there are large numbers of people being disrupted by this. if we go to