welcome to the programme. we will start to increase, authorities there have declared a state of emergency in southern rhodes, as firefighters continue to battle wildfi res. greek police say 19,000 people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on the island. the british foreign office has deployed a rapid deployment team, including the british red cross, to rhodes. these are pictures from one village in rhodes where houses have been destroyed. three hotels there have reportedly burnt down, and many others are in the danger zone. this is the damage at one hotel in the town of kiotari. here you can see cars, buildings and vegetation all burnt out, going right up to the edge of the sea. and some fires are still burning these pictures have come into us from the turkish ministry of agriculture, taken from one of their planes
horrendous. absolutely. i ve never been so scared in my entire life. travel chaos as a number of holiday firms cancel outbound flights and holidays to rhodes. counting is under way in spain s snap general election, the centre right have a narrow lead. and australia retains the ashes after rain ensures the fourth test ends in a draw. hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. the greek authorities have declared a state of emergency in southern rhodes, as firefighters continue to battle wildfi res. greek police say 19 thousand people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on the island. the british foreign office has deployed a rapid deployment team, including the british red cross,
the greek authorities have declared a state of emergency in southern rhodes, as firefighters continue to battle wildfi res. greek police say 19,000 people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on the island. it s said to be the biggest such operation greece has ever carried out. the british foreign office has deployed a rapid deployment team including the british red cross to rhodes. they will be based at rhodes international airport to assist with travel documents and liaise with greek authorities and travel operators on the ground. these are pictures from one village in rhodes where houses have been destroyed. three hotels there have reportedly burnt down, and many others are in the danger zone. this is the damage at one hotel.
hello i m lewis vaughanjones. the greek authorities have declared a state of emergency in southern rhodes, as firefighters continue to battle wildfi res. greek police say 19,000 people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on the island. it s said to be the biggest such operation greece has ever carried out. this is the damage from one village. you can see houses destroyed there. three hotels have been burnt down and many others still in danger. this is the damage at one hotel. here you can see cars, buildings and vegetation, all burnt out, going right up to the edge of the sea. and the fires are still burning you can see in this video captured by a tourist, just how thick the smoke is.