In bogota on the first full day of his visit to the country. Now its time for World Business report. Weathering the financial storm. Harvey could overtake katrina as americas costliest hurricane, but will irma prove even more expensive . We look at the spiralling cost of extreme weather and who pays . Plus, contingency plans. The boss of Virgin Atlantic tells us how theyre helping customers in the caribbean and aiding the recovery effort. Welcome to World Business report. Im rachel horne. Also coming up chinas trade surplus with the us jumps in august. Well have the details for you. But first. As youve been hearing, its one of the strongest storms ever recorded and aside from the human cost of the disaster, experts warn it could also be one of the most expensive. Much depends on what happens when it reaches densely populated miami but estimates range from 70 to 190 billion. The financial cost of this years Hurricane Season is already spiralling to record levels. Lets show you the numbe
But it remains a powerful one that is ravaging the atlantic. And a mass exodus in vermont burma. Over 1 4 million Rohingya Muslims have fled to glencoe in the last have fled to bangladesh in the last two weeks alone. Emergency efforts are underway in mexico city mexico this friday as an earthquake struck off the southern coast. Houses were toppled and tsunami waves triggered as the 8. 1 epicenter sent people running into the streets in panic. France 24s Catherine Clifford reports. Catherine emergency workers feared debris some 1000 kilometers away from the epicenter. In mexico city, the earthquake sent people running into this the streets in panic. I grabbed a friend and i cried. I cried because it scared me a lot. I had never lived through anything like that. I had experienced tremors before, but never heard the walls creek, the lights go out. The avenue was full of people coming out of buildings, everybody in their pajamas, getting their dogs out and everything. It was very strong. T
Home. You can move back into your home and we can remove the temporary unit. That is essentially the option we have right now. A third option of course is distance so there are available rental stocks to draw a larger circumference as people move away from their homes and into rental Stock Available farther away. We had announcements on the available manufacturing Housing Stock and we can give you that after the podium briefing in florida we will have a slightly different issue that we havent assessed entirely with the damages. He will be the same model but its a peninsula and thats a wider scale problem and a larger swap storms so what we will do theirs assess whether those are the right models or whether we will apply different creative solutions. If we do we have the authority we have the budget to do so. We will make sure people are taken care of. There is a big concern about about and then i wound up having issues with formaldehyde. Is that a problem that concerns you . And speak
The free press in turkey on trial yet again. The staff of the countrys only newspaper critical to everyone critical to erdogan in court. It is good to have you with us. We begin tonight with the task of tallying the bill left by hurricane irma. The cuban government says at least 10 people were killed when the category 4 storm ripped across the coast. Many of the fatalities occurred in havana province. They blame accidents and failure to evacuate for the deaths. The storm battered the coast with waves, some 11 meters high. Irma then punched its way to the u. S. Mainland, making its way to florida not once but twice and now making its way to georgia. In florida, millions have been left without power while the storm triggered record flooding in the northeast of the state. It is not over yet. In the last few minutes, the state governor said that floods will be a threat this week. Rescuers are out looking for victims and seeing the extent of the damage. Reporter after the hurricane, the cal
To officially get summer games, in 2028, there will be a dual announcement. Apples most expensive iphone ever in the attempt to get the lead in smartphone innovation. Hurricanegether for survivors. More on that coming up, but for some our top stories is our. Genie first, french president Emmanuel Macron has pledged to rebuild the caribbean island of st. Maarten. He was only half french, half dutch island to survey the devastation after bringing much food, water, and medical supplies. President s were ready anxious residents were anxious for aid to get there. Macron spentsident time with residents of saint maarten, their concerns included lack of water but also looting. People are worried. Nicer particularly dangerous because there is no electricity. Have deployedes 2000 people, including soldiers and police, and an additional 1000 agents will arrive by the end of the week. Emmanuel macron visited a tourism hub, smashed by irma, like most of the island. Told him they are tired and angry