66 people are now known to have died and more than a dozen are still missing. others have been left stranded after landslides closed off roads. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in three weeks time, italians vote in a general election. now, if the opinion polls are to be believed, the country is about to embrace a political movement with its roots in post war fascism. what would that mean for italy and for europe? well, my guest today, here at the ambrosetti forum a sort of italy style davos gathering is enrico letta, a former italian prime minister and leader of the centre left democratic party. is his effort to keep the far right out of power doomed to fail? enrico letta, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for the invitation. we appreciate your time, particularly because you are in the middle of a fiercely fought election campaign. would you accept that right now, you in the centre left look as though you are going to lose? no
the venue for next year s invictus games. hello and welcome. we begin with the focus on the day ahead for the uk s new prime minister who will hold the first meeting of her government ministers in downing street in the next few hours. they will discuss multibillion pound plans to tackle the soaring cost of living. liz truss rewarded her key allies with seniorjobs in a cabinet reshuffle hours after taking office. later, she goes face to face with the leader of the opposition at herfirst prime minister s questions in the house of commons. our political correspondent ben wright reports. elected by tory party members after boris johnson s elected by tory party members after borisjohnson s downfall, liz truss entered number ten promising a fresh start. but with energy bills soaring in a recession forecast, it is going to be tough. i recession forecast, it is going to be tough- to be tough. i will get britain workin: to be tough. i will get britain working again. to be tough. i
Winter level on record, according to satellite data. Hello. Lets get more now on the italian island of lampedusa. The European Commission president has laid out an Emergency Plan of action following the arrival of thousands of migrants. The italian Prime Minister says europes future is at stake. Earlier i spoke to giorgia linardi, from the migrant charity, sea watch. She described the Current Situation in lampedusa. The situation is peculiar because according to people on the island, this is the first time that we have really what we can call a record influx of people in such number of days. Something like this can be recalled from 2011 with the arab spring and the libyan crisis. Its peculiar that this arrival of people coincides with the discussion in the European Parliament last tuesday of the memorandum between tunisia and the eu. And we have news from tunisia about the tunisian authorities pushing migrants onto the coasts where they continue to depart from. So its a situation that
Have arrived on the island over the past three days. Thats more than lampedusas local population which is around 6 or7,000. Nearly 126. 000 migrants have arrived in italy so far this year, almost double the figure by the same date last year. Lets hear what Giorgia Meloni had to say. However, if somebody here in europe were to think that these Global Crisis that we are tackling and facing could be just solved within the italian borders, then it would be a very big, huge mistake on their side, because this massive flow of immigrants is something which requires the involvement and the responsibility by everybody to be tackled, because its going to affect certainly the border, the frontier countries, but it will soon also involve all of the other countries. So we are all involved in this. We are all involved in trying to tackle and deal with this situation. And therefore the presence of president von der leyen is a sign of awareness in this respect. The head of the European Commission, Urs
hospitals in the region have seen an influx of wounded people, and the authorities are calling on residents to donate blood. and in the last few minutes we ve been hearing that morocco has declared three days of mourning. and the national flag will be flown at half staff throughout the country. the 6.8 magnitude quake struck in a remote area in the atlas mountains, around 45 miles south of the popular tourist destination, marrakesh. tremors were also felt in the capital rabat, some 350 kilometres away. president biden said he s deeply saddened by the events. china s president xi has also sent a message of condolence. charlotte wright has this report. the horrifying moment a powerful earthquake hit morocco. cctv shows people running for safety as buildings begin to crumble in marrakesh. elsewhere in the city, diners frantically flee a restaurant. outside the historic kutubiyya mosque, dust rises from the tower, prompting fears it might collapse. marrakesh is 45 miles from th