helena wilkinson has the latest. this is greece s second biggest island, evia. the scenes are devastating. wildfires are continuing to break out on this island. dozens of residents have had to leave their homes. i closed all the windows but they put the water around it. firefighters are doing all they can under extreme conditions. but strong scorching winds have made the situation worse. flames have ripped through vast areas destroying homes and burning forest. more than 2000 people from the island had to be carried to safety after they fled to the beaches. one man filmed the inferno once he was safe on a ferry. ships remained on standby ready to evacuate more people if needed. ten ships. the greek prime minister kyriakos mitsotakis has called this
have also been evacuated from athens northern suburbs and others have had to abandon their homes elsewhere. the greek army has been deployed to help fight the blazes and several countries including britain and germany have sent emergency aid teams to help. helena wilkinson has the latest. this is greece s second biggest island, evia. the scenes are devastating. wildfires are continuing to break out on this island. dozens of residents have had to leave their homes. i closed all the windows but they put the water around it. firefighters are doing all they can under extreme conditions. but strong scorching winds have made the situation worse. flames have ripped through vast areas destroying homes and burning forest. more than 2000 people from the island had to be carried to safety after they fled to the beaches.
in athens, screams for help as the flames grow closer. people are desperately trying to put out the fires in anyway they can. thousands have been evacuated. this woman told me she is worried for herfamily. a big national tragedy. do you live around here? i don t live near here. my sister lives here. it is hard for the whole of greece. this was the scene on the island of evia. ferries carried hundreds of people to safety after they fled to the beaches. safe on board, one man filmed from his phone. the fire burned through a vast area of pine forests. only the sea could stop it.
this is bbc world news. i m tim willcox. our top stories: greece on fire. thousands are forced to evacuate their homes in athenian suburbs and on the country s second largest island of evia. another golden moment for team gb cyclistjason kenny, making him the country s most decorated olympian. new changes to the uk s covid travel restrictions have come into force. airstrikes are launched on taliban fighters who took an afghan city. more than 200 are killed. thousands take to the streets of amsterdam as the city marks the 25th anniversary
and closer to this village. just a few miles from here there are bright blue skies, but here the air is full of smoke and ash. and it s making it harder for people to breathe. no one knows if this village will be spared. it s now up to the gods of the winds and the weather. bethany bell, bbc news, evia. the world is getting dangerously close to running out of time to avert catastrophic climate change. that s the warning from alok sharma, the minister in charge of november s climate change conference in glasgow. let s get more on this from our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. is this a kind of rhetoric that is designed to focus people s minds as we lead into glasgow? we lead into glasgow? absolutely, those fires in we lead into glasgow? absolutely, those fires in the we lead into glasgow? absolutely, those fires in the recent we lead into glasgow? absolutely, those fires in the recent floods - we lead into glasgow? absolutely, those fires in the recent floods in i t