of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in crammed camps near the border in bangladesh. earlier, rusikesh harichandan from the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies had this assessment of the damage. the fire broke out in the rohingya refugee camps around today at 3pm, and it almost took two hours to be handled by the fire service agencies. and the fire has brought massive damage. around 12,000 people are affected. around 2,000 centres have been. at the same time, the loading centres. most of the common infrastructure services also have been damaged fully. to mention particularly camp 10, 11 and 9, these damages are hugely done, particularly on the water facilities. these centres have facilities that have been very badly damaged. and there is no casualty reporting. however, right now, the corner s investigations are ongoing. 0ur volunteers from bangladesh red cross centre were in the forefront. they have
cheering and applause thanks forjoining us on bbc news. a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in cox s bazar in south east bangladesh. the charity action aid said their initial assessment was that more than 2,000 shelters had been gutted, leaving around 12,000 people homeless. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in crammed camps near the border in bangladesh. earlier, i spoke to the country director of action aid bangladesh about what happened. it s a very densely populated camp. we host more than a million people in the rohingya refugee camps. so far, over12,000 people have been affected. a lot of people have been temporary evacuated. they came to the centre like action aid has, community centres in camp 11, and they are taking refuge there. and the water points, as already mentioned, and two of the health centres, primary health centres were affected. and tomorrow morning, we w
a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in cox s bazar in south east bangladesh. the charity action aid said their initial assessment was that more than 2000 shelters had been gutted, leaving around 12,000 people homeless. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in crammed camps near the border in bangladesh. earlier i spoke to farah kabir, the country director of action aid bangladesh, about what happened. it s a very densely populated camp. we host more than a million people in the rohingya refugee camps. and so far, over 12,000 people have been affected. a lot of people have been temporarily evacuated. they came to the centres action aid has some community centres in camp 11 and they are taking refuge there. and the water points, as already mentioned by your colleague, and two of the health centres, primary health centres, were affected. and tomorrow morning we will have a clear
warm location, or decided to leave our care by connecting with friends, family or other networks. todd: mayor eric adams calling out agitators providing food, water and clothing. he says shelter at brooklyn cruise is nothing like the prison they are making it out to be. what they said to me, thank you, mr. mayor. there are agitators that are doing a disservice to the migrants and the children and families moving to the hotels. todd: i m dumbfounded by the sense of entitlement from the migrants. the shelter conditions, they call a prison, these conditions are better than most college dorm rooms that most college students experience. these are clean. you have some semblence of privacy, unlike college dorms. having been there, i agree with mayor adams, the activists are agitators. they are standing in front of the media and prevent the media from covering the party because they wound their socialist operation to take place in the shadow separated from the public. ashley:
good evening leah, begin with the most immediate humanitarian crisis in the world right. now it is been three days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the region bordering turkey and syria. the number of that continues to rise from hundreds, to thousands, to tens of thousands. right now at least 21,000 people known to have been killed in other 78,000 insured. because, there is far less access to northern syria, the concern is the casualties there could be far worse. we are watching this play out right now from a distance, and from a distance it looks one way. but a close, is where the horror and heroism is. it is disaster is happening one person at a time. in this case, one little girl. we don t know her name, she has bought five years, old she was rescued after being trapped for 89 hours. two other girls a life waiting to be freed. small victories, one at a time, from a distance, small lifeboats on a sea of despair from up close the entire world. from a close as well a