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 our south asia correspondent anbarasan ethirajan who started off my telling me where the fire took place and gave me an update on what we know so far.. it is a very sprawling camp where tens of thousands of people live in cramped conditions. and these huts are made up of bamboo and sometimes by polythene sheets or even tin roofs and they are packed. there are tens of thousands of people living there. in the evenings, somehow the fire starts by accident. but officials say they managed to bring it under control. but thousands of people are now affected. they are
on what we know so far. it is a very sprawling camp where tens of thousands of people live in cramped conditions. and these huts are made up of bamboo and sometimes by polythene sheets or even tin roofs and they are packed. there are tens of thousands of people living there. in the evenings, somehow the fire starts by accident. but officials say they managed to bring it under control. but thousands of people are now affected. they are now homeless, with the women and children as the aid worker was saying. it is a very terrible condition because they will be staying outside in the cold. but the aid agencies say they are providing all of the help. it is also a reminder of all the situation of rohingya refugees where nearly a million of them escaped violence from neighbouring myanmar. these camps are situated very close to the border. many people feel, the rohingya community feel, they have been forgotten by the world communuity. earlier i spoke to safwan chowdhury from the ba
Of disease among Rohingya Muslims in the worlds biggest refugee camp. Im in the kutupalong refugee camp, where people are living in the most and many tributes for cyrille regis, the man who led the way for black footballers in britain hes died at the age of 59. Its five oclock. Our main story is the collapse of carillion, the Major Construction and outsourcing group which is involved with some of the biggest public building projects in the uk. The business, which employs 20,000 people in the uk, went into liquidation with debts of £900 million. Its involved in projects such as crossrail and the h52 rail link, as well as cleaning and maintenance contracts for schools, prisons and hospitals. The Cabinet Office minister David Liddington has told mps that protecting those services would be the governments priority. Labour is asking why the government awarded major contracts to carillion even after it was clear the company was in difficulties. 0ur correspondent Simon Gompertz has the lates