Toll will double. All the details are disturbing more than 3a,000 people are now homeless. Witnesses talk of the sea constantly depositing bodies on the shoreline. Before i show you more of the aftermath, have a look at the moments the floodwater actually hit this city. The power, the speed, the force sweeping everything away. People describe the land, just disappearing in an instant. Aid agencies on the ground talk of an overwhelming need for everything from water, shelter, medicine, rescue teams with clinic and hospitals in the east of the country overwhelmed by the injured. The Rescue Operation has been made more difficult by the complicated political situation in libya. The country is split with an internationally recognised government in tripoli, and a Rival Government in the east. This is one description of what it is like in derna from a libyan journalist who spoke to the bbc. My friend, im staying with him right now to support him because when we were preparing for this intervi
Least dennis may disagree on the boats issue. We should have just told the echr this is none of your business, rather like we did on prisoner voting, we should. Problem is the should. The problem is the Strasbourg Court historically always overreaches its own powers. Um, always overreaches its own powers. Um, and so i think our own sovereign parliament, just as we did on prisoner voting from time to time , would be from time to time, would be within our rights to say this is nothing do you. And if nothing to do with you. And if they accept that, we they dont accept that, then we should they dont accept that, then we sho Denis Macshane do you disagree . Yes , because prisoner voting yes, because prisoner voting was never. Prisoner voting was never a convention of the council of europe. Europe. It was a proposal. It was a proposal. And we said, no thanks. I discussed it with home secretaries. Theyre just very nervous of pubuc theyre just very nervous of Public Opinion in switzerland, oth
We start in libya where floods are reported to have killed 2,800 people, after a powerful storm swept through the east of the country. As many as 10,000 people are reported as missing. Much of the country has been declared a Disaster Zone and three days of mourning have begun. The un said theyre deeply concerned about the situation. Many roads have been destroyed. A minister in the eastern government which is not internationally recognised said more than a thousand bodies had now been recovered in the worst hit city, derna. The eastern cities of benghazi and al marj are also among the worst hit. Anna a n na foster anna foster is here. The scale of this is simply staggering . Yes. Anna foster is here. The scale of this is simply staggering . Yes, it is one of those this is simply staggering . Yes, it is one of those stories this is simply staggering . Yes, it is one of those stories that this is simply staggering . Yes, it is one of those stories that is is one of those stories that is
with hamas agreeing to release a total of 50 hostages, and israel 150 detainees. that should happen over the next three days, during that negotiated pause in the fighting. there is also scope for that pause to be extended, if the two sides can agree a further exchange of prisoners and hostages. however, israel has not withdrawn its military from gaza, and has made clear that it intends to continue its operation against hamas. meanwhile, more aid is being allowed into gaza, on friday around 150 trucks carrying medical supplies, fuel and food entered the strip through the rafah crossing. returning to the 2a hostages released from gaza on friday, they have spent the night in hospitals in israel. some of the released israeli hostages have been receiving medical care at the schneider children s medical center. there s been this update on their condition. yesterday, four boys and girls, one mother and one grandmother and one grandmother arrived at schneider children s medical and w