The chance to get together and show what they can achieve. But every two years, its sport that brings them closer. They come from europe, the South Atlantic and the caribbean. 2a islands, 1a sports, across six days of action. This is the island games. 900 miles away off the north coast of scotland, shooter Ross Donaldson and his teammates are starting the long trip south. When you can get an island games squad, theres anticipation, theres excitement. So weve got 20 bikes, a lot of football kit, sailing kit, athletics kit. In st peters port, Team Managers are checking in athletes and equipment. 103 of us all arrived here safely. Im delighted. Going to head over to the two hotels, and then well unpack all the bikes and the kit. Carlos and his bikes have travelled all the way from shetland. Ive got two bikes. This is the One For The Road race. Ive got a different one for the time trial. But you try and get as much advantage as you can within the rules. Most of the teams have got two bikes
93 people are now known to have died, but the governor of hawaii has warned people to expect that number to rise significantly, after the worst wildfires to hit an american state in more than a century. Our North America correspondent, john sudworth, reports from the island. Vital supplies being loaded onto a boat that would normally be taking tourists whale watching. These boats are now making multiple daily trips into the Disaster Zone with a growing sense of frustration. We are all wondering why there was no help centre. Where are the resources . Why are we taking supplies on the boat instead of a helicopter . We do this because we have to. An hour into the journey and the devastation along the shoreline comes into view. We can quite clearly see the town of lahaina now and you can make out is the blackened the landscape above the town where the grass is burning and what happened with the Hurricane Blowing away to the south, the pressure brought the wind over the top of the island, p
And pose a real threat. Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for that just began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed a
De risking strategy poses yet another threat to foreign businesses operating there. I think the biggest challenge right now is the clear message from the United States government coming right out of the white house that theyre encouraging us businesses to essentially what they call de risk from china, that theyre encouraging us businesses to limit investment in china, especially when it has to do with industries that touch on National Security concerns. One of the things that china had introduced over the weekend, theyre offering Tax Incentives as well as help with visas. But is that going to work . I dont think so. Not right off the bat. And i think the State Council recently issued some guidelines in an attempt to essentially make investments in china more attractive. And i think it shows us three major things. The first is that it demonstrates that china knows that its got a problem. Its economy is slowing. Its got a housing bubble, unemployment is particularly high and Foreign Inve
Has to do with industries that touch on National Security concerns. One of the things that china had introduced over the weekend, theyre offering Tax Incentives as well as help with visas. But is that going to work . I dont think so. Not right off the bat. And i think the State Council recently issued some guidelines in an attempt to essentially make investments in china more attractive. And i think it shows us three major things. The first is that it demonstrates that china knows that its got a problem. Its economy is slowing. Its got a housing bubble, unemployment is particularly high and Foreign Investment is beginning to slow down. The second thing is theyre saying the right things, that theyre providing Tax Incentives and theyre trying to theyre indicating that theyre going to protect intellectual Property Rights and theyre trying to make the country look more attractive for foreign investors. But i think the third thing is the most important, and thats us companies and Multinatio