To the mercy of the flames. On saturday hawaiis Attorney General announced an investigation into why the islands Warning Siren didnt sound at the height of the emergency. Questions are also being asked about if power to the island should have been cut. Earlier i spoke to our reporter Helena Humphrey, who is on the ground in maui. Well, karl, we know the situation right now is that more search and recovery teams are coming onto the island of maui, and that is because there are just so many people who continue to be unaccounted for. And what you see here at that shelter is that people come here preparing for the worst but with some hope, hoping that potentially they could find loved ones here. Just over my shoulder over there is a Missing Persons tent. Thats currently being run by volunteers who know the community on the island, and they give People Police forms so that they can fill them in, which are handed to the sheriff, and then people can scan a qr code to try and get some informat
But we are also very focused on working together with partners to try to help the haitians restore security, restore stability. That really is the necessary foundation. The developments happen as a Christian Aid Group says an american nurse and her child have been kidnapped in the country. It happened on thursday near the capital, Port Au Prince, after the us advised all its citizens to leave the country because of the worsening Security Situation. Gangs control large parts of haitis capital Port Au Prince and kidnappings for ransom are common. Earlier, i spoke about the situation in haiti with harold isaac, a journalist based near Port Au Prince. Kenya says that it is prepared to send a Multinational Force to haiti what more do we know about that and how it might work . Very little at this stage. I mean, for many people here, it came as a bit of a surprise, especially after over nine months of waiting for a word or an actual commitment with regards to Foreign Police or Military Person
properly. is this a sabre l rattling, do you think, on behalf of ecowas? it has been a few weeks now. they have made these threats. they have ascending for siow. is there a real chance that we could see some sort of military action taken against these leaders of that military coup in niger? fin that military coup in niger? on sunda , that military coup in niger? on sunday, the military ignored ecowas s demand to return the country back to democracy and they have a rally and supporting them and it is important to note that in other parts of niger there are not as many supports for the coup so they ignored that and then on saturday there was a meeting in nigeria s capitol and then they announced the activation of the standby force and then today there was meant to be another meeting but that did not happen because of technical difficulties. so, tinubu on thursday said that it is a last resort to deploy these forces, but in terms of the diplomacy
for the coup in the capital and not as much throughout the rest of the country, but this is essentiallyjust kind of essentially just kind of reminiscent essentiallyjust kind of reminiscent of proxy dynamic that you would see during the cold war between great powers. right now you have china, the us, russia vying for influence and this is just us, russia vying for influence and this isjust an us, russia vying for influence and this is just an example of that. and this is ust an example of that. ~ ., ., ., that. we have got about 45 seconds left that. we have got about 45 seconds left but that. we have got about 45 seconds left but i - that. we have got about 45 seconds left but i want - that. we have got about 45 seconds left but i want to l that. we have got about 45 i seconds left but i want to ask you it is interesting to see the reaction we have seen from these regional leaders seemingly concerned about the situation in niger but we did not maybe see quite as much interventio
they really feel like they need to do something now. niger is also considered a strong security ally for the us and france in the region that is facing a lot of violent extremism and of course france and the us are backing ecowas so that is a part of the push from ecowas to get this handled and a return back to democracy. interesting stuff there. thank you so much for your insights. appreciated. global oil demand hit a record high injune. that s according to an estimate by the international energy agency, which says demand reached an all time high of 103 million barrels a day. the agency suggests the demand could rise even more this month, hitting a new peak. here s our business reporter david wadell. global oil demand first passed through 100 million barrels a day in 2019. but the impact of the covid pandemic hit demand hard. at one point in the april of 2020, the price of a barrel