A landscape changed beyond recognition. A bustling city, now a wasteland. The destructive power of water has ripped the heart from derna. Its survivors left wracked with grief and anger. We were told to stay inside our homes. Why . They should have told us there was a storm, told us the dam was old and crumbling. Some of these destroyed buildings were 100 years old. This man lost five members of his family in the raging current. One was his ten month old daughter. He shows me their pictures. First alive. And then their bodies. This was what brought him here. A convoy of ministers from the eastern government, one of libyas two opposing authorities. Fighting has decimated the countrys infrastructure. Ferris says its proved fatal. Well, i spoke to the eastern prime minister, 0sama hamad. How could this happen when the dams were supposed to keep people safe . It was a very strong cyclone, he told me. Too strong for the dams. Here in the centre of derna, the destruction is total. And when y
his immigration minister robert jenrick. the bell they have published so far does allow ministers to override some parts of the human rights act, but not completely ignored all european human rights laws, which was something that some mps on the right of the conservative party had been calling for. that has led to backlash from that wing of his party, including the former home secretary suella braverman, who has told the bbc this morning that this would leave the rwanda bill open to further legal challenges from potential asylum seekers and their representatives as well. so i think there will be a couple of key questions that rishi sunak will be facing in this press conference. firstly, there is the question hanging over him today of who on earth will he replace robertjenrick with? or can be the immigration minister at this time? i think this is a tricky question because robert jenrick was somebody who was a close ally of his, was supposed to be someone very loyal to rishi su
concerned about it. you have in fact already given evidence concerned about it. you have in fact already given evidence in concerned about it. you have in fact already given evidence in relation i to why you suggested at an earlier stage there were comparisons between swine flu and you have described the importance to you of not talking the economy down. the first line, he doesn t think anything can be done, may ijust ask doesn t think anything can be done, may i just ask you, this doesn t think anything can be done, may ijust ask you, this date the 3rd of march comes after your meeting with the civil contingency secretariat, after the cobra of which there is some early debate about measures and what can be done, and if you did say on the 3rd of march two mr cummings i don t think anything can be done, that casts a very significant light upon what you were being told around that time. i cannot say exactly what i said to my adviser, cannot say exactly what i said to my a
expect areas. you see it would be wrong to expect that areas. you see it would be wrong to expect that any future scientific adviser expect that any future scientific adviser would have specialist knowledge on political or epidemiological matters. given your no doubt epidemiological matters. given your no doubt fortuitous experience in medicine no doubt fortuitous experience in medicine and pharmacological matters did you medicine and pharmacological matters did you on medicine and pharmacological matters did you on reflection think that you played did you on reflection think that you played a did you on reflection think that you played a greater role in responding to this played a greater role in responding to this pandemic and perhaps you might to this pandemic and perhaps you might have done if you speciality had been might have done if you speciality had been different? i might have done if you speciality had been different? might have done if you
coming on to talk about say possibly a few days. we will be coming on to talk about later- say possibly a few days. we will be coming on to talk about later in - say possibly a few days. we will be | coming on to talk about later in the year, september, second lockdown and so on. the premise of my question so far has been that there was going to be a lockdown in march or thereabouts, it was just a question of when it happened and could it have been imposed earlier. adopting the same hindsight approach, do you think that in fact that first lockdown might have been avoided altogether had things been done differently? i altogether had things been done differentl ? ~ . altogether had things been done differentl ? ,, . ., differently? i think that if we had had a sealed. differently? i think that if we had had a scaled, test, differently? i think that if we had had a scaled, test, trace - differently? i think that if we had had a scaled, test, trace and - had a scaled, test,