Its estimated that could cost more than 5 billion. One of the buildings which was destroyed was the grace baptist church. Our correspondent sophie long is in hawaii and spoke to some of the congregation. The fire left more than a city devastated, and charred black buildings behind. Questions hover above the emptiness. How can you rebuild from this . What will exist here in the future . A now churchless congregation gathers at a coffee shop to share their pain. One of the Police Officers sent me pictures. It used to be my house. I wept, but weeping is not a lack of faith. Thank god that he gave us tears. Amazing grace. There are so many questions that remain without answers. Why did one survive to sit in a makeshift church when their neighbour didnt . What will become of their community so crippled by a loss thats still being counted . I dont think it will ever be the same. I hope it will be better. Thats my prayer. And i believe that, i think one day, you know, it can be an even better
death and destruction, but out of it came heroes and hope. sophie long, bbc news, maui. live now to dr douglas kelley from the uk centre for ecology and hydrology and who was the lead analyst for a un report last year, predicting a global increase in wildfire activity. welcome to the programme. we will talk about hawaii are specifically in a moment but if we could talk about that report first of all, you talked about this huge increase in the number of extreme fires. some of the number of extreme fires. some of the figures, up 30% by 2050 and then by the end of the century up 50%, talk us through what it is down to. we talk about climate change a lot but it isn tjust that, is it? climate change does play a large role in that and some of the big heat we have had recently wouldn t have been possible without climate
continental united states with nukes. threatening and firing missiles over japan. threatening guam, and instability everywhere. why this desire to suck up and kiss the ring of dictators. don t forget, sean, also, north korea has a population of 25 million. u.n. report last year shows that 18 million people there don t have enough food. remember otto warm bee a u.s. citizen who was tortured within an inch of his life and died last june. do you remember how they used to torture him? this is according to fred warmbier they actually removed his teeth and i doubt local was administered and placed them back in his mouth in different parts where they shouldn t be. now we sees a you mentioned in your last segment story after story, headline after headline kim jong un s sister turns on the charm, takes pence spo spotlight. i m sure if this was the previous administration that wouldn t happen. running joke this weekend and very effective was if this were 136, the headlines
bad decisions. so we need a pivot here. so give us a sense of what is going on behinds kreec the scen china. quell, rigright now the presp imposed a number of cost ons s beijing for money laundering. i think their calculation is if they don t help president trump, he will sever larger banks and that will have ripple effects. so foifrns bar instance bank ofs involved in money laundering for the north koreans. we ve learned that in a u.n. report last year. and they are vulnerable because the question is should they be allowed to do business in the united states if they are laundering money for kim jong-un. do you think the trump administration is naive in thinking that china will take a strong position on north korea
last week we unplugged money laundering, a small institution, they can go after bank of china, one of china s big four banks because there has been money laundering for north korea, that was in a un report last year and other instances bank of china has been violating. david: how would china respond? they would be really upset because we are taking one of their biggest banks and putting it out of business. david: stopping their bonds which people need to do. selling our treasury since the middle of 2014 in order to support the him him be. why worry about that? david: china, their heads are spinning trying to figure out how donald trump operates. that incredible dinner the president had for xi jinping in florida when he was serving him chocolate cake, announced he was