of new homes in cities, vowing not to concrete over the countryside . and coming up on bbc news. one of the tournament favourites germany get their world cup campaign off to an impressive start by beating morocco 6 0. hello. thejournalist, presenter and author, our colleague george alagiah, has died. he was 67. he was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014, and in recent years used his voice to champion better nhs screening for the disease. in many ways he was a pioneer in british broadcastjournalism. born in sri lanka, he was one of the first people of colour working for a major uk broadcaster to report extensively on the part of the world that became known as the global south, shining a light on the ordinary lives of millions of people, most notably perhaps in africa, whose everyday lives were often ignored or relegated to the inside pages of newspapers. the bbc director general, tim davie said today that george. was more than just an outstanding journalist..audiences could
greek police say 19,000 people have been evacuated from homes and hotels on the island. it s said to be the biggest such operation greece has ever carried out. some breaking news, and the british foreign office has deployed a rapid deployment team, including the british red cross, to rhodes. they will be based at rhodes international airport to assist with travel documents and liaise with greek authorities and travel operators on the ground. these are pictures from one village in rhodes where houses have been destroyed. three hotels there have reportedly burnt down, and many others are in danger. this is the damage at one hotel. here you can see cars, buildings and vegetation, all burnt out, going right up to the edge of the sea. and the fires are still burning. you can see in this video captured by a tourist, just how thick the smoke is down by the coast. many people spent the night in temporary accommodation like this, after being evacuated from hotels. others have been for
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 libya s two opposing authorities. fighting has decimated the country s infrastructure. ferris says it s 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 tota
wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, for the first time in six decades, the film industry, well, it s been shut down as both writers and actors have gone on strike, halting, well, productions for tv, film and the big streamers like netflix and prime video. the writers strike has now gone on for more than four months and the actors joined them two months ago, effectively shutting down the entire industry. one big issue at the heart of the strike is the role of artificial intelligence in the industry. writers, they re worried it ll eat up their work and actors say they don t want their likeness recorded and copied and, well, made to do things that they don t want to or get paid for. the studios, they re already counting the costs, with reports of hundreds of millions of dollars already being lost from their balance sheets due to the action. in a moment, we re going to hearfrom the man leading the neg