Recovery crews continue to comb through the charred ruins and hundreds of people remain unaccounted for. There is growing anger on maui over both the lack of warning about the wildfires the worst to hit a state in america in over a century and the response by officials to the thousands left without homes and in some cases adequate food and water as sophie long reports from the island. This is what remains of lahaina. Cars abandoned as people ran and jumped into the sea to escape the flames. Homes and businesses reduced to charred remains. President biden promised immediate help and said every available asset should be used to provide it, but, days later, people here say its not yet reaching those most in need and people like felicia are desperately trying to get supplies into lahaina themselves. Im frustrated. People are. Were all together. Were one family, we need to take care of each other. No one s feeding everyone. Theyre traumatised. Theyre upset. No one s giving hugs. They need m
Borisjohnson, largely absent up behind him, with the manager, iea boris johnson, largely absent from the table. Clearly not very happy and there is no love lost between the former leader, former Prime Minister and the outgoing First Minister. There was also another tricky exchange when Mark Drakeford discussed simon hart, the Welsh Secretary for the uk government throughout the pandemic. He was giving evidence on friday when she said she felt as though the Welsh Government was making decisions during the pandemicjust for the during the pandemic just for the sake during the pandemicjust for the sake of it, to be different to the uk government. Mark drakeford completely refuted that and noted simon hart did not give any evidence to back up that theory. Also Mark Drakeford said that simon hart got to the stage where he did not have much to do with the start of the pandemic, otherthan much to do with the start of the pandemic, other than essentially borrowing bothering Mark Drakeford about
Its been a big news week on both sides of the atlantic with the budget dominating the domestic agenda, and in the united states, the president s state of the Union Address and super tuesday. The latter, a series of primary votes in 15 states and one territory, crucial in selecting the candidates for this autumn s president ial election, pretty much confirmed what we already knew that were heading for a Rerun Contest of biden versus trump. The bbc s coverage elicited this response from graham, in chingford. Last week, we broadcast a plea from viewer alan watts for a ban on the word expected and on speculation in general in regard to coverage leading up to the budget. As we speculated might be the case, his appeal fell on deaf ears. So, do we have any sense of which taxes might be cut . The government wants a positive headline, so we understand they are carrying on with trying to cut personal taxes. Weve got the chancellor in two days time. If he was listening tonight, what are you hopin
Some thundery, but there will be some thundery, but there will be some sunshine around. Because the air is coming down from the north, a cool direction, these temperatures are below par, generally the mid to high teens for most, 20 or 21 in the south east. Eitherthe high teens for most, 20 or 21 in the south east. Either the heaviest of the showers Eastern Scotland and eastern england, some of them could be quite thundery and could cause some localised flooding. Further west, a better chance of staying dry with sunshine on friday. Those temperatures are below par for the time of year. We can stay is unsettled, another area of low pressure moving in. Sunshine and showers, some quite heavy and pretty disappointing temperatures once again. Thats it from me. Back to you then. Thanks very much indeed. As promised we go back to the womens world cup. And are playing china in Theirfinal Group D game, back to jane dougall in adelaide. It was 3 0 when we talk to you before. What is the score now