Only three of the citys 10 districts remain recognisable. More than 10,000 people are still missing the authorities fear the death toll will double. People are desperately searching for relatives under collapsed buildings and the mud. All the details are disturbing more than 3a,000 people are now homeless. Witnesses talk of the sea constantly depositing bodies on the shoreline. Before i show you more of the aftermath, have a look at the moments the floodwater actually hit this city the power, the speed, the force, sweeping everything away. People describe the land, just disappearing in an instant. Aid agencies on the ground talk of an overwhelming need for everything from water, shelter, medicine, rescue teams, with clinic and hospitals in the east of the country overwhelmed by the injured. Offers of International Help have been coming in but the Rescue Operation has been made more difficult by the complicated political situation in libya the country is split with an internationally recognised government in tripoli, and a Rival Government in the east. On this programme, well hear what its like in derna. Well talk to aid agencies, to politicians running that part of the country, to our teams here and in the region as we try to bring you the latest on this unfolding situation. Lets start with the human toll this is one description of what its like in derna, from a libyan journalist who spoke to the bbc. My friend, i am staying with him right now, to support him, because when we were preparing for this interview with the bbc, i heard while i was next to him the news of the death of his full family. His mother, his father, his two brothers, his sister, marianne, and his wife, newly married wife, which he sent to libya to visit his familyjust two weeks ago. And his little kid, fosie, who is eight months old. All of those died. He is asking me, what should i do . No one knows what we should do right now. All of the people that we know, when we ask what happened to this person, what happened to that person, they tell us that their whole families are dead. Devastating account. Live now to tommaso della longa from the International Federation of red cross and red crescent societies. Thank societies. You forjoining us on the programme. Thank you forjoining us on the programme. Give me a sense of the scale of what your staff are dealing with. a scale of what your staff are dealing with. ,. , scale of what your staff are dealing with. ,. ,. , ~ with. Thanks for having me. Well, the scale is with. Thanks for having me. Well, the scale is huge. With. Thanks for having me. Well, the scale is huge. I with. Thanks for having me. Well, the scale is huge. I mean, with. Thanks for having me. Well, the scale is huge. I mean, what i with. Thanks for having me. Well, | the scale is huge. I mean, what are the scale is huge. I mean, what are the libyan red crescent teams that are in the field are telling us is that Something Like a bombardment and an earthquake are happening at the same time. So its really what they are telling us, the stories of entire cities that are not any more there. Villagers that are completely destroyed, and thousands of families that are, at the moment, they really Need Everything. The that are, at the moment, they really Need EverythingNeed Everything. The waters hit so cuickl , it Need Everything. The waters hit so quickly. It was Need Everything. The waters hit so quickly, it was so Need Everything. The waters hit so quickly, it was so powerful. Need everything. The waters hit so quickly, it was so powerful. Are i Need Everything. The waters hit so | quickly, it was so powerful. Are you still finding survivors within the wreckage, within the mud. 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And there are huge humanitarian priorities and concerns. Health reasons, but food, water, shelter, we know that people are staying in makeshift shelters, schools that are still there, but of course these are temporary accommodation and we need to find a sustainable solution for thousands of people affected by this. Really heavy, violent flooding. This. Really heavy, violent flooding this. Really heavy, violent flooding. This. Really heavy, violent floodinu. ,. ,. ,. , flooding. How much aid so far have ou been flooding. How much aid so far have you been able flooding. How much aid so far have you been able to flooding. How much aid so far have you been able to get flooding. How much aid so far have you been able to get in . Flooding. How much aid so far have you been able to get in . Well, flooding. How much aid so far have you been able to get in . Well, the | you been able to get in . Well, the aood you been able to get in . Well, the good news. You been able to get in . 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The good news, once we hear from the people in libya, the libyan red crescent, is that there is a huge wave of solidarity also inside libya. People are mobilising, from east to west, to health, to volunteer, to give funds, and this is a positive news. We volunteer, to give funds, and this is a positive news. Volunteer, to give funds, and this is a positive news. We will touch on that in a moment is a positive news. We will touch on that in a moment on is a positive news. We will touch on that in a moment on our is a positive news. We will touch on l that in a moment on our programme, because it is such a complicated political backdrop in libya, would split governments and all of those issues that come into your consideration as well. A final thought, because i have been reading disturbing detail about bodies coming in, being deposited on the shoreline, every few minutes. That is what is happening on the ground, on a human level, what are your staff actually going through . fiur staff actually going through . Our staff, our staff actually going through . Oi staff, our volunteers, are devastated. To think about the fact our volunteers are trained people, part of the communities, they are affected themselves. We are talking about teams that probably lost their relatives, families and friends, but still they are responding to the emergency. If i may add, unfortunately we lost three volu nteers unfortunately we lost three volunteers from the libyan red crescent while they were trying to save lives. This gives you really the idea of how much it was complicated to respond to this flooding, and how much it was a situation that affected completely an entire community. Ilil situation that affected completely an entire community. Our sympathies for that, an entire community. Our sympathies for that. Thank an entire community. Our sympathies for that, thank you an entire community. Our sympathies for that, thank you so an entire community. Our sympathies for that, thank you so much an entire community. Our sympathies for that, thank you so much for for that, thank you so much for taking time out from an enormous amount of work to actually talk to us live here on bbc news. Thank you very much for your time. Lets get more about what the situation is like and how it is unfolding. Lets hear more from our colleague on the verify team. We hear more from our colleague on the verify team verify team. We have been going throu~h verify team. We have been going through some verify team. We have been going through some of verify team. We have been going through some of the verify team. We have been going through some of the videos verify team. We have been going l through some of the videos coming into us from the floods in libya. This is the latest one i have been able to verify. This one shows the city of derna, which has been the most impacted in terms of destruction and, indeed, when it comes to the number of casualties. You can see these images from daylight that really show the true extent of the damage on the coastal city in the east of libya. Now, lets get a map to give you a sense of where things are. This is the eastern side of libya, benghazi, a city that is the most popular on the eastern side of the country, when you may have heard of. These are the cities on the mediterranean coast which have also been impacted. This, of course, is derna that we talked about. This is the mountain range. We will just about. This is the mountain range. We willjust remain a little bit here. This is a close up image of derna. As you can see, these are the two dams that were both breached in the aftermath of storm daniel, leading to that devastation. Just remember these dams, because we are going to look at Satellite Imagery of derna. These images show derna before the floods hit the area. Its a very built up area, a population of around 90 or 100,000. Im just going to show you the mosques down here. This is useful, because when we have been verifying videos, we have been using that as a Reference Point to check the authenticity and the location of some of the footage that we have been getting in. Just going to move to this. This really does look different, doesnt it . It shows you the extent of the damage that the floods have caused. A reminder here that this is the mosque again that you can see here, just how much has been washed away what was once a really built up area. You can see the road that was attacked before completely gone. We do have more detailed Satellite Images as well. We talked about the two dams earlier, this is the one thatis two dams earlier, this is the one that is closest to the city. Look at this, it is the road that runs over the dam. It is intact there, in this before footage. But if we are able to sweep this across, you can see the same road, much of it has gone and you can see how things have been washed away. You can see these body bags starting to appear in derna, as the death toll goes up. The authorities in the east of the country say that more than 5300 people have died so far in the floods. They say they feel the death toll could dramatically increase in the coming hours. At bbc verify we will watch all of the videos that are coming into us and bring you more as and when we have it. We can now talk to a libyan official, your reaction to the disaster that has hit your country . Mohamed dayri, you know the city so well, it must be so distressing to watch so much of it simply swift away . Of it simply swift away . Indeed, i know derna. Of it simply swift away . Indeed, i know derna, because of it simply swift away . Indeed, i know derna, because my of it simply swift away . Indeed, i know derna, because my wife of it simply swift away . Indeed, i know derna, because my wife is l of it simply swift away . Indeed, i know derna, because my wife is from that town. My wifes family has suffered a great deal. We have lost a number of people, more than ten people have died yesterday. But others have been decimated by the fresh floods that have swept across their land. They have sent people into the sea, as you mentioned earlier. I know derna, buti into the sea, as you mentioned earlier. I know derna, but i also know the people who have prevailed in derna. Indeed, there has been a great amount of solidarity inside libya, but there has also been some anger and some desperate people, because of the lack of preparedness before the start of the emergency from the hurricane. And the slowness of the response so far. Unfortunately, the national and International Assistance has been slow. And we are witnessing a new wave of assistance thatis witnessing a new wave of assistance that is coming through from arab countries. ,. ,. 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