i m here on the road to lahaina. this is as close as we can get to the community. and what i want to show you right now is the scene here. if we just move over here i want to give you a picture of these dry conditions here on the island of maui. you can see there the dry grass, the drought here, which has been a persistent problem for many months. you can also see the high winds. and these high winds really have been an issue in fanning those flames and they are leading to more concerns, ever present concerns from authorities about the prospect for flare ups in these places. i m going to move out of the way so you can look over my shoulder here. what you can see is this is the last police check point here on the road to lahaina here, everyone on the road here is stopped and asked questions about why they are going on. and many people are then forced to turn around in this lane here and essentially turned back, because right now they are only allowing emergency workers in. it
to continue to be supported by the record company. just to push backjust slightly, are you sort of letting people off by saying it is the record company? i m not letting. it s not letting off, it s saying what it really is. this is one of the reasons why even with a tribe called quest, we had a lyric that said industry rule number a008. # record company people are shady. record company people are shady. you know, the fact that we were making something that was more conscious, we didn t get the support like a lot of other artists. thank you so much forjoining us and happy birthday. thank you so much, kirsty. let s take a look at some of the front pages. the guardian, asylum barge evacuated as deadly bacteria is found and the best is yet to come, the lioness is ready to take on colombia. good luck for tomorrow for that. the daily mail, the trans row over women s wards and the pressure to change nhs guidelines that they can share single sex spaces and again, england. on the dail
reporter on the ground in maui, helena humphrey. helena, you ve been following the developments for us there, bring us up to date with the latest. i m here on the road to lahaina. this is as close as we can get to the community full up can get to the community full up and what i want to show you right now is the scene here. if we just move over here i want to give you a picture of these dry conditions here on the island of maui. you can see the dry grass, the drought here, which has been a persistent problem for many months. you can also see the high winds. in these high winds really have been an issue in fanning those flames and they are leading to more concerns, ever present concerns from authorities about the prospect for flareups in these places. i m going to move out of the way so you can look over my shoulder here. what you can see is this is the last police check point here on the road to lahaina here, everyone on the road he is stopped and asked questions about why th
on newsnight at 10:30pm: another blow to the prime minister s so called small boats week , as migrants are taken off the bibby stockholm barge after legionaires bacteria caused problems. how will the government reboot its migrant policy? good evening. hawaii is said to be facing the largest natural disaster in its history, after wildfires ripped through the land and destroyed most of the beach front town of lahaina. at least 55 people are known to have died but many are still missing. just look at how the landscape has been ravaged. whole roads and neighbourhoods have been blackened and flattened as hurricane strength winds fanned the deadly flames. the blaze ripped through the town so quickly that some people jumped into the harbour to escape the flames and smoke. here s our north america correspondentjohn sudworth reporting from maui. the town of lahaina, home to 12,000 people traced its history back centuries. all but wiped from existence in a few short hours. the intensi
of israeli hostages held in gaza. here s the president speaking late on monday. my my national security adviser tells me that we close, we re close, we re not done yet. my hope is by next monday we will have a ceasefire. let s take a look at the latest on those meetings. israel and hamas have been holding so called proximity talks in qatar. there are reports that 400 palestinian prisoners, serving sentences for terror related crimes, could be exchanged for a0 female and elderly israeli hostages. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed to go ahead with an assault on gaza s southernmost city, rafah, regardless of any agreement. according to the hamas run health ministry, nearly 30,000 people have been killed in gaza since the start of the israeli military campaign in the territory, following the hamas attack on israel on october 7th. and in gaza city, an attack last december is thought to have killed 103 members of the same family. middle east correspondent l