one bucket at a time. many people forced to flee at a moment s notice had to leave everything behind to the mercy of the flames. on saturday hawaii s attorney general announced an investigation into why the island s warning siren didn t sound at the height of the emergency. questions are also being asked about if power to the island should have been cut. one of the island s airport runways has now been closed to civilian aircraft to help supplies reach the island faster. hawaii s governor, josh green, spoke to reporters a short time ago. he was asked to give an update on the number of casualties. here is what he said. ido i i do i had to imagine the fear that came over people when the fire, which was really a hurricane and a fire, came through at once. we will rebuild. families will come together, but there s a lot of loss here, and i think we re going to see significantly higher numbers in the coming days as our professionals from fema and maui fire continue to do theirjob.
zac, lord goldsmith, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you here. just a couple of months ago, you left rishi sunak s government and, as you left, you lobbed a political grenade in his direction. why did you do that? my concern is that, you know, i m maybe a rare thing, a minister who cares passionately, or cared passionately about my portfolio. and ifound myjob was becoming untenable, it was becoming impossible for me to go forward. it was becoming virtually impossible to prevent government from sliding back. and the key issue is this pledge which was made by borisjohnson, repeated by liz truss, repeated a few times by rishi sunak around international climate finance, from which so much of what the uk has done over the last few years flows, and that pledge was being broken. you say, because it was a pledge of something over. £11.6 billion over five years. ..over five years to be invested in international climate change programmes and effor
As fire was billowing through residential neighborhoods in the Hawaii town of Lahaina last month, emergency managers for Maui County sent out an evacuation alert that would blare on the cellphones of anyone near the blaze. “Evacuate your family and pets now, do not delay,” the warning said. But many people most in need of the alert said the message never reached their phones, leaving them scrambling for safety as the fire began roaring toward their homes. More than 100 people died in the inferno