North america correspondent, sean dilley. A community in smouldering ruins. Many homes here in lahaina burnt to charred wrecks. The church and the harbour among the Historic Sites wiped out by the flames that tore indiscriminately through the formerly picturesque tourist town. The us marines and National Guard among the Emergency Workers on the ground. The us president , joe biden, has declared the situation as a major disaster. We are seeing loss of life here. As you know, the number has been rising and we will continue to see loss of life. But we have extraordinary professionals working on this job. We also have seen many hundreds of homes destroyed. And that is going to take a great deal of time to recover from. Lahaina has felt the biggest impact from the wildfires. The death toll is rising. Most fires are under control, but authorities are still working on a number on maui and the neighbouring big island. Here in lahaina, Rescue Efforts are moving more quickly now that winds of up
back to myanmar and little prospect of them having a better life which is causing so many to leave on these boats and it is also the fact that myanmar has been wracked by internal conflict since the coup there two years ago. let s get more now on the politics of managing migration with our political correspondent shelley phelps. one of rishi sunak s key policy pledges was to stop the boats . how is the government s overall strategy working out? rishi sunak has made a stop the boats one of his five key pledges. he clearly thinks this is going to be a key big issue at the next general election and an issue that he thinks that labour is weak on. now, in terms of the policies around that, the government says it wants to cut that £6 million per day cost of housing asylum seekers in hotels. now, this week the bbc got the