welcome to three hours of checking out the truth behind stories. we start in hawaii, where 55 people are now known to have died in devastating wildfires. about 1,000 remain unaccounted for. damage to communication lines is making it difficult to locate people. to give you a sense of the utter devastation on maui, i first wanted to show you these pictures. they were taken by a passenger on a plane landing on the island. they really capture the extent of the wildfires as they burn out of control. the governor of hawaii estimated that 80% of the town is gone. he said it was probably the us state s largest ever natural disaster. we can also show you these pictures. they show that some buildings seem to have been left untouched by the flames whilst others just metres away have been completely destroyed. locals have been left to just look in horror at what they ve lost. there were no warning sirens to alert them as the flames moved towards their homes. authorities say it will take
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Seems it is politically unpopular in the past for it to receive any kind of funding. and then we have this announcement from president zelenskyy against a backdrop of pressure from western allies to deal with corruption in ukraine, something the country has always grappled with. but then there are also allegations from the men themselves who find themselves receiving draft papers, claims in 0desa certainly when shall we say heavy handed tactics have been used where there are allegations of men find themselves on the front line with very little training. of course there are sizeable proportions of there are sizeable proportions of the population who are motivated to volunteer and fight, but such is the nature of this war, there is a continued demand for troops took not just replace those who have been lost, who have been killed, but also to provide relief for those who have been fighting on the front line, and some pretty unimaginable conditions, for several months now. so this is
The governor says the fires are catastrophic and the largest in the state s yesterday, with 80% of the historic seaside town gone. asylum seekers housed on a barge on the south coast of england are moved off after legionella bacteria is found on board. ukraine s president sachs all the heads of military enlistment following corruption allegations. sacks. junior doctors in england have gone on strike again, walking out for four days. they say they have had 15 years of below inflation pay rises.
The background to this. quite a clampdown. the background to this. quite a clampdown, matthew. - the background to this. quite a clampdown, matthew. 33 - the background to this. quite a - clampdown, matthew. 33 recruitment heads in every region of ukraine are now out of a job, essentially. an announcement that few expected. a couple of weeks ago, the recruitment head in the southern region of 0desa was even arrested. there is a bit of history here, a bit of tension between these recruitment centres within the military itself, because theissue within the military itself, because the issue of mobilisation, where ukraine is calling up and continues to call up thousands of men at a time for its continued war effort, it is a sensitive subject, and there have been issues around how that is done. if you go and what the recruiters say, what new land forces say, they are responsible for it, they say the system needs more money, it needs modernising, and they often get a bad rep for doing they