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
to remove family members caught up in the chaos. today we have a band of rain across the centre of the country. the heaviest will be across northern england. on either side of that variable cloud but also some sunny spells. details later. good morning. it s monday 29th january. the care quality commission is to carry out a special review of an nhs trust which treated a man for mental illness before he went on to kill three people in nottingham lastjune. valdo calocane has been given an indefinite hospital order, for attacking barnaby webber, grace o malley kumar and ian coates. i ve been speaking to barnaby s parents, who say victim support within the criminaljustice system needs reform. yeah, so this was barney s room. remembering his big brother. seven months on, charlie webber says losing barney will never get any easier. i mean, obviously, it s massively, massively devastating. and i think. i need people to realise that it s something that isn t just affecting my life, it
announced by his predecessor, kwasi kwarteng, in last month s mini budgetjust three weeks ago. in an emergency statement this morning, he abandoned indefinitely the planned ip cut in the basic income tax that was due to come next year. help with energy bills will now only last until next april. instead of for two years, and then that will be reviewed. today, jeremy hunt claimed all of those announcements will save £32 billion a year, but he also warned that there are going to be more difficult decisions ahead on tax and spending to cut government debt. he will be addressing mps in the commons later this afternoon, some time after lipm. before then, there will be an urgent question in there will be an urgent question in the commons asked by sir keir starmer. it will not be liz truss responding to that, it will instead be penny mordaunt. so plenty ahead in the commons. in terms of the market reaction, jeremy hunt said that he had sought to reassure the markets this morning and
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