Heavy Lifting Equipment has begun to arrive in remote regions of the Atlas Mountains, which have been the hardest hit. Nick beake joined the first aid convoys to reach some of the most remote villages in the taroudant region. Finally, help is on its way to the most remote victims of this disaster. Werejoining a team of spanish firefighters, the first rescuers to negotiate in treacherous Mountain Road now that the path has been cleared. We reach the village of algou. In the hours after the quake, screams rang out here. But the trapped couldnt be freed. Then the screams turned to silence. These dogs are trained to find the living. Theyre detecting nothing. For three days now, the villagers in this place have been using their hands, and shovels to go through the rubble. Desperately trying to find their loved ones but the grim reality is there is now a stench of death that hangs in the air here. All hope of finding people alive has now surely vanished. And it is taking its toll. This fract
Official figures from the office of National Statistics showed regular pay, excluding bonuses, rose by 7. 8 in may tojuly compared with a year earlier matching the pace of inflation over the same period. However, the Unemployment Rate increased to 4. 3 between may and july compared to 4. 2 the month before, and Job Vacancies fell to below a million. Lets hear from our money and work reporter Peter Ruddick who gave us a breakdown of what the figures mean. Lets just run through the two main headlines and what they mean so firstly on wage growth, so as you say, it has finally caught up on inflation in most of the uk, at least, but it is just an average, not everyone will be feeling it. It means it will be following the first time in a year, wage growth. It is just an average, but also it is going to take more than one months figures to reverse the many changes, people in the uk have been experiencing, it is going to take quite a while for this to recover. The second caveat is wage growth
Than 1,000 bodies had now been recovered in the worst hit city, derna. Widespread flooding and mudslides caused by torrential rain destroyed many roads and homes. Thousands of people are still missing. Much of the country has been declared a Disaster Zone and three days of mourning have begun. A minister in the eastern government which is not internationally recognised said more than 1,000 bodies had now been recovered in the worst hit city, derna. The eastern cities of benghazi and al marj are also among the worst hit. The death toll is huge and might reach the 2,000. But we dont have a definite number. We confirm from independent sources of information that the number of missing people is hitting 10,000 persons so far. Anna foster has the latest. A torrent of water. The devastation is clear to see. The death toll is the harder to quantify. The red cross say as many as 10,000 people are missing. But in a country without a single functioning government getting information is hard. Sinc