in recovering bodies, saying he feared the city risked an epidemic of infection from the large number of bodies under the rubble and in the water. the libyan red crescent described the scene as like a bombardment and earthquake at the same time. when the dams collapsed, a wall of water weighing 1.5 million tonnes crashed down the wadi derna river, gouging out huge parts of the city, before reaching the sea. to give you a sense of the power of that tsunami, 20 centimetres of fast moving water, is enough to knock adults off their feet. here, there was three metres of water sweeping away everything in its path. the human cost is colossal this man hasjust found his son and begs rescue workers not to touch him. desperate scenes repeated again and again, some people have lost 30, 40, 50 members of their extended family. let s start by hearing from one survivor who describes what he went through. translation: we woke up at around three or 3.30 in the morning. - we heard a
the libyan red crescent described the scene as like a bombardment and earthquake at the same time. when the dams collapsed a wall of water weighing 1.5 million tonnes crashed down the wadi derna river gouging out huge parts of the city before reaching the sea. to give you a sense of the power of that tsunami 20 centimetres of fast moving water is enough to knock adults off theirfeet here there was three metres of water sweeping away everything in its path. the human cost is colossal this man hasjust found his son and begs rescue workers not to touch him. desperate scenes repeated again and again some people have lost 30, 40 50 members of their extended family. live now to tripoli. ahmed abar is a libyan activist. he s been helping the residents of derna. what are people in the city saying to you? what are people in the city saying to ou? ., ., , , ., ., to you? unfortunately the situation is very bad. to you? unfortunately the situation is very bad.
on sunday, still hanging onto some of the warmth in the south. some sunshine in the north. that is it from the bbc news app six. the news continues here on bbc one. hello, and welcome to sportsday. i m olly foster. sancho has been frozen out at manchester united. is there any way back? peace and parity for scotland s women as they settle their equality dispute with the sfa. and nat sciver brunt breaks a one day record as england look to seal the series against sri lanka. also coming up on sportsday we ll have the latest from the rugby world cup in france. ireland have named their team for the weekend. the international break might be over, but jadon sancho s spat with his club manchester united certainly isn t. at the beginning of the month, manager erik ten hag very bluntly explained that he had dropped sancho for the game against arsenal because he hadn t been up to scratch in training. sancho said that wasn t true and he was being made a scapegoat . today, ten hag says
that s the highest since the launch of the euro more than 20 years ago. and it s worth putting into context that as recently as last year, eurozone interest rates were negative. the reason is that inflation is proving harder than expected to control. for the 20 countries using the euro, inflation was 5.3% in august that s half the 10.6% that it was a year ago. but as the ecb says today, it is still expected to remain too high for too long. earlier we got the view from the economist katharine neiss, she explained the background to this latest move. the ecb told us today through their actions they are still concerned with inflation being too high. i think in particular they are concerned that underlying inflation could become embedded in the euro area economy, making it harder for policymakers to get inflation back to their 2% target. widely perceived this could be the lasting increase, we heard from the bank s president that there was, the decision was not unanimous, there w