On newsnight at 10 30pm another blow to the Prime Ministers so called small boats week, as migrants are taken off the Bibby Stockholm Barge after legionaires bacteria caused problems. How will the government reboot its Migrant Policy . Good evening. Hawaii is said to be facing the largest Natural Disaster in its history, after wildfires ripped through the land and destroyed most of the beach front town of lahaina. At least 55 people are known to have died but many are still missing. Just look at how the landscape has been ravaged. Whole roads and neighbourhoods have been blackened and flattened as hurricane strength winds fanned the deadly flames. The blaze ripped through the town so quickly that some people jumped into the harbour to escape the flames and smoke. Heres our North America Correspondentjohn Sudworth reporting from maui. The town of lahaina, home to 12,000 people traced its history back centuries. All but wiped from existence in a few short hours. The intensity of the fire
Getting a better look at the scale of the damage. The Catastrophe Modelling Firm karen clark and Company Estimates the total area burned at about 2,200 acres. Roughly 1,000 buildings have destroyed. Attempts to flee the devasting and fast moving fires were hampered as flames were fanned by winds coming from hurricane dora. The devastating and fast moving fires. We are now learning the harrowing stories of survival like this familys, who was forced to flee into the ocean. The ocean almost dragged my kids away a few times. But, yeah, we stuck together, we held on. I said, were not going to die, and were here, were alive. Some residents are now being allowed into destroyed areas. These pictures show residents and tourists waiting in traffic to return to the Historic Town of lahaina. For many, this will be the first time theyve been able to go home to see the damage for themselves. But a curfew is in place for the worst hit areas, and some remain closed entirely. 0ur correspondent John Sud
for a documentary. one of them, wilhelm steindl, says their pictures show that no one tried to rescue muhammed and take him down the mountain. we saw the drone shots and suddenly we were seeing this guy alive, people stepping over him, and nobody started a rescue mission. how did that make you feel? really sad and also a little bit angry, because you don t behave like this on the mountain. but kristin harila said she and her team tried for hours to help mohammed in treacherous conditions. she says it would have been too dangerous to turn the whole team back. he wasn t left alone, not from our team, and when this thing is filmed, and it is from many hours after that, and it s not like it is possible to just turn everyone around there,
k2 is one of the world s most dangerous and challenging mountains. the norwegian climber kristin harila went there in a bid to secure a world record, the fastest climber of all the highest peaks. but tragedy struck. mohammed hassan, a porter on the mountain, fell off a ledge. you can see him here, his body lying on the narrow ridge known as the bottleneck. someone is with him. two climbers from austria and germany were on the mountain that day, taking some different footage with a drone, for a documentary. one of them, wilhelm steindl, says their pictures show that no one tried to rescue muhammed and take him down the mountain. we saw the drone shots and suddenly we were seeing this guy alive, people stepping over him, and nobody started a rescue mission. how did that make you feel?