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93 people are now known to have died, but the governor of hawaii has warned people to expect that number to rise significantly, after the worst wildfires to hit an american state in more than a century. Our North America correspondent, john sudworth, reports from the island. Vital supplies being loaded onto a boat that would normally be taking tourists whale watching. These boats are now making multiple daily trips into the Disaster Zone with a growing sense of frustration. We are all wondering why there was no help centre. Where are the resources . Why are we taking supplies on the boat instead of a helicopter . We do this because we have to. An hour into the journey and the devastation along the shoreline comes into view. We can quite clearly see the town of lahaina now and you can make out is the blackened the landscape above the town where the grass is burning and what happ ....
And shelter for survivors. 93 people are now known to have died, but the governor of hawaii has warned people to expect that number to rise significantly, after the worst wildfires to hit an american state in more than a century. Our North America correspondent, john sudworth, reports from the island. Vital supplies being loaded onto a boat that would normally be taking tourists whale watching. These boats are now making multiple daily trips into the Disaster Zone with a growing sense of frustration. We are all wondering, why was there no help sent from oahu . Why the limited resources or police on this island let alone . Where is support for them . Why are we taking supplies on a boat instead of helicopter . We do this because we have two. An hour into the journey and the devastation along the shoreline comes into view. We can quite clearly see the town of lahaina now and you ....
Zac, lord goldsmith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you here. Just a couple of months ago, you left rishi sunak s government and, as you left, you lobbed a political grenade in his direction. Why did you do that . My concern is that, you know, im maybe a rare thing, a minister who cares passionately, or cared passionately about my portfolio. And ifound myjob was becoming untenable, it was becoming impossible for me to go forward. It was becoming virtually impossible to prevent government from sliding back. And the key issue is this pledge which was made by borisjohnson, repeated by liz truss, repeated a few times by rishi sunak around International Climate finance, from which so much of what the uk has done over the last few years flows, and that pledge was being broken. You say, because it was a pledge of something over. £11. 6 billion over five years. Over five years to be invested i ....
to. take, effect in just hours at midnight today. i m moving past republican obstruction. usually the executive authorities hello me as president, to do what i can on my own to address the border frankly, i would have preferred to address this issue through bipartisan legislation because that s the only way to actually get to kind of system we have now this broken fixed now the measure would shut off asylum access to migrants who cross the southern border unlawfully once daily encounters hit threshold of 2,500. he would also allow authorities to turn away migrants to mexico or their order version country, on accompanied myre miners would be exempt. now, this is the same authority, former president donald trump tried to use while in office, president biden s announcement comes today, just weeks before his first debate with his republican rival today s move as president biden s most aggressive crackdown, yet on illegal immigration. it s an issue that has long been one o ....