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 humanitarian catastrophe the flooding has caused. and finally, overwhelmed by grief at the loss of life. god give me patience. my heart is with you, this man cries as he sees the body of his young son. it s now becoming clearer that this was a natural disaster, but enabled by human actions. the wadi derna river had two dams both failed. the upper one, ten kilometres from the town, had a capacity of about 1.5 million cubic metres of water. when that burst, that water, with a weight of about 1.5 million tonnes, rushed to the sea, sweeping the second dam and about a quarter of the city with it. translation: we had warned the authorities since last - week no, for years that the dam had cracks and needs to be maintained. we said it and nobody listened to us. and now the whole of derna is flooded. the blame will inevitably fall on the politicians and warlords who have tried, and failed, to run this country since the fall of the dictator, muammar gaddafi. it is blame the
negative adequate warnings. there are fears the true number of deaths could be close to 20,000. in britain and arrested on suspicion of murder, detectives are questioning three relatives of ten year old sara sharif. in the uk, the prime minister rishi sunak insists it is an absolute priority to protect in the uk from foreign state interference, including beijing. time for a look at the sport. hello from the bbc sport centre. if the hosts had hope for theirfirst game of the rugby world cup. the second brings significant expectation france will provide another win. after a three day break, the tournament resumes later with their match against uruguay in lille. france have made wholesale changes from the team that won that opening game against new zealand. 12 in all to take on uruguay. who are ranked 17th in the world. they ll be captained by anthonyjelonch, who s recovered from a serious knee injury. while uruguay are playing for the first time at this world cup after sittin
as 20,000. the head of the un s world meteorological organization has criticised the warning systems that were in place. here s what petteri taalas told journalists a short time ago. if it had been a normally operating meteorological service they would have been warnings and also the emergency management would have carried out the evacuation of the people and they could have avoided most of the human casualties. and of course we cannot fully avoid losses but we could have avoided some by having proper services in place. sadly, as we ve seen, large areas of derna were destroyed when two dams burst on sunday releasing that huge tsumani like surge of water. this drone video shows entire neighbourhoods under water. the images give a small sense of how those houses and buildings were swept away in the torrents of water that rushed through the city. locals told the bbc they didn t know the full extent of the danger that storm daniel posed. and now if i show you this, from another d
pro-life moniker for something else. senator todd young of indiana summarize the meeting as being focused on, quote, pro baby policies. when all when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. there have been major breaking developments tonight out of georgia. tonight a federal judge in atlanta rejected mark meadows a chance to move his r.i.c.o. conspiracy georgia case to federal court. the criminal defendant and former trump white house chief of staff was the first one to try this move, to move his case out of fulton county to washington, d.c.. now the same prosecutors remain on the case, but he would get a new jury pool, probably be more likely to draw from areas that donald trump won, and also a new judge. the argument he was making was that he was acting under federal law is a federal officer in the trump administration. that would qualify him for being tried in federal court. meadows saw such an upside to moving his case to federal court t