offers an answer. it s eight in the morning in singapore, and 1pm in tonga, which remains virtually cut off from the rest of the world after an underwater volcano erupted on saturday, damaging an underwater communications cable. surveillance flights from australia and new zealand reported significant damage in the capital, nuku alofa. tonga has a population of around a hundred thousand the red cross estimates that about 80 per cent of them may have been affected. our correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was to come a day later an eruption many, many times larger. this is the volcano poking above the ocean s surface last week. and today, it s completely gone. it has now been confirmed the huge eruption severed the main cable linking tonga to the outside world. this morning, new zealand dispatched aircraft to try and find out what is going
of anne frank to the nazis? it s nine in the morning in singapore, and 2pm in tonga, which remains virtually cut off from the rest of the world after an underwater volcano erupted on saturday, damaging an underwater communications cable. surveillance flights from australia and new zealand reported significant damage in the capital, nuku alofa. tonga has a population of around 100,000, the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was to come a day later an eruption many, many times larger. this is the volcano poking above the ocean s surface last week. and today, it s completely gone. it has now been confirmed the huge eruption severed the main cable linking tonga to the outside world. this morning, new zealand dispatched aircraft to try and find out what is going on. some of
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it s already three days since the major eruption of an underwater volcano in tonga, and still, there is a very worrying lack of information about the scale of the damage done across the many tongan islands or the whereabouts and well being of many of the islanders. we have some pictures. these very limitied pictures have just been sent to us. they are from one of the surveillance flights sent by australia and new zealand to assess the damage. the eruption itself appears to have taken out the one main underwater communications cable and there are suggestions that could take weeks to restore. tonga has a population of around 100,000. the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was to come a day later an eruption m
hello. thanks for joining hello. thanks forjoining us here on bbc news. it s already three days since the major eruption of an underwater volcano in tonga, and still, there is a very worrying lack of information about the scale of the damage done across the many tongan islands or the whereabouts and well being of many of the islanders. these very limited pictures have just been sent to us. they are from one of the surveillance flights sent by australia and new zealand to assess the damage. they really only tell us so much, but it does seem that the tsunami or the eruption has taken out the one main underwater communications cable. there are suggestions that could take weeks to restore. tonga has a population of around 100,000. the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was t
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. it s already three days since the major eruption of an underwater volcano in tonga and still there is a very worrying lack of information about the scale of the damage done across the many tongan islands, or the whereabouts and well being of many of the islanders. these very limited pictures have just been sent to us. they are from one of the surveillance flights sent by australia and new zealand to assess the damage. the eruption itself appears to have taken out the one main underwater communications cable and there are suggestions that could take weeks to restore. a lot of ash on the ground. tonga has a population of around 100,000. the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has the latest. these pictures of the hunga tonga hunga ha apai volcano erupting are from last friday. this is just a foretaste of what was to come a day later an eruptio