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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 happened with the hurricane blowing away to the south, the pressure brought the wind over the top of ....
for years, politicians have ramped up the rhetoric of concern and pledged to speed up emissions cuts, but now there are signs of a political backlash. uk prime minister rishi sunak is championing new oil exploration and reining in spending on climate aid. that prompted my guest, zac goldsmith, to quit suna k s government. but in an age of populist politics, has going green become another ideologicalfaultline? zac, lord goldsmith, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s 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, i m 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 ....
to the mercy of the flames. on saturday hawaii s attorney general announced an investigation into why the island s warning siren didn t sound at the height of the emergency. questions are also being asked about if power to the island should have been cut. earlier i spoke to our reporter helena humphrey, who is on the ground in maui. well, karl, we know the situation right now is that more search and recovery teams are coming onto the island of maui, and that is because there are just so many people who continue to be unaccounted for. and what you see here at that shelter is that people come here preparing for the worst but with some hope, hoping that potentially they could find loved ones here. just over my shoulder over there is a missing persons tent. that s currently being run by volunteers who know the community on the island, and they give people police forms so that they can fill them in, which are handed to the sheriff, and then people can scan a qr code to try a ....
zac, lord goldsmith, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s 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, i m 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 in international climate change programmes and ....
hawaii s attorney general has announced an investigation into why the island s warning siren didn t sound at the height of the emergency. questions are also being asked about whether power to the island should have been cut. for more, here s our correspondent in hawaii, sophie long. this is what remains of lahaina. cars abandoned as people ran and jumped into the sea to escape the flames. homes and businesses reduced to charred remains. president biden promised immediate help and said every available asset should be used to provide it, but, days later, people here say it s not yet reaching those most in need and people like felicia are desperately trying to get supplies into lahaina themselves. i m frustrated. people are. we re all together. we re one family, we need to take care of each other. no one s feeding everyone. they re traumatised. they re upset. no one s giving hugs. they need mental help. what do you need from me? to hear people in the same pants since the f ....