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Percent of the population has been affected — with almost all crops badly affected by volcanic ash. jatinder dhillon reports. relief at last. a new zealand naval ship, with a desalination plant on board, which can produce 70,000 litres a day, has started cleaning the sea water from tongas harbour, ready for distribution to desperate residents. japan is the latest to deliver urgent supplies, including clean water. and equipment to clean the volcanic ash. it is a complicated operation. the pacif...

Time to come because the crops have been destroyed, farmers have lost their livelihoods, theyve lost their homes. and one of the tongan officials have also said that the road to recovery for this pacific nation is going to be long and hard. so, in the days to come, as this destruction reveals itself, as the extent of it becomes clearer, the challenges facing tonga are also being revealed. shaimaa khalil reporting on the situation in tonga. heavy fighting is taking place in north—eastern syria ...

Quite heavily indebted to china, perhaps also offering a, and i am wondering whether some geopolitical concerns play into it as well. some of these decisions you need to make when it comes to helping tonga? —— offering aid. it comes to helping tonga? -- offering aid-— offering aid. right now it is a clean-no _ offering aid. right now it is a clean-up effort _ offering aid. right now it is a clean-up effort for _ offering aid. right now it is a clean-up effort for those - offering aid. righ...

Case in the country. they dont want to be dealing with a covid—i9 outbreak as theyre dealing with the devastation, which means that supplies are there on the ground, but aid workers are not. so, essentially, its up to people in tonga to distribute that aid, whether it be volunteers or other aid workers inside the country. the concern now is how fast the aid is going to get to people and how far it can get, especially to far—flung places. there are also, of course, health concerns, the qualit...

And un officials have said that the country, the pacific nation, will rely on food aid for a long time to come because the crops have been destroyed, farmers have lost their livelihoods, theyve lost their homes. and one of the tongan officials have also said that the road to recovery for this pacific nation is going to be long and hard. so in the days to come, as this destruction reveals itself, as the extent of it becomes clearer, the challenges facing tonga are also being revealed. now lets he...

This is bbc news. the headlines: britain is accusing russia of planning to install a pro—kremlin leader in ukraine, as fears of an invasion grow. the foreign office in london says a former ukrainian mp is being considered as a potential candidate — along with four others who it says have links to russian intelligence services. islamic state fighters have continued one of their biggest attacks in syria since the groups self—declared caliphate was defeated nearly three years ago. a british�...

Plainedge, new york, 16 inches. new york city, central park registered 8.3 inches of snow. this is the big story now. kathy was sort of alluding to this too, the dangerously cold air out there. everyone is cleaning up that light, fluffy snow and were looking at very frigid temperatures. the good news also, the winds have died down. were still seeing some gusty winds in maine but thats about it. so, bitterly cold windchills. were seeing temperatures in the teens in some spot, feels like below zer...

The winter blast was felt as far south as florida. citrus growers monitoring their crops. rob marciano weathered the storm for us in boston, and leads us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, millions digging out after a massive noreaster drops more than 30 inches of snow in parts of massachusetts. >> this one was pretty big. these are times when you dont want a car. >> reporter: boston getting just shy of two feet. this is what historic snowfall looks like in south boston. between the plowing and ...

Meanwhile, citrus farmers in florida are dealing with damage from the big chill there that will be felt beyond the sun belt kerry sanders is there. >> reporter: in the battle to save floridas crops from freezing cold, some farmer this is week launched an aerial assault, deploying more than two dozen helicopters. >> helicopter is trying to push warmer air down on the crops to try to save it. sometimes it works, but sometimes it dont. >> reporter: just about two years ago, the same farmers plowed ...

Senior senator from montana, john tester. senator tester, i have to say, that picture of you under, whatever that thing is, tractor, whatever it is, is possibly the best campaign photograph ive seen for a candidate who has to run in farm country. what were you doing under the truck? and under that vehicle, whether whatever it is. and what the farmers see youre struggling with in that picture? >> well, it is a -- yeah, it was a combine. so a harvesting to. its what we used to harvest our crops wi...