Endless Destruction News Today

welcome to the programme. the first of the british transport planes has taken off from sudan and landed in cyprus. it is the beginning of a mammoth operation — its the beginning of what is a mammoth operation — as there are thought there may be up to 4,000 britons in sudan. also tonight — its round 2 forjoe biden. the us president has finally announced that he will run for re—election in 202a. well have all the reaction, and what that means for his biggest rival — donald trum...

Going to go about it and where they would meet. im just doing it myself. i hope i have made the right decision. britain has faced some criticism for the way its handled these evacuations. too little information, too slow. but this afternoon the prime minister gave an update. we now have over 100 people on the ground in sudan. the first flight has already left with british nationals, there are more flights this evening and we will have many more into tomorrow, and that is down to the hard work of...

Freeport. a lot of people who were not able to get out before the storm and may have lived through it. the destruction in some of these places is close to absolute. >> i mean the amazing things for people that i talked to in marsh harbour, theme just want more information of whats going on and they want their family to know maybe theyre off the island and that they are safe. they dont want their families to worried about them. >> thanks for the work you and team rubicon are doing across the isla...

Came in, i could not believe the destruction. when i got on the ground, i could not believe the destruction. have you seen something like this before? i dont think i got hunter medley. we dont have him but well get him in a minute. bohemian military has been flying over here. i am trying to get to the bottom of what the problem is with fuel because there seems to be, part of it many of the gas stations are destroyed. there may be fuel here thats not assessable. the primary thing that has to happ...

>> my home collapsed. a lot of people died and i thought i was going to be one of them. >> we lost everything. the lord is still here with us. >> i am going to leave the island, home and there is no place like home. my partner ali velshi, one of the towns worst hit by the storm. ali, tell us what it is like. >> reporter: i have done a lot of destruction as and storms an career. you can find better pictures, here at marsh harbour, you will see endless destruction, what you cant see is this. there...

Rebuilding or even cleaning. the only activity going on here is search and rescue. the destruction is so colossal that they are finding bodies in rubble and the whole island is full of rubble. >> i am not asking you to give an official number on the death toll. given how you just zridescribe things, those rescue officials pulling bodies and they would have pulled more if they were in a different situation. how much bigger do you think the number could get? has anyone told you? >> reporter: let m...

There thats giving out supplies to people. you can see, try to zoom in on those three or four containers there. thats not how containers are stacked. this is 180 miles per hour winds. containers got caught up and plowed through the island. containers were wrecking houses and containers shipping request stuff in this them. people live inside these things sometimes. they were flying around here and destroying everything. the destruction here is quite complete. helicopters are constantly circling a...