and strong" winds will continue for days, pushing the fires further into residential areas. there are still active fires that are burning within the palisades area, making it extremely, extremely dangerous for the public. there's no power, there's no water, there's broken gas lines, and we have unstable structures. the incumbent president of croatia, zoran milanovic, has been re—elected in a landslide victory. a british police officer dies after being struck by a lorry as she helps at a crash scene. detectives issue an appeal for witnesses. the world's largest island takes on donald trump — and warns the incoming us president to keep his hands off greenland.

welcome to the programme. there is still no respite from the extreme conditions fueling california's wildfire emergency. the threat of fire in los angeles remains �*very high�*, with strong winds forecast and "critical weather conditions to continue until wednesday". the authorities have been giving fresh updates on the disaster. three fires are blazing — the kenneth fire has been contained. at least 16 people are confirmed to have been killed in the fires. another 16 people are missing — and we're told to expect that number to rise. the largest fire — the palisades is now spreading east, threatening the suburb of brentwood where the vice president kamala harris has a home. anotherfire — the hurst fire — is now 89% contained. the federal emergency management agency — fema — says u.s. military personnel are ready to join the crisis team. and as firefighters struggle to contain the flames — those santa ana winds

are present and expected to last through wednesday. humidity levels remain low. emma vardy reports. the race to stay ahead of the deadly fires enters a sixth day. helicopters fly just above the smoke. below, the flames rage. butjust as progress is made, other areas ignite. in the fires�* wake, residents continue to journey back to where their houses once stood. for one, the reality is overwhelming. oh, my god... oh, my god! she cries. i felt like a zombie since tuesday. can't sleep. you literally cannot sleep, you just replay. sabrina, another palisades resident, picks through what is left of her childhood home. my bedroom was in the front over there with my sister. you know, it wasn't that big of a house but it had everything we needed. it's really sad.

i feel so bad for my parents. it's all gone. there have been repeated warnings for people to stick to night—time curfews — police urging the need for order. i saw a gentleman that looked like a firefighter and i asked him if he was ok because he was sitting down. i didn't realise we had him in handcuffs. we were turning him over to the lapd because he was dressed like a fireman and he was not. he'd just got caught burglarising a home. that was my house. this is the main house... with tens of thousands of people staying in emergency hotels and shelters, they are safe for now, but have no idea where they will go next. serenity�*s family of 11 fled minutes before their home burned. people like me, without insurance, we don't know what we're going to do. we are at shelters like this. we are going all around town, some of us have lost our cars. some of us have lost our sense of being.

the city faces a massive task to provide housing for the areas that are lost. the scale of the destruction in neighbourhoods is vast. whole schools gone. as you know, our beloved south campus has been severely damaged by the recent fires and many of our families and staff have experienced great personal loss. crews had begun to slow the spread of the eaton fire but strong winds are driving it back into life. this helicopter�*s flying just above us, just dropping water now, trying to keep those flames at bay. above and below, they battle on. fire crews are now focusing their efforts up in the los angeles national forest, above altadena, where a new area of the blaze has just opened up and there's a renewed sense of urgency because down here is a large nasa facility that the flames have been moving towards.

16 people have now died in these fires. they are already among the deadliest in california's history. and officials say the death toll will rise. emma vardy, bbc news, los angeles. let's speak to my colleague helena humphrey in malibu. the first thing that i will say is that the wind, as you might be able to see, is quite clearly picking up again. that is what we don't want to see. i want to show you the lecture here in malibu. in this direction we consume see the power companies are up and are trying to take down the remainder of these damaged power lines to secure the area. take a look in this direction. we are on the pacific coastal highway, one of the most iconic roads in the world. normally,

you wouldn't be able to see this expanse of the pacific ocean. you can only see it now because of the level of disruption. because of the fact that so many of these multi—million dollar homes have been raised to the ground. looking in this direction, as you can see, after house are simply gone. destruction as far as they are conceived right now. we have had over half1 billion gallons of water dropped from the sky in this area to try to slow the spread of the fire. but we are now six days into this crisis. you can see the wind picking up. we have more stories about people taking matters into their own hands with fire crews stretched. i spoke to rick snyder in pasadena who for 36 years was a fire chief. he was retired for two years, but when this flames came down the mountain take took matters into his own hands and saved his name had. listen to our conversation. rich, thanks so much

for being with us. we're standing where the fire in this area started. just take us through what happened that night. so i was working on my computer. i was doing a presentation on fire risk mitigation for structures during a wildfire. that's what i do. and i'm doing the presentation. my phone goes off. alerts for a fire. i looked out my window and on the mountain, it was it was going and we had these high winds. so i told my wife, let's get my grandson out, get the pets out. and i got ahold of every neighbour and told them about the fire and said, you know, leave or if you want to stay, i will help you. and i was telling everyone to get their garden hoses out and let's see if we can defend it. i don't know what's going to happen. and within a half an hour, embers are dropping into our properties. and my team from my work happened to be driving down the freeway with a, with a van with filled with phos—chek fire retardant. and they they saw it and they

just came and they showed up. iwas... it was like a miracle. and so we were using the van and putting fire retardant phos—chek all over the three houses as much as we could. and then we looked and saw a big glow. and we're, you know, three houses away from me. and my heart sank because i know in a wildfire at the first half hour, all of the resources that are available locally are committed. and now we've got this fire. and there were not going to be any fire engines. so you thought no one was coming and you hadn't had an evacuation order. a police car had drove down the street really fast and telling everyone mandatory leave. leave now. and one of my neighbours left. and so we ran over and there was a fence on fire right here between two garages. and we were trying to use garden hoses and it just it was so windy. the water was coming out of the hose and turning. i mean, we just it's not enough water. so you are someone

who has had 36 years experience fighting fires. suddenly you found that you were saving people who weren't anonymous to you. they were your neighbours. long time neighbours. and i was doing this. i mean, i'm used to doing this, but i'm wearing fire gear and a fire hose, not a sweatshirt and a garden hose. were you scared? my heart sank. i wasn't scared. iwas... i was going to lose everything. and i was fighting for my... i didn't want to lose everything. i've seen destruction before. i've seen people go through it. i don't want to go through that. and i didn't want my neighbours to go through that. we were going to do everything we could to prevent that. the fire got into this garage and as soon as the garage started going up, my heart sank because you had to have a fire engine from there. and i knew one wasn't coming. and i knew with this

wind and the embers that within the next 15 minutes, 30 minutes, my house... all these houses are going to be gone. you were fiercely knocking on a neighbour's door just across the road trying to get him out. you know, you saved your neighbours. you saved a lot of lives that night. how do you feel? i'm... i'm still processing it. and when i... it's hard to talk. i've still got to process it. yeah. my neighbour needed needs assistance and we told him early on to leave and he said no, i'll stay. and he doesn't understand things. and at one point i looked over and i saw his car in his garage on fire. and my thought was his car. he didn't leave. so i ran up to his door and just as i get to the door, he's coming out. and i says, i says, we have to leave. and he said, no, no, no. and he was yelling and i grabbed him and i was pulling on him, and he was fighting me because he was going to go back in his burning

house and lock the door. and i saw a police officer and i was yelling, help me, help me! but the wind and everything was she couldn't hear me. and sol... dragged him. i finally got him to the police officer. and you know, we got him out and we looked back in his house was was fully involved. i mean, there are clearly a lot of houses here which are very damaged. i just wonder how you and the community process this. you're going through something really difficult together. what has the impact been on the community here? the key word is together. and we've lived on this block for 30 years. we know our neighbours. we know their names. we wave. hi. we've got some new neighbours that were polite. now we're gathering and learning about each other and going through it together. you know, i called my daughterand said, we're going to need water because the water doesn't work. and by a couple of hours i had 60 cases of water that came from anaheim. for my neighbours.

there's 20 houses here. 0k. check. mark, we're not going to need water. we're good. and the neighbours have been coming together every night in front of my house. i have a propane fire because nobody's got heat and it's cold. and we've been gathering around telling stories, and we're laughing because we're learning about each other. and last night, we didn't need to be out there. we have power. there's no looting any more. there's no fires any more. and there were six or eight of us that were in front of my house until two this morning, last night. and it's one of those things. the power comes on quick, turn off all the lights, and let's keep doing what we're doing, and and we're going to. my neighbour said something interesting. the neighbour for this house yesterday said, you know, we're checking in. are you ok? and she says, i really am. and i said, you lost everything. how can you be ok? and she said, i'm ok because i see my house is gone. but more importantly, i see my neighbours aren't.

and i know you're here to support. i know i'm going to rebuild. we're all... we all love each other. she goes, if i turn the corner and my house was there and none of my neighbours, that would be the worst thing in the world, because you guys wouldn't be here any more. and i don't want to be here by myself. rich, thank you so much for telling the story of what you all went through that night. all the best to you and your community. thank you. i have to say, being there, you really got that sense of community coming together. rich is a story of incredible resilience and bravery that night. and of course, los angeles is going to need that. we had from the governor of california calling on people to stay here in california, in southern california to rebuild. but when you take a look at this level of destruction, when you take it in once again, you realise what a big task that is

for people in this community, how expensive it is going to be. they have concerns about rebuilding. we know climate change is exacerbating these weather—related events. they are in it for the long haul. we also heard from the mayor of la about how she is confident president elect donald trump will be coming to los angeles when he is president once again injust over a week. up until now, he called the response from california politicians incompetent. of course, nothing ever happens in isolation. of course, people here in los angeles will be watching closely to ensure that they get all of their help, because certainly, the road ahead to recovery is, as you can see, very long. studio: thank you very much. that is my colleague in malibu. let's speak to the chief executive of the nonprofit initiative after the fire usa,

jennifer gray thompson. thank you for talking to us. you are in northern california. tell us what you can do for people down in the south, in los angeles.— people down in the south, in los angeles. so, we actually had a mega _ los angeles. so, we actually had a mega fire _ los angeles. so, we actually had a mega fire in _ los angeles. so, we actually had a mega fire in 2017 - los angeles. so, we actually| had a mega fire in 2017 where we lost 8900 structures. our fires burned for 2h days. at that time, it was unprecedented. other than a campfire we are the second—largest magnifier in the state of california. we have a lot of our organisation is spending the last seven years building the best network in the nation for subject matter, experts, wildfire survivors... i don't know everyone but we certainly know everyone who knows exactly how to get through this, or at least how to support the community to give them hope and a chance to come back. figs give them hope and a chance to come back-— come back. as you mentioned, ou had come back. as you mentioned, you had your — come back. as you mentioned, you had your own _ come back. as you mentioned, you had your own experience i come back. as you mentioned, | you had your own experience of fire there in the north of california. what do you think of what you seeing before you

going on in los angeles? where does one begin to get help as a resident of la? going to be something like this. i resident of la? going to be something like this.- something like this. i have entered into _ something like this. i have entered into about - something like this. i have entered into about 18 - something like this. i have - entered into about 18 counties, probably 15 mega— fires across four states and consulted on another one. i saw a lot of destruction last year, even working with maui the whole time. and the destruction we are seeing on this level in los angeles amazes even me and i have sat through a lot of it. what people can do right away if they have lost their home is immediately secure and at the home, because the rents are already being raised, and unfortunately we are going to see bad behaviourfrom see bad behaviour from landlords see bad behaviourfrom landlords evicting people who already live there in order to make way for much higher rents to come through insured loss and loss of use. it is very complicated. we have resources on our website after the fire

usa .org. we are already starting town hall meetings starting town hall meetings starting tomorrow and through next week where we will put together a delegation to the 27th. we will go there, we will bring a great group of people who are really smart from insurance to sema, to schools and many more. —— f e m a. our help is notjust for right now but for the whole duration until people get home. whilst ou were until people get home. whilst you were speaking, _ until people get home. whilst you were speaking, we - until people get home. whilst you were speaking, we are . you were speaking, we are looking at a moving aerial shot of the palisades, an area which is almost nonexistent now. it is almost nonexistent now. it is row after row of charred buildings. you are not only dealing with the odd house here or there, you are dealing with entire neighbourhoods. people probably don't know where they are going to be ultimately in a few years' time. it isn'tjust a matter of going back, is it? you can go back. we have seen

total destruction of towns, and we have tackled that. we are seven years... we are way ahead of where we were seven years ago. they can come back. it is going to be difficult, i won't sugar—coat that. it is definitely a slot. it is a marathon of sprints. but of the innovation actually happens in california and in the united states. we lead the nation in how to do things, and we can innovate our way through this innovate our way through this in addition to using the knowledge we already have. i don't believe we should write off the people of los angeles off the people of los angeles of the people of california, because i also see, like in the story you saw before, but while this is a horrific event full of grief and loss, people will amaze and surprise you. you see the very best of humankind in these events, and like he was saying, the person before me, people can withstand losing their homes and neighbourhoods. we have seen this before, not on this level quite, except in

paradise, we have seen it. they can rebuild. we rebuilt back in five years and we had entire neighbourhoods levelled. 1500 homes at a time. i stood on the corner of the town i grew up in and didn't recognise it. so, i do know that there are ways to come back, and we will be there for them, and whilst this isn't toxic positivity, this is learned from seven years of doing this full time. people care about each other, and they will rebuild. they will band together, and we will help them do that, using the hard earned knowledge of other fire survivors who have done the same thing. as we all want to get there to help. it same thing. as we all want to get there to help.— get there to help. it is so ureat get there to help. it is so great to _ get there to help. it is so great to end _ get there to help. it is so great to end our - get there to help. it is so | great to end our interview get there to help. it is so - great to end our interview on such a positive note. thank you so much. from the non—profit organisation after the fire. thank you very much. croatia's president, zoran milanovic is set for a second term in office

after winning the coutnry�*s election in a landslide. with nearly all of the ballots counted, mr zoran milanovic has won 75% of the vote over his conservative rival, the government—backed candidate dragan primorac. guy de launey is our balkans correspondent and analyses this result 75% for zoran milanovic with almost all the votes counted. this is the heftiest political victory in croatia since the 1990s and the nationalist days of franjo tudjman. it's quite an extraordinary victory for zoran 1556 00:20:33,704 -->