thank you carl, yes, ifind myself in faliraki, which is six miles south of the capital, rhodes, which south of our position is where the wildfires have torn through this country. i was staying in lindos, which is a few miiles down the south on the coast, on the east. that is itself about ten kilometres away, where the wildfires started off, which weren't controlled through the week, came together. you saw the pictures earlier in the week. we are two hours ahead of the uk, so it is coming up three o'clock in the morning over here. you can probably see by me some tired bodies — people from hotels from all around the island, who have all come to this place, in faliraki, they're on beds, taking towels and even to my right shoulder there are some people on medical beds as they take some treatment for their bodies, as well. we got the alert on our phone, we got an emergency alert, atabout 11:30pm our time, and we are on the bus at midnight at the time, and what you could see is we got on this bus and there was a red glow over the top of the hills, where you could see the fires that these fi

. >> this man was staying in the seaside village of faliraki. >> we said that when we see smoke and we can smell the smoke , we will evacuate ourselves. we're just being safe because i don't know how many tourists there are in faliraki, but evacuating that area, it's going to be impossible. >> the airport now crowded with tourists trying to get home. >> everyone screaming and shouting, eating and crying, were desperate to get home. >> the airport on the northern part of the island is still open. uk based easyjet says it's adding additional flights to its schedule between rhodes island and the uk. >> breaking overnight, russia is blaming ukraine for a rare drone attack inside moscow. two nonresidential buildings were damaged, but russian officials say the drones were intercepted and there were no casualties, as ukraine has not claimed responsibility. but president zelensky had promised to retaliate after a week of strikes on the port city of odessa. the latest strikes caused major damage at two dozen landmarks, including a historic cathedral. >> the us has deployed a second submarine to

and uh, yeah, i'm thankful we've made it to a playground near faliraki . 5:00 playground near falirakid out what's what's happening and hopefully we can get on a flight tomorrow. they're booked on a flight tomorrow, so hopefully that is still going ahead. >> yeah, it could be a long 24 hours, couldn't it? >> to be it's going >> it's going to be it's going to be especially in the heat. but anyway, we'll keep you fully abreast what's going on abreast of what's going on there. hope that they there. and let's hope that they stop sending people out to rhodes on holiday because people are still going apparently the flights are still landing, aren't flights are still landing, areithe that. >> the cancel that. >> the cancel that. >> it's ridiculous . >> it's ridiculous. >> it's ridiculous. >> well, thoughts, of >> well, our thoughts, of course, with the people of course, are with the people of rhodes as well, people who actually their homes actually live there, their homes and they could actually live there, their homes and going they could actually live there, their homes and going up they co

we, we took about five hours to get to a an unknown destination near faliraki where we spent the night you just go in the clothes you were in or did you have time to pack your gear up and go? >> we took everything that we could, but we couldn't take everything. >> we had to leave some some of our belongings at the hotel. >> were you scared at any point? were you were you in fear. >> oh, we've lost oh, we've lost him . him. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> we'll try and get it back, because i was intrigued to know when what's happened to the hotel. >> yeah. and. yeah. and did it come? and the thing is, what's the of sending the point of sending load tourist messages in greek? i mean, a bit stupid isn't mean, that's a bit stupid isn't it? you know, be. it? you know, it could be. hello. are you having good hello. are you having a good day? it's. it's silly . day? no, no, it's. it's silly. anyway >> okay, i think. i think we're getting back. >> oh, we've got him back. >> oh, we've got him back. >> okay, ian, we've got you back. we were both wondering, do you know what happened? the you know what happe