island, which is part of the british virgin islands.assive head injuries and the other with minor head injuries. they were in an isolated pocket of the island where there was no assistance available, so we there was no assistance available, so we went in with a black hawk and we lowered a medic and another specialist to stabilise both patients, bring them back aboard a helicopter and fly them all the way back to a level one trauma centre in sanjuan, back to a level one trauma centre in san juan, porter rico. back to a level one trauma centre in san juan, porter rico. it is amazing you manage to find the person who is at risk with all the devastation caused —— puerto rico. at risk with all the devastation caused -- puerto rico. the storm had initially already passed, however, it was relatively calm. we were at the end of our mission, kind of low on fuel, and we had to go in and extra ct on fuel, and we had to go in and extract both of the patients at that time. what made it really difficult, besides the low fuel, was the other destructio

the virgin islands is made up of both the british virgin islands and the u.s. virgin islands. are st. thomas, saint court, and smaller surrounding. often we are confused with other "slets of the get with "saint like st. maarten. it is important nation really recognize who the americans are in the caribbean and pay us a little bit of extra attention. one of the things that happen for me when i was trying to find coverage about the virgin islands and my home, was that i was single active things on television about the region. i was so pleased as someone who is from the caribbean region to see there was beginning to be some attention to the caribbean enmass. it is true the u.s. has a responsibility to ththe caribben as the most powerful economic force in the region. it is important we can attention to st. maarten and saint martine , which are dutch and french. it is important that we pay attention to the british islands . but lo and behold, we have american citizens in the region as well. these are not just american citizens who are visiting as tourists or american citizens who h

islands.f florida will be next in her sights. they are nervous after watching others endure her wrath. laura bicker, bbc news, puerto rico. on the line is sarah russell from warrington, who is on holiday in turks & caicos islands with her partner and three children. we know turks & caicos islands are nextin we know turks & caicos islands are next in line to feel the full force of hurricane irma, what are the conditions like for you? they are getting pretty bad. trees are starting to uproot. more the skinnier trees are starting to uproot. obviously all the palm trees are beginning to bend. you go outside and all you can hear is wind so outside and all you can hear is wind so the wind is really powerful. it's coming, it is definitely not far off anyway. you were due to fly home today but that's not been possible, can you tell us why? the airport closed yesterday at 6pm, so... they've been tracking the hurricane for eight days, british airways could have sent flights to get us out of here but the

it's like fire filled with the island. we lose the island.at's really terrible. >> this is the reality for the island of tortola and its residents. irma destroyed infrastructure, critical supplies like food, water and fuel are limited. >> the island destroyed. completely. >> reporter: the damage only seems to worsen as we drive down the hillside roads into the island's capitol. crippled communications are sending residents to phone and internet businesses, their only hope of connecting with the outside world picking up a wi-fi signal. here we found one of guzmam's neighbor fighting challenges of her own. she waited hours with her son for medicine at a local hospital. >> i don't know. i can't talk anymore. so devastating. >> reporter: back at the east side community, neighbors seem to be coming together. >> we got to stay here to help the island stand up. we got to rebuild it and make it again. >> reporter: amid the rubble, there are signs of resilience and rebuilding. though these islanders have a long way to go, they are on the path toward r

how is the island of st. john, the island of st.-- i mean, where are you in this relief effort? >> the supplies and the support from our federal partners have been awesome. i've been on st. john three times. i was there today. our fema partners have been air lifting a lot of water, food. we've done medical evacuations from the hospitals that was severely damaged. we provided hemodialysis for that segment of the community. we have teams in boats. so i would say it's going very very well. the marines landed today. they are going to be targeting debris removal on both of the islands. we've begun the reconstruction of the electrical distribution. had a good call with governor cuomo of new york. he pledged an additional 100 troops to beef up security so our folks can -- >> do you know when they will be arriving? >> no. we're setting that up with fema and they're putting that together to let us know. the good thing is that about 70%, 80% of the officers in st. thomas, st. john, lost their homes as well. and we have officers on duty. we we

there's no power on the island.s company are doing their best have basic communication. people are trying to clear the roads here so we can get access to basic provisions. the navy did arrive today. there have been helicopters in the airdropping today. there have been helicopters in the air dropping supplies to the hospital. alice, i know you had to live through this, you're probably still living through it, but can you ta ke still living through it, but can you take us through it? you're hunkered down in your house, presumably you're not seeing much because you're not seeing much because you're either behind shutters or the windows are boarded up. what are you hearing and what are you feeling as a storm like this gets? at 2am the eye of the storm hit us. we thought that was quite a powerful force but it kept churning and churning and churning and getting stronger and stronger. the noise wasjust phenomenal. you could hear your house being ripped apart. you could hear the waves beating against the side of the house.

at first sight the faroe islands make your heart skip a beat. secluded in the north atlantic ocean it's striking mountains a cloaked in fog there's not a tree or a person inside hard to imagine for someone from the philippines and looking so dish know who else. push the house this is hers is thinking. many have never heard about this tiny country at the door of the arctic circle especially in tropical thailand when i told my friend that i going to be in fair island they say why you keep it there. home to only fifty thousand people and eighty thousand sheep. it's also cold and wet. and the straining a lot. and in darkness for more than half of the year. went. it feels very clue blooming. everything it's like shock because we come from one country and big country and then here is so small. but stay a while and something happens in a place that seems like it's on the edge of the earth women from afar of finding something they yearn for. i've come to find out what it is. hundreds of women from asia moving to the faroe islands and being from a warm c

if you ever come to the island, definitely try this out.thing, how about this? probably one of the most relaxing and scenic ways to see tilos is by bike. you might see some wildlife along the way, but right now i'm on my way to check out something that up until now has been a vital link between tilos and the outside world. and this is it. these cables here. they have been connecting tilos to another island called kos around 100km away. traditionally, that is how tilos has been getting its powerfrom kos. from here, the cable travels underwater to kos, and up until now it has been a lifeline for tilos. the underwater cable sounds like a good idea, but the oil—generated power is expensive and the line is vulnerable to breakdown. when that happens, the island and its tourists are left without electricity. but thanks to a locally devised initiative, tilos has now set about generating its own electricity in a sustainable and eco—friendly way. i am about to meet a representative from the company which is installing the renewable energy tech on the

eventually new forms of life arose here adapted to the island's unique conditions. archaic forms reminiscent of the beginning of time have survived to this day. in the galapagos would they be one of the last remnants of paradise a true garden of eden. yes. wow. when an eight hundred thirty five the english theologian and scientist charles darwin came to the galapagos he hoped to find a new garden of eden he was trying to prove the literal truth of the story of the creation as told in the bible and he imagined that these remote pacific islands would turn out to be a center of creation but the species were preserved as god had created them. instead darwin discovered something even more miraculous this isolated world of plants and animals showed him that all life is constantly changing that all living things are continually evolving and adapting to their environment. darwin's theory of natural selection was published in eight hundred fifty nine in his book the origin of species it was to change radically and forever our whole understanding of humanity and its place in

projected to go a little bit south or directly to my island because the islands in the virgin islands so my island which is st corey on luckily sink rate enough to sustain a lot of damage from hurricane irma and we're very grateful for that and st thomas and st john are ready severely damaged just like the other northern leeward islands and you know obviously they're going to get the facts of this still so the government is very very much so rushing to get any kind of you know to get shelters up to get sandbags out to do any kind of last minute preparations on i think the government has been very good with how they are working to prepare the general public are congresswoman which is our only federal representative in congress she is doing she's working you know nonstop with her off this to to get people connected to their families that you know there's still people who are not able to contact family members and friends in st thomas in st john because there are issues with you know a lack of service people can't get why people are saying corey where a little better off so if you know e

so to have been the four straight on the island -- forestry on the island.t is a difficult situation. my government made the decision today to evacuate on a voluntary basis those people who are on barbuda that wish to come to antigua. the reason for that is, in the wake of hurricane irma is another hurricane, which is due to into the leeward islands on saturday. if that hurricane, which is called jose, remains on the same track as hurricane irma, then it will be going for barbuda again. to avoid those people going through the trouble of that experience once more, we are evacuating them to the island of antigua. hopefully, this is a big hope, hurricane jose will go north and avoid barbuda this time. brent: ambassador, talk to me about what resources your government has to draw upon to help with the recovery and rebuilding. guest: this is a very good question. we have no resources upon which to draw, save our own. and we are a small country, our gdp is about $1 billion a year. so hurricanes of this nature, it could -- it has done vast damage to a lot of the is

i left the island for work. dj and i was travelling to europe for a week to doa travelling to europe for a week to do a few gigs. we were in new york and andrew decided to take the kids back to the bbi and that was probably a week before we had any news that a hurricane was on the way. how old are your children? they are ten months old and 23 months old. when did you last contact them? it's about three days ago now. i last heard from them probably half an hour before it was going to hit ina very an hour before it was going to hit in a very bad way. what advice had the island had before the hurricane struck? nothing. i mean we were told, you know, a storm is coming. it isa told, you know, a storm is coming. it is a pretty big hurricane, but it was so it is a pretty big hurricane, but it was so blase. people are used to it there and there is such a thing as having hurricane parties and people we re having hurricane parties and people were just obviously, we were warned to prepare for this, but nobody was told to e

east side of the island.i spoke to the deputy governor. he says he'd get things back under control, but there is an appeal for calm and law and order to prevail. very difficult conditions for people to really deal with the aftermath of hurricane irma, because they're all so worried about hurricanejose, which is on its way. the latest forecasts show that skirting the island and heading north, rather than being a direct impact. so that may bring some relief as they try to continue the recovery efforts. in the united states, southern parts of florida are already beginning to feel the effects of irma. governor rick scott said the south—east is experiencing tropical—storm—force winds, and that thousands of people were without electricity. the bbc‘s aleem maqbool is in miami. there is little left for people to do in florida but to get somewhere safe and wait. this hurricane shelter, like so many more across the city, is packed to capacity. wejust decided, you know, we're going to leave, and then we got up and saw o

east side of the island.ow, i spoke to the deputy governor, he said he'd get things back under control but there is an appeal for calm and law and order to prevail. very difficult conditions for people to really deal with the aftermath of hurricane irma because they're all so worried about hurricanejose, which is on its way. the latest forecasts say that is skirting the island and heading north rather than being a direct impact, so that may bring some relief as they try to continue the recovery efforts. in the united states, southern parts of florida are already beginning to feel the effects of irma. governor rick scott said the southeast was already experiencing tropical storm force winds and that thousands of people were without electricity. the bbc‘s aleem maqbool is in miami and sent this report. we got up and saw on the tv all the traffic backed up, they say it's backed up to atlanta. we said, we have waited too late to leave. so we stayed. i mean, we left everything, you know. our furniture. our apartme

people are desperate on some of the islands in the caribbean. we good to the island of guadalupe. clarissa, what have you been seeing? >> reporter: alyson, this is really the staging ground for rescue and aid, specifically the island of st. martins. many who we have spoken to have down right fright epping stories, alyson. in addition to the horrors they witnessed of surviving the storm, not having power, not having water, rationing food, there is a pretty desperate security situation. several people described gang of young guys marauding around town, looters, burglaries. they said all the stores have been smashed apart. all the food, all the things from the drugstore, for example, have been taken. so that has compounded a different situation. they are french territory. mack reason spent the night trying to show support saying we are going to rebuild this place. make no mistake, this is going to be a hugely complicated effort. 200,000 people across the caribbean in need of aid. 91% of the buildings on st. maarten alone wiped out. it is a desperate situation. it will take a lot of c

what it does is it puts an island -- of the island in the position where they do not have the financial resources to meet the cost share environment flowing into the violent or what the president did was acknowledge that, publicly and privately. he realized that would be a problem. doing a 100%tep of federal cost share adjustment to pay for all of this. power restoration, the army corps of engineers, and all the emergency protective measure, police, fire, ems, truck drivers, all of those things. 180 days. powersix months for the virgin islands and puerto rico until we can get our hands around this. all of those functions, those missions, r 100% federal cost share. we do not want anyone worried about paper. we want them worried about people. two more questions. reporter: i wanted to follow up and ask as you are starting to envisioned on the road, if any sort of bailout might be part of the broad recovery package, and on that [indiscernible] >> as my colleague alluded to, we are willing to negotiate with congresses there is a better fiscal idea. from the emergency management perspective,

i'm off this island. i have been here like 20 years, i'm going to have to leave the island. i don't have any other choice. >> reporter: i heard that from more than one person, america will see puerto rico as too much of a liability, with all the debt before the rebuilding debt the now the most valuable thing they have is their american passport to get out. others have a puerto rican resolve to stay and rebuild. but the mayor, that young mary car mayor, ricardo walked six hours and found out he was turned away. we have a few days before the society breaks down, good news from the governor, 185 gas stations were opened. today it's up to 450. the big problem is distribution, they can't get guys to drive the trucks because they can't get to work or they don't want to go out without security. they can't find enough cops or soldiers to ride shotgun into the rural villages. wolf, today hammers at home more than any day before. as long as we have been here, this place is in desperate need in as much help as they can get. >> you are saying six, seven months to really get puerto rico

cuba is the latest island to be hit.he category four storm — it was category five, the highest, but has eased slightly — made landfall off the north—eastern coast overnight bringing strong winds and heavy rain. communities have lost power and communication is becoming increasingly difficult in more remote areas. the bahamas have largely been spared after the storm changed course. this is irma's trajectory. have been told to evacuate. there's another hurricane approaching the care lean, jose has strengthened to a category four, driving winds of 125mph and forecasters warn that it could strengthen still further. four days after hurricane irma first hit the caribbean, cuba is now feeling the full force of its deadly winds. gusts of more than 150 miles an hour, blasting these desolate streets in the north. the destruction is going to be terrible and the economic situation is very bad. great international assistance is going to be needed. many houses are old and unstable, but so far it is not clear how much damage it has caus

it's one of the smallest islands but one of the hardest hit islands of the u.s. virgin islands. and we left from here from puerto rico, and we basically got on a boat, private enterprise boat from a gentleman who spent $20,000 of his own money hiring these boats and then filling them up by locals who were offering anything they can, anything from clothes to water to food, and we traveled about two hours by boat. and we did this twice a day to st. john. and the minute you see the island, for those of you who have traveled to the island, who have been there, who have had pina coladas, who swam on those beautiful lightweigwhite beache would recognize and know how lush and green that is. that has changed completely. it is gone. your eye can't quite get it right. it looks like it's burnt from a distance. but close up you can see that it's just there are no leaves. >> because the winds just stripped everything. >> absolutely. and it looks completely naked, you know. and that's what grabs you first of all. then once you're on the land, when you're on the ground, you see how difficult i

the eye wall coming across marco island and surely in marco island, florida they will be ine eye of theicane irma. it's 3:00 o'clock in southwest florida i'm shepard smith, fox news continuing coverage of hurricane irma. the storm is moving now at 12 miles an hour in a northward direction. minimum pressure 936, so decreasing in strength if ever so slightly and the maximum sustained winds 120 miles an hour which makes this a powerful category 3 storm and major hurricane that's now bearing down on marco island, everglades city, naples and generally collier county before heading north to the state of florida, janice

>> well, again, it depends island to island. but for this island, providencial, it's between now, 7:00, and 2:30 in the morning our time. >> and have people evacuated, or are there shelters for people to go to? >> there are. we put out evacuation orders on two islands on tuesday and wednesday. where there is a smaller population. and others in low-lying areas, where there's a high risk of inundation, they've been encouraged to go to family or friends to higher up on the island or go to the shelters which are open and now getting pretty full. >> do you have any sense of how many people are in government supplied shelters? >> i don't know the exact number, i'm afraid, off the top of my head. but for example, in grand turk, where there are two shelters operating, the figure must be of the order of 300. >> national shutdown i understand was declared today in the turks and caicos, freezing emergency services until the storm has passed. that's obviously a common move in many places, because it can be just too dangerous for emergency p

the winds, i would say, the entire island saw hurricane-force winds and two-thirds of the island saw 100-mile-per-hour winds. that's taking out power lines and taking down trees and putting down wooden structures, so we ask you to be in a metal or concrete building. st. croix was hit, the area here as it went in the overnight hours in the dark, somewhere around 3:00 in the morning. we will see rainfall. 20 inches of rain. it will cause flooding. that could be the biggest concern from where we are now. we are down to 145 miles per hour, and it's still southwest of san juan. it will be moving offshore probably in the next two hours. where does it go from here? the entire time the models were saying it's going to stay offshore. overnight they changed their mind slightly. it's still offshore but closer to shore, close enough that nowhere along the east coast can be just put it away and say it's not going to hit us because it's still days away, a week away, before it it's the u.s. we know two-day forecasts are as good as we get. not seven or nine-day forecasts with a hurricane. >> thank y

island of barbuda.elf, the winds are extremely light. the eye of the storm is a phrase we have for a good reason. but it is the white cloud you can see on the edge, the eye wall, that is where we have had really strong winds, sustained winds, a steady wind of i85 really strong winds, sustained winds, a steady wind of 185 mph. a strong category five hurricane, stronger gusts. next it moved further west and was st martin, we have seen some pictures from blair and some significant damage which is no great surprise when you imagine the intensity of the storm. the way it develops, on the moving satellite picture you can see that when you see a storm like this with a big cloud shield, a very clearly defined eye, you know we are talking about a major hurricane. so the big question is what happens next. the virgin islands are going downhill rapidly, then we're looking at puerto rico, is seeing some wet weather during thursday, extremely windy as well. the north of hispaniola, parts of haiti, for example, the do

the spanish always try to take over the island.e says there's a danger of providencia losing its identity to the neighbouring mainland. colombia is a country with a lot of different culture. everywhere you go is different. different climate, different food, different music, different people. but providencia's isolation from the mainland has also hit its economy. food and drink are, for example, much more expensive than on the mainland. and so colombia has committed to extending providencia's airport so it can take international flights. many of the locals are up in arms. it's not going to happen. we're not going to permit it. sophia huffington is leading protests against the expansion. she fears what happened in san andres sets the precedent. they opened the airport there in 1953 and started pulling away the territory from the people. we have an example for them not to come and make the same mistake again. 60 years after san andres got its international airports, there are now high—rise hotels, casinos and a0 times more tourists th

it was not as bad as some of the other islands but it did cause some damage, the island lost powerforcourse, flights in and out were cancelled. there was some damage, and people still trying to recover from that initial phase. the shelters you have, can they cope with the numbers of people? it will be difficult to assess what the damage has been so far, how many people have responded. it will be a case of going out, we when we have been advised that the conditions will prevail for much longer than anticipated, before we can go out and see what is happening. we are beginning to lose the line, thank you very much for joining us. stay safe, and all of the other people there as well, please, stay safe. as maria follows in the footsteps of hurricane irma, one family from the british virgin islands knows exactly what it feels like to be caught in the eye of the storm. the ormods were forced to return to their parent's home in somerset, after losing virtually everything in irma. but they hope to return to the caribbean to help rebuild, both their home in tortola and the rest of the island. c

the us islands taking a direct hit. damaging wind over the british virgin islands. piling into puerto rico, pitting some thailand, meaning we could see some catastrophic flooding and mudslides before the storm weakens before going to the turks and take silence. the storm still has some way to go —— the turks and kite silence. myanmar‘s leader, aung san suu kyi, has insisted her government has made every effort to bring peace to rakhine state — where hundreds of thousands of rohingya muslims have been driven from their homes. she's been under international pressure to stop the military crackdown which began in response to attacks by rohingya militant groups. in geneva, the head of the un fact finding mission on myanmar says his team has received widespread allegations of mass killings — which they intend to investigate. jonny dymond reports. the exodus of the rohingya continues. a treacherous escape from burnt out villages and savage assaults. more than 400,000 have fled myanmar in under a month. its leader, aung san suu kyi, pushed back at the swell of international

these islands are bracing for a second parcel hurricane injust these islands are bracing for a secondrricane in just two weeks. that was when hurricane emma came through causing all of this devastation and since then it has been a race against time to make things secure and safe before hurricane maria arrives and frankly a race against time which simply could not be one such is the extent of the damage. fear now is any piece of the damage. fear now is any piece of this debris, the timber, roof sheets, household items, could become potentially deadly ammunition for hurricane maria as it is swirled around in some 100 miles an hour plus. people are hunkered down in their homes, hoping for the best but they know the hours ahead are going to be extremely difficult. really not much to do now but to wait for the storm to come. jamie cook, bbc news. meanwhile the uk task force in the caribbean is busy helping with the clear—up effort following hurricane irma. brigadierjohn ridge is the commander of the joint task force, currently in barbados. he explained to my colleague ben brown, just how c

virgin islands and the turks and caicos islands.he turks and caicos, from jamaica. we are deploying teams from unicef and the un system, as well as tarpaulin and immediate needs for water and sanitation in terms of food. so we have very little information from turks and caicos now, but lives lost have been minimal because of the preparations and evacuations done. that is good news, of course, but clearly a trail of devastation left behind by irma. what impact will that have on the population of those islands, particularly the children? i see that you think taking into account anguilla, barbuda, bvi and the turks and caicos, at least 20,000 children in those islands are affected by this storm with schools destroyed and so one. yes, our first concern is for shelter and the second concern is in terms of making sure that there is no spread of disease. we have a programme called return to happiness which is for psychosocial support, so we are mobilising teams to handle that psychosocial support and the next step is, of course, to get bac

in marco island -- this is marco island right in here.marco island completely in the eye of the storm and then the really bad wind and rain which is the outer walls of this storm, again, wrapped around the eye of the storm, all of that making its way into names right now and just from the looks of this knowing the distance is here, i would get that the eye itself is over all of naples, the eye itself is over all of naples, probably in the next two hours. it's now 3:30 eastern time by about 5:30 they would be in the eye of the storm and marco island may sit in the eye for quite some sometime. steve harrigan you're still out there. i see the wind and the rain. >> that's right, shepard. i'm just looking down the road as you can see it coming and, of course, you can't but you can hear it. sometimes it turns into just a tremendous whoosh and howl and comes and goes with sharp gusts of 100 miles an hour. that's something you really have to keep an eye on. that's what people are afraid of. 15 feet, one story, could be under water in the next 24

john's another big island from it u.s. virgin islands.ntry music star kenny chezny has been a resident there for years. he loves st. john. he wasn't there when it was hit. but 17 of his friends were riding out the storm in his house. they survived, and with kenny's help they were able to get off the island. he's determined to try and get as much attention to st. thomas, to st. john and the needs of the island. one of the people who road out the storm in his house, i spoke to. kenny, you love st. john, you've been there for a long time. when you see the images of what's happened there, what goes through your mind? >> it's a lot of heart break, anderson. it's really just so many emotions running through my head and through my heart. it's hard to put into words really because i've got so many memories there, so many friends there, so many fabrics and pieces of my life on that island. and it's -- to see that devastation and to see what it is today when i was just there last week, it's really, really heart breaking because i know what all my f

virgin islands. the hurricane side swiped the island. knocking over trees, toppling power lines and causing severe flooding. officials in st. croix warned people to stay awake most of the night and keep their shoes on in case they needed to run. forecasters say hurricane force winds extend 60 miles from the eye of maria. they say the center of the storm is expected to cross over the coast of the dominican republic tonight before moving to the turks and caicos and the bahamas. i want to get straight to steve harrigan who is live in san juan for us this afternoon. steve, looks like things have calmed down. what does it look like now? >> shepard, the wind has calmed considerably, under 50 miles per hour that means the police and first responders can go out. everywhere you look here, it's a wet miss and it's not getting better soon. where i'm standing now, chunks of buildings, satellite dishes, balconies, pieces of wall, holes in buildings. that was 145 miles per hour winds earlier this morning. we just moved around to a neighborhood. if you

virgin islands and whatever help is being gimpb giv given to the u.s. virgin islands. we are grateful for them playing that role soer fa. and now it will be our turn to be the recipients of the help that we know is coming from the states. i know that in new york and the bronx, they are leading efforts to bring things to puerto rico. people in florida, senator marco rubio has been looking after puerto rico's interests during this storm and all that. so we know people are helping in the states and getting ready to just pounce on puerto rico as soon as it is safe to travel back here again. >> thank you so much for talking to us. we are thinking of you. >>> we have breaking news on the natural disaster that took place yesterday. we'll go live to mexico city for more on the frantic search for survivors from that earthquake. at this point, the death toll is up to 225. and the search and rescue efforts continue. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ "zorba the greek" by mikis theodorakis ♪ ♪ the all-new volkswagen tiguan with available pedestrian monitoring. the new king of the concrete jungle. it's m

kind of mary joyce clearly at home in the faroe islands. she speaks fluent fairways went to university here and works as a supervisor at an afterschool program for children and teenagers how hard is the language it's very hard. to borrow the different language. from different languages and i have seen and it's not all the time that google translate working at this i think you're very persistent to do. you know. three children i work also son. and where do you work when they met dan worked at sea on a fishing boat trip to the philippines to meet mary joy with his first asia. oh it was like. when she. was a mason. now he works for the faroe islands electricity company so that he can be with the family at home. because his very good thank you i'm very lucky to have it down because he helped a lot of home so unless i left here. what's the main difference between filipino men and fair. we've man filipino man they're my party alcohol their fathers the head of the family. and all but here it's more equality both this i'd be able to. marry joy also

i know when hurricane lewis hit the island we had a lot of support from the island around us.e islands have also been hit. all we can really hope is that we have the navy here now. and we have seen helicopters in the air dropping off supplies. we hope that we can get generators sent to the island. people are obviously, you know, in desperate need of power. we are going to be needing water soon. provisions will start to run out. yes. we are in for a long haul. and i hate to say it, but you know it of course, you have another hurricane on the way. thank you so much for talking to us. all the very best to you. bbc news has witnessed around a thousand, mostly african migrants, being held in detention in libya in inhumane conditions. the medical charity doctors without borders says migrants and refugees who want to cross the mediterranean to italy are being detained in what it's calling nightmarish conditions. but the eu is still encouraging libya to prevent migrants leaving its shores, and wants the libyan coastguard to intercept those who do. the bbc‘s orla guerin has gained rare

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virgin islands. the last hour we have the president tweeting about that conversation with the governor of u.s. virgin islands saying just spoke to governor kennethman who stated that fema and military are doing a great job and the governor is joining us by phone. it is good to have you with me. >> good afternoon. how are you thomas. >> i'm doing well and we're curious because you've had the opportunity to speak with the president a couple of times this month concerning damage from irma and maria. explain how today's call went and what was discussed. >> i thought it went very well. it wasn't well with the vice president and brock long this morning, for the virgin islands. the federal folks have been just great in terms of making sure we had our own pipelines of supplies and the meshing with the local government and the local nonprofit community. we were really able to get significant supplies and out to the community and so we're pivoting on st. croix and the territory from rescue to recovery. we are

and in this situation, most of the people have abandoned the island, marco island, so i haven't seen anybody out here, but if there are -- if there is anybody that needs to be rescued, i would be more than happy to do that. but as of right now, i am just making it out on the surface street. there is a lot of tree branches down, there's some trees blocking the road here on the island. there's metal pieces off of buildings that are on the ground, not very large, but looks like gutters and all that. there's signs down, but i'm sure once the winds go the other direction, that will cause a lot more damage. >> yeah, just going to be -- there's going to be cleanup for weeks and months from corrugated aluminum, palm fronds, coconuts, we've seen car tires, we've seen a floating television set not long ago. scott peak, thank you very much for joining us and you stay safe out there, especially as this storm surge comes in, as we know it will. >> it's beginning to happen now. >> okay, what are you seeing? >> yeah, the -- there's -- you can't see the curbs anymore. looks like it's about to begin

virgin islands. >> reporter: this island, st. thomas was one of the first to get hit business hurricane irma. a category 5 when it hit last wednesday and it has become very clear that it is going to be one of the last to fully recover from that storm. as we approach today six days later, it was immediately clear there is still devastation across this island. barely a structure that wasn't touched. barely a leaf on a tree. we spoke to people who spent days just chain sawing themselves out of their own local roads, their own community to get to the main streets. we saw people who six days later are trying to get off the island. getting in and out of this island is incredibly difficult with the airport and the ferry ports damaged, just now are people beginning to be able to leave and just now are supplies able to come in. we have seen locals helping each other using private resources like private yachts and private airplanes to ferry in medicine, food, water, diapers, formula, things that people stranded here desperately need as the