well that was tony betty reporting for us from beirut in central and now to a strain which is being hit by a second big storm in today's psychotronic across as the northwest coast at port hedland a day early as i can travel hit a remote part of the north coast it's moving slowly and bringing a storm surge well let's speak to rob mcbride who is in port hedland for us on a seemingly very very windy balcony rob veronica is making landfall at any moment.

while returning to the us to mouth of sight kind of diet that's destroyed parts of southern africa tony betty is live now in berra for us tony as we had in your package people are now considering how to rebuild but one of the more immediate threats of disease that. the main thrust now is to get a medicine food water to the people in the isolated areas that's being done by boat as much as possible and by air but that's only a limited amount of supplies that can reach the people what they really need to have to do is go by road that's where the majority of the aid has to come at the moment those roads are being devastated by the cycloid and it's impossible in many places so they're being hampered for the most of the government together with the aid agencies are concentrating on getting the roads and the destroyed bridges up and running so they can pass they're optimistic that can start to improve within two days but you have to ask the question if that doesn't happen and it takes two days what kind of situation will those people be who are stranded and vulnerable now the good news is that the w

malaria the death toll from the storm is at more than seven hundred but is still expected to rise tony betty isn't mozambique's port city of beara most of which has been damaged or destroyed. they are tired and traumatized but at least these victims of cyclamen eat i are safe now each one has their own harrowing story about the time the storms came each day more of them come mostly from boozy district. on monday which about a sixty five years of age he had a smallholding and lived alone he was rescued after spending four days stuck in a tree without food he says his life is changed forever by fellow good little little five eleven i have nothing to go back to my farm my house all were destroyed there is nothing left i need to start afresh but i don't know how. he lives here now in the sim or in michelle's school in bira along with twelve hundred other displaced people. the scene arrived on saturday after surviving for four days on the roof of a church in boozy her foot was infected after she stepped on a piece of submerged roofing while waiting to safety her future like many others is somethi

mozambique is in bad way and malawi that aid workers say that number will rise as floodwaters recede tony betty was with one community at tika in mozambique as relief arrived a week after the storm hit. there are the survivors of cycle own when we carteret struck they are still desperate and hungry but this center just outside the area they were expecting food supplies they got a few packets of biscuits actually when we love god the flooding happened a week ago and this is the first help we have had just discovered we are struggling to survive because everything was destroyed. water still holds claim to much of software or province driving from biro you can see the vast area that has become an inland sea homes destroyed others left isolated. aid and rescue operations are focusing on the hard hit communities with larger populations but returns of thousands of others living in smaller more isolated pockets they are out of sight out of mind three families live in this small hut a new tika seventy kilometers north of beera the cyclon destroyed their huts and crops they now survive on bananas and ma

being to get it by the government because of the city's long running support of the opposition tony betty reports from better. on the streets of beer or the clean up of cycling even is destruction has begun it's a massive task volunteers are valid around to try and restore a sense of normality to this ravaged city. mango is the hands on mare who gets up every day at five am to supervise the operation and try and restore hope we also are trying to tell the people there's no food. but we need to work we need to work off hours so we need to rebuild our selves people are living in schools and on street corners it's a miserable existence even for families familiar with hardship before the psych loan struck this region had an unemployment rate of seventy percent with forty percent of those making living on the streets the majority of big companies that employ most a beer is full time work force have been devastated by it i many have gone bust and getting the economy back up and running is now one of the top priorities it's been a climatic battleground here but also a political one vera has been

partners have scaled up the response they say fall grace international support is needed as well tony betty is live for us now from beirut in lies in beak tony what's topping the list of priorities for the release as it there at the moment. bringing. bring operations because when. there is only a limited number of helicopters anyway about. today i'm sorry that i think that they're trying to get the people who are stranded today that. really. because they are away from the main thing. we've seen. this number of people living close to highways and living in a desperate way. they finally. came up. i don't. i don't think taste. there are a whole lot of the same situation all over all their life is one thing it is receding there's still serious hope of a very very difficult in the coming days to get a grip on know. they are the survivors of psych loan one week after it struck they are still desperate and hungry but this center just outside the area they were expecting food supplies they got a few packets of biscuits c. one bag that i got you know the flooding happened a week ago and this is the

death toll from the storms of more than seven hundred but is expected still to rise out of there is tony betty as in mozambique sport city of para most of which has been damaged or destroyed. they are tired and traumatized but at least these victims of cyclon eat i are safe now each one has their own harrowing story about the time the storms came each day more of them come mostly from boozy district. on monday to is sixty five years of age he had a smallholding and lived alone he was rescued after spending four days stuck in a tree without food he says his life is changed forever i say i give little movement a lot of i have nothing to go back to my farm my house all were destroyed there is nothing left i need to start afresh but i don't know how. he lives here now in the sim or in michelle's school in bira along with twelve hundred other displaced people. christina arrived on saturday after surviving for four days on the roof of a church in boozy a foot was infected after she stepped on a piece of submerged roofing while waiting to safety her future like many others is something she finds diff

well that was tony betty reporting for us from beirut. and now to a strain which is being hit by the second big storm in today's psychotronic across as the northwest coast at port hedland a day early as i can travel hit a remote part of the north coast it's moving slowly and bringing a storm surge. let's speak to rob mcbride who is in port hedland for us on a seemingly very very windy balcony rob veronica is making landfall at any moment. that's right it has already made landfall the stars here at about one hundred kilometers further down the coast from where we are standing at it it is at about this time of the saturday session twenty four hours ago now that the authorities here put into place this site closed red alert that's the alert to tell people basically to take cover there's trouble coming up but much about the time we have been subjected to a run occur in the past twelve hours also pretty sick veronica not a full force it's being out at sea gaining in strength very very slow the east too slowly for many people that's being gradu