the head of the un's world meteorological organization

in the eighty-fifth year of the last century, scientists of the un world meteorological organization in geneva moved to belarus in 1990. vladimir loginov moved in 1990 and was immediately invited to the position of deputy director for scientific work at that time, the new institute for problems of use of natural resources and ecology with the participation of a talented scientist, new laboratories are being created, including climatology laboratories, the institute has chosen the main scientific direction of fundamental research, studying the patterns of functioning of the modeling and optimization of the geo-ecosystem, the attention of vladimir loginov as a scientist is focused on the study of regional features and climate change in belarus, he initiates and organizes fundamental and applied climate research aimed at obtaining impact assessments and climate change, it is economic activity and economic activity. climate already in the ninety-fourth year he was elected a corresponding member of the academy of sciences of belarus and in 2000 academicians in 2022 vladimir fedorovich was

the un's world meteorological organization has said thousands of deaths could have been avoided, warningseen issued leading to evacuations. if there would have been a normally operating meteorological service, they could have issued a warning and also the emergency management would have been able to carry out evacuation of the people and we could have avoided most of the human casualties. of course, we cannot fully avoid economic losses, but we could have also minimised there is losses by having proper services in place we've been looking at the path of the water, the destruction. let's get more from our verify team with rajini vaidyanathan. we have been going through some of the videos that have been coming into us at the bbc. it paints more of a picture of what happened in libya. this video shows you a coastal road and the aftermath of the damage in derna. huge destruction and as you've been talking about, a huge death toll. you can see how that coastal bridge has completely disappeared. also buildings as well, the force of the water just buildings as well, the force of the waterjust sm

the un's world meteorological organization has said thousands of deaths could have been avoided warningseen issued leading to evacuations. if there had been a normally operating meteorological service there would have been warnings and also the emergency management would have carried out the evacuation of the people and they could have avoided most of the human casualties. of course we cannot fully avoid losses but we could have avoided some by having proper services in place. let's get more from our verify team — rajini vaidyanathan is there. rajini, what have you been looking at? we have been looking at some of the satellite pictures and videos. this video shows you a coastal road and some of the aftermath of the damage in derna and as you can see, huge distraction, and a huge death toll. you can see how the coastal bridge has completely disappeared and also buildings. the force of the water just smashing into them. just to remind people of the geography, this is the eastern side of libya, benghazi, a city many people will have heard of. derna is where most of the damage has been repor

the head of the un's world meteorological organization has criticised the warning systems that were inlace. here's what petteri taalas told journalists a short time ago. if it had been a normally operating meteorological service they would have been warnings and also the emergency management would have carried out the evacuation of the people and they could have avoided most of the human casualties. and of course we cannot fully avoid losses but we could have avoided some by having proper services in place. sadly, as we've seen, large areas of derna were destroyed when two dams burst on sunday releasing that huge tsumani like surge of water. this drone video shows entire neighbourhoods under water. the images give a small sense of how those houses and buildings were swept away in the torrents of water that rushed through the city. locals told the bbc they didn't know the full extent of the danger that storm daniel posed. and now if i show you this, from another drone over the city, you can see the utter devastation the water caused. these are taken from a little higher than the other v

the un's world meteorological organization said thousands of deaths could have been avoided — warningsissued leading to evacuations. if there would have been a normally operating meteorological service, they could have issued a warning and also the emergency management would have been able to carry out evacuation of the people and we could have avoided most of the human casualties. of course, we cannot fully avoid economic losses, but we could have also minimised there is losses by having those losses by having proper services in place. i'm joined now by tauhid pasha, the interim chief of mission in libya for the international organization for migration. what did the authorities do with the thousands and thousands of people who are without homes? the ages trickling in but is it getting through? trickling in but is it getting throu~h? ,,, , trickling in but is it getting throu.h? ,,, ,' trickling in but is it getting throuuh? ,,, through? accessibility is a huge roblem. through? accessibility is a huge problem- i _ through? accessibility is a huge problem- i am _ through? accessibility