:00:00. > :00:10.Our top stories, Hurricane Irma continues its deadly rampage
:00:11. > :00:13.across the Caribbean, and now there's another hurricane
:00:14. > :00:19.In Barbuda where there's already overwhelming destruction,
:00:20. > :00:25.a mass evacuation is happening now to escape a second hit.
:00:26. > :00:29.Everything just started to decay and just crumble.
:00:30. > :00:32.What have you eaten in the last few days?
:00:33. > :00:36.Hardly anything because there's nothing to eat.
:00:37. > :00:41.Irma's heading for Florida, where those who can, are leaving,
:00:42. > :00:45.others are hunkering down and hoping for the best.
:00:46. > :00:49.This storm is wider than our entire state.
:00:50. > :00:51.And it is expected to cause major and life-threatening impacts
:00:52. > :00:57.We'll have the very latest from the affected region and we'll
:00:58. > :00:59.be looking at whether worse is yet to come.
:01:00. > :01:05.The worst earthquake in a century hits Mexico, dozens are known
:01:06. > :01:18.Also in the programme, some vintage education for China's wine industry
:01:19. > :01:31.as it looks to Australia for inspiration.
:01:32. > :01:35.Hello and welcome to World News Today.
:01:36. > :01:38.Hurricane Irma has torn across the Caribbean leaving death
:01:39. > :01:44.So far, at least 19 people have been killed and more
:01:45. > :01:49.The massive storm, one of the most powerful Atlantic
:01:50. > :01:52.hurricanes ever recorded, has passed through the Turks
:01:53. > :01:56.and Caicos and Haiti after causing widespread damage
:01:57. > :02:01.It's forecast to pass between Cuba and the Bahamas
:02:02. > :02:06.And there's another hurricane coming up behind
:02:07. > :02:14.Jose has strengthened to a category four, driving winds of a 200
:02:15. > :02:19.kilometres per hour, that's 125 miles an hour,
:02:20. > :02:23.and forecasters warn it could strengthen still further.
:02:24. > :02:25.Our correspondent Laura Bicker is the first foreign
:02:26. > :02:30.journalist to reach Barbuda, already devastated by Irma,
:02:31. > :02:32.where the islanders are racing to evacuate before
:02:33. > :02:42.The island of Barbuda was once a Caribbean paradise.
:02:43. > :02:47.Hurricane Irma has reduced it to rubble.
:02:48. > :02:57.The ruins lie scattered, torn and ripped apart.
:02:58. > :02:59.Having survived the worst storm in living memory, and
:03:00. > :03:03.knowing another is on the way, people are exhausted, hungry and
:03:04. > :03:17.I don't know, I'm just waiting to get
:03:18. > :03:21.evacuated from here and then I'm going to try and come back and try
:03:22. > :03:32.We are not coping, definitely not coping.
:03:33. > :03:34.Everybody will tell you the same, they are not coping.
:03:35. > :03:42.Everyone is in the same situation and nobody can help one another.
:03:43. > :03:44.We will get you off the island to safety
:03:45. > :03:49.The Prime Minister has travelled from neighbouring Antigua to provide
:03:50. > :03:53.He knows it is a race against time before Hurricane
:03:54. > :03:57.We heard him haggling for every boat,
:03:58. > :04:01.helicopter or plane to help with the evacuation.
:04:02. > :04:04.But fear starts to spread that not everyone
:04:05. > :04:10.This woman has been told she does not have a place
:04:11. > :04:16.The sheer, horrifying scale of the devastation
:04:17. > :04:18.here means barely a building is salvageable.
:04:19. > :04:22.That means the whole island will have to be rebuilt, and
:04:23. > :04:27.the government has already admitted it simply doesn't have the money.
:04:28. > :04:29.The Prime Minister knows he will need to find
:04:30. > :04:34.We are hoping that friendly governments and international
:04:35. > :04:37.partners will step up to the plate and assist us.
:04:38. > :04:41.They should not see this as a form of the Prime Minister
:04:42. > :04:46.and the people coming with a begging bowl, cap in hand.
:04:47. > :04:49.This is a disaster, a national disaster of
:04:50. > :04:53.epic proportions, and we really need external assistance.
:04:54. > :04:59.Fragments of people's lives lie in ruins.
:05:00. > :05:01.They can only hope that one day they will
:05:02. > :05:04.once again call the island home, but for now they must leave
:05:05. > :05:11.by any means possible, including this barge.
:05:12. > :05:17.And they do not know when they will return.
:05:18. > :05:19.The Netherlands is sending more forces to contain,
:05:20. > :05:25.what it calls, serious post-storm looting on the island of St Martin.
:05:26. > :05:27.Prime Minister Mark Rutte said more soldiers and police would be
:05:28. > :05:31.deployed on the island which is shared between France
:05:32. > :05:33.and the Netherlands, amid reports of people with guns
:05:34. > :05:42.On the line is Neil Crase, who lives on the island of St Martin
:05:43. > :05:48.and can tell us more about the situation there.
:05:49. > :05:58.Thank you for joining us on BBC World News. First off, what was it
:05:59. > :06:04.like? Well, the storm was terrible. It was unbelievable and a lot of
:06:05. > :06:07.people are left homeless. The big problem has been the after that with
:06:08. > :06:12.the looting you've referred to and the laws must. We heard this morning
:06:13. > :06:18.that tourists who had been sheltering in a damaged hotel were
:06:19. > :06:24.robbed at gunpoint. And mobs were going door-to-door throbbing peep
:06:25. > :06:29.hole. We've seen no evidence of these soldiers that we understand up
:06:30. > :06:37.on the island. In our area, we've not seen a single one. Speaking of
:06:38. > :06:39.the looting, do you think this is an opportunistic events or people
:06:40. > :06:44.desperate, are they trying to get food and water? Well, I think it
:06:45. > :06:51.started off may be aided the bit like that but this has been, in the
:06:52. > :06:56.end, organised. We had a total traffic jam of people trying to get
:06:57. > :07:04.to the supermarkets, which has been stripped bare. There was a whole car
:07:05. > :07:09.park full of people are not a sign of police officers. Saint Martin is
:07:10. > :07:13.split between the French and Dutch. The Dutch side being a little bit
:07:14. > :07:16.more industrious, do you think? Has there been more recovery efforts
:07:17. > :07:22.targeted here? Is that where the airport is located as well? Yes, the
:07:23. > :07:26.main airport is located here but it is unserviceable, as I understand.
:07:27. > :07:29.There has been a couple of small planes that have landed with relief
:07:30. > :07:37.supplies but that is it for the moment. Do you think there was
:07:38. > :07:41.enough preparation put in place? Well, obviously not. One would hope
:07:42. > :07:48.there was. There was quite a few days to get ready. We made our
:07:49. > :07:51.preparations. But the response so far, the roads are still blocked,
:07:52. > :07:57.which means we haven't seen any of that being moved, there's nothing
:07:58. > :08:00.happening. Nothing has happened. You are describing a situation of
:08:01. > :08:05.lawlessness, almost. That is the biggest problem. There are supposed
:08:06. > :08:10.to be a curfew in place, which they keep saying nobody should be on the
:08:11. > :08:15.road, and, yet, I am viewing people driving up and down! Very quickly,
:08:16. > :08:18.you describe the radio, how much information is coming to you from
:08:19. > :08:23.government officials? Well, today was the first day... There's only
:08:24. > :08:32.one radio station. Everybody's equipment was destroyed. There has
:08:33. > :08:40.been broadcast by the military commander. He is now in force. OK,
:08:41. > :08:45.thank you very much. Neal was talking about the island of Saint
:08:46. > :08:50.Martin, whether have been reports from the Dutch troop is of looting
:08:51. > :08:55.and although there is a curfew in place, as you were hearing, if
:08:56. > :09:00.you've just joined us, that is being ignored by the residents of Saint
:09:01. > :09:01.Maarten. More on this as and when we get it, of course.
:09:02. > :09:04.Hurricane Irma is now approaching the southern islands of the Bahamas,
:09:05. > :09:08.which are facing storm surges of up to six metres, or 20 feet.
:09:09. > :09:11.Nick Bryant in the Bahamas has been following the path of the storm
:09:12. > :09:18.The Turks and Caicos, where the palm trees that usually
:09:19. > :09:21.attract people to these islands reeled under the violent
:09:22. > :09:27.A storm people here had been tracking through satellite images,
:09:28. > :09:33.a monster hurricane that has looked terrifying from space.
:09:34. > :09:37.Now a horrifying, on-the-ground, reality.
:09:38. > :09:39.Picture postcard holiday destinations like the British Virgin
:09:40. > :09:50.This UK territory has now declared a state of emergency.
:09:51. > :09:52.The Bahamas is starting to be blasted.
:09:53. > :09:54.The only sightseeing this morning, from the relative safety
:09:55. > :09:59.of the balcony, watching the approaching storm.
:10:00. > :10:02.Old imperial buildings that have stood for centuries in this former
:10:03. > :10:04.British colony are braced and shuttered,
:10:05. > :10:10.Elton Smith had only just finished rebuilding his business
:10:11. > :10:12.from the last hurricane that caused such devastation less
:10:13. > :10:16.This is one of the worst storms in living memory,
:10:17. > :10:22.so you have to get as much together as you can and plan for the worst,
:10:23. > :10:27.There are five low-lying islands in this archipelago
:10:28. > :10:29.which the authorities are particularly concerned about,
:10:30. > :10:31.which is why the government here has ordered the biggest evacuation
:10:32. > :10:38.But there are fears already for people who have stayed behind,
:10:39. > :10:41.people who have defied those evacuation orders, people
:10:42. > :10:47.who believe they can ride out this storm.
:10:48. > :10:49.In hurricane hit Saint Martin, this natural disaster has been
:10:50. > :10:53.exacerbated by the man-made problem of looting.
:10:54. > :10:55.Which is why, in the Dutch part of this territory,
:10:56. > :10:58.the streets are being patrolled by troops who could be helping
:10:59. > :11:04.As for Britain, it has a ship loaded with aid off the island of Anguilla,
:11:05. > :11:10.but the UK aid effort has been criticised as too slow.
:11:11. > :11:13.RAF planes carrying equipment are now on their way.
:11:14. > :11:15.The constraint is about understanding
:11:16. > :11:20.What we don't want to do is rush in with the wrong kind of support,
:11:21. > :11:23.so from a military point of view, it's very important we understand
:11:24. > :11:25.the effects of the hurricane, where is open to us,
:11:26. > :11:28.where can we get to safely, and that is what we have been doing
:11:29. > :11:33.Now we are ready to make the right judgments about where we can most
:11:34. > :11:37.So far it is small Caribbean islands like Saint Barts that have
:11:38. > :11:40.been hit and deluged, but all the time, Irma is barrelling
:11:41. > :11:42.towards the American mainland, threatening destruction
:11:43. > :11:53.The governor of Florida has warned its 20 million residents
:11:54. > :11:56.that they should all be prepared to evacuate in the face
:11:57. > :12:01.of Hurricane Irma which is wider than the entire state.
:12:02. > :12:03.Half a million people have already been ordered to leave their homes
:12:04. > :12:07.and the highways out of the state have been clogged with cars.
:12:08. > :12:14.They are now calling this one of the biggest mass evacuations
:12:15. > :12:19.The roads heading out of Southern Florida are clogged,
:12:20. > :12:27.This is a storm of absolutely historic destructive potential.
:12:28. > :12:31.I ask everyone in the storm's path to be vigilant and to heed
:12:32. > :12:35.all recommendations from government officials and law enforcement.
:12:36. > :12:41.Nothing is more important than the safety and security of our people.
:12:42. > :12:44.At Miami's airport, people scramble for the last chance to get out
:12:45. > :12:52.Basically most of the flights are sold out so we're not
:12:53. > :12:57.The worst case scenario that we're going to get hit by a hurricane
:12:58. > :13:00.and it's terrifying and we're going to be stuck here for weeks,
:13:01. > :13:05.I had to purchase another ticket yesterday costing $8500 to go one
:13:06. > :13:10.way back to London and I've already paid once.
:13:11. > :13:15.So, I'm just hoping they're going to get me on this plane.
:13:16. > :13:18.The area of Miami normally packed with tourists
:13:19. > :13:20.is within the evacuation zone and has been left
:13:21. > :13:27.It's just extraordinary to see Miami's iconic South Beach
:13:28. > :13:30.as deserted as this, but it is an indication of just
:13:31. > :13:33.how seriously people here are taking the warnings,
:13:34. > :13:35.particularly having seen the type of destruction that's been wrought
:13:36. > :13:44.If they are coming here, it's to fill pillowcases with sand
:13:45. > :13:47.to barricade their homes before Irma hits.
:13:48. > :13:49.Donald Trump himself will be affected.
:13:50. > :13:53.His Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, has been forced to close
:13:54. > :13:57.and is in the projected path of the storm.
:13:58. > :14:00.The National Guard has been deployed here.
:14:01. > :14:03.They're stockpiling commodities that could become scarce in the coming
:14:04. > :14:06.days like drinking water, but they're also preparing
:14:07. > :14:13.for what's likely to be a massive rescue operation.
:14:14. > :14:16.Right across this State, there's a sense that time is running
:14:17. > :14:31.Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, in Miami, Florida.
:14:32. > :14:35.You can read about the situation there on our website,
:14:36. > :14:44.And as if the destruction in the Caribbean wasn't bad enough,
:14:45. > :14:50.It's being described as the worst there in a century.
:14:51. > :14:56.It had a magnitude of eight and struck just off the Pacific
:14:57. > :15:03.Buildings shook in the capital, Mexico City, hundreds of miles away.
:15:04. > :15:07.The tremor is reported to have lasted about a minute.
:15:08. > :15:13.A bowling alley in Chiapas, the closest state to
:15:14. > :15:18.This is a country used to earthquakes, but not
:15:19. > :15:31.600 miles away, the tremors rocked Mexico City.
:15:32. > :15:34.Frightened, some people preferred to stay outdoors.
:15:35. > :15:37.Many can still remember the earthquake of 1985
:15:38. > :15:39.which was similar in magnitude, and which killed
:15:40. > :15:48.I never felt anything so scary in my life.
:15:49. > :15:52.It was small at first, but then it started shaking a lot and it felt
:15:53. > :15:59.As pictures have emerged from the most severely hit
:16:00. > :16:02.areas, the death toll has continued to rise.
:16:03. > :16:05.The fear is there may be more shocks to come.
:16:06. > :16:11.TRANSLATION: So far there have been 65 aftershocks.
:16:12. > :16:17.However, it's possible that over the next 24 hours we could see
:16:18. > :16:22.a shock that's as strong as the earthquake.
:16:23. > :16:24.In less than a minute, Juchitan's town hall was reduced
:16:25. > :16:29.to rubble and at least 17 of its citizens were killed.
:16:30. > :16:32.Daylight has revealed the extent of the devastation and the huge
:16:33. > :16:35.effort which will be required to rebuild.
:16:36. > :16:41.It's unprecedented for one Nobel Peace Prize winner
:16:42. > :16:44.to criticise another but that's exactly what's happened
:16:45. > :16:48.on Friday, when Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi came
:16:49. > :16:53.in for some fierce words from Malala Yousufzai.
:16:54. > :16:55.It's all to do with Myanmar's response to
:16:56. > :17:02.The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic group in mainly Buddhist Myanmar,
:17:03. > :17:06.and huge numbers of them are fleeing the country, alleging
:17:07. > :17:08.atrocities on the part of the government forces.
:17:09. > :17:13.Ms Suu Kyi has't taken any action in the face of these reports
:17:14. > :17:17.and Malala used a BBC interview to call on her fellow laureate
:17:18. > :17:24.I have been hearing about Rohingya Muslims for a while now.
:17:25. > :17:27.And it is really disappointing what is happening there.
:17:28. > :17:31.And I think we can't even imagine for a second when your citizenship,
:17:32. > :17:34.when you're right to live in a country is completely denied,
:17:35. > :17:36.I think there will be political issues, and we can go
:17:37. > :17:41.into arguments, but this should be completely...
:17:42. > :17:44.Considered as a human rights issue, and people should react to it,
:17:45. > :17:45.governments should react to it because people are
:17:46. > :17:52.And we can't be silent right now because the number of people
:17:53. > :17:55.who have become displaced is in hundreds and thousands,
:17:56. > :17:59.and children are mostly affected by this because,
:18:00. > :18:03.firstly, education, completely they get deprived of education.
:18:04. > :18:06.They do not receive the basic rights they have from good food,
:18:07. > :18:09.good environment, and living in a terrorism situation,
:18:10. > :18:14.where you face these extremists around to you,
:18:15. > :18:16.and where there's violence around you is really
:18:17. > :18:21.We cannot imagine it for our children for a second.
:18:22. > :18:25.It's actually happening so we need to wake up and respond to it.
:18:26. > :18:29.And I hope that Aung San Suu Kyi, she responds to it as well,
:18:30. > :18:35.and also the global community of leaders also respond.
:18:36. > :18:40.In case you were wondering, the chairwoman of the Nobel Peace
:18:41. > :18:45.Prize committee has said it is not possible for a laureate to be
:18:46. > :18:50.Meanwhile, the statistics are beginning to take
:18:51. > :18:55.The United Nations now estimates the number of Rohingyas who've fled
:18:56. > :19:00.into Bangladesh from Myanmar as high as 270,000.
:19:01. > :19:04.Myanmar, for its part, denies any atrocities,
:19:05. > :19:08.and accuses Rohingya militant groups of triggering the violence.
:19:09. > :19:11.Our correspondent, Sanjoy Majumder's met some of those who've fled
:19:12. > :19:17.These are the latest wave of Rohingya refugees who have
:19:18. > :19:19.crossed the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar, staying now
:19:20. > :19:23.on the side of this hill, completely out in the open.
:19:24. > :19:27.Just look at the number of people here.
:19:28. > :19:31.We've had a huge spike in the numbers of people coming in.
:19:32. > :19:34.There are a lot of women here with families.
:19:35. > :19:40.A little baby here, sleeping out in the open.
:19:41. > :19:44.And over there, you can see their cooking their evening meal.
:19:45. > :19:46.Now, it's already the early part of the evening and the biggest
:19:47. > :19:49.problem is that there are no tents here, there are no shelters
:19:50. > :19:52.because this is outside of the main refugee camps.
:19:53. > :19:56.So they're having to live out in the open.
:19:57. > :20:00.Many of these people have endured tremendous hardships to get here.
:20:01. > :20:04.They've also gone through incredibly traumatic experiences.
:20:05. > :20:08.This family, they are from just across the border.
:20:09. > :20:11.It has taken them several days to come here.
:20:12. > :20:14.Tell me, what happened to your village?
:20:15. > :20:45.That was Sanjoy Majumder with the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
:20:46. > :20:48.His colleague, Jonathan Head, is one of the few foreign
:20:49. > :20:52.journalists who's been able to visit Rakhine state in Myanmar,
:20:53. > :20:56.and we hope to bring you his special report in the coming hours,
:20:57. > :21:04.Here in the UK, it's emerged that a teenage girl
:21:05. > :21:07.who died from a brain aneurysm has helped a record number of people
:21:08. > :21:12.Jemima Layzell, from Somerset, died in 2012
:21:13. > :21:15.but officials have been able to transplant her organs
:21:16. > :21:21.Her parents say she would have been very proud of her legacy.
:21:22. > :21:53.It was just before her mum's birthday party five years ago that
:21:54. > :21:58.She had an aneurysm that had never been diagnosed.
:21:59. > :22:00.Doctors tried to save her life, but her parents were
:22:01. > :22:04.We had seen the scans and there was such a huge shadow
:22:05. > :22:08.on the left side of her brain and she would never ever recover.
:22:09. > :22:10.By chance Jemima had spoken to her parents about organ
:22:11. > :22:12.donation just a few days before she collapsed.
:22:13. > :22:15.When she died they felt they had to follow the schoolgirl's wishes.
:22:16. > :22:16.She did specifically say that she wanted
:22:17. > :22:21.How did that help you then make the decision when you knew
:22:22. > :22:24.It made that decision so much easier.
:22:25. > :22:26.It's like an automatic thing yes, absolutely because that's
:22:27. > :22:30.Five years on Jemima's family have now been told that her organs
:22:31. > :22:32.including her heart, lungs and kidneys have helped more
:22:33. > :22:46.Freddie is one of those Jemima has saved. He's been given weeks to live
:22:47. > :22:50.before he received her liver and a transplant. This week, he started
:22:51. > :22:53.secondary school. His family's message... Thank you doesn't seem
:22:54. > :23:04.enough. you're grateful that they actually
:23:05. > :23:06.stuck to Jemima's wishes and let her donate her organs
:23:07. > :23:09.which allowed our child to live, So it's really tough,
:23:10. > :23:15.but we can never be thankful enough. This month the two
:23:16. > :23:17.families will meet for the first time at a charity ball
:23:18. > :23:19.organised in Jemima's memory. Her parents know that
:23:20. > :23:21.not everyone would make the decision they did,
:23:22. > :23:24.but with more than 6,000 people waiting for transplants,
:23:25. > :23:27.they're now campaigning for more of us to
:23:28. > :23:29.register as donors. Let's go to the vineyards
:23:30. > :23:38.of Australia now. They have been phenomenally
:23:39. > :23:40.successful over the past 20 years, making it one of the biggest
:23:41. > :23:45.winemaking nations in the world. Last year, China became Australia's
:23:46. > :23:47.biggest customer for wine. And, as Hywel Griffith
:23:48. > :23:50.reports from Adelaide, China now wants Australia's
:23:51. > :23:51.winemaking expertise, Learning techniques tested over
:23:52. > :24:04.decades, these students hope You don't have to be a connoisseur
:24:05. > :24:09.to no turning grapes into wine can But by coming to learn in Australia,
:24:10. > :24:15.home to some of the world's biggest wine brands,
:24:16. > :24:16.they clearly see Probably I can be an assistant
:24:17. > :24:23.winemaker in several And then probably at the end
:24:24. > :24:31.I can have my own winery. So, do you think one day you can
:24:32. > :24:35.make Chinese wine as good as, maybe even better than French,
:24:36. > :24:37.Italian or Australian wine? But, I mean, they have
:24:38. > :24:41.a different system. We have very short winemaking
:24:42. > :24:44.history right now. The University of Adelaide has seen
:24:45. > :24:51.the number of Chinese students enrolling for winemaking decrees
:24:52. > :24:55.trouble in five years, drawn not so much by the weather, it seems,
:24:56. > :25:02.but by the booming local industry. Wine made here in the Barossa Valley
:25:03. > :25:05.is known and drunk around the world. Australia's the fifth biggest wine
:25:06. > :25:08.producer on the planet. It looks set to be overtaken soon
:25:09. > :25:12.by the sixth-largest, China. For Chinese winemakers,
:25:13. > :25:18.the challenge won't be the quantity Australia took decades
:25:19. > :25:23.to shake off the snobbery As China's wine market matures,
:25:24. > :25:37.these students hope they'll have a part to play and get to enjoy
:25:38. > :25:44.the fruits of their labour. Don't forget you can get
:25:45. > :25:46.in touch with me and some of the team on Twitter,
:25:47. > :25:49.I'm @LukwesaBurak. We have the weather coming up
:25:50. > :26:10.shortly. Good evening. We have had a bit of a
:26:11. > :26:14.taste for the weekend forecast of what we've had today, sunshine and
:26:15. > :26:18.blustery showers. I call weekend installer further showers and
:26:19. > :26:21.becoming increasingly windy.