:00:09. > :00:17.This is BBC World News today. Our top stories... Karacan are continues
:00:18. > :00:22.its deadly rampage across the Caribbean. And now, there's another
:00:23. > :00:26.hurricane coming up behind it. In Barbuda, where is already
:00:27. > :00:31.overwhelming destruction, a mass evacuation is happening to escape a
:00:32. > :00:36.second hit. Everything just started to decay and just crumble. What have
:00:37. > :00:42.you eaten in the last few days? Hardly anything, because there's
:00:43. > :00:47.nothing to eat. You can't cook. Irma is heading to Florida, where those
:00:48. > :00:52.who can leaving. Others are hunkering down and hoping for the
:00:53. > :00:56.best. This storm is wider than our tyre state, and is expected to cause
:00:57. > :01:01.major and life-threatening impacts from coast -- our entire state. We
:01:02. > :01:06.will have the very latest from the affected region, and we will be
:01:07. > :01:11.looking at whether worth so much worse is yet to come. The worst
:01:12. > :01:16.earthquake in a century hits Mexico. Dozens are known to be killed. And
:01:17. > :01:19.we have the story of the girl who gave eight people life, after
:01:20. > :01:36.deciding just days before her death to become an organ donor.
:01:37. > :01:40.Hello, and welcome to BBC World News today.
:01:41. > :01:42.Hurricane Irma has torn across the Caribbean, leaving death
:01:43. > :01:47.So far, at least 19 people have been killed, and more
:01:48. > :01:54.The massive storm - one of the most powerful Atlantic
:01:55. > :01:59.hurricanes ever recorded - has passed through the Turks
:02:00. > :02:01.and Caicos, and Haiti, after causing widespread damage
:02:02. > :02:05.It's forecast to pass between Cuba and the Bahamas
:02:06. > :02:07.in the next few hours, before heading towards Florida
:02:08. > :02:22.And there's another hurricane coming up behind Irma in the Atlantic.
:02:23. > :02:30.Hurricane Jose is strengthening to a category four, with driving winds of
:02:31. > :02:34.200 kph. That is around 105 mph. Forecasters warned it could
:02:35. > :02:39.strengthen still further. Laura Bicker is the first foreign
:02:40. > :02:42.journalist to reach Barbuda, already devastated by Irma, where the
:02:43. > :02:43.islands are racing to evacuate before hurricane Jose makes
:02:44. > :02:49.landfall. The island of Barbuda was once
:02:50. > :02:51.a Caribbean paradise. Hurricane Irma has
:02:52. > :02:54.reduced it to rubble. The ruins lie scattered,
:02:55. > :02:57.torn and ripped apart. Having survived the worst
:02:58. > :03:01.storm in living memory, and knowing another is on the way,
:03:02. > :03:06.people are exhausted, I'm just waiting to get
:03:07. > :03:23.evacuated from here and then I'm going to come back and try
:03:24. > :03:27.and salvage something and help. Everybody will tell you the same -
:03:28. > :03:38.they're not coping. Everyone is in the same situation,
:03:39. > :03:44.and nobody can help one another. Don't worry, we're
:03:45. > :03:46.going to get you off the island and we're
:03:47. > :03:51.going to get you to safety,
:03:52. > :03:53.and you'll be taken care of. The Prime Minister has travelled
:03:54. > :03:55.from neighbouring Antigua Be patient, we're going to get you
:03:56. > :04:00.all out. He knows this is a race against time
:04:01. > :04:03.before Hurricane Jose We heard him haggling for every
:04:04. > :04:07.boat, helicopter or plane to help But fear starts to spread that not
:04:08. > :04:19.everyone will get out in time. This woman has been told she does
:04:20. > :04:23.not have a place on the next boat. The sheer horrifying scale
:04:24. > :04:25.of the devastation here means barely That means that the whole island
:04:26. > :04:29.will have to be rebuilt, and the government has already
:04:30. > :04:31.admitted it simply The Prime Minister knows he'll need
:04:32. > :04:35.to find funds from somewhere. We're hoping that friendly
:04:36. > :04:38.governments and international partners will step up to the plate
:04:39. > :04:40.and assist us. They should not see this as a form
:04:41. > :04:44.of the Prime Minister and the people of Antigua and Barbuda coming
:04:45. > :04:50.with a begging bowl, cap in hand. This is a disaster,
:04:51. > :04:53.a national disaster of epic proportions, and we really
:04:54. > :04:57.need external assistance. The fragments of people's
:04:58. > :05:02.lives now lie in ruins. They can only hope that one day
:05:03. > :05:05.they will once again call the island home,
:05:06. > :05:07.but for now they must leave by any means possible,
:05:08. > :05:12.including this towed barge and they don't know
:05:13. > :05:19.when they will return. The Netherlands is sending more
:05:20. > :05:30.forces to contain what it calls serious post-storm looting
:05:31. > :05:32.on the island of St Martin. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said
:05:33. > :05:35.more soldiers and police would be deployed on the island
:05:36. > :05:37.which is shared between France and the Netherlands,
:05:38. > :05:39.amid reports of people with guns Neil Crase, a resident
:05:40. > :05:45.of St Martin, gave us an update on the situation, and told
:05:46. > :05:58.us what it was like Well, the storm was terrible, and
:05:59. > :06:03.the damage was unbelievable. And a lot of people were left homeless.
:06:04. > :06:08.But the big problem has been the looting that you've referred to and
:06:09. > :06:16.the total lawlessness. We heard this morning that tourists who had been
:06:17. > :06:20.sheltering were robbed at gunpoint. And that mobs were going
:06:21. > :06:26.door-to-door, robbing people. We've seen no evidence of the soldiers
:06:27. > :06:30.that we understand on the island. In our area, we've not seen a single
:06:31. > :06:38.one. Very quickly sticking to the looting, do you think this is an
:06:39. > :06:42.opportunistic event, or are people desperate? Are they trying to get
:06:43. > :06:46.food and water? Well, I think it started off maybe a little bit like
:06:47. > :06:50.that. But this in the end has been organised. We are only high point,
:06:51. > :06:55.we saw yesterday it of all traffic jam of people to the supermarket of
:06:56. > :07:00.the island, which has been completely stripped bare. The whole
:07:01. > :07:04.car park was for the whole day of people, and not the side of a police
:07:05. > :07:07.officer or anything. I understand that Saint Martin is essentially
:07:08. > :07:11.split between the French and the Dutch. The Dutch side being a bit
:07:12. > :07:15.more industrious, do you think there has been more recovery efforts
:07:16. > :07:22.targeted here? Is that where the airport is located as well? Yes, the
:07:23. > :07:26.main airport is on unserviceable at the moment, as I understand. A
:07:27. > :07:32.couple of small planes have landed with relief supplies, but that's it
:07:33. > :07:36.at the moment. Do you think, Neil, that there was enough preparation
:07:37. > :07:42.put in place? Well, obviously not. I mean, one would hope that there was.
:07:43. > :07:47.There were a few days to get ready. We certainly made our preparations.
:07:48. > :07:52.But the response so far, the roads are still blocked, which means we
:07:53. > :07:56.haven't seen anything being moved, there's nothing happening. You're
:07:57. > :08:00.describing a situation of lawlessness, almost. That's the
:08:01. > :08:04.problem. The roads are clogged. There's supposed to be a curfew in
:08:05. > :08:07.place which they keep saying on the radio, nobody should be on the road,
:08:08. > :08:13.and yet I'm viewing, you know, people driving up and down. A little
:08:14. > :08:20.later in the programme we will get all the latest from Florida, where
:08:21. > :08:23.the governor has won all 20 million of its state inhabitants that they
:08:24. > :08:28.really do need to be ready to evacuate -- has warned.
:08:29. > :08:31.And as if the destruction in the Caribbean wasn't bad enough,
:08:32. > :08:33.an earthquake has hit Mexico, it's being described
:08:34. > :08:40.It had a magnitude of eight and struck just off the Pacific
:08:41. > :08:44.Buildings shook in the capital, Mexico City, hundreds of miles away.
:08:45. > :08:46.The tremor is reported to have lasted about a minute.
:08:47. > :08:50.A bowling alley in Chiapas, the closest state to
:08:51. > :08:53.This is a country used to earthquakes, but not
:08:54. > :09:04.600 miles away, the tremors rocked Mexico City.
:09:05. > :09:08.Frightened, some people preferred to stay outdoors.
:09:09. > :09:11.Many can still remember the earthquake of 1985
:09:12. > :09:13.which was similar in magnitude, and which killed
:09:14. > :09:21.I never felt anything so scary in my life.
:09:22. > :09:25.It was small at first, but then it started shaking a lot and it felt
:09:26. > :09:35.As pictures have emerged from the most severely hit
:09:36. > :09:38.areas, the death toll has continued to rise.
:09:39. > :09:40.The fear is there may be more shocks to come.
:09:41. > :09:42.TRANSLATION: So far there have been 65 aftershocks.
:09:43. > :09:51.However, it's possible that over the next 24 hours we could see
:09:52. > :09:58.a shock that's as strong as the earthquake.
:09:59. > :10:01.In less than a minute, Juchitan's town hall was reduced
:10:02. > :10:03.to rubble and at least 17 of its citizens were killed.
:10:04. > :10:06.Daylight has revealed the extent of the devastation and the huge
:10:07. > :10:08.effort which will be required to rebuild.
:10:09. > :10:24.For more on this, I'm joined by a geologist who is an expert on
:10:25. > :10:28.earthquake preparedness. Thank you for joining us. First, what was your
:10:29. > :10:35.initial reaction when you heard about the earthquake in Mexico?
:10:36. > :10:40.Well, I remember the earthquake that hit my city in 1985, that was a huge
:10:41. > :10:47.earthquake, and more than 10,000 people died that time. And I was
:10:48. > :10:51.praying for the Mexican people. Where use a price that the country
:10:52. > :10:56.had been struck? Well, unfortunately -- were you surprised. Where it has
:10:57. > :11:06.taken place, the reason for earthquakes to happen, the plates
:11:07. > :11:13.are moving. Earthquakes happen where they happened. You have a lot of
:11:14. > :11:16.experience with Nepal. How did that particular earthquake, I believe it
:11:17. > :11:23.is the one in 2015 that we are talking about, that earthquake, how
:11:24. > :11:30.would that compare to what we're seeing in Mexico? Mexico's was
:11:31. > :11:38.stronger? Well, the Nepal earthquake was several times less than that of
:11:39. > :11:46.Mexico this time. It is a 7.8. But the death toll was 9000. And that
:11:47. > :11:51.was considered well below. You know, all earthquakes are different.
:11:52. > :12:00.Earthquakes sometimes behave differently, you know, the
:12:01. > :12:04.topography, the people, what is the exposure. I was going to say, when
:12:05. > :12:08.you say they behave different, do they behave different because of man
:12:09. > :12:12.being in the location of the earthquake? What is the greatest
:12:13. > :12:18.danger is Matt the earth man being there with these buildings and what
:12:19. > :12:26.have you? Right, the earthquake... It takes place, but when it causes
:12:27. > :12:30.damage, it is the man, it is the way that man lives there and constructs
:12:31. > :12:38.there. What is the exposure, you know. If the exposure is big and the
:12:39. > :12:44.vulnerability is there, the exposure is vulnerable, then the damage is
:12:45. > :12:48.big and the cost of the earthquake... Is there any way to
:12:49. > :12:55.prepare for an earthquake? The reason I ask this is that at the
:12:56. > :12:58.time of the Nepal earthquake in 2013, there had been some prediction
:12:59. > :13:02.that we would never have another strong earthquake in the poll again
:13:03. > :13:06.because of the timing, you note -- in the poll. We might have small
:13:07. > :13:11.ones, but certainly not of that magnitude. How long does it take for
:13:12. > :13:18.that accumulated energy in the earth's cost to build up? Well, in
:13:19. > :13:27.our case the relation is... The moment is about two centimetres per
:13:28. > :13:34.year. For a century, that makes it quite a significant build-up, and it
:13:35. > :13:37.releases. So one can never say that, you know, the earthquake is not
:13:38. > :13:47.going to take place. You never know, you know. Depending upon how long
:13:48. > :13:52.the rapture is taking place, it is the Earth... Do know, we were
:13:53. > :14:00.preparing for the earthquake, you know. Every eight or nine years, and
:14:01. > :14:06.earthquake effects Nepal. So we were preparing for that. But it depends
:14:07. > :14:12.on the preparedness, how prepared you are, how you build, how you
:14:13. > :14:19.live. And if you do not do that, you suffer. In the case of Nepal, we are
:14:20. > :14:22.not as prepared as Mexico is now, you understand? Although, the death
:14:23. > :14:27.toll here, I mean, the preliminary figures that we have seen of the
:14:28. > :14:34.deaths that have taken place, it is well below what could have been
:14:35. > :14:41.there. Thank you very much for your insight. More in a moment on the
:14:42. > :14:54.hurricane has linked towards Florida. -- hurtling.
:14:55. > :15:00.Freedom itself was attacked this morning, and freedom will be
:15:01. > :15:05.defended. The United States will hunt down and punish those
:15:06. > :15:13.responsible. Bishop Tutu now becomes the spiritual leader of 100,000
:15:14. > :15:17.Anglicans here, in the black Soweto township as well as the white
:15:18. > :15:25.suburbs. We say to you today in a loud and clear voice, enough of
:15:26. > :15:31.blood and tears. Enough. The difficult decision we reached
:15:32. > :15:40.together was one that required great and exceptional courage.
:15:41. > :15:47.It's an exodus of up to 60,000 people, caused by the uneven pace of
:15:48. > :15:59.political change in Eastern Europe. I am free!
:16:00. > :16:08.At least 14 people are known to have been killed by Hurricane Irma -
:16:09. > :16:11.with one organisation claiming that more than a million people have been
:16:12. > :16:23.The Mexican government says at least 35 people are dead after an
:16:24. > :16:29.earthquake shook the country's south. It struck just off the
:16:30. > :16:33.position -- the Pacific coast, and was felt hundreds of miles away in
:16:34. > :16:38.the capital. Let's get more on hurricane.
:16:39. > :16:43.The Governor of Florida has warned its 20 million residents
:16:44. > :16:46.that they should all be prepared to evacuate in the face
:16:47. > :16:52.of Hurricane Irma, which is wider than the entire state.
:16:53. > :16:55.500,000 people have already been ordered to leave their homes,
:16:56. > :16:58.and the highways out of the state have been clogged with cars.
:16:59. > :17:01.They are now calling this one of the biggest mass evacuations
:17:02. > :17:05.The roads heading out of Southern Florida are clogged,
:17:06. > :17:08.This is a storm of absolutely historic destructive potential.
:17:09. > :17:11.I ask everyone in the storm's path to be vigilant and to heed
:17:12. > :17:13.all recommendations from government officials and law enforcement.
:17:14. > :17:18.Nothing is more important than the safety and security of our people.
:17:19. > :17:22.At Miami's airport, people scramble for the last chance to get out
:17:23. > :17:37.But basically most of the flights are sold out, so we're not
:17:38. > :17:41.The worst case scenario that we're going to get hit by a hurricane,
:17:42. > :17:43.and it's terrifying, and we're going to be
:17:44. > :17:48.I had to purchase another ticket yesterday costing $8500 to go one
:17:49. > :17:51.way back to London, and I've already paid once.
:17:52. > :17:54.So, I'm just hoping they're going to get me on this plane.
:17:55. > :18:01.The area of Miami normally packed with tourists
:18:02. > :18:04.is within the evacuation zone, and has been left
:18:05. > :18:08.Just extraordinary to see Miami's iconic South Beach
:18:09. > :18:10.as deserted as this, but it is an indication of just
:18:11. > :18:12.how seriously people here are taking the warnings,
:18:13. > :18:15.particularly having seen the type of destruction that's been wrought
:18:16. > :18:21.If they are coming here, it's to fill pillowcases with sand
:18:22. > :18:25.to barricade their homes before Irma hits.
:18:26. > :18:31.Donald Trump himself will be affected.
:18:32. > :18:34.His Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, has been forced to close,
:18:35. > :18:36.and is in the projected path of the storm.
:18:37. > :18:39.The National Guard has been deployed here.
:18:40. > :18:42.They're stockpiling commodities that could become scarce in the coming
:18:43. > :18:44.days, like drinking water, but they're also preparing
:18:45. > :18:51.for what's likely to be a massive rescue operation.
:18:52. > :18:54.Right across this State, there's a sense that time is running
:18:55. > :19:08.Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, in Miami, Florida.
:19:09. > :19:10.So, a clear message there to be prepared.
:19:11. > :19:13.You can read about the situation there on our website -
:19:14. > :19:34.A 13-year-old girl who died from a brain aneurysm has helped
:19:35. > :19:36.a record eight people, including five children,
:19:37. > :19:39.Jemima Layzell, from Somerset, died in 2012, her parents
:19:40. > :19:41.said she was clever, compassionate and creative -
:19:42. > :19:43.and would have been "very proud of her legacy".
:19:44. > :19:47.Officials were able to transplant her organs into eight other people.
:19:48. > :19:54.It was just before her mum's birthday party five years ago that
:19:55. > :20:03.Doctors tried to save her life, but her parents were
:20:04. > :20:10.We'd seen the scans, and there was such a huge shadow
:20:11. > :20:13.on the left side of her brain, she would never, ever recover.
:20:14. > :20:16.By chance, Jemima had spoken to her parents about organ
:20:17. > :20:20.donation just a few days before she collapsed.
:20:21. > :20:24.When she died, they felt they had to follow the schoolgirl's wishes.
:20:25. > :20:26.She did specifically say that she wanted
:20:27. > :20:33.And Sophie, how did that help you then make
:20:34. > :20:37.It made that decision so much easier.
:20:38. > :20:39.You know, it's like an automatic thing, yes,
:20:40. > :20:50.Five years on, Jemima's family have now been told that her organs,
:20:51. > :20:53.including her heart, lungs and kidneys, have helped more
:20:54. > :20:59.Freddie is one of those Jemima saved.
:21:00. > :21:01.He had been given just weeks to live before
:21:02. > :21:03.he received her liver in a transplant.
:21:04. > :21:04.This week, he started secondary school.
:21:05. > :21:09.Thank you - but that just doesn't seem enough,
:21:10. > :21:17.that they actually stuck to Jemima's wishes and let
:21:18. > :21:31.So it's really tough, but we can never be thankful enough.
:21:32. > :21:34.This month, the two families will meet for the first time
:21:35. > :21:37.at a charity ball organised in Jemima's memory.
:21:38. > :21:40.Her parents know that not everyone would make the decision they did,
:21:41. > :21:42.but with more than 6,000 people waiting for transplants,
:21:43. > :21:45.they're now campaigning for more of us to register as donors.
:21:46. > :22:09.John Watson has all the sport for us. James Anderson reach 500 Test
:22:10. > :22:15.wickets, joining the likes of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath to reach the
:22:16. > :22:19.total. His 500 was soon followed by his 501st to remove both West Indian
:22:20. > :22:22.openers at the start of their second innings. The West Indies finished
:22:23. > :22:29.the second day of the third and final Test on 19-3. Of the
:22:30. > :22:35.floodlights, play continued long into the evening after early rain
:22:36. > :22:38.delays. James Anderson's 500th wicket was the landmark achievement,
:22:39. > :22:43.of course. The first English player to do that, just the third fast
:22:44. > :22:47.bowler, and after close of play he said he's happy to carry on,
:22:48. > :22:52.debated, energised, feels he still improving as a bowler. He also know
:22:53. > :22:57.that so what of work to do in this Test match. -- knows that there's
:22:58. > :23:03.work to do. It been bowler friendly conditions throughout this Test
:23:04. > :23:06.match. The West Indies resume on Saturday. They will feel they are in
:23:07. > :23:13.with a shout. Mind you, James Anderson, of course, will come back.
:23:14. > :23:20.You're always improving. I just try and soak up as much as I can from
:23:21. > :23:26.coaches or other players, and try and add that to my game, if I can.
:23:27. > :23:32.So, you know, it's endless how much you can do that. Kylian
:23:33. > :23:37.Mbappe-Lottin scored on his debut for Paris Saint-Germain following
:23:38. > :23:40.his much-publicised loan move, which is set to become permanent next
:23:41. > :23:49.season. He was an the scoresheet in the second half. Neymar added a
:23:50. > :23:54.third. They lead 3-1. He is expected to join him on a full transfer,
:23:55. > :23:57.making him the second most expensive player of all-time behind team-mate
:23:58. > :24:01.Neymar. Paris Saint-Germain on course to make it five league wins
:24:02. > :24:06.from five so far this season. Tennis, the first men's semifinal is
:24:07. > :24:15.about to get under way and there will be a new Grand Slam finalist.
:24:16. > :24:21.Kevin Anderson and Pablo Carreno Busta have never reached this stage
:24:22. > :24:27.before. Chris Froome has taken another step towards winning the
:24:28. > :24:31.volta is by no. Less than two months after his fourth Tour de France
:24:32. > :24:39.title -- Vuelta is by no. Chris Froome finished in the peloton more
:24:40. > :24:43.than 12 minutes later. There is just one meaningful stage to go before
:24:44. > :24:48.Sunday's ceremonial finish in Madrid. Andrew Parsons has been
:24:49. > :24:50.elected the new president of the International committee. The
:24:51. > :24:55.Brazilian beat three other candidates at the IPC General
:24:56. > :25:00.Assembly in Abu Dhabi earlier today. He succeeds Sir Philip Craven, who
:25:01. > :25:05.had headed the organisation since 2001. Sir Philip oversaw the growth
:25:06. > :25:10.of the Paralympic movement, which is now the world third biggest sporting
:25:11. > :25:15.event behind only the Olympics and the World Cup in terms of global to
:25:16. > :25:15.guess. That is all the sport. Back to you.
:25:16. > :25:17.STUDIO: Thank you, Tom. A reminder of our top story: Relief
:25:18. > :25:19.efforts on Caribbean islands hit by Hurricane Irma
:25:20. > :25:21.are being complicated by the imminent arrival
:25:22. > :25:28.of another powerful storm. Efforts are being made
:25:29. > :25:31.to rescue all 1600 residents of the island of Barbuda before
:25:32. > :25:45.the category four Hurricane Jose Don't forget that Florida is also
:25:46. > :25:50.preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Amer. You can keep
:25:51. > :25:53.up-to-date with that on our website. -- hurricane Irma. Also get in touch
:25:54. > :25:57.with us here at world news. You can find me on Twitter. Stay tuned,
:25:58. > :26:13.plenty more coming up shortly. Hello. We are still dodging some
:26:14. > :26:18.downpours this evening. But some of us will be turning drier as the
:26:19. > :26:19.evening goes on. Although overnight we will keep a feed of