Hawaii fires: six billion dollars of damage caused

At least 89 people are now known to have been killed by wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui. That makes it the deadliest disaster of its kind in the United States for more than a century. The governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, told a news conference that at least six billion dollars' worth of damage had been done.

Also in the programme: remembering the Beslan siege; and the birth of Hip Hop.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss all this and more are Jacquelin Magnay, European Correspondent for The Australian newspaper and Dr. Hisham Hellyer, scholar at the Cambridge University Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

(Picture: An aerial view of the wildfire aftermath in Kula on Maui, Hawaii, on 11 August 2023. Credit: HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)