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Weekend: Anger in Hawaii as death toll rises

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Anger in Hawaii as death toll rises

13/08/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Anger in Hawaii as death toll rises

Anger growing over the official response to a wildfire that levelled a Hawaiian town

Anger grows over the official response to a horrific inferno that levelled a Hawaiian town, killing at least 89 people in the deadliest wildfire in the US for over 100 years.

Anger was growing over the official response to a horrific inferno that levelled a Hawaiian town, killing at least 89 people in the deadliest wildfire in the United States for over 100 years.
 
Also in the programme: China's graffiti wars; and Italy offers to host the billionaire gladiators.

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: A destroyed boat floats off Lahaina Small Boat Harbour after wildfires driven by high winds burned across most of the town in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii. Credit: Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources/Handout via REUTERS)

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