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Weekend: Hurricane Idalia wreaks havoc in Florida

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Hurricane Idalia wreaks havoc in Florida

03/09/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Hurricane Idalia wreaks havoc in Florida

US President Biden said the storm was a clear example of the effects of climate change

Hundreds of thousands of people lost power in the state as the storm made landfall. Visiting Florida, US President Joe Biden said the damage was a clear example of the effects of climate change

As President Emmanuel Macron condemns presidential term limits as “damnable” during talks with French opposition leaders. We speak to Lord Peter Ricketts, the UK’s former ambassador to France, about his personal impressions of the president. 

Also on the programme: we speak to the owner of the world’s longest mullet, and hear how her hairstyle helps in her work as a nurse. 

Joining Paul Henley to discuss all this and more are Jamaican-born writer and playwright Patricia Cumper and Lord Peter Ricketts, former UK Ambassador to France, National Security Adviser to the British government, and now a crossbench peer in the UK’s House of Lords. 

(IMAGE: Biden speaks near a damaged building in Florida during their tour of Hurricane Idalia storm destruction CREDIT: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

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