Liam Dutton
A category five hurricane – the strongest on the hurricane scale – is set to hit the coast of western Mexico on Friday evening (local time). Hurricane Patricia has been described as “potentially catastrophic” by the National Hurricane Center in Miami, and is the strongest ever recorded for the eastern North Pacific Ocean area. Steady…
Liam Dutton
Whilst the satellite images from space may be a thing of beauty, we could well be staring down at the most powerful storm on our planet so far this year.
Videos of people dancing to Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” are pouring onto the web: most recently in a “viral” British Muslims video – but videos are also emerging from the most unlikely of places.
Children in the Philippines find toys from discarded goods on Christmas day as more than 4 million people still remain displaced by Typhoon Haiyan.
A nature reserve in the Philippines care for animals following the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. Of the 11 animals on the reserve, only three monkeys and a handful of birds survived.
As Naderev “Yeb” Sano, the Philippines commissioner for climate change, enters day 10 of a hunger strike, a row between rich and poor nations threatens to stall talks in Poland.
The death toll from the typhoon has topped 3,600 and the figure is expected to rise. C4 News met one grandmother who fears the worst as she hunts for her missing British family.
Alex Thomson
A doctor carries out a Caesarian section in the wreckage of Haiyan. But with supplies running low, how long can they hold out?
I am huddled under cover with Thelma and her friends, who are taking the opportunity to laugh and chat after the devastating week they have had in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
Alex Thomson
As it happened: the journey across the Philippines to reconnect a family divided by Typhoon Haiyan.
Fears increase that the desperation of Philippine people, whose lives have been devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, will tip into violence amid reports of a fire-fight between security forces and armed men.
Click to see a satellite image of Tacloban in the Philippines before and after the devastating typhoon which left thousands dead and millions in need of aid (pictures from Google and DigitalGlobe).
Alex Thomson
My Twitter feed since arriving in the Philippines suggests there are a lot of misapprehensions out there about disaster journalism. Here are my responses.
Alex Thomson
It has been some entry into the world for Inisto Barlas, born the day before the Typhoon Haiyan hit, made homeless on his second day of life.
The aid agency says it needs £50m to support its initial response to the crisis in the Philippines – but the amount will have to be revised in the coming days and weeks.