A key role of the BBC World Service is to step up in times of crisis to provide news and information for our audiences in greatest need. BBC News Persian reaches one in four adults in Iran, which is ...

No one wants to be caught up in the grip of a hurricane, to find themselves in the path of a tornado or on the run from a rapidly spreading wildfire, but these and other disastrous events can occur.

Disaster films almost always start the same way. A crowded supermarket, ping after ping as shoppers’ phones go off, screams. An asteroid, a tsunami, an earthquake, World War III. Something – or ...