Shooting that has left her son in hospital paralyzed. This few of the territory and energy the diplomatic push to avoid a direct confrontation between turkey and greece in the Eastern Mediterranean. And antigovernment protests resume in the battle russian capital as the exiled Opposition Leader appeals to the e. U. To support what shes calling a peaceful revolution. I dont sport lino massi puts barcelona on notice that 33 year old argentinian tells the club he wants to leave with immediate effect. Its a disease that once paralyze 75000. 00 children each year across africa now off to decades of effort a World Health Organization has declared the continent free of the naturally occurring polio virus a final push focused on Northern Nigeria where Health Workers often put their lives at risk to vaccinate children in a region filled with violence and insecurity well the water borne virus is highly infectious and mainly affects children under the age of 5 fever pain and vomiting are the in it. Symptoms though in some cases it can lead to irreversible paralysis theres been a 99 percent fall in the number of infections since 1988 only 2 countries are yet to eradicate the disease afghanistan and pakistan under it 75. 00 people were diagnosed with the virus last year but the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted an international lexa Nation Program so there are fears of a resurgence and 16 african countries akari experiencing an outbreak of the vaccine derived virus thats a rare mutated form of the virus which is contained in the polio vaccine we must continue to protect africas children against all forms of polio and other childhood diseases ensuring they are protected by even aziz. And we must take the Lessons Learned and best practices from either indicating world polio virus to achieve africas other Public Health goals and improve health care for all africans. Well al jazeera is ahmed address has more now from nigerias capital abuja the announcement has come too late for tens of thousands of poor victims here with paralyzed lives life gets harder in a country where little attention is paid to the needs of the disabled. But for parents of future generations a major source of worry is lifted. Completeness a success was delayed because of vaccination or stuff for years in many parts of Northern Nigeria. Some parents said the order of polio vaccine was a Birth Control scheme. Attacks another major obstacle to the Immunization Campaign the challenges was in accessibility the challenges where how you deliver vaccine in hard to reach areas the challenges that how you gain the trust those who need the vaccine. Global intervention especially by unicef and the bill and Melinda Gates foundation was critical in achieving success with immunization was restarted. A clear indication that no matter what the challenge is when all of humanity comes together with one dedicated purple as a for cost in all our resources to really confront whatever challenges we fade we face there we can be triumphant this is an example of triumph against a disease that is asia and how the experts one of the threat of an outbreak remains some parents still resist immunizing their children and there is a danger of a false sense of security. Officials want to take their experience in fighting poorly or further by using similar resources in defeating the fall of either 6 years ago the same lessons the same resources the same front Line Technology is what were using to address given 1000 in nigeria World Health Organization praised nigeria success as a victory for africa but one that regular vaccinations and increased vigilance are required to defeat polio once and for all comedy grease aljazeera a project. The mother of an unarmed black man who was shot by police in wisconsin on sunday as a protest as against the violence saying it doesnt reflect her son or her family riot Police Clashed with hundreds of demonstrators and on monday night while in a set fire to buildings torched much of the Business District the city has become the latest flashpoint in ongoing racial unrest off the police who filmed shooting jacob blake 7 times in the back on sunday the 29 year old has been paralyzed from the waist down Family Lawyers say it would take a miracle for him to walk again god has placed each and every one of the. In this country because he wanted us to be here. Clearly you can see right now that i have beautiful brown skin but take a look at your hand and whatever shade it is it is beautiful as well. How dear we hate what we are. We are human. God did not make one type of tree or flower or fish or her horse or grass. Or rocks. How dare you ask him to make one type of human that looks just like you. Im not talking to just caucasian people i am talking to everyone. Well there is john hendren joins us live now from can i show wisconsin and a really heartbreaking appeal i take up like that that tell us more about message today. Was several members of the family spoke what she was saying was that didnt nation has to heal she says shes been saying this even before her son was shot that there needs to be some kind of unity and the nation is not united now and its not united in part because of events like this but several members of jacob blakes family spoke at 1. 00 of the lawyers was talking about how the 3 sons of jacob blake were in the back of that car as he was climbing in the front and was shot 7 or 8 times in the back and that lawyer said those children are going to have psychological problems for the rest of their lives and its as he said that the father moaned out loud and had to be walked away thats how emotional it was one of jacob blakes sisters got up in front of the microphones and said i havent cried one time i stopped crying years ago ive been watching people like me be murdered for years i dont want your pity i want your change and that was generally the kind of message we heard from the family now they gave the press conference a little behind some of these destroyed road blocking trucks that you see because this is where most of these events have been happening you can see perhaps mind me there are people Power Washing the courthouse that courthouse has been graffitied as part of the protests here and there throughout the town and of course there has been a lot of damage to that town jacob lakes mother spoke about that and this is what she had to say. At the hour right here in the navy. And noted. A lot of damage. It doesnt lead mine. Or my family. Knew what was going on it is cars that gold violin and even this roxanne. Would be very on leave. Now we also learned a little more about blakes condition we were told that right now as that News Conference was going on just a few minutes ago he was undergoing surgery that his spine has been severed that his colon and much of his lower intestine had to be removed that he has Bullet Wounds in his stomach and in his arms he is being treated for that right now and they say this will not be the last of those surgeries his lawyers said that in fact there is likely to be long term permanent damage as a result of that that sounded like that was a reference to jacob blakes paralysis below the waist which is family talks about a little and all of that leads to what the demands are from the attorneys here they say that they will be seeking repr cautions all of the protesters here have been talking about the need for arrests of those officers for charges based on the 20 seconds or so of video i should also say that the police union has said that video does not represent the totality of what happened then they believe its unfair to judge the officers on that basis but the 20 seconds or so that we saw of that video is awfully damning and the family says it will be seeking some kind of replications for that all right thank you from john hendrick. And with the news hour live from london still ahead under a blockade and now a lockdown restrictions are imposed in gaza after authorities find Community Transmission of the coronavirus record breaking wildfires devastate homes in Northern California more than 200000 people remain under evacuation orders. And in sport Manchester Uniteds captain is given a suspended prison sentence by a greek court will have the details on that story a bit late and far. Now turkey says greece miss abandon any preconditions before the 2 countries can start negotiations over disputed offshore Mediterranean Resources and current athens have agreed to a peaceful solution to the dispute with turkey calling on the e. U. To mediate discussions tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean have been rising with both countries announcing rival naval exercises near the greek island of crete turkey and greece are at loggerheads over the rights to oil and gas deposits in disputed waters near cyprus and crete well this gives you a bit of an idea of the exclusive Economic Zones of greece turkey and cyprus as defined by the United Nations it accords greece 71 percent of the achaean see turkey 8. 8 percent but this is how turkey has redrawn the same map claiming much of greeces waters as its own and this is the area where turkey has started looking for oil within its self defined waters but that infringes on greeces Maritime Territory according to the e. U. And the un. Turkeys foreign minister has been meeting with his german counterpart in ankara methot says that turkey is ready to renegotiate distribution of the disputed waters. We are ready to talk with all countries to negotiate with a sharing but nobody who to precondition for turkey this cannot happen with the preconditions that by greece. Uniteds that greece mean through abandon its maximalist approach when they abandon the mess you lose everything i said about the stipulation to take will happen within this negotiation process. Or germanys foreign minister meanwhile has been working to try and bring both countries to the negotiating table he describes the any military escalation as madness. For we cannot squander this chance and we expect all those who signed up to the world in process to stick to their word otherwise there is the real threats of a new round of military escalation was on foreseeable humanitarian consequences and this should be avoided at all costs now to belarus antigovernment protests there have resumed in the capital minsk despite a crackdown on opposition politicians and activists to members of the Opposition Coalition council have been sentenced to 10 days in jail and several others have been summoned for questioning the exiled Opposition Leaders for atlanta taken off skier has been speaking to the European Parliament via video link from lithuania and said a peaceful resolution was underway in her country will teach as an act as were among those who join the demonstrations in minsk on tuesday a rally was held outside the ministry of education after president Alexander Lukashenko threatened to fire teachers who dont share his views that boston is inside the country and reports to us now from minsk. The. Solo darity for those punished protesting against the new question are we dream musicians ive got it at the junker compiler theatre in minutes every day so its our regular sack for supporting the protests to call more culture minister powerful after scarface is a criminal investigation insists this listen hes become one of the key members of the opposition council. Performances are cancelled and i 1st of all resigned in support of him including both was been a popular performer for decades but you exhibit. There are a lot of resignation letters at the moment we are lucky we are united and stick together dorothys dont know what to do with us we dont know what will happen to us next. And defiance the actors openly displayed the opposition flag after police took it down to the was a new one assumes its impossible to work under such a regime we are heavily censored in our salary is miserable and we cannot express our opinion as a personal culture under this regime our profession makes no sense the actors joined a rally at the ministry of education with teachers also gathered to protest against lookers shankars this beautiful reelection earlier this month hes announced that all teachers who dont share his ideology will be sacked. Ive been working at the school for 35 years ive come here to declare that teaches dont agree they are very brave people because it is scary for dismissed teachers there are plans to establish private schools so they can take children and still earn money. While hundreds of teachers stage a peaceful rally Police Vehicles arrive some protests are scary and children shout we are not scared. It was going to france and be inside the city still because protesters say it was trying to keep things safe for the streets in spite of crisscrossed by the fact that we see. The teachers taking to the streets it seems the president is increasingly alienated from question also who are the pillars of his government for fashion also have to come more and more united in their fight against him and his 26 years in power that fasten aljazeera mints. Well Marie Struthers is the direct Eastern Europe and Central Asia Amnesty International joins us of a skype now from london and can i start by asking how youve been monitoring the situation in belarus particularly when it comes to government sanctioned violence against protesters as it is much of it been through footage. Actually weve been on the ground. Together with other human rights organizations and as your excellent report just attested what weve seen is unprecedented peaceful protests for the 1st time in 26 years but it has been matched by again as your report mention unprecedented crackdown against the protesters and that means really Excessive Police violence against Peaceful Protesters the use of rubber bullets stun grenades and Water Cannons and beatings of those peacefully protesting on the streets weve also seen. It at least 6700 in this is according to official figures people detained and arrested again for protesting but not only detained weve got testimonies of at least 450 people amongst those thousands whove been subjected to terrible torture and ill treatment in detention what i mean by that is systemic systematic beatings rapes of both women and men and confinement in incommunicado detention for up to 10 days so its really quite and percept precedented and these are these are brave people again as i ask you about the detentions so over 6 and a half 1000 people have been arrested you say 450 of those you have doc in have 450 cases of documented torture and violence. In detention. Yes and im sure theres many more maria because as your people who are just interviewed mentioned they continue to risk detention violence in recent days weve seen the Army Deployed in the streets of minsk elsewhere around the country and the president himself has threatened Peaceful Protesters with. More violence should they. Conduct this destruction so. I mean obviously the i mean the president Alexander Lukashenko has been at the helm of this country for nearly 30 years and he. Certainly wants to you know hes determined to put on a show of force weve already seen one government clamp down do you fear that could be much worse that lies ahead. Were calling for an International Independent into investigation into the abuses ive been describing are also calling on the u. N. Security council to convene an extraordinary special session on especially as a preventative measure to prevent what could be more Serious Violence how how specifically what that what that prevent the prospect of more violence. The eyes of the world are marching. Weve collected signatures for a petition to protest against the Police Violence and the whole of those accountable including the Commanding Officers of course one of which of course is. Oppression must be kept up the International Community must speak with one voice to demand that an independent International Investigation is conducted met everybody who has been responsible for these violations beatings be held accountable all right thank you very much for joining us from now on that from london Mary Struthers there from Amnesty International thank you russia as saying that german doctors treating Opposition Leader alexina valmy must identify the substance that causes illness before it can investigate e. U. Has urged the kremlin to launch a transparent independent probe after german doctors found indications of a toxic substance in his body but moscow insists the but in hospitals diagnosis of poisoning is not yet conclusive a long time opponents of president bush and collapsed on a plane on thursday his supporters say his cup of tea served at tomsk airport was laced with poison now the head of the u. S. Food and Drug Administration has apologized for overstating the benefits of using convalescent plasma to treat the Coronavirus Commission of stephen hand says his earlier statement about the method was not entirely accurate he had claimed that more than 35. 00 out of 100. 00 people would survive that 19 if they were treated with the antibody which plasma of a recovered patient donald trump called it a historic breakthrough and should fast tracked approval for the treatment that caused an outcry from scientists who disputed its effectiveness alan fisher has more from the white house. On saturday donald trump tweeted out saying that the people at the f. D. A. Deep state or whoever were holding some treatments that could help covert and then on sunday here at the white house with the f. D. A. Commissioner by his side he announced that he was giving emergency authorization to use convalescent plasma saying that it had a 35 percent success rate that was backed up in that News Conference by stephen had no a number of scientists came up with the figures and said look there have been no big tests of this you cant stand by that 35 percent figure there is something very wrong here stephen has now admitted that perhaps he overstated the benefits of convalescent plasma because there have been new big tests carried out nor big surveys so donald trump probably isnt terribly pleased because there is the feeling that he pushed through this announcement to give him a political wind coming on sunday the day before the Republican National convention and we know that the president has invested a lot of time and a lot of money in trying to find not just therapeutics but also a vaccine for covert ninetynine has talked often about how he believes will be a vaccine before the election although the scientists still say that theyre working to the original timeline which would mean much later this year or perhaps early next year young people have been fueling the spread of covert 19 in the americas according to the pan american Health Organizations director. Says cases are among the highest the highest among those under the age of 16 but 70 percent of people who die are 17 years or older she also said the number of deaths in the region has doubled in the past week and cases have reached at least 12000000 Organization Test the recent spread of the disease has been especially severe in the bahamas caribbean country only saw a handful of cases before july. Well more than 60000 people have died from the krajina virus and mexico the 3rd highest death toll in the world behind the United States and brazil infections among health care among the highest making efforts to curb the countrys outbreak all the more complicated on iraq our ports now from mexico city the software our doctors and nurses across mexico have been protesting for months over an alarming mortality rate from coronavirus among medical professionals the. Police say the contagion among their colleagues is due to a lack of personal protective equipment or. We are asked to reuse our uniforms and to wash and reuse our and 95 masks after several of my colleagues have become infected and even died we want the authorities to listen to us we want equipment to be able to work. Dr christina centuries and her husband are among the more than 70000 medical professionals who have been infected by corona virus in mexico. They say the problem isnt only a lack of protective equipment but a lack of protocols at hospitals to ensure the safety of employees and youre working as an undertone which combined yet us only here i think the demands from all my colleagues a legitimate we need to equip them depending on the area we need training and protocols to know what to do in each case and we need specific isolation areas even if were not talking about cambridge hospitals because at the moment we should all handle as if it asymptomatic carrier has. The right according to mexicos National Association of doctors and nurses infections among medical professionals account for nearly 20 percent of all coronavirus cases in the country thats well above the global average the death toll from corona virus in mexico was the 3rd highest in the world but for medical workers the risk of dying from the virus is several times higher than it either brazil or the United States which lead the world in covert related deaths. This month mexicos president instructed all federal government offices to hold a moment of silence every day for those who have died since the start of the outbreak including Health Sector workers in the dome and. This is to honor all those who have lost their lives in the pandemic and to sincerely directed to their families and to lift the spirits of doctors and nurses who despite fatigue continue to save lives. Many Health Policy experts say the government failed to adequately supply medical workers with p. P. Before the virus arrived now Health Officials warn the pandemic is expected to last for a long time member after all or there are for medical workers this means a never ending obligation to treat new patients with limited resources without becoming infected in the process. Aljazeera mexico city. Still ahead in ited states accused of leveraging the sudan status as a sponsor of terror to try to convince the country to normalize ties with israel. Hurricane laura gather strength as it approaches the gulf coast with officials warning of a 3 meter storm surge and then later in smaller form i want to set a return to vest track in turkey for the 1st time in an extra decade. Hello this is not the 1st storm of the summer but this is probably the boast well the most intense the most damage is going because cross in the British Isles then the low countries denmark and southern sweden and this is cheering wednesday now its say looks more like a winter storm as temperatures below that was in the twentys you in this is just a wet and windy weather thats completely different on its way across Northern Europe more or less repeating the pattern if youre 3rd assess even in northern france is still relatively warm but the next one want to get up but if youre in the south in the mediterranean its reliable sunshine are gone all the thunderstorms that were around in turkey in greece and also the balkans is just warm sunshine book question 34 degrees in romania and much of north africa is quite hot even on the coast in revote in morocco were 33 now that rain is on the high side the big showers it for into clumps and moves slowly wests through central or north africa are still doing that the most active world on its way are now into the east lanty good fun jus a full cost of thunderstorms for wednesday and thursday if not on friday and the next development is probably going to be just north of nigeria it will follow a similar path. After years of overgrazing the damage caused to the precious grasslands of chile is being reversed with one of the worlds biggest ever conservation projects. Theyre pretty emblematic of the patagonians out if their plan to fall and theyre calm like this one is then you know that the system is coming back and that they feel no threats and thats why your car rewilding patagonia on aljazeera singapore is being accused of expanding its coast and illegally dredged satins some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally its a big business smuggling noosphere one that will take the city there in through the sand is. To save this beautiful beach but behind it is something thats not so plentiful tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency soundboards at this time on aljazeera. The earth the a the a. Problem back our top story this hour the World Health Organization has declared africa free of naturally occurring polio announcement is a major step in the 30 Year Long Campaign to eradicate the disease while white. The mother of an unarmed black man who was shot by police in wisconsin on sunday as a protest is against further violence saying it doesnt reflect a son or a family has been paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the back 7 times. Turkey is saying greece must abandon preconditions before the 2 countries can start dialogue over disputed offshore Mediterranean Resources and current affan say they want to find a peaceful solution to the dispute with turkey calling on the e. U. To mediate discussions. Gaza is under a 40 hour lockdown after authorities discovered the 1st cases of Community Transmission of the corona virus until now all infections have been linked to residents returning from abroad as worry causes Health Care System wont be able to cope if the disease becomes widespread. Reports. For months gaza has managed to dodge this moment but now its here near empty streets. Instructions to stay home for personal safety after 4 cases of coded 1000. 00 would attempted in the same family the 1st cases at large in the general population for a blockaded territory with an under equipped overstretched Health System this is a frightening time. That. We have started to implement a plan that we prepared for in advance police are imposing a curfew people are completely committed to it we will take more preventive procedures depending on you evaluations of. A combination of the israeli and egyptian blockade and very strict quarantine measures had till now kept the coronavirus out gazas 110 cases had all been in Quarantine Centers these new Community Cases were traced after a woman got an israeli permit to travel to jerusalem for medical treatment and was found there to have the disease the World Health Organization says such a moment was always likely to come and if Health Workers are following correct procedures in tracing the origin and spread of the outbreak. Since we discovered the 4 cases in the ghazi refugio camp the medical teams have been following up with more people who could have been in contact with the infected people weve stopped outpatient treatments halted planned surgeries and repeated all the Health Facilities to receive possible infected people. Gaza has about 100 ventilators in the Public Health system with another 100 in private clinics the w. H. O. Says the territory can deal with hundreds of cases but not thousands hamas which controls the territory is calling for a new International Aid the coded threat only compounds anxieties for gazas 2000000. 00 people already struggling with as little as 4 hours at a tricity a day after israel banned diesel imports for the strips only power station its part of a recent escalation in hostilities between hamas and israel within century balloons and rockets launched from gaza and in nightly strikes by israel the biggest fear for now is of the power of this pandemic and what it could do to a place like gaza but the hope is it can be contained in time for sit out 0. Un Security Councils been warned that the economies of the occupied west bank and gaza are in freefall and many are living in fear and poverty the u. N. Special coordinator for the middle east Peace Process addressed the 1st un meeting since israel normalize ties with the u. A. E. He also warned activists sending in century lives from gaza to israel that they are breaking International Law let me say that we not lose sight of the deteriorating the nomics on the ground because its teetering on the brink of another major escalation with israel the occupied west bank is fracturing under a multitude of economic and political pressures Settlement Expansion and demolitions continue. On daily continues to have a devastating impact on palestinian and israeli societies this is the stark reality of the Current Situation without resolving the Israeli Palestinian conflict Regional Peace will not be complete the legitimate National Aspirations of 5000000 palestinians living in new york i was back equally in East Jerusalem and gaza cannot be not. Now earlier we were reporting that the World Health Organization has declared africa free of the naturally occurring polio virus well afghanistan and pakistan are the only 2 countries yet to eradicate the disease and now pakistan has resumed a vaccination drive that was put on hold because of the corona virus demick vaccinations havent been given since march raising fears of a spike in polio cases medical staff say they are trying to vaccinate at least 800000 children and more high is in islamabad with more on the setbacks the countrys vaccination campaign. Situated on the outskirts of islamabad this is the no. 4 did our vacation of the polio widens hair in pakistan just afghanistan and pakistan are now the 2 remaining countries pakistans battle against polio began in the mid 99. 00 however pakistan has suffered many crises including the operand war and uproar back effect of dad also the fact that pakistan driver leiria along the Afghan Border what carter all for many years because of the conflict there the program also suffered a setback in 2011 after a fake cia lead in the United Nations program. To take up an lardons read about their gave an excuse to some of the groups fighting against the government to start targeting polio vaccination games doesnt have been news is committed to the cause of this. Pull you into Education Campaign these are the sensitive a. D. R. s and there is a past history of. Attacks and these are. In the Security Forces so as a precaution that he may as we are through waiting security to these people as like not as you just on is how is unless you decide we have successfully conducted this campaign my Cross Campaign minority some people who are against this campaign but they had been censured and now i think this challenge has been diminished has been contained the large extent this is one of the more operations in the word and wall ring games of thousands of people having Large Scale Campaign which go was 130 districts in pakistan in this particular campaign we are getting about 34000000 under 5 children the plan that we have. We. That in 22. 00 and b. Is of consolidating the votes of those that. Big 2021 as the year of interruption blocked them. Or didnt board nor boggart gone ward making progress if their march. And didnt bend their make ward another 3rd bag revealing fear over another spike. A u. S. Attempt to reimpose sanctions on iran is facing a major push back at the United NationsSecurity Council president says 13 members are against the reimposition of sanctions and it will take no further action the us had been pushing for those sanctions for alleged violations of the nuclear deal the u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Told the council that iran continues to be a threat to peace in the middle east when it comes as the head of irans Atomic Agency says that talks with the head of the u. N. Nuclear watchdog have been constructive profile crosses into iran pushing to visit to sites suspected of storing undeclared Nuclear Material meanwhile irans president Hassan Rouhani has responded to us precious saying that if the trouble ministration wants a deal it should return to the 2015 agreement in other developments sudans Prime Minister is saying that he has had direct and transparent discussions with the u. S. Secretary of state about removing sudan from the u. S. Terror list might pompei o is the most senior american official to visit the african country since its former leader of the shia was ousted last year hes on a tour of the region to promote strong stronger arab israeli ties but. Not to link the removal of sudans name from a state sponsor terrorism list to the normalization of relations with israel one doc says that the Transitional Government doesnt have any authority to change hard to his position towards israel if the logon has more in this from khartoum. Following the meeting between the sudanese Prime Minister and the u. S. Secretary of states my comp Prime Minister tweeted that it was a great meeting and that they discussed number of issues including bilateral relations. Off the list of countries sponsoring terrorism that is something this government has been working on since it came to power exactly a year ago weve seen the Prime Minister bringing it up whenever he meets with several foreign officials trying to lobby them to back him up to get the u. S. To move them off the list of states sponsoring terrorism now it looks like to get removed of that list there are certain conditions initially it was paying for the victims of bombings in kenya and tanzania more than 20 years ago but right now sudan is quite concerned that the other condition the new condition that has popped up right now is normalizing time normalizing ties with israel now the Prime Minister has stated clearly and weve also spoken to the government to the spokesperson of the government and they both stated that this government is not mandated to normalize relations with israel this government has a certain mandate and that it is a coalition of Political Parties that with different ideologies their main goal is to achieve peace in the country and to lead this country towards elections in 2 and 2 years and a half so that is right now the goal of this government so right now there are questions about now that sudan has made it clear that it is in no position to normalize ties with israel asper that you request of the u. S. What will happen to sudan being on the list of countries to sponsor in terrorism. California fire officials warned more residents that they need to evacuate their homes as they continue to battle 3 wildfires surrounding the city of San Francisco 7 people have been killed and over 1400 homes and other structures have been destroyed smoke has impacted air quality over a large swathe of Northern California and drifted as far away as kansas blazes was started by Lightning Strikes. Well rob reynolds joins us live now from los angeles and just give us a sense obviously speaking about the the air quality over Northern California but help us to understand the the sheer size of the area thats been affected by these fires. Well this is one of the areas that was affected this is lake hughes california and the huge the lake fire swept through here about a week and a half ago and if i just step out of the way you can see you know the kind of devastation that is going on all around this state theres a house there thats just sort of disappeared a truck thats been incinerated theres even like melted aluminum from the tents heat of these fires and theres. Scorched branches and ash blowing everywhere but in the Northern California area surrounding the city of San Francisco in the San Francisco bay area theres kind of a ring of fire its an enormous complex of fires. The air are several blazes burning more than 800 excuse me 485000 hectares of land destroyed as you mentioned its killed so far at least 7 people its destroyed thousands of houses and there have been 240000 people either forced to flee their homes or. Placed under. Evacuation watch type of situation told to be ready to get out at any moment the firefighters more than 14000 of them are on the front lines fighting these blazes theyre minimally contained up in Northern California but the firefighters are expressing some cautious optimism because the. Weather conditions did improve somewhat over the past 24 to 48 hours allowing them to make some progress and achieve some containment of those major Lightning Strike fires the air quality as you mentioned in San Francisco oakland cities like that is just atrocious its now the worst in the world worse than delhi worse than baby. Worse than jakarta people that ive spoken to in San Francisco say walk say that walking outside their house is like opening the door to a furnace with a campfire inside its just smoke and ash on the cars and on the streets a very surreal scene the governor of california Gavin Newsome says that changing climate conditions sparked some of the worst fires on record in recorded history in california and newsome is also call for help from firefighting teams from other states as well as the National Guard and the federal government all trying to save lives and save property on the fire line in california thank you very much rob reynolds. Meanwhile meteorologists have upgraded storm laura to a hurricane and predict it will make landfall on the u. S. Gulf coast as early as wednesday night has already been destruction in the Dominican Republic haiti and cuba killing at least 11 people and knocking out Power Supplies mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for parts of texas and louisiana officials have warned of a 3 meta storm surge still marco it was barreling towards new orleans we can to a tropical depression well andy caddick is live for us now from miami so laura is expected to make landfall as a hurricane its becoming more powerful when is it likely to actually reach the coast. Well focusing at the National Hurricane center in miami say late on wednesday night into the early hours of thursday morning but it is the thing where the hurricane is right now there is nothing but warm d water between it and the states of texas and louisiana so the predictions are that this thing will rapidly increase in strength that warm water is fuel for this storm and it could potentially impact both those states as a category 3 storm with winds of around 170 Kilometers Per Hour and storm surges of around 3 meters so those a pretty serious situation the cone of uncertainty at the moment goes all the way from houston across to new orleans 2 very vulnerable cities that have been hit in the past so there are various states of emergency in those low lying communities across both those states but officials are trying to encourage anyone thats evacuating to go and stay with family and friends because of course the pandemic means that Evacuation Centers could potentially spread the disease so there are many different challenges facing these 2 states of course they are used to this kind of weather but they have now deployed the National Guard they are encouraging people to get tested before this storm comes in although test results can sometimes take days and days and days so it is a pretty serious situation people watching this storm very closely over the next 36 hours to see whether any wind shear might reduce the storm but they are talking about a rapid intensification of this storm because it doesnt appear to be in that kind of weather so it could slam into this coastline right on the state line between texas and louisiana as a category 3 storm and that is a pretty serious situation for millions of residents across both those states and we mentioning the caribbean earlier and the destruction thats been called for those countries particularly places like haiti that just dont have really the resources to handle Something Like this. Yes i remember laura was just a Tropical Storm at that point in time but it did kill at least 11 people on the island if its funny although it is shared by the Dominican Republic and haiti hundreds of thousands of people have lost power there was some damage in cuba as well as it skirted along about islands Southern Coast but the real threat now is to louisiana and texas because a category 3 storm is an credibly powerful storm its a major hurricane so its all about watching that truck that cone of uncertainty and seeing if the forecasters are right but it will in fact impact those coastlines as a category 3 storm thank you very much for man in miami and gallica now and other stories were following the bosnian serb general convicted of genocide over the worst massacre in europe since world war 2 is appealing his case manager appeared in court in the hague by video link he was sentenced to life in prison in 2017 of the killing of more than 8000 mostly muslim men and boys in srebrenica he was also found guilty of crimes against humanity hearing will conclude on wednesday with the judge is likely to ensure decision next year on how to thailand human or human rights lawyer has been arrested for sedition and other alleged offenses as the government cracks down on a growing student led Opposition Movement type police questioned on a number and student organizer power right to iraq known to his supporters as penguin now cole was then arrested as he tried to leave the station more than 30 opposition figures have been arrested now since the antigovernment protests began last month people of calling for new elections constitutional amendments and an end to the intimidation of government critics. 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