Today and always. The Freeman Foundation by judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; ng solutions for americas neglected needs. D by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank u. This is bbc world news america. Greece since ships to provide shelter to some of the thousands of migrants left homeless on tan greek isld after their cap burned dow camp burned down. Esoying the lives of homes gone in an instant. It is like a bomb has had this entire area. Jane wild are burning out of ntrol on the west coast of the united states. Na report says humans are destroying nature at an unecedented rate. Jane watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news thousands of migrants are sleeping out in the open after a second fire in two days destroyed what was left of their makeshift camp. A blaze engulfed tuesday night and another maped out any ing tents on wednesday. N scorched wasteland of mangled memories, was his home. Temporary, overcrowded, but it s all he had. And then the inferno took hold. Very, very bad moment. The emotion is too much as he leads the way to where his shack stood. This is all that ist. Lef the ruptured remains of family life. When the fire hit, he ran here frantically looking for his wife and son. Heound them safe. Next fire, maybe. The fire on tuesday night tore through the migrant camp. Suspected arson after the authorities try to isolate those with coronavirus. Two days on, it is still smoldering. Theires are still are not ou every few hours, another one starts. Thick smoke filling the air, burning my eyes at the moment. Imagine this spreading out across this entire area, destroying the lives of 13,0 people. S,ho livelihoods gone in an instant. It is like a bomb has hit this entire area. How quickly the flames leap, a frenzy to get another blaze under control. Theam cfour times over capacity has emptied. They have nowhere to go, streaming out into less posts lesbos island. The despair is mounting. We left our country to find safety. We are in danger here. The fire took everything, including the documents from my asylum interview. The only things we saved, our lives. The welcome has faded here. Faci another crisis. We want them to leave. It is us or them. We cannot coexist. His is turkeys new refugee as europe decides whato do. Jane here in the u. S. , another 0 84,000 people have filedor although that number is lower than the 7 million filed during one week in march, the job market remains fragile. Congress continues to fight over how to provide relief. Here for more is madalyn dean of pennsylvania. Thank you for joining us. A monther ago, was real panic about whether or not coress could pass another relief bill. You have not. Where has the sense of urgency gone . The sense of urgency is not gone. I am talking about my constituents who are sing, please, you must send us more relief. The houseasd on may 15 the heroes act, a much needed robust , more than 3 billion bill that would send relief dictly to our state and local governments, territories. Yet, the senate has sat on its hands. Negotiatio have been ongoing. I learned from senator schumer and speaker pelosi, they have broken down again because this president is not interested in sending more relnof. He does see the pain of others. He does not take any dead from this virus. E amerins we now know he has lied about it publicly to us. Jane you mentioned senate. Democrats in the senate killed a the lateempt. I know you want to go big, but surely at this point, something is better than nothing. What was left o was any support for state and local government. Thats simply unacceptable. Utwhat was leftas support for the Postal Service. This predent has to dismantle the Postal Service in order to try to steal the selection. It is illadvised and corrupt. It was proper that Senate Democrats said no, it will not pass. We will not pretend to go home pretending to help our a state local governments. We simply will not do that. Talking about the posta service, there is concern that electionight will turn into election month. How does joe biden handle that if on november the fourth, there is still no result but it is possible it looks like a trump win . I know that Vice President biden ll handle it with ease this will not be the first time anion wanot dided on election eve. With the p ballot in, it will take a while to count these ballots. What i am trying to tell my constituents, have full confidence in your ality to vote and be sure to take that responsibility very seriously. We have been here before. Wait for the tally. You can lookto back he keedynixon election. You can look back to gore v bush in 2000. We have a system that will count ese votes, we will get an accurate tally. We will declare a winner. I believe it will be biden and harris. Jane president obama your state ted for president obama and then preside trump. I oke to a lot of republicans who said they still will vote for trump. How worried e you . I am not worried. To get the message out. Ontinue the president helps us with that with the revelation of him lying to the American Public about the adly virus, i wonder if those same republicans in bethleh i will feel ththe appropriate vote. I do believe biden and harris will be here an awful lot, as they should be. Owe prize him as one native sons. When we lost in 2016, when Hillary Clinton and the democrats lost, it was by 44,000 votes statewide. I hope pennsylvania becomes the keystone state again. He such an overwhelming vote tally for our vice prident to become our president. Pennsylvaniaill be an incredible deciding state. Jane we shall see. Thank you for joining me. The family of Breonna Taylor, raided her apartment inice kentucky, say they are worried about a coverup. Six months after her death, officers involved have not been e charged and the c a major part of the black lives matter movement. Her boyfriend has sued the Police Department for morehan 10 million. We report from louisville. Breonna taylor o this night, it is a handful of people protesting, keeping Breonna Taylors name alive. In the six months since she died, there been large clouds large crowds in louisville. Breonna taylor was a 26yearold emergency medical technician with dreams of becoming ase nur and showing her fun side on snapchat. The last thing i saw was her lang here. She was in her bed and she made a little snapchat of a movie she was watching. Breonna taylor fell asleep hxt to her boyfriend kenn walker. I dont know what is happening. Someone kicked in the door and shut my girlfriend. Hi he lost the love o life. Laying on the b with her, the safest place he knew to her gasping forir this is the house where theyn livewhere she died after midnightn march 13. Louisville metro Police Issued a sech warrant involving her exboyfriend, forced their way in. Kenneth fired. Three officers shot into the huse and Breonna Taylor w five times. Ed they fr him. They arrested him and maliously prosecuted him. The Police Department did not respond our request for an interview. A sustained public attention to this case has led to the departure of two police chiefs. Two investigations he people promised to be here day and night until Breonna Taylor gets justice. Our city is at a point only truth will bring us out of it. Only truth can take away darkness. Yvette gantry will take over in october as interim police chief. Breonna taylors case is unique. Unarmed and asleep in her own house. Her death has bome a rallying cry for Police Reform in americ louisville is boarded up that attorney general is a rising star in the Republican Party and briefly referred to Breonna Taylor. Whether y are the family of breonna tayr Breonna Taylors family did not appreciate the mention. It was unprofessional of him to mix politics behinher name. We still have the same questionm he day it happened. We just feel like is a coverup. A blank police report, you know, the details that have come out. They are all lies. We feel like we are being lied to. Something is getting covered. Breonna taylors caseas exposed decades of mistrust between the black community and law enforcement. As far as seeing real policeo tability, it is rare at best. It leads to the frustrations. Breonna taylor wondered what her life would be if she did not move here from michigan. As mourners continue to, they relmber a young woman who w never find the answer. Jane lets have a look at some of the other news. Beirut. Fire has broken out in blazes begun in an area where oil and tires are stored. It has tggered memories of last months deadly blast. People are angry the blaze has grown out of control. The u. S. Says it has revoked the visas of chine students and researchers considered to be a security risk. The u. S. Continues to welcome chinese sdents who do not further the Chinese Communist partysmi goals otary dominance. You are watching bbc world news america clashes in mexico, one Community Becomes the focal point of a fight about th right to access water. Jane inpo belarus, tion figure has formally complained to prosecutors about anth attemt week to deport her illegally. She is acced of calling for a coup detat. Our correspondent has more. This is a defiant move, who hasssentially asked for criminal charges to be pressed against erose who detained she said they kidnapped her, held her illegally, and threatened her with death. This iseferring to those Security Forces who funneled her into a van on monday in the center of minsk. She disappeared until we found out she had been driven to the border with ukraine and there was an attempt to forcibly deport her. She said that she was under treme pressure, even death voluntarily. Leave the country she does not want to, did not want to leave. She says they told her she would be forced to go. Jane hundreds of mexican farmers and peasants have seized control of a dam in the north of the country after violent clashes with members of the National Guard over the areas water supply. Protesters threw stones at the troops. Tensions began on sunday when the authorities decided to divert water towards the u. Sby opening the gates of the dam. Our mexico correspondent reports. So water i scarce in ts part of mexico, blood was spilt over it. Armed with little more than pickaxes and machetes, a group ofarrs and Agricultural Workers dissented on the dam to forceout tional guard. At least one protester was killed. Another injured in the clashes. This is a reacon from citizens defending their homeland, said one protester. Water is everyos heritage. They are furious over a treaty reached over the regions water. Utthe mexican waterrities say they have to divert much of the Precious Resource to their richer neighbor. The farmers say their crops, animals, and livelihoods are suffering from the widespread send any water north. O time to we are not going to have water for our crops. People from the town cannot eat. This will be a big economic problem for the state. Even the president chimed in and defended the actions. It is very unfortunate what happened. The national gua left the scene to avoid confrontation. I consider it an adequate response. Maybe the president considered the response adequate, but the people who live around the dam do the internal generate andrn e at Generals Office has opened an investigation about the death of a protester. With man mexicans already in dispute with the trumpetst admition over issues of free trade and immigration, it seems sharing wsoer may be the ce of more conflict ahead. Jane states across americas Pacific Northwest are currently battling record wrecking wildfires ases authori say at least three people have died in california. Thousands of been forceto flee thei homes. Ir 14,000ighters are tackling 30 major fires. Ne this was the sn san francisco, where winds brought ashes from nearb fires turning the skies bright orange. David willis sent this report. David across the american west, historic wildfires are devouring everything in their path. Unnaturally hotd weather combi with dry conditions and warm windss have created a leaving firefighters inundated. Record high temperatures this last weekend led to this series of fires on the outskirts of los angeles. They have burned more than 20,000 acres of land despite the bestf efforts of hundreds firefighters. Throughout califynia, all the up the pacific coast, dozens of fires just like these are currentlyurning out of control. The fires have turned to day into night. Bridge into the same color asate the structure itself. In oregon, entire towns have been destroyed and the states governor is mourning t death toll could be higher than from any previous fires on record. We try to take as much as we could. It is devastating. We left a lot behind. We ended up losing more than we thought. Dead,ng the oneyearold. His parents became caut in a this is all that remains of their car. I was out in tacoma and i saw a little bit of black smoke. Thi man was on his way home when he saw his neighbors house ablaze. Califoias governor say the ares the fires a tangible sign of the effects of global warming. He is calling for outside help in fighting them. Jane if that was not enough to convince you the world needs to change the way it eats food, and environmental catastrophe is to be avoided. It is aor r from elephants in africa to the turtles of costa rica, populations o animals ross the globe have lost land. Rate that has never been seen before in human history. From the arctic to the curvy been to the caribbean, it is pehast hng faster than all the protections. The report assesses more than 20,000 creatures all around the world. Species in all groups of anils on every continent are being lost. What we have seen is a wholesale destruction of ourta most imp natural assets in the space of one human lifetime, this is a trend that is only increang andccelerating. That is why we have to start an addr. Intensive agriculture is one of the key drivers. These arena huge bana it is the sa. Story elsewhe in the amazon, the rain forest lost every minute. Cleared to plant soy. A ird o the food produced in the world for human consumption is lost or wasd. It is possible for food to be produced working wh nature and that is what is happening here. Is a really go Hunting Ground for birds of prey. His farm is haven for wildlife. If we have poor air quality, poor water quality, we will not have high yields of a cro we will not have healthy animals and healthy food. Ar humans managing nature for theiwn o benefit, whether it is for grazing animals or building on, and it is having a dramatic impact all over the world. An weee this now by the pandemic we are living through. Research says the emerge of covid19 can be linked to bats. It came through a combination of expansion into habitats, the illegal wildlife trade. We will see those threats increase. We have had a clear warning that impactswi olife overseas directly affect us at home. The report does say we can stop and repair the damage but it wl need unprecedented converse Conservation Action and radical change in how wens produce and e food. Construction proje find for big some surprising items. Timeaples, lost trinkets, even sometimes buried treasure. Workers in mexico came across something a little bit older. Construction crews have uncovered a huge trove of mammoth skeletons more than a hundred have been identified along with a mix of other ice age mammals. The lead archaeologist says the exhibit is being planned for the airports main terminal. That is something i would like to see. You can fd more on our website. Thank you for watching bbc world news ameri. Im jane obrien. Narrator fundinfor this presentation of this program is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. Raymond james. The freeman foun. Ti by judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. [bright musi pbs american portrait is. Ca a platform where anyonn come and share their stories. Theres a whole great list of prompts to get you started. When i was 18 and joined the marine corps. When i decided to accept myself and excel. And its been an amazing journey ever since. This project can help bring us together. Ach other. To listen to to understand what it really means to be an american. You should be a part of pbs american portrt. Because your story is powerful. Because it may inspire a change in life forthers. And the american story wouldnt be complete without your story. To join, go to pbs. Org americanportrait join us, and be a part of history. Captioning sponsored by newshour pctions, llc woodruff good evening. Ijudy woodruff. On the newshour tonight, western wildfires. We are on the ground in oregon, asthajor blazes burn across region, exacerbated by high winds d extremely dry conditions. Then, at an impasse wi unemployment claims remaining high, Congress Struggles to ress an economief package for covid19. Plus securing the vote multiple countries target both campaigns as a senior homelandcu ty official accuses Department Leaders ofzi politi reports. And the virtues of going virtual the pandemic prompts a major shift in the treatment of
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