From cal fire headquarters taylor. Is that we are seeing firefighters make some progress here now we did see that fire explode in size expanding rapidly and now today throughout the entire day, its only grown 6,000 acres in firefighters say that the conditions today with less wind being able to see the fire for first time in daylight has really helped them get a handle over this fire. Cal fire says the king cake fires still blazing a burning 16,000 acres in geyser ville as of thursday night, a quickmoving fire fueled by northern winds forced thousands to evacuate and destroyed at least 49 homes. Early the first and 16,000 acres. We have 5 containment. We do have 49 structures confirmed destroyed. That damage. The assessment continues. It is not over. But that is our current account. We have or 1300 firefighters on the line that number is expected to go buy other 50 as early as tomorrow. Aides that they takes a side along with the very large air tanker. Firefighters say they were able t
Ends in increasing levels of violence and as we move towards the weekend we know that some big demonstrations are planned for saturday and sunday is about increasing levels of violence rob that ive seen china use increasingly Strong Language about the protests how nervous would you say people in hong kong about that language and also the presence of chinese troops there even if that something that isnt actually out of the ordinary. Yeah i mean that is at the back of peoples minds in china has said that if things do spiral out of control they will at some point into being which could mean deploying troops onto the streets of hong kong and doing the rounds being circulated widely on social media is this clip of video showing Chinese Military trucks on the streets of kalou now this does seem to be a bit of fear mongering by the prodemocracy activist we dont know where. In this video footage was taken but the fact that it has been widely circulated i think does indicate the kind of sense o
Still got a look at winds of very very strong across much of this area in terms of rain though in some locations we have seen about 140. 00 millimeters of rain fall just in the last 24 hours across much of the southern part of japan now the forecast looks like this as we go towards tomorrow moving quite quickly up here towards the sea of japan but as you notice many places in japan as well as into the russian maritimes still getting a lot of rain out of this particular storm so even though were talking Tropical Storm intensity were talking the potential for flooding across much of this region on saturday the storm makes its way towards the north southern parts of japan do clear out the get much warmer they do dry out but up here towards the north were still looking at some very heavy rain particular pier towards sapporo where the likelihood of flooding will continue there down here towards a sock a 33. 00 degrees in tokyo a warm day if you at 35. 00 well here across much of china is go
A message that message being we are here and were actually very close and those pictures to the words of the Chinese Ambassador in the u. K. He said that this was the grievous crisis facing hong kong since the british handover in 1907 he also said that he wont china wont allow protesters to bring home kong down into the abbotts and he also said that china is monitoring moves among certain protesters that he equated to terrorism. Ive been speaking to Richard Wright susan defense and security analyst and with the structure he says foreign powers of go to tread a very careful line when intervening in hong kong. Well the u. S. And other external plyers that might happen might have some role such as the british are in a difficult situation in the sense that if they are. Do are too quiet and dont seem to signal any concern than that removes a possible restraint on Chinese Military action or completely conflicts with taliban but if they are to openly tied to the protests look like theyre behi
Unarguably said that israel did have a right to exist although she has been criticized by some on the right in israel for talking about a one state solution in the future what i think we have is a great deal of pressure coming from the u. S. Administration. The white house to make this decision there was a report of that over the weekend and trump has broken cover in this tweet saying that it would show great weakness that these 2 hate israel and all jewish people just last month israeli ambassador to United States ron dermer was saying that they would be allowed in that it was seems a good thing for u. S. Congress members to have access to israel for despite whatever the views that they held were so theres been a big flip flop here from the israeli side Benjamin Netanyahu has an election coming up presumably it does him good on the israeli right to make this kind of decision potentially he sees some some extra u. S. Assistance or potentially further u. S. Approvals of various things c