This is Aljazeera America good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. Thousands of firefighters are working to contain hundreds of wildfires burning across the state in california. Theyve burned more than 100,000 acres of land, destroying homes and roads along the way. We have more. Fires are burning all along the west coast but the worst hit area is northern california. The largest fires burning north of San Francisco where it has destroyed two dozen homes. Day and night firefighters are racing against the clock trying to contain wildfires blazing in california, washington and oregon. Doomsday, thats what it looked like. The flames are fueled by lightning, trees and high temperatures. We have seen a couple of spot fires and those escalate, got pretty big and took up the mountain. Firefighting planes are making the rounds, including dc10 tankers releasing fire retardant. An Evacuation Order has been issued north of San Francisco. One resident is temporarily camping in an
How this daredevil motorcyclist took his bike off the road. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry is in car qatar to defend the nuke deem with iran at a meeting of the g. C. C. Foreign ministers have been discussing Regional Security at a meeting in doha. Were covering the story on both sides of the atlantic. Well cross over to rosalyn jordan in washington d. C. , but first with hashem who is at that meeting in doha. Hashem what are we expecting or what are gulf nations expecting to hear from john kerry . Qatars Prime Minister outlined the concerns of the g. C. C. And their demands at the same time. He said that there needs to be a swift solution to the crise in syria, yemen he spoke about the Regional Security, and also about the need for the United States to provide its allies in the region with an elaborate briefing on exactly what happened during the Irans Nuclear deal. Here lice the problem. For the americans the deal is quite significant for both iran and for the region and this is
Rides off road. More weapons, more intelligence sharing and special forces training for the gulf states. Thats what the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry is promising after a meeting here in doha. But hes been talking to gulf leaders to sell the Iran Nuclear Deal and discuss the region. Were covering the story on both sides of the atlanta. In a moment well cross over to roslind jordan in washington, d. C. And first, we go to jamal in doha. It sound like john kerrys answer to the concerns in the region is that well sell you more weapons and share more intelligence. Yes, essentially, that is what concrete steps his visits were going to present in terms of reassuring the gulf countries. He specifically spoke as you say selling more weapons, particularly antiballistic missile capabilities, which have been held up. What is ironic about that is that president obama right after the iran deal announced said if iran was to adhere to the deal would be sold Ballistic Missiles in eight years. Th
Described himself as a human powder keg before he shot himself. Also coming up, in business, ukraine agrees to a deal with its creditors to avoid default and to help stabilize the countrys economy, battered by the cost of war. Balkan leaders are meeting with Angela Merkel in vienna today. The summit will largely be dominated by the migrant crisis. The german chancellor is urging European Countries to come up with a strategy to deal with the influx and to prevent far right extremism from spreading. Some countries have implement a tough measures to protect their borders. Hungary and bulgaria are building walls to prevent migrants from flowing in. More than 100,000 people are thought to have used the Balkans Route this year alone, more than 10 times the number compared to last year. The blame game among the countries affected by the crisis continues. Members so, you have a problem, but you are asking us, serbia, to come up with an action plan for migrants. You should come up with an actio
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