This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Thousands of firefighters are battling two of californias fastest burning fires in decades. The valley and butte fires consumed 115,000acres. That is roughly the size of new orleans. Now officials confirm at least one person has been killed. More than 4,000 firefighters have been battling the butte fire which is 25 contained after five days. The valley fire close to napa is still raging. It began over the weekend. Strong winds and hot weather be making it difficult to stop. Melissa chan is live for us this morning in middletown, california, close to that valley fire. How much progress is being made fighting that blaze . Well, randall, the latest information that we have on this particular fire is its 0 containment. Thats the last figure we had. The valley fire has grown very quickly. In just the last 36 hours, its gone to 50,000acres and the deployment has been very fast in terms of the number of fir
Unlike the last debate when most of the candidates tried to avoid mixing it up with trump this time around the frontrunner says he will be a prime target for attacks and his response to that, whatever. Trump spoke to a crowd of about 20,000 people in dallas, texas, monday night. The billionaire Real Estate Developer echoed some familiar themes keeping jobs in the u. S. And keeping Illegal Immigrants out. Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the trump event. They marched from a nearby church to the venue where trump was speenlging. One protest organizer called trump a clown. Several people made pinatas of the president ial hopeful. Senior washington correspondent has more now on trumps day. Im your candidate. Okay . Reporter donald trump not only on top but on fire. Im surging more than anybody. Reporter as he rallies thousands of supporters in dallas, new polls show him still driving the republican race. Trump and ben carson towering over the gop field seizing more than half of the r
The communications minister has defended the Labor government’s policy to return the NBN closer to its original design despite fresh admissions it will not be able to recover $31 billion invested into the project.
“Not a great week for journalism at the ABC”, News Corp’s Sharri Markson tweeted on Monday, when the week was barely a day old.
It is hard to remember the last time a News Corp columnist declared it was a great week for journalism at the ABC. Markson’s tweet linked to a story in The Australian which quoted Attorney General Christian Porter saying his dropping of his defamation claim against the ABC was “a humiliating backdown by the ABC”.
Apart from reporting the settlement, the main basis for the article was that the ABC had warned its staff not to claim victory following Porter’s withdrawal, and to be careful in the way they talked about it.
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A troubling 20 per cent of Aussies also believe the government is covering up the health risks associated with the 5G wireless network, including that it is being used to spread the coronavirus.
The roll-out of 5G networks in Australia began in June 2019, with technology using a similar frequency to existing 3G and 4G networks.
The only difference with 5G is it can work at faster speeds as it uses a higher band. Any suggestions that there is a link between 5G and coronavirus are utterly baseless, Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said in 2020, when the theory gained traction. There is no evidence that the use of these radio waves in mobile networks is harmful to health or related to the current health pandemic.