Spanning as far east as madagascar and a large number is believed to be due to slash and burn practices by farmers has been compounded by shorter rainy seasons why its orange dinahs Data Scientists and drought specialists who focuses on african agricultural trends he says the lack of rain in the past 3 years is having a huge impact the real issue is that the impact of these brush fires is getting worse if you look at a lot of parts of sani abacha parts of the african continent particularly the west african said hello this used to be a regular occurrence during the dry season and when the rains would come around. There would allow for grasslands to grow again but unfortunately we are seeing a very significant increase in variability of rainfall its making the rainy seasons very volatile and less predictable. Still ahead this half hour israel sends tanks and troops to its borders with lebanon and syria after carrying out acts strikes in both countries. And the u. S. Congress you to call
A strained relationship at times too but donald trump ending up talking to reporters describing her as a great friend so despite some of the hostilities particular on the part of the u. S. President in advance of these meetings all smiles in front of the cameras so far well all sounds sort of fun kimberly but there is a meeting that everyones going to be watching this afternoon i believe and set to be with them russian president pierson. Yeah youre absolutely right that meeting with the u. S. President donald trump and the russian president Vladimir Putin is really looming over todays events that should be happening in roughly 3 hours time if they would stay on schedule a lot of interest because this is the 1st time that the russian president the u. S. President will be sitting down since the release of the special counsel Robert Mullers investigation into whether or not there was russian interference in the u. S. Election the conclusion absolutely on the heels of multiple intelligence
A shocking new estimate for the number of muslim or hendra killed by Security Forces in my arm are nearly seven thousand in just one month. Hello im suits and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the un syria envoy calls on russia to have the courage to push the Syrian Government to accept new elections during talks in geneva talking tough on north korea chinas president xi jinping pose meetings with his south Korean Counterparts in beijing saying they will not tolerate war. And hamas calls for a Palestinian Uprising against israel over the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem jerusalem as its capital as the party marks its thirtieth anniversary. We begin in myanmar where at least nine thousand. Have died of being killed in just one month of these more than six thousand seven hundred injured were killed in Violent Attacks following the minute she cracked down in august but mammals government insists the real figure is much lower just four hundred Mohammed John ging expla
A grim and to the year in syria asked strikes continue in the rebel held suburb of ghouta as fighters announce theyre forming a new united front under us points the finger at neighboring guatemala over a wall of rubbish that biologists say is killing nearly everything in its past. And happy new year cities across the world are fireworks crazy as they ring in twenty eighty. Iran has temporarily blocked some social media apps including the messaging Service Telegram which is being used to spread details about upcoming protests the app is estimated to be used by around fourteen million iranians for three days now and theyve been protests across the country against the clerical elite the government is warning of a crackdown if they continue on saturday night two people were killed in the city of daraa road though there is confusion over just whos responsible for the deaths here to shop reports. And those that im going to find as antigovernment protests escalated on saturday night the first
Director kenneth roth, and john dugard. Then, 69 years ago today, the atomic bomb on hiroshima, japan. We will go to the hiroshima Peace Memorial park and speak with a survivor. War rather than the people of the United States. I hate war. War makes everyone crazy. In the war, innocent people are killed. The ultimate case, i believe, is the abombing. A two star general is killed in afghanistan, becoming the highest ranked person killed in afghanistan. Aikins speak to matt from kabul. Up. That and more, coming welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Residents of gaza are returning to devastation on the second day of a 72hour ceasefire. Estimates of the reconstruction cost run as high as 6 billion. 10,000 homes have been destroyed , 5000 have seen major damage. The Gaza Health Ministry says 1900 people have been killed. Residents are searching the rubble to pull out possessions and find decomposing bodies. Came here in the morning and found instruction ever