To International Pressure and ordered the armed forces to tackle a Record Number of fires raging in the amazon forest. Police chiefs call an emergency meeting to discuss officer safety in the wake of the killing of pc Andrew Harper last week. Tens of thousands of British Airways passengers could be affected as pilots are to strike next month in a dispute over pay. Now on bbc news, click. Spencer kelly takes a look at the latest techniques in firefighting at the International Fire Training Centre. This week, another chance to see our firefighting special when we tackle blazes from the air, on the ground and even on rails. In the summer and autumn of 2018, california experienced its deadliest ever wildfires. They claimed the lives of over 80 people and whole towns were destroyed. But as residents tried to escape, the firefighters did what they always do they ran towards the danger. It is a profession that relies on courage, education and, increasingly, the latest science and technology t
Homes like many others in the slums of dhaka mohammad for he is a migrant from another part of bangladesh. Where displaced the river rose and we dont own any lengthy rounds any government homes we very poor we live day to day if we get some help then we may rebuild in make a living Authorities Say they have made arrangements so that the slum dwellers left homeless by the fire can stay in schools in the neighborhood for now john are a big and says she has nowhere to go and not much to eat. C money to get there was a fire here and we had to flee with no time to take anything with us if anyone gives astute then we can eat we just live in the street now its not clear how many people are homeless according to the government about 750 shanties were burned down and 450 damaged. And one where a big loss to life savings modeler barrel i had 12 and everything was burned i barely escaped with what im wearing now i had some gold and around 3500. 00 in cash but i couldnt bring anything with me i ju
And so, they said it would be a couple months before theyd call me. So, thats the reason why i did this baseball thing. I figured, well, you know, maybe i will flunk the physical or something. I dont know. But, anyway. So, it wasnt two days after i got the letter from the dodgers about going to almira that i got the letter from the navy to report to Church Street, to report to go to boot camp. So, i never got to play ball. I went over to Church Street to get sworn in. They gave us a perfunctory physical there. It was probably a couple hundred of us. They took us over they walked us over to penn station. We got on the train. It took us up to sampson, new york. This was a new boot camp. It was i dont know how long it had been open, but not very long, because we spent a lot of time, while we were there, helping build barracks for the guys that were coming after us. And i remember i went into when we got off the train, they took us in to give us a haircut and to examine us. And the dentist
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Is just trying very hard to make things very very difficult for the iranians at this time certainly though the foreign minister foreign minister zarif even though hes got these restrictions is still managing to do from that residence where he is confined to do interviews with the u. S. Media outlets and james then i so youre saying the United Nations are saying that theyre concerned but can they actually do anything about this about these restrictions given that theyre in america. Well theres something a treaty which was drawn up when the un decided to have new york has its as its basis known as the host country agreement i can tell you that there are diplomats ive spoken to who say not really clear whether the us has breached the agreement by the letter of the agreement but most diplomats have spoke to said certainly it breaches the spirit of the agreement and i suspect therell be some other diplomats from countries that are friendly to iran possibly for example the russians who may w