Officials in california are warning that historically strong winds expected this weekend are likely to fan the destructive wildfires that have taken hold. A state of emergency has already been declared in los angeles and sonoma counties. Chris buckler reports. In several parts of california, families have been forced to flee as wildfires have learned through thousands of acres of dry land and into residential areas. We get a knock on the door at 3am from the sheriffs telling us we needed to leave, and live now. The tick fire in Los Angeles County has already caused a huge amount of damage, but its dwarfed in size by the kincaid fire, which has spread across the Sonoma County wine region in Northern California and now threatens homes in the San Francisco bay area. 50,000 people there have been ordered to leave. Were evacuating because this fire is very dangerous. And it is expected to move towards healdsburg and windsor this evening. The winds that we are going to experience will be muc
From the sheriffs telling us we needed to leave, and live now. The tick fire in Los Angeles County has already caused a huge amount of damage, but its dwarfed in size by the kincaid fire, which has spread across the Sonoma County wine region in Northern California and now threatens homes in the San Francisco bay area. 50,000 people there have been ordered to leave. Were evacuating because this fire is very dangerous. And it is expected to move towards healdsburg and windsor this evening. The winds that we are going to experience will be much like what we experienced in october of 2017. We already have a fire burning and we have advance notice now, and that is why we are taking these precautions. We want you to start evacuating now. Water is continually being dropped by planes as firefighters try to contain the blaze on the ground. But days of forecast strong, hot, dry winds are going to make theirjob much more difficult. We are potentially going to see a historical wind event, and it h
Officials in california are warning that historically strong winds expected this weekend are likely to fan the destructive wildfires that have taken hold. A state of emergency has already been declared in los angeles and sonoma counties. Chris buckler reports. In several parts of california, families have been forced to flee as wildfires have learned through thousands of acres of dry land and into residential areas. We get a knock on the door at 3am from the sheriffs telling us we needed to leave, and live now. The tick fire in Los Angeles County has already caused a huge amount of damage, but its dwarfed in size by the kincaid fire, which has spread across the Sonoma County wine region in Northern California and now threatens homes in the San Francisco bay area. 50,000 people there have been ordered to leave. Were evacuating because this fire is very dangerous. And it is expected to move towards healdsburg and windsor this evening. The winds that we are going to experience will be muc
Hello and welcome to bbc news. The white house says President Trump will make a major statement at the white house on sunday, following a tweet from the president saying something very big had just happened. No details have been given of what mr trump was referring to, but theres speculation that it could concern the leader of the Islamic State militant group, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi. Us media reports suggest he was the target of a Us Special Forces operation in the syrian province of idlib on saturday. With me is our News Reporter gareth barlow. What more do we know . With regard to the Us Government and donald trump, very little. Late on saturday night he tweeted, very simply, something very because happen. No further detail and explanation. Over an hour later the white house put out a little bit more expansive comment saying the president of the United States would be making a major statement tomorrow. That is sunday morning from the white house but again no further detail or explanati
Im Lewis Vaughanjones in london. Also in the programme the pope speaks out against those who started the amazon fires, comparing their greed to a new form of colonialism. And prepare to be inspired well meet the 75 year old whos probably stronger than you. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its midnight in london and 7 am here in singapore and also in hong kong, where scores of people were arrested on sunday after new emergency laws where brought in to try and end months of civil unrest. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took part in the latest protests and there were violent clashes as they were met by riot police. The new law forbids people from Wearing Masks to try and conceal their identity at demonstrations with a possible one year prison sentence. Our asia correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports from hong kong. Loud bangs. At what point does a protest movement become a rebellion . Today in hong kong, it felt clo