Of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. 50 years after Martin Luther kings most famous speech, americans descend on the nations capitol to keep his dream alive. The wildfire raging in Yosemite National park is threatening to leave San Francisco in the dark. The part of the park thats burning is about 200 miles east of the city, but californias governor jar brown declared a state of emergency. The flames have started moving toward the transmission lines that feed electricity to San Francisco. Some of those lines have already been taken offline. So far, however, there have been no reports of power outages. Melissa chan is joining us by phone in groveland, california, which is near the fires. Melissa, what is the latest that you are hearing on the ground . Well, the city of San Francisco, a state of emergency, this is also the second time that the city has been involved. On thursday, the city expressed concerns the forfeiter might affect power and commun
In peru, why one of the most isolated tribes on earth has made an appearance. Barack obamas Security Advisors will meet at the white house this weekend to discuss how to deal with syria. Among the options is possible military action. The meeting follows an alleged chemical weapons attack earlier this week. As we hear next, more evidence of the attack has now emerged. Reporter there seems little doubt that some kind of chemical weapons killed these people. This video was shot by an independent journalist for britains itv news as victims lie where they fell, men, women, some with children at their side, their faces contorted in pain and frozen in those moments that they died. Whatever killed them indiscriminately, a cat, sheep, a small crater just feet away surrounded by exploded metal, evidence say it is what deliveredded the end of these peoples lives. We smelled a strange odor and people said we should go upstairs because it was a chemical gas and then shelling started, i fell unconsc
And winds are causing wildfire to spread and southwest in france. Hundreds, the firefighters have been trying to extinguish the flames and protect several cities, thousands of tourists and People Living close by have been forced to evacuate firefighters in portugal. A struggling to contain wildfires that are spread across the border from spain. If i have been fueled by a heat wave combined with an ongoing drought walden, 30000 hectares of land of burned in the past week. Thats more than all of 2021. Ah, this is l g there. And these the top stories, the u. S. And saudi arabia have signed 18 agreements and Energy Investment space and health the 1st day of dro bidens trip to the kingdom as president ivan city raised the murder of jealous jamal cash oxy with the crown prince. He said he was not personally responsible for it and he took action against those who were responsible and, and we then i went on to talk more about how that dealing with any of the opposition to the or criticism of t
Measles is at its lowest level since 2008 at just 81 percent of children. Last year 24700000 children missed out their 1st dose of the measles vaccine. And another 14700000 did not get the crucial 2nd wps. Ah, this is al jazeera, these, your top stories for Language Parliament has begun the process of choosing the next president Prime Minister serrano become a singer, is serving, is acting president until a new leader is in place that should happen within the next 7 days. When l fernandez has moved from colombo, if hes acting president , what did go toby raj, epoxy leave as then . Did he have president ial immunity . Then did he have the authority to scramble and military aircraft to fly him out of the country . So there seems to be a lot of questions unanswered, but if we are to take what the speaker is being quoted as saying that he has a pointed run over grimacing as acting president , it would seem that he has the authority to declare that emergency to, to pull the message out on i
First, tonight, president obama has asked the pentagon for military actions military options in syria and thats according to defense secretary chuck hagel. , the news comes on the heels of appalling new pictures from syria, the images taken soon after the alleged chemical weapons attack. Wee want to warn you the pictures were about to show you are extremely graphic. Charles stratford has a report from syria. There seems little doubt that some kind of chemical weapon killed these people. This was shot by an independent journalist for itv news. Children on their side, their faces contorted in pain, frozen in the agonizing moments they died. Whatever killed these People Killed indiscriminately, a cat, a flock of sheep and only feet away a small crater and exploded metal. Evidence witnesses say of one of the missiles that delivered whatever ended these peoples lives. It was a small explosion, when we went down to see whats going on we smelt a strange odor. People says we needed to go upsta