Welcome to d. W. News asia. Glad you could join us. Leaving hong kong, prodemocracy campaigner joshua wong and 2 others could be facing long jail terms after pleading guilty to protest charges. The 3 were taken into custody in hong kong earlier today. Wong and fellow activists, ivan lamb, and agnes had been charged with organizing, participating in and inciting demonstrators during a protest outside Police Headquarters last june. They could be facing up to 5 years in prison. This is what was said, as he appeared in court. What we are doing now is to explain the well freedom to the world through our compassion, the home we love so much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of our own time point for a prayer, for the finish of walking free this case would draw the world and passion to the operative power of the criminal Justice System impartially is not a ploy by beijing crackdown and the systematic violence. Incredible. For more, im joined by former hong kong no maker and prodemo
With france reporting record infection rates as germany curfews go into effect in berlin and frankfort. President trump is back on the campaign trail after announcing he has fully recovered from covid, claiming he is now new. Well get rid of it all over the world. You see big flareups in europe, big flareup in canada, very big flareup in canada you saw that today a lot of flareups, but its going to disappear congressional lawmakers have rejected a white house proposal for a new 1. 8 trillion Coronavirus Relief package, as talks to reach a fresh stimulus deal before the november election remain at an impasse. The Trump Administrations plan would include aid for state and local governments and Liability Protection for business, along with 20 billion in support for the struggling airline sector. Senate republicans, though, oppose the plan in a weekend call with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and white house chief of staff, mark memeadows, saying they were not pleased with the high cost
A photographer to document in the effects of Global Warming in the sahara. Move in the flood of our planet is made up of deserts and dry lands and that percentage is rising every year an additional 70000 square kilometers of fertile land tons to desert the main course is a deforestation over grazing on the over use of Water Resources all of which deplete the soil of essential minerals with temperatures set to rise over the coming decades the rate of disaster for cation is likely to speed up considerably more to scarcity is already a problem for 1000000000 people most of them in africa. The world risk index says the situation is particularly precarious in the sun held region. In West Central Africa people here have lived from fishing and farming for thousands of years it appears. At 1st glance. But one of the worlds biggest environmental catastrophe says unfolding here. 20 years ago the lake surface shrank by 90 percent and now Climate Change has brought extreme weather thats just drawi
Much tougher for them so you can see theres a canister in his hand right there theyve been setting fires along this hillside and heres what theyre doing its genius they actually started at the top of the hill and started walking down the hill closer to the home meanwhile they were just doing it keeping a close eye in case it erupted they have their hoses on the ground ready to go. Let me show you give you an education on firefighting because he was giving me an education yulia sevens and i look at how the fire burned itself out you can see the smoke right there, theyre saying thats because the humidity level is high so they set it on fire. They watch it and then it burns itself out, but he had they done at noon it would not have burned itself out and therefore could have gotten closer. So the home, so thats why they do a lot of heavy lifting with the humidity level is up and the overnight hours. You can see just how smoky the conditions are embers flying everywhere. Trees are falling d
This fire on a Sonoma County hillside moved quickly before crews got it under control. But now there is increasing concern over the potential for more of the same. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. Im larry beil. That fire was at yours lane road in santa rosa. The heat wave is expected to bring severe fire conditions. All that has firefighters in the north bay closely watching the weather. More from abc 7 News Reporter cornell barnard. Cal fire aircraft pounced on this fastmoving grass fire thursday afternoon off ursiline road in santa rosa, the same spot where the tubbs fire burned homes in 2014. Poor people, all these new houses that they built over here, sad. Weve got a great team out here though. Cal fire. Reporter it burned close to Rosalind College prep school. It was too much for superintendent amy jones kerr. Were in full distance learning, my staff is back here. To have this happening right now, its heartbreaking. Trying to hold it together right