This is the of you news live from berlin the deadliest fires in california as history are ripping across the north of that state leaving a trail of destruction Emergency Services are struggling to contain the blazes that have destroyed wine country and reduced entire neighborhoods to nothing but ash well go live to that region also coming up the United States and israel say theyre pulling out of the United NationsCultural Agency unesco washington says the organization is anti israel and has not made much needed reforms. President trump is set to torpedo the deal limiting Irans Nuclear program is expected to decertified what hes calling the worst deal ever germany says that move could undermine berlins relationship with washington. Plus the female superheroes fighting Child Marriage and. Creators of the bad girls are breaking taboos by bringing difficult topics into the classroom using animated role models. And a nature reserve like no other will take you behind the scenes to russias leopard. Im brian thomas welcome to the show thirty one people are now confirmed dead in the wildfires raging across Northern California making them the deadliest in the States History and the death toll is expected to rise further with hundreds of people still missing the blazes have been burning since sunday and wine country north of San Francisco firefighters have not succeeded in bringing the worst of them under control dry conditions and fierce winds have been hampering their efforts new evacuation orders have been issued with conditions forecast to get even worse over the weekend. Lets go now to a Sonoma County where the fires have hit especially hard were joined by mike the wall on the line is a journalist with k s r o radio a mike youve been taking a tour inspecting the situation in your community what did you find out there. And i was able to take a tour of some of the most badly damaged areas of the city today for the first time with the Highway Patrol i can tell you that witnessing the devastation in person is far more striking injury mattick than the pictures that you see on t. V. To two neighborhoods coffee park is it a dense working class neighborhood leveled flat desolate. Its in any direction you look just flat ground where the upscale founder of neighborhood has more of a look of a war zone the burned out vehicles piles of rubble where some of the citys most historic landmarks once stood i can say that the recovery here is going to take a very long time mike hunt hundreds of people are still missing do we know who they are where they are is there any hope of rescuing them at this point. There is some hope that the numbers coming down hopefully once people come back into the area who had may not have checked in with the Emergency Services team here so theyre hoping that that number is going to come down a little bit but theyre also well aware that the number of deaths will probably rise once they go into some of these areas the Sheriffs Office released an initial list of some of the identities of some of the residents who lost their lives in the fire most of the group identified was elderly which is necessary necessarily a surprise given the speed by which the evacuation was required but also its not a surprise because a lot of these people are the easy to most easy to identify based on things like medical equipment and some of the serial numbers that theyll find there you know this isnt criticism as well because an emergency text message system was apparently not to alert people that that this fire was getting out of. Yet there has been some controversy with that the local leaders here they made the decision that given that that the number of residents the area that would have received that message in areas that may not have been affected by the fire it would have caused such a mass panic and gridlock of people who were in danger that the people who were in danger would have been put in even more dangerous position given that its definitely an issue thats receiving more and more debate as the recovery is going on ok and theres also word out that stories are looking into what caused this fire apparently there was a week power line that went down on what are you. Dont have an official word on that obviously an investigation from this takes a long time but theres its run the gamut and theres conspiracy theories that youll hear it runs the gamut of theres people running around lighting fires to a downed power line which then was taken by the wind and spread quickly. A lot of people are waiting for these answers and. Its just going to take a long time to see what the investigation will end room. Ok briefly if you could mike whats the focus for authorities for firefighters right now. The focus is dealing with the wind heading into this weekend right into saturday is going to be the turning point if if they can that wasnt the end of the winds for this weekend if the effort turns to recovery if the winds get bad it could create incentives problems for some of the more densely populated communities here and weve seen these problems all over again mike wald reporter with k s r o radio in Sonoma County thanks so much might well United States has announced its withdrawing from unesco thats the u. N. Cultural organization created more than seventy years ago washington says the organization is anti israel has avoided reform and is too expensive the u. S. State department pointed to unpaid dues a resistance to change and what it says is the organizations continuing anti israel bias for its part israel has now said it will also leave you know asco the un body promotes Cultural Exchange and works on issues like Girls Education is also renowned for its World Heritage program protecting cultural sites like the statue of liberty and the city of venice. Paris where u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson delivered the news to the unesco general secretary at the organizations headquarters and to israel bias on the part of the un Educational Scientific and Cultural Agency as the main reason for u. S. Withdrawal you know esko said the decision was regrettable United States is a Founding Member going to school the whole idea that tat you can build peace through education science or couch or communication. Is fair basically an american idea previously the largest financial contributor to unesco the u. S. Stopped paying its contributions in twenty eleven after palestine was admitted to the organization with white support the decision plunged unesco into financial crisis the u. S. Has withdrawn before under Ronald Reagan in one thousand nine hundred five when it accused the agency of being caught the western before returning to the fold in october two thousand and three the European Parliament said the latest withdrawal is the wrong move not inciting fun especially in times of globalization and digitalisation in times where we are experiencing more and more radicalization in extremism you know s. Q. Is a very Important Institution as a model of creating cooperation on education science and culture and building bridges through the institutes you want israel join the u. S. And leaving unesco later in the day washington will not have only observer status with the agency. Now to some other stories making news right now plays in both new york and longer are looking into Sexual Assault allegations against hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein now that as of course a woman has accused him of rape new york investigators are reviewing an assault case from two thousand and four police in london meanwhile ever see the new claim of assault dating back to the one nine hundred eighty s. U. S. President trump has signed an executive order and that stripping back obamacare will make it easier for americans to buy Cheaper Health Care plans with fewer benefits critics say it could mean spiraling costs though for people with existing Health Problems previous attempts by the Top Administration to repeal obamacare have been blocked by the u. S. Congress. A Security Guard killed in the last vegas gun massacre a week ago has been buried in that citys Memorial Park twenty one year old eric silver was shot while helping concert goers escape the festival venue where that attack happened he was one of fifty People Killed in the shooting. While staying in the u. S. President will give a much anticipated speech today in which he said to lay out a more confrontational approach to iran including as hes hinted several times an announcement that he will not certify the Iran Nuclear Deal negotiated in two thousand and fifteen by tehran and six world powers including germany now the other signatories have spoken out against such a move the German Foreign ministers ignore gabriele has warned that doing so would drive a wedge between europe and the u. S. And push the you into a common position with russia and china. Now under the deal tehran agreed to curb its Nuclear Program in exchange for sanctions Relief International spectors a iran is in compliance with the accord but the president disagrees saying tehran is violating the spirit of the deal to find out more about the u. S. President s objections to w. s carolyn a choice spoke with claire lopez at the center for Security Policy thats a conservative think tank in washington she began by asking her what she thinks trumps decision on the iran deal might be later today. It is expected that the president will announce that he will not recertify the socalled j c p o a joint comprehensive plan of action or nuclear deal with iran beyond that were not completely sure what the other steps might be that he will take but its expected he will not recertify. Well cooked be the next scenario as the next taps were gonna see well the possibilities would include that either he takes no further steps at all or he could go back to congress and ask congress to reimpose sanctions against iran and were not really sure if thats what hes going to do or not. The Enter NationalAtomic Energy agency do they really have access to all areas of countries that might be working on Nuclear Weapons no absolutely not and this is the main problem with the nuclear deal with iran and that is that ever since one nine hundred eighty eight when Irans NuclearWeapons Program began under Ayatollah Khamenei the Iranian Regime has had a clandestine secret Nuclear Weapons program it was first revealed to the world in two thousand and two by the Iranian Opposition the National Council of resistance of iran but theres no reason to believe that even after that revelation they stopped and indeed the n. C. R. Or National Council of resistance of iran issued this report just today its called Irans Nuclear core an inspected military sites and thats the real problem because the nuclear deal the way with iran does not address sites that the arrhenius hold off limits military sites for example at parchin where the i. A. E. A. Itself has strong suspicions that Nuclear Warhead r. And d. Has been going on would you say that further sanctions would be the right decision to make for the United States i think sanctions wouldnt harm anything but lets remember that during the period. Of lets say two thousand and eleven twelve thirteen when the sanctions International Sanctions were biting down the hardest against the Iranian Regime that is. And we actually saw the arena regime accelerate its Nuclear Weapons program and Ballistic Missile program more than before so i dont think sanctions are at all effective in getting iran to stop what the regime considers the sea not quite known they must have Nuclear Weapons deliverable Nuclear Weapons and nothing is going to stop them i say serially seriously concerned except force interesting opinions thank you so much thanks for having me its to the negotiations now and the chief negotiator Michel Barnier say says hes disturbed by the lack of progress in talks with britain now that after the latest round of negotiations over britains withdrawal from the e. U. Barney a says he will not be able to recommend to e. U. Leaders the talks move onto the issues like trade now thats because britain has still not settled what its willing to pay to exit. The new british one pound coin which officially replaces the old one on sunday. To test line is looming much like bricks it the key question is how many billions of these should the u. K. Handover to divorce from the e. U. Michel barnier the e. U. s brics negotiator believes the answer is still a long way off. Regarding the financial settlement we are at a deadlock thats very worrying for thousands of project promoters everywhere in europe and also warring for taxpayers will. Be balled. Up. Banias british counterpart david davies has been sounding a more optimistic note he said the two sides had moved closer on Citizens Rights and im like barney i called for the next stage of talks on a future trade deal to begin wont make Good Progress particulars are relating purely to it role we believe these issues are dependent on discussions on a future relationship because i said before we are ready and were prepared to start those discussions but davis knows full well this goes beyond the gray walls of brussels twenty seven e. U. Leaders must first be convinced progress was stage one has been made german chancellor Angela Merkels among those adamant in the patient stick to the timeline you know what i sleep night has returned to europe after a sad decision by the british to leave the European Union these negotiations are important and will conduct them in such a way that there is as little damage as possible for us here in germany. Back in brussels face shook hands again this was the fifth round of talks the clock is still ticking. While thousands of demonstrators have taken to barcelona streets to show their support for a united spain on the countrys national day its the latest sign of just how deep the divisions are in catalonia after its attempts to break away from the rest of the country is facing an ultimatum from madrid that if ignored would mean a return to direct rule from madrid and thats a scenario some of the semi autonomous region would now welcome. Spanish flacks used to be a rare sight in the heart of kut a little earlier but not much as normal in barcelona these days the Spanish National day sixty five thousand people came out to shoulder up position to catalonia and independence. We have to be thankful because now we can lenz who are spaniards as well can go to the streets without fear and show our pride to be spanish. Spain must be more united now than ever before we have to take to the streets and show that spain is one country but. This referendum was wrong because it was illegal and now it seems there is no way out the catalan president cutlass puts them on does under pressure from all sides from the Regional Government headquarters he cannot fail to hear and see the protesters outside but what must worry him more is the threat of being stripped of power by the spanish Prime Minister and trouble is coming from his own ranks as well whats happening here is like in a political thriller to all who made some south threatening cardless puts demands political survival but the thorn in his side is his smallest Coalition Partner blocking his last escape way which is to withdrawal from his declaration of independence. The far left coup party has threatened to withdraw from pushed a months government if he does not go through with the independence declaration we have this kind of freshers one that its just scoop because its our deputies but these are not pressured by the Syrian Society these Mass Movement that we have already been. Years one of the biggest Mass Movements in europe. Opponents