The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contrutions to this pbs station from vieweru. Like you. Thank this is bbc world news america. Greece since ships to provide shelter to some of the thousands ofheigrants left homeless on greek island after their cap burned down. Camp burned down. Destroying the lives of 13,000 people. Homes gone in an instant. It is like a bomb has had this entire area. Jane wild are burning out of control on the west coast oedthe un states. A new report says humans are destroyingate at an unprecedented rate. Jane watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. Thousands of migrants are sleeping out in the open after a second fire in two days destroyed what was left of their makeshiftbl camp. E engulfed tuesday nightd and another wit any remaining tents on wednesday. In this scorchedasland of mangled memories, s his home. Temporary, overcrowded,ut it was all he had. And then the inferno took hold. Er v very bad moment. The emotion is to much as he leads the way tohere his shack ood. This is all that is left. The rred remains of family life. When the fire hit, he ran here frantically looking for his wife and son. Safound them next fire, maybe. The fire on tuesday night tore through the migrant camp. Suspected ars after the authorities try to isolate those with coronavirus. Two days on, it is still smoldering. The fires are still are not out. Every few hours, another one starts. Thick smoke filling the air, burning my eyes at the moment. Imagine this spreading out across this entire area, destroying the lives of 13,0 people. Homes, livelihoods gone in an instant. It is li a bomb has hit this entire area. How quickly the flames leap, a frenzy to get another blaze under contro the camp four times over hcapacity emptied. They have nowhere to go,st reaming out into less posts lesbos island. The despair is mounting. We left our cntry to find safety. Its the opposite. We are in danger here. The fire took everything, including the documents from my asylum interview. The only things we saved, our lives. The welcome has faded here. Facing another crisis. We want them to leave. It is us or them. This is turkeys new refugee as europe decides whato do. Jane here in the u. S. , another unemployment this week and although that number is lower than the 7 million filed during one weekn i march, the job market remains fragile. Congress continues to fight over how to provide relief. Here for more is madalyn dean of pennsylvania. Thank you for joining us. A nth ago, there was real paniabout whether or not congress could pass another relief bill. You have not. Where has the sensegency gone . The sense ofrgency is not gone. I am talking about my constuents who are saying, please, you must send us more relief. The house passed on may 15 the heroes act, a much needed robust , more than 3illion bill that would send relief directly to our state and localnm goverts, territories. Yet, the senate has sat on its hands. Hnegotiatioe been ongoing. I learned from senatoschumer and speaker pelosi, they have broken down again because this president is not interested in sending moref rel he does not see the pain of others. He doesot take any responsibility for the americans dead from this virus. We now know he has lied about it publly to us. Jane you mentionhe senate. Crdes in the senate killed the latest attempt. Know you want to go big, but surelyt s this poinething is better than nothing. What was left out was any support for state and local government. Thats simplynacceptable. What was left out was support for the poisal service. Dismantle the post service in order to try to steal the selection. It is illadvised andru c. It was proper that Senate Democrats said no, it will not pass. We will not pretend to go h pretending to help our state and local governments. Jane talking about the postal service, there is concern that Election Night will turn into election month. How does joe biden handle that if on november the fourth, there is still no result but it is possible it looks like aru t win . Ic i know that President Biden will handle it with ease and calm, and with confidence. This will not be the first time election eve. As not decided on with thean pmic, with mailin ballot in, it will take a while to count these ballots. What i am trying to tell my constituen, have full confidence in your ability to vote and be sure to take that responsibility very seriously. Efwe have been heree. Wait for the tally. You can look back to the kennedynixon election. You can look back to gore v bush in 2000. We have a system thaewill count th votes, we will get an accurate tal. We will declare a winner. Ai believe it will be bid harris. Jane president obama your state voted for president obama and then preside trump. I spoke to a lot of republicans for trump. Hey still will vote how worried are you . I am not worried. What we have to do is continue to get the message out. The president helps us with that. With the revelation of him lying to the American Public about the adly virus, i wonder if those same republicans in bethlehem will feel that is the appropriate vote. I do believe biden and harris will be here an awful lot, as they should be. Prize him as one of our native sons. When we lost in 2016, when Hillary Clinton and the democrats lost, it wa by 44,000 votes statewide. P i honsylvania becomes the keystone state again. We have such an overwhelming vote tally for our viceid prt to become our president. Ilpennsylvania be an incredible deciding state. Jane we shall see. Thank you for joining me. The family of Breonna Taylor, who was killed when police kentucky, say they are worried about a coverup. Six months after her death, officers involved havech not ben ged and the case is a major part of the black lives matter vement. Her boyfriend has sued the police departmt for more than 10 million. We report from louisville. Breonna taylor on this night, it is a handful of people protesting, keeping Breonna Taylors name alive. In the six months since she died, there been large clouds large crowds in louisville. Breonna taylor was a 26yearold emergency dical technician with dreams of becoming a nurse and showing her fun side on snapchat. The last thiniaw was her laying here. She was in her b and she made a little snapchat of a movie she was watching. Breonna taylor fell asleep t neher boyfriend kenneth walker. I dont know what is happening. Meone kicked in the door and shut my girlfriend. He lost the love of his life. He went from laying on the bed with her, the safest h pla knew to her gasping for air. This is the house where they lived and where she died after midnht on march 13. Louisville metro Police Issued a ch warrant involving her exboyfriend, forced their way in. Kenneth fired. Three officers shot into the house and Breonna Taylor was hit five times. They framed him. They arrested him and slmaliciprosecuted him. The Police Department did nor respond to request for an interview. A sustained public attention to this case has led to the departure of two police chiefs. Two investigations the people promised to be here day and night untiBreonna Taylor gets justice. Reckoning. Oint of only truth will bring us out of it. Only truth can take away darkness. Yvette gantry will takever in october as interim police chief. Breonna taylors case is unique. Unarmed and asleep in her own house. Her death hasome a rallying cry for Police Reform in america. Louisville is boarded up that attorney general is a rising ar in the Republican Party and brie taylor. Red to breonna whether y are the familof breonna t Breonna Taylors family did not appreciate the mention. It was unprofessional of him to mix politics behinher name. We still have e same questions from the day it happened. We just feel like it is a coverup. A blank police report, you know, the details that have come out. They are all lies. We feel like we are being lied to. G someth getting covered. Breonna taylors case has exposed decades of mistrustee bethe black community and law enforcement. As far as seeing real police accountability, it is rare at be. It leads to the frustrations. Breonna taylor wondered what her life would be ifid not move here from michigan. As mourners continue to, they remember a young woman who will never find the answer. Jane lets have a look at some of the other news. A large fire has broken out in beirut. Blazes begun in an area where oil and tires are stored. It has triggered memories of last monthseadly blast. People are angry the blaze has grown out of control. The u. S. Says it s revoked the sas of Chinese Students and researchers considered to be a security risk. The u. S. Continues to welcome chinese sdents who do not further the Chinese Communist partysoa of military dominance. U are watching bbc world news america. Clashes in mexico, one Community Becomes the focal point of a fight about the right to access water. Jane in belarus, opposition gure has formally complained to prosecutors about an attempt this week to deporter illegally. She is accused of calling for a coup detat. Our correspondent has more. This is a defiant move, who hasen eally asked for criminal charges to be pree ed against tho detained her. She said they kidnapped her, held her illegally, and threatenedther with d this is referring to those securityorces who funneled her into a van on monday in the center of minsk. She disappeared until we found out she had been driven the border with ukraine and there was an attempt to forbly deport her. She said that she was under extreme pressure, even death threats, to leave the country voluntarily. She does not want to, did not want to leave. She says they told her she would be forced to go. Jane hdreds of mexican farmers and peasas have seized control of a dam in the north of the country after violent clashes with members of the National Guard over the areas water supply. Protesters threw stones at the troops. Cinsions began on sunday when the authorities d to divert water towards the u. S. By opening the gates of the dam. Our mexico correspondent reports. Water is so scarce in this part of mexico, blood was spilt over it. Armed with little more than pickaxes and machetes, a group of farmers and Agricultural Workers dissented on the dam to forceout the National Guard. At least one protester was killed. Another iured in the clashes. This is a reaction from citizen defending their homeland, said one protester. Water is everyones heritage. Ath furious over a treaty reached over the regions water. The Mexican Water authorities sathey have to divert much of the Precious Resource to their richer neighbor. Sa the farmertheir crops, animals, and livelihoods are suffering from the drought and this is no time to send any water north. We are not going to have water for our crops. People from the town cannot eat. This will be a big economic problem for thete. Even the president chimedd in defended the actions. It is very unfortunate what happened the National Guard left the scentito avoid confron. I consider it an adequate response. Maybe the president considered the response adequate, but the people who live arod the dam do not and the internal generate and the Attorney Generals Office has opened anut investigation a the death of a protester. With many mexicans already in dispute with the trumpet administration over issues of free trade and immigration, it seems sharinger way be the source of more conflict ahead. Jane states across americas Pacific Northwest are currently battling record wrecking wildfires as Authorities Say at least three people have died in california. Thousands of beento forcelee their homes. 14,000 firefighters are tackling this was the scene in san francisco, where winds brought ashes from nearby fires turning the skies bright orange. David willis sent this report. Vid across the american west, historic wildfires are devouring everything itheir path. Unnaturally hot weather combined with dry conditions and warm windss hav created meteorological perfect storm, leaving firefighters inundated. Record high temperatures this last weekend led to this series of fires on the outskis of los angeles. They have burned more than 20,000 acres of lan despite the best efforts of hundreds of fifighters. Throughout california, all the way up the c pacificst, dozens of fires just like these are currently burning out of control. The fires have turned to day into night. The skies around the Golden Gate Bridge into the same color as in oregon, entire towns have been destroyed and the states governor is mourning t death toll cou f be higher thm any previous fires on record. We try to take as much as we could. It is devastating. We left a lot behin we ended up losing more than we thought. Among the dead, a oneyearold. His parents became caut in a vicious inferno. Is is all that remains of their car. I was out in tacoma and i saw little bit of black smoke. This man was on his way home when he saw his neighbors house ablaze. Californias governor say the s ti the fires are a tangible sign of the effects of global warming. He is calling for outside help in fighting them. Jane if that was not enough to convince you the world needso change the way it eats food, and environmental catastrhe is to be avoided. It is a report from elephants in africa to the turtles of costa rica, populations oro animals the globe have lost land. Wildlife is dying out at a rate that has never been seen before in human history. From the arctic to the curvy been to the caribbean, it is hast happening faster than all the protections. The report assesses moreathan 20,000 ces all around the world. Animas in all groups of on every continent are being lost. What we he seen is a wholesale destruction of our most important natural assets in the space of one human lifetime, 50 years. This is a trend that is only increasing and accelerating. That is why we have to start an address it. Intensive agriculture is one of the key drivers. Plantations. Ge banana it is the same story elsewhere. In the amazon, the rain forest is lost every minute. Cleared to plantoy. A third of the food produced in the world for huma consumption is lost or wasted. It is possible for food to be hproduced working w nature and that is what is happening here. Un is a really gong ground for birds of prey. His farm is a haven for wildlife. If we have poor air quality, poor water quality, we whl not have h yields of crops and we will not he healthy animals and healthy food. Humans are managing nare for their own benefit, whether it is for grazing animals or building i on, ais having a dramatic impact all over the world. We can see this now by the pandemic we are living through. Research says the emerge ofli covid19 can bed to bats. It came through a combinati of expansion into habitats, t illegal wildlife trade. We will see those threats increa. We have had a clear warning that impacts on wildlife overseas directly affect us at home. The reportoes say we can stop and repair the dilage but it w need unprecedented converse Conservation Action and radical change in how we produce and consume food. Jane it is not unusual for big Construction Projects to find some surprising items. Time capsules, lost trinkets, even sometimes buried treasure. Workers in mexico came across something a little bit older. Construction crews have uncovered a huge trove of mmoth skeletons more than a hundred have been identified alongith a mix of other ice age mammals. The lead archaeologist says the exhibit is being planned for the airports mai terminal. That is something i would like to see. You can find more on our website. World news america. Bbc obrien. Narrator funding for this presentation of this program is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. Raymond james. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from thviewers like you. K you. [bright music] pbs american portrait is. A platform where anyone can come and share their stories. Theres a whole great list of prompts to get you started. When i was 18 and joined the marine corps. When i decided to accept myself and excel. And its been an amazing journey ever since. This project can help bring us together. 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