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this is aljazeera america, good morning, live from new york city, i m randall pinkston. thousands of firefighters are battling two of california s fastest burning fires in decades. the valley and butte fires consumed 115,000-acres. that is roughly the size of new orleans. now officials confirm at least one person has been killed. more than 4,000 firefighters have been battling the butte fire which is 25% contained after five days. the valley fire close to napa is still raging. it began over the weekend. strong winds and hot weather be making it difficult to stop. melissa chan is live for us this morning in middletown, california, close to that valley fire. how much progress is being made fighting that blaze? well, randall, the latest information that we have on this particular fire is it s 0% containment. that s the last figure we had. the valley fire has grown very quickly. in just the last 36 hours, it s gone to 50,000-acres and the deployment has been very fast i ....
the he will is a mosque compound. we begin in croatia. the latest european country struggling to deal with an influx of refugees and tensions are running high. this is the scene just a few hours ago. scuffles broke out between refugees who gathered at a bus and train station at a border town. 13,000 people have crossed into croatia. iin the last two days alone. the government said it doesn t have the ability to register the people. it plans to redirect the people toward hungary and slovenia. many refugees arriving from serbia. talk us through the situation there, lawrence, what they re facing. well, yeah, hi, jane. the first thing i d say, it s probably a bit of an overstatements to tensions are running high. i don t think really and certainly not, if you compare it to hungary they are, but obviously everything is relative. as human as all this clearly is, it s a lot better than being tear gassed by the hungarians. what is clear is clarification again drop the posit ....
the outside world. and. i m charles stratford. development army saving mothers and babies lives. i m raul, latest from the rugby world cup as japan beat the two time world champions some south africa. south africa. we begin with yet more confusion and bickering between eu states about how to handle a growing refugee crisis. more than 14,000 have entered croatia in the past few days and the government says it can t cope so it s sending refugees back to the border with hungary, prompting a bitter response with hungary claiming croatia breaks international law. many in the middle east are left to fend for themselves sleeping in railway stations and on road sides. after hungary closed its border to serbia, north to slovenia. germany the biggest economy, their asylum will be assessed. lawrence lee on the slovenia hungary border. overnight thia the croatian government put the refugees out, another closed border. for majd, a simple explanation, europe hasn t goes a c ....
2015 is to be awarded to the tunisian national dialogue quartet. the tunisian coalition is honored for helping pave the way to a peaceful transition after the 2011 revolution. at least five palestinians have been killed by israeli police fire as they demonstrated along the gaza border. tension has been rising in the region after a series of stabbings in israel, and the palestinian territories in recent days. there is also unrest in ramallah in the occupied west bank after thousands of people turned out for the funeral of a palestinian who stabbed two israelis last week. let s get the latest from hoda abdel hamid who joins us from ramallah in the occupied west bank. tell us about the situation right now. of course it has been tense the last to few hours. reporter: it has been tension, and there is no sign the tensions are easing off. i m just going to pull out of the picture here. you can see the black smoke, that is where the palestinian protesters have spread o ....
and younger people look for better-paying jobs. it s the first of three day s of mourning in turkey for the victims of two suicide bombings. at least 95 people were killed and almost 250 injured at a peace rally near the capital s train station. reporter: chance for peace snuffed out by sudden terrifying violence. the activists gathered in the capital to call for an end of fighting between the government and the pkk only to find themselves the victims of a horrific attack. one of the worst in turkeys history. dozens killed. hundreds wounded. this is the third attack to target pro-kurdish activists since june. since then, the security situation in turkey has deteriorated sharply. with the peace process between the government and the pkk having all but collapsed, the prime minister called for three days of mourning while discussing initial findings. these deadly blasts outside the train station underscore just how tense the situation remains before november s parliamen ....