Northwest territories terms. This place is twice the size of france, its got 16,000 people in it, so vast scales that were talking about. This is essentially three communities to the left of yellowknife. And you can just hear a float plane into the distance, by the way. This is the Mackenzie River behind me. Yellowknife under a full evacuation order, as you probably heard, yesterday. We came out here a day before because, to be frank, the writing has been on the wall for days that that wildfire was going to pose a grave threat. Ok, so theres a huge lake called great slave lake. Yellowknife is on the top of it. Then, at the other side of that lake its a very large lake you have two communities called fort smith and hay river. Together, they have got about 7000 people in them. On saturday and sunday last weekend, they were both told to evacuate. Thousands of people fleeing down the highway to alberta, where they still are. We have no timeline for when people might be able to get back to
Like england they are seeking to be crowned World Champions for the first time come sunday and will be watched by Queen Letizia and her daughter, but the uk royals will not be in attendance. Away from the womens world cup, harry kane may have only been at Bayern Munich five days but the clubs head coach is already full of praise for his new striker. The england captain is in line to make his bundesliga debut this weekend with bayern, who are the german champions, travelling to Werder Bremen on friday. Tuchel says kane is already a major, positive influence in the changing room. My First Impressions of harry are fantastic. He is a top professional. The quality is outstanding. And he is a fantastic human being. He is very open. He is first on the training pitch, he is open in the Dressing Room. I think he has a leading effect in the Dressing Room with his personality, his approach to football, his love for the game. Owen farrell will play no part in englands world cup warm up match again
You re live with bbc news. west african military chiefs have made clear they re prepared to use force if coup leaders in niger don t restore civilian rule. the ecowas group, meeting in ghana, said they still wanted to give diplomacy a chance and that niger had time to pull back from the brink. thomas naadi has this update. ecowas is ramping up pressure on the militaryjunta in niger to restore constitutional rule, following faltering diplomatic efforts. the chiefs in the region here had been meeting at the ghana army headquarters to firm up their strategy for a possible military invasion of the country. ecowas member countries are expected to contribute troops. officials have said that their resources will be used to support the mission but they will also welcome outside help. ecowas put the call on good governors and democracy was breached after the military coup last month and the bloc is determined to restore president mohamed bazoum. ecowas had previously intervened during civil war
By Alpha Abu The regional bloc ECOWAS has affirmed its use of force option, to reverse the coup in Niger, is still on the cards, following a meeting of West African Military Chiefs in Ghana, on Thursday, to discuss the crisis. Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah- the organisation’s Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security in a BBC interview asserted the resolve of