coming soon on al-jazeera. lead. in life from super fourteen for al-jazeera headquarters in doha. welcome to the news grid i had to tell me me is free and more determined to fight on the palestinian protest icon gets a hero's welcome after more than seven months in is really captivity we look at what time his release means for the palestinian resistance against is really occupation a vote in the shadow of violence polling has just ended in mali that's where people are hoping the new leader will put an end to your is a political unrest and bring an economic turnaround will be live from the capital bamako and no end in sight to the raging wildfire in california it's now

spread across eighty four thousand acres and only five percent if it has been contained the flames have already killed five people nearly forty thousand have been displaced were ground zero for the latest and rallies have ended and some head to the polls on monday to choose their next president will be taking a look at how social media and fake the election and. the show using the hash tag. led. to the newsgroup are live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thanks for joining us palestinians are celebrating the freedom from prison of one of their youngest protest icons. seventeen year old. jail. world for

a slapping an israeli soldier images of which went viral turning her into a symbol of resistance against israeli occupation and more than seven months in captivity she says it's only strengthened her was all to fight for the cause of palestine andrew symonds covering the story he's joining us from tell me means home village of nabi saw that that's in the occupied west bank and you're so no doubt scenes of jubilation and elation from tamimi as well as her supporters and she was speaking earlier on what she had to say what was the message she was sending out so . well first of all let me do it what's happening right now and. this is a situation whereby a party is underway here. at. home and as you can see the people are gathering here there are dignitaries from fatah faction of the p.l.o. here as well and it has to be said this has been an exhaustive day according to palestinian people here who all say that this is

a remarkable occasion we see here somebody sixteen years of age in the legalize a child going to jail with her mother for their joint actions mother filming her. effectively slapping at israeli soldier and then doing jail time for it maybe eight months three weeks short of eight months and now we have a situation where she has insisted that through education and through can see continual campaigning. in the resistance she will carry on she has managed to complete her education her final exams in jail she's pushing for more rights for children in israeli jails and this is how the day panned out. released from a jail term that's much the same as hundreds served by young palestinians every

year but the case of a had to mimi is profoundly different tasting freedom with the modern era man who shared jail time with greeted by her father she's already being revered by palestinians as an icon of resistance to the occupation. limits them from the house of the martyr the resistance will continue until the occupation ends the female prisoners are all strong and i salute everyone who stood by me and all the prisoners she went to jail because of this slapping an israeli soldier filmed by her mother and the video went viral on the internet then i had was arrested and her mother was also detained legally i had to mimi is still a child her seventeenth birthday came during her time in jail her father who spent most of his life as an activist with several prison terms says both proud and sad i had lost her childhood must have been a job she can't live normally i feel i feel some type guilty because we can't in

the basin and it's become of the do it and that is wanted to watch and her father is probably right when he talks about his daughter's life changing for good at the heart of it all is social media the battle over imagery and symbolism. here the conversation is about how i had to mimi who promote the palestinian cool's she's known nothing beyond israeli soldiers entering her community in her home as they like and she is empowered i wouldn't say hero but she is definitely empowered in a sense that she was forced to become older and a lot more brave than her age necessitates and other communities around the world palestinians and the israeli security forces keeping a constant watch on this small village all expect more defiance from had to me her

jail sentence is more likely the beginning not the end of the protest action. and so they have what was an extraordinary day in which this young lady met the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and he said that she was an idol he said the popular resistance was the only way forward for the palestinian people she also went to the grave of yasser arafat she's talking about a range of issues in her news conference not just the edge of the education issues about young people and palestinians but also the jail situation. a whole host of other issues it is certainly a move she's on the crest of a way with media but of course the whole symbolism the whole surge social media surge in this is counted by the israelis who are appalled by the imagery who say that this was a young woman taking on

a soldier who wasn't responding of it she was this is a figure of authority who she was was was was abusing and this was the response from one is ready minister. i think israel acts too mercifully with these types of terrorists and others israel should treat harshly those who hear it's soldiers we can't have a situation where there is no deterrence deterrence leads to that reality we see now you can change that we must change that so that was anderson is reporting for us from the itself and senior presenter of the cootie from a.j. plus is also in the occupied palestinian territory and posted these videos on her instagram story take a look. at the soldiers who stopped us are you filming something against our country and then they asked to see our footage and they let us go.

we have literally been driving around for two and a half hours because nobody has clear information on which checkpoint i had to meet me and her mom will be released from first they said one checkpoint and they switched to the other than the others have been driving back and forth back and forth back and forth it feels like deliberate confusion because not only has her family been thrown off they don't know where you're at least all the journalists are confused to be accidentally dropped on a wrong road at a checkpoint we were supposed to go to and not stop. these guys are here to protest. her release and over here are a bunch of her relatives after little brother right there and media here to cover. something a little. bit about how you know. so

those are some of the videos that dina is posting from the occupied west bank and you can also follow her updates on twitter as you see right there she's also on instagram and you can find her by searching for act do you know now we can speak to. he's a human rights defender an activist he's joining us via skype from hebron thanks very much for talking to us on al-jazeera as you very well know this is not a one off situation israel regularly detains rests children from the occupied west bank but what is it about either to me that has made her a symbol of resistance as some people describe her. and i mean he was born in one of them and family who believes in violence and system melodies we have twenty two of them the children from. the neighborhoods in central malone who are

on the you know really jail so she grew up with the really in or nonviolent actions against education she grew up with home really from the israeli soldiers to her house and killed house or her own self so she didn't give up for a little solace of working and as a woman she's you know working hard to educate other palestinian women to steadfast and remain strong in front of a few people who was really past does her a story what real impact is i had story as well as the story of the village itself not the father have on the popular resistance movement going forward. you know i have the story of all the palestinian children who are in jail the story of all the palestinian people who are suffering from the israeli position under israeli apartheid and were forced from from israeli stillman's and they include within

those bank and gaza strip from the israeli occupation. of the streets of new generation of people who are refusing to give up and who are asking for unity with palestinian nonviolence program against the israeli education to give hope to families an example of sargon of policy about us and the see the example of the blind support for israel part of their attack on the about us and we didn't hear any real you know attacks on israel for arresting up to seventy and other philosophy and the children and palestinian human. it's making it very clear that it's not the patient fighting god violence is of nonviolence and israel is not defending itself from sort of thing and young children or you can really hear from their side they fail to see it from a puppet of political parents or she's been schooled in violence according to the

israelis and that she deserves the punishment their reaction. i don't think people deserve a new punishment who does a punishment is mr liberal on them now and people who are criminals. and. you know discriminate. as well as learned in itself as another side must be accountable according to the international law and that's according to the international standards under the and criminals they are the worst criminals and there are a few hundreds of officials there are a lot of research effort of millions for sure wish well if if if your patient will continue their struggle still we get our thirty deliberations and we go well let's just see you with the get out i don't see how we saw him but i have since i have you with us final question you yourself are going to a military court to face charges tomorrow from what i understand for your role in

protest activities in hebron are you worried about your future. really i should put it there to prison peacefully and different white people it's right there is trying to suppress me to shut of my voice you don't want me to reach the international community and look really against. about system in my fifty broad they don't want us to be a lot of defenders me my friend for the last rush and the rigidity of about about a billion dollars in the military me madame you know our other policy about isis is that they are a real target for the really secure vision of israeli apartheid me personally and that's what it it's a price for an hour of nonviolence a struggle i'm giving my my my energy mine my time mine my soul to walk to the polls to get our freedom and justice and equality and so that the munitions full of kenya will not give up till the get the full rights of the world you know so we've learned a consequence for the future ok i saw her we thank you very much for speaking to us

from hebron meanwhile israeli forces have arrested artists for drawing a giant mural of tell me me on the separation wall in the occupied west bank and regular our social media producer has more on the story here that's right daryn pictures of the wall have gone viral and this is especially after israeli border police arrested the two italian graffiti artists and a palestinian man to mean is portrayed was painted earlier this week in anticipation of her release but the border police say that the painting on this wall is illegal now among those arrested is italian street taught us joran gosh now this picture has been posted on face on a facebook page under his name with a message saying that he was arrested and asking for help the identities of the second italian artists and the accompanying palestinian have not been released yet now palestinian artist activists and owner of the professor shop spoke about what he saw the lives of those of us the authors were drawing next to the military tower

there was a job. that it was all me came from behind and one of them took the lead and ran away then they caught him and osteen what he was doing he said i'm only a foreign on toast and they told him to go away and if they catch him again he will go to prison and online people are calling for the release of the artists he's in the hash tag three ago and the author and activist norman finkelstein posted this on facebook saying that he was arrested for raising awareness of the palestinian plight the least we can do is share this image so his sacrifice is not in vain we do want to get your thoughts on the story get in touch is the hash tag eighteen is get it's our people are getting in touch on this story and we have a tweet from vittorio saying that's odd to me me will be arrested soon let's see and also telling us on facebook she's the symbol of freedom an anti apartheid

activity the wall will be demolished one day long live for seventeen year olds and if you have to our website no surprise that this is in fact the top trending story on al-jazeera dot com it's updated around the clock with all the latest developments and if you scroll all the way down we'll get to it in a moment you can click on this right here and you can watch an earlier episode of the listening post on the tell me me one story multiple narratives the team of the listening post takes a look at the case the coverage and the incarceration of the seventeen year old palestinian that happened back in march as we were saying you can get in touch with us here on the newsgroup we're on facebook facebook dot com slash a.j. news grid we're on twitter our handle is at a.j. english use the hash tag a.j. news grid and you can also send us a whatsapp or telegram plus one seven four five zero triple one one four nine. now a boat loaded with aid for dollars has been intercepted by the israeli navy it's

now being escorted to the port city of ashdod the boat was part of a flotilla attempting to break the twelve year old blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from palermo in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens on board we can now cross over to charles stratford he's joining us from a port itself no surprise that the israeli navy intercepted that freedom flotilla trolls so what are you hearing about the latest situation. well the latest we can tell you is a statement that was put out by the israeli military a couple of hours ago they saying that they intercepted a ship that they described as having traveled from your in order to violate the legal naval blockade that is imposed on garza they said that the navy monitored and intercepted that boat in accordance with international law they say that any aid on

that boat could be transferred to gaza via the port here in ashdod we've heard nothing more all tweets stopped from the boat i'd say around three hours ago to time where we we estimate started to set should by these ready navy was made as you say at least twenty two people on board from sixteen different countries the organization behind this but selah just we understand around about the time that it was intercepted put out a statement calling on the governments of all the various different nationalities on board the boat including the norwegian government and all the relative all the relevant organizations to act immediately as you say it was expected that this boat would be intercepted by the israeli navy the organization is very keen to point out that was was done as

a means of highlighting on any on the international stage the plight of two million people living in gaza living under this siege and you said that the boat was carrying aid for people in gaza you were recently there you've just come out a few days ago from gaza itself what can you tell us about the humanitarian situation and what's most needed right now. i guess one of the best ways to describe the contrasts between israel and gaza what you see when you drive down to gaza through what can only be described as well manicured well looked off to farms all of groves towns with shopping malls and cafes and people enjoying their life there you then get to the border of gaza you go through erez crossing and it's nothing more than a slap in the face it's quite shocking the level of poverty two million people fifty percent of which are unemployed around fifty percent of them also living

under the poverty line many of them getting around only around four hours electricity a day because of these problems with fuel. rule sewerage being pumped into the ocean the people you speak to there are desperate and that's why we've seen these incredible protests over the last eighteen weeks why we've seen. the statements made by the protesters that they will continue to protest until the lifting of this blockade by israel of course israel blames how massive blames the governing body of the administration in gaza for the suffering of the gazan people but there is no denying the desperate state of affairs that say two million people in gaza find themselves in today. for its report from a start thank you for now the polls have just closed the mollies presidential election so there are twenty four candidates including the incumbent president

abraham boubacar k.-tel and the opposition leader some might say security has been a major concern after dozens of people were killed in the past week as years of political unrest continues. joining us from moscow covering the elections for us and first let's talk about this issue of security tell us whether it's over sat odes people coming out to vote. well that's what the expectations are getting during the last seven weeks to the extent that some observers predict about this election will not be organized as should yours on the twenty ninth of july but today we have seen the focus going smallest at least here in the capital bamako some incidents have been reported in the north but we don't have the details yet yet european observers talked about that but they did not give the details if you notice others also talked about seventy percent of the polling stations all expenses centers which they are observing cause functioned

a lot of the lead today this is very good news for mali here because many people are they said well specific about the possibility of organizing the elections the first place but this election is very close to the future of mali because this comes after five years of this the role of the government of iraq he will back up into which many here described as a disaster for mali because only there was only an increase in attacks in the center and north of the country hundreds of people including mostly civilians being killed by either by groups related to i'll tell you they are also by even doing ethnic fighting in the audio to the center of the country that deterioration and security situation and also that. they don't have a complete are not being able to fix the economy not being able to improve their life you know the difference unemployment still rampant about sixty thousand

somalis under the poverty line living on the poverty line all of this has been has been fucked up in the criticism against it or what i think are people are feeling fed up they say enough of this also that today we asked some of the people who voted they told us this is a vote for peace we want stability in this country and we want an efficient government i want to. notify here that i have a computer as an incumbent president in an african country had ups and downs with its democratic process. we can't guarantee that he will be he will be defeated in this in this election he has the if laws of the state the funds of the state and all of that the opposition leader has been gaining momentum during the last seven weeks many people move to a site where those who were supporting him a bucket are moved to the site of the summer after my last visit but all of that kept going to the to alert when the selection ok thank you bill for more on why this presidential vote matters as mohammed was saying on the main issues this is

the page that you need to read you can head to our home page al-jazeera dot com where you will find it it's well a day before zimbabwean voters get to choose a new leader the former president robert mugabe has held a surprise news conference and he's urging people to vote against those who forced him from office last year the ninety four year old said he had intended to step down at the zanu p.f. congress in december twenty seventh teen and he never wanted his wife to succeed him. we have had. since november. a new environment you know our country. we do was from. the. free. politically late general.

constitutions now. and leave. malcolm websense the following report from bill away it was in bob ways second largest city. zimbabweans will be voting in the first presidential election in nearly forty years of well former leader robert mugabe on the ballot paper he was pushed out by the military in november his right hand man took over president emerson and god were and he's the presidential candidate for the rulings on the p.f. party ever since he took over he's been promising to revive the economy and he says he's got pledges of billions of dollars of foreign investment that could soon come in he's up against several candidates but the main opposition contend is here nelson chamisa is also promising to revive the economy he says he'll bring change to tackle corruption and build infrastructure in this town where we are called he

says he'll turn it into the new political capital zimbabwe but the key issues for most voters are the economy and jobs learned in my trade clothes on the street to get by he struggles with zimbabwe's shortage of currency in circulation of wood floor far from for new sanctions and i want to change we need change you can be coming right down yes i do something if you speak for you for forty years but nothing people just say it might have done just magic item attila says she'll welcome any kind of new leadership oh why do we need to change it didn't you give us a drug. that you don't you can't big being that big people. night is the. ruling party supporters are in the minority here the opposition of one in this town for many years this is in the story and in areas across the country but

the ruling party says its support base is in the rural areas opposition says in the past that's because it's been able to use bribery and voter intimidation there but this time the campaign for the large part has been peaceful the opposition have complained that there are irregularities even ahead of the polls but the electoral commission. the ruling party deny that anything on toward is going on. social media and politics have become inseparable in zimbabwe as the parties push their agendas where he has been looking at how on line that works on fake news have influenced their campaigns that's right now it all started with massive protests on the streets of harare last year with videos and pictures that went viral as did people's feelings against former president robert mugabe a social media played a crucial role in bringing about change and continues to have a say in the lead up to election day now that's one thing that distinguishes this election from previous ones and is being driven by the huge rise in connectivity

the mobile penetration rates in the country is at eighty five percent this is the first quarter of this year and instead penetration rate is at fifty two all the population has internet access in zimbabwe and whatsapp is the most used network. meanwhile a recent mobile survey by the my gumba network this tracks public opinion in election related issues they say that thirty percent of people think the most reliable and honest source of information on political issues comes from social media and both leading because presidential candidates have been active online as well using facebook and twitter to communicate and appeal to younger people more than sixty percent of all voters are under forty and the seventy five year old president amisom one on the go has around one hundred sixty one thousand followers on twitter and he's been updating supporters of his rulings on a piece of party as well as on string questions from anyone else even his golf has

become a notable campaign symbol with the hash tag ed scoff and his main rival is now sultan chamisa leader of the movement for democratic change he's stuck to crowdsourcing methods and messaging services such as whatsapp to get his message out of the m.d.c. has used this strategy to bypass traditional media outlets ninety percent of them all states controlled and biased towards zanu p.f. . now both sides are battling a propaganda war reportedly with the help of spend doctors and also online warriors this is a mix of bots and also paid online users to help with political messaging and embassy supporters m.d.c. supporters are dubbed the narrowest as you can see from this tweet this is from nelson to me says nickname which he goes by is narrow and when i support base is brand is as far kashi which in the shorter language means destroy is a campaign is all relentlessly relentlessly updating their followers on social

media and reports of fake news or dissent from asian also being heard some getting a lot of attention and also many related to the n.b.c. alliance now is pictures like these that are doing the rounds right now and you may think that this is an n.b.c. alliance rally but it's not this is a rally from south africa's economic freedom fighters also known as the e.f. f. and note that both parties do share the same color that being red and the doctored images give the impression of large crowds at an m.d.c. rally well al jazeera has not been able to independently in to verify those pictures now this tweet is also being shed on whatsapp as well reportedly from one of the chimney says top advisers calling a vote is to right see see see on the back of the ballot paper up this is to ensure that their votes don't shift in favor of one and god however the advisor has said that this was a hoax message and a vote becomes invalid if anything other than the cross sign is written on the

ballot paper that she's has also said that he's concerned and attempts to spread false news as well on the other side of this this is the zimbabwe's electoral commission they are refuting being biased towards the rulings on a piece of party and it's the chairwoman who apparently there were claims about her having an affair with a presidential candidate also the circulation of fake ballot papers was apparently another attempt to discredit the commission although it does say that the attempts or fake. now we spoke to zimbabweans who are keeping a close eye on these developments online including our very own correspondent and also how much impact social media is having on the election so far. one of the ways of the been using social media is in the light streaming of rallies and various other events so you don't physically have to be there to understand the message and not the fact that people are commenting sharing they're using twitter using whatsapp be using facebook using instagram just

a shared interest to speak to the issues that relates to them i love the fact that the dice for is also involved in a conversation and that's also very very critical because a critical component of our population strictly speaking fake news doesn't have as much. impact. as it might because there was a very skeptical first responses is it true. but there is a lot of a lot of negative opinion that has shaped the perception of candidates this talk of hoke hope for the future is talk about the issues that affect us things like the economy social service delivery those sort of things which indicate that this election is going to be a lot more about issues. less about the personalities as compared to previous elections i do see inform people can misinterpret things and one thing is

that the state media here is perceived to be biased of the ruling party sense of how people don't trust social media but that say there's still a very important role in these elections so expect on monday a lot of people tweeting a day what's that misuse of them voting wishing the country well wishing the candidates well and of course once the results come in the big things why about that is they could be some fake results. could be very destructive to the process if it's not. all that is know what you think especially if you are currently in zimbabwe is that aging is good or you can message me directly and sorry we're going to thank you and now it's over to marion a mozzie in london for other stories making the headlines. hi there yes well we begin with developments from the region where saudi u.a.e. led code coalition forces have renewed as strikes on yemen's made main port city of the data in a statement the coalition says it destroyed sites used by the who sees to launch missiles at saudi arabia this follows

a boozy attack on saudi vessels in the red sea the country has been locked in a civil war between its internationally backed government and the who thiis for more than three years iraq's prime minister has suspended the electricity minister after weeks of protests over power outages poor public services and unemployment. demonstrations continued on sunday in a number of southern cities in a bid to clamp down on the protests hydro a body has also imposed curfews and cost of internet access in some areas human rights watch has accused a rocky special forces of using lethal force against the protesters. cambodia's ruling party has claimed victory in an election widely described as a sham by human rights groups current prime minister hun sen news been in office for over thirty years is accused of voter intimidation last year he dissolved the main opposition party whose leader is in jail awaiting trial for treason parties formally to spoke to al-jazeera. united nation has already set.

up at. the u.s. european union. it would help sanction hundreds. if the mr. kearney i expect those actions will get if i was in the. us actually if not a lower jaw. at least fourteen people have been killed in an earthquake on the indonesian island of lombok among them are five children more than one hundred sixty others were injured when the six point four magnitude quake hit early in the morning and the government is everyone to stay calm as aftershocks by panic in the area that lawson has more from jakarta . it was seven am on the island of lombok when you both quake struck me and many

ran outside immediately dozens of others were injured by falling good grief when their homes started to collapse some couldn't escape in time. tourists on the neighboring island of bali ran out of the hotels but no earthquake damage is reported there longbox are also a popular tourist destination and nearly eight hundred physicians were climbing mount when johnny all managed to leave the slopes of the volcano safely but a malaysian tourist was killed when a guesthouse at the foot of the volcano collapse. but she was in the kitchen when the quake happened she was packing all of her stuff to return to malaysia that. the quake or several landslides and the volcano has been closed to visitors indonesia's one of the world's most active earthquake zones and more than five thousand quakes are recorded every year after this morning's strong tremor what in one hundred

aftershocks were felt causing even more panic on both long book and bali it's the peak of the tourist season and many hotels are full the government is urging everyone to stay calm step fasten al-jazeera jacka that's it from london from an a for now i'll have more for you in about twenty minutes time let's go to the healer in doha thanks mariam now the twitter hash tag campaign in germany is making major headlines and this time it's all about racism toward a campaign hashtags called need to and that's causing a heated debate in the country about racism and integration now more than ten thousand people have been sharing their experiences about discrimination and racism the word to stands for the jewel identities of immigrants their current status of being a german citizen and the other of the country of the origin of the campaign is a twist on the need to movement against sexual harassment now. me too has gone

viral ever since the footballer mesut ozil resigned from germany's national team saying he has been facing racism because of his takesh roots and in a statement earlier this month he said i quote in the eyes of grindle and his supporters i am german when we win and i am an immigrant when we lose and ican is an author and rights activist he started the campaign says jamming these two debates discrimination within that society. i hope that people all over the walls will tweet hashtag me to say we don't have just only one identity we have two identities this is totally normal and it's ok for integration and we come live peacefully with plural identities and form a turkish cordis that isn't i'm not german but i have other countries and people in great britain people in france they can say of the same and i help you all both with me too we also heard from some of you living in germany listen. i

clicked on the hashtag and i saw no germans but a migration of background with tweeting their experiences of aggression abuse in the past and in the present i thought ok i chime in and just talk about my experiences as well. my tweets caught fire a lot of attention positive and negative but regardless i'm so glad that we are having this discussion right now because i'm in germany is there is this big elephant in the room but no one wants a point at it no but a lot of people react shocked which i think is ignorant because we have to problems for so many years like we have to the national socialist underground in germany who actually kill people so i think the problem is even bigger but anyway i think it's a great way to empower each other and i hope that everyone starts reflecting themselves and the discussion goes on. well and germany's foreign minister has

welcomed the campaign saying it was impressive and painful to see how people were pouring out their feelings and he tweeted if you think racism is no longer a problem i recommend you reading through all the me two tweets that us raise our voice with them against racism any time anyway. well that sort of campaign has gained international attention as well people outside of germany also using the same hash tag to address racism in their own countries and this user asks why don't you talk about racism in france or in spain we do want to get your thoughts on the story especially if you are currently in germany or if you have been part of a wider campaign elsewhere thanks that's use the hash tag eighteen is good really think you to california where five people have died in wildfires that show little sign of stopping more than thirty eight thousand people in writing and elsewhere in shasta county have been ordered to leave their homes five hundred buildings have

also been destroyed gabriel is on those at the fires in keswick that's in california he's joining us from there and i suppose the bad news gabriel is that the fires are not even close to being contained. now the latest that we hear from firefighters is that this dramatic fire here in northern california the fire they're calling the car fire is only five percent contained it's a fire that is very deadly and it's causing destruction wherever it goes including this community of keswick where we're at right now let me just step out so you get a better sense of what the scene is here this is a community that was a few hundred people in this mountain community the entire town looks like this it has completely been destroyed by this fire that roared through here over the last couple days and you can see the amount of destruction that it absolutely caused

here this is different than most fires this is different because this fire has been incredibly unpredictable it's been very strong and it's his these communities very very fast firefighters are saying that like i said it's only five percent contained or more than five hundred structures have been destroyed several people unfortunately lost their lives including a couple firefighters and right now what fire personnel are saying is that they're not really even trying to put out this fire anymore the fire that's raging in the hills around us behind us they're just trying to get people out of the way because this is such a fast moving blaze and we know that the president has declared a state of emergency in the area what sort of help is being offered or given what's the disaster response like. yeah it still really is a disaster it's not any sort of cleanup at this point you'll notice that there's

nobody here picking through the remains of their homes trying to salvage anything because this is still in an evacuation area residents are not even allowed back in here cancer question there are three thousand four hundred firefighters that are fighting this blaze also just recently the national guard has been called in as well and they are helping with checkpoints helping with evacuations and the such this is really not a rebuilding effort yet this is still very much a disaster situation trying to continue to move people out of the areas that are under threat and also trying to set up shelters there are nearly a dozen shelters in the area for people that have lost their homes people that used to live in places just like this right gabriel is on the thank you for that update it's well the organization which put men on the moon has turned sixty years old nasa has celebrated triumphs and suffered tragedies in the race to space she

has been looking at what the future may hold for the u.s. space agency. when president eisenhower signed the bill creating nasa there were fears in washington that the u.s. was being left behind by the soviet union space exploration has always been a matter of geopolitical prestige for the us will be here well we are behind and will be behind for some time in manned flight but we do not intend to stay behind but national politics have been key too and one reason why i came here at long term time for nasa has been impossible for example george w. bush directed nasa to return to the moon only to have president obama scrap of those plans and direct matter to land on asteroids with a long term goal now donald trump has ordered nasa back to the moon this time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to mars just look at our political leaders

keep moving the goalposts changing destinations from asteroids and war. i mean these are long term horizon goals going to take decades to achieve a lot of. how like one goal the plan is for us astronauts to be back on the moon by the mid twenty twenty s. but timeframes keep being pushed back and it should be noted that the u.s. count even ferry astronauts to the international space station that alone the moon nasa has been reliant on russian spacecraft since the space shuttle was discontinued president obama pushed private public partnerships with boeing and space x. to create u.s. space craft but they're well behind schedule that may mean no u.s. presence at all on the i assess for a time and liftoff of the space shuttle just u.s. priorities shift for human space travel but that represents just one of four areas of activity for nasa the other aeronautics sons and space technology here innovation continues with unmanned space travel satellites and space telescopes

nasa isn't just studying outer space but the earth to the president and when donald trump named climate change denier jim brandon stein as mass administrator there were fears that earth sciences would suffer but remarkably after six weeks in the drug brighton stein converted i don't deny the consensus. that the climate is changing and i thoroughly believe and know that the climate is changing i also know that we human beings are contributing to it in a major way this year congress passed the highest budget for nasa since two thousand and nine rejecting the trumpet ministrations attempts at cuts so even as uncertainty and delay characterized nasa's human missions into space for the moment at least the agency's urgent investigations into the state of our own planet are secure she have returned. well let's now speak to david c. homers he's a former nasa astronaut he's joining us via skype from houston good to have you with us on al-jazeera how would you evaluate developments since its inception sixty

years ago. well i think it was well summarized in a report that we just heard. and we think of nasa in terms of space missions manned space missions have particularly going to the moon and the one nine hundred sixty s. and that was really their original motivation was to have a reaction to this flight deck much of the one nine hundred fifty five the russians and so we think a lot about manned space program program and that's what probably comes to people's minds but also there are areas of unmanned spacecraft that have explored our solar system and even beyond. we ever knoppix continues to be a real. strong point for nasa a lot of the advances in commercial a.v. it be a should have been a result of the. research that nasa has done and then in that in terms of space

science and earth science nasa has been very strong climate change was mentioned which is. a big part of our research. monitoring the ozone layer is in many other types of medical and basic research that have been done by nasa that it led to changes to the benefit of all mankind and you measure i think cameras there is a moment ago you mentioned commercial just a moment ago and we now do have commercial companies investing in space what impact does that have on nasa. but i think it was a commercial spacecraft and an interest in companies in space and there's certainly been a lot i think it's a win win situation not only for the companies that are exploring and i think it's also going to be open space to the general population and we see some of the

commercial companies that are opening up opportunities for ordinary citizens to go into it and experience spaceflight but it it allows or are cheaper i think competition is going to lead to cheaper access to space we already see some of the space x. in particular there are the launches and the prices that they are offering have led to a decrease actually in cost or watches and that those decrease in cost will buy their way into nasa as well and so nasa will be able to concentrate on its traditional strengths in science and really where nasa fits and is being able to do those missions that are not commercially viable in other words things like exploration that companies on their own when find profitable are right but yet that

basic research and exploration is where nasa nasa strength lies we thank you very much david c. helm as for us speaking to us from houston and we do have a page that kate it's all things nasa it's on al-jazeera thought come. if you have any comments or questions we're on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera we're on twitter our handle is at a.j. english use the hashtag a.j. news grid you can also send us what's up or telegram plus line seven four five zero triple one one four nine zero eight judge orders the u.s. immigration authorities to release a man arrested while trying to get this deliver a pizza so that's coming up in the break for our online viewer is courtesy of our colleagues at a.j. plus that's if you're watching on facebook and also coming up in sports just a moment another year another british winner at the tour de france and this year the champion made a little history too we'll tell you what that's about right after the break.

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there's very little sports news updates right daring thank you now anyone who is a cycling fan would have been following the tour de france over the last couple of weeks it's considered the most grueling cycling race on the planet will be ending in about an hour's time and britain's jaron and a thomas will officially claim the twenty eighteen crown the briton secured top spot in the general classifications with his performance in the time trial on saturday his victory will be confirmed later with the final stage being a celebrate tory run to paris to victory compounds what's been a recent period of british dominance it's the sixth time in a briton has won in the last seven editions chris froome winning it four times in

one win for bradley wiggins thomas also makes some history he's the first ever tore champion from wales and this is also his very first grand tour when the other two grand tour is bearing the jiro do talia and delta spaniel so as the race reaches its conclusion later today we've had a video come in from one of our regular viewers here on aging news grid he's out doing some sightseeing in paris take a look at this. the news good so i'm supposed to be on holiday and that generally means being off the grid but hey i'm here in paris it's the final day of the tour de france and about to go help way up the eiffel tower so it's a perfect chance to talk about it. ok so let's talk about the weather for it because it's all anyone's been talking about it from the last couple days it's thirty seven degrees a couple of days got really hot and humid today now it's twenty five degrees cloud up a little bit of breeze i would suspect much more comfortable for the ride it's coming you know today three weeks cycling around the front. so in my own may not know

about the final stage of the tour is that it's actually largely ceremonial gear on thomas the welshman from team sky he's pretty much wrapped it all up in the previous stage the twentieth century today it's ceremonial it's about one hundred sixteen kilometers through the suburbs of paris and into the city and he just gets to sort of psych it out and enjoy yeah it's inside even the weird. but there's also one final competition within a competition i guess you could say it happens up and down the show into these a round the up the tree on down again heading down towards plastic a common cause and the liver museum and it's a sprint rights to decide who is the best sprinter of rights it is still a bit of competition even though as you say it's largely ceremonial towards the end of this race. to me and i wouldn't say you necessarily know there was a big event on today it's paris it's summertime there's thousands of people here anyway but still it is a big day in paris even if there isn't

a frenchman at the head of that so they you go that's my own little report from paris today i'll see you back in the studio next week i'll be into. ok that was our very own call santa maria he just sent us an update saying after two hours he's still struggling to get back to his hotel because of closures he says i definitely do you know there is a major event on in paris now thanks for all we'll see you next week. now we still may be two weeks away from the start of the english properly but preseason tournament is getting just as much attention on saturday liverpool thrashed rivals manchester united front of in more than one hundred thousand spectators the sides were playing in the international champions cup at michigan stadium in the united states. started off the scoring for liverpool an equaliser from man you didn't seem to slow the reds down daniel sturridge brought them back in front at sixty six minutes and the night was capped off by swiss border. security who marked his liverpool debut with a standing by skull cake for one to liverpool the final score. that

feels good of mysie is good but if i was them i wouldn't come. out of wouldn't come out and spend my money to see distance i wouldn't spend my money a sink the passion that many americans have for soccer. deserves more. deserves more deserves. the best i think what grid special. is the quality is the good players is the good teams. and you've been listening to the man united boss there josie marino is well known for parking the boss but this time he threw his own side under at that press conference getting a lot of reaction on social media sports writer tom english tweeted marino used to be a charismatic and inspirational character he's utterly roast now manager of

a great club and yet he makes it look like a miserable existence laughs says it's only preseason and marino is breaking down again only a matter of time now united fans are in for a long season. i and your gaffney in valencia as sad as this is has all the hogs of the classic josie marina stance of being tired of the task at hand never walk again but he's basically asking to be sacked as always like to get your thoughts on any of these sports stories you can tweet me directly at f underscore its mouth peter will be back with more eight hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll hand you back to daryn thank you very much a four day then they'll do it for this news group you can keep in touch with us on social media use the news we have all the other ways to connect our right there on this one will see you back here in studio fourteen fifteen g.m.t. on monday thanks for watching see you then bye bye.

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