front as a leading by a chemist determined to use his scientific knowledge to say africa women make science from the lab to the thielert and now to syria. this is al jazeera. hello i'm not matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the new desperation for thousands of refugees in greece left homeless after a fire sweeps through the biggest camp in europe afghanistan's vice president survives another assassination attempt but a bomb attack on his convoy in kabul kills at least 10. a top pharmaceutical company says it's suspending trials for its covert 19 vaccine after an unexplained

illness. and defying a government order ethiopia's grey region goes ahead with regional elections despite the prime minister calling the vote illegal. and i'm we are hard enough with all of the day's sports news christiana rinaldo scores his 100th goal for portugal he's only the 2nd man to reach this century milestone. desperate efforts are underway on a greek island to care for thousands of people left homeless after a fire ripped through the biggest refugee camp in europe the money account was hosting 12000 people and that our fears the 35 who tested positive for covert 19 this week will not have mixed with the others prime minister. has called an urgent cabinet meeting to discuss the situation on a 4 month state of emergency has been declared on the island germany's foreign

ministers describe the fire as a humanitarian disaster and he's urging e.u. member states to help by taking in some of the refugees lot of burden monday begins our coverage. the fire with still burning 2 more a camp as the new day began on the greek island of bliss posts. around the camp thousands of refugees again in 30 to one phillippi wherever they can. from the movie nights more than 12000 people fled. to the largest refugee camp in grief. many looked own as a whole. the battle against the 5 made difficult by through. the. far. oh yeah. you know. the campaign was just off the coast of turkey was known for its cramped and

unfounded tree conditions. built for about 3000 people it housed more than 12000 people who lived in huts in tents with limited access to running water the government says the fires were deliberately lit by some camp residents angry to continue to knock down due to the crude device pandemic and many of the asymptomatic people have been put into a quarantine area on the far eastern side of the camp and that area earlier this evening was attacked by individuals who seemingly do not believe that it is actually in the camp and that it is being seen as a reason to continue a 6 month lockdown in the camp some attacks on some vehicles to move people out of the camp or to move them around in a suit and some of the people that were in this quarantine area were fleeing from that violence and in the process of that several fires are set on the perimeter. between 20152016 thousands of people made the journey across the mediterranean from

turkey to the island of less both then he fled for more prosecution and poverty hoping to find safety in europe since the 1st of march. have been quarantined away from morea camp due to the pandemic but for the people who found refugee more in the very place where they had is gone and what was already an uncertain future is even more bleak nor those among the al-jazeera that's got the latest from john psaropoulos who is live for us in things john we were hearing the prime minister is calling an urgent cabinet meeting a 4 month state of emergency has been declared on the island what more do we know about what is happening around the camp itself. development. team to address the humanitarian emergency because all of the roughly 13000 people on the islands of the 3 of 4000 looking to the homeless tonight and trying to find various

solutions to purchase a roof of the people's heads one is to get people to the nearby can't of kind of detail which is a municipal but much smaller camp and some hundreds apparently there is also a question of whether some can be accommodated in hotels temporarily and as i understand it there is a muslim is a sion to bring large scale military tents in order to give people at least temporary shelter but there is no question as people being moved off the island for also it's a very big one is that the original 35 people who tested positive for curve at 98 are now at large again but because of the confusion they couldn't be contained in the territory and that had been set up for the camp which has also burnt and very very full has mingles back into the general population of the refugee camp the

other reason is legal once greece moves people off the island becomes extremely difficult for them to be deported if they don't get asylum from the group asylum service. those people have to be secretary of in-situ the other issue the government is looking for. moria has been a place a lot of fires and incidents the violence that's taking place they receive is just a long way to carry a little frustrating the build sometimes because of secretarial racial violence but a complete destruction of the can. the authorities 5 very suspicious because it. was able to happen because the fire service was prevented from reaching the camp there was a lot of. time. and the government is looking into possible scenarios planned. even if. they were ministers publicly.

why would we had of the joint chiefs of staff at this morning's emergency meeting of the climate of civil affairs. with patients with a. form of hybrid wolf a military action. will the government work will simply say we're looking at all the possibilities we expect to hear more about this later on in the day when 3 cabinet ministers hold a press conference on the island. john i know the press conference happens we're probably going to be checking back in with you but for now john psaropoulos in athens thank you very much indeed i want to bring in the money on a car like a she's a doctoral reception at university about me and she's joining us live by skype given the circumstances a lot about man explained in her report and also that john has been talking about was this something that was likely to happen or was it just done to the precious

created by the cove in 1000 more than. it was both. i am i'm not surprised that it happened i would have to as the 3rd course there have been fires throughout the years of mores existence and i have been going on reporting from morning of pretty much every single september because of fires and it's also something * that happened because because of call of it keep in mind that mario was in was kept in lockdown since march and people were not allowed to move from the calm since march and as soon as some cases where this coverage in the camp things became even stricter and so they're afraid them was that sadly and i was speaking to someone who lives in morgan she was in. she was in isolation but that was not isolation it was just 110th as you described and with. 11 more people at

the time that we spoke so people were afraid people were frustrated and people were angry and it's absolutely right that they are angry because the european union and the great government is forcing them to leave and. inhumane now i understand that you are expected to be talking to lawyers boss i think tomorrow certainly in the next couple of days you've obviously been there before given the fact that there are so many refugees on the streets of lez boss itself how do you think local people are going to react to that. that will not react well last thing would have. an incident of similar proportions which was a few months ago. locals and especially those who are leaning towards the extreme right wing and will the fascist of grace were furious that there weren't that king or a few jews on that weren't that in journalism and they were thanking those who were supporting not refugees so i don't think that their reactions will be better this

time and also after following some reports by volunteers who were in moria last night for german volunteers were hunted down by fascists so we are going to see similar incidents and hopefully that will not be like last march we mentioned before the germany's foreign minister is urging you member states to help by taking in some of the refugees this situation is not new this is existed for a long time and yet nothing appears to have changed and from what you're saying the intensity just seems to have got bigger and bigger why is it do you think that the e.u. members are not willing to step in and try and relieve some of the pressure that greece on the island of les boss is going through. well they you are member states are very willing to offer the thoughts and prayers but they're not really doing anything and i think this has to do because of if if they start accepting more people in the european union. they will we will i think we will start seeing more

right wing sentiments and this will affect their. voting results later on. i'm not sure if this is the case but in my view from our what i have seen and what have i witnessed and how i can analyze it this is the reason why they're not really accept more refugees because if they also accept refugees it might work as a small factor oh it's my create more refugee flow still word that the e.u. will like it like we saw in 1015. 1000000 are cut across like here we appreciate your time and thank you very much indeed for joining us in order to. thank you. afghanistan's vice president has survived what appears to have been yet another assassination attempt and we suffered only minor injuries but 10 other people were killed in the bomb attack on his convoy reports. a

familiar scene in afghanistan's capital. roadside bomb explosion this time told that seeing the vice president. the attack happened during the morning rush hour as a roll of solace convoy was traveling through the town money area of kabul. he survived was appears to be an assassination attempt but several others are dead and at least a dozen injured were rushed to hospital. an explosion happened near the shops selling gas cylinders my push cart was on the road i just heard the explosion and rushed to the street leading to my home and then i found myself covered with blood and whatever that i was in the car i lost one of my brothers and the other one is hurt what kind of government is this there's no ambulance and the police haven't even arrived yet i've taken a child to this clinic when the blast happened. the vice president and former intelligence chief is one of the most targeted men in afghanistan back in his office with his hand bandage he had this message for his attackers but. i want to

assure you in a message that i'm fine and safe but some of my security guards injured and they are in hospital i do not know about the casualties about our people and once again i'm sorry about this and i want to thank all of those who see in the messages about my health i want to thank all the security forces who are fighting against terrorism and acting as a shield to face these terrorists attacks and i'm proud of them no one's claimed responsibility the taliban was quick to denounce the latest attack on saleh has managed to survive a number of assassination attempts over the years they included the storming of his office in kabul last year by 3 gunmen who killed 20 people including salles family members. he's part of the government. the taliban with the latest talks to be held in qatar the weiss president with this strong. also having an influence on the ongoing peace process is certainly going to become much harder in

his. negotiating with the ballot which is which is expected lee going to have some sort of impact but as far as the start of negotiation is concerned i don't think it will have a heart to process this negotiation process should proceed as the 2 sides agree to move on because right now there is a slight hurdle there is a difference of opinion between taliban and the afghan government under the leaves of a handful of prisoners. reportedly with him in the car and his own home and the blast series called and as investigators. trials for one of the world's most promising coronavirus treatments are on hold because of the unexplained illness of a patient develop a zester seneca and oxford university in england started late stage testing last week the world health organization says safety is the primary focus for clinical trials and that it's routine practice to investigate when unexplained illnesses

occur dozens of patients in britain brazil south africa and the u.s. taking part of the top infectious disease expert in the u.s. says it's unfortunate the trial had to be delayed but that it's a normal part of the process. that's the reason why you have various phases of trials to determine if in fact these candidates are safe this particular candidate from the astra zeneca company had a serious adverse event which means you put the rest of the enrollment of individual volunteers on hold until you can work out precisely what went on you alert the other sites to see if they see anything similar to this or related to that and then you proceed cautiously as you go forward making sure you're on the alert for this type of an adverse event but it's really one of the safety valves that you have on clinical trials such as this so it's unfortunate that it happened

hopefully they'll work it out and be able to proceed along with the remainder of the trial but you don't know they need to investigate it further along is that he's joining us now from everything we're hearing about this seems to be summed up in a sentence that i heard from one scientist who described it as toppling the brakes rather than a complete stop. yeah i know obviously it sounds very dramatic and bad news at 1st glance but do bear in mind it isn't the 1st time the oxford university astra zeneca trial has been all says it happened once early this year it is now being rolled out in phase 3 as you said in your introduction to tens of thousands of people in some of the worst affected parts of the world and very many people who've had the vaccine have produced a strong immune response to corona virus as a result and so even common sense would tell you that except against that the fact that one person has suffered an illness may not be the end of

a vaccine and any number of scientists today have been at pains to point out that just because somebody is vaccinated and then becomes ill by no means does that mean that the vaccine caused the illness they that they point to it a similar vaccine shot in 2009 when someone was given a vaccine and then delegate it turned out that she had been brain tumour which will kill to nothing to do with the vaccine itself i'm not to be altered in the same sort of way and so the general view among among the scientific community is that astra zeneca in oxford will not go through all that that due diligence around this will try to investigate the underlying health conditions of this person share all their findings with the 5 other vaccine manufacturers who are also in phase 3 so they all know exactly what's going on and the hope is that in 2 or 3 weeks time they'll be able to start again obviously the best case scenario is the vaccine becomes widely available having been bought in huge numbers in the u.k.

and australia and elsewhere that it becomes widely available some part of the self the next chip at the moment there's no suggestion that this is necessarily going to derail that barnes thanks very much that's lawrence lee in oxford. well england is imposing tougher restrictions amid a steep rise in corona virus cases social gatherings of 6 or more people will be banned starting monday the 14th but the new rule want to apply to schools offices weddings funerals or organized team sports violators would find between $130.00 and $4000.00 nearly 2 and a half 1000 new infections across the u.k. were confirmed on tuesday bringing the total 235-0000 well paul brennan is in northwest england with more on the latest restrictions. the u.k. government strong preference is to avoid a return to a national lockdown but that strategy is being put under intense pressure by data showing that the dramatic increases in localized infection rates are becoming more

widespread here where i am in the northern town of bolton in england the rate has gone from 15 cases per 100000 just a fortnight ago to now over $120.00 cases per 100000 the response has been a localized curfew on restaurants and clubs and bars and also a restriction on their activities to take away food and drink only but the problem is that it's not just localized 6 council leaders in the north east of england have written a statement expressing their concern about the more widespread nature of infections and the government has come to realise from feedback from police and councils that one of the crucial aspects driving this is the clarity or lack of it in their messaging at the moment for example to cow souls can meet indoors or outdoors and as long as the group doesn't get any larger than 30 the police have no powers at all to intervene and there are several exemptions and exceptions the commune made to this now the government has decided to really simplify that message and making it illegal for groups any larger than 6 to meet indoors or outdoors there will be

exceptions for schools workplaces and covert secure weddings and funerals for examples for example but this is a return to a very much more simple message in the hope that that can cut through the complex rules that evolved and really make people understand how important it is to get on top of this corona virus infection any more ahead in the news including desperate for help in sudan hundreds of thousands of people are flooded out. virtual diplomacy the meeting of i.c.m. foreign ministers is being held with trade and military talks on the agenda. and naomi continues her march to the u.s. open final blears going to have all the action from flushing meadows this sport. one of the last opposition leaders active in belarus has been detained by mosque

men lawyer maxime's knock was taken as part of an escalating crackdown on weeks of protests and comes only a day after a fellow politician media collects to cover was forcibly taken to the border with ukraine is not lost spoke about the political unrest in belarus on monday. such things happen every day not according to the ministry of india more than 600 people were detained on sunday for participating in peaceful demonstrations there will be trials for those who aren't released the list of political prisoners is growing so your gig has been following developments. they seem to be continuing if not intensifying their crackdown on the opposition and namely focusing it on the coordination council which was the council that was formed in order to do a diet to have dialogue with the president look at shank in order to try and resolve the matter of the disputed election as peacefully as possible but this has

really been a thorn in the side for president look himself or certainly sees it that way as a very serious threat to his power and of course if you're looking at all the demonstrations that have been happening there. continuously since the august 9th election that opposition to his rule is not going away and so with that the intensity of the crackdown has also been getting heavier as well just on choose day night after another rally in minsk there were 45 people who were detained at that rally which was protesting against the treatment of media quality cover but also across the country on shoes there at least another 121 people that were also detained so it really is getting quite stringent if you will

and really trying to sort of use the full force of his state. forces to try and quell as much of that dissent as possible because look at shank it says that he is going to go to moscow to meet with putin to discuss this further which is of course another cause of concern for the opposition. with the war in yemen into its 6th year the united nations says all sides continue to break international laws showing 0 regard for its people indiscriminate killings torture sexual violence recruitment of children and many other human rights crimes continue to be committed by old sides the u.n. says random airstrikes but the saudi u.a.e. coalition equate to war crimes and it blames other countries including britain the u.s. and iran for fueling the conflict by supplying weapons. the palestinian foreign minister has called on the arab league to reject efforts by the united arab emirates to build closer ties with israel. he was speaking at

a virtual session of the arab league israel and the u.a.e. are set to sign the u.s. brokered agreement next week. earlier the lot of the legal finally an earthquake has hit the arab league the dream of the arabs the triple tide the american israeli immorality declaration is that earthquake we now need to defend ourselves and our cause because we are the ones being blamed for condemning this declaration we asked for an emergency meeting because this earthquake necessitates this extraordinary meeting of the arab league and we are shocked to know that there is a country asking only for an ordinary meeting and another country threatens to submit an alternative resolution do you think it's impossible to discuss the palestinian cause on the arab league agenda who decides those who have money those who have power we need to know you and we need to be able to decide whether we'll be part of the whole process or not the u.s.

has announced that soon the normalization between the emirates and israel will be a fact will be done we need to reject such a step because otherwise our meeting today will be in support of such normalization and we will never accept that and we hope that you will also refuses. severe flooding in sudan has killed at least 110 people with the nile river reaching unprecedented high levels hundreds of thousands of people forced from their homes a desperate for help ever more and of course in the capital khartoum. this is how never had a man arrived to the door steps of her home these days she comes to see if the water which flooded it nearly 2 weeks ago has receded the yard which was once dry and where she used to spend most of her evenings is still covered with water from the river which is now steady after rising to levels not seen in more than a century ever slide down in the senate in a way that we were surprised this year when the ny waters entered our neighborhood

and we didn't know what to do there are no sandbags there is no one to come and help us with what's happening we decided to act on our own lives and bring fan back but we found the water coming in from all directions as much of a heads neighborhood in the southern part of sudan's capital khartoum is now flooded some homes have collapsed as a result of the force of the water as the river which was once nearly 3 kilometers away became one with the area the leveled of the nile started rising 3 weeks ago causing destruction as it flooded its banks and flowed into villages and towns more than 100 people have died in the past month as a result and more than 100000 homes have been damaged or destroyed more than half a 1000000 people have been displaced most left their homes with the help of their neighbors who also lost their homes there by. the people here are struggling despite all the difficulties we're helping each other out because we can't abandon each other we grew up together so we can't just turn our backs on each other and we

have to make sure that everyone here gets out so i flee because we're part of one neighborhood one neighborhood in the midst of dozens that have seen the same devastation those affected by the floods they most of the response so far like the building of this makeshift barrier using sandbags has been their own volunteers have also formed groups there is this helping with food and collecting donations and all have criticised the government thing considering floods from the mild happen every year its response has been far from enough sudan's government declared a 3 month state of emergency days ago and now it's the country is now a natural disaster zone it says that one. plans were put in place to respond to this year's floods the levels exceeded expectations. than anywhere using sandbags to block the areas that are being swamped however we cannot use them along the whole river over the past few days water levels reach records high even bridges were flooded residents in affected areas have been evacuated and warnings were sent to those exposed after the destruction and loss of lives that is slowly starting to

recede but hundreds of thousands of people are now desperate for shelter and aid they say they hope the government will soon get them out of this crisis morgan on jazeera hurt its own. last time the weather his rob mccallum we saw the nile and sudan is beginning to recede beyond the map behind you it looks a lot calmer in europe yes you can't necessary to detect the direct hand of climate change and everything but you still get it streams all the same and having said that the temperatures around the western med are above average and these slow wandering storms have produced flash flooding but they've done what nighttime storms do as well produced some beautiful displays over the norco the smaller of the by erik islands but where these showers have been persistent over north now dearie and they have indeed course flash flooding and damage to the sea the sort of thing is a mixture of human influence on the ground and human influence in the atmosphere i got more the same to come in the showers are drifting slowly eastwards towards

course core sardinia but there's still going to be over our area so because standard late summer weather flash flooding we've caused become more used to talking about the real extremes for the society in africa in senegal by such a small term are calling it the suburbs i apologize if i'm wrong but it looks it to me and these are the scenes from dhaka or just outside the flooding of course has been reported as excessive cause excessive rainfall has happened this year all were from senegal to sudan down towards northern cameroon as well these are season rates of just worse than they should be and that's because these east of the waves these clumps of showers that eventually turn into tropical storms are also heavier than his normal. rob rob thank you very much indeed still ahead on al-jazeera why students say they're not to blame for thousands of new infections as u.s. colleges reopen. and why iran's supreme leader wants to pull the plug on importing

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if you want to help save the world. good. reason to your own. it was you know it is either a reminder of our top stories this hour misstate of emergency has been declared in the greek island of less boss after a fire left thousands of refugees without shelter reports say some of the blazes at the madea refugee camp was started deliberately to protest new imposed coronavirus restrictions afghanistan's vice president has survived what appears to have been an

assassination attempt at least 10 people were killed when numberless out his convoy was bombed in kabul. one of the world's most advanced coronavirus vaccine trials has been put on hold after a participant fell ill astra zeneca the company behind the vaccine says a patient has a potentially unexplained illness which will need further investigation. voters in ethiopia's northern t.v. region are defying a federal government order and casting their ballots in a local election the choosing members of the 190 seat regional parliament even though the government has declared wednesday's vote in legal the polls part of the general election which was suspended due to coronavirus prime minister i'll be on had ruled out military intervention on t.v. officials say any interference would amount to a declaration of war. joins us live now from the kenyan capital nairobi markham

just what does this tell us about the balance of politics and ethiopia. well the most significant thing about this election is that it's going ahead. to graeme people's liberation front the tea p.l.f. the party which currently dominates the state council of the region has quite a lot of support in that region and this election is expected to keep them in power so in that sense nothing changes but it's the fact that it's going ahead in defiance of that ruling from the federal government in the capital addis ababa that shows us what's really going on here in this tension between some of the provinces and the center now it was back in march that the federal government said that the elections general elections across ethiopia that would do enormous should be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic and then in june they ruled that until health officials declared the pandemic under control there would be no

elections elections could only follow that now the tea p.l.f. said that this was unconstitutional it was illegal and it was the denying of their right to to choose their own leaders so they've gone ahead in defiance of this and it's one of signs of many of the many different struggles between different provinces in ethiopia is really kind of straining the cohesion of the country at the moment one of several that we've seen since president made came to power 2 years ago why is it that we've seen this feud between the tepee and the central government of ethiopia. lity p.l.f. have dominated politics and power in ethiopia for nearly 3 decades as an armed group they played a key role back in 1991 in overthrowing the previous regime the marxists regime the durga as it was known which had brutally ruled ethiopia or for

a tarion fashion for decades before now subsequently ethiopia was governed by a coalition of parties representing the different ethno linguistic regional states but the t.p.o. left even though the degree of people only make about 5 percent of ethiopia's population politically they dominated that coalition now from about $2151.00 onwards other ethnic groups began to feel marginalized and express their discontent what they felt was marginalization from the central government were a lot of protests there were a lot of violence and that's what led to president taking over just 2 years ago now since he came to power a lot of tea p.l.f. senior officials feel that they've been marginalized they've been pulled out of positions of power they feel they've been on fairly persecuted in corruption investigations and that's caused a growing discontent from the t.p. left and its officials and it's because of this perceived marginalization from the

center that certainly among some of the reasons why there defined the central government today and going ahead with this vote that's marking we're bringing us up to date on the situation with the elections in ethiopia's northern very region markham's thanks very much indeed never a whole mikhail is a member of prime minister arguments propellors prosperity party then he says the teacher a people's liberation front or the p.l.f. are heading for political suicide because the result is going to be null and void. well people may turn out maybe few people may turn out to cast their ballots but because the people is under a total repression because of people cannot air its voice and its deep interest. may happen but this is a very dangerous situation that appeared if he is putting it into a side admission because this. is totally in their garden and that is the result

is not in voigt so the tension can be scally to it but surely is a big if cannot win this game and this is basically happening in order to avoid the activation of the people because if cannot answer the true questions of the people the people has a lot of questions related with martin the station we score option with true implementation of federalism and there are lots of questions so because the stupid if cannot answer all these demands of the people he's just being a fic i genda and trying to appear as if he is. he can participate in. political life. foreign ministers in

southeast asia holding their delayed summit in vietnam online the coronavirus pandemic and the territorial feud in the south china sea are the major talking points for the 10 nation organizations qualified to reports from bangkok. the any meetings are viewed as an opportunity for the host country this year vietnam to showcase its culture progress and position but not only have 2020 meetings and summits switched to virtual gatherings their traditions and the usual focus on the big regional issues this year are taking a backseat because of covert 19 but even more than the pandemic itself it's the dire economic downturn the region is preparing for i think that this is foremost in the minds of foreign ministers and i think they'll be looking for creative and practical ways of trying to. quickly recover in 2021 they may also be talking about opportunities for allowing tourism or travel bubbles or other things

like this have been discussed primarily bilaterally between governments in the past while the 10 countries of can look to work together to help restart their economies superpowers china and the united states continue to ratchet up their rhetoric and posture in the region tension between china and the u.s. in the south china sea has surged both in moving military assets into the areas of disputed territory but also in diplomatic action sanctions and threats with the need for both nations to be involved in the region for economic and security reasons they look to avoid flashpoints. countries in this region they look at hong kong right and they see a very sort of concerning trend where if you play into one of the you know superpower arguments if you become sort of an object of superpower competition it tends to go very badly for you and i think countries in the region are are watching that example very carefully so while the foreign ministers look to make progress

and working better as a region along with powerful outsiders they'll be focused on plotting a path for their collective 650000000 people who face years of post pandemic economic recovery it's got harder al-jazeera bankcard. the world health organization says young people are now driving the spread of coronavirus but many university students across the u.s. have returned to class despite that morning the reopening of campuses resulted in thousands of new infections but students say they're not to blame and the golic reports. there are 5000 college campuses across the u.s. and more than a 3rd a welcoming the students back it's a controversial decision but officials say those resuming their studies but told to test and self isolate before returning to vote for many students that's not good enough. at the georgia institute of technology students staged a dying calling for refunds but to protection against covert 19 and for people to

be sent home i am happy. that. there will be we are better. there are. people. in the weeks since reopening many colleges have been forced to reverse their decision outbreaks of being blamed on students off campus behavior parties and social gatherings have led to spikes in case numbers despite warnings of disciplinary action after a week the university of north carolina was forced to send students and faculty staff kind of expected under pressure. and you know i thought. here are people that are hard. oh yeah right here the university of alabama has been hit particularly hard with over a 1000 students testing positive in less than 2 weeks faculty staff say the college is ill prepared to deal with the pandemic the original send hear me inviting

students back to campus to be done with you know without any clear timeline. a vaccine a vaccine that majority people are going to take. it was a disaster waiting to happen while young students of far less risk from the coronavirus community spread among vulnerable populations is a major concern the reopening of educational institutions is a policy fraught with complications many are under pressure from parents students and a facing financial hardship some delaying in class teaching those that haven't a paying the price colleges across the u.s. help drive the economy but in a public health crisis they can also spread a virus this nation is still battling and it gallacher al-jazeera 3 iranian ships have switched off their tracking devices for more than a week and could be heading for venezuela to resupply petrol stations for the 3rd time this year long queues for fuel are common iranian fuel deliveries have

happened despite u.s. threats to block sanction breaking shipments. apple i phones are popular worldwide and iran is no exception but as a rainy and suffer from u.s. sanctions the government could pull the plug on imports reports from to hong. it's a global recognized brand the i phone is seen as a luxury item here in iran but the political and spiritual leader of the country seems to have taken issue with the company voted though to be here excessive imports a dangerous sometimes import is a luxury product meaning there is no need for it of heard about half a $1000000000.00 was spent to import one type of american cell phone last year of course the private sector does it but the government must prevent it the average wage in iran is around $300.00 a month the cost of an i phone is out of reach for most iranians this i phone cost around 1000 dollars in the u.s. but here in iran you're likely to pay at least 40 percent more for it sanctions the

cost of importing phones and the weekly rate in currency are all factors in the high prices if people coming into the country bring in a phone they still have to pay for the registration again increasing costs but that's not putting everyone off for 4 months i have a pro max i chose it because it's high quality and you can use it for years unfortunately we have lots of fluctuation in the dollar rate so if you want to buy a knife and the seller should make phone calls and check the price and then sell it to you it's very expensive now apple makes up 5 percent of the phone market some think its loss won't have a great impact for the whole scenario banning i phones will make no change in iran since american sanctions tighten 2 years ago apple restricted access to some of its products here many i phone applications don't work it's difficult to get an apple id or buy software we're in the middle of an economic battle with the united states based on an official report last year 700 to $800000000.00 was spent on i phone

imports but the share is only 4 to 5 percent of the market it's not. goal economically under the current circumstances we're giving our money to the american workforce talks of banning new imports of the i phone have already driven up prices and criticisms from some hid the supreme leader's russian language account statement on objections to luxury american cell phones from an i phone to is also blocked in iran but political officials routinely used a platform to get their message across it's led some to accuse the political establishment of double standards for now iranians can still buy i phones but in the future they may have to turn to other brands for a touch of that sheree aside big al-jazeera the iran. still ahead on al-jazeera evacuations continue in california as multiple fires burn out of control in the u.s. state. has the latest ice hockey action as teams battle to reach the stanley cup.

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business leaders just want to buy no bras paul. or. for warnings and i'm in place for the entire u.s. west coast high winds in california threatened to worsen the largest wildfires ever seen in the state hundreds of stranded people have been airlifted to safety with the past few days 14 firefighters suffered burns and smoke inhalation when they were surrounded by flames victoria getting reports. are fueled by record temperatures strong winds and dry conditions wildfires are once again sweeping

across america's most populous state the fire season is only just beginning here but already california has set a record with more than 9000 square kilometers has been safe and this at least 2 more months of this to come we are experiencing unprecedented confluence of issues this year that we did not experience last year unprecedented record temperatures a heat dome that impacted the entire west coast of the united states not just a few states on the west coast we are dealing with the reality of some 14000 lightning strikes over 72 hour period trust me that did not occur last year that had previously occurred in the late 1980 s. . in fresno county dozens of people were lifted to safety after becoming stranded by wildfires burning through the sierra national forest that's after more than 200

people were rescued over the weekend so so far the creek incident has burned $143929.00 acres the containment remains at 0 percent who says. over a 1000 firefighters are working on the incident right now with more and more resources being ordered to come help out with this incident with just over 5000 structures still threatening. the impact stretches far beyond evacuation zones that california specific gas and electric utility company cutting power to more than 170000 homes and businesses to minimize the risk of power lines sparking additional 5. and it promises to be a tough week for thousands of firefighters the rough terrain high winds and low humidity all hampering their efforts to stop the flames spreading victoria gates and be algis there jennifer b. oakland is in southern california with the latest. some people in the northern part

of the state had just minutes to get out of their homes when the fire came racing towards them and in fact we have heard that some firefighters were overcome in their own fire station in the middle part of the state by a lake in the forest they had to deploy their emergency fire shelters 15 of them 2 are injured quite seriously one critically with burns but everybody got out alive but that is an example of how quickly this fire moves when it can actually burn a fire station in a national forest we can tell you that the santa ana winds were expected to pick up today they have not materialized yet in the hills above this area south of los angeles near the santa need a racetrack we are very concerned by that the dense and old growth brush and trees in the foothills that haven't burned since 1954 and what's happening below is everybody is packed and ready to go just in case they have issued warnings that

that could happen those evacuation orders could materialize this afternoon or even overnight so no one will be sleeping well tonight and the record temperatures over the weekend the good news have fallen however there is still that forecast of wind the good news again though is that the humidity has come up in southern california with some marine influence and some fog rolling in this morning that has stayed with us and kept the santa ana winds at bay at least for now. it's time for the sports thank you rob portuguese superstar christiane over and all those now only the 2nd man to make 100 international goals it was a free kick for portugal in a 2 nil win over sweden that put him over the edge he scored his 1st international goal 16 years ago. is the only other man to have scored a century he reached $190.00. we're all those great rival linnell messi has been

back in training with his club barcelona messi trained by himself the last 2 days after taking a current virus test but on wednesday he was back with his team mates are so will kick off their new spanish league campaign on september 30th against south of eagle 28000 u.s. open champion naomi asako is through to this year's semi finals and possibly just one win away from a deja vu meeting with serena williams osaka breezed into the stage after defeating shelby rogers in straight sets at flushing meadows peterson reports from japan. naomi osaka is a woman on a mission since the western and southern open she has decided to protest racial and social injustice she's also in hot pursuit of a food grand slam singles title and on tuesday american shelby rogers was dispatched in one hour and 20 minutes 63 and 6 for off to the match osaka used her mosque to pay tribute to george floyd who was killed by

a policeman all of the matches are really tough the scoreline might not suggest it but i've had a really a couple really hard matches i think that. made me really grateful to be in the station right now. osaka will face another american in the semifinals jennifer brady. brady is chosen to call. semi brady. the 28th seed was a straight sets win against you leo put in savor of kazakhstan 63 and 62. in the mains draw alexander then it will be the 1st german in a u.s. open single semifinal since boris becker in 1995. found himself 6142 down inside the 1st half an hour but food back to take the win in 461-676-7663. 361

i mean look obviously i didn't play well. about it was down 6142 after about 28 minutes so. it's not a secret i didn't play my best but i found a way a found a way to win that's a concern and i feel like that's the most important variable face pub. in the final 4 was i was the spaniard spent more than 4 hours on court in a 5 say to against canada's denis shop. eventually winning 367676 love 6 and 63 to reach the u.s. open single semifinals for the 2nd time he did same it al-jazeera. after the u.s. open finishes players will start prepping for the french open the happens in 2 weeks world number 2 we're off on the da will be aiming for a record breaking 13th title at roland garros the spaniards preparing a comeback to the sport starting with the italian open in rome he hasn't played

a match in 7 months. the miami heat sealed their 4th when against the milwaukee bucks in punch their ticket to the eastern conference final the heat were on fire jimmy butler raked in a double double with 17 points and 10 rebounds. 5 of his teammates also had double doubles final score here one of 3 to 94. team game in that way or you have almost 0 but a win is going to tell you how we can get it we talked about one being not the mud i think that this was one on the so many wars and so many. and i applaud everybody's you're here ready. le bron james scored 36 points and red john rando sparked a 4th quarter rally for the l.a. lakers against the houston rockets they won this game 112-2102 taking a 21 lead and their western conference playoff series with dunks like this by the end of the night le bron broke the n.b.a. record with the most playoff wins of any other player topping the charts at 162.

it's a no to a student at the top of most wins for an individual. you know is very humbling and it's something i never dreamed of and it never came into the league or as the kids and i want to be number one employer whence. you know what we said i want to be a part of when he called her and be a winning player and do whatever it takes to have much teammates win and this is the result of it but it doesn't happen without you know much he made over the years michael just as a coach to have already years. you know everyone from top to bottom. in ice hockey the vegas cold nights one games game 2 against the dallas stars to level the western conference final goaltender robin lehner made 24 saves to keep the dallas stars scoreless the entire game it was letters for shut out in 5 starts of his career finals for this time 30 game 3 is on thursday. some very lucky fans will be allowed to attend the 1st 2 n.f.l. games in ohio this month the state governor said $3000.00 supporters will be able

to watch the cleveland browns and the cincinnati bengals in person at each of their season opening home games there will still be social distancing in and out of everyone is required to wear face masks the governor says this is just a trial run to consider possibly opening the stadium to fans at more games the season former n.f.l. quarterback calling capper nick will feature in a video game version of the sport for the 1st time in 4 years a sports announcer they've included him in madden 21 and the game he's programmed to be a free agent raise his fist in the air at also raising his fist near after every touchdown capper nick has not played in the n.f.l. since 2016 after he began kneeling during the national anthem to protest against racism well that is all your sport for me had you back over to up there thank you very much indeed and that's it for me robot this in for this news hour but i will be back in a moment with more of the day's news join me then if you count part out. the

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