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company says it's a spending trials for its covert 19 vaccine after an unexplained illness and extreme fire warnings for the entire u.s. west coast as dry winds ignite new blazes across california. thanks for joining us an overcrowded greek island camp that had become the makeshift home for thousands of refugees is now a smoldering ruin and a desperate effort has begun to work out what to do with those now homeless fire burned for hours through maurya camp a state of from urgency has been declared on the isle of the laura borden family reports. before i was still burning through moria camp at the new day began on the greek island of blood spots. around the camp thousands of refugees again in

search of a home sleepy wherever they can. move a night's more than 12000 people fled as flames began to the largest refugee camp a grief. many looked own as the homes were destroyed in the past who gets the 5 made more difficult by storm when. they are out there. today for parts very tiny. growing. in. the camp in those posts 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 and 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 a virus 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 corona 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 persecution and poverty hoping to find safety in europe since the 1st of march. have been quarantined away from moria camp due to the pandemic but the people who found refuge in the very place where they had is gone and what was already an uncertain future is looking

even more bleak nor those among the al-jazeera. greece's prime minister says people who are in the camp will not be allowed to leave the island but will be put up in emergency housing in tents. we don't ask you i believe that a bad experience can quickly turn into an opportunity for a better reality and this will happen unless boss wants the damage and morea has been assessed and in consultation with the european commission we will take concrete initiatives our priority remains the health and safety of all residents and migrants afghanistan's vice president who survived what appears to have been yet another assassination attempt which killed at least 10 others. has unharmed thank government security forces for what he called their fight against terrorism sara 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 because 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 to 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. then created the storming of his office in kabul last year by 3 gunmen who killed 20 people including sourness family members. he's part of the government's negotiation team with the taliban with the latest talks tea to be held in qatar the weiss president with a strong weiss. and also having an influence on the ongoing peace process is certainly going to become much harder in his stance in terms of negotiating with the taliban which is which is expected leave 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 the negotiation process should proceed as the 2 sides agree to move on because right now there is a slight hurdle that there is a difference of opinion between taliban and the afghan government on release of a handful of prisoners sourness young son was reportedly with him in the car and his own home and blah series called and as investigators look for clues to hide out . well trials for one of the world's most promising coronavirus treatments are on hold because of the unexplained illness of one of the participants developers astra zeneca 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 is routine practice to investigate when unexplained illnesses occur

thousands of patients in britain brazil south africa and the u.s. are all taking part in the u.s. is top infectious disease expert says it's unfortunate the trial had to be delayed but points out 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 a hold until you can work out precisely what went on. 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 the 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 england has announced a ban on social gatherings of 6 or more people starting from monday those who don't comply will be fined the british prime minister boris johnson says stricter coronavirus restrictions will help avoid a 2nd lockdown marshals will be used to enforce social distancing rules the u.k. confirmed more than 2 and a half 1000 new covert 1000 cases on wednesday where it's the has more from oxford . to the problem the u.k.'s got is the same as you know the european countries summer's over kids are going back to school. you know the autumn is on the way just not just england but countries are the czech republic the netherlands elsewhere suddenly steet rises in the infection rates and the problem that the u.k.'s got and they've been identifying this is the 1st time in several months that boris johnson's held a news conference like this with both his chief scientific advisor and his chief

medical officer and the chief scientific advisor showed a number of slides looking at the rise in rates of the last few days in the demographics and the in the age group saying the biggest rise in cases is young people between 18 or 20 and 29 that's a steep rise old people it's fairly flat but the messaging that the government's been trying to say to them look you might not get ill but you might kill one of your grandparents that hasn't been working and interesting lee they showed some slides which demonstrated that the rise in the u.k. in england i'm sorry is very similar to that of france but belgium they said had taken what they call decisive action and immediately that was the rate started to flatten out again and so based on that they say they've had no choice but to bring in these measures to try to avoid a full lockdown but they will put much bigger restrictions on people as you say from the start of next week the limit on gatherings up until now i've been 30 as of monday is going to become 6 and that might last until nearly so was christmas according to the government this morning the un security council is holding

a virtual meeting to discuss a resolution that would demand a cessation of hostilities in war torn countries during the code 1000 pandemic the session requested by france antenna 0 will address the un's efforts in countries affected by armed conflict or humanitarian crisis during the pandemic since the outbreak began the u.n. has had to scale back and adjust peacekeeping and aid missions to make sure their own staff don't spread the virus christmas salumi has more from the united nations in new york. the security council has been getting a briefing from some of the un's top officials and humanitarian affairs peacekeeping affairs and political affairs and it's a pretty bleak picture not only is the violence continuing efforts to help conflict and do away with conflict are struggling because of restrictions placed on . diplomats and so on because of the coronavirus so we heard from rosemary de

carlo the political affairs corner that there was some initial cessation of hostilities in country countries after the un 1st called for the ceasefire about 2 months ago but that is pretty much fallen apart we've seen that in countries like yemen and libya where conflict and violence is still ongoing she gave an example of syria where talks had to stop peace talks had to stop before resuming because some of the participants came down with covert but the really bleak picture comes on the humanitarian front under-secretary general mark lowcock who heads up humanitarian affairs for the united nations said that conflict prone countries with existing refugee and humanitarian issues already make up about a 3rd of cases of coronavirus globally and a 3rd of desk globally and those numbers he said are probably much under represented in the totals because testing is so limited in these areas. still ahead

on al-jazeera u.s. sanctions that could drive a wedge between hezbollah and its lebanese political allies why iran's supreme leader wants to pull the plug on imports of apple i phones. having channel 23 tie figures straight up through here and that's the remains of the losses you know when you run with it we've got what looks like proper seasonal rains back in the line exists through a good part of honshu significant right here and then comes back to rejuvenate over western china and it'll do that for the next day or so drifting slow resounds with time so significant rain possible with flash flooding in southern china and also japan with

a shower too is still on the korean peninsula fellas as is also pretty widespread showers they haven't quite reached as far south daily as for example java but virtually anywhere else is a fair chance with the concentration appearing to be on the western side of borneo sumatra and catching singapore on a good part of thailand. the monsoon rains over india pakistan bangladesh although they are going to start to retreat soon look as though they were to have were probably pulsing back so if not heavy heavy rain in the northeast of india but in back then but the concentration now and for the next few days is likely to be that the western gas the high ground this part of india anywhere from mumbai size woods that amount of rain will bring yet more flooding. but. a face can tell a story without uttering a single word. and knowing gone going to.

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refugee camp were started deliberately to protest no the imposed coronavirus restrictions. of drama stand vice president who survived what appears to have been an assassination attempt at least 10 people were killed when our last convoy was bombed in kabul. england has announced a ban on social gatherings of 6 or more people starting on monday british prime minister boris johnson says stricter coronavirus restrictions will help avoid a 2nd law but also use marshals to enforce social distancing rules. fire warnings are in place along the entire west coast of north america from mexico to canada wildfires that began in california are now also raging in the states of oregon and washington they're the largest ever seen in the region strong winds and unprecedented high temperatures are fueling the spread hundreds of people have been airlifted to safety and entire towns have been destroyed so let's get an update

from rob rhodes he's joining us from los angeles so the weather service has issued so-called red flag warnings right across the west coast what does that actually mean. well red flag warnings are issued when there's a combination of factors including. low humid high temperatures and most especially high winds here in los angeles they're called santa ana winds they blow from the west from the east down slope of this year of mountains to towards the sea in the west and the. can become extremely high winds so at the moment in addition to these red flag warnings there are more than 80 major fires burning all across the western united states from washington state in the north down to san diego county on the border with mexico well 109000 square kilometers

have burned so far as i mentioned these strong winds are fanning the flames and there are some of the largest fires in california history that are still burning in remote areas heavy brush and timber virtually uncontained 14000 firefighters are no on the front lines tens of thousands of people residents have been evacuated national guard helicopters have rescued hundreds of people trapped by the flames in remote campsites and in small communities in the forests and hills of california and since the fires began in august the total of 8 people are known to have died many have been injured and property damage has been heavy as well the entire town of malden a small community in eastern washington state was completely destroyed by fire in the past 24 hours rob california experiences wildfires so what's different

this time around. well it's kind of a perfect recipe for disaster when you have extremely high temperatures. very low humidity. tinder dry forest and chaparral as a result of drought which is lingered for years in the west and then again though the high winds sometimes it's a matter of human carelessness the. eldorado fire which is burning in the hills east of los angeles was started when some people had a gender reveal party for their baby unborn baby but they used the pirate technique device actually that. started a fire that is still raging and there's a kind of eerie dimness in the air here in los angeles the quality of light is

orange and there's a very sort of strong. sense that there's a pall of smoke from all these fires you can see coming down from time to time and also some unusual factors there were thousands of lightning strikes from dry thunderstorms in august a cold the light that started a lot of fires in northern california in some areas there has been. station of pine bark beetles which is believed to be linked to climate change and these have killed millions if not billions of pine trees turning them basically into kindling for the fires and of course people nowadays are increasingly living in remote areas in the so-called urban wild land interface enjoying a lifestyle that is very pleasant but puts them in harm's way when when the fires

burn and i think the bottom line of course as many people have said is that a war. arming planet is changing conditions radically firefighters say they've not seen the fires behave this way in all of their careers yesterday governor gavin newsom the governor of california linked the fires directly to to global warming saying he has no patience for climate change denial all right reynolds thank you very much for that update from los angeles well for the 1st time the u.s. government has sanctioned lebanese political allies off hezbollah 2 former government ministers are having their u.s. property assets frozen and further sanctions are being imposed on allies of the iranian backed group that the u.s. considers a terrorist organization zana holds out reports from beirut's. early house on a close associate of the speaker of parliament nabih berri is among 2 former

lebanese government ministers sanctioned by the u.s. administration it says they provided material and financial support to hezbollah yousif in ya know us a member of the christian marriage the party is the other they have dismissed the accusations it now means their properties in the u.s. have been frozen and dealing with them risks being sanctioned the u.s. has been targeting the iranian backed group with sanctions for years but this is the 1st time it's targeting political allies. you. want. the 2 week deadline set by french president manuel mccall for the formation of

a government is at the halfway stage france and the u.s. have made it clear international financial assistance will depend on a cabinet willing to carry out economic and political reforms but they seem to have differences of opinion the sanctions could help bring about a deal or hardened positions at least i'm sure they should send the message that you can. while the french initiative this is based on the promise that you know in order to. meet in order to achieve some we you need to acknowledge. france unlike the u.s. views hezbollah's military and political wings as separate entities hezbollah says the u.s. campaign is politically motivated and aimed at forcing concessions the u.s. has been going after hezbollah's money supply for years but recently accused the big boy to the states resources the u.s. treasury alleges former ministers in lebanon government enabled has follow firms to

win bids for state contracts and help circumvent sanctions by moving money from ministries to hezbollah institutions. u.s. officials are promising to go after any politician who assists the group in what could be the beginning of a new policy in dealing with lebanon it's a strong message to politicians that could drive a wedge between hezbollah and its allies and affect its growing political power center. beirut. belarusian investigators say 2 senior opposition leaders are being held in custody accused of destabilizing the country laura maxime's in uk was the latest to be rounded up by masked men earlier on wednesday maria called us go for disappeared on monday and reportedly ripped up her passport to avoid deportation to ukraine as an ark was the last prominent activist still free in belarus and the leading by the recent opposition candidates of atlanta says she hopes to have

a dialogue with the ruling powers despite the activist attention she's in warsaw and neighboring poland trying to garner support she says many of her fellow citizens are in shock over the violence used against protesters a lot of people are still in hospitals lot of people some people were raped. and it is. it was a great shock for all their. people because we really couldn't even expect that such violence could happen in our country in the at the moment. and the regime is trying to scare and. realize us but eat relies only on force we rely on our solidarity and vision of new builders voters in ethiopia's northern region defy the federal

government order to cast their ballots in a local election they're choosing members of the $190.00 seat regional parliament even though the government declared wednesday's vote illegal the poll is part of the general election which was suspended due to coronavirus maybe you see whole mikhail is a member of prime minister prosperity party he says that secret people's liberation front or t.p. l.f. are heading for political suicide because the result will be no voids. 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 the 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 gun and that is the result

is not in voigt so the tension can be scally to but surely as it appeared it 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 lots of questions related reasons 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 is just hiding afic i genda and trying to appear as if he is. he can participate and compete in the. political life. 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 her. 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 no to veto here excess of 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 iphone 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 betting 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 idea 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 logical

economically under the current circumstances we're giving our money to the american workforce talks of banning 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 the american cell phones from an i phone 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 irradiance can still buy i phones but in the future they may have to turn to other brands for a touch of the i said big al-jazeera the iran. kind of again the headlines on al-jazeera a state of emergency has been declared on the greek island of less woes after a fire it left thousands of refugees without shelter reports say some of the blazes

at the morea refugee camp were started deliberately to protest newly imposed coronavirus restrictions afghanistan's vice president has survived what appears to have been yet another assassination attempt which killed at least 10 others. unharmed and he's thank government security forces for what he called their fight against terrorism. after so. i want to assure you in a message that i'm fine inside 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 say in the messages about my health i want to thank all the security forces were fighting against terrorism and acting as a shield to face these terrorist attacks and i'm proud of them. trials for one of the world's most promising coronavirus treatments are on hold because of the unexplained illness of one of the participants developers astra zeneca 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 is routine practice to investigate when unexplained illnesses occur thousands of patients in britain brazil south africa and the u.s. are taking parts of. england has announced a ban on social gatherings of 6 or more people starting from monday those who don't comply will be fined the british prime minister boris johnson stricter coronavirus restrictions will help avoid a 2nd lockdown fire warnings are in place along the entire west coast of north america from mexico to canada wildfires that began in california are now also raging in the states of oregon and washington they're the largest ever seen in the region strong winds and unprecedented high temperatures are fueling the spreads we'll have more news coming up on al-jazeera right after witness that's next thanks

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