just syria. to account as we examine the u.s. it's won the war on al jazeera. thousands of lives left in limbo after a fire sweeps through europe's largest refugee camp on the greek island of lesbos. a large databases al-jazeera live from london also coming up wildfires blaze across several states on the u.s. west coast including in oregon a 5 towns have now been destroyed. the u.k. government rolls out new coronavirus restrictions in england as concern grows that the social distancing message is not every through. and arrested for criticizing

the government crackdown lawyer and activist maxime is not is the latest opposition figure to be detained in baton rouge. below 5 again burning near to a greek migrant camp that was all but destroyed by an overnight blaze it's left thousands of asylum seekers without shelter but locals are blaming them for starting the fire officials believe it may have been arson started by refugees who were forced to self isolate after testing positive for the coronavirus transfer of press reports from the scene. this was one of europe's largest refugee camps morea on the greek island of lesbos fires have torn through tents and dilapidated structures they were thought to have been deliberately lit by people fed up with that desperate existence compounded by corona fires here out there today far far.

far worse. and. thousands of people became homeless once again precious family belongings hastily bundled together to form makeshift bedding there were no fatalities but these are lives thrust even deeper now into limbo is very very very unfair to very very different chord. is a call for is a very broad. chord proport far more knowledge has come 3rd where if you don't want to go is living here because this problem but if i may be dead now it is you know the camp had housed more than 12000 people in cramped unsanitary conditions designed for a quarter of that number of conditions in which coronavirus could easily flourish we are extremely worried not only 4 to 40 percent children that even muddier who are currently on the street but in particular we need to coping also more than 200 people live in the camp who are at particular risk for it either because of their

age or because of that would mean that if they get infected the will be much more sick than the rest of the population and so as far as we know right now those $200.00 are mixed in the big group of $30000.00 who are basically at loss in the streets in 20152016 hundreds of thousands of people risk to the mediterranean crossing in small boats from turkey to greek islands like lesbos they fled war persecution and poverty the european union eventually closed its doors but the refugees kept coming many ending their journey here in moria camp a problem the greek government has long said it shouldn't have to. shoulder. you don't. 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 maria has been assessed and in consultation with the european commission we will take concrete initiatives our party remains the health and safety of both presidents and

migrants with nowhere else to go there was little to do but sit and wait. the government says that as many as 3 and a half 1000 people will have to be really housed in tents municipal facilities and on board ships but just 24 hours after the fire that destroyed the official morea camp a new fire was lit and the numbers of people in need of shelter are now likely to be far higher jumps out there are less boats. the governor of oregon says blazes burning across the state could bring the greatest loss of life from wildfires in its history this is close to 100 active fires but across the u.s. coast with warnings in place from mexico to canada there is in california been through a record 930000 hectors in recent weeks as the state sees a record heat wave files are also raging in the state of washington nevada utah and montana. tells what with.

west coast. just an enormous waft of the west is burning right now the fires through half a dozen states for a month to hang up in the north near the canadian border all the way down to san diego county in the state of california next to the mexican border and there are red flag warnings up for most of that area that means that meteorologists have determined that high winds can fan the flames that contributes to the very dry conditions that we've been experiencing with intermittent drought for years out here in oregon really seems to be getting the worst of this right now there were gusts of wind up to 80 kilometers per hour driving the flames into these small

communities there hasn't been any. reports officially of fatalities in this terrible disaster in oregon but the governor kate brown says it has the potential for being the largest loss of life and property in the state's history due to 2 wildfires here in california there are hundreds of people who are now thanking the california national guard for sending in helicopters to rescue them from remote campgrounds and small towns in the sierra mountains that were threatened by raging wildfires as a enormous fire in that area that's barely contained at all there are 14000 firefighters on the line in the state the. number of people who have had to flee are in the 10s of thousands. is unknown whether there have

been additional casualties up in washington state an entire town. walled them was destroyed of virtually completely destroyed and the rescuers and officials are going through the wreckage now to see if any of the $300.00 residents of that small town did he did not were on the able to to make it out the governor of california gavin newsome said that what's happening this year is simply without precedent and take a look at what the sky looks like in the san francisco bay area it's almost like a martian kind of scene with red orange yellow ts to the sky from wall of the smoke and ash circulating in the upper atmosphere obviously air quality is an issue in some of these areas but there's a pair at least some better news on the way according to

a meteorologist they believe that the winds may start to slacken over the next couple of days and that will give the firefighters a chance to try to contain some of these raging fires and that can't happen soon enough as far as the people who live in these areas are concerned. pretty dramatic stuff that way the wildfires if they happen do we know why these one seem to be so severe. there are a lot of factors involved involved. one as i mentioned we've had intermittent drought for 4 years in california and that's extended northward as well. there has been an infestation of these high bark beetles that's not to be related to changes in their range which has been facilitated by global warming so they burrow into the pine trees the. killed the pine trees then the pine trees

essentially you know just become status big pieces of kindling and there are billions if not billions of these dead trees in the sierras so that's another factor we had a huge heat wave a really blistering heat wave a couple of days ago it's cool down a bit now but that certainly exacerbated things and then there's the winds these are seasonal winds they call the santa ana's down here do yeah blows up in the northern parts of california but they get really gusty they blow down slope from the mountains from east to west and when a wind gust of 80 kilometers per hour is going there's no way to contain a fire like that at the at at the at the end of the day i think you have to look at climate changes and global warming and changes in rainfall precipitation pasts and all that sort of thing to include in the multi-factorial

explanation for why these fires are so catastrophic this year rob reynolds thank you very much indeed for that thank you. i explained illness in a british find here has brought trials for one of the world's most promising coronavirus vaccines to a sudden halt oxygene investee and the u.k. based drug astra zeneca say the delay is routine but it's dimming hopes that a shot could be ready soon as far as the reports it comes on the same day that britain's prime minister put new restrictions in place warning they could be there for months. the oxford university vaccine has huge potential it's already passed 2 phases of its testing and is now being rolled out to some of the worst affected parts of the world from the 10s of thousands who've been given it many have provided

a strong immune response to the virus yet so rigorous is the testing regime that an adverse reaction from a single patient has led to the trials having to be suspended by the manufacturer astra zeneca to ensure it is safe for everyone that means no new people being added to the trials are the sort of event happens very frequently in vaccine trials the reason we are hearing about it is because clearly there's a lot of scrutiny over the kind of a vaccine and clearly the research is that oxford and the company itself cane on being as i've been and transparent as possible the hope is that the trials can resume in a few weeks the best case scenario is still that hundreds of millions of doses are rolled out early next year scientific experts have been at pains to point out that just because someone is vaccinated and then becomes ill by no means does it imply that the vaccine caused the illness if anything they say hick ups like this are perfectly common in vaccine shiling they also argue that it should be taken by the

public as evidence that the process is trustworthy more concerning for the british government is that people have stopped taking the virus seriously enough particularly young people who are unlikely to get ill but could kill their grandparents yet that messaging isn't working and so the prime minister announced that as of monday next week gatherings of more than 6 will become illegal this will apply in any setting indoors or outdoors at home or in the pub the ban will sit out in mood and be set out in law and it will be enforced by the police and anyone breaking the rules risk being dispersed fined and possibly arrested the great fear is that with autumn coming people refusing to obey the rules could start to have an impact on all spittle is ations again it hasn't happened yet though in the absence of a vaccine public awareness is still the best hope largely al-jazeera oxford. the

u.n. security council has discussed a resolution to demand an end to armed conflicts to deal with a coronavirus pandemic since the outbreak began the u.n. has had to scale back peacekeeping and aid missions to make sure stuff don't spread the disease christensen to me has more. conflict afflicted countries like yemen are among the most vulnerable to cope with 19 a situation exacerbated by the lack of a strong coordinated international response that was the take away from top u.n. officials briefing the security council wednesday although it's really orse existing agreements and give sockets of areas with an agenda restricted rights and limits as well as to extremist groups and other criminal seeking to take advantage of it and damage so that risks of conflict instability. island nation displaced are rising humanitarian chief mark low cox says economic support for

these crisis hit countries has been tepid at best although calls for unity and decisive action have yielded little i am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world secretary general antonio got terrorized 1st call for a cease fire in march but it took the council months to follow up with a resolution making it official since then temporary truces have faltered humanitarian crises have worsened and the us has withdrawn support financial and otherwise from the world health organization the w.h.o. needs to reform including by demonstrating its independence from the chinese communist party that lack of dependence transparency and accountability is why president trump made the decision for the united states to withdraw from the w.h.o. china for its part of q.'s the u.s. of undermining international efforts to fight the virus it's all worth. the u.s.

reserved it was absolutely abusing the security council platform was above using today's meeting. they are spreading political virus what they are doing here is simply. to serve your mouth with politics in disagreement over the w h o's role in the pandemic is what to lay the security council's call for a 90 day humanitarian truce the 1st time around and could complicate efforts to extend the ceasefire one thing is certain according to u.n. officials a lack of international response will just lead to more conflict and insecurity christian salumi al-jazeera the united nations still to come on. us said it was no worse than through and would just disappear a different trump deliberately play the fires down. and afghanistan's vice president survives of another sas nation attempt the 10 people

were killed. hello there if you shot as to coastal areas of australia can see the clouds here that all see as where we have to go to a bit of a warming trend is across south australia it's the head of the next fronts this is where the shells away as you go through thursday sydney up towards brisbane showers across both islands of new zealand and then this front is sweeping across the great by say not bad across western australia begin to clear sunny skies certainly on friday but ahead of that front very well in particularly into adelaide the showers and some fairly brisk winds working their way across towards tasmania more rain as well in britain as we head towards the end of the week but this is what i mean about the warm up ahead of that front in adelaide and then we see showers eventually later on suffered in the time it is coming back down but even so very nice and some nice sunshine similar scenario in sydney temperatures actually

warming up as we head through the weekend some nice sunshine there as well then we head up tools asia plenty of cloud across northeast areas of china this is all the remnants of a recent typhoon or we could have some localized flooding here the rain is bypasses . and doesn't remove for the next couple days the some very heavy downpours particularly through areas of honshu this is old time for a frontal system it's slow to move friday is the same sort of story so again we really could have some localized flooding and some very heavy rain again through the small southern sections of china bit dry up into shanghai. but. in response to global warming germany is gradually shutting down its coal industry but is it happening fast enough we don't have any time to waste anymore we can't wait so we're taken direct action to call for the immediate phase out of culture as climate change activists challenge communities reliant on the

industry for jobs people in power asks who will win the cold war on al-jazeera. route. or mine to the top stories how. fires are again burning near a greek migrant camp that was almost totally destroyed overnight on tuesday the blaze at the morea camp has left thousands of people without shelter. the governor of oregon says 5 towns in the state have been substantially destroyed with fears people may have died 5 warnings are in place along the entire u.s. west coast as blazes grew out of control. and trials for one of the most promising

coronavirus vaccines have been suspended testing of the vaccine developed by scientists at the university of oxford and the u.k. based drug astra zeneca was poorest after participants fell ill. yes president donald trump has dismissed allegations that he knew how contagious and deadly the covert 19 virus was even while telling americans it was no worse than the seasonal flu the claim comes in a new book by veteran journalist bob woodward interviewed president trump in march and in his own words the president said he wanted to always play the virus down let's go to mike hanna in washington d.c. so what's the reaction been from president trying to this. pub president from continues to insist that he acted as a cheerleader for the american people would report sat on generally the 28th president trump was told by his national security adviser that the coronavirus

represented the single greatest national security threat of his presidency on the 6th of february according to what would the president was briefed by president xi jinping of china who told him that the virus was transmitted by bet it was 10 times more deadly than the most severe strain of flu this was recounted by president trump in a recorded conversation with bob woodward the following day president trump subsequently he conducted some 800 separate or do interviews with woodward goes on to say that he did not want to alarm the american people he did not want to panic them and now on this day this is what president trump has to say. i'm not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy we want to show confidence we want to show strength we want to show strength as a nation and that's what i've done and we've done very well we've done well from

any standard. well there's absolutely dismissed by presidential candidate joe biden who's come up firing saying that president trump has essentially lied to the american people abidin says that as many as 56000 lives could have been saved if president trumpet acted on the knowledge that now we know we had back in march so certainly this is going to have massive replications that may be measured at the polls in november mike hanna thank you very much indeed and a russian investigators say 2 senior opposition figures are being held in custody accused of destabilizing the country nor an activist maxime is not quite as arrested by masked men on wednesday is not had recently spoken out about the escalating crackdown on dissent maria colors nick over disappeared on monday she reportedly ripped up her passport to avoid deportation to ukraine. journalist

andrei vita which is in minsk and says both activists could face 5 years in jail. nearly 2 days after her disappearance the investigative comedy has announced that maria kolesnikov along with a lawyer seems not to have been detained under suspicious of destabilizing the country in harming its national security in all visibility in the position of leadership atlantic and also created the coordination council in order to push for a transfer of power in belarus but president alexander lukashenko warrant that he would take action against anyone who joined them you know it seems that he's warning has come true bella recently sygate if comedy was created in 2011 it consists of representatives from the interior ministry and prosecutors but it also reports directly to the president according to the national criminal codes maria kolesnik are in maxime's not good now face up to 5 years in jail and it seems like there is only one member of their position co-ordination councils brazilian remains

free inside the country it is. that we know of nobel prize for literature. in most areas has suspended military drills with foreign troops for 6 months citing pressure from the european union the move will hoped planned joint exercises with russia in protest it bella reuss serbia's defense minister says he faced enormous and undeserved pressure from brussels and russian russian and serbian military forces had been due to start military trials from thursday. afghanistan's vice president has survived what appears to have been yet another assassination attempt a missile a was unharmed in the bombing in kabul but at least 10 people were killed so a higher natural force. 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 roller salles convoy was traveling through the tamani area of kabul was 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 the satanic 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 are 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 their 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 nucleated the storming of his office in kabul last year by 3 gunmen who killed 20 people including son of spammy members. he's part of the government's negotiation team with the taliban with the latest talks to to be held in qatar the wise president with a strong wise. man wise 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 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 the process the 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 on release of a handful of prisoners sourness young son was reportedly with him in the car and is on hand the blast series called and as investigators look for clues so to hide out . the united states has announced they withdrawal of more troops from iraq the head of u.s. central command says the number of american troops will be reduced to 3000 this month it comes after the u.s. led coalition officially transferred the best miami and can't miniature bases near baghdad to iraqi security forces the withdrawal is in keeping with president donald trump's promise to bring troops home in a bid to end what he's called america's and this war's. voters in ethiopia's

northern region have defied a federal government order and cast their ballots in local elections choosing members of the 190 seat regional parliament even though the government declared the poll illegal welcome web reports. people in the 2 gray region of northern ethiopia voted in election years federal government said it was on constitutional and illegal. government to postpone nationwide polls that were due last month because of the coronavirus pandemic that some to grant voters say were being deprived of their democratic right to the had the bombs i believe it is lawful toward elections every 5 years it is in the law somebody is very important because it means being governed by a good tomato government elected by the people. the to grain people's liberation front is widely supported here it dominates the regional state council and that's

not expected to change with the polls result the grains make up less than 5 percent of g.n.p. is more than 100000000 people but the t.p.a. left party has dominated ethiopian politics for most of the last 30 years. but that changed when prime minister ahmed came to power 2 years ago following years of anti-government protests many tea p.l.f. officials say that he's been squeezing them out of the central federal government last month regional security forces loyal to the t.p. l.f. paraded in cities into gray in a show of strength. abby ruled out sending the national armed forces to stop the election to grand leaders said doing so would be a declaration of war was tabbies ruling prosperity party to recognize the election result. this is

a very dangerous situation that appears if it is putting it into a suicide mission because this election is totally and the result is a void. some minority to grand political parties think the region should secede for now p.l.f. officials are disgruntled they say they still believe in a united they have been using all kinds of tricks in the book. to. buy tickets. so to that extent it is they who should be blamed for pushing to write what is the age of the west we're not interested in declaring independence. to gray an election is the latest controversy and the rising tensions between central federal government leaders and some of the regional states. until those tensions are resolved ethiopia's unity and stability are at risk malcolm where al-jazeera.

the panel for lying throughout the coronavirus pandemic but action is police say it's left them destitute as the country battles through the 3rd year of recession officers have been forced to buy their own kit when they can barely feed their families there's a book report. these police officers belong to the largest force in argentina. they have been protesting for days demanding better salaries and work conditions and i'm one peter has been an officer for 16 years she says her family can barely survive because of their manners and what and they are any business i make 43000 pesos a month this is a wage that leaves my family below the poverty line before the pen demick we were able to make some extras but now we don't make extra money and it's tough to sustain my family this officer who did not want his name mentioned says he needs to pay for his own equipment. boy this gives us some money for our clothes but the

price is 4 times what they give us we have expired bullet proof jackets everything is wrong. so this week for the 1st time police officers are taking to the streets there demanding a 56 percent salary increase. call it 19 having praised the pressure on the men templar is like doctors the police the oem all the others who say they're working nonstop and cannot make ends meet i didn't tina has one of the highest inflation rates in the world even in the economic crisis and that's why this people here say they heard in the media way government officials told al-jazeera that some of those involved in the protest are under investigation for crimes committed during service and could be suspended and that's why they're trying to create chaos precedent a lot of the for a man this says this is not the time to put security at risk in the province of when a site is near a city go it's not ethical to use the difficult times we are living within the pandemic to deepen the crisis and demand things that sometimes difficult to result

. but the protesters say they just need better wages at a time where hardship has become the norm. and one aside it's a quick reminder of our top story 5 as are again burning near a greek migrant camp that was almost totally destroyed over night on tuesday investigations are underway off to the blaze at the morea camp on less boss little authorities think could have been arson of the oland is a major route for migrants and train to europe. and winding up in time with your stories on our website dot com. to stay with us all observe people in power is up next thanks for watching. i am sequences i have a question at least days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important the bottom line tackles the big issues this issue united states

its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. in response to global warming germany is in the process of closing down its coal industry for many years the country's principal source of energy especially in the formerly communist east but there's fierce arguments about the place about closure between those worried about the economic consequences and those who believe that immediate action is necessary to combat climate change so who will win germany's cold war.