i think in some very heavy rain for the next couple days particularly around washington d.c. . the. deadly wildfire has been across several western states in the u.s. oregon's governess says 5 towns and hundreds of homes have been destroyed. this could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfires in our city history. and again i missed and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a new book reveals president trump knew the risks of covert 19 earlier this year but deliberately downplayed the threat and public. thousands of lives left in limbo

as far as been again europe's largest refugee camp on the greek island of less bonds. and demanding higher pay protesting police officers in argentina say they're forced to rely on themselves for protective equipment during this pandemic. now the u.s. west coast is experiencing an unprecedented wildfire season 5 fires in some states have retreated from uncontrolled fires prompting the evacuation of thousands 6 people have now died in the last 24 hours oregon's governor is warning this could be the state's deadliest season on record where 5 small towns in central oregon have already been destroyed more than 80000 people in the city of medford have been told to leave their homes. over the last 24 hours or again has experienced unprecedented fire with significant damage and devastating

consequences across the entire state. i want to be upfront in saying that we expect to see a great deal of loss both in structures and in human lives this could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfire in our state's history well california is already experiencing the most severe wildfire season in its modern history now several communities that faced large scale destruction back in 2018 being forced to evacuate once again and washington state is experiencing the west is there and over a decade and the town of more than 80 percent of infrastructure has been lost out of there as rob reynolds is in a sam's less and begins our coverage. from montana to the mexico border huge swaths of the western u.s. are burning hundreds of thousands of square kilometers have burned in california

colorado arizona montana oregon utah and washington what we're experiencing this year is simply without precedent the small town of malden in eastern washington was almost completely incinerated by a wind driven wildfire authorities are searching the rubble unsure whether old the town's approximately $300.00 residents made it out alive in medford oregon a fire swept through a mobile home community reducing it to a burned out hell's scape of twisted metal resident regina hill lost everything she owned that i don't know what you're wearing right now this is. powerful winds are spreading the oregon fires the governor invoked emergency powers to marshal more resources in california highway. winds are also fanning the flames 14000 firefighters are out on the front lines in california where 28 major fires

have scorched over 100000 hectors tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from several of the largest fires in the state's history a big fire in san diego county is moving dangerously close to populated areas we have a sleeping giant that is in the back country california national guard helicopters flew hundreds of stranded campers and back country residents to safety relatives welcomed the rescued after an anxious night long wait times for we don't know crying but there will be tears the smoke and ash in the atmosphere cast a glow over san francisco in an eerie orange light air quality in parts of the bay area was labeled hazardous what's behind the many conflagrations bone dry brush and trees following years of intermittent drought low humidity combined with

a brewery ling heat wave in recent days and above all holly seasonal winds blowing down from the mountains provide a singular recipe for disaster rob reynolds los angeles and now a report commissioned by the u.s. financial regulators has concluded that the costs of climate change pose a big threat to financial markets and we can now speak to leonardo much as day as he is the global director of the sustainable finance center at the wild resources institute and also editor of that report he joins us now from washington d.c. and not i thank you for being with us this is really an assessment of climate risk which isn't just about extreme weather events like we've been saying but also about the fundamental stability of financial markets can you explain how it's all related . yes the commission came up with conclusions the 1st is that the u.s. financial system is vulnerable to the kinds of impacts that we just heard about and wildfires on hurricanes and floods and those assets have to be protected or they

will begin to affect the value of loans and stark's and all the financial instruments that are so important but it also says that there is a risk that companies will not adapt quickly enough to a transition to a low carbon carbon economy and there is also a threat that has to be borne against a lot of the trunk administration has pursued environmental deregulation saying that that will spur economic growth but ignoring climate change will do the opposite not of this is new institutions like the world bank of been saying this for years so how do you convince politicians of that. the point thing about this report is it's not just coming from economists or the world bank it's coming from $34.00 members who come from the private sector including some of the largest american banks asset owners and yes managers and environmental n.g.o.s as well so business is sending a very clear signal this is not a political this is a fundamental threat to the business of finance while they are not in this

administration is also tried to block research on climate change from coming out it's remarkable that your report was published why do you think that is. i think it's a testimony to the fact that the c. of the sea the regulatory body that convened the group had the foresight and the wisdom to realize this is a major issue that has to be looked at even if the politics are unfriendly to it and that it had to put in the table for consideration of congress as well as the white house do you think you know that the coronavirus pandemic which is waiting week and the resilience of markets that we've seen could that actually encourage more action on climate risk front given that it's all the more urgent now. that is a sincere hope of the subcommittee of the subcommittee makes it clear that corona virus has made the whole system less resilient more susceptible to taking blows and less able to christian news those impacts and therefore it brings the alarm that

this issue has to be looked at it also concludes that congress and the congress and the regulators already have the authorities the power to address a problem if they have the political will to do so let me ask you about political well then what ching these wildfires in extreme weather devastate communities people having to move because they can already no longer grow a fair and we'll hear more of this than in the south as they are about us and wildlife populations have been decimated ecosystems destroyed president trump himself has called climate change a hoax but now that there's a growing growing realisation that it could affect the stock market and money do you think that that makes the space for political will to get the stuff i think it'll get the attention of very powerful people and very powerful interests it also the report since a very clear this is not just about shielding assets and avoiding risk and teaching a defensive crouch it's also going to how can the financial system provide some of the financing we need in order to avoid the problem to build resilience and to make the transition to

a low carbon economy the financial sector sorts of part of the solution it's not just an innocent bystander and you're not in martinez day as the editor of that report that was just released thanks so much for joining us here on out is there thank you so much as he. nearly released audio recordings reveal that u.s. president donald trump admitted he downplayed the threat from covert 19 in public even though he knew how contagious and how deadly it was the recordings are from interviews he gave to journalist bob woodward back in march what woods book titled rage is being released next week in it trump is quoted as saying i wanted always to play it down referring to the coronavirus he's now calling the book and now the police or his job. 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 democratic presidential nominee joe biden accused president of betraying the american people saying he knowingly lied about the impact of the virus on the day that we hit 190000 dead in the united states because a covert 90 we just learned from the washington post columnist bob woodward that the president united states is admitted on tape in february he knew about covert 90 pass through the year he knew how deadly it was it was more it's more deadly than the flu he knew and purposely played it down worse he lied to the american people he knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months he had the information he knew how dangerous it was and while this deadly disease rips through our nation he failed to do its job on purpose and now atop

a trumpet ministration appointee has reportedly been trying to restrain what said by top infectious disease expert anthony found the politico web site is reporting the official in the department of health and human services direct and press offices to limit what he said uncovered 1000 risk and children however says his stuff never tells them what to say and what not to say and a whistleblower too from the u.s. department of homeland security says analysts were told to alter the intelligence reports before presenting them to donald trump brian murphy says he was demoted for refusing to downplay threats posed by white nationalists and russian interference a copy of his complaint was released by the what the house intelligence committee on wednesday which is investigating lies claims. moving on and fires are again burning near a refugee camp in greece which was all but destroyed by overnight blazes it's left thousands of people without shelter but locals are blaming them for starting the

fire officials believe refugees who were forced to self isolated after testing positive the coronavirus may have committed arson and protest 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 coronavirus 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 cornish and perspire is very broad. corporate put forward you know has come 3rd we're told me one who is living here because this

problem but if i may be dead now 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 even muddier who are currently on the streets but in particular we need to think also more than $200.00 people live in the camp who are at particular risk for court 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 are mixed in the big group of 30000 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 to a bad experience can quickly turn into an opportunity for a better reality and this will happen in less boss wants to 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 vice presidents and migrants was nowhere else to go there was little to do but sit and wait. the government says that as many as $300000.00 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 and now likely to be far higher. al-jazeera lesbos. still ahead here on al-jazeera

why people and northern ethiopia have voted in elections that the federal government says was unconstitutional and illegal. and we look at the lengths that some children will go to in order to get an education. hello there all the wet coming days ahead across much of japan you can see this line of cloud here all tied to a frontal system very slow. pulls those day on friday and still to the north east of china all this rain hissy is the remnants of a recent typhoon but this front trails right there back across taiwan into the southern and central as the china the rain will work its way steadily east was on friday probably just to the south of shanghai but some very heavy downpours so again it could lead to more flooding now from there we head across towards asia

because of have plenty of flooding here over the last a days and weeks and again the rains particularly every house across the west look at this because it's. not just people who calls are being displaced but also the wildlife this leopard tuns up into a farm as the villages were rightly ready rather scabrous and conservation is there now they set up a camera and the moment of her progress 6 days she was here and off to 6 days she moved her cubs to dry ground back into the forest as more rain is a say in the forecast across central regions out towards addition west bengal but really is down the west and gaston karratha where we've got some very heavy downpours there all some warnings in place from the india met office for those poles in fact by friday they become havea a more widespread once again spreading to the north of mumbai. jump into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to

create its own democracy with social media. online be part of the debate let me put some comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic arlin's that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way to see which way to get business if we're going to adapt to climate break down this street on out to 0. the in the the in. and again on the. let's remind you of our top stories this hour. fire warnings are in place along the entire west coast of north america from mexico to canada 6

people have died in the last 24 hours it's the states of california oregon and washington of the worst affected strong winds an unprecedented high temperatures are fueling the spread of the wild finds. released audio recordings reveal u.s. president donald trump admitted he downplayed the threat from covert 19 and public even though he knew how contagious and how deadly it more. fires are again burning close to a greek refugee camp that was all but destroyed by overnight places thousands of refugees have been left homeless of moriah camp on the eastern island of listbox. the u.s. state department says it's revoked the visas of more than $1000.00 chinese students over the last 3 months president trump all of the crackdown and may as tensions escalated with beijing federal agents have been tracking down the visa holders who they suspect of concealing ties to the chinese military and of stealing american intellectual property the chinese government has accused president trump of racism

. now they've been on the front line throughout this pandemic but argentina's police say it's left them destitute as the country battles through a 3rd year of recession officers have been forced to buy their own kits when they can barely feed their families to reasonable reports from the capital one s aries. these police officers belong to the largest force in argentina. they have been proved to sting 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 the in the us on what they did i mean 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. 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. called 19 having praise their pressure on government employees like doctors and police and all the others who say they're working nonstop and cannot make ends meet i didn't you know has one of the highest inflation rates in the world even in the economic crisis and that's why this people here say they urgently need to wait 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 man this says this is not the time to put security at risk in the province of one assayas merited the goal it's not ethical to use the difficult

times we're living with in the pandemic to deepen the crisis and demand things that sometimes difficult to resolve but the protesters say they just need better wages at a time when hardship has become the norm. and when a sighting. well there have been protests in colombia's capital after a man died when police repeatedly shot him with a stun gun demonstrators gathered at a police station in bogota against what the city's mayor has called unacceptable police brutality javier who better or dawn has died hours after his arrest on wednesday for violating social distancing rules the officers involved have been relieved of their duties while the incident is being investigated. mexico's president says he has asked for an investigation into protests that turned violent in the northern state of chihuahua near the u.s. border at least 2 farmers died and hundreds were injured when a fight broke out between demonstrators and national guard troops on tuesday the

rally was held over the government's attempts to pay off its so-called water debt with the united states farmers in the drought hit regions say the treaty deprives them of sufficient water for their land. now approaching indigenous leaders in chile talking to representatives from 3 stations to tuition's to help resolve an increasingly violent conflict in the south and the 1st time such talks are being held in more than 100 years latin america editor lucien newman has the details. we are the beginning of what's being described as the very 1st meeting between members of the council on which are. and these are the most the highest ranking members or some of them up which a community here and the story hours of the state that is executive branch of the just litter and the courts the supreme court the venue was changed at the 11th hour

and is taking place in a stadium in the capital region in a location that was supposed to be secret but it was leaked and a rival group of have now arrived and are protesting against the meeting riot police are here to try to push them away but they're not succeeding. the meeting inside does not represent the majority of them up which a nation there is a deep division between those who are meeting or believe it's time to start talking with the state and these people who choose them of being imposters in fact they refused to sit down with the government unless it releases when they could push a political prisoners many of whom have been on a hunger strike the speeding is taking place as militant groups escalate arson attacks against forestry companies and private homes would be claim as their ancestral land in fact on the eve of this gathering a 21 year old man was shot dead by the same group that had earlier burned down 3

houses presidents of us gambling it is represented to the minister of social development widely represented after the other accuse the state of abusing. and discriminating the nation for centuries and while those who are meeting here are hoping to lay the groundwork for the 1st formal dialogue between them approach a nation and the chilean state. $25.00 the government is also committing itself to substantially increasing the presence of militarized police in this region which is home to the longest running. mind in latin america. george south african anti-apartheid activist and long time ago at a nelson mandela has died he was 92 business represented mandela in the 1964 rivonia trial that saw him sent to prison for 27 years has also played a key role in the legal fight to end the parties and is credited for drafting

a number of laws when the country transitioned into democracy in 1904. while the country's general election has postponed a jew to the pandemic some ethiopians have been to the polls but the regional election in the region could threaten the country's unity as malcolm webb reports. people in the 2 gray region of northern ethiopia voted in election years federal government said 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 being deprived of their democratic rights. i believe it is lawful toward elections every 5 years it isn't there a lot of it is very important because it means being governed by our you to meet government elected by the people. the to croon 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 greens make up less than 5 percent of 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 moved to the t.p. l.f. paraded in cities into gray in a show of strength abbie ruled out sending the national armed forces to stop the election to grand leaders said doing so would be a declaration of war that the tabbies ruling prosperity party won't recognize the

election result this is a very dangerous situation that appeared if it is putting itself into a suicide mission because this election is. that some minority to grand political parties think the region should secede for now the p.l.f. officials are disgruntled but they say they still believe in a united ethiopia they have been using all kinds of tricks in the book. to criticism of the right against. such a large 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. the to grain election is the latest controversy amid rising tensions between central federal government leaders and some of the regional states. intil those tensions are resolved ethiopia's unity and stability are at risk malcolm webb al-jazeera all

schools in the philippines are struggling to provide children with education as this global pandemic continues carbonite teen has made going to school even tougher for some of the more vulnerable sections of society under. 14 year olds marketeer is loves art specially troy happy faces. but the last few months were spent not inside the classroom but in the fields of bangor province in the central philippines. he is farming every day just so he can save a $150.00 to buy a cell phone he needs for the newly implemented rule of distance learning but they have no money. and they further research. the idea is indigenous tribe is considered one of the earliest inhabitants in the philippines but for decades their population has dwindled and now live in scattered mountainous parts of the luzon region. the walk is

a village of about $900.00 people and just like most indigenous communities across the country they have suffered dispossession and displacement for decades but the coronavirus pandemic adds another layer of difficulty for the ita families here. the philippine government has implemented a distance learning program for all schools to help stop the spread of coronavirus education officials say it is unlikely that schools will reopen until a vaccine is available which means filipino children will have to study from home with electricity a laptop and internet connection that's a major problem in a country where more than half of all families live below the poverty line and where millions of already lost their jobs because of the months long quarantine lock down. it's an even bigger dilemma for indigenous tribes like the ideas long suffering from discrimination and abject poverty many live without electricity or

running water to have a laptop and a working internet connection every day a tome is almost unimaginable for them in a healing potion and i mean you see it in the eunice people are far from the cities they don't have grown the way it was here so why should this just learning be entirely implemented here to history books here tell us that the ideas or the country scary or the culture and identity but for the parents here they say all they care about is the legacy of education they want to leave behind for their children. dogon al-jazeera manila. the co-founder of funk group of kool and the gang ronald bell he was 68 bells started the band along with his brother robert curve road hits like celebration that reached number one on the pop charts in 1981 who are in the gang also want to grammy in 1978 for their work on the soundtrack of a saturday night fever. that

this is al jazeera and these are the headlines fire warnings are in place along the entire west coast of north america from mexico to canada and the 6 people have now died in the last 24 hours the u.s. states of california oregon and washington of the worst affected strong winds and unprecedented high temperatures are fueling the spread of the wildfires newly released audio recordings reveal u.s. president donald trump admitted he played downplayed the threat from covert 19 in public even though he knew how contagious and how deadly it was the recordings are from interviews he gave to journalist bob woodward back in march woodward's book titled rage is being released next week and now a trumpet ministration appointee has reportedly been trying to restrain what said by top infectious diseases expert anthony found she the politico web site is reporting the official in the department of health and human services directed

press offices to limit what she says on coven 1000 risks in children. fires again burning close to a greek refugee camp that was all but destroyed by overnight blazes thousands of refugees have now been left without shelter at morea camp on the eastern island of lesbo us. there have been protests in colombia's capital after a man died when police repeatedly shocked him with a stun gun demonstrators gathered at a police station in bogota against what the city's mayor has called unacceptable police brutality javier who better or don has died hours after his arrest on wednesday for violating social distancing rules the officers involved have been relieved of their duties while the incident is being investigated on next up it's of you find out latin america stay with us a face can tell a story without uttering a single word. and knowing gone. a

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