now. a one year old baby is among the dead as wildfires burn across several western u.s. states. this could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfire in our state's history. hello i'm daryn jordan this is on jazeera live from doha also coming up a new book reveals president trump knew the risks of covert 19 but deliberately downplayed the threat in public. thousands are left without shelter fires again burning at europe's largest refugee camp on the island of less boss. and struggling

for schooling in the philippines children from vulnerable communities suffer as distance learning is put in place. welcome to the program 6 people including a one year old baby have been killed in wildfires on the u.s. west coast several states are now battling blazes which have consumed whole communities and billowed smoke from san francisco to seattle 5 small towns in central oregon have been destroyed more than 80000 people in the city of medford have been told to leave their homes the state governors warning it could be the deadliest season. over the last 24 hours oregon has experienced unprecedented fire was significant damage and devastated 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 while fos season and its modern history several communities that face la scale destruction back in 2018 are being forced to evacuate once again and washington state is experiencing the worst fires and over a decade and the town of mold and 80 percent of the infrastructure has been lost as rob reynolds is in los angeles 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 all of the town's approximately $300.00 residents made it out alive in medford oregon a fire swept through of mobile home community reducing it to a burned out health scape of ash and twisted metal resident regina hill lost everything she owned. you 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 high 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. for it but no 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 broiling heat wave in recent days and above all high seasonal winds blowing down from the mountains provide a singular recipe for disaster rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles.

and there are large fires and brazil's amazon rain forest which have begun spreading into untouched areas during the 1st week of september more than $8000.00 blazes were reported many a 3rd of those are in areas that have not been recently cleared or being used as farmland where it's easier to contain the spread it's twice the number registered to in the same period last year and thought to be a 10 year high. when a report commissioned by u.s. financial regulators says the cost of climate change poses a big threat to markets they are not a martinez diaz is the editor of that report he says action is needed for. 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 in those assets have to be protected or they will begin to affect the value of loans and stocks you know 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 the poor thing with this record 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 that's 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 fine and the subcommittee makes it clear that corona virus has made the whole system less resilient more susceptible to taking blows and less able to question those 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 the problem if they have the political will to do so. president trump has admitted he knowingly played down the threat of the corona virus even though he knew it was

deadly the admission is made in a series of interviews with the journalist bob woodward for a book to be released later this month his opponent in the vendors election joe biden has accused the president of lying to the american people michaela reports from washington d.c. . the white house is once again at the center of a political storm as it emerges that president trump what's were you wary about the dangers of the coronavirus by the time the president in the phone conversation on the 6th of february this is part of the compensation recorded by journalist bob woodward for his book the following day as it goes through air that's always tougher than the touch another touch you don't have to touch things right but the air you just breathe the air that's how it's passed and so that's a very tricky one that's a very delicate one is also more deadly than your you know your even your strenuous flues you know people don't realize we lose 25030000 people

a year here who would never think that right i know it doesn't work for you guys like that i was very well really i believe the same thing for this is more deadly this is 5 per you know this is 5 percent versus one percent and less than one percent you know so this is deadly stuff 3 days later president competent the american public that the virus they're working hard looks like by april you know in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away hope that's true in another recording on the 17th of march the president tells would with the poll owing well i think bob really had to be honest we're here i want you to i wanted to. i wanted to always play it down i still like playing it down yes because i don't want to create a panic president who counted the job biden dismisses the 3 thinning insisting the president has done guilty of lying to the american people you had your permission

he knew how dangerous he was while this deadly disease ripped through our nation he failed to do his job on purpose. it was a life or death betrayal of the american people experts say if you'd acted just just one week shooter 36000 people would have been saved if you acted 2 weeks suter back in march 54000 lives would have been spared march and april alone but now all president trump continues to insist he saw and sees his role as a killer the last thing you want to do is create a panic in the country this was a horrible thing it was sent to us by china should not have happened should never have happened this is a disgusting terrible situation that was foisted upon us and we have to show we just don't want to use the best word is panic we don't want to have to show panic we're not going to show panic and that's exactly what i did as the death toll

in the united states 200000 the latest revelations all certain to people the debate about president crump's response to the buyer is old lock up it it can no longer be argued that president trump did not know of the dangers posed by the virus and the response of an american people that have been publicly misled may well be measured in the november poll mike hanna al-jazeera washington. 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 up blaming them for starting the fire as officials believe refugees who were forced to self isolate after testing positive for corona virus may have committed in protest john psaropoulos reports. 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 they are out there. today for parts for. the few there are. hundreds of 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 very broad. corporate put forward you know 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 even muddier who are currently on the streets but in particular we need to think also more than 200 people live in the camp who are at particular risk for it either because of their age or because of co-morbidities 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. we don't. believe that a bad experience can quickly turn into an opportunity for

a better reality and this will happen in less boss once a damaging 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 with 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 are now likely to be far higher. al-jazeera less. time for a short break here not just here but when we come back demanding higher pay police officers in argentina say they're forced to rely on themselves for protective equipment here in the pandemic. and why people in northern ethiopia have voted in an election that the federal government says was illegal for in that status.

and that usually across most southern and eastern sections of the united states with this massive cloud you can see here not just rain we've had very heavy snow of course in the last couple of days it began of the coaches this is south dakota as much as 30 centimeters of snow came down across some areas of the state then of course it worked its way southward across into colorado as you can see here but as this was happening it was still about the fires out across the west this is washington state continuing to fight these days is very close to seattle and then in california just of the devastation some areas left looking like they said any takes 15 millimeters of rain just. stop a fost biting and it takes 50 millimeters of rain to actually push out a fortune there's no such rain in the full cost how much is still remain very high

that cold still sinking south but damage is beginning to increase over the next few days the sun just how much is still above average but nowhere near as wholesome as they were in denver sunday by saturday sunny skies and it will be dry but there's that rain as you can see exciting for the south it could have some heavy downpours across into texas maybe even the chance of wanted to severe thunderstorms and all the while this line had this front line down the east coast and again some very heavy rain for the next couple days particularly around washington d.c. . a passion for supporting local communities. and pioneering inoperative african science and technology projects is child beautiful. stories are all of us on this planet just africa out to sierra as a leading back chemist determined to use his scientific knowledge to africa women

make science from the lab to the field on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder of our top stories here on al-jazeera file 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 the states of california oregon and washington are the worst affected. new or newly released audio recordings reveal u.s. president donald trump admitted downplaying the threat from coburg 9000 public that he knew how deadly voice recordings are from interviews with journalist bob woodward in march and fires are again burning close to

a brick refugee camp that was all but destroyed by overnight blazes thousands of refugees and left homeless at maria camp on the island of lesbos. now schools in the philippines are struggling to provide children with education as the global pandemic continues kids from poorer backgrounds are being disproportionately affected as jamila in dublin reports from london a. 14 year old marketeer is a love story specially trying 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 so the work is a village of about 900 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 month long point 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 are the country's carrier of 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 jim duggan al-jazeera manila so let's bring in d.c. famed golden manilla he's the chief of education at unicef philippines look there are many more vulnerable communities in the philippines many who live below the poverty line and have no access to the internet how big is the scale of this

problem where many children just won't go to school during this pandemic. it's a good morning daryn the top of. this school closure has been afflicted 28000000 children in defeat bins and the department of the nation has prepare learning continue the plan that includes different more than 2 to reach children in different areas of the country so there is a part on an online learning or so there is t.v. a location or a location and also distribution of drinking materials some for uni said. they may break your eighty's to reach the most disadvantaged children in the indigenous community rural schools still in releasing the so we have been see event even before of 19 the very some programs and one of them that i'd like to share is on. the rural schools and we've been providing different technologies after all of it for these students i mean you see that that that figure of 28000000 is just

staggering i mean education officials are saying it's unlikely the schools will reopen until a vaccine is found so given that uncertainty is the education disparity like it to get even worse do you think very briefly. yes there is a concern. got that can increase because right now it's cool already started in your school year and public school will wait until the official start which is october in fact so you nice if he said ok good will to start he says will not force you order not the least is further all sorts we we are also at the $804.00 face to face nearly all these areas in the area. so we think that there is for schools week the safety. considerations that. if i heard of children yes and there's an economic and financial imperative here isn't there i mean millions of people have lost their jobs in the philippines during the lockdown

they simply can't afford to buy fancy smart phones and laptops for their children to access the internet for long distance learning yes and that's one of the more than. that but say as i were saying there are different or there are more that including t.v. adaptation radio creation and also uni saviors reporting they've used to do short of story walks of reading materials for those communities not in far flung areas that are equal it's not cool to connectivity the short run so we need to work in the furnace. or it's all for the short run and for the long term it's just a final thought to you president to turn to said recently that the health risk was too great even if students held back academically and that if no one graduates then so be it so what's likely to be the long term impact on education in the philippines. so the immediate problems in the negative effects on the use are

only on the ecology but also on there will be not children because there is a lot of laramie research that they are facing in terms of men here in their insults are increasing to break nancy there was already certainly a quandary and child labor because there is a restart the children that. not go to school now they don't return rate and raise are allowed on this is when area that's very important to take into consideration and to start the school year that's when i suppose it is a fine go great to get your thoughts thank you very much for talking to al jazeera thank you thank you very. now the u.s. state department's top official for the middle east says there may be progress in resolving the 3 year blockade of cattle david schenker says he expects movement on the issue in a matter of weeks and 2017 the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain egypt all severed ties with qatar the u.s. and kuwait have been trying to mediate the rift. argentina's president is urging

police officers to stop protesting over their work conditions but fernandez says the demands are fair and it's necessary for the government to answer them many officers say they've been struggling to make ends meet as the country battles for its 3rd year of recession jones about reports from one as ours. 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. they but i mean i make 43000 pesos a month this is a wage that leaves my family below the poverty line before the pandemic we were able to make some extras but now we don't have any 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. with 19 having praise the pressure on the men templar is like doctors the police 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 the economic crisis and that's why this people here say they didn't 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. as group of officers showed up outside the presidential residence many perceived their presence there as a threat to argentina's institutions. precedent. they said this is not the

time to put security at risk and then now as he was redistributing national resources to assist the province of when i. look at them been sung what i am thinking is how many citizens are now left without security or how many are left at the mercy of those who commit crimes this is not the way i tell you honestly i hope you reflect and stop this and i am sensitive to the demands of these officers because it is clear that they have been left behind in regards to their salaries and we must give them an answer. but the protesters say they just need better wages and a time when hardship has become the norm. and when a side effects people in south africa are paying tribute to the apartheid activist on long time lawyer to nelson mandela george bizos has died aged 92 these us represented mandela in the 1964 rivonia trial that saw him sent to prison for 27

years he also played a key role in the legal fight to end apartheid and is credited for drafting a number of laws in the country transition to democracy in 1904. in ethiopia local election has taken place in the region against the orders of the country's government it's feared the vote could increase political tensions and even threaten the country's unity as malcolm with the reports. people in the 2 gray region of northern ethiopia voted in election years federal government said was on constitutional and illegal government postpone nationwide polls that were due last month because of the coronavirus pandemic. but some to grand voters say they were being deprived of their democratic right. to be 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 an idea to make

government elected by the people. the tick rayon 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 the o.p.'s more than 100000000 people but the t.p. left party has dominated ethiopian politics for most of the last 30 years. but that changed when prime minister 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. tabbies ruling prosperity party said it won't recognize the election result. this is a very dangerous situation that appears if he's putting it into a suicide mission because. some minority to grand political parties think the region should secede for now officials are disgruntled but they say they still believe in a united ethiopia they have been using all kinds of tricks in the book. the. right to go and. sort of what extent it is they should be blamed for pushing to write what is the age of the west we're not interested in declaring independence. that to gray an 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. the co-founder of funk group kool and the gang ronald bell has died at the age of $68.00. he co-wrote hits like celebration the beach number one in 981 bell started the band along with his brother robert and the gang won a grammy a 978 for their work on the soundtrack of saturday night 3. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera 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 the states of california oregon and washington are the worst affected over the last 24 hours oregon 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 and there are large fires in brazil's amazon rainforest which have begun spreading into untouched areas during the 1st week of september more than $8000.00 blazes were reported really a 3rd of those are in areas that have not been recently cleared or being used as farmland where it's easier to contain the spread of newly released audio recordings reveal u.s. president donald trump admitted downplaying the threat from code 19 in public that he knew how deadly it was the recordings are from interviews with journalist bob woodward in february and watch fires are again burning close to

a greek refugee camp that was all but destroyed by overnight blazes thousands of refugees have been left homeless at maria county. the u.s. state department's top official for the middle east says there may be progress in resolving the 3 year blockade of qatar david schenker says he expects movement on the issue in a matter of weeks in 2017 the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt all 7 ties with qatar. they've been protesting colombia's capital after a man died when police repeatedly shocked him with a stun gun lobby or done is died hours after his arrest for violating social distancing rules the officers involved have been suspended while those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after a woman makes signs stage and that's the watching. if you want to help save the world. news into your own.

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