a oa . i am . found thousands left without shelter as fires are again burning in europe's largest refugee camp on the greek island of less votes. to overcome. play watching al jazeera live from doha with me for the back t. ball also coming up fears of water borne disease in sudan as flood waters recede leaving tens of thousands of people in unsanitary conditions towns burnt off the map in the u.s. as unprecedented wildfires rage along the west coast at least 7 people are killed

and police officers take to the streets in argentina demanding better salaries and protective gear during the coronavirus pandemic. i am. the air. thank you very much for joining us thousands of refugees are searching for shelter on the greek island of less bowls after being forced to spend the night out in the open fire swept through the biggest camp in europe are tuesday night ships are being sent in by the greek government to provide accommodation will be speaking to al jazeera john stop lists on less well site and in just a moment but 1st here's his report. 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 but. 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 board 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 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 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. you don't. believe a bad experience can quickly turn into an opportunity for a better reality and this will happen in less boss once the damage in maria has been assessed and in consultation with the european commission who would take concrete initiatives a party remains the health and safety of. migrants was nowhere else to go there was

little to do but sit and wait. and john joins us now live from near camp. john tell us about the situation this morning. i'm standing in front of a road block about a couple of kilometers from morea camp itself which is still called by police as it has only recently been closed house and there are says a flare ups of the fire this roadblock has been set up by the residents of moriah village who are trying to prevent the government machinery from building machinery us moving machinery from coming in as it apparently is scheduled to do today to start work on the camp this was not done on account of the fire this was planned beforehand because the camp was going to be expanded and converted into a secure facility according to the government's plans this fire came just before

that work was about to begin now that the camp has evacuated and people have scattered far and wide the residents of the village are saying that they want things to remain that way they see the 1st opportunity in 8 years to be rid of these tens of thousands of refugees that have occasionally been here at the moment the numbers we're told are close to 13000 and they are trying to make sure that the government doesn't bring these people back and reconstructs the site if i won't around you can see that there are plenty of people from morea village here standing behind me the cause go back dozens of young they are trying to bring me. people up from the village to show numbers and show strength many of the people we've been talking to here have had their livelihoods destroyed there all of those have been chopped down for firewood by the refugees they've had. wells filed by the sewage because the system that was built for the camps couldn't handle the numbers

there's a lot of runoff we've seen this in previous visits here they're very unhappy they're economically desperate and they want the government to do something for them rather than for the refugees and but what about those refugees and migrants have been left homeless by the fires john what is going to be happening to that. we saw them last night around midnight sleeping on the streets along the main highway between mytilene the capital of lesbos and moria where the police have set up a road block to prevent them from. the highway is or was at least overnight strewn with people sleeping on the back concrete in the open many of them with small children we saw perambulations parts on the side of the road. they simply took what they could from the camp when the fires broke

out on wednesday. on tuesday night rather and they they salvage what they could and they just made off for the hills many of them we're told us leaping in these olive groves on the hills above us we're going to talk to them shortly so they have not had a good time of it either and it's hard to see how the government is going to settle so many thousands of them that have been left shelterless some homeless and feed them and provide for their sanitation their clothing when there's been such a huge disruption to the humanitarian machinery on the island they're also meant years here some of them a volunteer organizations. but they can't possibly handle these sorts of numbers this is going to take a military operation we are told that 3 ships are on their way to house the cylons most vulnerable people with small children but that will probably still leave some thousands on cared for and. there is

a huge problem because the municipality doesn't have the real estate all the infrastructure to provide for them i think the army is going to have to come in and set up lots of tents and how long will that solution last because winter is coming in a couple of months we've seen these situations arise on the islands before where temporary shelter was provided but then that shelter couldn't be winterized and people suffered but here they will stay because we're told that the government will not move them to the mainland it wants to keep them on the island and process the recycling applications. ok thank you very much for that update john psaropoulos live for us on this bus island not far from the morea refugee camp. don way waterborne diseases of the native stretched to people there hundreds of thousands have been displaced says an unprecedented levels the floodwaters are starting to recede but a growing number of people are getting sick he morgan reports from the capital

costume. barely able to stand 13 year old mohammed treatment at this health center in the south of the capital hard to medics see he's suffering from a parasitic infection usually caused by lack of access to clean drinking water his mother tries to comfort him through his pain but she herself is barely able to hide when discomfort. half another we've been living on the streets for more than a week the home is completely flooded and we didn't receive tents this father is also sick he's mentally unstable and i can give him his medication if he had a 10 i'd be able to take care of him there the clinic treating mohammad was set up nearly 2 weeks ago to help patients affected by recent flooding in many villages and towns in khartoum many have fever diarrhea and stomach infections thinking that they will last longer i can read my daughter has been suffering from diarrhea for

the past 3 days i myself am also sick and it feels like i'm coming down with an infection my voice is now weak it's all from the floods i'm living in the camp. floods hit sudan after the river which flows through the country rose to levels not seen in more than a century the surge in water was caused by heavy rains on the if european high lands upstream more than 100 people were killed and dozens injured and at least half a 1000000 people were displaced as homes were damaged or destroyed by the waters the government declared a 3 month state of emergency last week and while the river's water has started to recede this week the number of those falling ill is increasing. so that was facing a health crisis even before the flood emergency pharmacies have been reporting shortages of medicines and many hospitals like adequate equipment since the floods began 3 weeks ago the number of cases of water borne diseases in areas affected have increased many families say they're struggling to cope with illnesses after having lost so much already. aid organizations say the health consequences of the

floods will be much worse in the coming days and that action needs to be taken now and. the biggest protest is the water it was a disaster when it flooded and will be a disaster when it recedes if not dealt with properly and if there are no strategies to fight contagious diseases will have a bigger catastrophe than what we see it will be stagnant your says which will result in more malaria cases more diarrhea cases in. sudan was already struggling to handle the coronavirus pandemic when the floods hit those in areas affected they're hoping proper measures will be taken to it used to health risks now that the floodwaters are receding so that no more lives are lost people more going on just their own heart. record fire raging along the west coast of north america from mexico to canada at least 7 people including a one year old baby have been killed in the u.s.

several states are now battling flames which have consumed in thai communities and blanketed cities from san francisco to seattle and smoke rob reynolds reports. 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 hell scape of ash and twisted metal resident regina hill lost everything she owned 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 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 relit. it's 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 blow 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. still ahead on al-jazeera i wanted always to play down president trump at mit's minimizing the threat from covert 1000 interviews with journalist bob woodward's. the death of judy sponsored widespread protests south african police charged with the killing of a disabled teenager and head to court. hello

there fairly quite patient across central europe and also to the north more of that cloud more of those blustery winds and plenty of showers as well meanwhile you see this little area of clouds here that's an area of low pressure very stubborn very slow to move producing showers and thunderstorms but as i say some trigger fine and dry misty mornings here and hungry but it does improve and break out into a sunshine later in the day meanwhile across into moscow i'm afraid it's a rather west and when very windy few days ahead the rain is pushing through again on thursday as some fairly brisk winds generally throughout much of scandinavia more of those showers brushing in across the western sections of the u.k. and all the system sitting in the central med some very heavy amounts a particular cross into salt in your it could lead to some localized flooding but securely as it really doesn't move as we head on into friday more of those rain

showers with those strong winds pushing across the u.k. and on towards norway but london is fine and dry away from all that rain and in fact by sunday the sun comes out and it does of course warm up plenty of sunshine in the southeast u.s. of a caress enjoying a fine weather and high temperatures as well into northern africa not surprising that system the central med that is going to produce more showers across algeria on tools to say and more of the same as we head on into friday. jump into the stream and julian on global community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on and will online be part of the debate let me put some you tube comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic arliss that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to be to transform lives the way tickets human way be it business if we're going to adapt to climate breakout this street on al-jazeera.

heard. welcome back a recap of our top stories on algis iraq thousands of refugees are still without shelter after fires burned for a 2nd night on the greek island of lesbos much of the morea camp had already been destroyed by blazes late on tuesday emergency efforts are underway to find places for the refugees to stay. as surgeon water borne illnesses is stretching medical services in sudan hundreds of thousands of people were displaced by fighting in the nile river a fraud wars are starting to recede but a growing number of people are getting sick and record fires are raging through

towns in 4 is across north america's west coast at least 7 people including a one year old baby have been killed. now the fire season is also worse than usual in brazil's amazon region fires have begun spreading into the so far in touch areas sizemore nikkei inaki every port. it all starts like this a person setting fire to dry bush under forested land. we don't want to destroy people's lives we're just clearing a little bit of land to plant something to eat and little bit of grass to feed it carol. but the results can be disastrous with flames spiraling out of control clouds of smoke in brazil's amazon are common side during the dry season but this week they have grown and fires are spreading into untouched areas during the 1st week of september more than 8000 fires were reported in this part of the amazon

that's twice the number of fires registered joined the same period last year more worrying still a quarter of the major blazes have spread to the virgin rain forest there's 2 major types of major fires or see a lot of the fires are just smoking indicators of previous deforestation or a lagging indicator previous deforestation now quarter of the fires. as early as of yesterday are now forest fires that is fires that are burning large amounts of dial. across the brazilian amazon matt finers in geo amazon conservation spotted the change after analyzing satellite images he says the situation will only get worse as the dry season intensifies in august there were an average of 18 major blazes

a day during the 1st week of september that number went up to 53 brazil's government has been facing increasing international pressure to protect the rain forest from illegal logging there's land grabbers and cattle ranchers but brazilian investors are also pushing for better policies remain brazilian banks have joined the campaign to protect the amazon they've agreed to stop financing meat packing companies that buy cattle from rancher who destroyed the forest park creek their great fire. but the amazon isn't the only region in peril fires have also. been burning in the bunker not the world's largest wetland threatening endangered species since january roughly 23000 square kilometers have been burned and nary a 30 times the size of new york city mon and give all just 0 rio de janeiro.

u.s. resin donald trump has admitted he played down the threats of the coronavirus even though he knew it was deadly the admission was made in a series of interviews with janis bob woodward for an upcoming book his democratic rival joe biden says the president's 9 to the american people mike hanna has a story from washington. the white house is once again at the center of a political storm as it emerges that president trump was fully briefed about the dangers of the coronavirus by the chinese president in a phone conversation on the 6th of february this is part of the compensation recorded by journalist bob woodward for his book the pollo ing day so it goes through air but that's always tougher than a touch you know the 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 it's also more deadly than your you know your even your screen us lose 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 generally. good 3 days later president trump told the american public this the virus they're working hard looks like by april you know in theory when it gets a little warmer and miraculously goes away hope that's true in another recording on the 17th of march the president tells would with apollo ing well i think really to be honest with you here i want you to i wanted to. i want to always play it down i still like laying it down yes because i don't want to create a panic presidential candidate joe biden dismisses this reasoning insisting the president stands guilty of lying to the american people yeah deformation he knew how dangerous it was and while this deadly disease ripped through our nation he failed to do his job on. 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 words 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 also that and to people the debate about the president comes response to the virus old lock up it it can no

longer be argued that president trump did not know off 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. a whistle blower from the u.s. department of homeland security says analysts were told to alter 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 house intelligence committee on wednesday which is investigating the claims the us has announced the withdrawal of more troops from iraq the head of u.s. central command said the number of soldiers will be reduced to 3000 this month that's down from just over 5000 to south africa now where 3 police officers are due

in court accused of murdering a teenager with down syndrome the shooting of netanya julie since soweto last month triggered street protests against police brutality and corruption the family of the 16 year old said he was shot for not answering police questions because of his disability. is at the court in soweto and says people there want to see justice prevail. this is the 2nd appearance of the 3 police officers charged with the murder of nathaniel chiles as well as obstruction of justice and i think that's of concern to people interested in this case and that the police are also potentially accused of covering up what happened the night that nathaniel julie's was killed it's very difficult for many south africans to understand what could have happened that's caused the death of a 16 year old with down syndrome his family has said he would have been unable to communicate with police if confronted that night we've also heard from police

minister who has been cautious in what he said but he has also said it's very difficult to try and put together what could have led to the death of nathaniel julie's it's very difficult to understand what exactly went wrong and so there is great interest in a justice prevailing in this particular. a case given that police in south africa have previously been accused of abuse of power police brutality you know we look back to cases like maracana the maracana massacre as it's been dubbed with 37 miners were gunned down by police we've also had instances during south africa's covert 19 lockdown where police have also been accused of brutality so this is just the latest incident to where so that africans are keen to see what happens in courts with regard to these 3 police officers that are appearing today mexico's president wants an investigation into violent protests by farmers demanding water

for their drought affected land at least 2 farmers died and hundreds were injured during confrontations with national guard troops in the northern states of chihuahua farmers say the government's attempts to pay off its so-called water debt to the united states deprives them of much needed irrigation. the mayor of colombia's capital has joined the outrage against police brutality after a man was repeatedly shot with a stun gun for the or died hours after he was arrested for violating for one of our social distancing the officers involved are suspended while the death is investigating. now the economic crisis in recession hit argentina means many are struggling to make ends meet including police officers hundreds protested in the capital to demand higher salaries better working conditions and improved protection from god that 19 risible has a story from. these police officers belong to the largest force in

argentina. they have improved testing 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. on one end date but i mean i make 43000 pesos a month this is a wage that leaves my family below the poverty line before the plans i make 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 point 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 praised the pressure on momentum lawyers like doctors and others who say they are working nonstop and cannot make

ends meet argentina 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. service and could be suspended and that's why they were trying to create chaos. a group of officers showed up outside the presidential residence many perceived their presence there as a threat to argentina's institutions. precedent of the freedom and they said this is not the time to put security at risk and then ounce he was redistributing national resources to assist the province of when a site is been sung what i'm 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'm 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 sighting. hello again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera thousands of refugees are still without shelter after fires burned for a 2nd night on the greek island of les pauls much of the moria camp had already been destroyed by blazes late on tuesday emergency efforts are underway to find places for the refugees to stay johnson happiness is that a bowl broke the other camp he says people from a nearby village are trying to stop efforts to rebuild and expand the facility. now

that the camp has evacuated and people have scattered far and wide the residents of the village are saying that they want things to remain that way they see the 1st opportunity in 8 years to be rid of these tens of thousands of refugees that have occasionally been here but the moment the numbers we're told are closer to 13000 and they owe trying to make sure that the government doesn't bring these people back and reconstructs the site a surge in water borne illnesses is stretching medical services in sudan hundreds of thousands of people were displaced by the flooding of the nile river the flood waters are starting to recede but a growing number of people are getting sick a record fire raging through towns in forests a quasi north america's west coast at least 7 people including a one year old baby have been killed newly released audio recordings reveal u.s. president admitted downplaying the threat from covert 1000 in pub 8 feel he knew

how deadly it was the recordings from interviews with journalist bob woodward in march 3 south african police officers a jew in court accused of murdering a teenager with down syndrome the shooting of nathaniel junius in soweto last month triggered street protests against police brutality and corruption the family of the 16 year old said he was shot for not answering police question because of his disability and the mayor of colombia's capital has joined the outrage against police brutality after a man was repeatedly shot with a stun gun and ordonez died hours after he was arrested for violating coronavirus social distancing walls the officers involved are suspended while the death is investigated those are the headlines on al-jazeera have more news for you after the stream do stay with us. there is no channel that covers world news like we do as a roaming correspondent i am constantly on the go covering topic politics the

conflict is often just our mental issues scale of this county is like nothing you've ever seen. but we want to know is how did these things affect people we revisit places to stay even when there are no international headlines. al-jazeera really invests in that and that's a privilege as a journalist. i'm melissa chan and i'm guest hosting the stream home edition today we're going to be talking about endangered languages there are some 50027000 languages out there depending on how you count it and 60 to 90 percent of it it's estimated could be gone by the end of this century we'll take a look at why and speak to some of those who are working to preserve these languages as always on.