we're. getting cooler or you just you just watch. the clash of ideas u.s. president donald trump continues to deny climate change and instead blames mismanagement for the catastrophic fires raging across the west coast. my money and fight this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a jewish settlers given 3 life sentences for the father of attack which killed 3 members of a palestinian family. facing mass protests at home belorussian

president alexander lukashenko isn't such a for a face to face meeting with vladimir putin. and could there be life floating amongst the clouds of venus scientists make an extraordinary discovery. nearly $100.00 wildfires burning across the west coast of the u.s. and now they're becoming an election issue president donald trump has denied the link to climate change blaming forest management is democratic rival joe biden has called himself a climate arsonist hadija kauser has more on the story. exhausted firefighters are doing what little they can to battle the monster inferno consuming towns and homes and lives. monday's drier conditions are just. wins meant no respite as nearly

100 fires continue to burn across 12 states yet these otherworldly scenes are new california has now experiencing several summers of severe wildfires realizing predictions of a climate report released by the white house in 2018 but president trump who flew to california for fire briefings continues to deny manmade climate change exists it will start getting cooler but i will just you just watch i wish science or anybody else but. i don't think science you know is actually trump has repeatedly blamed the wildfires on democrats accusing them of mismanaging forest lands in western states as the election nears he's dug into the pro fossil fuel policies of his administration former vice president joe biden who seeking to replace trump in the white house challenge his record in a speech from delaware we have 4 more years of trump's climate denial how many

suburbs will be burned in wildfires how many suburban neighborhoods will have been flooded out how many suburbs will have been blown away in super storms if you give a climber an arsonist 4 more years in the white house why would anyone be surprised if we have more on america blaze. but for the americans suffering fires in the west and new hurricane threats in the southeast the candidates campaign promises offer little consolation as destruction becomes the new normal. castro al-jazeera well as heidi mentioned high winds and drought starting fires across the west coast on the full cost says no signs of improving jennifer your plan has more on the conditions on the ground from chico in northern california. it's becoming more intense the wind is picking up in the fire zone and we are told that the rain

that they were expecting in oregon is not materializing in the forecast the way they had hoped so the rain that was going to save parts of oregon from a big big fire fight looks like that fight is on and in fact in the next few days the forecast has shifted enough that the rainy weather that's coming in could include lightning which could make the fires worse so not good news on the there fred but there is good news from the mutual aid front as we have crews from all over the country fighting fires here in the west. lawyers for an israeli settler who was handed 3 life sentences for murdering 3 palestinians say they plan to appeal. through a fire bomb into the home of the their website family in 2015 killing the couple and their infant son but despite the heavy sentence family members say the court's decision gives them no joy or a force that reports. more than 5 years after fire bombing the house of the family

as they slept. on video not in court because of coronavirus restrictions was handed his sentence the judges gave him 3 consecutive life terms one for each of his victims saad and. and the 18 month old son ali plus another 20 years the attempted murder of the sole survivor older brother ahmed who was badly burned about to get up on had. my court cannot give us our right no matter what they do they cannot bring back a month's mother or father and brother they cannot bring back his house ahmed still lives with his grandparents in duma the village in the occupied west bank where the attack happened over the years he's had extended treatment for his burns it was here on monday that he and his grandmother learned of the sentence. may god punish him i hope iraq didn't you suffer while he's alive as he's done his home an injustice and i hope he's punished on judgment day. the court found that ben had

conspired with another certainly youth than a minor to carry out a revenge attack after a jewish man was killed in a drive by shooting the prosecution said been illegal was alone by the time he got to do and set fire to 2 houses his legal team said he was tortured during enhanced interrogation sessions 2 of his confessions were ruled inadmissible as a result but later ones stood up in court one but only a was convicted in may the israeli security service the shin bet said it was a landmark in the fight against jewish terror but others point to the length of this process and also the fact that so many settler attacks go unpunished. israeli rights group ph d. in studied hundreds of attacks by israeli civilians on palestinians going back to 2005 and found charges were brought in only 9 percent of cases it's velika you that 2 this is the exception of many a certain murders it could him and others are moving freely. without

any consequences and without the money it could him in a liberal see that again. this attack was certainly exceptional in its nature and in the toll left to be borne by it's only survivor. 10 years old now the legal process that's lasted half his life is at last over but that toll remains a force at al-jazeera israel. to embrace him in the occupied west bank at the home where the attack happened. when we arrived at the scene monday morning. the only survivor of the crime and who is now 10 years old didn't want to come inside the house he says he doesn't want anything to do with the he's he didn't live here and he says he doesn't remember the night of the attack but the family is telling us that he was almost 5 at the time and he saw more than he wants to remember so when he received the news he was his grandfather's house he refused to

go to the court on monday or any of the previous 70 sessions of the coup or the family has told us that there's still living with this trauma the want to turn this house into a museum to show the world the misery that his family is living through and many other palestinian families. the u.s. military says missiles have been fired ass in iraq he base central command says they were successfully intercepted near the heavily fortified green zone in baghdad there are no reports of any casualties or damage russia's president has put his support behind the embattled leader of belarus in the 1st face to face meeting since protests in the former soviet state escalated vladimir putin also said that issues should be resolved by the people themselves without foreign interference steadfast and has moved from minsk. it was clear from the start of the meeting who

was calling the shots look at shanghai's proven to be a tough negotiator for puttin in the past this time he was taking note of what the russian leader had to say and making his case for moscow support. the main thing and i say it all the time is not to cross the line there's a red line and you are familiar with it you have to draw these lines in chechnya when you're a young president god forbid this happens in béla reuss there are certain red lines nobody has the right to cross. tried hard to convince put in that everything was under control but these images of a around a 100000 protesters on the streets of minsk on sunday tell a different story. images put in does not want to see in russia. when we say what conduct domestic political events are happening in relation to the

election in belarus you know our position well we want better relations to sort out the situation themselves without any tips or pressure from outside through dialogue they should come to a common decision. the kremlin's has onlookers shank us request it's withdrawing the russian troops deployed at the belorussian border put in had earlier sat at those troops were ready to intervene in balance if the situation got out of control the russian leader reiterated that agreements between the 2 nations about military cooperation will remain in place it's unclear what concessions lookers shanker made to secure put in support the belorussian opposition says it regrets britain's decision to hold talks with looker sanka who they call it legitimacy leader they also question the legality of any agreement between the 2 since the election result is widely disputed many here are wondering if the embattled leader is ready to set

. the soft relative of his nation just to remain in power was. well put in supports no question comes from now the question is for how long you can enjoy the kremlin's backing if anything the the recent useful protests across the country not only in the capital meant groom in science they will be hoping that over time they compose weight the individuals and groups within the elite that have so far remained loyal to. their higher loyalty lives with the people you risk turning a population that is well disposed towards russia into one that sees russia as backing a leader and their regime that they know won't no longer want to live under despite declaring his support for a look at shank up within is still keeping his options open by endorsing

constitutional reforms and borrows the russian leader seems to accept that there's an expiry date even for a leader who has been in power for 26 years stepped past an al-jazeera. it's of russian opposition leader alexina only has been taken off a ventilator and is now well enough to leave his bed briefly is being treated at a hospital in berlin the german government is calling on russia to cooperate investigate after the bar series found that he was poisoned with a soviet nerve agent russia's hit back with the foreign minister counseling a planned visit to belin. yes and listens to me and russian political didn't go through i agree with their political analysts if there was no no valmy they would come up with something else as a pretext to new sanctions in the valleys case al wisting colleagues have crossed all reasonable borders and gone beyond decency today we are required to plead guilty they say are you distrusting the german specialists. still ahead on the

ballot as they were passing a bill that could break international law with the u.k. government pushes ahead with controversial practice that legislation. and i'm nicholas hawke on the outskirts of the capital the car behind me are tents for those displaced by the flooding due to the recent rains with months to come before the end of the rainy season find out next why people here fear the worst is yet to come. oh we've got some dry weather coming into japan over the next day also an area cloud and right now a long lost starting to pull away at this little circulation here in the sea of japan that will skirt its way through home shoe whole qaida legacy of showers to the south of that but nothing too much to speak of the really heavy rain that's

going to be across the northeast of china pushing through beijing heading towards the yellow sea and it'll continue to slide its way across the korean peninsula north korea will see some very heavy rain for its high and ahead of that dry across japan but there will still be one or 2 showers joining up with the showers all the more organized here into central parts of china so we could see some localized flooding coming through once again it's also some flooding into the philippines we got a little system just a rumbling away just to the east of the philippines that may well develop into a tropical storm once watch over the next few days but it said it bringing copious amounts of rainfall into central. and southern parts of the philippines know the possibility of also seeing some rather wet weather as the winds drive the showers in across the region not cheap out into much of indonesia dry particularly across the south as far as india is concerned plenty of heavy rain across western parts of india will see more showers coming through here and she was to the bunk with us.

building a wall was the promise made in the bid for the white house 0 tolerance approach to the southern border making government policy detaining children and separating families the stark reality that picture too much to bear for many americans in a country that was built on immigration. follow the key issues of the u.s. elections on al-jazeera. to move the war over the world to. former. you're watching al-jazeera remind our top stories this hour u.s.

president donald trump has visited california which has been hit by record wildfires he denied the link to climate change and said blaming forest management is democratic rival joe biden has called him a climate arsonist. an israeli settler has been handed 3 life sentences for the murder of 3 members of the palestinian family 2015 in an arson attack rights groups welcome the verdict but say many settlers tanks go unpunished. russia's president has pledged 1500000000 dollars to valerie's steering a meeting with the country's embattled leader alexander lukashenko has been facing weeks of mass demonstrations following a disputed presidential that. british prime minister boris johnson has insisted controversial new powers include it in a new brakes at bell are needed to protect the territorial integrity of the u.k. it has now passed a fast round of voting in parliament downing street has admitted that sections of

the internal market bell would give ministers the power to break international law or brennan reports from west minister i know called the prime minister prime minister it's a mark of hope personally invested boris johnson is in this draft and he came to parliament himself to propose it and faced down a barrage of criticism i regret tough to watch. that in recent months. the e.u. has suggested that it is willing to go to extreme and unreasonable. using the northern ireland protocol in a way that goes well beyond common sense simply to exert leverage against the u.k. in our negotiations for free trade agreements what makes this so controversial is that the proposed internal markets bill would give british ministers the power if they chose to override certain elements of the brics it withdrawal agreement an

internationally legally binding deal which boris johnson himself signed up to just earlier this year then he accepted that to prevent a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland there would have to be checks and tariffs on some goods passing from northern ireland to the u.k. mainland now he says that situation threatens the u.k.'s territorial integrity this is because we cannot have a situation where the very bond rates of our country could be dictated by a foreign power international you. know british prime minister no government no parliament could ever accept such an interest through a total of 5 former prime ministers have now expressed their grave concern at the prospect of britain reneging on an international treaty and the former attorney general who advised johnson on the original deal has warned that britain's ana

credibility and future influence in the world are at stake analysts believe downing street strategy is deliberately disruptive it's a bit of a mix of things it might be they didn't quite realize what they signed up to the last year but also i think there is a better as a sort of political shame and shit going on in tones in creating it in the legislation at this point actually she's very consistent with the way that johnson has conducted himself in public life and indeed dominic cummings has. many years which. to create and then right the chaos and it's in many ways has got him where he is today order as the debate ended the bill was voted through to its next stage where its critics will get the chance to amend its most controversial clauses but by defining both friend and foe on this issue prime minister is showing he's willing to take the trade talks with brussels to the brink paul brennan al-jazeera westminster european leaders have met virtually with the chinese president xi jinping and have demanded

a fairer relationship in trade leaders told beijing it must make some concessions if it wants an investment deal with the bloc they also pushed president g on china's human rights record. by scripts amnesty international is calling on bangladesh to include rohingya refugees in decisions about their lives unless she's planning to relocate more than 100000 to remote island many oppose the plan an aid agency says they're concerned by the threat of flooding in cycle and in the region amnesty says refugees should be coerced into moving and any who are already on the island should be brought back human rights watch say the warring parties in yemen are all severely obstructing the delivery of human humanitarian aid of the keys here the rebels the saudi led coalition forces and the u.a.e. back southern transitional council of interfering in relief operations it's exacerbating the country's di humanitarian situation agencies have been forced to

cut desperately needed services putting millions of civilians at risk. a run in court has charged paul with a bank you know whose story inspired the film her 12 randa with terrorism complicit complicity in mud and forming an armed rebel group he declined to respond to all 13 charges and denies any criminal wrongdoing he's been credited with saving more than a 1000 lives sharing wanda's 994 genocide marc webb has been following the case from nairobi. full recess to begin a period in handcuffs in a courtroom in rwanda's capital kigali amid tight security prosecutors say that he's responsible for terrorism and involvement in an armed group that carried out attacks inside the one he's facing about 12 charges relating to the alleged offenses he declined to plead to the charges he said he wants to face and separately but his family say he's been denied legal representation of his choice

and he's just been given lawyers by the rwandan government not been allowed to his own legal representation during the 1994 genocide he was credited with saving the lives of more than a 1000 people protecting them inside an international hotel of which he was the manager at the time the story was made famous by a hollywood movie in 2004 hotel rwanda the things that he lived in exile he's been critical of the government of president paul kagame me saying it represents the interests of only a small ethnic tutsi elite criticism isn't tolerated anymore and there are many government critics and people who question the narrative of the genocide and it up in prison or ended up dead in the court hearings today didn't shed any further light on how it was 2 weeks ago that was as a beginner had ended up in kigali his family said he left his home in the u.s.

and took a flight to dubai they say that he was kidnapped. and taken to kigali one the government has denied that he was kidnapped previously it is said if the rest came as part of an international cooperation but in the court today their account contradicted that they said that he was arrested on is the rival in kigali instead is next year in court in just a few days time by the court to hear an up location for burial. thousands of people in sudan who lost everything to the floods a calling for more help aid started to arrive over the weekend but it hasn't been enough at least a 100 people killed and thousands of homes submerged and ol river rose to a record level but now as waters are receding there is a growing threat of water borne diseases. more than a 1000000 people have been displaced by severe flooding in west and central africa and in senegal and it's growing over the government's response president macky sall

launched an emergency aid plan to help those in need but many say it's not enough a surge in rainfall has caused revis to overflow destroying homes and businesses nicholas haq reports from dhaka. displaced and fighting the elements the rains took away their homes now it's taking away their shelter inside. just what she can. just. that's all i have left fleeing the rains we had to leave our house behind the a devastation that we have lost what feels like everything. 3 months worth of rainfall in a matter of 24 hours and a car journey jones neighborhood into an island sinking in overflowing sewage with roads turned to rivers the area has become almost inaccessible most have left their homes stranded are few families like the braving disease infested waters to save their belongings from looters who will not feed them they are we can't afford to

pay rent anywhere else which you expect us to go we have no choice but to adapt to the situation as early as february governments in west africa were warned by the un that this year's rainy season would bring floods people were not alerted of the storms al-jazeera has reached out to the senegalese government and is awaiting their comment meanwhile the government announced it will release emergency funds to assist those displaced. in jordan 12 the government allocated more than $1000000000.00 to tackle the problem of flood but people here are wondering what have a done with that money so far they've used it for these tents for those that have been displaced but with intensifying rains people here fear these are temporary solutions to a long term problem. whilst the mayor of goma son in senegal says climate change is responsible for the destruction angry residents blame the state for its lack of

planning. the su feels like a bad dream the states must come and build a sewage system so that they can be in to the floods with months to go before the end of the rainy season has no intention of returning home hearing of what is to come because hawke al-jazeera the car. the world's largest tropical wetlands and brazil are burning at a record shattering pace this year due to drought fuelled fires that burned at least 12 and a half 1000 blazes in the panton already 2020 in the damage is being described as irreparable the region sits at the southern edge of the amazon rain forest and is known for its immense biodiversity high temperatures and strong winds have fueled the fire as farmers have also played a part with slash and burn methods. state my compares says he wants to see an end to the blockade of cattle by other arab states

he's co-chairing the 3rd us qatar strategic dialogue with the guitar a deputy prime minister and the minister of foreign affairs the summit in washington d.c. comes as taliban and afghan negotiators meet for peace talks in doha. another hurricane is heading towards the united states gulf coast hurricane sandy has strengthened to a category 2 system it's currently packing 155 kilometer an hour winds and is continuing to grow stronger expected to make landfall on tuesday hurricane warnings are in place in mississippi and in alabama the mayor of rochester new york has suspended the city's police chief over the killing of daniel prude she said the incident revealed institutional problems in the department the 41 year old black man's death has sparked ongoing process in the city he was arrested by officers who found him running naked through the streets

a poser heard over his head and held him down for about 2 minutes until he stopped breathing he died a week later after he was taken off life support. telescopes in hawaii in chile have identified a bio signature of life on venus nasa is calling it the most significant development yet in building a case for life on earth and each of who has more on the new discovery. somewhere in the clouds above the innes astronomers have found something they never would have expected of his just stunned i'm a man i did this is an interesting experiment i've never really thought about detecting it high up in the atmosphere there's phosphate gas it's considered a biomarker or an indirect sign of life on earth it's produced by bacteria and oxygen starved environments and found in the intestinal tracks of many animals slightly smaller than our planet venus is our nearest neighbor only 143000000

kilometers away it's dense atmosphere makes the surface inhospitable a furnace with temperatures of 470 degrees celsius hot enough to melt spacecraft that have landed on it but the clouds are much cooler a comfortable 30 degrees some scientists believe that microbes single celled organisms could be floating around the highly acidic atmosphere we exhaustively went through every possibility and ruled all of them out ok knows lightning strikes meteorites small meteorites falling into the atmosphere others say that it's our scientific models that need to evolve to understand this discovery is funny because that was the this doesn't mean that was saying extraterrestrial life has been discovered on venus far from it it's possible that we're unaware of a chemical that produces this pos bean and we have to investigate in that direction a new chemical models that could explain these quantities of fuss spin i think it

probably isn't aliens. what i hope from this discovery is it will kickstart more interest into the studies. and perhaps we'll see another mission to the us that will see is actually sending spacecraft into the atmosphere is self directed it which is something that hasn't been done since $9090.00 something relatively easy to do since it's right next door enter chapelle al-jazeera. that is al jazeera these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump has visited california which has been hit by record wildfire as he denied the link to climate change and said blaming forest management his democratic rival joe biden has called him a climate also missed. with regard to the bars when trees fall down after

a short period of time about 18 months have become very dry they become really like a magic and they get up you know there's no more water pouring through and they become very very they just explode they could explode also the leaves when you have years of leaves dried leaves on the ground it just sets it up it's really a fuel for a fire so they have to do something about it. we know we won't listen to the experts or treat this disaster with the urgency it demands. as any president should do during the national emergency. he's already said he wanted to withhold aid to california to punish the people of california because he didn't vote for. this is another crisis another crisis he won't take responsibility for. an israeli settler has been handed 3 life sentences for the murder of 3 members of a palestinian family the family were killed and 2015 and also an attack right

scrapes welcome the verdict. russia's president has pledged 1500000000 dollars to belarus during a meeting with the country's embattled leader lives on the lukashenko has been facing weeks of mass demonstrations following a disputed presidential vote. the mayor of rochester new york has suspended the city's police chief over the killing of daniel pruett a 41 year old black man's death has sparked ongoing protests. astronomers have found a potential sign of life high in the atmosphere fall closest neighboring planet venus to telescopes in hawaii and chile have spotted the chemical signature a phosphate and a gas that is only associated with life there's your headlines the news continues here on out is there after one on one east. on counting the cost of debt crisis and insurgent uprising mozambique's troubled road to becoming the world for the biggest

gas exporter an epic battle challenges apple's grip on its ups store and the rising prospects of a currency war with the mighty dollar sink counting the cost on al-jazeera. one of this trial is beloved matthew. they're under threats from one of the most painful diseases in the natural world they'll be on the critically endangered list for the twenty's no doubt in my mind. what i want to make so bold about warry these unique sanctuary could hold the key to this survival.