israel over $200.00 were killed and wounded the front part of the ship was just read with but what happened that day has long been the subject of cover up and mystery mt the truth can be revealed the day israel attacked america a major investigation on how disease the a. hurricane sandy is downgraded to a tropical storm but it's slow pace means it's still a danger to life in the u.s. . you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back also coming up wildfires damaging air quality 10 percent of emergency hospital visits in the u.s. state of oregon are for breathing problems half of the world's possible supply of

coronavirus vaccine has been boxed by rich nations and libya's internationally recognized prime minister pfizer says he will step down by the end of october to. thank you for joining us a us is being hit by with what's being described as catastrophic and life threatening flooding that's where tropical storm sandy made landfall as a category 2 hurricane hundreds of people have been rescued half a 1000000 have lost power across florida and alabama and gallagher reports. are akin certainly came ashore in the early hours of wednesday morning slamming into alabama's coastline florida's panhandle also bore the brunt of 165 kilometer per hour winds as heavy rain and storm surges led to life threatening floods many residents. were forced to evacuate the hotels as conditions worsened i mean if

you're counting the people that were left in there in their office you know things like this we have 3 madagascar but. i just i feel for the people that are not you know have as much story here so he has now we can do after making landfall but continues to move at an agonizingly slow pace forecast to say that makes this storm extremely dangerous for much of the gulf coast daylight in alabama showed a scene of devastation with severe flooding and damaged homes logan is still was at home in gulf shores where sally made landfall just rode it out on the 1st 4 we started you're over windows start up. by the roof started coming off the side it was written i just wrote it out last month louisiana was hit by one of the most powerful storms on record or again laura killed at least 8 people and cost the state billions in a hurricane season isn't over until the end of november in addition to sally there

are several other named storms currently swirling in the atlantic that hasn't since $971.00 meteorologists here in miami will soon run out of pre-selected names for this hurricane season and be forced to use the greek alphabet that's only ever happened on one other occasion florida's governor is warning residents not to be complacent as the storm moves across the state hurricane sandy is the full storm to make landfall this year scientists say climate change is making storms like this wetter and slower a potentially deadly combination and agalloch a al-jazeera on the other side of the u.s. hot dry weather is hampering efforts to contain dozens of wildfires burning in all 3 west coast states from those flames has caused some of the wild unhealthy quality rob reynolds reports from portland in oregon. the noxious cloud of smoke and ash choking the west coast has drifted in the upper atmosphere as far away as europe

but nowhere is the smoke as bad as here in portland it's really bad we have never had an air quality of event like this since 1985 which is when the department of environmental quality started tracking our air quality our previous record for poor air was set in 2017 we are 7 times worse than that. this environmentally conscious city is normally proud of its clean polluted air now it has the worst air quality of any major city on earth and portlanders are feeling it deep inside i am definitely having problems breathing i work outside so unfortunately i am really exposed to even with a mask it still gets to you. major league baseball games in seattle were postponed due to unhealthy air alaska airlines one of the region's big carriers canceled many of its flights and washington state's governor said the file air is breaking all

records the air outside right now is that historically polluted levels. according to our department of ecology. the consequences of breathing this filthy air can be done or portland hospital emergency room visits for breathing problems are 88 times higher than usual says county health officer andrea hamburg who spoke to us while wearing and in $95.00 man asked causes a dry cough which is of course a concern during a pandemic i can cause shortness of breath it can cause chest pains could cause an asthma attack so the effects range from mild irritation still very serious and life threatening meanwhile the fires continue to burn in butte county california a family that lost their home 2 years ago to the deadly fire in paradise are reliving a nightmare now their new house has burned and we need to take care there are being

told that every day with all these things happening on the outskirts of los angeles firefighters are combat enough fierce blaze it's led to evacuations of hundreds of people from the towns of arcadia and sierra madre and threatens to engulf the historic mt wilson astronomical observatory. thousands of homes have been destroyed tens of thousands of people have fled millions of heck there's the forest have burned and the death toll is rising now tens of millions of people here in oregon california and washington are worried what the effects of breathing in this dirty air might turn out to be rob reynolds al-jazeera portland oregon. us present donald trump as contradictory tom pelphrey fishel on the timing of a coronavirus vaccine the director of the centers for disease control says it's highly unlikely one would be available to most americans until next summer but says

robert redford ill is just confused and insists a vaccine will be ready before the election mike hanna has our report from washington the c.d.c. director period before a senate committee and emphasized the importance of wearing a mask i might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covert than when i take a covert vaccine because the imminent unicity may be 70 percent and if i don't get an immune response to vaccine stuff and protect me this facemask will on the subject of a vaccine ridgefield said one could become available before the end of the year but only in a limited supply if you're asking me when is it going to be generally available to the american public so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life i think we're probably looking at 3rd late 2nd quarter 3rd

quarter. 2021 but the president publicly disagreed with the c.d.c. director on the issue of mosques and the time scale one available back scene no i think he made a mistake when he said that it's just incorrect information and i called him and he didn't tell me that and i think you got the message maybe confused but president maintain the release of a vaccine is imminent we're ready to go immediately as the vaccine is announced and it could be announced in october could be announced a little bit after october the but once we go we're already a presidential candidate joe biden says he would side with science rather than trust the president who he says has frequently misled the public one thing is certain we can't allow politics to interfere with a vaccine it anyway americans have had to endure president trumps incompetence and

dishonesty when it comes to testing their personal protective equipment. we can't afford to repeat those fiascos when it comes to a vaccine when it occurs the stakes are too high. president trump has made no secret of the fact that he wants a vaccine in circulation before the november election he's repeatedly expressed anger at restrictions imposed on his campaign by the virus and is now back to holding full scale rallies with many including the president rejecting the use of mosques final clinical trials for potential vaccines have only just begun they involve tens of thousands of patients and importantly at least 2 doses have to be administered over a period of time it's impossible for the test to be completed in the timeline envisioned by president trunk which raises a question of whether the president is considering cutting short protocols for the

testing of new vaccines that have been established for decades mike hanna al-jazeera washington. in other world news police on the greek island of less preparing to move refugees that have been living on the streets after a fire at the overcrowded morea camp a new facility has been made available but many of those left without shelter are wary of moving in thousands have been left homeless after several fires burned on last fall's island in greece a few days ago hundreds of migrants and refugees were left homeless and left to fend for themselves the greek government has been trying to move them into a shelter and that operation we understand is supposed to begin this morning let's bring in stephanie de. forest the operation to move the refugees expected to start this morning stephanie tell us about what's happening right now and how we expect this to unfold. we will nothing official has been said this is all

from sources that we were getting into the night and overnight that police are being called up because of course they do want them to move into that camp now we've managed to get in and you can see riot police is the 1st time this is happened since the fire since the refugees and migrants have been camped out on this road. in the last half hour or so have arrived you see the buses there is a water cannon truck further up the road and out of the formation of riot police with shields now we haven't had any forcible movement as of yet it's very morning here finally the refugees are just starting to wake up and trying to figure out why this is happening now the greek authorities have made it very clear that the only place for these people to go into that new camp which is literally just you can see it from where we are just not with the camera it's still being expanded but many people here say they don't want to move because the situation in more of a camp was so desperately because the facilities were terrible i mean even here

it's terrible we've been walking down seeing people washing themselves you know under a stream brushing their teeth there's no sanitation there's no toilet this. but they're free to go there because. at the moment we're just here and we're trying to see what is going to happen but certainly there's riot police have been standing there now for about 20 minutes or so. we do know that the plan is that they're going to try and move at least some of them today stephanie i know that there's been tension between the locals on less and the refugees and you know one wonders how this is all going to evolve i mean if the refugees refused to move to that town. what's going to be happening what sort of plans are in place by a from the greek government to to address this issue of the tensions on the island of west. well there's been a lot of talk about that but the fact that the grievances of the islanders have been hosting this population since 2050 need to be addressed we did

a report on it that's been running the villagers say that this is a story of 2 tragedies but the world doesn't listen to hours and hours are forgotten because of the economy this is an island that's very famous for its all of oil folly and now you know we saw people villagers cleaning up that all of grows at the refugees of now try to seek shelter and so it's very difficult the message from the authorities is this that the refugees and migrants have no choice that they're going to be moving to that happen if they don't do that willingly it's going to be done by force and certainly this is the most sort of show of force if you will that we've seen so far which is riot police we know women police have also been called in to deal with women and families i mean you know some people walk to the camp people are still going willingly but i think certainly they know that the majority of these people do not want to go there we've been talking to people coming here this morning who tell us they don't want to move so it's going to be interesting we'll have to wait and see how things turn out and just briefly tell us about these refugees you've been speaking to some of them i know where are they

from you know what are they hoping for. you know as we look at this situation right now obviously they want to be in a better in better conditions but is it in greece or is it elsewhere in your. they want to leave this island that's the 1st thing many of them have been stuck here for over a year their papers in limbo. sign in process which really has a real issue here one man was telling us you know just give us an answer tell us yes or no don't keep us in this legal limbo in this limbo of hope he says you know this has a massive effect on our psyche and you can see it when people when you talk to them ali they don't know what's going to happen to them and i think now you get a sense that they're having to start again you know they landed here by boat years ago and had to set up camp. to be in horrendous conditions now they're all i mean we can't share we're sitting among the 10s of refugees here the rule down here they've been sitting outside the supermarket little supermarket which has been

closed to this is also the effect you have on the local economy there's a couple of shops here this is an industrial area we've had to close we're not happy about that so you're dealing it's basically a forgotten people folly and the fact that this come down meant that you were talking about this now again it meant that the u.n.h.c.r. head of greece came here and the president of the new council came and so the debate is ongoing but what is actually going to happen to expiate the paperwork of these people and give them answers and move them to where they need to go or if indeed they get rejected go back home and that's the big question i know we're going to expect some kind of policy from the european union at the end of this month but again you know how that's going to translate on the ground directly affect the future of these people here we don't know all right stephanie thank you very much for the moment of course keep a close eye on the situation there. and with you stephanie decker live from deciples in greece. and still ahead on al-jazeera one of the strictures in the world is coming to an end we'll bring you an update from.

hello there fairly cautious and calm picture across much of the middle east the winds are going to be faking up again in the next couple of days. developing you say that the central western areas a soggy but this is what i mean about the way we could well see some dust and say for the interior of iraq time it is not faring too badly mid forty's celsius 39 is expected to high in doha but of course it does tend to feel very humid when the temperatures come to particularly when the winds are very light or coming from the east there's no real change on friday how much is still pretty high for the eastern end of the magic and these temperatures are above average for this time of year then down into central africa plenty of rain becoming a little widespread and also typically for this time of the a big getting to push the south because he wanted to show is across areas of. the

picture as you can see staying mostly fine across much of south africa that run of the frontal system is coming through say damages in the high teens celsius where we have a warm air is across into both want to temperatures here above the average sunny for this time of year it's going to be mostly fine for the next few days and touch is getting up to about $36.00 certainly by sunday meanwhile feeling much cooler in cape town with showers on sunday. and i never thought i'd be saying you are living with the cooler i never dreamt of it with the words music speaks. to us about how music.

and inspire hope for a better life a.j. selects on al-jazeera. why the war. the end. of the back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera a storm sandy has caused life threatening floods in florida and alabama in the united states it made landfall as a category 2 hurricane but has since been downgraded to a depression a slow speed has brought a high level of rainfall hundreds of people have been rescued and smoke from a wildfire is on the u.s. west gold says causing some of the world's poorest 10 percent of emergency hospital visits in oregon by people with breathing problems and u.s.

president donald trump has contradicted a top health official on when a coronavirus vaccine will be available c.d.c. director robert redfield says distribution won't be possible until next summer trump insists it will be this year. and saying with the issue of the coronavirus vaccine oxfam says rich countries have bought more than half of the promised souces the nation's account for just 13 percent of the world's population the charity analyze deals made by the producers of the 5 leading vaccine candidates and it's warning even if all those trials succeed 2 thirds of the world's population want to have access until 2022 or less speak to sun send in your car bought this is in camera and he's an associate professor of infectious diseases at the australian national university thank you very much for joining us this of course has been a concern for the u.n. and many health advocates that once a vaccine is developed and successful that rich nations would be 1st in line and

this is a scenario that we saw in 2009 with the swine flu is there really any any way to bring equitable and broad access of these toxins. yes i will 1st of all finally i think it is important that we have it could have all distribution of the vaccine because we've only ever eradicated one infection in the whole history of the human civilization and that small pox so to do so is a big task and we need everyone or close to everyone around the world vaccinated now all although i completely agree with oxfam sentiments that we need to make sure the developing world is looked after there are some steps that have been taken and there is a group called kovacs which is associated with the world health organization the coalition for epidemic proper preparedness innovations the vaccine alliance and gabby which has got together $172.00 countries 80 of them are higher earning

countries and $92.00 of them out lower earning countries and they going to what they're going to try to do with that is get these higher earning countries to help with the lower having countries distribute and allocate vaccines to them for example in their history and here is how i mean that's the question because money talks at the end and everyone is looking out for their own interests and their own populations well rich countries really help. well i think that better that's the whole point of this of this kind of extra peace so that these 172 countries will somehow make sure that dexie the distributed are they by the end of 2021 which is phase one they will want to be in doses of vaccines given particular to the high priority groups those who are vulnerable and health care workers so yes within that group it should hopefully work the higher earning countries will help the lower only countries in australia we're lucky to help out regional group areas of the

south pacific except trucks however although it accounts for 70 percent of the world's population that means 30 percent of the world's population is unaccounted for and we really as as a global community need to make sure that everyone is accounted for and maybe then some of these companies will have to charitably give away vaccines for free or at a very very cheap price say and i know it's not easy for them because they are profit driven indeed and also what about the vaccine supply is will they be able to keep up with the demands this talk of at least $2.00 is needed will there be enough fuel for the whole world well they will be able to do so but the question is timing as well so it will get there but there won't we won't have 8000000 doses given out by the middle of next year that will take time it will take steps so coronaviruses with us for a bit longer fully i thank you so much for your time thank you for speaking to us

sanjay. from the australian national university joining us there from camp i thank you for your time here. that south africa's coronavirus restrictions are being rolled back after a decline in the number of infections president. says the country will move to a net never one as of midnight on sunday if you allies will be reduced to between midnight and 4 am while up to 100 people will be allowed to attend funerals international travel will also be allowed from october. our public health response is now focused on further reducing the transmission of the virus and preparing for a possible research we have now taken a decision to keep increasing coronavirus testing due to the decline in new infections and that reduce pressure on our health facilities

will now have sufficient testing capacity to expand the criteria for text testing. has a subway now from johannesburg south africa has endured a 6 month long lockdown one of the strictest in the world and it's had a severe impact on the economy one study suggests that after 3000000 people have lost their jobs while the economy contracted by around 51 percent in the 2nd quarter me south africans are worried about the country's economic future and it's hoped that the easing of restrictions will boost the economy create jobs and allow for the best possible recovery at this point and this is been the emphasis from president. over the lockdown that there's been great concern around

south africa's economy now one of the biggest announcements made is that borders will open and international travel will be allowed but of course the government has says that it will be a gradual easing of travel restrictions there of course we want to be very cautious people visiting south africa would have to have a negative code 19 tests before their arrival if they don't have that test they would have to observe a mandatory quarantine once they arrive in south africa. brazil's president has installed an army general with no medical experience as health minister it has been torn in after acting in the position since may his predecessor quit after disagreeing with a shade of also narrow on how best to tackle the pandemic brazil is the hardest hit south american nation but boss narrow has repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus top officials in the u.s. state department could face war crimes charges for proving bomb sales to the saudi

erotic coalition in yemen that's according to the new york times which is reporting officials had full knowledge of a pattern of indiscriminate civilian killings the newspaper is also accusing the trump administration of systematically suppressing findings by internal watchdog so prioritize arms sales the head of libya's internationally recognized government says he will resign next month prime minister fayyad is also raj made the announcement in an address on national television the songs are due to start in geneva this week so russia's shipley based government will negotiate with a rival administration in the east which is allied to all otani for have to are so russia's he will stay on until the end of october while a new leadership is chosen. legion you know i declare my sincere desire to hand over my juice to the next executive authority no later than the end of october in the hopes that the dialogue committee will complete its work and choose

a new presidential council prime minister to hand over responsibilities to. miley's new military rulers say they've started the process of naming an interim president after west african leaders surrender total embargo on the landlocked country members of the 15 strong economic community of west african states gave the coup leaders 18 months to hand over power to a civilian government in exchange sanctions will be lifted but only if the military puts together a transition team within a week. that 2 fatal have been blamed on a horrific combination of failures by pain make a boeing and the us federal aviation authority the 737 max was grounded after 2 incidents within 6 months but it may soon fly again shepparton say reports. 346 people died in to boeing 737 max air crashes one in october 2800 the other in 2019 after 18 months of investigation the democratic majority on

the house transportation and infrastructure committee concluded they were the horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by burns engineers and lack of transparency on the part of boeing's management and grossly insufficient oversight by the f.a.a. the investigation confirms much of what was already known under pressure from rival airbus boeing rushed the 737 max to market promising greater fuel efficiency in order to achieve that efficiency boeing made major design and software changes with little oversight there were multiple warnings of problems from those actually working on the planes of potentially catastrophic consequences but they were ignored in the rush to sell and deliver planes the customers a main selling point was that there was no need for airlines to undertake costly pilot retraining if they bought this new model of the 737 and as sales went up so did executive compensation even after the 1st crash that killed 189 in the java sea

and despite failing to share key information about the changes to the aircraft boeing executives profited from a 20000000000 dollars stock buyback testifying to the committee in july of 2019 paul and georgia who lost his entire family and the subsequent crash of ethiopia airlines flight $302.00 said this is where the problem lies point should not be allowed to act like an investment company extracting weld to supercharge shareholder returns at the expense of safety and quality. as for the federal aviation authority it largely delegated oversight of the 737 max to boeing itself even after the 1st crash the f.a.a. took out its word that it was compliant with federal safety regulations both boeing and the f.a.a. insist they've changed because regulators moved to recertify the 737 max grounded worldwide since march of 2019 victims' families say once again things are moving

too quickly however what has changed is the credibility of the f.a.a. one of the unprecedented things that happened was an other aviation authorities around the world said regardless of what the u.s. says about whether the airplane is fit to fly it will have to go through them as well that's something that typically doesn't happen nonetheless the 737 months is expected to be back in the air within months she had returned see i'll just 0. 0 again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera storm sandy has caused life threatening floods in florida and alabama it made landfall as a category 2 hurricane but has since been downgraded to a depression at slow speed has brought high levels of rainfall hundreds of people have been rescued half a 1000000 have lost at power small from wildfires on the u.s.

west coast is causing some of the world's poorest say 10 percent of recent emergency hospital visits in oregon i by people with breathing problems dozens of fires are still burning in california oregon and washington state police on the greek island of les pauls are reportedly preparing to move refugees that have been living on the streets after fayyad the overcrowded morea camp a new facility has been made available but many of those left without shelter where e of moving in stephanie deck as this update. the message from the authorities is this that the refugees and migrants have no choice that they're going to be moving to that pump and if they don't do that willingly it's going to be done by force and certainly this is the most sort of show of force if you will that we've seen so far which is riot police we know women police have also been called in to deal with women and families i mean i'm seeing some people walk to the camp people are still going willingly but i think certainly they know that the majority of these people do not want to go there we've been talking to people coming here this morning who

tell us they don't want to move so it's going to be interesting we'll have to wait and see how things turn out the u.s. president has contradicted a top health official on when a corona virus vaccine will be available c.d.c. director robert redfield says distribution won't be possible until next summer trump insists it will be this year. says rich countries have bought more than half of the promised doses of the coronavirus vaccine worldwide the nation's account for just 13 percent of the world's population a charity analyze deals made by the producers of the 5 leading vaccine candidates south africa's coronavirus restrictions are being rolled back after a decline in the number of infections present in syria iran says south africa will move to alert level one as of midnight on sunday curfew hours will be reduced to between midnight and 4 am and up to 100 people will be allowed to attend funerals. those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next a string to stay with this. a face can tell a story without uttering

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