what's most important to you is talking to people understanding what we're going through here and i just you know we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. hurricane sally is downgraded to a depression but its slow pace means is still a danger to life in the u.s. . watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back t. ball also coming up wildfires were said the air quality along the u.s. west coast the state of oregon reports a surge of patients suffering breathing problems. greek police prepared to move thousands of refugees living on the streets into a new camp but many don't want to go we'll have a live report and rich nations by

a powerful of the world's possible supply of coronavirus vaccines. the southern u.s. is being hit with what's being described as catastrophic in life threatening flooding that's why storm sandy made landfall originally as a category 2 hurricane hundreds of people have been rescued how often 1000000 have lost power across florida and alabama and they got to get reports. are concerned we came ashore in the early hours of wednesday morning slamming into alabama's coastline florida's panhandle also bore the brunt of 165 kilometers per hour winds as heavy rain and storm surges led to life threatening floods many residents were forced to evacuate to hotels as conditions worsened i mean there's there's kind of the people that were left in there and there are. you know things like there is

only a very romantic. but. i just i feel for the people that are not you know i have business stories here so here's now we can do after making landfall it 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 of the rick asian 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 they're burning in all 3 west coast states small from those flames has caused some of the world's unhealthiest. 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 mans causes a dry cough which is of course a concern during a pandemic can cause shortness of breath it can cause chest pains can 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 houses burned we need to take care of others and we're 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 hec there is 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 robber and holds al-jazeera portland oregon. and other wild news police on the greek island of last fall some preparing to move refugees who 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 where e of moving in live to 0 stephanie deca are now. as for so stephanie the operation

to move the refugees is supposed to begin this morning tell us 1st about what's happening and what we can expect. but we've had riot police move in there are 2 lines al can probably show you who's in they've blocked one side of the road and then you've had people who appeared to be wearing hazmat suits we can only assume this is to protect them against corona i think the operation at the moment i think green described as a peaceful show of force i think the message here is that the time is up that it's time to move to the camp a lot of the people here have refused to do that because specifically the situation in morea camp the camp that burned down was so dire they don't want to have the same situation again their fear that they'll be locked up there so you know at the moment what you have is a very calm situation but there is a message here you have riot police they're fully kitted up they have their their shields up and of course you have the men in covert who i think are going to be liaising to try to convince people to go we are seeing some people go as we've been

reporting of the last couple of days there has been a slow trickle but certainly thousands still remain here where we are along the streets with very little help there's no sanitation there's no bathrooms yes there's food handouts but certainly even medicine m.s.f. doctors without borders has been denied access to their clinic in this area since 3 30 am this morning so whether that's just as part of this operation or whether the greek authorities say there's no more help for you here help is in that camp in that camp alone i think that operation has now started how far is that new facility from from morea there were tensions of course on the island with the locals who didn't want these refugees and migrants living near them how far is this new facility from there and what is this going to mean for the refugees who are still left on their schools. well the new camp really is very very close actually addle if you can try and see there's there's tents that there's still expanding just further down you can also see. it's very much exposed to the

elements is a question i think that all of us are also getting this is a windy island folly campbell is on the coast line it's very close if you're asking me about the tensions with the islanders it's very close to the villages to mislead town here so it's still very visible a lot of the islanders we've been speaking to are fed up and want them to leave one island is that ok fine if they stay fine put them in a cab but lock them up and put them far away from us this is the feeling you have of you have 2 sides both of them on the leave the island the refugees want to leave the island but the greek authorities have made it very clear that the moment that's not going to happen and the only way that their papers are going to be processed there is signed them seeking papers the legal process is if they are in that camp anything else is not going to count you see the refugees want to leave the island staff i know you've been speaking to many of them this week what are their stories where do they want to go. there tragic stories folly the heartbreaking we've been speaking of the the majority of the refugees these days

here from afghanistan you have syrians you have to pull from iran from iraq in various places but their stories are all very similar in the sense that they're looking for a better future and it's pretty much on hold and we had one man telling us the impact he said you know what people say fine you're worried about food and water and medicine he says i worry about my mind what the lack of hope and what this limbo that i've been sitting in for so long is going to have on my psyche and when i get to where i get am i ever going to be the same person you see a lot of children where we are finally we were just walking our way through the olive groves in the dark because obviously there's no permission to be here and you see people waking up trying to have some dignity by washing brushing their teeth under you know under a bit of water that was running up the hill there are no toilets people have been going to the boss' room here it is a very difficult situation for these people flooding as we've been reporting i think this is been a forgotten crisis the refugee crisis the migrant crisis refugee camps. not just in

europe but the it'll be lebanon you're talking turkey with and people want to move but that the process is so difficult when it comes to the paperwork and they hear the president of the council is here the other day was saying they're going to expedite it they use going to be talking about it i think again we need to question find whatever you decide in brussels how is that going to affect these people and how is it going to improve and expedia 8 and then let's say for the fasten their move off this island i think that's still a big question mark i forgotten crisis but certainly we're going to be covering it here on al-jazeera with you stephanie decker live there on a less false island in greece. now u.s. president donald trump has contradicted a top health official on the timing of a coronavirus vaccine the director of the tend to so disease control says it's highly unlikely one would be available to most americans until next summer but trump says robert redfield 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 and 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 the vaccine started to reject me this facemask will on the subject of a vaccine with field 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 a 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 when available vaccine now i

think you made a mistake when you 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. murgatroyd do endure present trumps incompetence and dishonesty when it comes to testing 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 is 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 in vision by president trump 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. he was media's reporting that federal officials continue using in military grade device on protesters near the white house in june

a major in the national guard is believed to have testified before a house committee that defends stamp wanted to use what's called a way on anti-racism demonstrators the device makes people feel like their skin is burning in june federal offices use tear gas and force to appear protesters are not allowed donald trump to hold it for alarm. still ahead on the program the venezuelan government is accused of crimes against humanity we'll hear from the relatives of victims and setting the trend how the coronavirus pandemic has changed and look of new york's fashion week. hello there fairly cautious and calm picture across much of the middle east the winds are going to be picking up again in the next couple of days. travel a p.c.

head of the central western areas a soggy but this is what i mean about the ways we could well see some dust and say through the interior of iraq time it is not faring too badly made forces celsius 39 is expected to high in doha but of course it does tend to feel very humid when the temperatures come down 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 of these temperatures are above average for this time of year then down into central africa plenty of rain showers and thunderstorms becoming a little widespread and also typically for this time of the a beginning to push a little bit further south because he wanted to show is across areas of angola and it's a fairly catty picture as you can see staying mostly fine across much of south africa we've lost that run of the frontal system is coming through say damages are in the high teens celsius where we have goals and very 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 until much is getting up to about $36.00

certainly by sunday meanwhile feeling much cooler in cape town with showers on sunday. 967 and the 6 day war was at its height a u.s. spy ship the u.s.s. liberty monitored the conflict from international waters suddenly she was attacked by the warplanes of america's closest regional manager israel over $200.00 were killed and wounded the front part of the ship was just read with 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 al-jazeera. the rule.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories storm sandy has caused life threatening floods in florida and alabama it made landfall as a category 2 hurricane but us into being downgraded to a depression half a 1000000 people have lost power police on the greek island of lesbos are preparing to move refugees who 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 where e of moving in 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 is insists it will be this year. and saying with the issue of the coded $1000.00 vaccine oxfam says rich countries have more than half of the promised

dozes the nations account for just 13 percent of the world's population the charity analyze deals made by the producers of the 5 leading vaccine candidates it's warning even if all those trials succeed to thirds of the world's population won't have access until 2022 sun jaya is an associate professor of infectious diseases at the australian national university he says steps are being taken to ensure vulnerable communities get access to any future vaccine. and they it is important that we have equitable distribution of the vaccine because we've only ever eradicated one infection in the whole history of human civilization and that smallpox so to do so is a big task and we need everyone or close to everyone around the world vaccinated now 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 there is

a group called kovacs which is associated with the world health organization the coalition for epidemic preparation preparedness innovations the vaccine alliance and gabby which has got together $172.00 countries 80 of them the higher earning countries and 92 of them out lower earning countries and they going to what they're going to try and do with that is get these higher earning countries to help with the lower earning countries distribute and allocate vaccines to that 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 it may be that some of these companies will have to charitably give away vaccines for free or at a very very cheap price and i know it's not easy for them because they are profit driven

. brazil's president has installed an army general with no medical experience as health minister it wide open as well or has been sworn in after acting in the position since may his predecessor quits after disagreeing with a tradable tomorrow 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 health care workers in iraq who have been on the front lines of the pandemic are protesting against their working conditions police in lima trying to disperse them when they gather in front of the class to court demonstrators want greater access to personal protective equipment. u.n. investigators have accused the venezuelan government of crimes against humanity including the killing and torturing of protesters the mission found reasonable grounds to believe president nicolas maduro ordered the crimes to silence the opposition there is a board reports. hoody ordeal and the leader better many people have been demanding

justice for over 2 years going. through 20 year old son who was killed during protests in venezuela in 2017 he died after being struck in the chest by a tear gas canister sort of anything we have gone to every international organization to denounce our sons execution because his death was part of the passion of excessive use of force by the state we need to stop this the fact that young men go out on approaches to end up killed we want reaper ration and memory so that in venezuela never again a person is killed for fighting for their rights. it's been alleged that security forces were shooting directly towards protesters human rights groups say abuses have been on the rise in venezuela says the opposition started to take to the streets against president nicolas maduro in 2014. on tuesday the united

nations fact finding mission in venezuela accused of crimes against humanity these violations were committed directly by members of state security forces and intelligence agencies we have reasonable grounds to believe that higher level of thora g.'s within these entities as well as political author origin's words resized power and oversight over them including the presidents and the ministers of interior and of defense were aware of these crimes and either ordered or otherwise contributed to them the un is asking nations and the criminal court of justice to take action for the abuses torture and extrajudicial executions that have allegedly taken place in the country since 2014 the report shows specific studies involving over 3000 cases of violations and crimes we want to talk your included among other things severe beatings psychological torture. let's go next usual

sorry no more executions let's an execution family members sexual assault really threatens. usually. the u.n. report comes out just as the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o travels to south america to step up pressure against mandala. but while venezuela struggles to find a way out of its economic and political crisis victims saying only international pressure will help them in their fight for justice and truth that is i will. top officials in the u.s. state department could face war crimes charges for approving bomb sales to the saudi iraqi 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 newspapers also accusing the trump administration of systematically suppressing findings by internal watchdogs

to prioritise arms sales. the head of libya's internationally recognized government says he'll resign next month prime minister. made the announcement in an address on national television the sox are due to start in geneva this week's russia's shipley based government will negotiate with a rival administration in the east which is allied to warlord highly for have time so raj says he will stay on until the end of october a new leadership is chosen. miley's new military rulers say they've started the process of naming an interim president after west african leaders threatened a total embargo on the landlocked country members of the 15 strong economic community of west african states gave the co-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. everyone protests in ivory coast after a top court cleared the way for president alassane ouattara to run for

a 3rd term even though the legal limit is 2 demonstrators are angry that several high profile candidates have been barred from taking part in next month's presidential election victory get to be reports. there's a tense atmosphere in the city of goma fighting between supporters of president allison with tyra and opposition activists has left people frightened resulted in the day of a 22 year old who'd gone to buy something and another. we decided to demonstrate like any ivorian in relation to the 3rd term of the current president a young brother had gone to the shop and when he came back people shot him in a stomach judy not blue says he was also injured by supporters of the president for so long and for such a negative on things in memphis that our youths were demonstrating are stopped and told them to calm down suddenly our source i'm a link a kids who were very excited coming to get me with their cars they broke my leg.

protests have intensified after the country's top court cleared the president to run for a 3rd term even though the legal limit is only 2 the court also rejected 40 of the $44.00 candidates the next month's election including former president laurent gbagbo and one time rebel leader turned prime minister game story but those supporters say people mustn't lose hope. e.d.'s launches an urgent appeal for the mobilization of activists and supporters of the parties and organizations that are members of the platform of democrats from all sides and also of the people of the ivory coast to block the forfeiture and dictatorship of mr our son what are. they refused to concede defeat to atar after the 2010 election triggering a civil war his supporters say his continued exclusion from politics and ouattara is dead for a 3rd term is further destabilizing ivory coast. is there. one

of the world's most iconic fashion shows as rain vented itself in the wake of the corona virus pandemic a new york fashion week usually lasts a week but with face masks and social distancing is being cut short article again with force. new york fashion week has a new look yes the styles are cutting edge but the live shows are fewer and the guests farther between thanks to the coronavirus for designer mico underwood who's showing for the 1st time the pandemic has brought with it major challenges from disrupted supply lines to the staging of the show with so we all have to be super cautious we have to be you know awful of the space tough love social distancing making sure that everyone is feeling ok in the moment that they show up making sure that we provide masks and gloves and the all of these things you know just very new environment this year fashion week is only 5 days instead of 7 with the majority of

a vent online and spaces that once host of events turned into production studios fashion week of side the industry particularly luxury fashion has been hit hard by the pandemic stores may have reopened but many people are still working from home if they have a job and go eat out less all of which means less demand for new clothes department stores like neiman marcus and lord and taylor which cater to high end customers have declared bankruptcy and the mall based stores like j.c. penny brooks brothers and j. crew are also struggling experts say with house without a strong presence particularly vulnerable of consumer demand wanes for a pair of high heel shoes add a glamorous dress retailers we're going to have to pivot very quickly and as you see demand for mass are going up demand for the essential items are going up which brings us to this year's must have excess or as designers we all have to look at with this new accessory was the mask and what does that mean and has that look like

going forward as a creative i think its challenges are good for me and it stretches me to be more innovative so a fashion trend embraced by designers but one that everyone hopes will be short lived particle hain al-jazeera. so again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera storm sandy has calls life threatening floods in florida and alabama it made landfall as a category 2 hurricane but has since been downgraded to a depression half a 1000000 people have lost power small from wildfires on the u.s. west coast is causing some of the wall spores say 10 percent of recent emergency hospital visits in oregon by people with breathing problems but he's on the greek island of rest falls are preparing to move refugees into a new camp they've been living on the streets after

a fire at the overcrowded morea camp many don't want to go to the new facility stephanie deca has this update the operation at the moment i think really described as a peaceful show of force and i think the message here is that the time is up that it's time to move to the camp a lot of the people here have refused to do that because pacifically the situation in morea camp the camp that burned down was so dire they don't want to have the same situation again their fear that they'll be locked up there so you know at the moment what you have is a very calm situation but there is a message here you have riot police there fully kitted up they have their own their shields up and of course you have the men included who i think we're going to be liaising to try to convince people to go we are seeing some people go as we've been reporting of the last couple of days there has been a slow trickle but certainly thousands still remain here where we are. u.s. president donald trump has contradicted a top health official on when a coronavirus axion 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 also says rich countries have more than half of the promise vaccine doses they account for just said 100 percent of the world's population the charity analyze deals made by the producers of the 5 leading vaccine can disease brazil's president has appointed an army general with no medical experience as health minister as well who has been sworn in after acting in the position since may his predecessor quit after disagreeing with a child on how to tackle the pandemic top officials in the u.s. state department could face war crime charges for approving bomb sales so the saudi emirati coalition in yemen that's according to the new york times which says officials knew of indiscriminate civilian killings those are the headlines on al jazeera more news for you after witness to stay with us i am sequence. because these days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important is the bottom line tackles the big issues this is the united

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