motion against the tree not. all knowledge is it was. police and lesbos start moving thousands of refugees into a new makeshift camp despite demands they be taken to the mainland greece. results are a lie from headquarters in doha i'm dead in albania also ahead homes damaged and power cut but worse could be yet to come as floodwaters begin to build in america southern states. fears of more flooding as to don continues to witness heavy rainfall. i think you made a mistake when he said it's just incorrect information u.s.

president donald trump dismisses a top health official as confused about when it wrote about virus vaccine will be ready. hello a police operation to get thousands of refugees off the streets and into a new tent camp has begun on the greek island of lesbos they've had to shelter where ever they can since fire swept their europe's largest refugee camp morea 9 days ago it had housed more than 12000 people nearly 5 times the number it was built for many of the homeless have been reluctant to move into the new camp fearing they will be stuck there stephanie decker is unless we're all forty's have been encouraging the refugees to move. so i mean certainly if you look just behind us there you'll see the moving in the line stretches all the way up the road which

is the most that we've seen it since this calm was set up just a couple of days ago and this is because of the operation that was undertaken this morning around 630 this morning nic riot police came stood in a cordon formation with their riot gear with their shields telling the refugees to move you then had people in sort of plastic type suits hazmat type suits going to the tents and gesturing for the refugees and the migrants to get up to pick up their belongings and to come here i think we can call it almost like a peaceful message of force basically telling them it is time it is time for you to move willingly but certainly the message was there visually very strongly that if you don't going to move we will move you forcibly at some point this is also the message that we've had from the authorities here in exam that this is the only option for them where they can be safe where they can get food and water medical attention and most importantly only the ones in this camp are going to be having having their asylum process you know restarted so it is we are seeing results

a definite me around over a 1000 have moved into the camp just today so we're going to have to wait and see as you say there's around 12000 people who need shelter from what we understand this camp houses around 8000 but certainly the operation seems to be working but there's still a lot of people who told us today this morning that they don't want to come hurricane sally dumped 4 months worth of rain on parts of florida and just for hours there's been widespread flooding and damage to buildings hundreds of people have been rescued and at least half a 1000000 are without power across florida and alabama and golly reports. are working certainly came ashore in the early hours of wednesday morning slamming into alabama's coastline florida's panhandle the brunt of 165 kilometer per hour winds heavy rain and storm surges. led to life threatening floods many residents were forced to evacuate to hotels as conditions worsened and the next year's academy

people that were left there in their office is you know things like there is only 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 and continues to move at an agonizingly slow pace forecast to say that makes this storm extremely dangerous for much of the gulf coast a lot 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 and so on 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 and 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 as an am 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 charley 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 gallacher al-jazeera on the other side of the u.s. hot dry weather is hampering efforts to contain dozens of wildfires there are burning in all 3 west coast states smoke from those flames has caused some of the world's unhealthiest air quality reports from portland 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 a vent 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 couldn't 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 dear splays 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. heavy rain and further flooding is for cost in parts of sudan it will worsen the situation for residents in the capital khartoum who are already struggling to deal with the worst floods in a century more than 650000 people have been left displaced and tens of thousands of

homes have been damaged aid started to arrive over the last few days but those affected say it isn't enough the in our river has risen to record levels but as the water recedes there's now a threat of water borne diseases. russian opposition leader like 70 was poisoned by a water bottle in his hotel room not at the airports as 1st thoughts that's according to his team who have been investigating how he became ill on a domestic flights in russia last month germany's a global chemical agency to help it investigate the alleged poisoning of all these been receiving treatment in germany charlie angela has more from london. his team originally thought that he had ingested poison in a cup of tea that he had at the port but they now say he was poisoned even back in his hotel room in that siberian city of tomes the video has emerged of his supporters sweeping that hotel room using protective gloves hours after they found

out that in a valley had fallen ill in a scene collecting a number of water bottles now they say that they wanted to bag up as much evidence as they could ship it out of the country before russian f.s.b. agents could take them and tests have shown that some of those bottles did can turn contain the nerve agent the bara trees in france germany and sweden have all confirmed that in a valley was poisoned with novacek but russia is still denying this saying that they have yet to see any conclusive medical evidence so germany's drafted in the help of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons they've taken their own biomedical samples from the bounty and they say they will be testing those samples in the owned a bar a tree top u.s. government officials could face war crimes charges for approving weapons sales to yemen the new york times says the state department todd full knowledge of a pattern of indiscriminate civilian killings by the sodium are also coalition the

newspapers also accusing the trumpet ministration of systematically suppressing findings by internal watchdogs to prioritize arms sales clear finkelstein as the director of the suns or for ethics on the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania she says a recent weapons deal with the u.a.e. may worsen what's happening in yemen. the u.s. has a long history of supporting both the u.a.e. on the saudis but particularly with respect to the war in yemen this is a murderous war numerous organizations have signaled the fact that there are war crimes being committed there are civilians and children being directly targeted in this war by the saudi coalition and the u.s. is selling weapons to the saudis and the u.a.e. that are being used to the extent that we know in this war now the inspector general report signals in the body of the report grave concerns about this and

suggest that congress should have been notified of this a classified section of the report which of course i have not seen up presumably sets the south in greater detail the current agreement with that has just occurred with the u.a.e. involving weapons sales would presumably exacerbate these problems which have gone on for a while and indeed accelerate the weapons sold to the u.a.e. may find their way to yemen and the u.s. would then be directly complicit in war crimes and atrocities that are being waged against a civilian population still ahead on al-jazeera. why protests have turned violent in several cities across the ivory coast. and libya's

internationally recognized prime minister fayyad as a sort of our says he will step down by the end of october. thank you owen. thank you. hello there more heavy rain across will central and southern areas of china plenty of cloud here on the satellite in the last few hours and that rain not just in china of course it's heading across through much of hong choose to go through friday western areas also picking up some fairly heavy downpours but it does stay to the south of the korean peninsula and then really coastal areas in china this rain here is coming from the tropical storm which will making landfall on friday in central areas of vietnam is staying very unsettled for the next couple of days it rains quite heavy at times pushing off the east coast but at least by saturday is generally a better day across much of japan sucked into the north into 27 the high the in

it's a par and a fine day as well across much of the korean peninsula and then on to south asia plenty of rain here of course no warnings that moment from the indian myself is that the rains so very heavy across the west you can see here all the way from maharashtra pradesh and down tools in south carolina as well some heavy downpours as well across into more central areas over the next couple of days and those scattered showers it back across much of bangladesh and some of that rain in myanmar of course is again the remnants of the recent tropical storm that will work its way west with as you go through the weekend but in particular the rains heavy down the western gas and we could be seeing some flooding with these days of rain in mumbai. mists to struction and despair a group of friends resist. rescuing books from the rubble they've built

a refuge for freedom and democracy. a secret library of hope from which they endeavor to rewrite their story and that of their country. to witness. on al-jazeera. the. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour police on the greek island of lesbos are preparing to move refugees who have been living on the streets after a fire destroyed the overcrowded morea camp a new tent camp has been prepared but many of those left without shelter are wary of moving in. storm sally has calls life threatening floods in florida and alabama

half a 1000000 people have no electricity and hundreds need rescuing smoke from was fires in the u.s. west coast is causing some of the world's poorest air quality 10 percent to from urgency hospital visits in oregon are by people with breathing problems. the u.k. has introduced a new coronavirus restrictions in the northeast of england this infections are rising sharply in britain residents in several cities and towns are being told not to socialize with people outside their support bubble pubs and other venues will close at 10 pm. mr speaker i know the whole house knows that these decisions have a real impact on families on businesses and on local communities and i can tell everyone affected that we do not take these decisions lightly we agree with the local councils that we must follow the data and on the data says that we must act

now so we can control the virus and keep people safe and i know that the people of the northeast will come together to defeat this virus was defeated we must let internet in barber he's joining us from london so are these then more a local lockdown measures that have been announced as you. well during they are local look down measures but they cover a large area of northeast england affecting around one and a half 1000000 people now if you add together all of the localized restrictions in the u.k. they now affect almost 10000000 people so it is a very larger number of people if not geographically a huge area but this is the largest single move as you heard there in parliament from the health secretary hancock it something the government says it didn't want

to do but it is saying that it's responding to the data now might have caught gave some figures about some of the areas in these new restrictions which come in at midnight local time on thursday talking about households not being allowed now to mix with other households unless they're in that social bubble and for example pods entertainment venues having to close between 10 o'clock at night and 5 o'clock in the morning these these restrictions he says have a necessary because for example in sunderland the city of sunderland there are now 103 cases per 100000 of population and in all of the others affected he says the figure is over 70 per 100000 well in the press here it's being reported that local m.p.'s in the northeast actually asked the health minister nadine dorries for reassurances of how the testing system was being improved in the

region and were not satisfied with her answers before these restrictions came in so there is still a lot of unhappiness not just with the fact that these restrictions are being imposed but unhappiness with the testing system yet again because reports seem to suggest that turnaround times to get tests results back aren't getting longer and longer. in some places they certainly are hancock in parliament here has just told m.p.'s that in fact capacity he says capacity is at record levels well something is clearly going on big going wrong because the press for the last few days has been full of anecdotes and interviews with members of the public including frontline health care workers. n.h.s. staff and teachers who say that they haven't been able to access

a test which would let them get back to work and there are there are have been reports of miscommunication between the various parts of the system so that in some instances test centers have not been able to be reached or to be booked online which is how most people try to get a covered test match hancock now is urging people if they don't have covered symptoms not to come forward and ask for a test but i think the feeling is that the public largely now feel that they are being blamed for trying to do the right thing he's acknowledged that winter is around the corner he's announced a new money for their health care system for that to the tune of around 3000000000 pounds but what people want to know is right now while the schools are getting back pupils are back in schools while people are being urged to go back to the office can they really get the testing system and the track and trace system working

quickly and efficiently otherwise more lock downs are going to be inevitable all right thank you for that update from london. the u.s. president donald trump has contradicted a top health official 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 transcends that robert redfield is just confused and insists the vaccine will be ready before the election i can reports from washington d.c. the c.d.c. director period before a senate committee and emphasize 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 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 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 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 of 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

masks 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 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 the head of libya's internationally recognized government says he'll resign at the end of next month until then prime minister pfizer satirize will oversee this election of the new leadership peace talks are due to start in geneva this week the tripoli based government will negotiate with the rival administration in the east which is allied to warlords khalifa haftar. i declare my sincere desire to hand over my duties to the next executive or 30 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 one of the 14 candidates banned from running in ivory coast since election says there won't be a vote unless they are on the ballot the former prime minister. insists his candidacy is irrevocable his call for protest against president allison wants to continue. a court cleared the way for the president's run for a 3rd term even though the limits as to the story of the reports there's a tense atmosphere in the city of bonior fighting between supporters of president allison what tara and opposition activists has left people frightened and resulted in the death of a 22 year old who'd gone to buy something and. 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 the stomach judy not boost says he was also injured by supporters of the president. going to the fountains in memphis and our youths were demonstrating i stopped and told them to calm down suddenly i saw some a link a kids who were very excited coming to get me with their cause 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 sorry 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 ouattara. and 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 bad for a 3rd term is further destabilizing ivory coast victoria gate and there iraq's government has launched a campaign to reduce the number of. legal weapons the aim is to reduce crime but some tribes say disarming them goes against their traditions there are reports from baghdad. these are members of iraq's special task force looking for illegal guns in the south eastern province of miss son they're eager to find them so they search of people's homes and commercial sites like this factory trying to uncover any where people could hide weapons they've set up extra

checkpoints here to make sure unregistered guns are not smuggled out and this is what they say they've confiscated so far from the dea just on the we've seized more than 30 weapons made 6 arrests and confiscated 4 vehicles without license plate this operation is also happening in the neighboring province of basra which has seen the biggest increase in violence in recent weeks but tribal feuds lack of facilities and corruption have led to anger and protests here and a recent rise in targeted killings of high profile activists forced the prime minister to travel to basra to reassure people the government's will do more that targeted killing of prominent iraqi scholar his hama hashmi in july outside his home in this neighborhood in baghdad by gunmen on motorbikes prompted outrage across the country the government has been accused of not being able to protect its citizens from armed groups which is why many are turning to their tribes for protection this is why disarming tribes in iraq is not an easy task your name

although. the issue of having weapons in iraq is not a new phenomenon it's part of our culture especially the tribal culture so disarming tribes will require a special initiative to convince tribal leaders that weapons position has a more negative impact on the entire society and a long history of conflict has also created a market for illegal weapons. behati is one of the main tribes in the country in bad. that its leader explains why the government's plan won't work. i don't believe they will succeed it is considered an insult to think of the developments of anything veterans are considered the symbol of all iraqi pride says it is because the government locks power to protect people and enforce the rule of law the they use their tribes to settle bayview disputes and sometimes to be needed

what happens to settle disputes back in may sand despite the challenges facing these forces the search goes on to rid the country of illegal weapons or such a party al jazeera back that much more information and all the day's top stories are on our website al-jazeera dot com. for the headlines on al-jazeera police on the greek island of lesbos are preparing to move refugees who have been living on the streets off their fire destroyed the overcrowded morea camp a new tent camp has been prepared but many of those left without shelter are wary of moving and stephanie tucker has an update from. the biggest crowd we have so far moved from the streets where they were sleeping to the camp but the message has been very clear from the authorities here is that this is the only place for them to go where they can ensure their safety shelter food water and most importantly

process their paperwork but as you were saying a lot of people are reluctant because of the situation in morea camp was like before we've been talking to a lot of people throughout the morning they don't want to go they don't know what the conditions are like inside they want to go through the same situation again and they want to get off the island storm sally has calls life threatening floods in florida and alabama half a 1000000 people have no electricity and hundreds needed rescuing smoke from wildfires on the u.s. west coast is causing some of the world's poorest air quality 10 percent of from urgency hospital visits in oregon are by people with breathing problems heavy rain and further flooding is forecast in parts of sudan it will worsen the situation for residents in the cop was a hearts whom who are already struggling to deal with the worst floods in a century more than 650000 people have been left displaced than tens of thousands of homes have been damaged started to arrive over the last few days but those affected say it isn't enough the u.k.

has introduced new coronavirus restrictions in the north east of england it says infections are rising sharply in britain there were almost $4000.00 new cases on wednesday at the highest daily figure since may residents in several cities and towns are being told not to socialize with people outside their support bubble and other venues will close at 10 pm. top u.s. government officials could face war crimes charges for approving weapons sales to yemen the new york times says the state department had full knowledge of a pattern of indiscriminate civilian killings by the saudi erotic coalition the newspaper is also accusing the trumpet ministration of systematically suppressing findings by internal watchdogs to prioritise arms sales those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next thanks for watching.

strikes in the telling of coronavirus french unions thrust into the job they say now's the time to write some protection for their workers over the global economy struggling government's response this is a. hello welcome to the program. the economic impacts of code 19 pandemic has been devastating looked around the world have forced many businesses to file stuff and cut spending unions are now worried welcomes will lose holiday full benefits one of the biggest.