find in latin america delves into this cuban michael. olea line to the outside world. al-jazeera. thousands of homeless refugees are moved into a new tent city in lesbos days after their camp was destroyed by fire. trucks and al jazeera live from doha also coming up the world health organization is warning against the shortening of quarantine period says create a virus cases rise across your. fears of more flooding as sudan continues to witness heavy rainfall report from one of the worst affected areas. homes damaged and power cuts the worst could be yet to come and floodwaters begin to build in

america's southern state. so more than a week after a fire destroyed greece's biggest refugee camp hundreds of people are settling into a new tent city on the greek island of lesbos they've had to shelter wherever they can since fire swept through the old camp 9 days ago if house more than 12000 people nearly 5 times the number it was built for many of the homeless have been reluctant to move into the you camp fearing that they will be stuck there stephanie decker is inless boss at the camp as refugees arrive. it started very early this morning around 6 30 in the morning when you had those riot police line up you have police also in sort of hazmat suits that came to tell people waking them up basically come out of your tents it's time to go it's still going pretty peacefully but there are people who are adamant that they will not be entering this camp why because they say one thing enter it's going to be locked they're convinced they

will not be able to move the situation at moria camp was i think safe to say a disaster situation in terms of you know what it was like for people living there you know that basic facilities and they're very fearful that that is going to be the case here again you know you talk to you know from 11 year old afghan boy who speaks perfect english who told himself on the phone who says you know we're not animals everyone treats us here is animals we want to just leave i want to go to school to sort of a young man you know there's a lot of young men here single young young men who you can imagine how frustrated they are with no hope with nothing to do all day he was telling us how concerned he was about his mental health he says you know everyone's concerned about refugees you know a water food and shelter is what about our mental health what happens when i leave here if i ever leave here all this waiting around and the lack of hope we've had is i fear i'm never going to be the same person again they're heartbreaking stories there's no other way to put it they feel like they don't have legal recourse it's taking far too long and and this this what this is making them feel like is that

they've just arrived again and the whole process is going to take going to start and they don't see a future the world health organization is warning countries against shortening coronavirus corinth photos records new infections across europe with 54000 cases in one week some countries are recommending as little as 7 days isolation. says it will not change its recommendation for food or. knowing the immense individual and so say the impact even a slight reduction in the link of current time and half and giving to figures i have just mentioned i encourage countries of the region to make sense if due process with the experts and explore safer adduction options the u.k. has introduced new coronavirus restrictions in the northeast of england infections are rising sharply in britain but enough from 19 barber who has more from london

here in britain the former director of the w.h.o. and city costello has been saying that he's got it from credible sources that the government had been considering a new 2 week national lockdown but backed off it the government saying that was never the case whatever what we do know is now that the europe director for the w.h.o. hands kluger saying that we should keep this 14 day target for corn seed for exposure to covered some countries have already reduced theirs britain and ireland and 10 days france it's already down to 7 days he's saying that's not why he's he's also saying that the current number of cases on the up should serve as a wake up call to were saw on september the 11th just a few days ago the whole region with 53 member states actually recorded the record number of cases since the pandemic started so obviously the or forty's the health

authorities in europe are extremely worried that perhaps between the lines society is returning to normal without enough counter measures to stop a 2nd wave this is what everybody's worried about going into the winter months and here in britain how that might impact the health service. at least 3 companies in china claimed to be in the final stages of clinical trials for a vaccine the government says it could be publicly available by november but critics are accusing it of using a potential vaccine to expand its influence globally to an e.u. has more from beijing. while the world awaits a coronavirus vaccine hundreds of thousands in china are receiving their 2nd job of one being tested there medical workers military officers and civil servants were among those given emergency use approval for experimental vaccines earlier this year 9 of the over 30 coronavirus vaccines undergoing human trials around the world

are being produced in china china's center for disease control says 1 may be rolled out to the public as early as november. china is at the forefront of the whole world in the development and production of. there are currently. 1000 vaccines in the world that have entered phase 3 and china accounts for. numbers of domestic coronavirus cases have led to chinese companies competing late stage phase 3 trials were brought state owned company sign a farm began testing in the united arab emirates in july frontline medical workers there have also been given emergency doses. vaccines are also being tested in. thousands and brazil and bangladesh have been given vaccines by the company sign of ak while the chinese military affiliated can see no biologics is conducting tests in russia and saudi arabia china says it's developing that seems for the common good but there are a few western democracies involved in partnerships with chinese companies analysts

say beijing is instead. of friendly nations and using a potential vaccine to expand its influence philippine president. says he led to be given early access to a chinese vaccine ruling out confrontation with beijing over territorial disputes in the south china sea chinese leaders have promised similar access to indonesia and countries along the river but not everyone is convinced. i don't think the international community will have. yes this kind of facts and diplomacy is potentially more risky much riskier at unmask diplomacy china c.d.c. says vaccine trials are going smoothly and no side effects have been documented but medical experts in the u.s. and u.k. have described china's emergency use program as problematic saying effectiveness

cannot be proven before testing is completed chinese al-jazeera beijing u.s. president has contradicted a top health official on when a corona virus vaccine will be available the centers for disease control director robert redfield says distribution will not be possible until next summer trump insists it will be this year we're on track to deliver and distribute the vaccine in a very very safe and effective manner we think we can start sometime in october so as soon as it is announced we'll be able to start that will be from mid october on . maybe a little bit later than that but we'll be all set so as soon as it's given the go ahead they're doing trials as you know and as soon as it's given the go ahead we will get it out defeat the virus we've manufactured all of the necessary supplies so that as soon as the f.d.a. approves the vaccine and as you know we're very close to that will be able to

distribute at least 100000000 vaccine doses by the end of 2020 and a large number much sooner than that. white house correspondent kimberly how could has more on the conflicting messages coming out of you notice things. so how this all came about is the c.d.c. director was testifying on capitol hill he made 2 points number one the vaccine is likely to be available but not on the same timeline as the president is suggesting the president you heard there saying that it could be in a matter of weeks science experts saying that really it is more a matter of months at the earliest possibly as late as this summer so that is the 1st point of contention the other is over the effectiveness of mass now the c.d.c. director saying that they are so 2 effective that people should be wearing them and that in fact in some ways it might be more valuable in fighting the spread of covert 19 then the vaccine now this is something that the u.s.

president almost immediately contradicted when he called abruptly a press conference here at the white house late on wednesday where in fact he said that he believes the vaccine is more effective in other words what we've got here is the president once again discounting and disputing the science now the c.d.c. has come out in fact the director coming out with a statement since this controversy erupted once again underscoring the point that science believes the best defense right now is a mask washing your hands and social distancing no question though that the president feels differently and in fact he is leaving to go to wisconsin later on today where it is likely in that battleground state he will continue to make his case in contradiction of scientists heavy rain and for the flooding is a full cost in parts of sudan that will worsen the situation for residents in the company called who already struggling to deal with the worst floods in a century or more than 650000 people have been left displaced and tens of

thousands of homes have been damage started to arrive in the last few days but those affected say it is not enough. for the 3rd of sudan's flood victims reside in the state which is located along the blue nile river well the waters have receded thousands of people have lost their homes and there's a threat of water borne diseases how many was born from sin joy we are in the final scene in should not take that which is how it was done on the we are surprised it is full which is an idea if he come where one follows them people have sought shelter let's just show you the magnitude of this come every classroom here is occupied by families who have a the heart houses demolished during the flooding or damaged off fearing the

reptiles that came with the water to come north goldbach home of course there are also a villages not told to the moon and these people say they have nowhere to go back to and it would be a while before they can piece their lives together they are about 18 or small villages that have been totally marooned on some of them have been of a quarry to buy their aid agencies including the un children's fund the unicef the. international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies. doing a little toll free leaf walk here on the ground so things are not really good for the displaced because there are more rains for cost and also more rainfall for you in neighboring ethiopia where the brunei which process these spots of sudan comes begins from a house it's slow still they use

a local field more floods. still ahead here on al-jazeera disarming local tribesmen in iraq the battle between reducing crime and maintaining tradition. and why protests of turn violent in several cities across the ivory coast. some pretty good weather conditions for the next couple days across into the korean peninsula yes the count is these jamie in for the last year as the no real heavy rain that we call say the same there across into japan small very heavy rains to go through friday it really does extend all the way from the west right there up towards a kind of it is steadily fast moving say it's likely a better picture by the end of the day but you know she's also plenty of rain into the southern areas of china in particular cross into vietnam that is all courtesy

of the tropical storm making landfall in central vietnam on friday still the rains will linger on saturday but things do really improve across much of japan want to use got a chance and again a pretty good day generally across much of the korean peninsula now that tropical storm will work its way of course across areas of thailand eventually and eventually on towards ma'am also they will see some heavy rain there as we head towards south a bit before then more rain across the whole really extending across into west bengal again samoa fate persistent right across bangladesh but the heaviest piles they will once again be through these western states all the way down tools carola as you can see we've had some fairly trench will rain say for the last few days it doesn't really ease up through saturday we could of course see some localized flooding and the shadows would extending right they were up towards new delhi. this lums of manila home to extraordinary talent move who will act that occasion

and hard work transform child scavenger jessa into a professional ballerina she has the strength technique i mean she's very strong and mixed martial arts fighter just battled his way from the streets to success in the ring like a dolly and this is your stepping stone. just lands on al-jazeera. ok you watching i did hear of our top stories this hour and hundreds of refugees are settling into a new tent city on the greek island of lesbos police began an operation to move

them off the streets on thursday morning thousands will be taking shelter wherever they can since a fire destroyed the overcrowded where it comes 9 days ago. at the world health organization is warning countries against shortening coronavirus quarantine periods follows a record surge in new infections across europe 54000 recorded in one day alone last week. residents in khartoum are attempting to clean up as they deal with the aftermath of the worst floods to hit sudan in a century more than 650000 people have been affected and tens of thousands of homes have been damaged. a state of emergency has been declared in alabama florida and mississippi after her consolidate cause catastrophic floods 4 months worth of rain was dumped on parts of florida in just 4 hours hundreds of americans have been rescued and at least half a 1000000 are without power and you've got to go as the. hurricane sandy 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 to hotels as conditions worsened and the next year's academy people that were left there in their office is you know things like that just plain alfre madagascar but. i just i feel for the people that are not you know i 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 i just rode it out on the 1st 4 we started you're over windows start up. by the roof started coming off and siding was rip and i just rode 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 agalloch a al-jazeera. but on the other side of the united states hot dry weather is hampering efforts to contain dozens of wildfires that burning in all 3 west coast states reports now 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 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're 7 times worse than that. this environmentally conscious city is normally proud of its clean and 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 where 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 mask causes a dry cough which is of course a concern during a pandemic i can cause shortness of breath it can cause chest pains and 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 of others 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 effect 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 rob reynolds al-jazeera portland oregon. russian opposition leader lexan of on the was poisoned by

a water bottle from his hotel room not at the end of his 1st vote according to his team who've been investigating how he became ill on a domestic flight to russia last month a germany has aust a global chemical agency to help investigate the alleged poisonings. and pakistan tens of thousands of people have gathered in the capital to protest against a controversial share cleric that angry over his recent remarks which are regarded as to rocketry against companions of prophet muhammad to hide a has this from. tens of thousands of people are protesting in the federal capital islamabad as you can see powdered of people have been coming into the protests when you know they're protesting against the controversial remarks made by a shiite cleric raised a lot from it now all the phony religious party that come together to demand just their worn exemplary punishment for their shiite cleric who had disappeared already

by had he even left the country and there warned the government to come down hard just by the bombing. but we demand the arrest of the cleric whether he's in khorat she or anyone else to try him on a blasphemy charge. you know the government should implement the law and ensure that such incidents don't lead to anarchy but they're also warning that they will continue to avoid protests across the country to grow their momentum to pressurize the government enter doing more joy and did a difficult time for the government and it will be interesting to see whether the government is able to control the right already i did read your ball into something . one of the 40 candidates banned from running in ivory coast elections says there will not be a vote unless they're all on the ballot for prime minister gui i'm sort of insists his candidacy is irrevocable he has called for protests against the president on

this and we're taught to continue that's what we know. there's a tense atmosphere in the city have gone where fighting between supporters of president and the somewhat tyrant and opposition activists has left people frightened and resulted in the death of the 22 year old had gone to buy something and then. 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 be 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 a 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 so that 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 and is further destabilizing ivory coast. is there were nominators is following the story from the nigerian couple of a big he has more on the reaction from one of the ousted presidential candidates.

gillum solar rays done a lot of issues in his press conference 1st of all he said there will not be a presidential elections in ivory coast on 31st of october he said when he was asked whether he will boycott the election he said no they would be no election and that they would the question of him being a candidate or no candidate doesn't even rise so what he's saying that is that there will be if there is no by war and himself on the ballot there would be an election there and whether asked if he will participate alongside what in the elections he said president ouattara candidacy is illegal and unconstitutional and therefore you would participate what he wants immediately is the dissolution of the election commission and that the international and international observers should monitor all the activities of the electoral commission in ivory coast apart from that he also raised the issue of rolling protests he's calling on his supporters

and supporters of other political parties to embark on rolling protests daily protests in ivory coast until what decides to take himself out of contention for the 2020 elections meanwhile he said they are trying to explore possibilities of forming a coalition of political parties against president want to so the next few days can determine whether or not this happens and what it will mean for ivory coast. iraq's government has launched a campaign to reduce the number of illegal weapons the aim is to reduce crime but some tribes say disarming them goes against their traditions dosage bar reports now from baghdad. these are members of iraq's special task force looking for illegal guns in the south eastern province of miss sun 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's targeted killing of prominent iraqi scholar has 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 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 baghdad its leader explains why the government's plan won't work. i don't believe they will succeed it is considered an insult to take away the veterans of anything veterans i'll concede that it does symbol of all iraqis it is because the government locks power to protect people and in force the rule for the day use their tribes to settle day disputes and sometimes to be need to settle disputes

back in may sound despite the challenges facing these forces the search goes on to rid the country of illegal weapons or such a party al jazeera backed out. these are the top stories and hundreds of refugees are settling into a new tent city on the greek island of lesbos a police began an operation to move off the streets on thursday morning thousands have been taking shelter wherever they can since a fire destroyed the crowd of come 9 days ago stephanie decker is in lesbos for. the biggest crowd we have seen so far removed 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 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 the world health organization is warning countries against shortening coronavirus cornton periods follows a record surge of new infections across europe with 54000 recorded in one day alone last week. u.s. president donald trump has contradicted one of his top health officials on when a coronavirus vaccine will be available the centers for disease control director robert redfield says distribution will not be possible until the middle of next year trump insists it will be this year. residents and how tomorrow attempting to clean up as they deal with the aftermath of the worst floods to hit sioux done in a century more than 650000 people have been affected tens of thousands of homes have been damaged storm sally has calls life threatening floods in florida and in

alabama half a 1000000 people have no electricity and hundreds needed rescuing a category 2 hurricane has since been downgraded to a depression smoke from wildfires on the u.s. west coast is causing some of the world's poorest quality 10 percent of emergency hospital visits in oregon by people with breathing problems russian opposition leader alexina valmy was poisoned by a water bottle in his hotel room not at the airport his 1st thought that's according to his team who have been investigating how he became ill on a domestic flight in russia last month germany has asked the global chemical agency to help investigate the alleged poisoning never on these been receiving treatment in germany or upstate headlines here in nigeria we have more news coming up right after the stream africa. hi i'm steve clemons i have a question about these days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important to you the bottom line tackles the big issues this is

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