in river, been planning for golden, this area for centuries. the best time of year to do it is the winter because the river is lower than during the summer months. these tiny little yellow flings you can see might not look much. it was around $50.00, a grand ah record breaking temperatures in western canada, and part of the us lead to dozens of death experts. the climate change is to blame . ah, they watching al jazeera alive from do with me for lead back. also ahead. if you'll be as ami warns of a huge respond, have to great forces we organize after the rebels rejected the government ceasefire . you of course convicts to former serbian by chiefs of war crimes and crimes

against humanity for they rose in the 1990 s war in the balkans and north korean leader has several senior officials accusing them of failing to properly handle the corporate 1. 900 pandemic ah, a record smashing heat wave has been hating western canada and the northern united states, killing dozens of people in fueling concerns about wildfires in california is death valley visitors braved temperatures that sold about 50 degrees celsius present. joe biden has blamed climate change for the classes, and he's met leaders of western face to discuss ways to minimize disasters, including for his fires. the temperature is high. temperatures have also been linked to dozens of dice in western canada. most of them elderly people, the country has recorded its highest pressure of nearly 50 degrees celsius. you and

whether experts say very high temperatures are const concentrated over one launch area, creating a pressure cooker effect. this would usually be pushed away by the fast moving winds of the just stream, but it isn't happening this time since one of them has our reports. even in summer, canada isn't used to this kind of heat. people are doing whatever they can to stay cool. some blocked the beaches. others are stalking up on bottled water. in british columbia, less than 40 percent of homes, of air conditioning, and demand for new units has skyrocketed. many in the region have never experienced anything like it. when you get here from time to time, every summer summer's have been getting hotter, but you know, it's never this body. we've never experienced anything in the forty's in vancouver . dozens of people have died suddenly in the past few days, deaths that are being blamed on the heat wave of the schools, universities,

and vaccination centers across the region are closed. the scorching temperatures are being linked to a so called heat dough were high pressure zones trap. the heat we're seeing happening with the atmosphere is very unusual pattern where there's been intense, high pressure cut off from the global circulation pattern. high pressure leads to sinking air and thinking air warms up, and we have this feature that's been cut off from the the circulation for a few days. that's the recipe for the dangerously high temperatures. regional leaders are going connection between the unprecedented temperatures and the threat of climate change. in this instance, i think the, the big lesson coming out of the past number of days is that the climate crisis is not fiction. that is absolutely real. and if you look, i had a briefing from the wildfire service yesterday and again today the entire west coast of north america from baja to alaska is red hot and waiting. what could be a,

their catastrophic fire season just ahead of us as lightning starts to come in to the equations. authorities in canada and the u. s. are urging people to stay indoors, drink water, and check in on vulnerable friends and relative. the heat is expected to continue throughout the week, and more records could be broken in the coming days. bins and martin al jazeera, all parts of the us west coast are also feeling that he says, we mentioned the phrase in biden has been meeting officials to discuss response efforts. live to our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins in washington. present by made climate change. kimberly essential part of the selection strategy. tell us about what's come out of this meeting with the western states leaders. well, the, the western leaders are looking for action from this government because as you recall, the u. s. president joe biden, when he was campaigning, made bold promises about what his administration was going to do to tackle climate change and the effects of climate change. and so as the western states and into

british columbia, canada are experiencing record here. this is starting earlier, it's longer periods of time and it's stronger. there are going to need to be changes and there's going to be in the need for assistance from the federal government. so he's now that he is not only raising the wages for firefighters so that they can now work year round something that used to be seen as a seasonal job in those parts. but also investments in ensuring that people have continued access to power in order to power the air conditioners that are now needed. and typically 30 years ago weren't needed at all in this area. so these are some of the investments, but also to that and there is a delicate dance of this president is walking in terms of the tight rope and balancing act that's going on right now. because as this country recovers from covert 19 and people are getting back to work, there's also this economic argument. and so that's why the us president is getting some criticism from members of his own democratic party who say his actions aren't

going far enough. they're not bold enough, we need to see desperate measures taken now in terms of investments and clean energy charging stations for electric vehicles and so on. and so they're accusing the president of going half measures, in other words, sort of balancing some of the arguments from his republican critics, particularly in the infrastructure deal that's just been struck where he's certainly gone further than many democratic presidents have in the past. but again, some members of his own party saying not enough. and these examples of these heat waves were experiencing our, our, showing what the president has often said. this is an existential threat that need bold action immediately. thank you. kimberly for that. kimberly how cats live in washington. he c o p and where rebel fighters in northern tay gray regions say the government's claim, it withdrew its troops. is a lie that t gray people's liberation fund phase ethiopia, military with 4 out of mckenney by its own fighters. it was celebrations in the

streets after the p p l. f announced on tuesday. they had 100 percent control of the city. if your government claims it shows can return to the city at any time. and the routes are the conflicts between the national army and rebels into gray go back decades. it p grey people's liberation, front, or force or t p. a left dominated ethiopian politics for nearly 50 years. and to prime minister abbey made to power in 2018. i be ordered a military operation against the group into grey in november after he said it attacked federal army basis degree opposition. parties say more than 50000 people have been killed while the un says more than 350000 faced the risk of famine. since november the t l. f has joined forces with other groups to form the grey defense force. after months of regrouping and recruiting new fighters, they began a major counter a time towards the regional capital mckelly in recent weeks gathering. so he has

more from they will be there's been a lot of back and forth accusations and contact positions between both sides. we have hod from prime minister, be ahmed, who basically reiterated an audio government position on reasons why that you feel to have withdrawn from macedonia and other areas in the region as well. he says that this was a strategic decision that the to have more important security matters to deal with have a more national external threat to deal with. he did not say what this horse or which this external forces were, but he said that the p d f. the 2 great defense forces are not any more priority, not any more major threats. so the government is going to contain that with in tea gray. and if need be, than the military can very easily take control of machaela within 3 weeks. so this

is something that has been denied by the spokesman of the t d f. he says that what the government say is saying is not true. that in fact, the european forces will forced out of machaela by 2 grand fighters. here is what the prime minister had to say. you know, a lot of people were shocked on monday when we started withdrawing from mccalla. i'm sure you were also when we entered mckelly 7 or 8 months ago, it was because it was the center of gravity for the conflict. it was the center of a government with a center for known and unknown resources. by the time we exit, there is nothing special about it except that there are some $80000.00 people and those people who lose it is lost the center of gravity in the current context. and other world news to former serbian secret police chiefs have been found guilty of war crimes in the former yugoslavia and the 1990 s u. n is in national criminal

tribunal, convicted jarvis, tennessee chin franco markovich for their role in financing and supporting so malicious judges. sentence both men to 12 years in prison. it's the course longest running war crimes case. niccolini savvy sage has more from the creation capital. the grid, 1st of all, the verdict is not in the end because both the prosecution and defense have the right to appeal prosecution has requested life imprisonment for spanish and him out there which former 3rd be on intelligence officers and defense require has requested their quito. the need them the court to a census sentence, tonisha jensen, mater, which on 12 years in prison, they're convicted for joint criminal enterprise for killings, war crimes, deportation, relocation of ethnic cross and both increased and both had to go in

during the war former yugoslavia but survival and relatives of victims, crecia and both both had to go in that are not satisfied. they're not satisfied because 1st of all, the child left it too long 18 years long trial, 18 years of trial. they say it's not justice. they're also not certified to reach which tension for years of prison in prison for some assistance about which they say defense is still small because tongues to to n c. moderate ver heights, serbian intelligence official school plant, or order, or the nice war crimes increase in both and has to go be not. north korea leader has replaced several top officials after what he called the grave lamp. seen corona's eyes prevention, kim jong own, accused him of incompetence, saying the unspecified incident had caused a major crisis. north korea close at borders in january last year to defend itself

against called the 1900 and hasn't reported any cases. rob mcbride has more from south korea's capital sold a he singled out a number of senior officials saying that they had neglected their duty in fighting the pandemic. i. but we don't know whether this means there has been some kind of outbreak or whether it refers to other measures, such as in the supply of food or economic measures that were meant to be implemented in fighting the pandemic that he was referring to. but certainly seems to be failings that are enough to get you to lose your job. several senior officials, we know, have been fired according to the north korean central news agency. and it comes, of course, is north korea claims. famously, it hasn't had a single case of covey 19. it has virtually sealed itself off from the outside world since the beginning of the pandemic, that in turn has had huge economic consequences. we know that combined with storms

debit devastated the harvest last year. the country is facing food shortages in the coming months, and of course it remains extremely vulnerable to the a corona virus. we that has not been as far as we know, any kind of vaccination rollout. it has a rickety health care system that would be hard pushed to deal with any kind of outbreak. so as far as south korean officials can detect and surmise, looking at what's happening in north korea without knowing exactly what this incident is, it does seem to be that kim junglin, facing all of the misery, ad problems and crises really trying to stamp internal discipline that asserted authority, as he deals with these critical times. there's been another record number of infections reported in indonesia nearly 22000. and in the past day, the sharp rifle force oxygen prices to double in the capital way. some hospitals are overflowing, the red cross has warning,

or they call the 1900 catastrophe and calling for an edge and increase in testing and vaccinations. as in joker, we go to expect to finalize the emergency restrictions later on wednesday. jessica washington has moved from jakarta hospital reach capacity. many families have been left with no choice, but to take matters into their own oxygen store themselves. and some relatives have come here because they say they loved one despite being critically ill. unable to receive hospital. here in the indonesian capital and it is a story that is sadly the reality for many families. here in indonesia, the hospitals all at 100 percent. or in some cases, edging close to 100 percent capacity and have no room. they have to turn away critically ill patients. and many of course i feel like i'm home and it's up to the family who have to take matters into their own hands and try to keep their loved ones alive. whatever the cost, the cost of oxygen at the store has gone off,

almost double used to be before the pandemic around $60.00 for one cylinder. now it's $130.00, which is a huge for many of the families, the entities and government says it anticipated that there would be a spike in 19 cases in june and july because of age celebrations. around 46000000 people traveled back to their home town full festivities, and as a result of that increase mobility, there was an increase in transmission of this virus. health care workers say however, that more must be done. even if the fight was anticipated, the government must do more now to they are calling for further restrictions on social mobility to just stop this rise in 19 cases. still ahead on al jazeera fighting for their rights preserves in business. wait to hear on whether land

reverse for them will be opened up for commercial news and protests against africa last absolute in the kingdom of teeny, formerly known as a ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello, we got more heavy rain into central parts of china. now the seasonal downpours that continue to just not a little further north was. now this is the may you fronts the plum rains and they just waving a little further north. so shanghai will be seeing some wet weather and cloudy skies as we go through the next day or so. slightly bright weather coming back into hong kong for a recent spell of flooding for thursday into friday. that rain just making his way to shanghai pulses out into the east. china c q. she's seeing some heavy rain from

time to time. southern parts of honju or to sing some wet weather will be some lively showers. gonna hume it there in tokyo, at around $27.00 degrees, know the passage upon generally try the korean peninsula, generally dry. we have got some clout and ray making his way into a bay seeing some unusually wet weather. continuing now into central and eastern parts of the philippines over the next day or so. malaysia, seeing some lively showers. lacey still seeing some unusual wet weather a notice it's dry that it should be across a good part of indo china, or at least until you push across towards me and where we have got more very heavy down pools. the southwesterly winds, driving those heavy showers into the northeast of india, into bangladesh, into the pool, but it stays hot and sunny pakistan sponsored pay cut on airways. in the next episode of science in a golden age, i'm exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval period in the field of medicine. science tend to be

a good subject to bring different people from all over the world together. office such as like a magical, and the more i learned about that, the more i respected science and the golden age with professor jimmy kelly on a jesse ah, ah, the me welcome back here watching al jazeera reminder of our main stories, millions of people in western canada and northwest and united states or on the heat alerts after record breaking temperatures. at least 65 people have died in the vancouver area alone since friday most were l to me. t gray in rebels, j e. c o, p,

and square forced to withdraw from the regional capital mechanic. the government retreat was strategic to grand people. liberation front has also rejected the government. the higher connie needs a joke. and 2 former serbian secret police chiefs have been sentenced to 12 years in jail. after being guilty of war crimes in the former yugoslavia in the 1990 s, teresa said shan franco markovich way convicted. several in financing and supporting fed militia. russian president vladimir putin says he poses mandatory vaccination despite his surgeon current of virus infections. he also accuses the u . k. and us of healing tensions in the black sea after a british navy vessel sailed close to russia's illegally annex region of crimea. last week. nice baka has more on the phone. and now of us social media. this is where vladimir putin response to our fridge concerns will be at pre screened $1.00

price of vegetables to cope with 19 russia. with russia in the grips of another major wave of corona virus infections. tuesday was eager to dispel fears around russia's vaccine. the country was quick to develop the jap, but only 15 percent of russians have received a dose. until now the kremlin had refused to say which vaccine putin had received. worsening public confidence in the russian jab though. yeah. so if i go, if there were some, you know, i thought that i needed to be protected as long as possible. so i shows to be vaccinated with the sputnik faxing. the military is getting vaccinated with an after all, i'm the commander in chief. only go to the commanders. putins left many pandemic decisions to regional officials. some areas including moscow have decided to make the vaccinations mandatory for millions of workers. officials say people can decline, work is fear, they'll be fine if they do. bullet heating, meanwhile,

reveals he doesn't support mandatory jabs, and can you put years where they would send the pharmacist challenge his popularity, but on tensions with the west, a more characteristic leader was on show. he marked the united states, pressing an imaginary button on his forehead, to show how american officials activate their brains. he went on to accuse the british navy along with us as support a provocation by sailing, knowing the close to crimea, part of ukraine seized by russia in 2014. the russian military responded by firing warning shots and dropping bombs. and the british ships path that's really what we're going to live, even if we think this ship, it would be difficult to imagine the world would be on the verge of the 3rd world war. because those who do it and you know that they can't emerge victorious from this war despite stagnating wages and falling living standards,

putins approval at home is still high, but steps to quash opposition. political movements, including that of alexi, novelty, have pushed the lead a further into international isolation. meanwhile, the longest serving russian leaders and joseph stalin shows no sign of retiring. the time will come, he said, when i will name my possible successor. nice welcome, which is 0. and tim, on a key protesting s, what teeny, formerly known as swaziland, have defied a curse you to call for constitutional reforms. they're demanding democracy, and elected prime minister, alexia brian has a detailed anger and frustration. and it's what teeny crowds built barricades confirmed tires. despite an overnight curfews, while the opposition colon a tipping point for the nation, the demonstrations like this a rare, and the more landlocked country,

formerly known fatherland. but the saint has been simmering for years. much of it focused on kingdom swati, africa, his last absolute monarch. and one of the few remaining in the world that came in he was crowned in 1986 aged just 18 and has and fated political power. he has 15 wives. oh, and has been criticized for his lavish spending. almost denise, what, teeny live in poverty. we are there any way out so much by the government, which over time if our government can't say no, you get all of them isn't that is that there was that the one missing mama, the protest is they, they want democracy, political parties,

a band and even though people are allowed to vote from in the parliament, the opposition says they not elections more selections of people signed off by the king. as is young people that we don't want to keep to be part of the government in the wind to be part of the government. us citizen like the rest of us in cult. weird, like everyone asked some shops in it to biggest cities when lucid and others say on fire. the military being out to enforce the curfew, which the government says is to ensure the safety and security of residents. but the opposition say some protest has been killed and many others wounded. the acting prime minister says he's open to hearing the people's complaint, but demonstrating isn't the way to do it. where nation that the new government has opened an email address. where must,

what they can continue to direct their concerns and petition. for decades, king and philosophy is being portrayed as a deeply popular monarch. now the government's being forced to deny reports, he slid the country, his kingdom appears to be in crisis. and sir bryan al jazeera al jazeera staff member ali abu sharla has been detained by sudanese forces while covering anti government protests in the capital cartoon. lisa 5 gas had the demonstrators who are demanding the overthrow of the transitional, government opposition to say the government has failed to achieve the goals of the sudanese revolution and must be dissolved. prevails supreme court is due to rule on a case that could determined future claims by indigenous peoples to their ancestral lands. leaders from 14 business groups are camped near the court house in the capital resilience awaiting the decision. the shock lang people are trying to

retain territory in the southern fate of santa katerina when k. and i came in with the indigenous groups outside the court in brasilia. well, this room court is important because it will be binding the landowners. what they claim is that there should be a time limit for indians to reclaim their territory. they say if you weren't sitting on that land in 1988, which is the year that the new constitution was approved after the military dictatorship was over. it, if the person wasn't there at that moment, then they should not have a right to claim that territory. many of these indigenous people had been expelled before by force, so they may not have been sitting exactly on that spot in 1988, but there is proof that they were there. so if, if the court ruled in favor of the state id and instead of in favor of the indigenous people, this set the precedent and it could lead to having to review many of the cases that

are, have already been decided in favor of the indigenous people as well as not allowing future claims to move forward. one of the world's oldest political parties is celebrating it's 100 year. the chinese communist party laid the foundation of modern china and as ruled unchallenged, ever since. the country has gone from decades of isolation to becoming a global power. and as katrina you reports was seen as b. james, growing assertiveness abroad is welcomed by many back home. in the chinese blockbuster film will 40 a 2 year old, long fung, saved innocent civilians violent and exploitative rebels. well, for the movie became the highest and chinese film of all time and was praised by government leaders for its nationalistic message. the term wolf warrior is now being used to describe china's increasingly confrontational approach to foreign

policy. worried the label is given to this whole new class of chinese math who acting in a much more effective and sometimes even kind of offensive way around the world with us or the chinese government spokesman. john jen is considered by many in china to be the leader of the book. warriors may was some of the united states very soon. the group of 7 should take americans pulse and prescribed medication. china's ambassador to france, you shall yet, is another proponent. he was recently summoned by the french government for insulting an academic. the diplomat says china is merely defending itself from growing criticism of its policies, including allegations of human rights abuses against weak as sinned. young. it's cracked on democracy, activists in hong kong, and the handling of the pandemic investigations into the origins of corporate 19. analysts say the tough approach is hardening attitude towards china in the wet and

is a stock contrast to the low profile diplomacy pursued by former leader dom shopping celine, this kind of tough. it hides something when the flaws and the contradictions. and it shows a lack of patience and effective tech to face at all. that's left this throughout the time for you guys as president, she did pay her. china is locked in the global war of public opinion. he's called unofficial appeared to promote an image of china, which is credible, lovable and respectable. but at the same time, the leader has also called on diplomats to display a so called fighting spirit. in the face of international backlash, a backlash which he believes is intended to contain china's rise, new confidence has with confidence. it's kind of enduring insecurity about china's place in the world, but also on the part of individual chinese who look at an increasingly household

chinese lead. he focuses on ideology and lead up to the chinese communist. probably, he's 100 year advisory. they do is working hard to send one message. china's time has arrived, whether the world chooses to accept it or not. katrina, you are the 0 paging ah slogan i'm fully back to go. with the headlines on al jazeera, millions of people in western canada and northwest in the united states are under heater, larry south to record breaking temperatures. at least 65 people have died in the vancouver area alone since friday. in ethiopia to gray in rebels, say, government troops were forced to withdraw from the regional capital mckenna, the government says the retreat was strategic. the to gray and people's liberation front has also rejected the government ceasefire, calling.