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europe's extreme hates wildfires. rage out of control in france in spain, while the u. k. braces for reco temperatures. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera live from de. also coming up shall, anchors acting, president declares a state of emergency as frustration, groans of a few food and medicine shortages. ukraine's president sucks to top officials accusing based off of collaborating with russia. plus the core of a tree is something like a book. it tells the story, not just of the tree but of the whole area, and the last hundreds of years meet great grandfather, the tree in chile, that may be the oldest living thing on earth. ah, massive wildfires burning through europe forcing thousands of people from their

homes. fire fighters are working desperately to keep it blazes under control, but strong winds parched vegetation and record high temperatures a fueling the flames. julian wolf reports, fire fighters across europe are in a race against time to protect people and their home in france to fires around the town of la test, the bush in the southwest region of sean have been stabilized after having destroyed thousands of hectares of land, although fairly low over today, we managed to contain the fire, we're making it go where we want it to go while protecting people and their properties. thankfully, these 2 objectives have been achieved. forest fire prevention teams have had to cut down trees for fire break only visible those visible. we are cutting down the trees so that if the fire arrives there will be less combustible mass, which means a less powerful fire in the support zone for fire meant is certainly better in spain, dozens of fires burn across the country as temperatures push well into the mid

forties, but no guy lacking wedding done. no, it's only making it more difficult to extinguish the fire. this area which is green and coolant summer is becoming very hot. like the south climate change affects every one. he wave has caused hundreds of deaths. thousands of people forced to evacuate their homes at that 11 area thought that we are doing very badly. we are all very stressed. i. i live over there where the terraces i had to leave and come here because i felt like the helicopters were on top of me, som, or seeking refuge in makeshift shelters. i didn't take it too seriously. i thought they had it under control and i was quite surprised whenever it started seem to be moving our direction and then we were told to go so no with left last off behind others homes have burned to the ground. leila is i'm hers and all but my sister in law and my wife have a farm that has burnt the family farm has burned all event. yes. the whole think it

is what it is. in greece, a group of german fire men have arrived to support emergency teams there with hundreds more from across europe expected to join the fight. much of the heat wave and go over europe comes from north africa where wild fires like this. one of morocco are also wreaking havoc the extreme, whether episodes are expected to occur more often as scientists to point the finger to climate change chilling wolf algebra. well, the heat wave is pointing to northern europe. 2 in the u. k. health authorities are urging people to take precautions as forecast to say. the weather could hit record temperatures on monday and tuesday, letting bother report. for britain, it's a step into the unknown weather expert to putting the chance of temperatures reaching 40 celsius at 50 percent. it's never happened and it's prompted a red health warning for much of england on monday and tuesday, with the national health service warning of delayed operations and increased demand

on ambulances. the government says it is taking the threat seriously. with there's a public guidance, it's out there. i mean the comments in south rachel, us on cream. make sure you're constantly re hydrating the out of some of the peak times temperatures hitting 40 degrees. i think most out the sun that me day when, when, when, when that's happening, despite seems like vis experts say the extreme heat over the coming days could be deadly even for healthy people. this isn't like her a lovely hot day where we can put a bit of sunscreen on and go out and enjoy or swim in a meal outside. this is seriously that could actually ultimately ending in people's death because it a sound ferocious which is not set up for that so age in this country. climate change has been driving extreme temperatures for decades, and the heats killing more and more people here in england in the summer of 2020 more than 2 and a half 1000 excess deaths were attributed to heat waves,

and they've only become more intense and more frequent since then, the british red cross predicts, but the annual heat waves death toll could have tripled by the middle of this century. the u. k. meteorological office says climate change is greatly increased the chance of such heat waves here. and so in to say, a continued use of fossil fuels means we're already seeing what was previously projected for 2050. we're still increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which means global temperatures are increasing. and this means that this is probably something that will the original be cool, he life in 3 decades to come to one thing might also be to change that compensation . that actually it's not that it's that question about life and death and not just want a global south puddle so far. citizens and you can train operators a warning of delays and cancellations because of the heat there, urging people only to make essential journeys with no legal, maximum temperature for working. the government saying it hopes employers will be

flexible. the next few days could offer a glimpse of how well or how badly prepared this country is for a whole to a future. nadine barbara al jazeera london shall anchors interim president ronald wicker, on a singer as opposed to state of emergency effective immediately the parliament in the process of choosing a new president. following the resignation of got a pirate. roger boxer, woman l fernandez, is live for us in the capitol, colombo sh at manila for yet another state of emergency has been declared. what's behind this latest move them? well, one can only speculate at this stage because there's been no official line from the government. i did speak to so says at the prime minister's office, the acting present runner, vicar, missing her. in fact, to confirm that gathered that had been issued, proclaiming that state of emergency. now people are very much taken by surprise. not just people on the street who are just digesting information, this information,

but even officials, there are a few. i spoke to one particularly senior official, who should have been in the no part of the sort of police mechanism who said, i'm trying to check the gazette. i didn't have the gas that i saw. it is quite stark that at the point that it was passed and brought into effect, this was an effective midnight last night that not many people were in the know even the government printers that actually printed the documentation. there was a very small team bray brought in late last night and very much on a need to know basis. so that's, that's what we're hearing about this state of emergency. basically invoke by the acting president, ronald vicar, missing her, coming up to that crucial election where sri lankan parliament will decide and elect a replacement or a successor to president, gotta be roger parks, i will resigned that will happen on wednesday. and obviously,

given the huge amount of protests that sort of heralded the exit of guitar by roger boxer victimizing has seems to be taking no chances. because there's a huge amount of tools for him to use under the emergency regulations yamuna and protest has continued to demand the resignation of running a week from a single what's, what's the mood on the streets of the moment? as i said, the people are still digesting this information. it's no huge surprise. obviously with aid was president brought up a raj boxer or the acting present. now run a vicar missing her emergency has been used many, many times before, inter lanka. and even at the stage that we saw, a president brought up a raj, a box of fling, the country saying he would resign on that. 13th of july, we did have a runner vicar. missing her, talking about the extension of curfew in the colombo or in the western robbins that fell on befalls into as well as talking about emergency regulations. however,

we were still to see the actual documentation behind emergency. so, um, in terms of, of the way this works, it obviously gives valleys and the armed forces the powers to detain, to prevent gatherings, to essentially hold people without production before a magistrate. and more than anything, it might be somewhat of a deterrent, an attempt to kind of intimidate protesters. but given what we have seen in terms of the mood in recent weeks, it's unlikely that they're going to be deterred because what they have said is this exact system is what they're pushing against. a system change. you know, a sweep of the woods because they say this kind of politics cannot continue, and it's likely that the authorities aren't going to have a cakewalk in controlling the protests. are janelle fernandez, live there in columbia, and oh, thank you. ukraine's

president vladimir zalinski has sacked 2 of his most senior law enforcement figures and the most significant shake up yet since the war began. one of those to go was the prosecutor general, rena connected tova who's lead ukraine's efforts to hold russia accountable for war crimes. the other even backing up was head of ukraine's powerful intelligence service. the s b u. the childhood friend of the lensky has been under scrutiny for security breaches. the president says, 60 officials from their agencies are working against you, craig and russian occupied areas. and that 650 treason and collaboration cases i've been open. he must see, lord cheney such an array of crimes against the foundations of the states national security and the links recorded between ukrainian security force officials and russians. special services raises very serious questions about their respective leader here. each of these questions receive a proper response. today i've taken the decision to dismiss the general prosecutor

and the head of ukrainian security cert. holy lisinopril, doug plane is from the atlantic councils eurasia center. he says the lensky mustang quickly to find replacements for the 2 sacked officials. so i do think that these are significant, and the big thing that observers in experts are going to be watching for is who comes next. zelinski has appointed an acting prosecutor general to replace benedict of a is not yet appointed somebody to replace ukraine's top intelligence and security chief during war time. that is an essential role. so that, that's the big thing that experts are going to be watching for who comes next. the other thing here is that while a reason wasn't given by president zalinski for why he fired the prosecutor general, he said that the security breaches with a big reason why he lost confidence in his security chief, just today. ukraine's s p u head for crimea was arrested on charges of high treason

and passing intelligence to russians. he is one of many high officials in the intelligence services who have been charged with these are charges of collaborating with the invaders. one of the big things that a prosecutor general vanity tova, was mired in for much of her term, was failing to properly reform her office and allowing and sabotaging investigations into bribery cases and failing to properly do her executor duties. so for the prosecution of war crimes, that is one of the top priorities for ukrainians, and it's something that the international community has taken very serious interest in aiding them with. so whoever comes next, the international community is going to be trying to work with them very closely to make sure that there's no hiccup in making sure that these crimes are prosecuted on the front line, rushes military says it's destroyed. one of the advance rocket launch has given to

ukraine by the us moscow claims this video shows the striking ukrainian storage facility in the don. yes, region. russian forces, i've also been the number of ukrainian towns as a step up, their military operations. ukrainian shall say 40 people have been killed since thursday, and the entire front line is now the shell. not muscle to come here now does air including an investigation into a school shooting texas fire systemic failures. and the police response understands as the prime minister in turn makes a stunning elect to come back on ah, the journey has begun. the fee for world camp is on its way to catherine book. your travel package to day. hello, we have more very heavy rain pushing back into a mon over the next few days. you can see this mass of cloud into the north of the

arabian sea, that circulation that's going to feed some very heavy down poles in it. once again, the likelihood of vs flash flooding in place is certainly something to keep an eye on. 43 celsius, the doha, and 40 by large. he tries a 50 there in baghdad, or rather more comfortable, $2930.00 or so just along the east coast of the mediterranean, over the next few days, some of the picture for tuesday, still some showers around southern parts of the arabian peninsula, pushing back into yemen southern areas of the red sea could catch one or 2 showers . they joined up with the showers just sliding off the ethiopian highlands through the central areas of africa across the central belt. some lively showers pushing actually into our northern parts of west africa. so we could see some localized letting us know them areas of nigeria using across southern parts of molly, maybe easing over toward senegal as well, some big down, pause there for liberia and sierra leone. we could, there were some rather wet weather into eastern parts of africa. not too much of that on the cars, but there will be some showers having said that,

some showers there in to where most ambiguous and some shower into madagascar. meanwhile, it's largely dry. the south africa, cats are air with visual airline of the journey. new voice is heating up the airway . lot of chinese listeners with kimberly here, but i really think in their own country shifting paleface, the rise of citizen journalism has changed everything. how did happen? it happened on social media and the undeniable impact of the mainstream narrative that's fairly and went to the pole with those images front of mine is a wall if it's very much going for it's out in the media as well as on the battlefield. they're listening page. dissect the media on al jazeera. ah ah,

welcome back to pick them out of top stories here. this a while files have been raging across southwestern europe. voting thousands of pictures of forest unfortunate people from their homes. a scorching heat wave is fueling the blazes and prompts in spain. temperatures are expected to hit reco holleys in britain. this week shall anchors in from president rhonda wicker. my singer has declared a nationwide state of emergency fall. i'm actually in the process of choosing the next president to protest, forced to buy a raja puts to resign and ukraine's president vladimir zalinski, his son, 2 of his most senior law enforcement figures. the president says 60 officials from their agencies working against ukraine and russian occupied areas. an investigation into the response of a mass shooting in texas is accused police of poor decision making. this is newly released body cam footage of the response to the attack, rob elementary school and validate. maybe $400.00 officers will call to the school,

but they failed to take any action for more than an hour. shooter killed 19 students and 2 teachers before he was confronted by, by police and killed my counter reports. if there's only one thing that i can tell you is, there were multiple systemic failures. the 3 members of the bipartisan texas house committee held a news conference to discuss the report. it comes just a few days after this new security camera footage was released the sound to the children screaming on, edited out. but it shows local police arriving 2 minutes after the shooting started . as you approached the classroom door, but then retreat back down the corridor, all of the shots are fired. the report is adamant that during this time offices that the federal or state level should have taken over control from the school police chief, him, peter redondo, who was supposedly in charge at the school. once we today to redondo has taken much

of the blame, but sundays reports his responsibility for the lack of action should be shared by some of the 376 law enforcement officers who had arrived, as well as their superiors at the command level. at a minimum there was multiple opportunities depending on the relative training and experience of law enforcement officers to at least ask more questions or offer their guidance to try to remedy the chaotic situation and make sure there was effective overall command. there was a lack of effective overall command the report also found the school safety protocols fill fall short. numerous doors were left unlocked, which allowed the gunman easy access to the classrooms in a wider context. the legislators also found that these issues were not unique to the rough elementary school where the shooting happened. that protocols not

observed, created a dangerous sense, awful, security. let me tell you the people of the valley before this. they felt it couldn't happen here. they felt that that's the fault sense of security. i worry about. i think some of the same systems that we found here that failed that day or across the entire state and country. the report is dedicated to the $21.00 victims of the shooting and was given to family and friends at a meeting an hour before its public release. the report that drove home the country, the fact that the law enforcement officials waited with some 75 minutes. while gunfire continued before a group of border patrol gods defied orders on the scene and rushed in to kill the gunman. might hannah al jazeera washington. 3 people in the us state of indiana has been killed after a man armed with a rifle open. fire in a shopping mall. police in the city of greenwood say, the gunman was shot dead by an arm civilian. tucker was carrying several magazines

of ammunition. 2 people were also injured. the party of pakistan's, former prime minister in one con, has dominated regional by elections in the countries most populous province. his supporters have been out celebrating after early results showed, cons. pizza party. when he most of the 20 seats up for grabs in punjab problems, women could have national implications for mr. sebastian for his muslim league holes and now a majority in the provincial assembly commodified a report from the hawk. the result of a hotly contested by election. it now out emron cons bardy has swept the bulls aid, made a huge political comeback. this is indeed a key province of the country which had the most wards indeed national assembly. it had also the economic power houghton and rendered people of the bon job b. it means that they did the voice of the people of budget on important also to note that judge t months ago, a coalition of over 11 bar deeds on

a single agenda. go get rid of him. ron cons, government brought the country to the word of financial collapse, the political uncertainty of got a riding, according to enron con, because of a rendered go moscow. but the wind of change are being fed head and budget on after geek crew. shirley. me, king of the u. s. president would be out of li. does this particular region get north afford a conflict? an enron, con, of god, had been saying that he really buy oil from russia because russia was selling jeep boy, that no other country had the right to dictate to the people of budget on. so indeed, a huge nationalist moment for budget on, but the country had a difficult day because of a looming economic crisis. a didn't crucial talk through dia, math, and it will be important to see what comes out of this bi election way that it would really be fed and ready to send for the government will now be thinking of

the daubing parliament and calling for early election, which was one of the key to mon, of prime minister, former enron con, incident protest as were back on the streets once again on sunday, demanding a return to civilian rule in the capital, khartoum security forces used together to disperse demonstrators, the military seas pass. my transitional sib limited government last october. but since then i'm to military protests have been held in several cities nearly every week. of these 8 people have been killed in northern greece after plane carrying weapons crashed on saturday. the ukrainian operated cargo aircraft was traveling from serbia to bangladesh by jordan, but nearly a 3rd of the way into the flight. the plane made a shop you turn before crashing near the greek city of karbala. saint bizarre, the reports. i witnesses describe a plane on fire lighting up the night sky. the crash of an ant enough cargo plane,

tearing through an open field. your horse put their neighbor, se panels just beat them up. i wonder how it didn't fall in our houses because it came from over there. it was full of smoke. it had a noise i can describe and went over the mountain. it passed the mountain and turned and crashed into the fields. there were flames. we were scared, a lot of cars came, but they could not approach because they were continuous explosions. what are the scale of devastation at 1st confusing people who saw the plane come down? level may now look at the vein of what we see something bright coming down from the direction of the castle, but we thought it was the lightness right after that we said fire fire, what is it? is it a plane? what is it going up by the time we understood what it was? it has fallen to the ground that we were terrified or we also had children keep coming. we're screaming, shouting, local residents and 1st responders describe ongoing explosions following the crash . dope your ship or lee lee, your uterus,

from his crash to the ground and develop into a large fire with many continuous exposure. claudio gear, greek media reports. hazardous materials were on board, including explosives. the method is of this, the new than the sun is the air measurements at the moment have not shown anything, but nonetheless, instability of the field was observed in other words and turns smoke and heat as well as a white substance that we do not recognize. so a special armed forces team has to inform us of what it is and whether we can enter the field a lot on the flight was operated by meridian or ukraine based cargo carrier. it originated in serbia, the country's defense ministry confirming the cargo of your new bullet is naesha. you joke with a plane was carrying 11 and a half tons of products of our arms trade for the end buyer in bangladesh. the buyer was the bangladesh ministry of defense as a fully permitted and use and by and the flight route was mr. with technical

landings in our man read. i've met bad and was planned to land in deca as the final destination lady more moments before the plane went down, the pilot radioed about a problem with one of the engines requesting an emergency landing, but unable to make it to the nearest airport. the journey ending in a field in northern greece is in basra, theology 0. now scientists in chile say they have discovered what could be the oldest living thing on earth. the cypress tree in patagonia nicknamed great grandfather is estimated to be more than 5000 years old. our latin america editor lucio newman reports from chillies last, lagos region. hi, it's winter in southern chile, home to the a legacy or patagonia in cyprus. one of the world's 2 oldest proven tree species. that's where we meet up with environmental scientists, jonathan, but each of each from the university of paris in the, unless in national park, a unique, temperate rain forest or them. he actually grew up here,

when his grandfather was a par granger, he was the one who discovered a new challenger to the world's oldest recorded non colonial tree. a 4853 year old bristle. com pine in california. but each of each is taking us to meet great grandfather, the nickname of the legacy he estimates is almost 5500 years old. but 1st, he demonstrates the traditional method for determining the age of trees or by using a special drill or increment core to remove a 5 millimeter sample, the length of the trees radius here, if you got a cor, well, you can see rings as like a barcode days then you're drawing for me to, to, to numbers. then read these numbers. we build models of how the tree growth, unlike satellite data that goes back no more than 40 years. trees reveal earth's environment as far back as pre historic times. but each of each argues that the

past can be used to predict future climate change more accurately. the core of a tree is something like a book. it tells the story, not just of the tree but of the whole area. and the last decades, hundreds of years or thousands of years to read it, you can look at the rings. these for example, show that it was a plentiful year, they're very separated. so it means there was a lot of rain. the ones that are much closer indicates that those years were of drought. and over here, you see the scar of the tree. this means that there was a fire, but dental chronologist antonio, latter, who recorded a 3620 year old alleged sick 30 years ago, says indiscriminate tourism is endangering the survival of these trees. whose roots are already dangerously exposed from erosion. this is the younger alyssa entry and it was some one that we don't know who a couple of weeks ago came. and you can see here like within my shady or something

like that, took out the bark. we don't know why because this is pure vandalism. as a result of the park is now temporarily close to the public mud forestry service made an exception to allow us to see great grandfather for ourselves. perched deep in an isolated ravine, it's an imposing majestic sight to behold. from its form meter wide trunk to enormous exposed roots. the longest instrument available isn't long enough to reach the trees center to determine its age with the traditional method. so, but each of each has devised a mathematical model to fill in the gaps. but some dental chronologist aren't yet convinced. i think that it's a bit higher without having actual drink counts of the tree is that we cannot really say a bit. it's definitely the older status we can, of course said that it is amongst the oldest she is in the world. but each of each

will be publishing a paper later this year, defending his theory. the great grandfather is indeed 5484 years old. but i'm not worried because this is signs for the planet. is signs that make us to act on time to protect what is left of a planet that was once completely wild, eager. you, if you insist the challenge is to use ancient trees to improve climate models, to determine how forests might adapt to our changing conditions. the same forests on which the future of humanity also depends. do see in human al jazeera last lateral sewage in chile. ah, tougher could check the headlines.