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europe's extreme heat while fires rage out of control in france and spain, while the u. k. braces for reco temperatures. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is obviously a rely from della also coming up for lunch as acting president to class. the state of emergency. frustration grows with a few food and medicine shortages. ukraine's president sucks to top officials accusing based off of collaborating with russia that investigation into a school shooting of texas find system failures and the police response that day. several officers in the hallway were in that building, do or should have known there was dying in that classroom. ah, massive wall fires burning through europe, forcing thousands of people from their homes. fire fighters are working desperately

to keep the blazes on the control but strong winds. parched vegetation and reco high temperatures are fueling the flames. julian wolf reports, fire fighters across europe are in a race against time to protect people and their home. in france, 2 fires around the town of le test, the bush in the southwest region of shiranda have been stabilized. after having destroyed thousands of hectares of land all valid and over today, we manage 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 firebreak only. so these are 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 fireman to circulate better. in spain, dozens of fires burned 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. if that 11 area for thought that we are doing very badly, we are all very stressed. 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. we never started seemed to be moving our direction and then we were told to go so no with left last off behind. others homes have burnt the ground. leo, 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 of it. 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 point the finger to climate change. chilling wolf al jazeera, shall anchors interim president ronna with from a single as imposed a state of emergency effective immediately. parliament is in the process of choosing a new president. following the resignation of got a pi a roger pac sir. and l fernandez is in colombo, she says the declaration came as a surprise to many in the capital. 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, run a vicar missing her, in fact,

to confirm that gazette that had been issued, proclaiming that state of emergency are now people very much taken by surprise. not just people on the streets who are just digesting information, this information. but even officials are there are a few. i spoke to a 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 pass i 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. or there was a very small team bridge 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 present gotta be roger park said will resigned. that will happen on wednesday. and obviously, given the huge amount of protests that sort of heralded the exit of got up roger boxer, vicar missing has seems to be taking no chances. because there's a huge amount of tools for him to use under the emergency regulations. the koreans president vladimir zalinski a suck tube is massena, law enforcement figures are the most significant shake up yet since the war began. one of those to go, where's prosecutor general arena fanatic. tova whose lead ukraine's efforts russia accountable for war crimes? the other even backing of was head of ukraine's powerful intelligence agency. the s b u is the chartered friend of savanski and he's been under scrutiny for security breaches. the president says,

60 officials from their agencies are working against you cray than russian occupied areas. and that 650 treason and collaboration cases of been open macias, launching 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, braces. very serious questions about their respective leader. 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 serv. well, lisa looked up plain as on the atlantic councils eurasia center. he says, the lensky must act quickly to find replacements for the 2 sat officials. so i do think that these are significant. and the big thing that observers and 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 your cranes 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 were the 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 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 eating 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. an investigation and the response to mass shooting in texas is accused police of poor decision making. this is newly released police body cam footage recorded during the attack at rob elementary school in evolving many 400 officers will call to the school, but they failed to take action for more than 75 minutes. a shooter killed 900 students and 2 teachers before he was killed by police. my counter report 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 edit the doubt. but it shows local police arriving 3 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 and peter redondo who was supposedly in charge at the school. once we today to redondo has taken much of the blame, but sundays reports this 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 a command level. at a minimum there is 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 spill 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 false sense of security are 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, a report that drove home the tragic fact that law enforcement officials waited with some 75 minutes. while gunfire continued before, a group of border patrol gods to fight orders on the scene and rushed in to kill the gunman. mike on al jazeera washington, 3 people in the u. s. state of indiana had been killed off to a man armed with a rifle open fire at a shopping mall. police in the city of greenwood say the gunman was shot dead by an armed civilian. there. taco was carrying several magazines at ammunition. official break here and i'll just hear back when we come back. pakistan is allison prime minister in when com makes a stunning in a to come back. bless. 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 and meet great grandfather, the tree in chile, that it may be the oldest living thing on earth or not. stay with us.

ah hello, we have more very heavy rain pushing back into our mon over the next few days. you can see this massive cloud into the north of the arabian sea. that's circulation. that's going to face and very heavy down pulls in it. once again, the likelihood of 1st some flash flooding in place is certainly something to keep an eye on 43 celsius the tow and 40 by law. she tries a 50 that impact that a rather more comfortable $2930.00 or so just on the east coast of the mediterranean, over the next few days. similar 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 harness 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 sannicolas. well, some big doubt posed there for liberia and sierra leone. we could, there was some ra, wetter weather into eastern parts of africa, not too much of that on the cast, but there will be some showers having said that, some showers therein, to mozambique and sandy, some shower into madagascar, meanwhile, is largely dry. the south africa ah, with how and why did who become so obsessed with this law, we were giving them a tool to hold corrupt individuals and human rights abusers accountable. they're gonna rip this deal apart if they take the white house of 2025. what is the world hearing what we're talking about by american today we take on us politics and society. that's the bottom line. we know what's happening i region,

we know have them get to places that others and not as i said, i'm going the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. ah ah, welcome back and remind me of the headline here on al jazeera shall anchors interim president, ron wicker. i'm a single, as declared a nationwide state of emergency apartments in the process of choosing its next went off to purchase full scott to buy a rug to resign. the claims president vladimir lensky has sent 2 of his most senior, no enforcement. he goes, the president says 60 officials from the agencies a working against ukrainian or russian occupied. and while foss have been raging

across southwestern europe, burning thousands of pictures of forest and forcing people from a scorching heat wave disputing the blazes, france well, the heat weigh responding to northern europe to in the u. k. health authorities are urging people to take precautions as forecasts to say the weather could hit record temperatures on monday and tuesday, letting barbara for britain it's a step into the unknown weather experts 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. where there is a public guidance is out there. i mean, the common sense style ritual us on cream. make sure you're closely re hydrating the out of some of the peak times. temperatures hitting 40 degrees of interest out the sun that me day when. when, when, when that's happening,

despite seems like this expert 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 a 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 of his says, climate change is greatly increased the chance of such heat waves here. and scientists say our continued use of fossil fuels means we're already seeing what

was previously projected for 2050. there still increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which means global temperatures are increasing. and this means that this is probably something that will the errands 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 a question about life and death and not on the global south, but also far citizens in the you can train operators a warning of delays and cancellations because of the heat they're 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 how to future. nadeem barbara al jazeera london, the party of pakistan's, former prime minister, imran con, has dominated regional by elections in the countries most populous province. and supporters of an upset of waiting after early results showed, cons,

p t. i fought evening, most of the 20 seats up for grabs in punjab province from an a sociable sheriff's muslim league holds a narrow majority in the provincial assembly come ohio as more from the result of a hotly contested by election. and now out m. ron cons bardy has swept, the boys, have made a huge political come back. this is indeed a key province of the country which had the most rewards and d national assembly. it had also the economic power hawk and rendered people of the bun job b. it means that they did the voice of the people of august on important also to note that judge g months ago, a coalition of over 11 bar deeds on a single agenda to get rid of him. ron cons, government brought the country to the words of financial collapse, the political uncertainty of got a riding, according to enron, con, because of it rendered go moscow. but the winds of change are being fed,

head and budget on. after the key, crucial meeting of the u. s. president would be out of lead. does this particular region get nor to afford a conflict? and enron, khan of god, has been saying that he will buy oil from russia because russia was selling jeep boy. that no other country had the right or dick gave to the people of august on. so indeed, a huge nationalist moment for budget on. but the country had difficult days ahead because of a looming economic crisis. it didn't crucial talks with 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. there will now be thinking of dissolving parliament and calling for early elections, which was one of the key to my of prime minister, former enron pond. at least 8 people have been killed in northern greece after plain carrying weapons crushed on saturday. ukrainian registered cargo aircraft was

traveling from serbia to bangladesh by a jordan. nearly a 3rd of the way into the flight. the plane made a shot you turn before crushing near the greek city of kabbalah. same was rather referrals. eye 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 husband there may possess pamela, be plymouth. 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 a mountain and turned in, crashed into the fields. there were flames. we were scared, a lot of cars came, but they could not approach because there 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 lighted after death. we set fire fire. what is it? is it a plane? what is it?

said one of them by the time we understood what it was, it had fallen to the ground that we were terrified or we also had children here coming. we're screaming, shouting, 1000 local residents and 1st responders describe ongoing explosions following the crash dog bureau ship or lee lee your or yourself crash to the ground and develop into a large fire with many continuous exposure audio. greek media reports hazardous materials were on board including explosives. the method is assisting even the measurements at the moment have not shown anything, but nonetheless, instability of the field was observed in other words and to smoke in the 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 or the flight was operated by meridian or ukraine based cargo carrier. it originated in serbia, the country's defense ministry confirming the cargo of unit bullet is naesha. you

chose, the claim was carrying 11 half tons of products of our arms trade for the end buyer in bangladesh. the buyer was the bank, the dash ministry of defense as a fully permitted end user and by the flight route was miss with technical landings in man red med bad and was planned to land in tucker as the final destination 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 was in basra. b o. d 0 was onions or inches in belgrade of more on the response from the serbian government. serious defense minister neighbors has to find them is confirmed that ukrainian cargo plane on donald 12 crashed in greece was carrying weapons from serbia. but also on the line that it has no relation to the board in ukraine,

according to the minister claim was carrying 11 and a half tons of military equipment such as the ripens and mines were used by serbian rebels company. volleyer for the ministry of defense of bundle this as the end user . serbia minister also stated that the plane had all the proper permits in accordance with international regulations. the aircraft that to go from the nearest airport in south therubi i, it's saturday around $840.00 p. m. has crashed to near the greek city of karbala. they wanted me to explain that to technical lending switch plans in amazon, or eod and ultimate album with final destination in back up the volume company management confirmed that the plane was carrying the mines for the training of bungler. there's troops and the delivery was arranged back in 2021. this account of events was also confirm by the management of ukrainian aircraft company, mary, the n no rival gangs are battling for control of haiti's capital,

putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk in a city where authorities are struggling to restore order. the u. n says that gang related violence has recently killed at least 9 to 9 people in a single neighborhood. incidentally, from january to june. the u. n. has documented nearly a 1000 killings, almost 700 injuries, and 690 kidnappings in the capitol. recent weeks have been especially bad. 230 people were killed or injured over just 5 days from the 18th. the 12 for july. when louis or we mas runs community projects for young haitians, he explained what people in cities lay a living through is a tam my some parties are connected with for you. mandatory released to discuss our with the gangs access to the hardest part of the, the slate. however, it's not been, ah, not move. it is not been moving or very fast. and our issues are still on,

on know, on a battle fraud is still going on with winder there. warren game, he's this lake. so of the people cannot get out. they cannot come in and relief is not the is not available for people inside see the solar right now. and now there's no water, there's no food and they not to get out. you have to go through. ah, both are battling dance and no. it's not that is not an option right now to the people in the, in the area. scientists until i say they have discovered what could be the oldest living thing on earth. the cypress tree and patagonia nicknamed great grandfather, is estimated to be more than 5000 years old. our latin america editor elissia newman reports from chiles las vegas region. hi, it's winter inserting 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 bonnie chief,

each from the university of paris in the, unless in national park, a unique, temperate rain forest. 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 of 4853 year old bristle. com pine in california. but each of each is taking us to meet great grandfather, the nickname of the a letter, say he estimates is almost 5500 years old. but 1st, he demonstrates the traditional method for determining the age of trees by using a special drill or increment core to remove a 5 millimeter sam. well, the length of the trees radius here is you got a cor, well, you can see rings as like a barcode days, then you're drunk for me to, to, to numbers. then with these numbers we build models of how the tree growth. i'm

like 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 ears were of drought. and over here you see the scar of the tree. this means that there was a fire, but dental chronologist, antonio laira, who recorded a 3620 year old a legacy 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 alerted tree 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 which 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 shades of 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 science for the planet. is science that make us to act on time to protect what is left of our planet that was once completely wild. even 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. lucy, in human al jazeera last lateral sewage in kitty.