more fuel moving downward towards more populated area. these fires have a pulse. the most danger firefighters say is the late afternoon. the hardest part of the day when the sun is highest and the winds are strongest, the town of tomorrow is a key strategic location. the command and control center based here is coordinating air and ground operations throughout the casteel and young province. climate change experts say has altered the behavior of one fires. they now burn faster, hotter, and longer. people living here said everything catches fire just cannot trust the ground. the news. ready at least 41 people have been killed in a church fire in the egyptian city of gazer. most of the victims are children.

ah, and are them nora, kyle, this is our to sara, alive from doha, also coming up. a fireworks explosion in amina is capsule ripped through a busy market, killing at least one person and trapping others under bumble you and ship carrying food. a for africa prepares to leave ukrainian port for the 1st time since russia's invasion, 5 years since a month. i've killed more than a 1000 people in sierra leone. we look at the challenges faced by survivors. ah, and he's 41. people have been killed and dozens injured in a fire at a church and keesa as egypt, 2nd largest city res, broke out in abu stuff in coptic church. around 5000 worshippers were inside, causing a stampede. far as being blamed on the electrical fault,

same bathroom avi has more dozens dead and dozens injured. after a fire caused a stampede. m worshipers at a cop to christian church in the egyptian city of jesus. oh, the incident happened as thousands gathered from morning mass at the abusive fiend . church with only reynoldsburg, i saw people jumping from the upper floor, suffocation suffocation. all of them did so many did, and they were children. we didn't know how to get to them. we didn't know whose son this is, or whose daughter that is house as possible. these are sit at the southern edge of the greater cairo area. one of the most densely populated places in the world. dilapidated infrastructure means accidental fires are common, made more likely, due to the record high temperatures across the region was on the fire and abusive fin. church thought to have been caused by a faulty air conditioner. but none of whom we started to see from the outside that

the smoke was getting bigger, and people wanting to jump from the upper floor of the building of the church to the next. and one does, then we went inside and found the children and we started to take the bodies out. in the aftermath of the incident, president of the father of cc announced the mobilization of quote, all states services to ensure that all measures are taken. the prosecutor's office has also opened an investigation. were im can i conveyed the president's condolences and my condolences to the religious leaders of the church, the families of the dead and injured people. we need them to know that we're standing with them and standing by them. ah, some of the injured were firefighters, the blaze blocked an exit trapping churchgoers and causing the stampede. according to eye witnesses, most of those killed were children, zane basra, v ultra 0. adel merrick. he is a jealous, based in cairo, and he explains how the layouts of the church contributed to the death toll

district cold embedded, one of the most popular. and then the nation dense districts. in greater cairo, it is known to have a general average socio economic background. this is a sunday service and of course it means that the church is usually at its full capacity, that this is their prayer service all over the weekend. therefore, the numbers there is quite significant in the biggest number ever all over the reach. finally, the church itself because of the district dentist. church is not a common structure. church. it's not a big facility, was that you carry out land that many entries and points. it's more or less like a residential building in terms of its design. and therefore as the exits and entries to that building are not so many. and because, according to the health ministry, the fire that was parked by one of the a c,

air conditioning devices in the 2nd floor, there was huge smoke and most people could not get out then. many of them died because of suffocation from the smoke, rather rather from the plane itself. an explanation, as a mark isn't armenia is capital caravan has killed at least one person. 34 others have been injured. the boss happened in a building at a busy market where fireworks were being stored. a major fire and a busy market about to get much worse. the building, local, say, had been used to store fireworks the on a clear sunny day. this piece of smoke was visible across the armenian capital. emergency crews were soon battling to extinguish the flames. volunteers using debris to clear more of it from the sight. survivors carefully brought to safety.

why do they like fireworks and smoke everything shafted in a 2nd? their warehouses, technical rooms. it's like fireworks fireworks, fireworks. everything happened in one minute. people could not get out of the stores. the mess office in yerevan said an unknown number of people had been left trapped under the rebel. the sheer scale of this disaster becoming clear to all as desperate rescue efforts continued it spend utter shock. this is the 1st time in my memory that such an explosion such a tragedy has happened in the capital city. everybody is glued to social media networks and to the news to try and find out what's happening. rescuers have been hampered by more fi with explosions as crews tried to make the area safe. by late afternoon, heavy vehicles were clear in parts of the last zone. elsewhere rescue as we using their hands to search for any one trapped and still alive. hurry, full sit,

al jazeera grain is being loaded into the onto the 1st united nations chartered vessel and the port of picked n g and ukraine. it'll be the 1st shipment of food aid for drought affected east africa says russia's invasion in february when 16 much vessels of laughter crying in the past 2 weeks after a deal was broken between keys and moscow. on more than $400000.00 tons of produce have left ukrainian port since the 1st of august. you and food price index shows global prices dropped 8.6 percent between june and july. you unchartered ship will depart forward to booty in the coming days. it will transport more than $23000.00 tons of wheat. the only mentoring coordinator in ukraine says the shipment will bring much needed relief to drought hit regions. this shipment and w p will say more about it is the 1st that we hope many shipments to come to countries that are suffering great difficulties there at least 5 who are already in

famine like conditions. and another 20 that are on the what we call the watch list for famine. so these shipments are going to be hugely important to those population . and, and the rover is a business develop manager at max a grain that's. and i group brokerage company. she says, ukraine is ready to deliver tens of millions of tons of agricultural products to countries in need. seems the more begun around 20000000 metric tons of different kinds of grained, and the girls are talking you cree last. we started harvest to harvest. you quote, which means that we are ready to supply more than 50000000 metric tons of different culture products to those who are starving and ukrainian supply opened a ford. this green corridor means that all right, since each slice of bread in each part of the world became over,

as ukraine is very important to play our main challenge. main challenge is floating minds a seat. and is this why should bonus mostly trying to sit and wait? how vessel we left? how safety is passage? and then as a will make a decision to direct to they are ships to ukraine on ports, as on today's, the 16 vessels over the left brain young ports. one of them is new. com, universal and 2 more vessel which came to 2 days ago on now loading grades. one of them are for united nation program and we expect the exact current 2 weeks to arrive as a 15 vessel for my grade. at least 8 people, including a baby, have been injured and a shooting and occupied east jerusalem. but he says aspects of tent himself and, and confessed to the attack. tactical name reports the calm of the old city,

middle of the night, shifted to the chaos of an attack on sunday. police say a man ambushed a bus in a parking lot. you're the western ball at about 1 30 in the morning to be below 30 . 42 inside was leaving. the driver says he tried to pull away, but was naval to because the wheelchair ramp was lowered simply limits of the ship . 2 of the wounded are in a serious condition. a pregnant woman in her thirties with an abdominal injury is still in the operating room, a very complex injury and a man in his sixties with injuries to the neck and head. also a gunshot wound and is now in the intensive care unit. a 6 hour manhunt followed police cordoned off the area, set up checkpoints to search people and cars and rated homes. in sil won the palestinian neighbourhood has previously been the site of violent protests against

illegal demolitions of homes, with allegations that the israelis are pushing out families, police say a 24 year old palestinian man eventually turned himself in and confessed, came into boldly forgivable. did this alone attacker a resident of the city with a criminal record must. there is one conclusion from this event, as from the previous events, whether hom, the citizens of israel, will have nowhere to run. who will hunt them down. and we will deal with them with full force of the law. amass which controls the gaza strip and the arm grew palestinian islamic. she had praised the attack saying it's a continuation of palestinian resistance to the israeli occupation. the attack happened one week after egypt negotiated a ceasefire between israel and the islamic jihad. on august 5th, he has really military lodged a 3 day operation against the group in gaza,

killing nearly 50 palestinians, including 17 children. there have been concerns the ceasefire would collapse because his lemke had is lobbying for the release of 2 prisoners israeli interim prime minister year le pete promised to restore calm and security to jerusalem. sunday's attack is a reminder that it's virtually impossible to ensure that it will last. natasha named el jazeera, occupied east. jerusalem, said i had hair on al jazeera and pakistan like 75 years is petition and its independence. as well as maya and political demo and identity migration and russian politics take center stage at the edinburgh fringe festival. ah.

you know the name of the game, this is your update for the middle east and africa will begin this one in the middle east and still seeing some more downpours around yelman's capital santa. we did have a deadly deluge there. so that is not good news to see some more rain in the forecast. lot of san im, dust in the empty quarter of saudi but i want to take you to pakistan where the rain is still falling off for sin province. baluchistan. same goes for punjab. is while getting into a pretty good down port there for the hor, and we're going to track out this moisture this match coming in for western portions of india. so more rain on the way for pakistan, foundry, downpours are moving into is stan bowl that's going to knock back your temperature a bit to 27 degrees on monday and off to africa, we go some storms bubbling up around lake victoria and look at all of this rain we have for nigeria that's moving further toward the west, out toward the gulf of guinea. and as we slide towards the south right now,

we had disturbed weather in the western cape. it moved to the eastern cape, kazoo luna tall, but it stained off shore, but still those waves will probably exceed 5 meters and it's flung a lot of cool air into southern mozambique. so my puter at 23 degrees. cool for now, but give it a few days and your temperature will climb again, that you're out they bye for now. ah, when go with my team 1st hit, the need to minimize conduct drove many of the judicial systems on line. now, in the name of cost and efficiency, some of them want to stay there. but what if holding trials in cyberspace denies defendants the right to a fair hearing, and remove safeguards against abuse. people in power investigates on line justice ana j 0 lou.

ah, there again, you're watching al jazeera, his reminder of our top stories this hour and he's 41. people have been killed in a fire inside a church in the egyptian city of jesus. south of cairo bays broke out as around $5000.00 worshippers were inside the abu safe in church, causing a stampede and explosion. as a marketing armina is capsule, your van is killed at least one person of them. 20 others were injured. the blast occurred in a building at a market where fireworks were being stored. and grain is being loaded onto the 1st united nations charted vessel in the port of 50 me and ukraine. with the 1st shipment of food aid, the drought affected east africa as russia's invasion in february,

all in 16 merchant vessels have left you cried in the past 2 weeks after a deal was broken between keith and moscow. frances, enduring, it's dry a summer since records began. march was being restricted across most of the country . crops of withering, wild fires, raging and rivers, running dry bene smith reports from to lose in southwestern france. certainly hoping for rain. it was in the forecast. but today, but we've got mainly blue skies as a bit of cloud covers. taken the edge of the extreme temperatures that they've been enjoying here for the last few weeks. but still no sign of rain is predicted. now perhaps a bit later on in the week, but even if it does, when it does come, if it comes in those big summer thundering summer storms, it's going to hit drop rock hard, dry earth and run off. and that's one of the big fears here at the moment, but without the rain crops a dying before farmers can harvest them. and rivers and reservoirs are running dry

. well, these are the movies. i've never seen the river as low as this stuff, and marty tells me he's a fisheries officer. in a normal year, the level of the garage here would be above our heads, the river cuts through to lose its the cities life blood providing drinking water, irrigating farmland, and cooling a nuclear plant. stefan has had to take fish out of the river and put them into special tanks because the water is too warm to come to give us compared to video. it's complicated, everything is connected. there will be less snow in the mountains. the glaciers will melt sooner. this year there has been much less snow, so less water in the mountain lakes. so pumping of the lakes is lower to keep the water longer. over 3 weeks, 40 percent of the water held in reserve in hydro electric dams, in the pyrenees mountains has been released into the koran to keep it flowing. just heat weighs in europe are increasing at a faster rate than almost anywhere else on the planet. and global warming increases,

but likelihood of drought drawing out, soils and vegetation lay even fund minimums for me to make up for the whole time resort. after more so, we need 60 millimeters of rainfall to be able to replace the soil. crystal ca pension tells me what the forecast is for 3 millimeters this week. it's not enough . know the corn harvest across france is expected to be 18 and a half a cent lower this year than last. there's already a global shortage because of the war in ukraine. even the sunflower of turned away from the scorching sun where there is access to water. there isn't enough to go around. crystal says she'll lose more than 30 percent of her crop this year. soon. apostrophes among gold. if we don't get enough for time this region, there will be no viable agriculture even to day. the cattle farmers here have no grass on their fields to day we own a land where it's crucial to develop irrigation. if only to be able to achieve

minimum profitability. france his worst route since records began in 1958 has affected so many aspects of how people live here. and i, i think we will, we will work or not. we will train turned and cake and we reward because there is not in a photo for, for the foot. in july rainfall across france was down 84 percent compared to normal . according to the french weather service. the summer isn't over yet. i'm standing on the bed of the river garen, and obviously in normal times i shouldn't be able to do this. every part of france is under some sorts of water restriction. and 2 thirds of all french departments are a crisis level, a most severe level. and there is no particular concern for the underground water tables because they are being used up more quickly because there isn't enough snow melts and rain water to refill them. while the droughts across europe are impacting the ability to produce renewable energy, annual hydro,

electric production in france is dropped 30 percent in the 1st half of the year. it's lee power generation is down by around 40 percent electricity production from some spanish company says harp compared to last year. and in portugal, water reservoirs are at only 29 percent capacity at the time of the other gums are usually around 60 percent full. catherine porter is an energy consultant, what logic she explains, how war sources are also affecting nuclear energy. it's across the board really in generation. and some will power stations, a nuclear power stations are harder to cool when it's hot. and they take more attractive rivers in the sea to do that cooling. so that reduces the efficiency, the cooling, and means the output is lower than it would normally be. solar panels are less efficient when temperature rises across the electricity network, we see more resistance and infrastructure using power lines,

expanding the heat. and when the longer the electrical resistance is higher, i'm say the whole weather causes problems right across the infrastructure space. also in germany, they're using rivers for delivering things like hold our stations when the river levels are low, they can't load the voltage as much and say that that leads them problems with the delivery as well. we're having a combination of different factors at the moment that are all joining together with really bad timing. i'm from such lies heavily on nuclear power for it's i'd like to see generation about half of the reactions are offline because of the systemic problem identified within a certain close of reactions, back in april and say from being traditionally an export of electricity fronts is not relying on in similarly in no way, which typically is able to export from its extensive hydro system, low water levels. and meaning that the countries now actually considering restricting expos migrations are being held in sierra leone to remember those who

died in a much slide 5 years ago. but slides in flooding. struct capital free town off the days of torrential rains in august 2017. well, the 1100 people died in thousands more lost homes, but it just reports from just outside for a town. on some of the challenges the survivors are so facing. some of them are even saying that life has gotten more difficult. it was 5 years ago, a lot of them still jobless. they are homeless and they are finding it even very difficult to feed. you're talking about a country why inflation has gone past the 25 percent mark and it's rising on the day. unemployment is high and then there isn't enough to go around it. remember, this is a country that has survived any 11 year civil war as well as the born crisis. so what people do you use to come around at this time of the year to remember those family members who are lost in the disaster. we standing here at the pentagon,

part of one of the communities affected by the much slide. deep down is the ravine where water and debrief flowed from. the motor may look mountain along with bodies that wash this way right into the atlantic ocean. so a lot of people are trying to see whether they can reorganize their lives. unfortunately, they are unable to succeed at the moment. the us congressional delegation has right in taiwan the mid military tensions between the island and china. a group of 5 will meet senior taiwan leaders, join the 2 day visit by jan claims taiwan as its own town. trade has been holding motor drills around the island, trying to use the war games to express his anger at this month's visit to ty. pay by us house speaker, nancy pelosi. pakistan is marking 75 years of independence in karachi has terminated being held at the memorial for the countries found us deli, gena, british colonial rule,

ended in 1947 with the partition of india and formation of pakistan. come ohio to have more from la hort, people across bog. it's gone, not in a festive mood. they want to forget their problems. they said one day read the whole nation comes together. despite the political differences, they can all make difficulties and various crises that appeared by the country. it was at the stroke of midnight 75 years ago that this became an independent nation for the muslim. the occasion was celebrated edward fireworks display across the country. a 31 gun salute and a federal capital, a 21 gun salute and a provincial cap. it goes all around the country that people have come out in large numbers with their families are where the national flag and of gods reading their baggage. some of them even dressed and green and white,

which ends up august on the national colors. so the modern day job are learned. most people like to forget their problems, particularly when it comes to independence day. the buckets on a prime minister shabba shave, hoisting the flag in the federal capital. letters on hulu. rekey was celebrating the 75th anniversary of pakistan's independence. i congratulate all pakistanis within and outside the country from the core of my heart. and in the meantime, emron con, rallying as a border and a large shore ford in the city of la hall, which was ordered by tens of thousands of people. the 3rd there did not just a broad day, but also at celebration to come remedied budget on 75th golden jubilee. the country of gods cannot face more political uncertainty. but independence did an occasion for everyone to come together. as he chancellor who den is director of the center

for regional and global connectivity. at the think tight tank top a lab, he says that $75.00 he has off to petition foreign relations between india and pakistan will be difficult. and while there is plenty of reason to celebrate and you know, people should be on the streets cheering and jubilant. i think for me personally, this is also very much a time for introspection, for parties, and especially for the ruling political and military elite and sort of ask ourselves why is that after 75 years boxed on still remains very squarely mired and multi faceted economic political social, existential crises. so we've almost always for the 75 years of our history, you have, have this almost always hostile neighbor and a lot of domestic policies and also centered around countering mitigating and working against india and a lot of different ways to be perfectly blunt. if we were to sort of strip all of this away and really look at it from an economic perspective,

india for pakistan really should be the ideal trade part. it's a massive market, but with the situation where it stands right now, the global geo political shifts, the u. s. strategy in the in the pacific as well as the current power center in india. that is very hard line along certain issues as well as the political instability and the inability for a little actors and bugs fun because any kind of reconciliation agent for author phelman rusty says he's no longer on a ventilator and is on the long road to recovery. and his son has said, rusty's defiant, sense of humour remains intact. must these attacker 24 year old had he must be not guilty to attempt to murder. he was stopped while speaking of mystery event in new york state on friday. controversial award winning author has faced death threats for years of his publication of his novel, satanic verses. stories about identity and belonging are always pent full at the

edinburgh festival. this year is no different war, and ukraine is providing a rich new seemed for material of material for performance at the french as jen haul, discovered look what it is. to me sending the both the identity is an edinburgh festival perennial with shows of plenty about migration and refugees, safety and belonging is never more so than in a year of war. someone comes along to sort it all. i'm you know who he is. he's, he's been call when you think of russia imperial delusion. cast a shadow across the post soviet optic in night lands a psychological thriller about russia and the rise of let me put in what happened

decades later, rushes invasion of ukraine is the fabric of check ukrainian circus and dance act boom. a show of youthful resilience in the face of adversity. it goes on cause is exposure of young energy. also they have a lot of physicians in, in the show check and they're going to pretty much just about like all freedom. they're a journey tails across land and borders of discovery and self awareness. the ultimate audience journey though, is simply deciding what to watch in a bewildering sea of choice. then you come across a guy who's a british irish palestinian working doctor who is also a comedian and a clown. my dream is to be able to make a show that will make anyone anywhere in the world. laugh. that's really what i want to do. yeah. yeah. i kind of want to do,

explore my own identity a little bit, and that identity is very complicated. you want to see a show for me, the 1st hand experience of how different the that the, the differences in the people who make up this country. ah, the letter to i don't think it's unique to the people being british. i think it's just um, something that people aren't familiar with and that's to be expected. and so my job is to bridge that gap and to, to sort of say, hey guys, come, come on this journey with me. i know it's an unfamiliar. i know it's a big difference, but come on this journey with me. it'll be worth it. a whole l g 0, edinburgh, ah, without his era these are the top stories at least 41.