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also coming up. some don says, the representative, the un secretary general in the country is not what would come bite on sooner canal . so new economic partnership is they have a special relationship between the us and the u. k. plus, i'm gabriel's on go in new york, where the tribe becca film festival kicks off with a record number of women filmmakers. that story coming up, the hello fire fighters from around the world are heading to canada to hell battle. historic wild fires, france portugal and spain are the latest to send crews. although all fires are common in canada, it's unusual for blazes to be burning so many changes. slate in the east and west. they score it's 3.8, and you and hector is enforced

a 120000 people from their homes. roughly a 150 fires are active in the province of quebec alone. and there also walls fires in british columbia, alberta, nova scotia and ontario. many of these fires have been burning for days if not weeks, but a storm system swirling off the atlantic coast as forest smoke from beast fires south into the u. s. and then east toward some of the most densely populated areas in the country. air quality alerts are in place for much of the east coast from new england to south carolina, as well as parts of the midwest, including ohio, indiana, and michigan. and the weather pattern is expected to persist for the next several days with hayes likely to continue across the region. while the haze from the canadian wildfire is which in gulf the northeast us is slightly on thursday. already say conditions remain dangerous and so i'm areas and residents are advised to wear mosques. she have her time see reports in washington dc by thursday evening

here in washington, dc. the hey, you had lifted some water, least you can make out. capitol hill behind me for much of the day, it was completely shrouded in that particular matter and smoke and so unhealthy for all of us. but this was yet another reminder that even if the immediate crisis as a result of climate change is be on check. far as far as in canada, the effects will be felt far. and what in the homes and vision of the new york city skyline shrouded an orange haze on wednesday, had subsided by thursday. but officials in new york and new jersey still warmed with dangers at quality levels. given the forecasts for today, we continue to urge strongly all sensitive individuals, especially meeting those with health conditions like asthma, heart disease, one, disease as well as our kids, pregnant individuals and seniors all of the above, especially to stay inside overnight, but hayes have moved southwards. the philadelphia health commissioner said that at

one point the cities air quality index it 500. the index only goes as far as $500.00. on thursday it was washington dc to experienced the lack of visibility. the nation's landmarks barely visible for much of the day hawks playgrounds, the national zoo. all closed is weird. is weird. situation feels like it's getting worse every summer file. we do something about kind of environmental sizes to low games. the global warming will increase the heat and conditions necessary for wildfire such as those raging and kind of up to spread out of control. firefighters are still battling hundreds of blazes across the country, a 3rd of them, and quit back in the east. now even people thousands of kilometres a way of feeling the effects president joe biden released the statement of a type of a fuzz and spreading smoke were stock remainder of the impacts of climate change of address the 5 at a news conference with british prime minister. she's an act i spoke yesterday, the prime minister to go. and i've decided to take to the national,

interagency fire center response to kind of canada's requests for additional firefighters and the fire suppression assets such as air tankers. we already have $600.00 american firefighters on the ground and been there for awhile in canada, including hot shots and a smoke jumper cruise. and it's very wardens that affects communities listen to the guidance their state local officials. just last week, joe biden. i'm call him grass foss truck to another gas pipeline, despite the environmental concerns. that remains a gulf between what said about climate change here and well, it's actually done she ever time c l g 0 washington. vanessa lee is a canadian reporter covering the fires and come back and she spoke to us earlier from montreal when it comes to the severity and, and how many fires that we are seeing and come back and in canada,

officials say that it is unprecedented, that they have never seen so many flyers with this severity at this point of the season. it's, it's only june, 8th, after all, and summer hasn't even officially arrived yet. right now. there are about $800.00 firefighters on the ground, badly. the 130, the 140 fires in come back and there is more help on the way. so there is help coming from the west from spain, from portugal, from mexico. and if you're wondering why help is coming from so far away, it's because the resources in canada and other provinces, they're basically tapped out because there have been fires in, in british columbia. there have been fires in ontario as well as nova scotia. and essentially, no one can spare the resources and so that is why come back is, is getting help from so far away. the student is foreign ministries as the un. so don, envoy volker per, it's is not welcome in the country. the ministry issued

a statement earlier on friday, declaring him persona non grata. have a morgan has more from under mine across the nile from hard to to understand how we got to this point. so we have to go back to may 26th. that's the day, the head of the army and the head of the sovereignty council. general i have been put, the hon wrote a letter to the un secretary general, blaming the special representative here in sudan for the conflict that broke out between the rapids support forces and the sudanese army. now, amongst the reasons listed in the letter that the army chief wrote to the un special you and secretary general was that the you and special representative here . and so that has not been biased when it came to the political process that was supposed to end with a civilian government and a new transactional face for sedan. he also mentioned that at the rapid support for us as the power ministry group would not have thought that the conflict with the student needs army. if he, if it had not plots. an encouragement from certain groups, including the, are the,

the representative of the un here in how to now as sources in the minister of foreign affairs who was supposed to say that the mission itself is allowed to continue its work. they have some of this stuff in the 4th city of fort sedan, where most of the machine were evacuated to following the fighting that broke out in mid april, between the rapids support forces and the food in these army. but their issue comes down to the head of the mission himself, work i purchased, and they said that they don't want him back. that's the statement that's came from the minister of foreign affairs. now it's not clear what the un response would be and it's not clear what the impact is. that's what have when it comes to the slicing on the ground between 3 rapid support forces. and this would, in these army, it'd be rapid support for says over the past 2 days, was able to take over a weapons manufacturing company that belongs to this with the new army. there's been intense as tribes ongoing on says they, we were able to hear and of planes flying overhead. we were able to hear heavy artillery, especially being launched from the city of the month with the northern parts of the

capital for 2. so it's not clear if declaring the head of the un here in sedan 1st on a non grass, it would have any effect on the conflict at all. especially when the 2 sides seem determined to end the submit a terribly. i'm not politically he, but morgan. i'll just be around, i'm through them on the ukraine and russia are chasing each other of hampering efforts to evacuate. people from the flooded 1st on region, showing on casualties have been reported on sides controls by both keys on moscow as concerns grow about minds dislodged by floods. waters charles stratford reports from 1st on unable to walk and shock. emergency service person over, at least in just the old, i mean, the ambulances, amphibious vehicles rush, others in need of the flooded street to waiting medics. there are a lot more in that we have half

a 1000 requests at the moment. and that's certainly not all the distant gloss deport sounds like the outgoing ukrainian, all tutoring being fired shows gross. and i'm curious now we will call the red cross and they will evacuate to says the ambulance man. we have stationed here as a sourcing point for those who need so the evacuation, if it's configured here, just arrive, you can have those thoughts. we understand that that is outgoing. shelling 5 question full sees across the river. the water is still me too deep. people on the roofs tried to solve which what they can from their homes, a face piece and a pump and window. why don't you leave? did you want to be evacuated on the phone to? because i called walk says the woman what if we help you will put you on a boat and take you to where you need to go. where we like uh,

where will you take me? i need to be with someone. she says, that's another woman leads out if we survive the occupation, the shillings and the liberation of the city, she says, we will survive this unbroken, unconquered lot. as the evacuation continued ukraine's president load, amazing lensky came to the city and state volunteers and emergency services for the efforts. rescue operations also continued on the russian occupied side of the river . so it's the issue we left everything we left openings going away, bad foot now without anything so stupid. my daughter cried mamma, let's go with so clueless. here we go top and started to wake up the neighbors and to take them the disabled away in the afternoon. what sounds like more to or tillery shells slammed into the water and the building close to the cranium.

evacuation points because on the city, sporadic shilling by both sides continues in the area, spreading more fit among the week. i'm terrified. we're lucky to be alive. it's all stuff it i'll just 0 here on the russian defense ministry has released the video, which bit claim shows an attempted advance by ukraine being repels ins up a ritual. russia says been ukrainian force has suffered heavy losses in a failed assault on russian lines. you'll yeah, couple of all over as more from moscow of the russian appointed a sore season is that for osha claims, the ukrainian attack it was repelled. the russian troops used also hillary and several at crops in the bottle. there were reports from other regions to inbox moved, for example, the armed forces of ukraine were trying to find some weaknesses in the russian defences. but according to the russian appointed authorities, dad, this, as he remains on the verses control, we are raising here in local newspapers. that's the ukrainians seem to have

seriously overestimated this franks and the counter offensive is ground. truly turning into the destruction of the month, power and weapons that has been no break. 3 of russia's defense is within 5 days of acts of financing. and then, despite the facts of the forces of ukraine, have already introduced up to a set of their reserves. but russia says, ukraine continues, it's offensive no must hold. that's what we're hearing here in russia. and during the whole has more from keys as to what we hear most of what we hear that flashes out this particular, this picture of ukrainian activity comes from the russian side. it comes from russian government, the russian ministry, and russian blog is essentially these russia at an official level saying that counter offensive has begun and the duties 14, every attempt by ukraine to breach its lines and imposing heavy costs. so new credit is it does so all we have from the ukranian side on this particular late is

the sequence of the latest attacks in software. easy. it comes from the deputy defense minister in a why the ministry situation will report saying simply the enemy is actively on the defensive in the all receive area of this operation. and that's it. ukraine has made it clear it will not give a running commentary on what he's going on to the doesn't want to give up. the element of surprise, another very senior figure alexi down and off the head of the national security of defense counsel, the very senior adviser to president. so let's he said within the last 24 hours, the comprehensive has not become definitively. he said, let's be patient and white. we both have much time to wait when he begins, everyone will know about it. so what is or what may be going on now? well, minutes the analysts have given the view and view these that ukraine is engaged in a series of probing attacks, so called shaping operations the head of the counter offensive. probing russian

weakness is looking for vulnerabilities. and at the same time, essentially, keeping russia guessing who was president joe biden, and the u. k. prime minister wishes to not have held their 1st meeting as leaders at the white house. they've plans to deepen their cooperation on everything from economic security to ukraine or white house correspondent kimberley colquit reports the meetings for the 1st time at the white house. us president joe biden, a u. k. prime minister, reach you soon at announced a landmark agreement on the atlantic declaration seeks to improve security through economic cooperation between the u. s. and the u. k. the leaders, the ledge nations like russia and china seek to exploit the western allies resources, and the deal will reduce vulnerability the challenges we face all, much more economic in nature. and the only way we're going to meet those challenges is to work together to strengthen the resilience of all supply chains to research

the technologies of the future. together, the logic declaration also means reduced trade barriers for new technologies, including artificial intelligence. this, as the u. k. plans to host a global summit this fall to mitigate a ais risks. the 2 leaders also pledge ongoing support for ukraine add, despite some waiting support of the us congress to continue funding ukraine's defense against russia bite and said the us must remain committed as deterrence. do we think russia would stop and keep? do you think that's all there would be happening? i think not. i think the vast majority of my colleagues, even the critics, i think that would not be the case as well. today the us and u. k. have been the largest donors to ukraine's war effort and soon act encouraged other nations to step up. president putin will be thinking that he can wait till

sound. i think it sends a strong signal to him. there is no point trying to wait us out. we don't going anywhere after joint press conference, president biden was also asked if nato should elect a british secretary general to replace against stoughton berg when he steps down in september. prime minister soon back has been pushing for his defense minister to replace him. but by then was noncommittal. simply conceding maybe a kimberly hell kits, ultra 0. the white house still a heads on al jazeera. as former us president, vice president mike pens, joins the race to the white house. we look at the growing field of republicans bidding for the parties to care for children and 2 adults are injured inter nice to talk in eastern the

route to you by visit capital. hello. that stagnant weather pattern across the eastern areas of north america has continued to fuel that hazardous at quality. this was a scene in new york city as smoke a cloud in the city that we are expecting those conditions to los bodies the next few days. that size of the wall fi is binding across eastern parts of canada. the winds blowing that smoke down as far south as the mid atlantic as we go into the we can to the west. so there's a much width of picture. we've got a rush of thunderstorms tumbling all the way down to the deep south with some isolated, heavy falls in places, rain across the rockies, pulling into the north west pacific temperatures here. however, sitting above the average for this time, if you have the western parts of canada and the north west pacific,

but much cooler in the desert, southwest temperatures in places like los angeles, below the average for this time. if yes, not, remains pretty hot and humid for florida. some bus of rain here and never the west of the weather. continuing to effect the bahamas as well as cuba and jamaica in the days ahead. good news, the hey t, however, it is looking much clearer across large areas of his span. you are like the eastern island much clara as well cause large areas of mexico with temperature is above average with sunshine. the weather brought to you by visit castle frank assessments. quite frankly. let's address the elephant in the room. the reason the south koreans want their own nuclear to terraces because they don't trust the us informed opinions. fighting has basically lost this thing up so far that it is impossible virtually for somebody else, 7 to the race at this point in depth analysis of the days headlines. so then it might again look through the states, but there is no strong government to control and which means that this might affect

other countries. inside story on al jazeera, the, [000:00:00;00] the, on the top stories on how to 0, from portugal on spain or the latest to send firefighters to help bottles. huge wildfires in canada, smoke alerts remain for millions of north americans. the southern east for a ministry says me un, some john envoy is not welcome in the country. the ministry issue to statements. early on friday, declaring volta process persona non grata russians. defense ministry says it's

repelled. a major attempt to advance by ukraine ends up or reach you. it says ukrainian force has suffered heavy losses in the assaults. steve has rejected, claims that it's expected summer accounts are a funds offensive has begun. let's turn our attention to us politics because after a trio of new announcements this week, the republican party is 2024 presidential field as all but set. it's a large fields. the former vice president mike pens has announced that she will run against his former boss, donald trump. he joins florida governor rhonda sanchez and the race for the republican nomination. desantis is currently 2nd in the polls. then there's the former us ambassador to the un, nikki haley who's also in the running, but she's pulling added this and 3rd, but make no mistake. this is currently of donald trump's race to lose and he's well ahead in the polls. let's bring in peter off is a news we call on this and contributing editor. he's a long time observer of the washington scene, as well as running us from the us capsule. welcome to alger 0. so from someone for

someone from the outside, looking at all these developments, they might be wondering why candidates with low poll numbers are jumping into a race that may already have a clear front runner. and that's donald trump as well. you know, when, when donald trump got into the race in 2016, the clear front runner was wisconsin governor scott walker. he was a republican farmer who had done a lot of things that had people excited and walker was out of the race even before the 1st ballots were cast at the iowa caucus. things change fast and american politics. and i think you're seeing feel into the race that is helping the front runner stumbles right in to do. i mean, does, the growing number of contender is actually bode well for, for donald trump? yeah, it should absolutely help. strong have so if the 2016 race had consisted

of 3 or 4 candidates for president and not so many candidates that they had to have 2 stages in 2 debates. one for the a list and one for the be list trunk would have been knocked off because whatever his positives are, he's of noxious and disliked by many people. but because there were so many people in the race, trump had the biggest base and he was able to prevail. the bigger in the field gets into for 2020, for the better trumps chances. particularly if he refuses to joined the authorized debate, as it now appears he is going to do. look, there are some analysts say that trump can obviously, he can count on the core of supporters who make up at least a 3rd of the republican voters. and then you have a 70 percent who who are up for grabs. is that correct?

i don't know what the numbers are. the calling in the us elections has been remarkably flawed. i think part of that has to do with who would there be 100 counting and what weights being given? i don't know how many trump voters out there are registered republicans. how many trump voters are registered independence and how many translators are registered democrat? i suspect it's a healthy mex now, in some of the american states, anyone can vote in a partisan political primary. in some states, you have to be a member of that party in order to vote in the primary. so we'll see how it shakes out. what about the strategy, or from what you seem to any of these republican contenders, have a consistent strategy to take trump down? well at the moment, i think the consistent strategy is to beat on trump and hope that you land the

telling blog. this has been the strategy for dealing with trump in 2016 and throughout his presidency. and in 2020, it was employed not just by democrats, but by members of the american media and the white house press corps and by democrats in congress. and sometimes the blows were glancing, sometimes they missed entirely, but the man was impeached twice. and even that wasn't a knock out block. yeah. which i wanted to ask you about. in fact, at the, at the moment right now and how long ruble is trump, he's is now facing a, as we all know, potential indictments for our, for, with holes in classified documents. i think that looked the classified documents story has blown up and i expect the trump is going to be indicted. but i think that the 2 and he may even be convicted. but the defense that they're going to mount is going to be how, what i do a,

how is that different from like brock obama did. we're george bush, when he got the george bush or joe biden, after he was vice president for 8 years. all of them had classified documents in their possession. and how is it different from what you have a requesting did when she was secretary of state? you know, trump can argue as the per as you guys, as the president, i can be glad supply anything. i'm added the executive branch, right? hillary clinton was secretary of state. she couldn't be classified anything, but she walked, okay. she mishandled classified documents and she walks. i think most americans, except the ones who to suffer what some of my colleagues like to call trump the arrangements in row, realize that this is non sensical. all right, we'll have to leave it there peter, off we thank you for joining us from washington, d. c. thank you. now with these 4 children and 2 adults have been injured and a knife attack in front. so that happens in the park in the china on a see if that's in the french outs. police say the attacker is

a refugee from syria and seen. baba has more a helicopter lands by lake anesthesia and southeast in front of natural beauty. that's now quote adults to being treated as a crime scene. witnesses, so you might and step several children. it's a playground to the park here. this video allegedly shows the attack of being approached by adults in the park. he said to be a syrian christine, who received refugee stages in sweden earlier this year. over the victims were taken by helicopter to a nearby hospital. this man, sylvia talked on the folding, all of a sudden one of the bottom says it's run. there's a guy standing, everybody, all along the lake. he stepped some children got a bit surprised, but they keep going and i see the guy coming towards me. so please put the police are about 5 or 10 feet just behind him and they can't catch up with the more to the attacker then reportedly steps 2 adults before police trusted him and the power to

he wasn't injured for me. sort of did it last sample for us in the region. it's an enormous trauma. you know, this was a place of peace and this is a kind of violence that's unheard of anyway for it to happen in a children's playground. if you don't want to tell yourself, know where safety recalls that calls are set to at that to god is fema is news of the incident came through the quotations and the national assembly stops to observe the minute silence. elizabeth baldwin was a french prime minister and her interior administrators of governmental then headed to honestly on the state by state taxes were overwhelmed by this hateful and indescribable act when children are involved. i think it particularly affects the state inside the parents as a nearby kindergarten say they were horrified when would you need me to get someone to deal with? my 2 boys were on a school trip to the cinema. so just based upon, they will look down in another school and later brought back to us. my daughter was here in kindergarten, and as soon as i heard what has happened, like well, the other parents i came to fetch up. well, president,

my call has denounced what he calls and absolutely cowardly attack. tweeting the nation is in short, thoughts go out to the victims, their families, and the emergency services. the local prosecutor says there's no indication that terrorism must be attacked as much as i should be involved, but i'll just say or try becca. the annual film festival in new york city is open featuring films from dozens of countries. gabriel is also reports from new york of the new documentary called my extra tells the story of an orchestra conducting competition so exclusively for women were the for mazda and infinity. on the 3rd on price, the film follows $5.00 aspiring conductors as they prepare for the competition and denial. orchestra conducting is a job that has historically been dominated by men, 2nd by incoming. only

a few of the world's top orchestra's are led by women. the film is in and personal, something the director says she was striving to achieve when people watch misread. i hope they can answer when asked, what does a conductor do? and they'll be able to have an appreciation of the art form. and i hope that they walk away and say, i'm happy i spent that 88 minutes of my life watching this phone. the feeling will make its world premiere a try. becca, the annual film festival in new york city. that was started in 2001 to help revitalize lower manhattan after 911. the film festival runs until june 18th, with over 600 events and film screenings, attended by over 125000 people. one of the unique aspects that try becca this year is how many films are made by women in the competition feature category,

over 70 percent of the films are made by women directors. it's the highest percentage ever attract becca and advocates for women in t. v and film say it's a clear sign of progress. women have not taken the rightful place in the median