and mexico join the effort against destructive wildfires. this against destructive wildfires. one is dropping fire reta rda nt this one is dropping fire retardant right on top of the fire there in a desperate bid to stop these flames. and celebrations in sudan, after the army captures a strategic eastern city from the paramilitary rapid support forces. and uk chancellor rachel reeves announces trade agreements worth £600 million during a visit to china but is criticised for the timing of her trip. hello, i'm carl nasman. more evacuation orders have been issued in los angeles, where crews continue to battle multiple wildfires. the largest blaze is now bearing down on a new area — the wealthy neighbourhood of brentwood. here are live pictures from the scene right now. at least 11 people have been killed so far and 13 others are missing.

police sniffer dogs are now helping the search for victims. several blazes have devastated parts of los angeles. control efforts are now being supported by firefighters from canada and mexico. there've been dramatic scenes of aircraft dropping thousands of gallons of fire retardant on the hills in an attempt to put out the blazes. more than 12,000 homes and other buildings have been destroyed. now there are fears that the fierce winds that fanned the flames are likely to pick up again and continue for several more days. there are still four active fires — as two blazes were fully contained earlier today.

the hurst and kenneth fires are now 75% contained, with the eaton fire, hitting the north of the city, only 15% contained. high winds and other dry conditions have been working against firefighters battling the palisades fire — the largest of blazes. five days on, it's still only 11% contained and is on track to become the most destructive in california history. 0ur correspondent helena humphrey is there for us on the ground in altadena. with so many communities destroyed and evacuation orders are still in place, you have to look around areas like this one to get clues as to people's story, how they got out when the fires came through here as you can see here, for example, didn't even have time to flee in their cars but some of them completely burned out and is just a dichotomy of others that are relatively unscathed and as you go through areas like this one here in altadena, what you see here on the landscape time

and time again is chimneys like this, essentially gravestones, really, of where these houses once stood. with people now in shelters, staying with family, of course, they have nothing to come back to, you start to get to indications as to who might have lived here. in this home, for example, perhaps you can just make up behind me here, that twisted metal of what appears to have been a home at personal gym. that is at some of the destruction we i seeing in these areas. of course as firefighters continue to battle those blazes, we just saw a fire crew from arizona coming here trying to tackle some of the hot spots. 0therfire here trying to tackle some of the hot spots. 0ther fire crews are coming in from canada, mexico, for example, because the concern is that these wins could pick up once again. they could pick up once again. they could fan the flames further —— these winds. the warning from authorities is a grim one. the death toll is rising. now in areas like this one, they are

very sadly having to send in cadaver dogs to try and help people recover their loved ones is that death toll continues to grow and authorities and fire crews really battle to get these blazes under control with limited success. i've been speaking tojohn harabedian about the situation. he's a california state assembly member for district 41, representing altadena, among other areas affected by the blazes. that eaton fire has destroyed large parts of altadena. have you been back there? what have you been back there? what have you been back there? what have you been hearing from the community there?- you been hearing from the community there? thank you for our community there? thank you for your words _ community there? thank you for your words and _ community there? thank you for your words and your _ community there? thank you for your words and your sympathy. l community there? thank you for your words and your sympathy. i have not left. we are here at the command centre. i am in and out of altadena and the affected areas every day. i will tell you that it is a disaster. it looks like a war zone. so many of our friends

and family members have lost everything and i was born and raised in this community. i grew up here. many of the parts that i played sports at argon. many of the homes that my friends lived in that i played in a gone was not the community of altadena as we know it, carl, is forever changed. as of now we are all altadena, standing with them and helping them. on the ground it is devastating. so many tears have been shed between all of us and as a community we are hurting. yeah, we havejust been as a community we are hurting. yeah, we have just been seeing so many devastating images coming out of altadena. for the people there, for the residents who lost their homes, where are people finding shelter? how are they dealing with this disaster and really injures the next days and to come?- and really injures the next days and to come? right now there are _ days and to come? right now there are formal _ days and to come? right now there are formal evacuation l there are formal evacuation centres that have been set up but let's be honest, carl, most people are going to friends and family members, sleeping in

their cars and trying to do whatever they can to get the help immediately with friends and family and i think that going forward we are going to see weeks and months and even years where people are going to feel displaced, but the message and really the reality is at the statewide level, at the federal level, we are going to do everything we can to bring resources here and we will have a plan and we will rebuild and altadena will be stronger than ever and it will be better than ever and it will be better than ever and it will be better than ever and i want people to know that, that their elected officials, their leaders, are 100% pushing for them and are here to help them in every way. we've had a reporter there on the ground. she has been speaking with some families who didn't lose their home in altadena. what they told her was that they didn't get a warning about the advancing wildfires. they made the decision to go ahead and evacuate. do you have a sense of whether residents there did

get enough of a warning from officials in order to be able to move to safety?- officials in order to be able to move to safety? we're going to move to safety? we're going to have to _ to move to safety? we're going to have to go — to move to safety? we're going to have to go back _ to move to safety? we're going to have to go back and - to move to safety? we're going to have to go back and look - to move to safety? we're going to have to go back and look at i to have to go back and look at everything that transpired and we will make an assessment at the proper time. right now i am focused on making sure that people are safe going forward to making sure that this fire which is only 50% contained, gets attended to with as many fire personnel and resources as possible and making sure that these active disaster is attended to and accomplished so that less structures and less devastation happens. there will be a time to look back and see and answer those questions but right now the time is really to help our neighbours, ourfamily members and our community members and our community members that are affected and make sure that more members of this community are not negatively affected by this. figs negatively affected by this. as ou negatively affected by this. as you mentioned, these fires still burn. crews working as hard as they can to try and get them under some sort of control. what is it like on the ground like now? we know there was a bit of a lull when it came to the winds right now but

we understand they could now pick up again in the next few hours or so?— hours or so? i'm glad you brought _ hours or so? i'm glad you brought that _ hours or so? i'm glad you brought that up. - hours or so? i'm glad you brought that up. there i hours or so? i'm glad you| brought that up. there are going to be red flag wind warnings again. we're hoping they don't to the hurricane tight levels that folks saw a few days ago but some wind are coming. because of that, —— strong winds are coming. if there is an evacuation order, heed it. if there is any sort of evacuation order that comes to your area of evacuation order that comes to yourarea in of evacuation order that comes to your area in the next day also, take heed of it, evacuate immediately and find a friend orfamily to stay immediately and find a friend or family to stay with come to us for a voucher of some kind of a housing but we're not out this. this is a perilous dangerous situation and this remains an active disaster zone and it is going to take time to actually repopulate, to come back to normal, but make no mistake, over the next couple of days, we are all hands on deck. we have over 2000 fire personnel in the eaton fire as we speak. there are going to be thousands of folks every day

working to put out this fire. but now was not the time to rest. it is really a time to make sure that catastrophe to a larger extent does not happen. just briefly, if you don't mind, before i let you go, you mentioned this community will be looking towards rebuilding. i'm from california. january we know is not the normal wild fire season. we've seen this drought really drying out the area there. how much do you think climate change and the new normal now in the state will factor into the way that community does rebuild? it has to be a huge — community does rebuild? it has to be a huge factor, _ community does rebuild? it has to be a huge factor, carl. - to be a huge factor, carl. there is no doubt that factors of this fire had a huge amount to do with climate change. in the rebuild we have to be smart, innovative and thoughtful about when and how we rebuild, this doesn't happen again. i don't want to have a situation where people wake up on a tuesday morning and hours later they are homeless and all thatis later they are homeless and all that is left of their property

is ash, rubble and a foundation. we will never let this happen again and i think to your point, when we rebuild, climate change and all the effects of it have to be taken into account. joining me now is megan fan munce, reporter on the san francisco chronicle's climate team covering california's home insurance crisis. thank you for being here, megan. a lot of people would be surprised that not everybody there in those areas emily has home insurance will stop walk us through the data you've been reporting on and what you have uncovered when it comes to the specific areas.— specific areas. over the last cou - le specific areas. over the last couple of — specific areas. over the last couple of years _ specific areas. over the last couple of years and - specific areas. over the last l couple of years and especially in the last 1.5 years, insurance companies in california have been taking steps to reduce their vulnerability to fire risk. unfortunately that is the place thatis unfortunately that is the place that is burning right now. from april, when the largest home

insurer in california announced it would not renew 30,000 of its customers across the state, that decision impacted 70% of their customers in pacific palisades. another 60% in brentwood which is currently under evacuation orders and another over 1000 customers. what we don't know is actually how many of those what we don't kno