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is deja vu news live from berlin the deadliest fires in california history are ripping across the north of the state leaving a trail of describe destruction emergency services are struggling to contain the blazes that have destroyed wine country and reduced entire neighborhoods to ash also coming up. the united states and israel are pulling out of the u.n. cultural agency in esco washington says the organization is anti israel and has not made much needed reforms. and president trump is set to torpedo the iran nuclear agreement he's expected to decertify what he's calling the worst deal ever germany says the move could undermine berlin's relationship with washington.

i'm brian thomas welcome to the show thirty one people are now confirmed dead and wildfires raging across northern california making them the deadliest in that state's history and the death toll is expected to rise further with hundreds of people still missing the blazes have been burning since sunday and wine country north of san francisco firefighters have not succeeded in bringing the worst of them under control dry conditions and fierce winds have been hampering their efforts and now new evacuation orders have been issued conditions are forecast to get even worse over the weekend. let's go now to a sonoma county where the fires have hit especially hard we're joined by mike the waldo on the line he's a journalist with k.s. r.-o. radio a mike you've been taking a tour inspecting the situation in your community what did you find out there. yeah i was able to take a tour of some of the most badly damaged areas of the city today for the first time

with the highway patrol and i can tell you that witnessing the devastation in person is far more striking in her magic than the pictures that you see on t.v. . the two neighborhoods coffee park is a dense working class neighborhood leveled flat desolate it in any direction you look just flat ground where the upscale founder of neighborhood has more of a look of a war zone the burned out vehicles piles of rubble words from the city's most historic landmarks once stood i can say that the recovery here is going to take a very long time mike hundreds of people are still missing do we know who they are where they are is there any hope of of rescuing them at this point. so there is some hope that that number is coming down hopefully once people come back into the area who it may not have checked in with the emergency services team here so they're hoping that that number is going to come down a little bit but they're also well aware that the number of deaths will probably rise once they go into some of these areas the sheriff's office released an initial

list of some of the identities of some of the residents who lost their lives in the fire most of the group identified with the elderly which is necessary to their leave surprise given the speed by which the evacuation was required but also it's not a surprise because a lot of these people have easy most easy to identify a something like medical equipment and some of the serial numbers to find out you know this isn't criticism as well because an emergency text message system was apparently not used to alert people that that this fire was getting out of. here there has been some controversy with that the local leaders here they need the decision that given that the number of residents of the area that would have received that message areas that may not have been affected by the fire it would have caused such a mass panic and gridlock of people who were in danger that the people who were in danger would have been put in an even more dangerous position given that it's definitely an issue that's receding more and more to date as the recovery is going

on ok and is also word out there that the thought is looking into what caused this fire apparently there was a a week power line that went down what do you hear. and you don't have an official word on that obviously an investigation on this takes a long time but there's it's run the gamut and there's conspiracy theories that you hear it runs the gamut of there's people running around lighting fires to a downed power line which then was taken by the wind and spread quickly. a lot of people are waiting for these answers and he. needs just going to take a long time to see what the investigation reveals mike wald reporter with k s r o radio in sonoma county thanks so much mike. and a natural disaster is also proving deadly in vietnam where at least fifty four people have been killed in severe flooding and landslides affecting central and northern regions their key infrastructure has been destroyed making rescue efforts

difficult more than thirty thousand homes are now submerged many communities have lost all their crops and livestock now this is some of the worst flooding to hit yet nominee years forecasters are warning it's not over yet with another major storm front on its way. so. the united states and israel have announced that they're withdrawing from unesco the un cultural organization created by the united states more than seven decades ago washington says the agency is anti israel as avoided reform and is too expensive now this comes as the nasco is holding a tense meeting to choose a new director general candidates from qatar and egypt are among the leading contenders the agency is next had will have to cope with losing its biggest source of financing paris's unesco headquarters the side of the latest spat between washington and the united nations the u.n. agencies official mission is promoting education coach and human rights that

includes keeping a list of world heritage sites but the u.s. government says unesco is too political we'd like to see the politics kept out of it and we see with this anti israel bias that's long documented on the part of you know asco that that needs to come to an end to the united states made the decision after a long deliberative process to pull out the u.s. is angry because u.s. can recognize hebron the old city as a palestinian side even though the cities to me the patriarchs is also an important jewish holy land mark it's also angry that syria was kept on the unesco human rights committee in spite of the country's ongoing civil war. the u.s. already has us go hundreds of millions of dollars now it's leaving in s.k. says by doing so it's betraying american values. united states is a founding member of unesco the whole idea that you can build peace through education science couch or communication. is basically an american idea

it's not the first time the u.s. has pulled out of unesco it quit in the one thousand nine hundred six crabbing unesco's anti western impro soviet a decision that took decades to reverse. and this time around washington is planning to leave the door open to return and maintain observer status it's a business and it hopes to use to reform the un's cultural i gin see. to iraq now where tensions over last month's independence vote by iraqi kurds appear to be boiling over an iraqi general has told a news agency a.f.p. that government troops of launched operations to retake kurdish held positions in and around kirkuk and a kurdish broadcaster says tens of thousands of kurdish fighters have deployed to counter the threat country's minority kurds overwhelmingly voted to break away from iraq and form their own independent state that would include areas such as the oil rich region. out of some of the other stories making news at this hour

police in both new york and london are looking into sexual assault allegations against hollywood producer harvey weinstein now that says a fourth woman accuses him of rape new york investigators are reviewing an assault case from two thousand and four and police in london meanwhile have reviewed a new claim of assault dating back to the one nine hundred eighty s. . us president trump has signed an executive order and that stripping back obamacare. it will make it easier for americans to buy cheaper health care plans with fewer benefits critics say could mean spiraling costs though for people with existing health problems previous attempts by the trump administration to repeal obamacare have been blocked by the u.s. congress. a security guard killed in the last vegas gun massacre a week ago has been buried in that city's memorial park twenty one year old eric silva was shot while helping concert goers escape the festival venue where the

attack occurred he was one of fifty eight people killed in the shooting. or u.s. president trump will give a much anticipated speech today in weight which he said to lay out a more confrontational approach to iran is expected to announce that he will not recertify the iran nuclear deal that goes he didn't twenty fifteen by tehran and six world powers including germany now the other signatories of spoken out against such a move the german foreign ministers ignore gabriele has warned that doing so would drive a wedge between europe and the u.s. and push the you into a common position with russia and with china now under the deal ironic agreed to curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief international inspectors say around is in compliance with the accord but the trumpet ministration disagrees saying tehran is violating the spirit of the deal. let's find out more about the

u.s. president's objections to w.'s carolina chinmoy spoke with claire lopez at the center for security policy that's a conservative think tank in washington she began by asking her what she thinks trump's decision on the iran deal might be. it is expected that the president will announce that he will not recertify the so-called j c p o a joint comprehensive plan of action or nuclear deal with iran beyond that we're not completely sure what the other steps might be that he will take but it's expected he will not recertify. what could be the next scenarios the next taps we're gonna see well the possibilities would include that either he takes no further steps at all or he could go back to congress and ask congress to re impose sanctions against iran and we're not really sure if that's what he's going

to do or not. the enter national atomic energy agency do they really have access to all areas of countries that might be working on nuclear weapons no absolutely not and this is the main problem with the nuclear deal with iran and that is that ever since one nine hundred eighty eight when iran's nuclear weapons program began under ayatollah khamenei the iranian regime has had a clandestine secret nuclear weapons program it was first revealed to the world in two thousand and two by the iranian opposition the national council of resistance of iran but there's no reason to believe that even after that revelation they stopped and indeed the n.c.r. or national council of resistance of iran issued this report just today it's called iran's nuclear core an inspected military sites and that's the real problem because the nuclear deal the way with iran does not address sites that the iranians hold

off limits military sites for example at parchin where the i.a.e.a. itself has strong suspicions that nuclear warhead r. and d. has been going on would you say that further sanctions would be the right decision to make for the united states i think sanctions wouldn't harm anything but let's remember that during the period. of let's say two thousand and eleven twelve thirteen when the sanctions international sanctions were biting down the hardest against the iranian regime that is when we actually saw the arena regime accelerate its nuclear weapons program and ballistic missile program more than before so i don't think sanctions are at all effective in getting iran to stop what the regime considers the tsunami known they must have nuclear weapons deliverable nuclear weapons and nothing is going to stop them i say seriously seriously concerned

except force interesting opinions thank you so much thanks for having me. clopas there would. have some football out in the bustling it tonight stuff dark host cologne a team that's at rock bottom that despite a successful season last clone coach paid to start his future is very much at stake in that match. to make it plain cologne stinks at the moment and is taking the heat for it he was the hero who brought the club back to the top flight a few years ago after winning the second division but that's in the past conceding fifteen so far and only managed to score two goals have left cologne dead last still searching for a first team with. me on my commute my state of mind won't get better with each defeat but it's my job i'm the one who's responsible my job. and i ask of my

players that they face the challenge and move forward and make decisions to help us get past this situation when things are really bad i have to come up with solutions on which to oddly enough the cologne stuttgart fixture hasn't gone the home side's way since two thousand and with host stuttgart showing signs of a shaky defense cologne holds out hope for its maiden victory. let's get you a minor of our top story at this hour thirty one people have been killed in wildfires raging across northern california making them the deadliest in the state's history under of people are still missing. this is due to be a news live from berlin and that's all we have time for from the entire news team thanks so much for joining us and have a great weekend.