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if he does the news coming to you live from foreign land far's to fires raging across the northern hemisphere i'm at the press corps on the summer of planes are a gold thing far is that threatening lives from california to sweden and he greets the president made homeless tell me that the government failed to warn them of the impending danger also calling on. people around the world marvel to be the longest leader if you have to take place this century will show you some of the stoning images of the local news. you.
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amount of dollars thank you for joining us samara temperatures in many places in the northern hemisphere have left firefighters battling huge blazes in the united states two firefighters died as they struggled to bring a blaze in northern california under control dozens of homes in the city of reading have gone up in smoke and the blaze is still barely contained in europe season's largest fire emergency in a century threatens to escalate again and tens of thousands of pictures are still burning with authorities warning high winds could worsen the situation in the coming hours and in greece anger is mounting over this week which there which were among the europe's deadliest in decades a bishop has broken out over who's to blame for the nearly ninety deaths on monday went. investigators. have just found this is the place the nothis once called home
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he and his wife lived here on the second fuel now blackened and banned forever scarred by this tragedy he's now joined the growing chorus of voices angered authorities but not doing enough to limit the scale of this disaster could get him over the effort of yes no one cared to notify the residents to leave their homes initially we could see the fire far away in the mountains. the little items which the houses in five minutes nobody informed us that we were in danger. he takes me up into his home now filled with memories of the night he had to run for his life with. his calendar still marking the day at the finest station. he tells me that he's happy to be alive. living directly on the beach he and his wife were able to flee to the safety of the sea you're going to be gone so many who
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lived in land once are lucky. enough this is house is one of many buildings here in mattie built illegally along the waterfront on the night of the fire was buildings like these that block the route the people desperately trying to flee to the safety of the sea walls like this one made access even harder essentially leaving people trapped in lands to bend to their depths if they did then manage to reach the corridors like this one that go on to the waterfront they often then found that there were no steps leading down on to the beach is known a girl fell to her death just a few meters from him. people here now want and says why were these pleas safety violations ignored by the government for now though all authorities can do is assess the damage is enough this is lucky his house is still habitable most of the inspectors say they're doing all they can to help residents like him
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try and rebuild their lives and kind of go off but i doubt the engineer will register the damage and submit the repair estimate to the ministry for approval i want to stress that the state is present we here and we're helping people with them all of us should have a vision to bring the country back to its feet just like alexis our prime minister has said his most people get to go like so with regardless so enough his doesn't know when he'll be able to return home but now he can only wait and hope that authorities can provide the support this community so desperately needs so there are some of the other stories making news around the world. officials in afghanistan they at least three people have been wounded after medicine's attacked a training center for midwives in the eastern city of jalalabad witnesses said there were several blasts and gunfire there has been no claim of responsibility so far the government spokesman called the attack terrorism. former catalan regional press. didn't push the moment has arrived in belgium after leaving germany his
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successor have presented him torah welcome to him there are civil and first went into exile after this polish goldman sachs his administration he also faces charges of addition and investment in spain. it's been called zimbabwe's most important election in four decades voters there are preparing to choose a new president to parliament it's their first election since longtime authoritarian leader robert mugabe was ousted from power last year opposition leader nelson chamisa has threatened protests of one day's votes is manipulate says he's accusing the country's electoral commission of bias and lack of transparency to meet that face is a very close race against president emerson man and dog who's hoping to win a full term of his own after succeeding mugabe all children of god well with a very small lead but many voters are still on decides. of more of the story now we're going to cross over to detail the new correspondent
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crease you standing by for us in harare adrian you are out and resentment election campaign events right now what is the promising the voters there. well a muslim woman god was trying to portray himself as the reformer here in zimbabwe you face though he is a member of the governing party that has been ruling the country since independence but he has changed things since he took over from robert mugabe last year you went abroad he said the country is open for business again and also in the country there were changes visibly quite sample the security forces are not that visible everywhere in the country as they used to be and also people are more open to express their opinion but we clearly have to say there's a lot of people who doubt if you can really be the new face of the country yes but part of the ruling elite for a long time he was a minister in several positions. obviously a lot of people i talked to him and right now we're at the final rally of the last
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really of the zanu p.f. the ruling party and if we have a look in the stadium here you can still see quite a lot of empty seats and this was not imaginable a lot of people told us in the past when god was holding his rallies here so that is certainly quite disappointing for him to see that the turnout of people supporting him here today is not that massive. so pretty much it remains to be seen then whether or not his tied to mugabe will hurt him now and then and god was challenger is and i stand. where does he think you can bob place future. so we just came from the really or from east of it is just taking place a few kilometers from here not hundreds but thousands of people it's hard to say how many you really saw there but is there a pentecostal preacher and also a lawyer and he is a very charismatic guy and he really knows how to get the people behind him his vision of where is roe quite strong one he has a lot of great ideas he says like the infrastructure getting the economy back on
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track he uses a lot of big words but when it comes to how to really do that well that's a bit of a question he doesn't go much into detail where you have to remember that iraq was completely broke the country's deficit and it's not clear where he tries to get the money from to really push this region's forward. so big promises but where he got the money from is the question i think by the way has had a long history of election violence and voter intimidation will we see a fair election this time around adrian. absolutely this has been a problem here for decades but this is the first time where a lot of observers say there's a good chance to have related before you say lections of course there are incidences but not the brutal ones that we've seen here in the past where people are really forced with violence to vote for the governing party for the first time the opposition parties and the comes with able to. go out outside the cupboards and howard to come paint there without any fear this is the great sign but it's of
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course not yet hundred percent clear if we can really see a free and fair election we have to wait until monday possibly even longer because some people have freely fearing that if the opposition wins what will the military do here will they really allow a peaceful change of power will be it's a rematch they have done in the past. creature reporting from harare thank you. new pompous government turning away rescue boats migrants trying to reach europe are increasingly setting their sights on a new destination spain that means like and are still putting their lives at risk to make the dangerous mediterranean crossing spain says that the european union must do more if it's to stem the flow of new arrivals. the coast of southern spain is within sight. it's the end of a treacherous crossing of the strait of gibraltar. what you're seeing is
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a group of migrants reaching european soil. and they're among the many who arrive on spanish beaches every year. we don't know where they ended up but we do know they're lucky to be alive. so far this year at least fifteen hundred have died in the mediterranean sea their route to europe too has changed with spain now the preferred entry point we can say is that the first indications we're getting from spanish authorities is that it is the west africa and. migrants that were most prominent crossing into libya in the past couple years who seem to be choosing spain as their route now. the number of undocumented migrants arriving to the spanish coast so far this year is almost as many as the total for twenty seventeen most are rescued at sea and brought to ports like this one in the town of. it's here in the port where they were initially held before being moved to
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overcrowded immigrant reception centers. in a meeting earlier this week with france's president emanuel micron the spanish prime minister said the e.u. needs to do more if it wants to see a fall in the number of people arriving illegally on its shorts in luck will be to feel. cooperation and development is very important a requirement is to socially politically and economically stabilize the countries of origin of the border protection should have dignity and respect for the human rights of migrant people if you know we need to strengthen our cooperation with countries of origin and also with the transit countries those. back in southern spain it's the end of an exhausting journey for these migrants and the beginning of an uncertain future in the european union. in tennis there were a couple of upsets in the german open with the top two thieves both the level they said at the quarter final stage argentine diego. sharks' nanda fell to counter on
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ardo meyer but the biggest surprise so world number eight dominic team crash team at the bottom of your screen has a five three lead in the first set but opponent it was jerry fought back to win in a tie breaker in chile and then took the second to steal victory it was jerry's birth to ever win over a top ten ranked player thanks. and people around the world spent half the noise with their eyes on the skies getting their fill of the longest total lunar eclipse of the century the shadow of the earth through the moon into darkness and turned red mars also put in an appearance in its closest approach to earth for fifteen years. but even if it was past bedtime everyone came. telescopes improved ny let people get that little bit closer to the moon.
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but just looking up works to. those with cameras captured the heavenly body on film. in south africa people stopped in the streets reading it it's a very long list. so it's a bit up about what. the books. are trying to look very different today. reground ground. troops district differently very different. in egypt outside the city of fire you home leaving the artificial lights behind was an effort worth making. the most of when we chose a place far from the city on purpose because the feather away from the city we get the clearer the skies. in brazil the beach in rio de janeiro was a perfect spot to see the moon as well as mars nearby. it's
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a beautiful very beautiful it was great being here and the moon was very beautiful more so with this telescope. it was bad luck for people in mumbai india six clouds left nothing much to see this is a very long it's of the longest eclipse of the century but monsoon does season a homage on the beat of the family there's a very very thick local soviero very very disappointed. no disappointment for people increased their luna to live at a picture perfect performance. and here's a last look at firefighters from sweden to california battling blazes and the rock for a hot summer and much of the northern end. affair in greece residents made homeless by the country's deadly fire to tell delia that the government fails to warn them about the impending danger. and campaigning as winding down and ahead of the
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novice historic presidential election on monday the first post and the end of the mugabe era is expected to be close with the opposition already saying it appears that both will be flawless. you're watching dude on the news stay with us. there's going to. managers to know who today nothing would change you know the banks pay you money and so was the language of the bankers money. speaking the truth global news that matters w. me for minds. it's all happening. pretty. sure linked to choose from africa.

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