forest fires raging across the northern hemisphere amid the record hot summer golfing forests and threatening lives california to sweden in greece residents mean homeless. the government's failed to warn them of the impending danger also coming up. the campaign winds down ahead of them bob waves close presidential election since the mugabe era the opposition says it expects monday's bold will be flawed we'll go live to harare. and people around the world marveled at the longest lunar

eclipse to take place this century we'll show you some of the stunning images of blood moon. and welcome to the program soaring summer temperatures and many parts of the northern hemisphere have left firefighters battling massive blazes in the united states two firefighters have died after struggling to bring an inferno in northern california under control dozens of homes in the city of reading have gone up in smoke and the blaze has not yet been contained and sweden's largest fire emergency in a century threatens to ask even further tens of thousands of hectares are still burning the authorities warning high winds could worsen the situation in the coming hours.

and in greece there are fires being called some of the continent's deadliest in decades and it's causing great anger to a bitter raúl over broken have broken out over who is to blame for the ninety people who lost their lives the w went to investigate. your son this is the place the nothis once called home again his wife lived here on the second fuel now blackened and banned forever scarred by this tragedy he's now joins the growing chorus of voices angered authorities to not doing enough to limit the scale of this disaster could a human have 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. but i see little items which the houses in five minutes nobody informed us that we were in danger or your she left i will not. 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 with this. 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 see so many who lived in land once so lucky. enough this is house is one of many buildings here in monte built illegally along the waterfront on the night of the fire was buildings like these that blocked the route for 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 the depths if they did then manage to reach the corridos 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 but now they all authorities can

do is assess the damage. to us this is lucky his house is still habitable almost as inspectors say they're doing all they can to help residents like him try and rebuild their lives in a kind of dog got out 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 we're with them all of us have a vision to bring the country back to its feet just like alexis our prime minister has such as most people get to go like soldiers for wasn't. enough just 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. being called zimbabwe's most important election in four decades voters there are preparing to choose a new president and parliament their first election since longtime aboard tarion leader robert mugabe was ousted from power last year opposition leader nelson

chamisa has threatened protests if monday's vote is manipulated he's accusing the country's electoral commission of bias and on lack of transparency. faces a very close race against president emerson and who's hoping to win a full term of his own after succeeding mugabi polls show many god while with a very small lead but many voters are still undecided. correspond to a drink in harare for us adrian you're at the emerson men and campaign event what is the promising the voters and is there any indication that his links to mugabe could potentially hurt him here well anderson when god was trying to portray himself as a reformer as somebody who wants to change the governing party that has been running the country since independence for thirty eight years now and he's been actually showing some positive signs of the direction he's been touring the world trying to tell investors that the bob was open for business they should come here

this is in use in buffalo also within the country there were some changes you can see much less security forces in the country right now there's a better freedom of speech so this has really changed in the time that he took over from president mugabe but of course some people remain skeptical because you have to remember that he's been part of the ruling elite of the political class for a very long time he has been minister in various positions on the mugabe has been he was his vice president at one point so his critics of course say he's not a reformer he's just part of the old game the man of god was challenger is nelson chamisa where does he see them bob waste future. we just came from the from the final really of china which is just a few kilometers from here thousands of people also there a very good mood because they're hopeful that for the first time they have a very good chance to indeed win this election is a pentecostal preacher he's also a degree in law and he's

a very charismatic person who knows how to get people beyond himself he's a very great speaker and a lot of his critics have a say he uses big words like pushing infrastructure for what like bringing unemployment to an end of the economy but he doesn't really come up with a concrete plan how he wants to do that remember zimbabwe is really broke the economy is completely down the country is heavily in deficit and it is not clear which every cell wants to take the money for him to really go forward with all these ideas and zimbabwe has had instances of election violence and voter intent intimidation in the past are we expecting to see if there are elections this time around briefly if you can well it looks as this could be the first time in the history of the country that we could really relate if we have a free and fair elections they has been some minor incidences but compared to what the country went through and past elections this is really minor and a lot of people are very optimistic that monday might go well and that we will not

see any major hiccups. reporting from harare thank you very much. now some of the other stories making news around the world officials in afghanistan say at least three people have been wounded after militants attacked a training center for midwives in the eastern city of jalalabad witnesses say there were several blasts and gunfire there's been no claim of responsibility so far a government spokesperson called the attack terrorism. gyptian court has recommended death sentences for seventy five people including senior muslim brotherhood leaders they were charged security offenses in a mass trial related to a child thousand and thirteen protest that charmed by a lent it's now up to the country's top islamic cleric to review the ruling. us television network c.b.s. says it's investigating allegations of sexual misconduct against its top executive in a magazine report six women accuse les moonves of sexually harassing them in the one

nine hundred eighty s. to two thousand he denies any wrongdoing. with italy's new populist government turning away rescue boats migrants trying to reach europe are increasingly setting their sights on a new destination spain the country says it has rescued nearly a thousand people making the dangerous mediterranean crossing in the past two days alone madrid says the european union will have to 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 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 the 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 there initially held before being moved to 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 a little cooperation and development is very important

a requirement is to socially politically and economically stabilize the countries of origin of the border protection show type of 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 that goes. 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. the penultimate stage of the tour de france is underway as riders test themselves in a time trial over thirty one kilometers still wearing the yellow jersey as thomas of britain with a comfortable lead he also didn't hold back in friday's mountain stage finishing just behind stage when our primo spro glitch of slovenia extending his lead to more than two minutes if thomas keeps his good run in the time trial and he's likely to

clinch his first tour de france title in sunday's final stage in paris. and australia has become the first woman to lead a team to victory in the round world yacht race skipper wendy tuck and her serenity coast team won the clipper two thousand and seventeen two thousand and eighteen with another woman led team coming in second to twelve identical yards return to liverpool england nearly a year after leaving for the race which covers forty thousand nautical miles talk was followed by the henderson a british skipper let her team to second place. people around the world spent half the night with their eyes on the skies getting their fell of the longest total lunar eclipse of the century the shadow of the earth through the moon into darkness and turned it red mars also put in an appearance and its closest approach earth for fifteen years. even if it was past bedtime everyone came. telescopes improved ny let people get that little bit closer to the

moon. 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 to. the book. bartered it looks very different today. reground brown. yeah it's just like definitely very different. in egypt outside the city of far you home leaving the artificial lights behind was an effort worth making. when we chose a place far from the city on purpose because the feather away from the city we get to clear 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 beautiful very beautiful it was great being here and the model is very beautiful more so with this telescope. it was bad luck for people in mumbai india sic clouds left nothing much to see this is a very long it's of the longest eclipse of the century but one single season a homage on the beat of the then they have there's a very very thick cloud cover so we are all very very disappointed. no disappointment for people in greece though their luna delivered a picture perfect performance. here's a look at the top story we're following for you firefighters from sweden to california are battling blazes amid the record hot summer in much of the northern hemisphere. in greece residents made homeless by the country's deadly fire w. the government failed to warn them about the impending danger. at the

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