five people are now confirmed dead in massive wildfires raging in northern california over a dozen people remain unaccounted for and firefighters are battling to contain the blazes hundreds of homes in and around the city of reading have already been destroyed. officials in afghanistan say at least two people have been killed in a militant attack in the eastern city of jalalabad the assault targeted a training center for midwives and went on for over six hours the taliban has

denied involvement. zimbabwe's presidential candidates have been holding their final election rallies ahead of monday's vote. polls say it will be a close race between current president emerson non-god and his rival nelson chamisa it's the first time the country's going to the polls since long time president robert mugabe was ousted last year. has been the people have turned out to celebrate the fortieth year of christopher street day and the chairman capital the parade in berlin is one of europe's biggest gay pride events organizers were forced to call off the festivities early though because of an extreme weather warning.

on the brink of a trade war u.s. president donald trump and european commission president john claudio said they want to trade agreement. until that same place they'll hold off on imposing new tariffs on each other. the threaten to tease on european car imports are probably off the table for the time being europe has also agreed to buy more liquefied natural gas and soybeans from the u.s. the latter being important for american farmers. u.s. president donald trump celebrated his latest trade deal in the farm state of iowa. i mean basically we opened up europe and that's going to be a great thing for europe and it's really going to be a great thing for us and it's going to be a really great thing for our farmers before trump and younker appeared before the press on wednesday business groups and members of trump's i mean republican party present the.