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this is d.w. news lawyer from running off hours he's in california now say more than one thousand people could be missing a day the state's wildfire recovery teams pressed on with their search for the remains of those missing it is the rusty blaze in the u.s. state history to get the latest from one of the devastated communities also coming up. thousands of central american migrants hoping to enter the u.s. arrive in the mexican border town of fifty one but the mayor the everyone says they
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might soon wear out their welcome. i'm going to home free you could join me fears are growing that far more people may have died in california's raging wildfire remains of more than seventy people have so far been identified but the list of those still missing has soared beyond one thousand names to space residents are expecting a visit from president donald trump today as california also struggles with toxic air. with the fire comes a new danger smoke. and it has reached san francisco where air pollution levels now rank among the highest in the world health warnings prompted widespread school closings even the city's main tourist attractions was shut.
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the smokes are jenna's some three hundred kilometers to the north the town of paradise has been reduced to ashes it's the epicenter of california's deadliest ever wildfire and the death toll is likely to rise. search and rescue workers are trying to find any sort of remains that could help identify those missing. where you've you feel terrible for these people and devastating for them and i couldn't imagine coming back here this is my home. your whole proof that we if there are missing people we can find them and bring some closure to people that need that. those affected are in desperate need of assistance some hope denounced visit by u.s. president donald trump will increase attention to their plight. for president for congress we're going to take a look at the. partridge in more airports are still growing no time to relax if you
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want to understand what we're going through out here you got to be here that it's not something you can just see on t.v. you know others us get to kill off the president's intentions. i think is just showboating to come in and try to take credit for his insult to the firefighters. the police the military handicap women. the campfire is only one of several blazes still ravaging the state scientists believe the growing frequency and intensity of such wildfires is due to a prolonged drought which is symptomatic of climate change. well for more let's bring in journalist mike de walt he joins us from santa rosa an area ravaged by the wildfires mike the number of missing people is now so to over a thousand of these people feared dead. there's a lot of uncertainty with that number and we saw a big jump in a tonight county sheriff made announcement today telling residents not to get too
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tied to that number as it's very much a moving target some of those names could be duplicates some of them could have come from old man one calls and of course some of them may not just be reunited yet with their loved ones that said they're still very much some concern about that number as high as it is and the population in paradise dealing with mostly seniors over sixty five they could be disabled in mobile and that's really the trend we've seen in some of the names that they have in the seventy one names that they've released so far that they found might we understand that the first residents are responding to their homes how are they coping with the off tomorrow all of the wildfires. there's really a sense of uncertainty in going back to your home. and taking stock of what you have or don't. you know residents have to go back and. see see what their living conditions are i mean some people may be returning to the only home on their block and that's becomes
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a very new reality for them and you know even those who made it through the fear that this could happen again still lives with you beyond that so it's really uncertain time for those people who are coming back to their homes. meanwhile our firefighters at the military hopeful that they'll be able to put out the remaining wildfires any time soon. we've really seen significant progress in the past twenty four hours. the spiders in southern california are just about taking care of northern california they reached fifty percent containment on the camp fire today fire crews are working mostly in areas that are uninhabited forest land area and they're really trying to push the flames in that direction they will catch a break this week as very high probability of rain coming in on wednesday which all of californians are really wishing for and it's long overdue for this area absolutely everyone hoping for that might do well to aid santa rosa california
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thank you very much indeed i thought it was taken out some of the other stories making news around the world so says say the cia has concluded that saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond ordered it the killing of journalist chief in istanbul last month u.s. vice president mike pence is vowing repercussions for anyone involved in his killing riyadh has repeatedly said the prince was not involved in his death. tensions between the u.s. and china have overshadowed the asia pacific economic summit in pump a new guinea summits become the latest stage for disputes between the two countries over trade and regional security washington more members that china's plans for a new trade route threatened the sovereignty. argentina's navy has found a missing submarine one year after it disappeared with forty four crew men on board
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the sun one seen here an archive footage was detected eight hundred meters deep in the atlantic in which is off the patagonia. scientists voted to redefine the kilogram until now it's been based on a metal weight kept in paris now it will be defined in terms of magnetic force to increase accuracy the kilogram was the last fundamental unit to be based on a physical stem that. thousands of migrants from central america arriving in the northern mexican border town of to one where they can officially apply for asylum in the united states but tensions between migrants and some local residents a rising us to want to struggles to cope with the influx expected to continue for months. kareena is exhausted but she and her five children have arrived into one of the city's shelters are already full so they have to sleep on the street.
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well niña beginning we are children are tired from all the walking we had to do. and because we didn't have anything to eat. we asked for someplace to stay but we ended up having to sleep on the street they said a place to stay would cost twenty pesos around of a day pass for the first four hundred migrants who arrived in t. want to set up camp on the beach alongside the border fence they're happy to have reached their destination but are surprised by the walls height and the us police presence on the other side the migrants are waiting for the rest of the large group to arrive. or they made the decision together and we will continue to stick together we can go it alone we set out together and if someone wants to resort to force then i have to leave our group we want harmony and peace. violence broke out the night before after some mexican locals threw stones at the migrants one of them claudia who's here with her granddaughter says they were only acting in self
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defense. a group of mexicans attacked us. they threw stones at us and insulted us. we told the police but they didn't do anything about it so. this is their country where in. we fled violence and now we're encountering more of it here. many fled to the sports stadium nearby that was being turned into a shelter for arresting. the hit on family were denied entry that evening and had to sleep outside was horrible we had slept outside before but not like that under the open sky and in such cold weather and last night people who did not like us came to the beach nothing like that has ever happened to us before and when. the speed of the migrants progress the last two days clearly took the mexican
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authorities by surprise the stadium was not ready to accommodate them until thursday and processing at the entrance was slow. the provisions were also less than satisfying for many there was barely any food and water for people who've been marching for more than a month. german chancellor i'm going to marco faced a tough trip to the east german city of can next on friday after the city was shaken by a spasm of racist of on its back in august sparked by the fatal stabbing of a man allegedly by a migrant from syria and america was hoping that a meeting with ken its residents would diffuse some of the tension but the first questioner played on merkel's famous saying we'll get through this in response to the massive influx of migrants in twenty fifty arkansas and the point was to find an answer to the chaos that's want us in germany when you said we'll get through this and after two years you still said you didn't know what you've done wrong he
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did me a break. as a hollow. nachle did her best to calm angry questioners. back then i said we've gotten through so much in germany we'll get through this too. but what kind of a chancellor of what i have been when faced with a challenge i didn't say that pissed off and that merkel's day began in far more relaxed fashion when she visited a successful local basketball team the intended message was that ken that's has a lot going for it. but people out in the street questioned why it had taken machall months after the killing of daniel h. to visit the city. i don't know what you want for the christmas market it's too early and for what happened it's too late. since the tragic incident far right groups have held regular demonstrations on the streets of chemists creating an
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atmosphere of intimidation and threats against foreigners. inside the q. and a session audience members were putting the chancellor to the test. by when are you going to resign. up in your exact the i told you and all of germany said. that i have been elected for this legislative period what does it but i had been busy by the way we're both wearing national colors wings so it's not soon i fall and i'm prepared to serve as a chancellor to appear you until the end of this legislative period of councilman also fern. far right groups called for protests outside the auditorium where the town meeting was held but crowds were small in front of the netherlands have returned to top form on friday with a victory over world champions france in the nation's leak georgio of a now that
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was scored just before half time and memphis d.p.i. converted a late penalty the result means the netherlands can win the group if they draw against a germany squad is now being relegated from the nation's league top flight. and from all we can bring in verio now mark corrigan mob while champions for almost beaten by the dutch to nail that result was having a big effect for germany right even though they won't play straight that means the relegated from nations league a this is a. slightly confusing inaugural come the competition nations league so they're really it's a from the elite level to league beano which is obviously a blow to the prestige especially after the in the world cup this summer with the group stage exit and football terms that means that they'd no longer have a chance to qualify for you twenty twenty the playoff methods which is coming in at the start of twenty twenty. but in practical terms it probably doesn't mean much
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for germany or how much of a blow is it or how serious is it for germany and that coach of course you're going to have well he's been under a lot of pressure since the world cup the buckle it's also been a very poor year a real honest look horrible as for germany their worst year ever actually in terms of defeat sixty feats in a calendar year in terms of effects you'll be love probably won't affect them too much because he still has the opportunity to qualify for the u.p.a. championships via the normal route the traditional year for group stage with no shoots he then start to stumble. out when he really will come under pressure but the d.f.t. of but they've given him a new contract and i don't think that he'll be under much pressure in the meantime i mean it was also base a loss for the french know to a dutch team who didn't even qualify for the world cup yeah it was a fantastic night and wrote a lot of great to see hold and come back as a neutral and to see a great football nation come by and really give the french
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a bloody nose a surprise as well mark corrigan from the sport thank you very much indeed. it watching the news live from bali not helena humphrey will have plenty more coming up at the top all the hour thanks for your company and see you again. we make up over a week watches of the under which we are all the symbolism of this. game wants to shape the continent's future. part of it and join youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges the seventy seven percent platform for africa charting.

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