since sunday then police shot blake in the back wounding him at the scene of an altercation authorities have now released more information about that incident. officers attempted to arrest jacob. age 29 a law enforcement deployed a taser to attempt to stop mr blake but the taser was not successful in stopping him mr blake walked around his vehicle opened the driver's side door and leaned forward while holding on to mr. officer. fired his service weapon 7 times. is being treated in hospital and his family say he may never walk again the u.s. justice department says it is launching a civil rights investigation into the incident but for now the protests show no sign of relenting. the state of wisconsin is also home to n.b.a.

team the milwaukee bucks to boycott a playoff game on wednesday in protest of the shooting of jacob blake the being due to face off against the orlando magic justify their walkout they said they were demanding justice and police accountability teams across the league decision the prompted the n.b.a. to postpone all playoff series games on wednesday and thursday. and the action had a ripple effect across u.s. sports as teams a major league baseball and soccer joined the boycott and not only teams were showing solidarity tennis star. announced that she would not play in her semifinal match in the western and southern open to quote protest the genocide of black people by police the former world number one said she hoped to get a conversation started in a majority white sport. to take a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world kevin

mayer is quitting the chinese own video. the former disney executive only joined to talk in june he has been under strong pressure from the trump ministration it says ties to china make it a national security threat microsoft an oracle a car to be just a bite to. emergency workers in northern afghanistan are searching for the survivors of flash floods that have killed more than $120.00 people and injured hundreds more authorities fear many victims are trapped in the rubble of collapsed houses around 1512 ngs have been destroyed in the floods. have detained dozens of protesters rallying in central minsk is part of a widening government crackdown on demonstrations in the aftermath of the country's disputed presidential election the overs 9 polls all president alexander lukashenko win a 6 term. an office has to say the result was rigged. e.u.

trade commissioner phil holden is resigning amid allegations he breached lockdown restrictions in islands week ago hogan attended a govt dinner with over 800 people sparking a national outcry the irish government says his actions undermined public confidence. the man who carried out deadly attacks on 2 new zealand mosques last year will remain behind bars for the rest of his life the high court in christ church sentenced brenton terence to life in prison without the possibility of parole a white supremacist admitted killing $51.00 muslim worshippers in new zealand's deadliest shooting ever outside the courthouse relatives of victims and their supporters well the verdict is the 1st time the country's courts have handed down a life sentence without parole. i'm not joined by reporter miles tweedy in wellington new zealand an unprecedented decision there was

a surprise at all. no it wasn't really a surprise my life sentence without parole was actually expected for the government many thought that the heinous nature of the crime. warranted new zealand's toughest sentence possible. this is a man who spent months he is meant to kill us a planning every aspect of these attacks on march 15th yet. the 29 year old australian killed people randomly shooting them in the back as they. set. prayers in the mosque. many of them elderly and even killing a 3 year old child. when announcing the sentence. just as cameron manda described the action as into my and he said even when this man spends the rest of his days behind it cannot make up for the the crimes he's

committed miles how was the news of the verdict always seems to cross the country. well there were intensely emotional scenes outside the courtroom in christchurch. mostly jubilation and celebration of the fact that this man will never be free again people. locked arms and just celebrated the. decision by minister just to die down also in a statement said she was relieved that the government received the maximum sentence . and she said she hoped that the the survivors. could quote feel the arms of new zealand around them. what about the shooter how did he react to the verdict. now convicted

terrorist reportedly showed 0 emotion in the courtroom. he has over the course of the 4 day process remained largely emotionless. over 90 survivors and victims gave testimony in court. there was a lot of concern that he may try to use the court case to grandstand and make some kind of statement. however it was announced yesterday. yesterday afternoon after the 3 of the trial. had decided he was not going to speak in court which came as a great relief to many who were present. this decision this sentence brings the legal proceedings to an end. unfortunately the survivors. it would take years for them to deal with the trauma and the grief that they have

experienced but at least they may have to take some solace from the fact that this man who. caused so much pain and suffering will never leave prison again. miles sweeney reporting from wellington new zealand thank you for the 2nd summit in a row forest fires have been burning out of control in the russian province of siberia an area bigger than greece says have been affected several regions have to gladdest state off imagine sci fi that means emily shervin travel to the small town of basra guy in the region where forest fires in the surrounding countryside countryside the town the facts of life. regular drills keep the fire brigade in guy running like a well oiled machine they are the town's final line of defense against forest fires . when the threat of

a forest fire comes within 5 kilometers of a town then we react but even if the fire is 10 kilometers away if we get the order to go my guys are always ready. for the. firefighters jumped into action in early july when this blaze threatened the town forest ranger is in charge of putting out the fire were overwhelmed. joined their effort as a local environmental inspector of firefighting isn't part of his job description but increasingly hot and dry summers over the last few years have forced him to learn on the job some days he walks up to 20 kilometers through dense forest to map the spread of flames. a portion of this the minimal. for this work is very difficult and is a huge responsibility the fires don't have weekends or lunch breaks this year there

were times when we couldn't sleep for 2 days straight because we had to locate the fire for a burger or look at the worth of what both are. and of says it's often dry thunderstorms and lightning that start the blazes in the tiger forest. authours days were able to put this fire out which was burning until just a few weeks ago but every year in russia huge sections of the tiger burn and many of them are too remote to reach and put out. the huge territory of is largely uninhabited that makes putting out fires that smolder in this remote region difficult and expensive a law in russia allows off the words to ignore fires in about half of the country's forests but scientists warn that strategy could speed up global warming because the fires are also a danger to the permafrost under foot or history. this knowledge of. the destruction of plant life means that the permafrost is not protected from the sun's

heat we need the permafrost to remain intact so we shouldn't cut down forests we should put out fires so they aren't constantly burning and we shouldn't inhabit much of the area covered by permafrost so that it doesn't decay. but for now many fires are simply ignored farmers from the region say clear days are few and far between. fires burn every year there's smoke everywhere there's smoke over there too. we can't lie around just because there's smoke we have to work on the fields cut the hay there's smoke everywhere you can't hide from the. people here have accepted forest

fires as a fact of life but if they're ignored they threaten to change the landscape and ecosystem in russia's arctic beyond recognition. in earnest back in march mexican conductor. up with a plan to bring musicians together even from a distance she formed the impossible orchestra an ambitious project to gather. some of the world's best musicians to make music goal is to raise funds for women and children in mexico affected by the coronavirus. i was sent home. and i suddenly couldn't conduct so what could i do. i was imagining what it would be an orchestra to have an orchestra have the words for soloists. call my friends 1st i called all the

people that i had their phone numbers and had i had worked with. it's a coroner project obviously it would have never happened if it wasn't for the situation . it's impossible orchestra because in the normal situation if i had called them up they would've said that sounds great but i have this concert and that concert and we can plan it for 2024 have someone that would have not been possible without a doubt but suddenly everyone was free. we're all wrong. i don't want it to seem homemade. it had to look professional as if we could go to a concert hall or an opera stage. 2 the

impossible orchestra aims to raise awareness and trace funds to help foundations in mexico to help women and children in many aspects. it had to be a mexican piece for this project of course peace that people would recognize in my country and that people around the world could be fascinated immediately by that it all as i said the authors of all of us and. there are a lot of players to remark this well because it's an amazing piece of music that moves people. so much and i have probably. that's probably to be said conduct at the most in my career so it's been my friend since i started

my career. to answer turn to our top story german chancellor angela merkel is holding a video summit with the premise of germany's 16 states to decide whether to change strategies for testing and controlling the coronavirus the current system was only brought in a few weeks ago but the number of new cases keeps on rising so we think it is considered necessary to once a more unified approach across the nation there could also mean tightening the rules such as limiting the number of people allowed to gather together in public and finding people who fail to wear a face mask when shopping or on public transport transport. and with me in the studio is still

a political correspondent nina as we're waiting for the press conference to start it was supposed to start roughly 45 minutes ago it hasn't started yet just bring us up to speed why is this. press conference so hotly anticipated and what's going on right now is the 1st such press conference in 10 weeks that was the last time back in june when michael mrs merkel and the leaders of the 16 states actually sat together and discuss the nation the national corona and to corona strategy and of course then merkel pulled back a little and said to the leaders of the state it's your job you're responsible for public health so you figure out the details and then the numbers went down that was not really a reason for her to get involved but now of course we're seeing infection numbers rise again we're facing the beginning of the or to man the winter when people.