it's like winning the lottery. one more unique start september 18th on d w. a c d w news wife berlin trapped in limbo and full of frustration my friends on the greek island of lesbos raise their voices in protest thousands are demanding to be allowed to leave the island after a massive fire destroys the memorial refugee camp aid groups say and you camp is not the solution also coming up dozens of people are missing as deadly wildfires

sweep across the western united states hundreds of thousands have fled their homes at the blazes ravaged work in washington and california. and could there be a new chance for peace after decades of conflict in afghanistan to go sheesh and between the afghan government and the taliban begin and cantars lives cautious optimism for a fresh path forward. omarion evanston it's good to have you with us thousands of migrants and refugees on the greek island of lesbos are demanding more permanent housing elsewhere after a fire destroyed the overcrowded morea camp massive blaze on tuesday left more than 12000 camp residents homeless great. the army has begun building replacement

shelter but many of the migrants are opposed to the construction of another camp they want permission to leave the island alexander phenomenon sent us this report. maybe i'm just 3 weeks old born in moria when that cam started burning currents ran for their life now and they are sleeping on the roadside. i'm so disappointed because the european union could have helped us after all this time it's been 4 days ne he can cure of us what are they thinking how can they abandon us i don't know what they're doing. because even the family fled the democratic republic of congo others came from afghanistan or syria now they're all stranded here. card leader of the greens in the german problem and it's one of the few politicians who visit the island. let's this is the last chance to say we urgently

need to change our asylum policy it is all about law and humanity humanity and law both it's the only way we can really live up to our european values. a few kilometers away tents are being set up at an old shooting range but refugees gathered here tell us they don't want another camp like moore yeah. we need big government support us to be of a question maybe and other countries you know they've got a. way to be good but they decided to be there maybe 2 days ago. to fight. and that's how many here feel their frustration leads to hours long projects. they chant freedom and i'm not afraid to confront the greek riot police. here that is the. force situation for did it fugit we don't have good little know

what they're made out of anything and when it does freedom freedom. people here are . very patient there are much easier back and forth to demonstrate the fear anger they tell us we all want to stay here we get up take care of us. we were. right. this time everything remains peaceful but the loner understand of continues the bigger of the risk that the situation could get out of hand. in the spring and alexander phenomenon who filed that report she's standing by near the science of the morea refugee camp on last post hello to you alexandra so we've heard it's already been nearly 4 days since the fire destroyed the camp describe the situation there now. so at the moment it's quite quiet here compared to yesterday people are getting ready for what is going to be another hot

day here i cleaning their make shift to tents and actually i was struck by by that that they were able to put them up so. quickly while we are still waiting for the greek government to live up to its promise to provide housing for the refugees but of course the conditions here are grim sanitary conditions there is only little running water no toilets and people really think that they have been abandoned by by the european union and they are getting increasingly frustrated as we saw in the reports we saw protestant yesterday and of course i can assume that we are going to see them protesting today again now owns and what have you been hearing from the local authorities what is their plan to provide food and shelter to the refugees how are they going to do all of that. well what we saw here on the ground were

mainly n.g.o.s distributing food and water but many refugees told us that they don't have enough food that they are hungry that they don't have enough water i really myself didn't see any local authorities here on the ground although we know that they're also distributing food they started as we thought in the report setting up those tents if you kilometers away from from here the greek government has sent 3 ships to provide housing to talk to the people but it's got out take a while and many of the refugees here told us that they just don't want to stay here they want to move on they wanted to leave the island because they don't believe that the greek authorities can really take care of that and if you are here on the ground you see that that's really the case well what about the greek local residents in the residents of lesbos themselves how are they reacting to what's

going on. well there are very upset and angry they say they don't want an arbor a camp to be built here they say they have been facing this situation for 5 years now and someone else needs to bird this barden a burden we ran actually yesterday to the local blockade everything was peaceful we could pass through this blockade but that can change any day if the soroti is here will push through with their plans to. build another camp in moria. alexander phenomenon on the greek island of lesbos thank you so much for your reporting. wildfires have forced mass evacuations across several western u.s. states half a 1000000 people in oregon have been ordered to leave their homes or prepare to do so the governor says dozens of people are missing firefighters are battling to

prevent 2 large fires merging near the most populated parts of the state washington and california are also seeing the worst fires on record. as if 2020 wasn't strange enough already the sad francisco golden gate bridge remains tried it in smoke and a pale comparison to what the morning commute looked like this week smoke and ash from wildfires mixed with the cool pacific ocean air to produce an otherworldly effect 1115. crazy 11 seen in the morning and it's. like the middle of the night. historic fires are ripping through 3 western states in california almost 5000 square kilometer is have burned firefighters don't expect to bring the blazes under control until the middle of

october some villages have already been incinerated. the governor to herd once scorched forest making up a point about climate change as he surveyed the damage. this is a clever them emergency this is real. it's happening this is the perfect storm is happening precedented waged year in year out the debate is over around climate change just come to the state of california. a driver in oregon filmed the dramatic scenes as an inferno engulfed the forests. while disputed reveals the total obliteration the fires left in their wake. the governor told residents to brace for a huge loss of life and property and said that many residents were missing. in washington state 2 fires have wrecked havoc and heartbreak everything gone

clothes beds everything. though weather conditions are gradually improving meteorologists are warning that it is not yet even heat wildfire season. historic peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban have begun today in a bid to and 2 decades of fighting and bloodshed the meeting in the gulf state of qatar is the 1st time that the warring sides have met face to face they're hoping to reach agreement on cease fires the rights of women and minorities and the disarming of tens of thousands of taliban fighters. well for more on all this let's bring in journalist ali latif he who joins us from kabul hello to you ali so the talks have opened today with a ceremony and a number of speeches but what what was the main message at the start of these historic negotiations. so everyone had their own message

doctor up the law who is heading the peace portfolio for the afghan government made it very clear that they want to ceasefire an all around cease fire on humanitarian grounds and this was something very important this is something that they're trying to stress from the very beginning of these talks where's the tall a balance that you know that they want to create an islamic system that brings all of the of on people together and that serves them all and that are right some of the wrongs of the past of course of us have on constitution since the founding has always been based on islamic law so you know what that means people still don't know and might pompei o the u.s. secretary of state who people see as sort of the in force or there are the kids will point in being there is to force these sides to actually come to some kind of an agreement you know he said that he wanted a sovereign of honest on a united artist on and i want to stay on that could decide for itself what its

political system would be but key really urge them to take this seriously and i think that that's a very clear message from president trump that you know that he wants this to and he wants to be able to say that he ended this war. and yet if the taleban won a sure islamic government in afghanistan ali are they likely to share power with a western backed afghan government i mean they're very different visions of what afghanistan should be aren't they. well i think this is what the quote anytime that someone from the taliban or any sort of similarly minded people come and say that we you know we want to not want to stone based on. and islamic jurisprudence and things like that what everybody says is that the afghan constitution is already based on that that one legal system is already based on that so you have to tell us what that means to you you know you have to say exactly what that means does that

mean you know women not going back to school and work and things like that which no woman of on its own except at this point again you know that was a brief 6 year period in history that people don't want to go back to so the onus is really on the toll of want to describe what that means to lay it all out there one thing for all journalists. reporting from kabul thank you very much. on now to a group of senior citizens turning heads in china the elderly athletes are refusing to take retirement literally and thanks to their rigorous training routine their skills are impressing people half their age have a look. while many seniors use hand rails to prevent falls these retirees are turning aging on its head. all the geriatric gymnast and

tianjin china are well known for their performances that combine gymnastics with chinese acrobatics. going all in the log you thought we started then i want on gymnastics team 10 years ago i felt very bored after retiring and didn't know what to do with us so we started practicing gymnastics. there are now 300 members on the team ranging in age from 60 to 80 but you wouldn't know it by watching their training sessions. so what's their secret. along don't be bothered by old age find things that bring pleasure and believe you're still young that's what i do. the teams leader says he always dreamt of becoming a star gymnast and he's not giving up now. and before we go a quick reminder of our top story. prostration is running high on the greek island

of lesbos as refugees demand to leave the island and find safer living conditions more than 12000 people were left without shelter after a fire destroyed the overcrowded morio refugee camp. near washington w. news up next a new edition of our documentary series doc filmed with a close up look at the darker side of luxury fashion american evan stand from me and the team in berlin thanks for watching. i'm legal and i'm to go complete 2nd season on the front. of the planet on the brink of disaster we did more in-depth interviews with experts about one question how to change. the recent.