the, the business dw news live from the us officials issue held warning for several major cities. huge areas in the northeast, the blanket in a haze in new york landmarks of skewing smoke risk south wildfire. as canada, rising flood was prompted. ukrainian call for help as it waves through its latest

catastrophe. deluge following the destruction of a huge hydro electric down these thousands of people homeless. the i'm told me a lot of a welcome to the program. the over much of the northeast of the united states has turned into sick red smog from hundreds of wild fires burning and canada. officials and many cities are urging residents to stay indoors as pollution levels 10 has with us. the white house called the fire as an alarming example of climate change. in upstate new york to kill lake is blanketed by the keys. smoke from hundreds of wild fires burning neighboring canada. a few 100 kilometers further south. the smoke is triggered unprecedented air health alarms in new york city. affecting

millions of the bud sounds i come through the mid griffin. difficult new yorkers are advised to wear face masks when outside to filter out high levels of polluting particles found in the year new yorkers saw smelled of something that has never impacted us on this scale. before we had dangerously high levels, a wildfire smoke from thousands of miles away for houses of miles away. the elderly and people with health conditions have been told to stay in doors. like today, i'm not going to go to the park. i usually go to the park in the morning. i'm gonna stay home and now i have to go because i want somebody that's there. but otherwise i stay home with over 400 fires still burning across canada. the pollution will

likely continue to impact bordering us states. as canadians experienced their worst ever early season fires, many see the trail of smoke as a sign of the climate crisis, which can include more frequent and even more extreme wild fires. material adjust, matthew pushy is in washington dc, and he told me more about the situation that yeah, correct. i gotta say i've never seen wildfire smoke this. take your nation's capital, leasing a code red issued the 1st time since 2018. meaning that's how stick this smoke is. we saw the visibility is below about 4 to 5 kilometers today where i am, i can see the washington monument, which is easily in view on ordinary days. the sky is milky white, the sunsets of vibrant orange. it looks almost apocalyptic outside, but nothing compared to what new york is seeing with the worst air quality they've seen ever recorded up there, worse than 1985 worse and every wildfire episode. since this is very high end event

affecting millions of people. okay, you mentioned these ad quality a let's and, and, and what exactly does this mean? we hear about the equity index. how, how is that measured? yeah, so they are pulling inductance measure based on how much p m 2.5 are fine. particulate matter is an a cubic meter of atmosphere and ordinarily there should be less than about 50 micro grams. so 50 units, we're seeing values between 20400, which is really enough because danger not only for volume or populations i, the elderly and those with respiratory and heart issues. but anyone in the general population, this is covering about 15 to 20 different states and the eastern united states. these fires up and get back with the smoke is wanting self. thanks to a counter clockwise spinning low pressure system over health ex nova scotia. so for another 24 to 36 hours that smoke will funnel south and really it will get worse before it gets better. and we're just seeing some images that just the next to you . and though seeing the people wearing face masks,

those the kinds of precautions we expect, that people should take to avoid serious health implications. to yeah, definitely. you know, yesterday my eyes were staying my throat was a little bit sore. i've heard that from a number of people around the area. ultimately, the best thing to do is minimize outdoor exposure, mitigate the amount of air coming into your home, turn off the air conditioners, or set them to re circulate the air inside your home rather than ingesting air from outside. but someplace, for example, new york state leasing visibility is below one kilometer, that's enough to make it so airplanes can take off or land j. f k airport l, a ga airport in new york city. some the busiest in the world had drowned, stops earlier on because the airplanes literally couldn't see it's a very problematic thing affecting all walks of life. and one other thing i want to note, you know, this smoke is toxic, obviously we're not seeing a ton of super dense smoke what it is, toxic. and there have been peer review papers that have connected episodes like this to an increase in excess mortality. in other words,

additional people who might have underlying conditions to unfortunately perish and episodes of this nature. so really a high impact event. and one that is tied to climate change and these are the smoke coming from kind of the fire as well as we can over a month ago. if i, if i recall how big is the the area affected and do you expect this smoky situation to get was yes, about 3 and a half 1000000 hector's and burn. so here it's a record start to the year for canada's wildfires. and across the northern hemisphere is a whole this is not an isolated incident that can part of his climate monitoring service base of the european union has said the northern hemisphere has seen a record emissions does far. now part of the issue has been a sheet. dooms are big, sprawling origins of high pressure to bring the huts thinking, errand, dry conditions, that's a breeding ground for wild fires. we see a 3 of these were record heat during the setup in park over canada, festering and fostering these wildfires to be kindled and break out and grow even

more. and that's why you know, the past 34 days of it seen in the outbreak of fires, we saw that about 2 weeks ago. we saw that roughly a month ago, as you said. and unfortunately, climate change is sort of tipping the scales towards more of these higher end he doing events. and so what we can connect a single wildfire to climate change, the conditions that make them bigger, worse and more frequent are very closely tied to human action. so we expect that they could be more of this kind of event. yeah, at least here a nation capital here really across the northeast, new york, philadelphia, baltimore. i don't think things will wind down until probably friday afternoon into friday evening. there should be a change in the weather. this weekend with northwesterly winds were pushing the smoke off shore, but that said the fires are still burning. there's nothing to really extinguish them anytime soon. i know that i don't see any real. a rain falls signal soon. so if we get normally wins again, it'll push this mode right back down. and so i wouldn't rule out another episode perhaps not quite this bad, but at least more in surfaces of some lower 48 right?

material adjust, matthew can put you thank you. as always for speaking to us and bring us up to speed. thank you. the ukranian president village immerse landscapes call for more international aid for people affected by the destruction of a major them of a breaching all that could cause cut down has flooded dozens of towns and villages in the country. south polanski said rescue teams or racing to evacuate people from the area, many of whom were without water, food or medical supplies, volunteers and rescue workers. use motorized continues to pick up people down stream from the destroy them trapped by the rising flood waters. along with their pets, residents along the right bank of the new pro river, controlled by ukraine, are being taken to temporary evacuation zones by road

and by rail. one of them is in the city of nikolai, of 100 kilometers from the flood zone and has sun. 2 there are paramedics, as well as volunteers, to help the back you, we use fine food and shelter. the collapse of the dam has brought further misery for tens of thousands already caught on the front lines of the war between ukraine and russia. 65 year old hand as a rude and yeah, emerged from a bomb shelter after 3 days of russian shelling to find her home submerged a body shop where you could, your musical, the city is like a ravine, completely flaunted it's impossible to drive through the people who are trapped and what became like an island. i was taken away by my friends. i had to leave because having spent 3 nights in a bomb shelter, i just couldn't take it any more. but how does that route in the is

luckier than most her ordeal? has ended on a bright moment. you have company, your color to her sister's live and because i have, so she has a place to stay and shoulders to lean on as well. those living along ukraine's lower than the parole river are now dealing with the immediate consequences of the dams collapse. the impact may be felt for generations, with thousands of homes and livelihoods swept away in the disaster. the w correspondence, so near found the cause sent an update from the flooded city of house on risk unit by cation operations are still going on in the city of canceling the entire neighborhoods like this ones that are completely on the water. they're near the depot river. now they're able to see teams here that are using a rubber bullets and special vehicles to, to get into the water and try and get the people out of your printing all be is

here on the ground that will include some volunteers. local officials said we have set up a declaration of shelters for, for people who have had to leave the homes. but of course, the humanitarian operations. here it is also complicated, but the fact that this is a war zone, it's a deep sort of behind me that is the front line and even without the slightest, oh, you know destructive flooding caps. what is the city that is related to sleep shaded by the ocean forces on, on a daily basis? so the sound of author re file is, is, is very familiar to a residence here. and that really hasn't stopped even while this operation is going on. local officials have said that a russian forces have continued shedding the secret, even as they try to evacuate the population out from the west bank, which is under the creative control. let's take a look at some most stories making headlines around the world. sophistic on says, help, francis has successfully undergone abdominal surgery to treat any of pain. says the

3 authoration passed off without complications of the age of 6 year old pontiff is expected to remain in hospital for several days. the italian coast cause has its rescued over 1400 migrants from over crowded vessels in the mid 3 d n. c. in the last few days, dozens of people including 2 children, needed immediate medical care. it's needs been cracking down an irregular migration which has increased significantly since last year. your opinion, interior administers are convening today for what's being seen as a make a break meeting as a block takes a fresh crack and solving is migration policy conundrum. for years you members have been at odds over how to manage migration with southern countries, demanding more support and solidarity from the eastern and northern neighbors. ministers, meeting and laughlin bug today may now be on the verge of a break. through the critics say their plans will make

a fortress out of the european union of years of debate and disagreements have left here. it's migration and asylum policy. oh, i see more than a 1000 people have dr. undergoing missing trying to reach the continent this year. last and what many called a broken system, european union rules say people must claim asylum in the country where they 1st arrive. and that's left, some governments demanding change. over time we have cnn erosion of trust. where, for instance, southern member states have felt that they have not been able to receive the support that they need as reckoning parties as populous parties have gained majorities and several member states. there has been a shift towards the right and therefore also more restrictive immigration policies, southern coastal, you countries like italy, spain and greece received the most irregular arrivals in the block with boats often traveling from tunisia, morocco and turkey. as

a past attempt at forcing states further afield to take in some of those migrants failed due to opposition from hungry, poland, and many others. no brussels latest compromise pon with the low countries to opt out welcoming more migrants. if they contribute to the costs of hosting or deporting people elsewhere. also on the table, a proposal to create separate tracks for those seeking protection. and if it to cops, done numbers, request submitted by people from places considered safer, such as albania or pocket stone would be directed through a different screening system at the border. so authorities can more easily send people back. critics say europe is trying to barricade itself from asylum seekers, unsure responsibility. but the official behinds upon hoops, countries will finally come together. if we agree on a common approach to manage migration in the you may, but restricted way together. we would all be with this because we will be able to

manage migration together in an orderly way and, and that is a no, ma'am mistake can do it alone. brussels says bridging this political divide will help save lives. but some fear the reforms will fall short as people continue to risk their lives to reach these shores. well, that's it for now, coming on next, a documentary film looking at the consequences or industrial exploitation of oceans . as long as that e w dot com, i'm not totally illogical. switching the label onto the system. the way it is simple is having key more people than ever on the move world wide and such are based on life .