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the good guy to the special hot sauce in germany recognizes where exactly fun. no laws are culture history. travel extremely worth a visit. the . this is the, the news coming to live berlin, dozens dead from a wildfire on hawaii. smelly i am. tragedy as a blaze turns one of the islands historic towns to ashes, devastating the harbor and surrounding area. thousands have been evacuated,
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and authorities are purging people to stay away. also coming up new shares, military junta accuses prince of the stabilizing the country, saying french aircraft breached. it's their aspects. this is one to a representative met with nigerian invoice, offering hope of of break through the hello. i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. at least 36 people have died in a wildfire on hawaii. as molly island officials say the desk occurred in the historic town of la china, which has been devastated by the blaze. hundreds of buildings have been destroyed in thousands of residents, forced to evacuate their homes, present job, i is sending the military to help find the fire still burning on valley and the nearby big island as a paradise lost. as flames engulfed,
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the resort town of le hi no. the only escape was by sea, some wasted until the last moment to flee. to the far as our thoughts were nearest time to go. the firestone gotta know when the fire ripped through the tourist hotspots with little warning, many of these buildings no longer stand with this is a much of love hina has been turned to ash and we just had the worst disaster i've ever seen online to chris
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park lips evacuation efforts were disrupted by power and telephone service outages . roads were cut by flames. fire experts say molly island was waiting to ignite droughts had left the dense bushland dangerously dry winds from the passing hurricane. dora created the perfect firestone way when we are preparing for the hurricane. we. we expect green ablaze we expect floods. we never anticipated in this state that as a hurricane, which did not make impact on our islands will cause this type of wealth flyers. while fliers that wiped out communities, while fliers that wiped the businesses, while fliers that destroyed homes,
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officials urged tourists to stay away from the holiday island. thousands took shelter in the airport, waiting to evacuate. we're actually going to go to the summer of us. there's a lot of wildfire there, so we because of the wildfire. hawaii is just the latest place affected by extreme conditions. scientists say the world has just experienced its hottest month in recorded history, exacerbated by human, caused climate change. math, you can put she is a meteorologist and atmospheric sciences based in washington dc. he says dry weather and strong winds are fueling these fires as well. i think one thing that's very much key is that they've had a drought lately. the air there was dry, the land is little bit dryer than average. and obviously you have dryer temperatures, which means dry conditions and more fuel available to burn. but at the same time,
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a fire this big, which does far as burn about $240.00 to hector's, can only grow to that size if the winds are strong, then it is a case right now. how retain door a pass about 800 kilometers south south west upon a lulu. but at the same time, it's winfield was big enough that they're still seeing. winds are flowing in the storm of about 60 to 70 kilometers per hour. those eastern or these winds will continue much of the day. and again, augusta were 70 kilometers per hour, helping those flames to spread. i think one thing that is very unfortunate about a situation like this is that it's much like the fires we saw in colorado several years ago. obviously fires do happen to natural territory, but when you have homes that are close together in that much easier for the plains, hot from one building to another to another thing is an essential lead to the fire . if it's just a big stack of wood, that's just a stack of fuel. so yes, that is kind of the, the most difficult part with this. uh right now we have about 7.7 percent of the entire state of hawaii under at least a moderate drought or worse,
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there is worse than one year ago. and the, i believe the malware is things and the worst route at this point. so, yes, it is significant, but really it's one of those situations where even those abnormally dry, the wind is the biggest factor and how tightly packed homes are is another big factor. so that was made urologist, an atmospheric sciences. matthew could poochie in washington dc, ecuador. his government has declared a state of emergency after an anti corruption presidential candidate was assassinated on the campaign trail. because the candidate noon for speaking up against corruption was shot and killed at a political rally in the capital. fernando via this sense here was not the front runner in the elections, but he had received multiple death threats prior to his assassination making to supporters and what became his last speech in
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this democracy, cost our lives. this country has cost our lives. we won't permit a new treason presidential candidate for a number of vi sense. you were shocked while inside a truck moments after leaving this riley where he spoke about the dangers of challenging drug cartels and addressing the corruption gripping ecuador authority said at least 9 others were injured in the shooting. the gunman was reportedly killed by police. went up the road, we experienced the hardly the youth of 3040 shots were fired with machine guns. almost all the wounded falls. i know there are some dead. unsightly, fernanda vincent, you was assassinated. what else? i mean, they don't know. so i mean, you're not gonna seem to be sent to you had a long history,
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challenging those in power. first, as a journalist who opposed the corruption scandal involving the former president that landed him in 18 months prison sentence for defamation. and later, as a legislator and a national assembly which was dissolved triggering the presidential election, the sense you who ran as a centrist anti corruption candidate, ranked 5th out of 8 in the polls. a as a candidate, he had spoken about receiving multiple death threats prior to his assassination. he's believed to be the latest victim, a thriving gang violence that is seen a string of assassinations that included a mayor and a parliamentary candidate that made the idp regret the murder of fernando via the sent you with the hands of criminals. you will be my condolences to his family in my solid already with his followers and friends or you my day more than ever. we reiterate the need for a firm hind against crime. while the vote will go ahead as planned,
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some candidates have now suspended their campaign events in the run up to the election day. let's catch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. poland is planning to station up to $10000.00 soldiers on his border with bel routes over security concerns. the arrival of russian wagner group and the mercenaries in billers last month has sparked worries in warsaw. the leader of bell ruse has repeatedly said he was restraining bach. the fighters who want to attack poland. thousands of people in south korea had been ordered to evacuate to his tropical storm cooling on sweeps north. hundreds of flights as well as train routes of been suspended. the storm is expected to hit the densely populated sold area before moving into north korea early on friday and us state of utah. the agents have killed an armed man accused of making violent threats against president joe biden. the f. b. i said agents were
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trying to serve a warrant when the incident occurred just hours before by the landed in the state. us military leaders in these there have formed a new government, a decree read on national television, says the 21 member government will be headed by prime minister of the mohammed. allow mean zane. the announcement comes 2 weeks after the 2 in these air earlier. the country's military junta and match with 2 nigerian invoice in the capital in the army. the nigerian delegation was hoping to find a solution to the crisis ahead of an emergency summit with leaders of the west african block speaker wants to see what the qu, leaders have ignored a 7 day deadline from eco los to reinstate the deposed president. leaders of the block will meet later today to plan their next steps. the current political unrest
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and to in need that is putting e k was to the test. the economic community of west african states block was formed in 1975 and comprises 15 african countries, including nisha and my g area. it was set up to foster trades, but it has also address political and military unrest in the past. with some success, it sent peacekeeping missions and e k wa, spikes forces into the gambia ivory coast and guinea pig south to nigeria as president bo let to new booth who is also currently the eco was chapman appeared to be pushing the ministry intervention. but i'm going to say that some like to be nigeria would have to provide the bulk of the ministry resources and is itself struggling today with an insurgency was also eco, was members of split on the use of force. molly and black, you know, fast, they both supported these as qu, leaders, and have said they will come to it as defense if necessary. meanwhile,
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other countries of packing diplomacy and suggesting eco was extend this deadline for the reinstatement of news that president mohammed by zoom. but mediation attempts of sofa being written above by the june to so the block may now look to expand the economic and travel sanctions. the dates has already imposed. c, d, w reports are ways e address is in the nigerian capital, a boucher of where the summit will take place today. he told us earlier, what's at stake for equal loss and the stand off with new share. that's 2 major issues. one, the table for the it cost would be that's what went to misled, had to be $1.00, is to take the military in type ation to restore democracy, which is very unlikely because of the sub rental position within julia and add uh with african countries that are members of the course number to is to increase the friendship which we already impose, make an impact on the general public and then 6 full politic kind of solutions to
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negotiations, which we have seen in new opening because of the meeting that was held yesterday by and i didn't, in addition to june to of type deal detected. some did additions by airports. i'm up for, can you? so these are the issues on the table that would come up. at the end of this meeting, later, the chairs, military leaders have issued a new decree. it says that the country has formed a new government. what more can you tell us about that? is the government allows $10.00 to $1.00 name. uh uh, come see me and it says, which is an indication that the june pack is consolidated. its on file was on need in the country because it tim just of time pointing it prime minister, which is seen as somebody who can relate with the outside was cut and that was the
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it was because of his position as somebody who was working with a con development funds before his on appointments. so as plus for the dayton data on power and show you that there is no going back of restoring democracy from debt on site but any to kind of help. so new jersey else did. president mohammed by zoom is being held in detention. what do we know about his condition? for the 1st time, he was able to send text messages to his friends, telling them that the condition he has been held without electricity. and they've been default which this applied to him. he said, all of them got dropped in because there is no electricity of cause. nigeria is also apply electricity to the general public and because of defensive, the government control electricity supply. he said that he is living it 10
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rice dry rice drive past the time as a former president who is been determined by the media to up to now he's not being allowed to meet and speak with most of the people that when a delegation. so he's living in the miserable condition to see ways. thank you very much. that was the w report or waste interest in a bu joe, you're watching dw nose up. next, we've got a documentary for you looking at disappearances and murders of indigenous women in the united states. terry market, thanks for the image of how many portions of loves us are now in the world climate change. the story, this is much less the way from just one week how much was going to really get.

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