the the, you're watching to the news coming to live from for link. now ways emergency chief defends his response to devastating fires. he says that sounding so nami, siren's quarter of send people running towards fire, danger zones. for than a 110 people are confirmed dead at over a 1000. others still mistakes. also coming up on the show, ukraine claims a success and it's counter offensive. read, taking a village from russian forces. off the clock is ticking to make gains a 4 month season sets in sanctions against new jersey who are hurting the

economy, but also increasing support for the crew. west african leaders are meeting today to consider a military intervention and england book their place in the women's world cup final, the victory over host australia were you will be action from down under the i'm sorry richardson, welcome more than a week after hawaii is devastating one fires the death toll has risen to 110 people, but officials are struggling to identify the victims with only 5 confirmed so far. relatives are being asked to supply dna samples to help more than a 1000 other people are still missing and us president joe biden is expected to visit next week to survey the damage. the homes burned to the ground files of

debris and burned the guns. in des moines, the third's crews are looking for human remains. they have been working 12 august of the 13th from house to house, white families wait for news of their loved ones. dog out of defended of the petition, but the difficult during and he means the process. it's been for a little this is a really hard disaster and this is a really difficult search operation. because of the conditions and the fire debris, the dogs have to navigate the heat. they have to deal with issues with their pause, walking through glass and debris. and in these conditions, the dogs require frequent rest, which is why we are sending an additional dogs to augment the operation. highly into the down of the high now has to be open access to many of the chart video

streaming and restricted distress. again, we're not allowed in to find out what remains of the homes. many of them slate with few belongings and 5 to 80 a more than a week ago. i cannot do anything. we never see nothing. the only the only close is manually for my car. to please if this right more than 2000 building the high now the search team have responded to fires, enforcing facilities in the past, but none have seen through the station on this game. well now we've emergency chief has defended his department's reaction to last week's devastating fires. he's faith criticism for not using the islands to nom your warning sirens to sound the alarm about the fires, but he says he has no regrets. sorry, as i mentioned earlier,

is use this primarily for so long as and that's the reason why many of them are found. almost all of them are phone on the coastline. the public is trying to see higher grounds in the event that the, sorry to solve that. in fact, the website is a hawaii emergency management agency. the following guideline is provided, if you are in a low lying area or the coastline evacuate to high grounds, have you started assignment that night? were afraid that people would have gone mocha. and if that was the case, then they would have gone into the fire w as consume wise reporting for us from now we and she attended that press conference earlier. she told me more about what the emergency chief had to say. yes, there were a lot of questions regarding the why they didn't activate the sirens and oscar and also about how they were going to regain the trust of the people. the emergency chipsets that we'll have send more people directly into the fire that is upcountry

now the governor gave us a different response. he said they are working on large changes and better practices. and one of them will be they are going to bury the power lines, oppose the wrong right now, up in deer. and that is a danger. and they also try to expand, they've got this, that's why capacity across the states. you said that on fridays, and we'll get more information about major changes in the practices that to prevent this kind of disasters. now officials also mentioned there that they started to identify bodies of the deceased. do we know how far along those efforts are? the numbers are still pretty low and that's something that we were wondering about because if people on the ground that we've been talking about expect the number of deceased to be way higher, the police officer explained that they want to be very respectful for the family as they have gathered to teams for experts also from california that are helping with

the dna of integration. and they want to notify the families 1st. so they want to be respectful and that's going to take a lot of time. yeah. and what about the survivors? what is the situation like there for people on my way now? are they getting the help that they need? they're getting a lot of help from community, even from the same people who lost their houses. i've seen it myself, they're volunteering and helping other people. they're still in big news of supply, but of course of housing that has, that started to happen now the government and also planned to move the people from shoulders into over a 1000 room in hotels and in the area of the height of the house and being affected and also into an air b and b as that is starting to happen yesterday today. it was out one of those uh shelters and, and, and they, uh, i saw myself, the red cross phone and people the time. so you and we found the room for you in this hotel, however, um it's only for us 30 days. we don't know how long, how,

how long are they to to stay and the rick ross doesn't know that even there are no said they're working also on new ideas on how to rebuild for people for the future . well, thank you so much for your reporting throughout the week. that is country my in my we thank you we can bring you up to speed. now with some other world news headlines at this hour, the firefighters are struggling to contain a wildfire on spain's holiday islands. of 10, a refi that is forest road closures and the evacuation of 5 villages. the wildfire broke out in a mountainous national park and has since spread over 22 kilometers near mount data . ok, now that stains highest peak more than 60 people are believed to died after a wooden fishing boat carrying over $100.00 migrants sank off the coast of the cape verda islands in west africa. survivors say they had been at sea since leaving

central more than a month ago. officials in the dominican republic say all missing people are accounted 4 and 27. others are confirmed dead in an explosion in the city of san kristof on the cause of the blast is still being investigated. the president has declared a national day of mourning. ukraine says it has read, taking the village of earl resign. indeed on that sc region. it is part of ukraine's counter offensive to reclaim territory occupied by russia. up since the offensive started 2 months ago, keith has made slow progress. a shell is loaded into an american house, a cannon. this is the front line of ukraine's counter offensive. since june, the army has been pushing back from active positions that extend more than 1200 kilometers. and despite the supply of weapons from the west,

the only making limited progress with limited power and its forces stretched thin. but even small advances could turn out to be technically significant. this week ukrainian troops on the south eastern front claimed to have retaken the small village of rush. china, located within a 150 kilometers of the ports of russia. occupied mary, you pull and buddy ends, and if you cry and where to take those cities, the land bridge that connects crimea to russia through occupied ukraine would be broken. but getting through heavily fortified russian lines won't be easy. they'll need to cross open fields which are extensively mind, where they also run the risk of attacks from the s and russian troops behind the tree line. and if they make it that fall next, they'll face and elaborate mays of trenches and metal and concrete empty tank defenses, known as dragon's teeth. still small advances by either side will reduce the

capabilities of the other rush. i recently intensified that separation in the northeast, drawing ukrainian forces away from most strategic areas in the southeast. now ukraine is making gains on that front, forcing moscow's military to redeploy. but the to and fro cannot continue in its current form for long as autumn and my the season fast approaches when oil tanks will be stopped in the tracts until spring. for more, let's bring in mike martin, a war studies senior fellow at kings college, london. and a former british army officer. hi mike, good to see you again. are ukraine here saying it has re taking the village of ers? i know indeed an ask region in your view, how much progress are they making here? so i think we have to look at this in the rounds at the moment that ukraine is advancing in full set for areas of the country. and it's doing that quite

deliberately because what that forces rushes to do is spread its forces out very thin. i'm. i'm at the moment, it appears that progressive slide, but over the last month or so, i can give you some statistics that will give your read is at some homes about the progress of am making up. firstly, the right, the russian often rate destruction by you trying forces is twice what it was. and that's a key part of the way the russians fight that war. and secondly, the russians have started to have to move that troops between different bits of the front line, which tells us that the russians run out of that was of, i'm so things are actually progressing quite well. although it's not immediately apparent to the amount of power she has been taken. so i thought i got those numbers sound good, but is this in the bigger picture going to be anywhere near enough to regain the territory that russia seized in the south and east lost here?

yeah, well, that's a very good question. and of course, we have maybe 3 months until wins and model sets and it becomes much more difficult what a crate is trying to do either this summer is, is trying to, as you said, new packages break that language. and to do that, you only need to get to the lines in one place effectively, and then you can pull your results. and the kind of course, still has several brigades in was set, haven't committed, ordered his troops, unlike russia. so i think we're going to see is hopefully at some point over the next 2 months, suddenly somewhere that russian line would collapse and then you crane will be able to get his results isn't. but i agree with you. it is very touching down and they have to do it within the next 3 months. yeah. so how likely do you think it is that ukraine will be able to break that land bridge? so that's, that's very, very difficult to say icon. i don't have a crystal board, i can't say that, but i,

i think we should look at what happened last year if we took it last summer over the last summer, we had a very similar situations this way. it appeared that no probably the best as being made, but actually ukraine was destroying russian logistics all through the summer. and then in september we had suddenly a collapse in the russian lines in hockey's on a most of the guns. and then in december, just before the beginning of winter, there was another withdrawal by russian forces in the class on that to me, seems to be the pots and that we're going to have this summer. so a long summer of what appears to be not much progress, but actually ukraine is getting on with a job, destroying, rushing logistics, destroying out today. and then suddenly that long collapses. and then it's very easy to get through guys and close. that language is a very short distance. maybe only a $120.00 promises as it's finished. so that is not a huge distance for mac. and i suppose so in addition to the time pressure there

before much season sets and what do you think the biggest challenges are that ukraine is facing at this phase in this phase of the counter offensive this i think there are 2. i think the mine fields that russia has light and it's incredibly cheap to lie, a mine photo for so you can do it from lack of a much, much more extensive than the claims on them to be. and they have a policy, some new innovations, using drawings to send the minds of nights because they pick up on infrared. so ukraine is attempting to deal with that. and then the other challenge that they have is that russia has slightly more developed not, not completely, but slightly more developed ability to use this app for the new kind of and that, you know, again, as you type in your package, if you're crossing open sales with less support and your enemy has that can prove very difficult. the combination of the 2 mine fields and the ag croft is quite

a formidable defensive combination. well, thank you very much for joining us with that analysis. that is mike horton, kings college one. thank you very much. well, military leaders from echo was countries are meeting today and gone out to discuss a possible military intervention in new share. if diplomacy fails to reverse a coo, there just by initial threats to use force against the who into the regional group has so far avoided taking military action from neighboring countries or for now relying on sanctions which have been damaging new jersey economy. hundreds of trucks are lined up on the jazz coast board, as many filled with desperately needed aiden food. although sanctions placed on the ship since last month's crew have only been in place for around 2 weeks. the country, one of the poorest in the world, is being taught as the majority of its electricity has been cut off by neighboring nigeria. and food prices are

skyrocketing, making life and work even more challenging, fueling anger against equal worth. while growing support for the jazz music tree lead us, we don't care about a co equal us has to being taylor made for the presidents and power. and we do not need to deal with the e commerce, intervene so not to media is ready for all the options. we have radio i will have one. why? because my children and i lost the soldiers, and i invite the young people to join the army and develop our country in our village. this is, is, i'm making less thanks for the solar trust is. go ahead and see what on the course . leaders have so far avoided taking military action to remove new shares, new unelected rulers. but i've set a stand by force, could be used. they know anom conflict could further de stabilize the region.

something eco us wants to avoid. you already know force is out. do you have these reporter tell me a lot of what was here with me in the studio to dig into this story? welcome back to me. let's start with today's meeting of west african military chiefs. how likely does an intervention engineer seem at this point? i think it was, has been keen to stress the point that they want this to end peacefully. so in all these statements, they have a lot of emphasis on dialogue and peaceful resolution and but at the very end you sort of see this mention of the military option. they don't want to leave it out because they also want to make us a sense, a stance, put us down support and let this new jet regime know that they mean business and they should leave way for um, for democracy to thrive. 9 in the past we've seen douglas and intervene, missing in 2022. in any of you saw when they sent in troops to support the president the after and attempted coup within 2017 in gambia to force drama out.

when he refused to step down after he lost the election, so they have the capacity to put this forward. but new jazz case is different. these other ones didn't have come, but these have has a likelihood of combat. and so everyone is trying to avoid that. if possible, absolutely. uh we saw in that report that economic sanctions already had in the country hard. do you think the military, when to in the share is going to be able to maintain support where it has it within the country as the sanction start to buy it as people start to suffer from them that's, that's going to be very hard for them at the moment and i think it's at cost is, is trying to play on that because they, they want the people because the ministry is appealing to the people. so it cost is also trying to appeal to the people and then different way in a to which using the sanctions, the price of who doesn't show a top. and so it's going to be hard for the military that to, to be sustained. this. the other aspect, the security we've seen recent attacks on the new jersey and military that by just habits. and so echo us will also be trying to make the point that made we should go

back to doing that job and leave politics to positions. yeah, absolutely. so as you're facing food shortages, the rest of in security, you can see how that might turn the tide. meanwhile, we do also have a new us ambassador soon heading to new jersey. we know what her chances might be of finding or leading a diplomatic solution. here and before i get to that 1st thing to note about the us is they've not recognized president buzzle as a past present. and like many other countries have and the implications of that. because that would mean the us is collaborating with the military regime does not democratically in power, and they've been, they've spent hundreds of millions of dollars setting up military installations, training local troops, as will be us. a still referring is not referring to this as a cool. now the us, the, the 2nd thing is that the us should not, the, would not want to be seen as meddling because france has failed as a western power. the us doesn't want to come in then be seen to be another western powertrain impose that would be counter productive and

a so i think that would do well to sort of let echo us take the lead and sort of support from behind. otherwise it could backfire difficult line to walk there. thank you so much for analysis. that's due to these reporter to me. a lot of ok. thank you. well, germany is a step closer to legalizing marijuana. the government has signed off on a draft bill allowing adults to buy and possess small amounts of cannabis. the legislation still needs to pass parliament, but if it does, germany would become the biggest european country to legalize it. for recreational use, presenting his draft load to journalist the health minister said it represents a turn around into him and he struck a policy on the plans. germans over the age of 18 can legally process up to 25 grams of cannabis in the future. growing up to 3 hand plans for private use will also be legal. adults can buy cannabis if they join non profits,

social clubs that produce its pilot projects, including the sale of kind of as products and license stalls also plants. the health minister says he wants to check the black markets as much go to buy on it and clean the magazine. we are the criminalizing that we're doing so in a way that actually only allows private cultivation with personal consumption is permitted, where people will be allowed to own up to 25 grams of candidates. and so i'm just gonna kind of as so can stick stuff. i set up a lunch quite often, but not everybody is asking us to help them in as the police and judges sable regulations will mean more work. talk this one easy access to the drug could impact brain development and other lessons. the government also wants to raise more awareness about the risks of consumption porter. i can do this because we're taking away the to see it because with you the everyone will understand and kind of issues has no place among children and young people. it remains prohibited the meanwhile,

the german public is divided over the issue. according to a new survey, 45 percent of german citizens, a fundamentally or post to legalize ation. while the 40 percent in favor single people need to be careful with, but maybe legalize ation, can prevent some illegal behavior. we have enough drugs smoking drinking. if it is, i would say this is a large scale trial. it can be reviewed like the law will now go to parliament where it's expected to be passed by the end of this year. well, england have booked their place in the football women's world cup final with a 31 victory over hosts, australia. as a tough defeat for the matilda as after their magical run to the semi finals of the after cages. start a thunderbolt from ella to drop the deadlock and put england ahead one neil

to the line. this is after 36 minutes. australia thought they were back in the game when captain sam kirk to them level was a wonderful striking distance, sending the home crowd into a frenzy poor defending from the co host in the box. so morton had capitalized on an air and put england back on top. the line, this is showing why they're the reading european champions. alexia russo sealed the deal for england when she put the game out of us fairly as reach emmy in 6 minutes . england reached the world cup finals for the 1st time in history. they will face springs for footballs. top prize in sydney. on sunday. hart break for australia. just devastated mer. let's go live to city now and speak to yon expat. he's been following the women's world cup or dw sports. yeah. it was an incredible ride for

australian fans how. how do you think they're going to be remembered for their run into the semi finals? yeah, i think everyone's going to look back at this woke up with a lot of broad, to be honest. the main focus of the place last night, though, understandably devastated not to go all the way, but they've already done so much to change people in this country. so if you told me 10 years ago, even a year ago, that $7000000.00, all these would be watching a world cup match a women's woke up match. i would have said that you met this with those team really has not to that, the country around simple and that's on photo of luck in sydney right here. that's all anyone can talk about. and it is quite incredible. it's a bit hard to impress just how invested that is to notice right into the deductibles has never in digging his country. but at the same time, steph, currently the voice captain of the toad has told me last night that this con,

stop here. the players have done their job on the pitch, the now according to the players, it's up to the federal government and pull from the corporate world to put money in with them now. so and actually just pull the game and then show that as a true legacy from this will keep going forward. and that means funding the game and moving into crosswords people as well as ensuring that there's that a coaching that of facilities and also more media coverage of the women's game as well. let's go ahead. what do you think english chances are of adding a world come to their euro victory of last year? yeah, i mean england were just too good for us riley last night and a uh, an extremely impressive out that they just have tell them all over the pitch and they are easily one of the best things in the world. and they put a lot of money in their investment in municipal, and that's starting to pay off. now. they made to 70 foreigners in the previous

world cups, they want to euro's last year. and i really up front to when the fits us ever will come in the final on sunday. and to be honest, they gonna have a tough run against spain. but i think by chance of doing the, i just quickly before i let you go, do you think that this wildly successful tournament does have the final that it deserves with england versus spain? yeah, i mean, it would've been great to have the co versus riley in the final because the scale would have been electric about these 2 of the best teams of the world in england, in spain, england, uh, one of the pallet, houses with us will go at the moment in spain is emerging nation, they came a little late late to the game in the winter, but that pulled up very, very quickly and they're both very attacking. so it's very exciting sides and i think it's going to be a fantastic and what has to be fantastic. absolutely. well, thank you so much for your reporting. that's based on the 4th.

and that is all we have time for for now. coming up next is focus on here. i'm looking at the damage left by recent floods is losing you. stay tuned for that. coming off after a short break and we'll have richardson from the whole team here. thank you so much for watching the

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