the, the, this is dw news line from the land. canada is west fire season on reiko its fox mass evacuations. nearly 20000 people play the city of yellow drawings in the fondles in the west. the plains reach the city of colona in british columbia. at west africa is eco, was says, it's ready to intervene militarily in asia. if diplomatic efforts failed to restore democracy. but late as one say, when the old launch the operation, the

bank visible and welcome canada is north and west. bracing for the was severe wildfire as a postal authorities to declare a state of emergency in the province of british columbia. thousands of residents are evacuating as the blazes jump containment lights. it's the same in canada as fund northwest finds the threatening the territorial capital yellowknife. and as the fire encroaches yellowknife residents have heated the cold to leave the city some lined up to catch special evacuation flights. us will be good for the week. we don't get the chance to to inbox. so hopefully today we'll keep cry. i don't even know how long we're going to be a way out this leave by con,

filling up jerry cans to get as far away from the place as possible. the city of 20000 was scheduled to be clear by friday evening local time. and according to officials, the declaration efforts appear to have been successful in neighboring british columbia and the situation is dire to 4500 people have to be evacuated. many more on the left, as the conditions remain adverse, we remain in the midst of a strong weather pattern that is creating sustained, wins and dry light. this has significant effects throughout the province. we had significant growth of existing fires and some new fire started overnight. with this new activity comes new evacuation alerts and orders, the impact will be felt throughout the weekend. and we end up early. we'll see more

fires and more extreme fire behavior in the coming days. some of the victories from yellowknife has made it as far as calgary. now all they can do is wait until they're home. so let's do that. when do we to general is christina affection is based in vancouver. if people have been driving hundreds of kilometers the safety or still law, how die is the situation? yeah, i would say um this week like be already extreme workfare susan canada has reached another level. is there are like more than a 1000 higher screening in the country. and as you just mentioned, to place a snell threatening to sidney zillow, nice the for, and all the just saw the images and clone and this house goes to the us border. so i don't, i had to be a bit cheated. i'm zone the police might reach the city limits by this weekend already. lucky the, the city saw the fire coming,

so we're just have enough time to dig up a for line instead of the spring since the cetera. however, the vacation only start when spring nice under heavy smoke or red, and it's really difficult. there's plenty of you one way out of town and people are getting stuck in long traffic, john jams, i'm the is just a vacation center is like really far away. and the situation in colona is very different because they didn't have much time to prepare a tiny finer. got really big overnight and spread the crystal kind of been they were it's are just reading the 1st structures and now thousands of keeping the also leaving to now. yeah, we're talking the worst buys on record. what. what sort of area are we talking about? can you give people an idea? um yeah, the whole, i mean in canada, um that has been like 50000 faith this year. and so i looked up, the, the,

the equivalent of the, about the area that would be twice the country. and i are done the area that has been burned just this year. so it's really, it's really massive and it's mostly in the west and by the northwest territory for british columbia were ramping the northwest territories at the moment and looking at the full cost, gusty winds, could set to make this worse. how bad is the outlook? yeah, so for the next few days it's not getting back there to the guest. you went through providers for example in colona and yeah, but makes it really difficult. i mean people, especially here in british columbia to left the case of pollution in mind where this city burns down to the grounds within just an hour or 3 years ago. and that was due to very strong winds as well as it was. it's pretty close to below now. so people really think about that fill in the hospital and colona has no race than

alert, which is to prepare for a potential mass casualties already with the hospitals. so people are really, really afraid, but this codes texts are sitting quite kind of back christina version in vancouver . thank you very much for bringing us up to date on those qualifies by name in canada. and to hawaii. devastating while finds which of left at least a $114.00 people dead, thousands of buildings of bones to the ground. and the head of now is emergency management agency has step down citing health reasons. and my non die based criticism for not doing more to one residents. a day earlier, he defended his decision not to activate the islands. tsunami sirens saying they might have sent people running inland towards the approaching fines. paleface is also kept many residents from receiving mobile phone alerts. and let's bring

in dw corresponding country boy. now, who's in malley, the desktop tapes rising, how our efforts to retrieve the dead progressing stairs to proceeding as slowly. uh, because uh, forty's have to make dna tests and then much them with the samples provided by fabulous and gather them together. so they want to proceed carefully and slow and slowly out of respect. and when they have this match, then they add up to the number. the governor jo screen said today that they expect the number to re significantly it's still there, sir. it's about 60 percent of the area. and then molly county also wants to make sure to proceed it more rapidly with the cleaning airports because uh now other areas are safe, but we're in the middle of a hurricane season and they fear that these toxic and i shoes that have been

affecting people long in the line affected area, good, it would express to other coastal towns which is something they they don't want to happen. so right now they're, those other areas are safe and they want to proceed really improperly with their cleaning efforts. okay, so, so many things to, to, to deal with. um, i mentioned one strand of this story that they some logins, the official this resign it. what sort of anger is there about the government's handling of this disaster as well. what i heard today is the government was late and it was referring not only to the sirens, but also to the management of the crisis. afterwards, with the sirens. uh, people are angry about the fact that authorities have been insisting on stay in the sirens would have sent people into the fire because that's not a logic response or say, and things like that. the sirens are meant to be for all doors,

but you couldn't hear them indoors. i was here when, when the sirens were tested a couple weeks ago, and i was indoors and i had took over my years, there is so loud. so people are saying we could have saved many lives, we could have at least know there's something going on, go outside, see the smoke if you're sleeping and then escape more rapidly. and actually i also have had a many firsthand reports from people whose house was burned and as they were escaping, they also encounters rosa were bluff by the police. the police were not alert and the people, but they were actually blocking their way when the fire was on their way. and also they have been brought in with road closures that they've been making it difficult for people to bring supplies to the rest. events were near the river station area and who, who didn't get out, and who couldn't have access to water to through to electricity during

a long time. now with the opening of the bypass road diet is getting better, but it's still the people who have been shipped out of the shoulders and put into these close resorts around the area. still have a sporty internet. and now they're also have to deal with older brooker. see that comes with the apply in for further i'll help they're having to also travel with that. okay. they're going to so many people are angry. that sounds like chaos. they don't use country. boy, thank you very much for bringing us up to date that from hawaii. thank you. i had a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines. the new york times reports the number of ukrainian or russian soldiers killed or wounded since the war began. in ukraine is nearing 500000 claims. russia has lost around a 120000 troops quite in depth as being close to 70000 meeting at the camp. david's us presidential for trade, japan and south korea have agreed to step off economic and military cooperation.

this includes regular joints, military exercises, and intelligent sharing in response to north korea's missile program. and china is maritime claims in the south china sea, or a judge in moscow has formerly john, so they have a leading russian election watch dog, legal re, medical and dance is the co chair of going us and is accused of involvement in an undesirable organization. and they will often use biofire. he's to crack down on crimson critics and rights activists and faces 6, he is in prison. for my own story and chancellor as the boss, the on courts has been indicted for allegedly given false testimony in a public inquiry into the allocation of states related positions. court so, so there's chancellor twice between 20172021. the nice. the allegations the west african regional block eco one says it's ready to send troops into the jack if the military one to the doesn't restore the top of president. enhancement

came after a 2 day meeting at the blogs, defense streets. it has been in crisis since the democratically elected president was overthrown on july 26 as west african defense sheets, a tool king tough to make new shift generals back down, repeating that threat to send soldiers into fellow eco, los member states, nisha to return it's democratically elected president power, as members of the regional block, wrapped up a meeting and donna, they said they have equipment, a strategy, and even a date when troops could move in we are ready to go. in the time the order is given. the due date is also beside it, but they want to give the players to see more chances the better the possibility

of on it was a mission going into these. ready to continue to pursue the peaceful pop you know, to rest. so original cost is not for the. so i don't think we my full cost on the military us, but we are ready to result be peacefully. but it takes 2 to tell me, need the sanctions know international condemnation have persuaded finish as new lead a general app do rom on johnny to free the president of the community does have been accused of intimidating critics on paying people to publicly show the support for the young to on the streets, the capstone, the, i'm a, it's not clear how much ordinary new, shall he, in support the military you into. but the prospect of soldiers from neighboring african states intervening in that country is worrying. some

eco us can come here if they, once we are waiting for them, they won't get to what's coming to them. they will have to go over the dead bodies to get through the cruelty to is so we can watch this diplomatic assets have had little effect. so for another round of to the plans for the weekend that you're watching. deal with you use live from bell in a reminder about top storage that the salad. wildfire is a closing in the city of yellow knife in canada is finals, italy, all of the cities, 20000 inhabitants have evacuated as the countries was wildfire zone. reiko continued to displace peoples, it continued to fun in the west of the country as well. and the west african regional block eco was says, it's ready to send troops into these a if the military one today doesn't restore the top of the president. announced that came after a 2 day meeting of the blogs defense james optics,

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