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a new report unveils the horrors happening on the northern border with saudi arabia. hello, welcome to "world news america." cleanup underway as the remnants of tropical storm hillary are making their way north. it's now a post-tropical cyclone. some of the most pop artist including los angeles, palm springs, death valley and las vegas. in los angeles a record was broken for the most rain in a day. downtown reported 2.5 issues of rain. flooding and strong winds knocked down strong trees and power lines. water on the roadways, these are

the latest pictures from cathedral city outside palm springs. you can see here cars are abandoned and large amounts of mud as the floodwaters receded. nearby palm springs, california governor newsom says the tropical storm dropped more rain in a single hour than ever before in the area. the usually dry death valley wasn't spared either. the normally extreme desert environment has been inundated with water. the city of las vegas is seeing rain. this is some of the flooding there already hundreds of flights have been canceled. there are flood watches in effect in nevada. the governor of california, gavin newsom, declared a state of emergency. >> there is an old anxious curse loosely translated to may you live in interesting times. certainly they are interesting

times. tornadoes, lightning strikes, cal fire worried about lightning strikes because of the wind and the tornadoes. i checked my phone to learn about an earthquake that originally came in at 6.0 and appears to be close to 5.1. there were 13 aftershocks in the drive over. in the ventura region. these are certainly interesting times. katrina: authorities have been helping canadian wild fire crews as they try to get a handle on the active wildfires in the northwest territories. tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as the state of emergency remains enforced. more help is coming. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau announced the deployment of soldiers to some of the fires. >> as the canadians see in these

horrific images of devastation and fear of residence in the northwest territories, it is an extraordinarily serious situation. the federal government is continuing to step up over there with canadian armed forces and resources active in coordinating with regional and local governments to make sure that people are safe and that we are doing everything we can to protect lives and property. katrina: to talk about all of this now we are joined by michael k dorsey, environmental scientist and former environmental epa committee member during the obama administration. thanks indeed for joining us. for the last few years there have been reports of the worst wildfires in the history of canada and here we are with thousands evacuated from the northwest of that country. why are the wildfires so increasingly bad?

michael: in the canadian situation we are dealing with increased drought and mixture, a nexus of extreme weather events. the vast majority of these are driven by the changing climate. we have added over 400 parts per million of co2 into the atmosphere producing extreme weather around the world. not just in canada. the impact is certainly not canadian only, but it has had huge implications for u.s. air already over the past many months. we will see more extreme weather events like you are seeing in california and elsewhere on earth. the very fact that climate change is driving this is also driving the warming of the seas and that produces large cyclonic events like you saw. it became a tropical storm when it became on land. katrina: you touched on it

there, michael. so much burning and smoke in the air, what are the likely global impacts beyond those areas of scorched-earth? michael: the climate crisis affects ecosystems in various regions of the world like canada and the u.s. in those specific areas, australia, europe around the world, they are facing long droughts, deeper droughts with implications for those ecosystems. they also have dealer tereus health impacts. -- deleterious health impacts. affecting people on the margins of society disproportionately. those with the resources have the ability to move out of harm's way at times. if they are poorer and worse off, they may not have that luxury. there are implications disproportionately on those in

society. katrina: those are the wildfires in canada. we saw them in hawaii as well. but in california where water is the problem, 20 million people under flood warnings, extremely rare weather events, climate ange, can we expect more unusual weather systems like that? michael: it's no longer fair to call this stuff rare and unusual. colleagues of mine have been offering the analysis that climate change will produce more catastrophic weather events. it will become not increasingly rare, it will become the norm. particularly as we see co2 levels continue to rise. the united nations process has not been successful in inhibiting rising co2 in the atmosphere. it will basically increase not just the extent of these events, whether they be catastrophic

storms or unprecedented storms with unprecedented rainfall, a years worth of rain in a few hours. these things are being driven by a climate process that is really running out of control that we have got to get our hands on around. the solution of which more and more has to do with energy and we have to do it more aggressively than we have been. katrina: from what you are saying governments are not doing enough to be ready for these events when they happen? michael: not enough and not fast enough. they have to do more and more aggressively. we've got to get out of the framework of thinking about promising to do something in 2050 or a decade from now and look at what are we doing q1 q to get ahead of this? how are we facilitating and accelerating carbon renewable energy in a quarter? how are we doing in terms of reducing overall emissions and regulating the fossil fuel sector that is still putting out

a tremendous amount of carbon dioxide? katrina: michael k dorsey, lots more to talk about their but for now thank you for joining us. >> thank you. katrina: staying with that, president biden and first lady jill biden are in hawaii monday to visit parts of maui devastated itself by wildfires nearly two weeks ago. 114 people were killed and 850 people are still missing. the number is down from the more than 2000 people missing that were reported immediately following the fires. authorities say that many of them were found safe but warned that numbers are expected to fluctuate. a court in georgia set a $200,000 bound for former u.s. president donald trump as he faces election interference charges not state. the bond covers his 13 charges including violation of the state

's rico act and multiple act of criminal can pick -- conspiracy, solicitation and making false statements and he has been ordered not to communicate directly or indirectly about the case with any witnesses or any of his 18 co-defendants. the move comes ahead of a friday deadline for donald trump and the co-defendants to surrender thselves to the fulton county jail. donald trump has also announced that he will miss wednesday's first republican presidential primary debate in a truth social post on sunday the former president said that he would not be doing the debates, plural, leaving the possibility that he may skip future debates as well. this leaves the remaining nine qualified candidates to present themselves as an alternative to donald trump. after a violent election campaign the battle to become ecuador's next president will come down to a runoff.

the first round of voting closed sunday with left wing candidate gonzales getting the most votes with 33% of the support. her campaign she promised to free up billions in international reserves to bolster the ecuadorian economy. she will face off against daniel a, familiar face in ecuador. the son of a prominent nano businessman and perennial businessman. gonzalez is headed to the runoff october 15. they say that he is the slight favorite though the race is expected to be tight. this all comes after anticouption candidate was shot dead while leaving a campaign event this month. our south america correspondent katy watson reports from the capital of ecuador. >> when you need dozens of soldiers and a bulletproof curtain to be able to vote, you

realize democracy is in danger. this candidate said that he voted with courage, running in the place of the politician who was shot dead earlier this month. ecuadorians are still reeling from the attack. a journalist turned politician who was outspoken on corruption and organized crime, murdered at a campaign event. ecuador was once a peaceful country but in the past few years colombian and mexican drug cartels have taken advantage of a struggling state and corrupt politics and gained the upper hand. dressed in white and calling for peace, the victim's daughter cast her vote, remembering a father who was also her best friend. >> he was beautiful. powerful. kind. a giant. one of my best friends.

we live in a powerful historic moment here and could or. so many who didn't care about politics or upset. if i don't do something for my country and myself, the mafia will come and dominate us. for the ecuadorians going to vote, securityas high on the list of things to worry about. >> things are complicated. we need to unite. >> gonzales got the most votes. social welfare programs gooding education and health. some were surprised that it was going through to a runoff vote in october. katrina: i spoke to our south america correspondent katy watson a little earlier. thank you for joining us. in your tension to the need for

peace and security. what is needed between now and october? >> it was expected that the leftist candidate would win this round. what was surprising was the pro-business candidateho came from nowhere. really upending the campaign. the focus was on security and peace in ecuador. that's what we will see going forward for the next few weeks until mid-october, when the second round is every ecuadorian here worried about safety, peace, and security. it's about how to be able to live them normal life without being affected by ongoing organized crime. all of these things make such a big impact on everyday life here. that's what we will see going forward. a big focus on making life easier for the people in ecuador.

katrina: to what extent do you think that murderers want to change the election? >> his death changed everything. yes, it's a country that over the last years has seen an uptick in organized crime, violence, and the murder rate. they had been revved though to vliet peaceful until organized crime took a hold. when it happened it really shocked people that if a presidential candidate could be killed doing his job, yes he was outspoken against organized crime, but even in this country it took people back a bit. every candidate after his death has tried to reassure ecuadorians about how they could improve the country going forward but it's going to be a massive task. first of all, the elections were called early. calling a snap election over an

impending impeachment vote. thpeople who get elected, the person who gets elected in october would only have exactly what can be done, they wonder. especially when you look at these huge problems. how you can loosen the grip of organized crime. they don't have faith in the system changing. katrina: thank you, katie. a u.k. judge has ruled the child killer lucy let me will never be released from prison. the former nurse was jailed for life or each of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six more. she refused to appear in court for sentencing. our correspondent, anna foster, has more. >> she's beginning a whole life

sentence, very rare in the u.k. but in the case of this nurse, this 33-year-old nurse who murdered sev babies in her care and attempted to murder six more at the camp chester hospital, the judge said that was the only sentence appropriate because of the severity of the crimes. these were the sickest and most premature babies and she presented on the outside someone passionate and caring, medically qualified. these are some of those difficult moments in their lives. she was attempting to murder the babies in her care. it shocked the u.k. and the fact that the who life sentence was handed down really shows the severity of the case. the judge talked about malevolence bordering on sadism and the premeditated nature of these crimes. the way that she had tried to cover up what she did.

there have only been very few criminals given these whole life sentences and been told that they will never be released from prison. in the case of lucy let be, the judge said it was an appropriate sentence to be given. she is now the most prolific killer of babies and children in modern british history. this is not a case that is over. the investigation into her crimes is now widening to take in the whole of her nursing career. the trial here in manchester only look at one yr of her time as a nurse. now police officers are continuing their investigations and looking into the deaths of more babies in different hospitals she worked at and they promise they will continue that investigative work until the whole of her career has been looked at and investigated to see if she has been responsible for committing any further crimes.

katrina: as the war in ukraine continues, president volodymyr zelenskyy touched down for an informal dinner with european union leaders. the stop in athens is his fourth in a tort of european countries including sweden, denmark, and the netherlands. >> this is presiden zelensky in his comfort zone. he is at ease doing these whistle stop foreign policy trips. they do bring concrete results, typically. in the case of the netherlands and denmark, the u.s. has just given the green light to deliv f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. we are talking about a few dozen but on these visits we have learned a bit more of the detail . certainly with denmark more than 70 ukrainian pilots will be trained on them, initially.

we have also learned a bit about the timelines. denmark had 19 f-16 fighter jets , seen as crucial in countering russian air superiority. they will arrive over the next 18 months. while it's a welcome direction of travel for ukraine, there is the age-old frustration of how long it takes the western aid to arrive and be used on the battlefield. presiden zelensky just touched down in athens, a country that has been one of the early, one of the earliest condemn the russian invasion of ukraine. he will meet the president of the european commission in a meeting later. the block has been a major ally for ukraine, providing millions of dollars in humanitarian aid. those meetings will take place and we are told by presiden zelensky that the very issue a for serving human life will be discussed.

look these diplomatic efforts are not to be dismissed and they feed directly into ukraine's sustained military dependents. katrina: for guards systematically killing the op and economic migrants crossing from yemen amid shocking allegations contained in a report today by the organization human rights watch. the group has sent collected evidence to back up the charges leveled last year bthe u.n.. in march saudi arrived -- saudi arabia denied the allegation saying that there wasn't enough evidence to back it up. human rights watch is calling for a full independent investigation. paul adams has been talking to migrants who say they have experienced horrendous treatment at the border. >> full of regret. it has been more than a year since this man lost his left leg on the northern border of yemen. rehabilitation has been a long, hard road.

he is still haunted by what happened the night he tried to enter saudi arabia. >> we got shot at while we were walking and immediately we all lied down on the ground. for five minutes i didn't even realize i was shot when i tried to get up and look, part of my leg wasn't there. >> the rugged and remote mountains of yemen. huge numbers of people on the move. fleeing poverty and war at home, seeking opportunity in neighboring saudi arabia. some of the migrants filmed their own epic dangerous journeys. among the videos shared on social media, evidence of death and trauma. bodies lying in a rocky riverbed. a hasty burial high on the mountainside.

now the shocking allegation that saudi arabian soldiers are killing hundreds of migrants. >> since 2014 human rights watch has been documenting the occasional infrequent killings at the border by the border guards. bad enough as it is but i would say that in the last couple of years we have seen escalation that has changed occasional killings into widespread systematic mass killings that may amount to a crime against humanity. >> the report is full of detail. specific border guard posts establishing pictures of casualties from the migrants themselves. we have contacted several ethiopians who said they saw killings at the border. this man did not want us to use his real name and is still in yemen. >> we were shot and beat at the border. those that shot us were saudi

men and they bore the saudi arabia and military uniform. they beat us and took those who survived to the hospital. the bodies of those killed or left later on the ground. >> it still happening. more and more ethiopians laid to rest on foreign soil. this 24-year-old was buried in a northern city two weeks ago. local ethiopian sources told us he had been shot and wounded at the border. he says it's wrong to dwell on the past, saying that if he hadn't left home he would not have tried to improve his life in the no-fly to saudi arabia he says he wouldn't do it. paul adams, bbc news. /katna: and as more countries try to go back to the lunar surface the first russian mission in 40 years has failed. the spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the

moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit. they were trying to set down on the south side of the moon. the failure comes as moscow attempted to challenge the lunar ambitions of moscow -- of china in the u.s.. they haven't attempted a moon mission since 1976. i am katrina perry. thank you for watching. take care. ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪

wow, you get to watch all your favorite stuff. it's to die for. now you won't miss a thing. this is the way. the xfinity 10g network. made for streaming. geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. amna: and i'm amna nawaz. on the “newshour” tonight, a major tropical storm hits southern california for the first time in over 80 years, causing floods and fears of mudslides. geoff: president biden visits maui to survey the destruction