the fires to a frenzy it's nature who holds all the cards in california robert oulds al jazeera carpentaria california time for a short break here on al-jazeera on women as well just do not feel that he holds the same values that we have when we come back a controversial choice on election eve in america an accused in the deep south could be on the verge of heading to congress about. i'm turning a page reporting from south africa on a move to regulate religion and the fears of it's become commercialized. had i read snowed quite substantially in the east and more especially maybe the south of the u.s. you've had snow or down to mexico actually but is to hit for example the south coast of texas and be run through georgia a bit of a surprise while the fronts that brought us of what's offshore now and there's nothing really i was over the contiguous landmass except for that one little cold front sitting through the dakotas behind that's where the cold air since so it's going to make progress in this general direction to make it even colder which is like to produce more lake effect snow but noth

in the state's history reports from carpentaria. california got no respite from fires burning out of control good canyons and rocky hillsides towers of flame twisted skyward firefighters dropped tons of water from helicopters but high winds and weather conditions were making their jobs extremely tough the brush here is tremendous it's very very thick it's bone dry there hasn't been a lot of rain out here in a long time so that coupled with the santa ana winds and single digits humidities has made this fire grow rapidly and it spots ahead of itself tremendously firefighters on the ground and in the air are doing everything they can to keep this fire from moving towards santa barbara city of more than ninety thousand people officials could not guarantee that santa barbara is out of danger we can't say it's not there are some concerns of course there have been historic fires in this area so this area is not any stranger to large wildfires here vast clouds of smoke and ash falling like snow made air quality extremely poor over a wide ar

here in the city of carpentaria the areas choked with smoke and ash. with the flames edging closer firefighters are working around the clock to contain the inferno the so-called thomas fire is one of the biggest wildfires ever seen in the u.s. it's already burned hundreds of structures to the ground and scorched an area larger than new york city now it's threatening communities near california's scenic coastline after impacting santa paula and ventura the flames are now menacing santa barbara home to some of the state's wealthiest residents. locals hope to get control of the blaze before it's too late. that's a number right there to board another one right here you know. i think. there's enough manpower there to do what they have to do lighter than expected winds have helped. some communities from the worst of the blaze it moved down into this community of shepherd what you see behind you is really unfortunate but if you see what these guys. what they did last night was amazing they saved this entire community but authorities have warned the danger wil

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the fires to a frenzy it's nature who holds all the cards in california robert oulds al jazeera carpentaria california the hate in wind the problem over there and richard in europe the complete opposite is that what snowmageddon looks like yes well this is this is what snowmageddon looked like for the u.k. earlier yesterday we take a look at the pictures that are sprinkling of snow in places but nothing compared what we're seeing in other parts of europe at the moment we have got a really deep area of low pressure racing in across northern france bringing with it some really nasty weather so there's a frontal system you see the flow coming up from the southwest all come back to that we've had some heavy rain going through with the front as push through and the wind gusts well they're still going that's a strong discuss we've seen one hundred sixty one kilometers per hour but still up to one hundred kilometers per hour across northern parts of france meanwhile with outflow coming up from the southwest we've had some very warm air coming up across to the adriatic ruminated temperature rise fr

the fires to a frenzy it's nature who holds all the cards in california robert oulds al jazeera carpentaria california a weather update next here on al-jazeera then. we want to find another out of choices what is. turning into action when look at the challenges the palestinians say respond to the u.s. decision of jerusalem. plus one hundred years old and facing persecution we meet her a hinge a refugee who doesn't believe he'll ever return to be him. hello the weekend it was snowing the good part of the british isles first proper snow even reached london and it came in this massive cloud here which overseas far more extensive than just british isles goes down towards spain and that's how far its influence will be felt in the next twenty four hours or so the i suppose are quite tight which to me indicates windy weather so we had windy weather it's now we've got significant rain as well overnight the whole lot does push south and east with significant snow falling on the top of the mountains for the most part with that spinning center there just the west of paris the windy weather still here

the fires to a frenzy it's nature who holds all the cards in california robert oulds al jazeera carpentaria california i weather update banks as they were then. we want to find another choice is what is the choice is. anger into action we'll take a look at the challenge for palestinians as they respond to the u.s. president's decision on jerusalem. from the clear blue sky of the doha moony. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of love. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now we have severe weather affecting many parts of western europe in particular at the moment the frontal narcisse is the area of low pressure now moving in and that's give me some with the strong winds across the bay of biscay region now we have seen a heavy snowfall affecting many areas already across the u.k. for instance i mean widespread travel disruption up to about twenty centimeters of snow in places enough to cause serious problems but elsewhere in europe we've had some heavy rainfall falling across parts of portugal for instance now if you look at the forecast we're going to see strong winds affe

the fires to a frenzy it's nature who holds all the cards in california robert oulds al jazeera carpentaria california we're going to weather update thanks to an al-jazeera then. turning anger into action a look at the challenge for palestinians as they respond to the u.s. is decision jerusalem and the united nations weighs in on the u.k.'s treatment of disabled people. welcome back let's look at weather conditions across southeastern parts of asia first of all that we've seen some pretty heavy rain affecting that northern parts of borneo really across malaysia and born about where the heaviest the rain is at the moment in that sort of northwestern corner further towards the southeast rainfall totals on java two now as we look at the forecast i still think malaysian borneo is going to continue to see some fairly heavy rain i think for the eastern side of central southern parts of the philippines it looks quite wet as that circulation of low pressure brings more showers in the move up then through the malay pincher we got showers to singapore in kuala lumpur but further north it's all lookin

well the coastal towns of carpentaria and month to see are still under threat however firefighters such as the ones that you see behind me have been fighting and making a stand to prevent the flames from reaching those communities there have been some a vacuum way sions there but so far there has been minimal damage in terms of buildings and there has been surprisingly only one unfortunately one person who died in a fire related accident during this entire weeklong seeds of fire so we're at a staging area for firefighters they've come from all around the state of california and other adjoining states thousands of firefighters these. firefighters here are waiting for their orders we saw just a few minutes ago a contingent move out the fires seem to be burning mostly deep in the hills and that is a good good thing in terms of keeping it away from populated areas like the city of santa barbara which is a population of ninety one thousand people but there's another factor here and i'll just show you here how bad the smoke is in this area you can see on the ridge tops there the they've turne

the fires to a frenzy it's nature who holds all the cards in california robert oulds al jazeera carpentaria california we're going to get more international weather with richard language in just a moment but still ahead on al-jazeera. choose the end of nuclear weapons over the end of us a call to end the nuclear arms race by the recipients of this year's nobel peace prize. united nations weighs in on the new case treatment of disabled people and sport just a day after winning their first ever m l f cup but toronto if they are on it on the ice because of a little later. from brisk northern fuel. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. we have severe winter weather affecting many parts of western europe at the moment these shots come from across the u.k. where you can see there was a dusting of snow or as the u.k. media like to call it snowmageddon well the actual conditions in some places were quite bad up to about twenty centimeters of snow but we've got much worse than not around at the moment so as i run the sequence through is this area here this low pressure and i think the clear