athens, with the mixed part of athens, with the measures to protect us.re because from the beginning, we have a shop, we have antibiotics, we have everything, masks, everything to protect us. but the problem is, we couldn't work and it wasn't very easy for us to survive without selling the paper. michael, you are witnessing a lot. you see a lot in your city. do you see more people becoming homeless because of covid? every day, new people, they come to the shelter and they are asking for a place to sleep. that's why the shelter, it's full now. we cannot accept any more people. but it's getting worse, not every week or every year, it's getting worse every day. what's most important to you now in life, michael? selling the paper, i speak with a lot of people and this thing helped me to, you know, to live again. and i feel great. i to, you know, to live again. and ifeel great. i have a very good purpose now, to inform the athenians what's the situation now in the centre of athens. we are talking about 500m from the parthenon, 500m from the square. i live ther

on board families and people classified as vulnerable being taken off the island on their way to athens with official asylum status they've had an incredibly long wait here in the stream a difficult conditions of course that following an incredibly lengthy and dangerous journey that they made to get here to greece this is their dream this is the dream to gain asylum to get off the island and then to start their new law is what we understand from the ministry of migration is that they will be taken to athens they will be housed in hotels and then at some point in the future they will be moving on to other european countries we've watched them arrive here bus by boss getting off. the buses with their lives really their lives packed into plastic bags getting on that ferry that we weren't allowed to talk to any of them but we could sense people waving particular when the ferry started to move waving singing a lot of smiles i think certainly at clare to say an incredibly happy day for those on board. there's been violence during pro-abortion demonstrations in mexico's

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up the fusing tensions in the eastern mediterranean nato says greece and turkey are ready to talk athens denies any such agree. lebanon's army finds more than 4 tons of the explosive chemical that caused the last month's devastating explosion in the same beirut port and russia rejects accusations alexina found he was poisoned by novacek as the new demand sounds. a welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump appears to have backtracked on his suggestion that people should try to vote twice in the event brazil lection to test the mail in voting system them across accuse the president of encouraging people to break the law he's now changed his position saying people should go to polling stations to make sure their mail in ballots were counted alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . after the president appeared to our 2 supporters in north carolina to break the law and vote twice the defense from the podium of the white house briefing room the president does not condone unlawful voting by the president's been very clear about this some once again not surprising media taking the pr

relief asome, hundreds of refugees are allowed athens weeksos for after their homes were destroyed byire. and uber has been given the green light to continue operating in london. ♪ >> welcome to another look at the international forecast. things looking a little quiet in new zealand after a very snowy weekend, particularly around the south island. quite blustery but at least the unsettled weather is pulling out. have more clouds and rain across southern australia. australia,oss south some bursts of rain. that will head into at allied for tuesday and make its way into victoria, new south wales, and even parts of queens land. blustery showers will continue around tasmania. more wet and windy weather rattling through. a little dry for new zealand. temperatures picking up. drier and brighter into japan, largely settled the next couple days. high-pressure keeping things quiet in japan. disturbed whether, the real weather action staying in the open waters. maybe a couple showers to southern areas of japan as we go through tuesday into wednesday. a lick of shower clouds coming into southern

athens and what is the situation in lesbos now on the 2nd morning after the 5. well you we're now hearing of a 3rd fire that's taking place just around on the outskirts of whatever's left of this camp more. it's a 3rd fire in less than 48 hours and appears to be even more dangerous because we were understanding according to certain reports and that there may be some people who are stranded in and there are attempts by crews to douse out the fire and to see whether there are any people inside now after the 1st initial fire there was several thousands of people who after they spilled out onto the streets went back into this camp to try and pick up whatever belongings they had left so it remains to be seen whether we may see any casualties coming out we hope not today but the government as you say you scrambling to try and get the situation under control there are still thousands of people out here on the streets people of all ages young toddlers. people elderly handicapped people pregnant women abandoned on the street some seeking shelter and parking lots others i

let's get more on the story now with correspondent anthony kara sava she joins us from athens hi anthony you have reported from morea frequently what are your sources there telling you about the situation on the ground right now. well tristan is a prime minister came out just a few minutes ago with a with a nationally televised address and he declared the island of lesbos in a state of emergency and this will be him this emergency status will be in force for for months which is indicative of the scale of the exercise now which the authorities have to face and this basically includes getting these $12500.00 people into secure as shelters it also has to deal has to do with dealing with a health crisis there was an outbreak there was a coded 19 outbreak within the facilities and we understand that one of the reasons that these protests and fires kind of sparked were because they were in response to the isolation procedures that were about to be in popped upon so what we're seeing right now is that authorities while the fire has been extinguished they're trying to find it open area that tens

and say thank you very much for talking with those that was a car sob out there in athens. take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today at least 10 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a bombing in the capital kabul officials say the attack targeted the country's vice president to sustain moderate injuries no group has claimed responsibility and the taliban denied involvement. to me army desert have confessed to atrocities against revenge of muslims in what appears to be the 1st such confession of involvement in massacres and rape against the minority group the confession was recorded when the 2 were being held up a militia group and cannot be independently verified. rescue workers have recovered $22.00 bodies from a rock slide at a marble mine in pakistan more than a dozen miners remain trapped under the rubble of a mine in the north west of the country the calls of the cave in which happened on tuesday has not been determined. and hollywood's most coveted film awards the also revealed new diversity of rules from 2024 films by for the

election defusing tensions in the eastern mediterranean nato says greece and turkey are ready for talks athens denies any such agreement russia rejects accusations alexina it was poisoned by not the chalk is the e.u. demands answers and asking the hard questions an independent panel is unveiled to review the world health organization's pandemic response. on how much now have all the sports stars continue to tumble at the u.s. open to attend see the. crashing out in the 2nd round. us president donald trump appears to have backtracked on his suggestion that people should try to vote twice in the embers election to test the mail in a voting system them across accuse the president of encouraging people to break the law he's now changed his position saying people should go to polling stations to make sure that their mail in ballots were counted helen fisher reports now from washington d.c. . after the president appeared to our 2 supporters in north carolina to break the law and vote twice the defense from the podium of the white house briefing room the president does not condone unlawful voting by

the moment 70 deca with the latest there from istanbul staff for the moment thank you let's go to athens now in our correspondents are awful issa is there and joins us via skype we were hearing there are from staff that there's 2 issues one is nato trying to defuse tensions but then the deeper issue of course is trying to find some kind of solution so i disagree stan the whole of this well nato has a particular viewpoint on this it doesn't want an intra nato war conflict of any kind which clearly would detract from the alliances effectiveness and prestige perhaps irreversibly so earlier in august nato secretary-general un soltan burke said he was working on de confliction mechanisms and today according to diplomatic sources here in athens he presented to greek and turkish representatives some of those ideas however that was a meeting that lasted about 6 minutes according to these sources it's not a meeting in which anything was discussed let alone agreed upon for de confliction talks to begin the approval would have to come from the highest levels of government this was a meeting between

anchor: in athens, thank you for that update. more opponents of the belarusian president have been detained with the minister announcing 121 protesters were arrested during tuesday's demos. been taken from his office by masked man and his flat has been searched. headquarters of the jailed opposition politician have also been combed over. these come on the one month anniversary of the president's much disputed reelection. he has given his first intervivw since that ballot a and he says he's not planning on resigning anytime soon. but withth more on the latest arrests, here is gulliver crack. was taken away by masked man in plainclothes. they did not identify y themsels as policeman. t theame to the offices of candidate e for the preresidentl election in bebelarus before he was imprisisoned. people now leaders o of the opsitition w where people e are working g with the campaign b be hiss arrest. the campaign has b become one of the e main officices for opposin figugures in belarus.. he was taken away. according to his lawyer, he is

athens is expected to push sanctions against turkey. the french government is to discuss the possibility of local lockdowns to tackle rising infections in the country. a government official confirmed that today. it comes as france confirmed over eight thousand 500 8500 coronavirus cases, the second-biggest daily figure. alththough the number of cases e rising the number of people being admitted to hospital remained steady. masks are mandatory in all indoor public spaces, and since beginning of this month in paris and major cities, they a are mandatory on the streets as well.. how do the safety m measures and francece comparedd to elelsewhen eurorope. our correspondence in greece, spain, and italy are standing by. let us go to greece and natalie. arst of all, greece was country that was relatively keen to open up and get tourists back and kickstart the economy. tell us what has happened over the summer months. aims -- it seems that the plan did not go as they originally thought. of -- at the beginning the beginning of sumummer, covid num

visit greece as the migrant crisis goes from bad to worst taking in more than 1,500 refugees but athens wants other european countries to help. in his first public comments since his poisoning last month the russian opposition leader alexi navalny is pictured sitting up with his family. he said he is finally breathing on his own. >> to our viewers ones pbs and united states welcome. president trump says today is the dawn of a new day in the middle east. he is hosted a ceremony at the white house marking the normalization of relations between two gulf arab states and israel. the foreign ministers of united aerab emirates and bahrain joind trump and netanyahu to establish diplomatic relations the first time in more than a quarter century an arab states has established ties with israel. trump said he hopes others will follow and netanyahuhu thanked e president forr his decisive leadership. >> t this day i is a pivot in history. it heralds a new dawn of peace. for thousands of years the jewish people h have prayed for peace. for decadeses the jewish state s prayed for peace. this is why tod

thank the french president's emmanuelle mccall is on an official trip to athens he is accompanied by 40. french businessmen who are interested in the greek privatized program. they will have the opportunity to receive answers directly from the prime minister of greece alexis tsipras. amongst them is sean luis assad's c.e.o. office aware. of any particle of trouble. because he got it while on the back of a because. this is. the goddamn outlook you know but it abroad robbers had more years now and the left. but often lost focus on your left over to get a good piece of the stock of the washington so there was a message that if there is should be a stock out that you can hear from them years ago and already they have. killed the good ones that ever. gotten their value does not. get that make it middle of the apples to look that's very difficult. after looking into should be. in portugal fernandez became minister of the environment in the newly formed left wing government in the 2015 elections water policy would soon change. oculus latest movie deal 1st there was the vs what the believe i

there in athens. on for the bigger story now we're joined by former e.u. commissioner for migration and home affairs demetrius polis thank you very much for being with us this morning mr of a polish what went through your mind when you got the news that the morea refugee refugee camp was burning. as it is over son following the situation on t.v. as most of the grocer you know given my previous job as you were going to research for migration to secure it well it is to say that this rationing diet there's a lot of it in the last year to say great efforts have been made by the people thought of this to settle this regime and its would say that the number of migrants only item before it was broached will feed the 1000 up issue 'd that are used to going down to 50000 due to and this is the explanation why all these things are having now due to the number of colby did cases the moment that it's bad to commute measures of confinement had to be imposed had to be implemented it was off the debt or it should be short that is all certain but they. do understand all o

thank the french president's emmanuelle mccall is on an official trip to athens he is accompanied by for. french businessmen who are interested in the greek privatized program. they will have the opportunity to receive answers directly from the prime minister of greece alexis tsipras. amongst them is sean luis assad's c.e.o. office aware. of any particle of problems. because he got it while on the back of my because. i've been this is. the goddam outlook you know but it will grow robbers had more years now and the left bell brought out. the. butterfly most focused don't give up over if you got peace or missed both of your shit there was a message that if there is to be a stuck up. here with years ago and already they have. killed the good ones that you just give up and their family does not stop it does not make it because they are all the shit that's political. after getting into tradition. in portugal. became minister of the environment in the newly formed left wing government in the 2015 elections watcher policy would soon change. oculus let a small deal 1st that was the best boug

let's get more on the story now with correspondent and she joins us from athens hi anthy you have reported from morea frequently what are your sources there telling you about the situation on the ground right now. well for starters the prime minister came out just a few minutes ago with a with a nationally televised address and he declared the island of lesbos in a state of emergency and this will be him this emergency status will be enforced perform months which is indicative of the scale of the exercise now which the authorities have to face and this basically includes getting these $12500.00 people into secure as shelters it also has to deal has to do with dealing with a health crisis it was an outbreak there was a covert 19 outbreak within the facilities and we understand that one of the reasons that these protests and fires kind of sparked were because they were in response to the isolation procedures that were about to be invoked upon so what we're seeing right now is that authorities while the fire has been extinguished they're trying to find it open area that tense will be set up f

now i'm korea had angered athens by sending a survey vessel into waters that greece believes to be its own land ship has since been withdrawn but both sides have stepped up their military presence in the region . now turkey says the disputed deposits are within its continental shelf athens though for its part points to greek islands that like close to the turkish coast and on one of them cuss tello rate so we met an unlikely couple see cost and his wife 40 good who are living proof that differences can be resolved peacefully. the greek island and holiday paradise cost a lower is the lies just off the turkish coast. when seacoast my office goes out in his boat he's always within sight of the turkish mainland he grew up on this island and is mighty proud of his home his wife back here she comes from turkey when they 1st met they say it was love at 1st sight now they run a restaurant together on costello. and i'm sure our wedding was quite a surprise. nothing like it has ever happened in the history of our region cashen cast a little. reacted well. with him all. turks and greeks our neigh

now ankara had angered athens by sending a survey vessel into waters that greece believes to be its own land ship has since been withdrawn but both sides have stepped up their military presence in the region . now turkey says the disputed deposits all within its continental shelf athens though for its part points to greek islands that live close to the turkish coast and on one of them custom lower rates so we met an unlikely couple see costs and his wife 40 goal who are living proof that differences can be resolved peacefully. the greek island and holiday paradise castillo is the lies just off the turkish coast. when this goes out in his boat he's always within sight of the turkish mainland he grew up on this island and is mighty proud of his home is wife back here she comes from turkey when they 1st met they say it was love at 1st sight now they run a restaurant together and costello is though. i'm sure our wedding was quite a surprise. nothing like this has ever happened in the history of our region cashen cast a lot of. people reacted well. with him all. turks and greeks our neighbor

there in athens. for earlier we spoke to former e.u. commissioner for migration dimitrius polos i asked him why the e.u. and greece tall aerated a dire situation with more than $12000.00 people housed at the camp which had an official capacity for less than $2800.00. wildest example because in this spot of europe there is the immigration crisis besides what has happened to the boss the us the thrills and the good but if you really do that you can get the gist of his god we can because of the political pressures that is. going into. the u.k. if you are standing by and it to date assurance were given by that going we didn't commissioners that they would support greece about the e.u. the e.u. their statement should be property and day keep working and as if it was governing philosophy in the meantime we have to say that the reaction was only high and it is the easy to handle that these bad and dedicate situation they greek authorities here provided he did with whatever they could do this but if people if your money. ate that medical servic

the 2 countries the media coverage has been pretty charged 100 people in particular the right wing athens based democrates published a pretty cockatoo front page we need translated from the greek it reads f. you mr erdogan and they make sure that they put that english translation on the front page as well president only one's personal lawyer immediately filed a criminal case in unca in which he cited the author of the article as well as democratic editors as suspects and this isn't the 1st foreign newspaper that the president of turkey has gone after as it know there have been legal cases against french and german outlets in the past but this case involves more than just the courts the legal massacre to turkey has been recalled to athens he made a statement in which he admitted that the headline was crass but he said the government respects freedom of speech and no action would be taken against democrats here the people itself is completely unapologetic the republic that front page with another headline which when you translated says come and get us and that line about freedom of speech h

the migrant crisis goes from bad to worse germany agrees to take in more than $1500.00 refugees but athens wants other european countries to help. and in his 1st public comment since his poisoning last month the russian opposition leader. is fiction sitting up with his family he says that he's now breathing on his own. it's good to have you with us u.s. president says today is the dawn of a new middle east trump hosted a ceremony at the white house marking the normalization of relations between 2 goal for arab states and israel the foreign ministers of the united arab emirates and barring joint president trump and israeli prime min. benjamin netanyahu to sign formal agreements to establish diplomatic relations it's the 1st time in more than a quarter of a century that an arab state has established ties with israel trump expressed hope that other arab countries will soon follow on that yahoo thank the president for his quote decisive leadership. this is a pivot of history it heralds a new dawn of peace for thousands of years the jewish people have prayed for peace for decades the jewish sta

but greece needs to ask for it and why don't we hear this from greece because ministers in athens are frayed that if you solve the humanitarian problem on the island since there is no talk of turkey then more people will come and greece will be the government will be blamed so we need to both immediately solve this problem these people are out in the street debt debt situation will only get worse there is a lot of tension on lesbos there's a lot of resistance in the local community i did want to talk about that because a as you say there's this resistance from the local community they don't want the morea come rebuild they don't want. the migrants there at all so should brussels and athens rebuild this despite local wishes well 1st of all i don't think this will happen we've seen this and i've been on these islands many times they'll be roadblocks they'll be violence already the f.b.i. attacks in february in lesbos on aid groups a lot of internationals attacking whom this is being read radical local local people in lesbos they have seen their days beat there's a sense of frustration o

the 2 countries the media coverage has been pretty charged 100 people in particular the right wing athens based democrates published a pretty cockatoo front page we need translated from the greek it reads f. you mr erdogan and they make sure that they put that english translation on the front page as well president only one's personal lawyer immediately filed a criminal case in unca in which he cited the author of the article as well as democrats he has editors as suspects and this isn't the 1st foreign newspaper that the president of turkey has gone after as it know there have been legal cases against french and german outlets in the past but this case involves more than just the courts the legal massacre to turkey has been recalled to athens he made a statement in which he admitted that the headline was crass but he said the government respects freedom of speech and no action would be taken against democrats here the people itself is completely unapologetic the republic that front page with another headline which when you translated says come and get us and that line about freedom of sp

the migrants there at all so should brussels and athens rebuild this despite local wishes well 1st of all i don't think this will happen we've seen this and i've been on these islands many times they'll be roadblocks still be violence already there have been attacks in february in lesbos on aid groups a lot of internationals attacking whom this is being read radical local local people unless of course they have seen their deaths be there's a sense of frustration on less boss and on the other greek islands because they feel rightly that the problem of greece and europe has been outsourced to them don't own them yes and when they ask this is get back to the beginning when the mayor of lesbos or the people of lesbos ask how long do you want to keep these people here at the moment they don't get an answer just do in the last minute let's let's talk about that the german chancellor angela merkel has has been a sort of beacon in all of this when she threw open germany's doors in 2050 she's not standing for reelection next year when she goes do you think that germany sort of open door policy

but this case involves more than just the courts the legal massacre to turkey has been recalled to athens he made a statement in which he admitted that the headline was crass but he said the government respects freedom of speech and no action would be taken against democrats here the people itself is completely unapologetic the republic that front page with another headline which when you translated says come and get us and that line about freedom of speech had to be a veiled shot at turkey and its lousy reputation for freedom of the press in front of the was the turkish government can be extremely harsh on journalists in the country and media freedoms have really been squeezed over the past decade or so richard now one prosecution that we've covered extensively has been of the former editor in chief of the turkish paper julian the editor's name is john dyer back in 2015 an article published in the us people are exposed to secret turkish government shipments of arms to syria that are to the lead to do indoors at s t. tried in court before he fled to germany in 2016 a turkish government ha

their new law is what we understand from the ministry of migration is that they will be taken to athensthey will be housed in hotels and then at some point in the future they will be moving on to other european countries we've watched them arrive here bus by boston getting off. the buses with their lives really their lives packed into plastic bags getting on that ferry and we weren't allowed to talk to any of them but we could sense people waving particular when the ferry started to move waving singing a lot of smiles i think certainly at clear to say an incredibly happy day for those onboard. still to come here on al-jazeera will bring the latest developments from istanbul as more saudi arabian nationals are indicted for the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi. will meet lebanese youths through a growing increasingly disillusioned us political paralysis. the weather is looking fine and dry across much of the middle east little more cloud up towards caucasus johnson's thumb shell is still in place there just between the black sea and the caspian sea to the west the weather startin

let's get more on the story now with correspondent anthony charisse of a she joins us from athens hi anthony you have reported from morea frequently what are your sources there telling you about the situation on the ground right now. well kristie that is the prime minister came out just a few minutes ago with a with a nationally televised address and he declared the island of lesbos in a state of emergency and this will be him this emergency status will be enforced perform months which is indicative of the scale of the exercise now which the authorities have to face and this basically includes getting these $12500.00 people into secure as shelters it also has to deal has to do with dealing with a health crisis there was an outbreak there was a covert 19 outbreak within the facilities and we understand that one of the reasons that these protests and fires kind of sparked were because they were in response to the isolation procedures that were about to be involved upon so what we're seeing right now is that authorities while the fire has been extinguished they're trying to find it open

we were in athens as a group of refugees arrived from last boston 3 weeks after their camp was destroyed by fire. and insubordination champions council and get ready for a unique footballing challenge sours here with that story in about 25 minutes. turkey and have denied claims a turkish f. 16 fighter jet shot down an american warplane killing its pilot armenian brother pop me diplomatic efforts are underway to stop the fighting in the region of not going to the un security council is due to hold an emergency meeting later bought on the ground the violence is escalating with both sides accusing each other of using heavy artillery and killing civilians in shell about us. one after another helicopters land at this medical center in armenia's capital here of on the bringing wounded soldiers and civilians from the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh fighting broke out on sunday and a resurgence of a man running conflicts between armenia and azerbaijan over control of the territory nagorno-karabakh is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but is controlled by armenian forces in 3 d

analyst that was saying that it would be a last option these heavy punitive measures that suddenly athens seems to be pushing for. for the eu to impose them so. it appears often now they going for diplomatic route. and if they do decide to impose the sanctions it would have to come at a later time ankara saying that this is not a great idea because if you do end up doing that we would have faced. legal and political issues we are rejecting the sanctions of course. the technician also really not appreciating my corn frances interference who appears to have taken. a very significant role when it comes to the region whistle the role that france has been playing in lebanon and for the past months and now of course. and the summit hosting it here in front so for the time being that appears to be an attempt to de escalate said the tent increasing tensions that we've seen. so for the time being we're not talking about sanctions was certainly not talking about military confrontation between the two sides. thank you very much indeed for that to some extent if. much love as desk thank you so much.

migrant crisis goes from bad to worse germany has agreed to take in more than $1500.00 refugees but athens wants other european countries to help. and in his 1st public comments since his poisoning last month the russian opposition leader is pictured sitting up with his family he says that he's finally breathing on his own. i'm off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome u.s. president says today is the dawn of a new day in the middle east he's hosted a ceremony at the white house marking the normalization of relations between 2 goal for arab states and israel the foreign ministers of the united arab emirates and bahrain joint present. trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to sign formal agreements to establish diplomatic relations it's the 1st time in more than a quarter of a century that an arab states has established ties with israel trump expressed hope that other arab countries will soon follow while netanyahu think the president for his quote decisive leadership. this day is a pivot of history it heralds a new dawn of peace for tho

their new law is what we understand from the ministry of migration is that they will be taken to athens they will be housed in hotels and then at some point in the future they will be moving on to other european countries we've watched them arrive here bus by boss getting off. the buses with their lives really their lives packed into plastic bags getting on that ferry that we weren't allowed to talk to any of them but we could sense people waving particular when the ferry started to move waving singing a lot of smiles i think certainly clear to say an incredibly happy day for those onboard. the french president is expected to meet by the russian opposition leader . on tuesday he's in the lithuanian capital where he's been holding top. with president to tell us their seder the traders have agreed to push the european union to decide on sanctions against barry's later this week the e.u. has been effectively paralyzed on the issue after cyprus blocked plans to impose penalties over alleged election fraud and human rights abuses. last summer. we have to do everything so a certain kinds of d

what we understand this group of people around $700.00 or so are going to be housed in hotels in athens and then at some point in the future we understand from sources in the ministry of migration they will be read settled in european countries now we don't have the exact details of that so i have to. say that these cases are probably quite unusual what usually happens if you get asylum kemal is that to within a month the greek authorities have changed the law you are then on your own you're left to your own devices and we've been talking to a lot of people who are trying to figure out how the process works a young greek lawyer who represents many of these people trying to help them in their complicated and lengthy asylum process he actually burst into tears when he was talking to me off camera after our interview because he said it is so difficult to tell people you know this moment which is so it's the ultimate dream for that they are ecstatic and he says and then i have to tell them that the road ahead remains incredibly difficult if not more difficult so i think you know certainly i

announcements of greek procurements and french weapons are serious chance or operas live for us in athens john many thanks indeed iraq is warning that hospitals may lose control of the corona virus outbreak within days more than 5000 new infections were recorded on friday the highest daily number so far was down slightly on saturday though the health ministry is blaming much of the spike on a recent religious event and other gatherings where people were not wearing masks or observing social distancing how does it restore such a barrier reports from baghdad. well there's a slight decrease over the past 24 hours as opposed to the numbers that came out on friday just over 4600 new confirmed cases across the country and 63 people have died in the past 24 hours as a result of code related issues but these figures are an indication that the shura gatherings which took place on august 30th in the city of karbala in southern iraq which commemorates the death of amman hossein who's the grandson of the it late prophets is the one of the main reasons that we're seeing such a spike in these numbers o

john psaropoulos in athens we'll talk again hopefully when that ship gets a bit closer to land i mean off french police have dismantled a migrant camp in the northern port of cali where thousands of people have sought to cross the channel to reach britain the camp was home to about 700 migrants repeatedly pressed the french government to do more to stop people from leaving france in the 1st place the better russian opposition leader svetlana to going to sky has met the french president during a visit to lithuania she says emmanuel mccrone promised to help negotiate the release of political prisoners they were detained during weeks of protests in build a race against president alexander lukashenko. he told the time is that. there are crucial because a lot of. people are suffering because of the 3 dream too many people in jail and he will do everything just to release all the political rage and then. more on this story with a butler in paris. it was a very significant meeting both for the french president and for the leader of the opposition we heard there svetlana take one of sky is sa

athens you've been to moria frequently what are your sources telling you about the situation on the ground there right now. well i was just speaking to the regional governor who oversees the situation on the island and he told me that the fire has to literally wiped out the entire refugee camp and that is creating a huge logistical problem for the authorities no injuries however have been reported but the fire has last more than 2 to 25 excuse me 12500 refugees on the streets scrambling to find some sort of space ground and the logistical task at present right now is to try and find a place big enough to bring these people together and you know set up tents and and keep them in safety away from the rest of the community the regional government i was thinking to is in fact calling on the government to call for to place the island of lies was in a state of emergency that would allow the military to also come in and assist in this situation but this is a situation an unfortunate situation that's been waiting to happen simply because successive governments here have really failed to resolve th