let's bring in john henderson in montauk on long island. so john, what is the latest your getting there? on re walla drove the island with winds of 90 kilometers an hour. that is well below the $120.00 or so that is hurricane level. but it did send soaring waves, crashing on the still on the shore of the tiniest state in the us. now here on long island, which is the eastern most point, and where i am now is mon talk, the eastern most point on long island. the storm is largely passed by, but that doesn't mean that the damage is over in new jersey, the outer bands of that storm sent cars reeling off the new jersey turnpike. we witnessed that overnight as we drove through there. and then up here, there have been just hours and hours and hours of rains and that can cause flooding . there was concern, there would be flooding in new york city that seems to have largely been averted. the east river did not overflow its banks there. so for new york, although president biden did declare a state of emergency for this entire state, the worst seems to h

john henderson, al jazeera, chicago political divisions in peru sold onto the street south to the new governments. want to vote of confidence in congress opposition, protest a scaffold with police after the vote in favor. president federal kasteel is less than cabinets. supporters and the president social policy is also turned out because use a free food policy has a minority in congress that control center lines coalition in china has dismissed the u. s. reports. and the origins of coal with 19 calling. it's a political manipulation president joe biden on the report b. d classified. it shows that intelligence agencies or divide it over where the virus originated, but agree that it was developed as a by a weapon. corona virus was 1st detected in the chinese city of who han, in 2019 the child. the intelligence community says china's lead just didn't know about the virus. the for the pandemic began, but they couldn't agree on whether it was 1st transmitted from an animal or leaks from a live protest is in france, are back on the streets of paris against the loo, colbert 19 health system

john henderson has moved from washington dc. joe biden is expected to decide within the next 24 hours, whether to unilaterally extend the august 31st deadline for the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan. it's not clear at this point that he would announce it at that point. and the reasoning behind making that decision now a week before that tuesday deadline next week is that he wants to give the pentagon enough time to prepare for this. and it would likely have a significant amount to prepare for because the taliban has said that deadline is a red line that the us may not cross. now remember that this was all negotiated by the trump administration. donald trump promised the taliban in a negotiation that did not involve the afghan government that the u. s. would withdraw, they would withdraw by august 31st. if the alabama did not launch any attacks in the interim on us troops, well, that agreement would be out the window if the us decided to unilaterally extend that agreement. and that would threaten a number of things. first of al

scientists have links to climate change is made. wildfires hard to fight from the west and us john henderson, john henry rather has more now from quincy in northern california. the dixie fire has grown tremendously. it's now the largest wildfire in the united states and it's gotten there fast. on wednesday with the 8th largest wildfire in california, history on thursday, it was the 6. and by friday it was the 3rd and it's only about 35 percent contain. so after it burns up trees like this, it just moves on firefighters. say it covers an area of a $175000.00 hector's. it's about 14 times the size of the city of san francisco. and they tried to save property. that house behind me had the deck burned off, but firefighters managed to keep the fire away from the structure itself. but they say their top priority is preserving human life. we will switch to helping law enforcement evacuate in rescue some of those people. if that fire gets to that point, so we may be able to save your life, but that may be at the cost, saving your home. the air quality has changed dramatically. it's gone from an iden

john henderson is there. well, this is the center of greenville, and most of this town has been wiped out. this happened about 24 hours ago about this time on wednesday when the winds kicked jumped over 60 kilometers per hour. that just allowed the fire that was already enormous about the size of new york city to explode. and when it did it over ran this town, you can see the skies have cleared now, but that is because the fire is consumed much of the fuel that was here, all this dry timber. and of course, the town itself and just move you on. if you b as t gray rebels have seized control of the ancient tone of levy. bella in the horror region, the g p l f. it's us some bullet victory and also significant incursions south of the bella is a unesco world heritage sites in the secret for millions of the field and orthodox christians. iran, you, president says appealed for national unity and reconciliation. speaking at his inauguration in for him, right. he also said to hans nuclear program is peaceful and the ra

john henderson has moved from washington or hearing the final deadline for the us to leave. afghanistan might not be so final. after all that, president biden will decide by the end of tuesday, whether to unilaterally extend that deadline. and he wants to do that in order to give the pentagon time to prepare for whatever happens then. and that could be significant challenge in his said that deadline is a red line and the u. s. cross, is it only at its own peril? well, cobbled airport remains and a state of chaos. reportedly 14000 people waiting now with at least 10000 more outside hoping to get in. security is also a concern. tell about advisors have reached the outskirts of pantry valley. the last and only region in afghanistan, not under the groups control opposition. leaders and former government troops have created a resistance group in recent weeks. but on monday the taliban re took 3 districts near by. the have been seized by opposition, forces us vice president, come. the harris has addressed the situation in afghanistan during her visit to singapore. harris said while the u. s.

john henderson is our correspondent, john his live here on the news from quincy in northern california. an hour south of the town destroyed by that particular blaze. over to john peter, i am in quincy. this is the headquarters for the task force for the eastern section of this fire, the dixie fire. and that tells you how big it is. there is also a task force in charge of the western sector, and you can see behind me the plumes of smoke from the most recent increase in that fire, where it swept over that town of greenville that is greenville. behind us. let me bring in somebody, you can tell us a lot more about what happened. tim jones is a public information officer for this eastern sector. and let me ask you, just for starters, what happened in the past 24 hours over the last 24 hours. we've had explosive fire growth, driven by winds out of the west and south west meter and ologist have given a red flag warning where we have historically dry conditions. mo, humidity, low fuel moisture combined with those winds that drove the fire in their fire was fed by winds is over 60 kilometers an

john henderson, al jazeera chicago. ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, the taliban is edging closer to have gone to sans capital couple and it's sweeping advance across the country. the arm group has captured another city, got me. so it's now taken 10 provincial capitals in the past week. charlotte bell, this isn't capital with more on the afghan government's response. this spending a lot of money and prioritizing these new local uprising movements where they're working with local leaders, essentially delegating some of the security responsibilities and different in different government strongholds to them. and then equipping these people with arms and money to try to bolster the security forces in these areas. they're also relying on the special forces and they're relying on us and ask and it strikes. and in prioritizing particular places like large cities, they really want to keep the corridor between cobble and talking, crossing to pakistan open. they want to try get some of these border crossings that so they're prioritiz

in fact, john henderson is standing by the and john, terrible scenes that to what have you been saying? well now i'm taking off my mass because the air quality here is so bad. i'm in the town of greenville, which was destroyed a few days ago by the dixie fire. that is the largest fire in the united states, but it's only one of more than a $115.00 different states. 10 fires here in california alone. and that's more than has ever happened in the past last year. 2020 said a record with wildfires. we've already exceeded the 2020 number and this is the result here. you can see that used to be a bank. it is now completely destroyed like much of the town. and if you just follow the line here, you can see these buildings have all been destroyed. there is a jail over here that is a century old hotel, the facade of which remains. and i know it's hard to see all this because there is so much smoke and that's part of the problem. i grew up 4 hours away in the san francisco bay area in a town called palo alto. and i don't ever remember seeing wild fire smoke when i was growing up, but now this smok

from quincy, california, john henderson. you went the news now. there is more than i had left in limbo on columbia border. tens of thousands of people stranded as they search for a better life in sport, a special day for you. gander on the track for action from toko 2020. that's coming up and sport. ah hello, good to see you. we have wildfires exploding around athens degree prime minister has warned that this situation is going to get worse. people doing whatever they can to protect their properties. a bit of a glimmer of hope here as temperatures have come down in athens at 34 degrees, but it's going to take much more than this mean time for turkey. we do have some scattered showers in fire ravaged parts of on talia providence. but again, it's going to take much more than just a few spits of rain. we really need that concentrated rain. next, i want to take you to the bulk in temperatures have lowered here as well. but the situation still dire, in fact, for north macedonia, the country has declared a crisis for the next 30 days. where across europ

well, john henderson is live in greenville in california force. and john, we can see a little bit of the sick think smoky air behind you just give us a sense of how bad it's been there for people and how they're dealing with it. with the air quality here is actually improved considerably over the course of the day. but this town was simply wiped off the map by the dixie fire. almost nothing is left of it. you can see the remains of what used to be a bank right over on this side. and if you just sort of follow the road here, you can see that there are several buildings that have been just totally burned down across the street here. that is a century old hotel that had been standing there for some time and is now completely wiped out except for the facade in front. and if you keep looking on it, you can see in the background there are trees that have been burned in the course of this fire. and there's a petrol station as well. and it just goes on and on. there are a few buildings that haven't been destroyed, but this was part of the fire line that fi

or john henderson is life for us now in long island. what's the situation like why you are well on. we rolled into rhode island with 90 kilometers and our speed of when we had massive waves rolling into that small estate in the u. s. and that is an ongoing as so right now. but as for here in new york on long island where it was suspected that that storm would hit with a direct landfall that did not happen. and they have avoided the worst of it. as a matter of fact, the sun is now coming out after just hours after that storm passed by with its outer. ready bans battering this part of new york. there was also concerned that downtown new york city might be overrun to the east river might flow into the city that didn't happen is well, but the concern here is not so much the high winds, which as you say, have been downgraded from hurricane strength in 24 hours to currently the tropical storm level. it's the water that is the big concern. that storm is expected to continue to slow down as it goes over rhode island, up through massachusetts, and possibly through maine before it goes back o

john henderson has moved from washington dc. joe biden is.

electric says its equipment might have sparked the dixie fire, which shows no sign of abating john henderson. al jazeera, greenville california greece as prime ministers, urging people to obey evacuation orders. as emergency crews baffled dozens of wildfires for a full day, he says unprecedented conditions have turned the country into a powder keg. an intense heat wave and brown fueling blazes, including this one north of athens, which we ignited off the 5 vises had bullshit on the control. same bas, wrong. he sent us this report. only hours after an announcement that fires north of athens had been put out, the blaze was back and bigger than before, the order to evacuate. the small town below came suddenly, when the church bells began ringing people panic. and all the storekeeper could do was head up hill and watched the fire closing in. today's fire is overwhelming, isn't it? because it's impossible that after yesterday's fire that everything is burning again, burning whatever's left. we came to the high ground to try to get a sense of how bad this fire really is. and for the last several h

let's go live now to john henderson with an update from washington. they say hello there, john. what's the latest on this incredibly important decision on whether to withdraw or not by august? 31. what are you hearing from the bottom administration? well, we're hearing that final deadline for the us to leave. afghanistan might not be so final, after all, that president biden will decide by the end of tuesday, whether to unilaterally extend that deadline. and he wants to do that in order to give the pentagon time to prepare for whatever happens then. and that could be significant. the gentleman has said that deadline is a red line, and the u. s. crosses it only at its own peril. president trump and negotiated a ceasefire for the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan and said if the afghans, if the taliban don't fire or attach western troops until the end, the u. s. would abide by its agreement to leave originally. that deadline was may extended to the end of august. and so now the issue is what would happen if the u. s. were to extend it and that cease fire would. and there are some

john henderson is near the town of greenville in california and joined us. now. john, just tell us what's happening around you and roughly how far roughly the distance between where you are now and greenville. well, we are very close to greenville that is the town that this dixie fire just in gold 24 hours ago. what happened was high winds checked up, winds of over 65 kilometers per hour, and this is the outskirts of greenville you can see a car burning over here soon, some 1st responders responding to that scene. and then if you just look behind me here, this is a helicopter that has been dropping either water or fire retarded on some of these fires because they've crossed it over to both sides of the road. and if we keep moving over this way, that town that's sign, they're welcome you to the town of greenville. and as we move on here, you can see those 1st sponder is going into the town, which has been just absolutely decimated. and then over here, these are vehicles that were apparently abandoned outside of down as people left. and you can see they have been, s

john henderson, al jazeera chicago, one of the world's top football, as is heading back to the club where he made his name. christiana, rinaldo is making a shock. return to the english premier league. johns mentioned the united david stokes story. kristen, 12 years after leaving them. christiana rinaldo is once again a manchester united player. the news broke just an hour after he landed in lisbon for international duty with portugal, after deciding to leave italian. saudi aventis had initially been in talks with united rivals, manchester city. but when city pulled out, united stepped in to snap him up. it reported the event is accepted, an offer of around $30000000.00. were now that was 36 years old and regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. it was at united way, 1st made his name during his original spell at the club between 20032009, brought in by alex ferguson from sporting lisbon. he went up to score 118 goals and 19 trophies, including 3 premier leagues, the european champions league, and fif a club world cup united current manager ali going to south get used to play w

thank you for the update john henderson. while the us tries to stick to the deadline, germany's foreign minister has suggested it may take longer to get people out. instances mitten was added to cairo under, than we are in talks at the us and turkey in order to keep calm opperation or to make civil evacuations. if these people possible, we will have a role to keep discussing that with the taliban. the doing say, because they will have a special role in that for analysis on this were joined by jo reuben, who is a former us deputy deputy assistant secretary of state, is currently the president of washington strategy group and joins us from skype or on skype from maryland, i should say, jo, thank you for joining us. so as we heard from our what we should know within to about 24 hours where the washington will stick to its august deadline. what do you think president bonham will do? will he extend that withdrawal? the president's decision is going to largely be driven by facts on the ground, and that means how the evacuations ar

the next blaze in a fire season that can last through november, john henderson, al jazeera quincy california. hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected in the u. s. state of south dakota for the annual sturgess motorcycle rally spike arise, and corona virus cases. 10 day event began on friday and the visual say the 1st few days have been among the busiest they've ever seen. last year gathering became a super sprite event with about $500000.00 people attending, even though the rally was officially cancelled. gabriel elizondo is in just for us . well, welcome to main street in the town of sturgis, south dakota, and welcome to the sturgess motorcycle rally. as you can see behind me, there are motorcycles, for as far as the i can see if there's any sort of motorcycle that was ever made. it's year in sturgis, over the next 10 days, they're expecting $700000.00 participants this year. that's a record. and they come from all over the united states and even a couple other countries as well. it's a huge event that goes on for several blocks in the small town, a small town that is only has a popu

john henderson is the, in the historic gold rush town of greenville. the fire has destroyed much of that town. this was downtown greenville, it burned the ground on wednesday and days later remains wreathed in smoke that gives it an eerie post apocalyptic feel. the heat was so intense, it melted, this lamb post, and the rest of downtown was pretty much leveled. this is the worst wildfire in the united states right now, and the 2nd largest in california history. but it's one of more than a 100 fires. in 15 states being battled 526000 firefighters, and they've got their job cut out for them. you can see here this was a century old hotel, and now only the facade remains what's happened. is it global warming, his exacerbated the dry and hot conditions that make it easier for a spark to set off a fire. so 2020 was the worst fire season yet in 2021 is expected to be worse still . funding morehead, on the news hour, including the striking a cold with voices. politicians in germany begin campaigning ahead of next month selection. we've just 2 days to go until

the next blaze in a fire season that can last through november, john henderson, al jazeera quincy, california, was also benny and jerry, where are these 42 people have been killed? prime minister aimen been up don't money. so $25.00 soldiers died during a rescue operation in the mountains of b, jaya and cheesy, who's who? the government says it believes also so responsible residents have been using tree branches and hunting water from plastic containers onto those fires. well, lauren gifford is a human environment. geographer and research associates at the university of i was in a join, be now live from bar harbor in main. good. have you with us that miss given the program? di warnings ready from the united nations over climate change? we heard what the report said 24 hours ago, the really, what mincing words, many governments endorsed positively the report. but what they really do is we had towards the us meeting in glasgow. it's the next cop meeting and hopefully some results are right. absolutely. so yesterday morning, the apc report was released. there's actually nothing new in the report

john henderson is in the historic gold rush town of greenville, which has been destroyed by the taxi file. this was downtown greenville, it burned to the ground on wednesday and days later remains wreathed in smoke. that gives it an erie post apocalyptic feel. the heat was so intense, it melted, this lamb post, and the rest of downtown was pretty much leveled. this is the worst wildfire in the united states right now, and the 2nd largest in california history. but it's one of more than a 100 fires. in 15 states being battled 526000 firefighters, and they've got their job cut out for them. you can see here this with a century old hotel, and now only the facade remains what's happened is that global warming, his exacerbated the dry and hot conditions that make it easier for a spark to set off a fire. so 2020 was the worst fire season yet in 2021 is expected to be worse still . climate scientists say catastrophic floods such as those in europe just last month could become much more frequent because of global heating. researches have been shocked at the intensity and the scale of floodin

john henderson, al jazeera chicago. the brown bag is a protective species in romania, but there's growing pressure to reintroduce hunting now. being fueled by a rise in barrow tanks at a time when the government is trying to encourage terrorists to return to national parks from armenia in the cold. pacey, in mountains under simmons reports, it's a wilderness, like few others in europe. the copy of mountains, primeval forests, absorbing the poisons of modern life greenhouse gases. but there endangered, just like the wildlife with romania as rangers. are aware that illegal logging isn't the only threat. here we have 2 or 3 conflicts. laureen hollis, one's mind is firmly set on animal welfare. and are we welding project he's working on? but he can't ignore a new issue. there are 2, it's a small one. he finds footprints of 2 brown bears wild animal. and he already feel us. if it's around here, he run a long time ago. more than 300 kilometers to the east. the bad population is higher and there has been 137 attacks on people

john henderson, al jazeera chicago, a palestinian boy who was shot in the head during protest for the garza border last weekend has died. a rubber coated still bullet fired by is really forces hit the 12 year old during a protest against the blockade of the strip. another palestinian man died from his wounds on wednesday. more than 40 other palestinians, and one is the soldier for wounded. at least 19 villagers have been killed by a rebel group in the democratic republic of congo. it happened in benny and the northern province in the province of north keeble. no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the ice linked allied democratic forces had been active in the area. well, tens of thousands of people in the eastern democratic republic of congo are still homeless. more than 3 months after the rupture for volcano, near the eastern city of goma, families who lost everything have use plastic and sticks to put up tents. the government and charities are building temporary shelters. it's feared the rainy season season could worse than the humanitarian crisis. problem. there is

the next blaze in a fire season that can last through november, john henderson, al jazeera quincy, california, or i still ahead on i just you see a stick. the climb along the 1st 5. starting with the 6 man. it's 6 percent a month. why israel wants to give us a good chance to those above the age of 60, against the advice with w h o me i would just 2 days to go and to exam v as presidential election candidates trying to persuade both that they can turn around in trouble because i like to and support australian cricket as are all down for their lowest score. every 20 cricket jo be it would be a hello. no major changes to report. send the weather across the middle east. we do have some readings of 50 degrees. so let me show you where we can find that it's a war back that as we head toward wednesday. now if we look at the next 3 days at times the winds will be a bit breezy here, but we're really locking our temperature in to that 50 degree threshold off the pakistan. and we've got mon sooner moisture still played in northern areas anywhere from the hor to islamic bad rate up against the border wit

john henderson, al jazeera chicago. ah are, let's have a quick update headlines here in algebra. and the united states says it's carried out to drain strike again. so i still in eastern afghanistan and believe it believes it's killed a member responsible for planning attacks. it follows a warning from president joe biden, that those behind thursday, suicide bombing outside couple airport be hunted down. the mc.

john henderson is in montauk new york, on re rolled into rhode island on massive waves making a rare and raucous landfall, and new england downgraded from a hurricane on sunday, unrestricted new york before becoming the 1st tropical storm to land in this small estate in 30 years threatening the northeast coast of the us on re reserved the brent of its fury for rhode island, snapping trees like twigs in kent, exploding electrical transformers in newport and battering in beaching boats in jamestown. president biden declared a state of emergency in new york, connecticut, and rhode island. and while new englanders are used to dealing with some tough weather, the storm has potential for widespread consequences across the region with significant flooding power outages that could affect hundreds of thousands of people. and so we're doing everything we can now to help those states prepare, respond, and recover for a broad swath of the atlantic coast. that process has already begun. the storms spared the wars for a long island, which fear to direct hit, but it's still whipped up high winds an