Threat. Of a fire erupts at the beirut port which was the site of an explosion that killed at least a 190. 00 people last month. And we report from chile for historic talks between Indigenous Leaders and the government hope to resolve an increasingly violent conflict. Greece is under growing pressure to relocate thousands of refugees whose camp was destroyed by 2 nights of fire aid agencies say moving them from the island of less boss to the greek mainland is now a humanitarian imperative those who are living at mahdia camp which is the biggest in europe picked through its remains on thursday to salvage whatever they could most spend the night in makeshift tents on the side of the road or under trees e. U. Member states are making plans to accept some of the refugees John Psaropoulos has been inside the camp just a few hours ago. Its almost as though were on another planet everything has been reduced to its elements this site however is where the government insists on rebuilding a new secure closed facility the residents of moria village just a kilometer away from here are absolutely against that as is much of the island very simply do not want to camp here anymore the government says that is the wrong choice that the islanders resistance to such a camp is actually causing part of the problem it has prevented the government from building a better facility the refugees however frankly agreed with the islanders they want to leave too this may now be harder than ever for them because were hearing that much of the paper archive of the Asylum Service that used to stand directly behind me here has been burnt and that may mean that a lot of people were stuck here for months longer than they would be because the records determining whether they would be granted asylum and allowed to move to mainland greece or whether they would be deported back to turkey are now gone and many of those applications will have to start from scratch. Mcmillan mccroskey is director and founder of the Starfish Foundation thats a leading n. G. O. S on land for highland she explains the conditions these refugees and are facing. Its really devastating theres just thousands of people along the road theyre thirsty theyre hungry its very difficult to actually get to them theyre becoming more and more desperate so its even hard to track she give give supplies to them. Also there is a lot of the angry local people actually blocking all the volunteers to for us to get inside to the camp to give them more aid so. Yesterday i saw this great big pregnant woman with them she was just lying there crying on the side of the road there in the side and theres hardly any shade for them its its a very devastating sight theres a very big degree of to detect tension between all of us at the moment 1st of all the well we were we were going through a crisis i mean im actually from this island too ive got a restaurant i thought properties that i rent out so during the crisis the tourism sort of dropped them when we got in 2015 when all the refugees came came through. Then that was dreadful for the fact that there was so much bad media going on at that stopped our tourism it dropped by 80 percent so thats made a lot of us very very traumatic of our income and everything and this you know with of the virus its even worse. And then with the refugees here everybody is like focus on the refugees and not so much about whats this Beautiful Island is all about the tourism so its making us all very frustrated and everything. Water borne diseases well the latest threat to the people of sudan hundreds of thousands are being displaced as the knowledge to reach unprecedented levels the floodwaters are starting to recede but a growing number of people are getting sick or morgan reports from the capital khartoum. Barely able to stand 13 year old Mohamed Salah seeks treatment at this Health Center in the south of the capital how to medics say hes suffering from a parasitic infection usually caused by lack of access to clean Drinking Water his mother tries to comfort him through his pain but she herself is barely able to hide her own discomfort. Weve been living on the streets for more than a week a home is completely flooded and we didnt receive tents this fathers also sick hes mentally unstable and i can give him his medication if he had a tent id be able to take care of him there the clinic treating mohammad was set up nearly 2 weeks ago to help patients affected by recent flooding in many villages and towns in hard so many have fever diarrhea and stomach infections to last longer you can read my daughter has been suffering from diarrhea for the past 3 days i myself am also sick and it feels like im coming down with an infection my voice is now weak its all from the floods im living in the camps. Floods hit sudan after the nile river which flows through the country rose to levels not seen in more than a century the surge in water was caused by heavy rains on the if european high lands upstream more than 100 people were killed and Dozens Injured and at least half a 1000000 people were displaced as homes were damaged or destroyed by the water the government declared a 3 month state of emergency last week and while the rivers water has started to recede this week the number of those falling ill is increasing. So dan was facing a Health Crisis even before the flood emergency pharmacies have been reporting shortages of medicines and many hospitals like adequate equipment since the floods began 3 weeks ago the number of cases of water borne diseases in areas affected have increased many families say theyre struggling to cope with illnesses after having lost so much already aid organizations see the Health Consequences of the floods will be much worse in the coming days and that action needs to be taken now and weve had is that. The biggest protest is the waters it was a disaster when it flooded and will be a disaster when it recedes if not dealt with properly and if there are no strategies to fight contagious diseases will have a bigger catastrophe than what we see it will be stagnant notice which will result in more malaria cases more diarrhea cases and more bilharzia cases. Sudan was already struggling to handle the coronavirus pandemic when the floods hit those in areas affected theyre hoping proper measures will be taken to it used to health risks now that the floodwaters are receding so that no more lives are lost people more going on just their own heart too far foreigners are battling a major blaze which has broken out in beirut at the site of last months deadly import explosion the fires are destroyed warehouse which was storing oil and tires lebanese Authorities Say the blaze was started by accident at least 190 people died and more than 6000 were injured when a stockpile of Ammonium Nitrate exploded in the port in august has more from the port in beirut. Massive fire raging out of beirut just a little over a month since a massive explosion ripped through beirut neighborhoods killing over 190. 00 people fire qassam panic in the streets people are still traumatized from that explosion on this the 4th people started to evacuate the area around the port because. There was Little Information on what caused the fire the Lebanese Army then issued a statement saying this was not deliberate this was an accident and that fire that oil as well as tires that were stored in a warehouse caught fire and the army as well as firefighters theyve been deployed to the scene as you can see trying to put out the flames helicopters have are also being used to try to distinguish extinguish the fire the flames the people are on their nerves this is a city that is still on their nerves the city still demanding answers theyre still having questions on what caused that massive explosion 55 weeks ago investigations are continuing leading leading the case has been theyve been questioning Security Officials as well as politicians but still no answers still no official held to account especially since so many officials were aware of the presence of highly explosive Ammonium Nitrate at the warehouse and they did nothing about it. Turkey has hit back at frances call for a tougher stance towards the growing tensions in the mediterranean ahead of a summit of southern leaders french president your money will mark all so turkey was no longer a partner to europe in the region im kyra has been seeking to expand its Energy Resources in the areas claimed by greece and cyprus turkeys foreign minister said buchholz remarks were our agreement but it was not up to him to decide maritime borders well the tasha bottle is joining me now from paris natasha it was french president Emmanuel Mccall who called this informal summit of the socalled med 7 what are we expecting from the summit itself. Yes the french leader has gathered leaders of 7 mediterranean countries including greece italy and spain on the french mediterranean island of corsica in order to discuss a number of issues they will be talking about migration theyll be talking about the crisis in libya but of course therell be a real focus on those tensions that have been escalating in the Eastern Mediterranean as turkey continues to pursue its plans for oil and Gas Exploration in the area in those waters that are claimed by greece and cyprus well the french presence amount omicron has been very vocal in his support of greece in fact he will be meeting the greek Prime Minister just before that summit really kicks off for a bilateral meeting he has shown greece support frances ready said. Jets and a naval vessel to the Eastern Mediterranean in order to bolster greece show support to michaels been very vocal in his condemnation of ankara saying that turkey has violated greeces sovereignty and what mike ross says that those naval that naval frigate and those planes will be doing in the Eastern Mediterranean is our polling International Law the treasurer youve been describing it is actually a very wide agenda do we have any idea what emanuel mark or is hoping to achieve simply by staging these informal talks. Well its clear that amount of michaels in no position to mediate in this crisis because his own relationship with the turkish president is extremely 4 very tense they have been trading hostilities and have been gauged in a war of words over the last few months over syria over libya where both a macro and one accuse each others countries or fueling instability in libya in the country also model micro saying that look turkey is a member of nato as is greece and france and turkey should not be acting in this way against other nato members and is not up holding the values of the alliance so what amount of mark really wants to do here is try and use this summit to put pressure on the European Union in order to take much tougher action on turkey in the future because in a few weeks e. U. Leaders will be meeting for a special summit they will be discussing turkey and what france hopes is that the European Union will perhaps put so impose sanctions on turkey that is something that france has been pushing for a lot over the last few weeks as Natasha Butler giving us of the update on the socalled. Summit thats happening in course she is talking to us from powers which actually thank you very much to do. Still ahead on aljazeera i wanted to always play it down president tom but mitts minimizing the threat from covert 19. And some very heavy rain in the forecast again for the next day or so cross much of japan you can see quite a long line of clouds all of this is tied to a frontal System Training right the way down into more southern and central sections of china its a very slow moving system so as we go through friday that rain once again becoming quite heavy through honcho and particularly heavy through eastern sections of china and of course its all heading off towards the east so that means through saturday very heavy downpours likely again through the Korean Peninsula and again spreading a very wide spread really across much of japan but slightly better across china we have to look at those showers and thunderstorms and really a wet couple of days along the south so 31. 00 in hong kong with showers and thunderstorms bunch of thunderstorms and rain such neutral so much of south asia the rains have been very heavy for the last few days and there will be for the next couple particularly across the west the western gas of these areas here in yellow indicating really torrential downpours that really extending right the way magic pradesh up towards rajastan is just the fall north who is saying the dry conditions faded typical for this time of the year this time of the season for those monsoon rains but again by saturday the rains very heavy on the west there are warnings in place from the India Met Office and all the while with skills will see a scout a chance across bangladesh and extend your cross into much of man our. Community we are our biggest conversation over. The whole chris is the response that looks like the part of the debate. Jump into the conversation right away when no topic is off the table youre not afraid. Does anyone take an hour we just gone for 3 lives in the world uses 3 talking reacher and the poor getting poorer its not kill the story the system its just to look at the system and adapt it to the modern world this street on out is the era. Watching out is it out of mind of our top stories this hour of refugees are still without shelter after fires burned for a 2nd night on the greek island of lesbos much of the muddy account has already been destroyed by blazes late on tuesday emergency efforts are underway to find places for the refugees to stay. A surge of water borne illnesses is stretching medical services in sudan hundreds of thousands of people were displaced by flooding in the nile river the flood waters are starting to recede but a growing number of people getting sick. A major fire has broken out in beirut at the site of last months deadly force explosion firefighters are battling the blaze at a destroyed warehouse which was storing all entires lebanese Authorities Say the fire was started by accident. Record fires a raging along the west coast of north america from mexico to canada and the 7 people including one a one year old baby have been killed in the United States several states are now battling flames which have consumed entire communities and blanketed cities from San Francisco to seattle in smoke rob reynolds reports. From montana to the mexico border huge swaths of the western u. S. Are burning hundreds of thousands of square kilometers have burned in california colorado arizona montana oregon utah and washington what were experiencing this year is simply without precedent the small town of malden in Eastern Washington was almost completely incinerated by a wind driven wildfire authorities are searching the rubble unsure whether all of the towns approximately 300. 00 residents made it out alive in medford oregon a fire swept through of mobile Home Community reducing it to a burned out. Hell scape of ashen twisted metal resident regina hill lost everything she own and. What youre wearing right now this is. Powerful winds are spreading the oregon fires the governor invoked Emergency Powers to marshal more resources in california high winds are also fanning the flames 14000 firefighters are out on the front lines in california where 28 major fires have scorched over 100000 hectors tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from several of the largest fires in the States History a big fire in San Diego County is moving dangerously close to Populated Areas we have a Sleeping Giant that is in the back country California National guard helicopters flew hundreds of stranded campers and back country residents to safety relatives welcomed the rescued after an anxious night long wait. For. Crying but there will be tears the smoke and ash in the atmosphere cast a blow over San Francisco in an eerie orange light air quality in parts of the bay area was labeled hazardous whats behind the many conflagrations bone dry brush and trees following years of intermittent drought low humidity combined with a broiling heat wave in recent days and above all high seasonal winds blowing down from the mountains provide a singular recipe for disaster rob reynolds aljazeera los angeles. U. S. President Oliver Thomas admitted he played down the threat of coronavirus even though he knew it was deadly admission was made in a series of interviews with Journalist Bob Woodward for an upcoming book is democratic rival joe biden says the president lied to the American People maicon reports from washington. The white house is once again at the center of a political storm as it emerges that President Trump was fully briefed about the dangers of the coronavirus by the chinese president in opposing conversation on the 6th of february this is part of the compensation recorded by Journalist Bob Woodward for his book the following day so it goes through air but thats always tougher than a touch you know the touch you dont have to touch things right but the air you just breathe the air thats you know its the past and so thats a very tricky one thats a very delicate one its also more deadly than your you know your even your screen us lose more deadly this is try for you know this is 5 percent versus one percent and less than one percent you know so this is dead least. 3 days later President Trump told the American Public this the virus theyre working hard looks like by april you know in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away hope thats true in another recording on the 17th of march the president tells would with the following well i think really to be honest with you here i want you to i wanted to. I want to always play it down i still like playing it down yes because i dont want to create a panic president ial candidate joe biden dismisses this reasoning insisting the president stands guilty of lying to the American People yeah deformations he knew how dangerous it was while this deadly disease ripped through our nation he failed to do his job on purpose. It was a life or death betrayal of the American People experts say if youd acted just just one week shooter 36000 people would have been saved if you acted 2 weeks suitor back in march 54000 lives would have been spared march and april alone but now President Trump continues to insist he saw and sees his role as a killer for the last thing you want to do is create a panic in the country this was a horrible thing it was sent to us by china should not have happened should never have happened this is a disgusting terrible situation that was foisted upon us and we have to show we just dont want to use the best words panic we dont want to have to show panic were not going to show panic and thats exactly what i did as the death toll in the United States 200000 the latest revelations also certain to feel the debate about president crumps response to the virus old d lack of it it can no longer be argued that President Trump did not know of the dangers posed by the virus and the response of an American People that have been publicly misled may well be measured in the november poll mike hanna aljazeera washington. More than a 1000 Chinese Students studying in the United States have had their visas revoked during the last 3 months federal agents have tracked down students suspected of stealing American Intellectual property and concealing their ties to chinas on forces or the crackdown in may the tensions escalated with chinas government. Man mahers leader has been suspended from events related to the European Unions top human rights prize also on sochi won the soccer of prize in 1990 for her struggle against military rule but the e. U. Parliament says her failure to act on the crisis means shes violated the values of the award so she hasnt been stripped of the award but she will no longer be invited to join the formal Winners Community 3 South African Police officers accused of murdering a teenager with Downs Syndrome has appeared in court in so west oh the hearings been adjourned to later this month the shooting of nathaniel julies in johannesburg last month triggered street protests against Police Brutality and corruption the family of the 16 year old said he was shot for not answering Police Questions because of his disability fundamental was at the code and she says people in soweto want to see justice. Its very difficult for many South Africans to understand what could have happened that caused the death of a 16 year old with down syndrome his family has said he would have been unable to communicate with police if confronted that night weve also heard from Police Minister break there who has been cautious in what he said but hes also said its very difficult to try and put together what could have led to the death of Nathaniel Chiles its very difficult to understand what exactly went wrong and so there is great interest interest in a justice prevailing in this particular case given that police in south africa have previously been accused of abuse of power Police Brutality you know we look back to cases like maracana the maracana massacre as its been dubbed with 37 miners were gunned down by police weve also had instances during south africas covert 19 lockdown where police have also been accused of brutality so this is just the latest incident where South Africans are keen to see what happens in courts with regard to these 3 Police Officers that are appearing today. The economic crisis in recession hit argentina means many are struggling to make ends meet including Police Officers hundreds protested in the capital to demand higher salaries and better working conditions for a simple reports from one of. These Police Officers belong to the Largest Force in argentina. They have been protesting for days demanding better salaries and work conditions might be an m one peter has been an officer for 16 years she says her family can barely survive because of their manners and what end they get any place else i make 43000 pesos a month this is a wage that leaves my family below the poverty line before the pandemic we were able to make some extras but now we dont have any extra money and its tough to sustain my family. Softness or who did not want his name mentioned says he needs to pay for his own equipment. Boy this gives us some money for our clothes but the price is 4 times what they give us we have expired bullet proof jackets everything is wrong. So this week for the 1st time Police Officers are taking to the streets there demanding a 56 percent salary increase. Called 19 having praised the pressure on the man temp lawyers like doctors of 26 im all that others who say theyre working nonstop and cannot make ends meet i didnt tina has one of the highest inflation rates in the world even in the economic crisis and thats why this people here say they heard in the media way government officials told aljazeera that some of those involved in the protest are under investigation for crimes committed during service and could be suspended and thats why theyre trying to create chaos. As group of officers showed up outside the president ial residence many perceived their presence there as a threat to argentinas institutions. President of the fatah members said this is not the time to put security at risk and then now as he was redistributing National Resources to assist the province of when i. Look at them been sung what i am thinking is how many citizens are now left without security or how many are left at the mercy of those who commit crimes this is not the way i tell you honestly i hope you reflect and stop this and im sensitive to the demands of these officers because it is clear that they have been left behind in regards to their salaries and we must give them an answer. But the protesters say they just need better wages and a time where hardship has become the norm. And when a site acts. For the 1st time in more than 100 years talks are being held between chiles my pussy Indigenous Leaders and government representatives a latin america editor at the scene newman was given exclusive access to the meeting into mukoko aimed at resolving an increasingly violent conflict. We are the beginning of whats being described as the very 1st meeting between members of the council which are. And these are the most the highest ranking members some of them approach a community here and the story hours of the state that is executive branch of the just litter and the courts the Supreme Court the venue was changed at the 11th hour and is taking place in a stadium in the Capital Region in a location that was supposed to be secret but it was leaked and a rival group of have now arrived and are protesting against the meeting riot police are here to try to push them away but theyre not succeeding these people say the meeting inside does not represent the majority of them up which a nation there is a deep division between those who are meeting or believe its time to Start Talking with the state and these people who choose them of being imposters in fact they refused to sit down with the government unless it releases when they could push a Political Prisoners many of whom have been on a Hunger Strike this meeting is taking place as militant groups escalate arson attacks against Forestry Companies and tribal homes and would beit claim as their ancestral land in fact on the eve of the scattering a 21 year old man was shot dead by the same group that had earlier burnt down 3 houses president s of us jumping it is represented in the ministry of social development. Represented after the other accuse the state of abusing. And discriminating the nation for centuries and while those who are meeting here are hoping to lay the groundwork for the 1st formal dialogue between them approach a nation and the chilean state 1825 the government is also committing itself to substantially increasing the presence of. Police in this region which is home to the longest running. Mind in latin america. This is all just here these are the top stories thousands of refugees are still without shelter after fars burned for a 2nd night on the greek island of less balls much of the money account had already been destroyed by blazes late on tuesday emergency efforts are underway to find places for the refugees to stay a surge in water borne illnesses is stretching medical services in sudan hundreds of thousands of people were displaced by flooding in the nile river the flood waters are starting to recede but a growing number of people are getting sick firefighters are battling a major blaze which has broken out in beirut at the site of last months deadly explosion the fires at a destroyed warehouse which was storing or oil and tires lebanese Authorities Say the blaze was started by accident. At the scene of the blaze. The fire causing panic in the street people are still traumatized from that explosion on august the 4th people started to evacuate the area around the port because i think there was Little Information on what caused the fire in the Lebanese Army then issued a statement saying that this was not a deliberate and this was an accident and that fire that oil as well as pyres that were stored in a warehouse caught fire. Turkey has hit back at frances call for a tougher stance towards uncorrupt amid growing tensions in the mediterranean ahead of a summit of southern e. U. Leaders french president Emmanuel Mccall said turkey was no longer a partner to europe in the region turkeys foreign minister said mcconnells remarks were out again and it was not up to him to decide not a time borders. Record fires are raging through towns and forests across north americas west coast at least 7 people including a one year old baby have been killed me a mars leader has been suspended from events related to the European Unions top human rights prize because of a failure to act on the crisis also suchi won the subtle prize in 1994 her struggle against military rule so she hasnt been stripped of the award but will no longer be invited to join formal Womens Community those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after the strain goodbye. Hello im melissa chan and im guest hosting the stream home edition today were going to be talking about endangered languages there are some 50027000 languages out there depending on how you count it and 50 to 90 percent of it its estimated could be gone by the end of the century well take a look at why and speak to some of those who are working to preserve these languages as always on you to post your comments and questions well try to get to as many as possible so you
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