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So then its injured weeks of record a destructive wildfire americas Natural Disaster could be about to deliver unprecedented flooding in the next few hours the full force of harken salary is expected to hit several Southern States but the country 2 storm is moving so slowly its likely to cause days of heavy rain and with it what are being called historic floods and it will be winds of up to 170 kilometers an hour and possibly a major storm surge as well power has already been cut to 100. 50000. 00 homes and ill have to sunny those harken teddy developing out to sea with full cost is not that it could become a catastrophic kind of reform we look at the harkins in just a moment but along the west coast of the United States theyre into the 2nd week of battling wildfires the smoke from the fire is now a reach policy of europe the state of oregon is the latest hot spots from estacado has rob reynolds. Theres not much left of talent in phoenix in Southern Oregon the ferocious wildfires of recent days have reduced most of the 2 small towns to ashes the worst thing ive ever seen in my life its the same up and down the west coast near Boulder Creek california dozens of homes were incinerated heaps of rubble covered chimneys and burned out vehicles all that remain near los angeles the socalled bobcat fire is only minimally contained it is burning close to the famed mt wilson astronomical observatory and outlying suburbs 23000 firefighters are battling dozens of major fires in california and oregon more than 4000 houses have burned in california alone and tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate and drifting over it all a choking shroud of smoke and ash its making skies hazy as far away as new york Portland Seattle and San Francisco now have some of the worst air quality on the planet we started to read it and 95 rather than just that quatermass because that ash in s. T. K. To oregon 50 kilometers from Portland Police are allowing residents to return to their homes and assess the damage fires on this scale are unheard of in this part of oregon those have never happened i mean weve had fires you know open up in the national forth before theyve never been this close to us to canada and i have a. Here 33 years theyve never been this close to me candy evacuated days ago but her home is a total loss haslam stranger call you on the phone and tell you that your house is burning and its a total loss is not something you want to wake up to. Amid the destruction signs of strength and resilience this is another aspect of this terrible disaster people coming together to support one another with donations of free food water and other necessities organizers say so many donations support in here they can barely give it all away. People here say they all have to look out for one another over it is still eating all of the fresh. Breads not anything that we can do to help out families that are in need or no thank you you know with the fires and everything we kind of need to make sure that were helping out as much as we can some of the organs fires are now partly contained helped by the verbal weather but the trees will likely continue to burn until the autumn rains begin in earnest weeks from now robert oulds aljazeera has to cater for well lets get more on all of this now with Jenny Harrison and jenny weve got these devastating scenarios either side of the country really the wolf from the west and then on the officer side. And if i knew you could swap and have some not right now but yes this hurricane of course nick is a really life threatening situation this is a satellite here we on the gulf of mexico and this is the storm now were literally just hours away from this making landfall when we talk about full were talking about the center of the eye over the storm so that really is 2 maybe 3 hours away this is the progress it will be making once it actually comes on shore now the winds a fluctuation but right now that about 165 kilometers an hour and it doesnt look as if theyre going to get any stronger before it comes on shore if theyre moving a little bit quicker not quickly a told 5 kilometers an hour up to the north northeast now its all about the flooding and the storm surge now the storm surge is so dependent of course on the lying of the coast how it however low lying it is that also the time coinciding with high tides but the flooding this is a difference in are all together this system has been sitting in the gulf of mexico for the last few days it is the just. Sitting there and so this rain has been spreading across all of the southeast is coming down at about 75. 00 to 100. 00 millimeters an hour this is the sort of rain that will cause flooding and its not about to dissipate any time soon throughout wednesday once it comes on shore it will remain a hurricane and then through thursday as it has its way eastwards it will actually become a Tropical Storm so it really doesnt disappear and his time yet when it comes to the rain coming down with this storm system you can see it will develop across the path of the hurrican the the pop that it actually takes and in fact we could be saying as much as 400. 00 millimeters of rain now whilst were talking about bass out on the west coast temperatures have come down for the last few days weve seen this system working its way towards the shore as you can see here we will be seeing more rain in the for constantly for seattle but theres also cools the fog and also the smoke in the atmosphere and then down to portland weve also got the chance of some showers but it doesnt make it much further south than that right youve got this confluence of climate related is also going on have me thanks very much indeed for that lets take this on lets speak to will stephan whos a counselor at the Climate Council of australia joins us live from camera by skype or will stuff we welcome to the program and that is the thing here we cant say categorically that these wildfires and hurricanes are caused by Climate Change but they all definitely be made worse. Yeah thats actually true the way we say is that the being strongly influenced by Climate Change and there are a couple of factors that play into this one where there was the extreme hot conditions which led up to these fires but also in Northern California and oregon dry conditions and this is sort of a toxic mix for hunters we saw exactly the same thing happened in australia about 9 or 10 months ago with the enormous finest down here now were seeing it on the other side of the pacific and its a clear fingerprint of Climate Change and making what normally occur anyway fires much worse than that they were before this and the same with the hurrican theres no them queuing up but we have seen that before its just the the kind of conficker in the size of them is not yes thats right theres theres a skewness toward more intense tropical cyclones or ins and there are really 2 factors again at play here one is not because the atmosphere is warmer than it was after 50 or 70 years ago it can actually hold more water vapor so this is super charging the storms to to rain down enormous amounts of water at the same time in terms of storm surges the storms are riding on higher sea levels than were around 70 or 80 years ago so this means that you have a double whammy of more water coming out in the atmosphere its coming down on a higher sea level this actually is really exacerbates the storm surge the flooding and the damage that these storms cause will we all know about the need to cut emissions but the thing is even if we magically didnt cut emissions today the status quo would remain wouldnt and that is the status quo that is saying these wildfires raging these hurricanes pummeling these glasses cannot think this is not reversible as it. Well its a little worse than status quo weve actually built it worse conditions for the next couple of decades and even if we could magically get emissions down now well were going to see worsening conditions till around 24 years so the real test we have is to stabilize the current climate century so the next generations wont face even worse conditions and can we do that weve got these trillions of dollars of stimulus packages big injected into the Global Economy theres a real opportunity here isnt absolutely this is what i call of fork in the road we can all live there direct oldest images money into the new economy into Renewable Energy into electric vehicles into new technologies that do not meet a green Greenhouse Gases but if we go back to the old way of doing things like were attempting to do in australia with massive investment in gas were going to exacerbate Climate Change is going to get worse and we will be able to stabilize it by mid century so we are really at critical fork in the road in terms of how we deal with Climate Change professor will suffer great to get your analysis and expertise appreciate well stuff in from the Climate Council through thank you thank you well more than 650000 people have been displaced by sudans west of the floods the waters are starting to slowly recede but many counts afford to move away from the banks of the knowledge river so the doing what little they can to rebuild will speak to him or can shortly but 1st lets have her report from kathy. This is what the inside of the lot his house looks like now weeks of flooding has damaged or destroyed much of what he has. He says hes got no way of training the water out hiring a water pump is costly and hes lost too much already but he says moving elsewhere after the floods is not an option. Then my house is about 3 kilometers away from the nile and ive lived here for a number of years. Getting a plot to move elsewhere is costly with todays economy and me and my family cant afford it so ill drain the water and hope this doesnt happen again next year. Abdellatif home is one of dozens that have been damaged in his village of kalac in the southern part of sudans capital hard to. Torrential rains caused the nile to rise to levels not seen in more than a century the resulting flood damage to well over 100000 homes around sudan most were just kilometers away as the river burst its banks wiping out villages and towns and displacing more than 600000 people it forced the government to declare a 3 month state of emergency some chose to stay in their homes despite them being filled with water the man waters have been receding after nearly 3 weeks and people in the area are hoping to start the recovery but there have been problems with the drainage system and its weakness can be seen on the streets of a lot of them after rainfall since the start of the rainy season 2 months ago some of the major highways have been cut off schools and Health Facilities have either been damaged or destroyed its a site that repeats itself every year but meteorologists say this years rains are unprecedented so dans government says its focus is on helping those whove been displaced and preventing water borne diseases but more rains and floods are expected in the coming days and those displaced say the government needs to do more to help them. We want the government to give us new plots so that this doesnt happen again really who live in the banks of the nile dont have the ability to buy new plots it should be the government giving us a plot so that the problem is addressed by the root and normal houses collapse from rained off until he gets a new plot this house is all that he has he says hell do what he can to get the water out so that he and his family can return to their home and start rebuilding or lets get more on this with him in khartoum and there are all these problems with flooding as you say to come is not something that sudan can cope with alone what kind of help are they getting from the outside international. Well nic at the moment a lot of people are still cut off from the aid that they say they need a lot of them have been saying that they are still out in the open or living in their homes which have been damaged by the floods and by rains now internationally there has been a huge response countries like qatar countries like iraq. Emirates and egypt they all donated with materials to to respond to the flood emergency that is happening right now in sudan but the number of the people who are affected are rising as the rainy season continues and they are saying that this response is weak nationally the government has set up a committee to look into those who have been affected by the floods here in her to me specifically those who are living by the nile river and those whose villages were destroyed now the government reports said that those people who were living by them and in the valleys that lead to the nile were living in the long wrong location and that they should be moved now this means that they all should get ports but the government right now is also facing several crisis facing an economic crisis its facing a Health Emergency with the global corner virus pandemic but also with the diseases that are breaking out because of the stagnant water that is resulting from this floods emergency so lots of challenges in front of the government which is calling on International Donors and countries to try to help them the u. N. Has already said that only 200000 of the 650000 affected have received aid and supports internationally and from the government and that more than have remain without aid so it looks like the government right now is calling on its partners and its friends to try to help them help those whove been affected and get to better places and get shelters and avoid water borne diseases we are huge challenges. Dude who are more can go to. Plenty more still ahead here on the news hour including palestinians say theyve been betrayed as United Arab Emirates and bahrain signed deals to normalize relations with israel. Why thousands of refugees in lesbos dont want to relocate to a new shelter to a huge fire destroyed their camp last week. And baseball in a bubble will have more on how teams plan to keep playing 3 fundamental. Just like. It. So has been selected as japans new Prime Minister designate a parliamentary vote confirms who is nomination is a long time ally of former Prime Minister shooter after he resigned last month for Health Reasons so it will now seek the emperors official appointment before he takes office what mcbride is following developments from the south korean capital of seoul. A change in leader but were not really expecting a change in substance or indeed in policy. As the right hand man the trusted left tenant of shinzo served him for nearly 8 years as the chief cabinet secretary as soon as our been announced his resignation he became the heir apparent and now indeed succeeds him hes being called a continuity Prime Minister almost an interim basically his job for the next year is pretty much to mind the shop for the ruling l. D. P. Before new elections are called and Carry Forward policies we know hes very closely aligned politically ideologically with a hole to the same conservative views especially when it comes to trying to revive the economy so we can expect that sudar will basically Carry Forward those same cause they socalled are the nomics policies that were already in place and we already know in fact from the lineup. His new cabinet that is basically our base cabinet says so that is confirmation if we needed it that sudar is basically going to Carry Forward the work of his previous us. Senior palestinian figures say theyve been betrayed out of the United Arab Emirates and bahrain signed u. S. Brokered agreements to normalize relations with israel have been protests against the deal in gaza and in the occupied west Bank President donald trump says the deals represent what he called the dawn of a new middle east White House Correspondent can you help get a sense for. Its not the promised peace deal of the century between israelis and palestinians still u. S. President donald trump hailed the signing of the Abraham Accords at the white house as an historic day after decades of division and conflict we marked the dawn of a new middle east. The agreement signed between israel the United Arab Emirates and bahrain formalizes relationships already of place but now includes the opening of embassies its a pivot point they hope will end old conflicts and lead to new Cooperation Among israel and eventually even more arab nations to all over israels friends in the middle east those who are with us today. And those who will join us tomorrow i say. Earlier in the day trump hinted that other countries will also be signing diplomatic pacts with israel but well have at least 5 or 6 countries coming along very quickly and were already talking to him but noticeably absent from tuesday steel siding palestinian leadership the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates acknowledge their participation in the agreement require the preservation of current palestinian land. I thank you for choosing peace and for halting. Palestinian territories at position that reinforces our shared will to achieve a Better Future for generations to come. In the palestinian territories there were protests over the deal that also failed to ease the 13 year blockade of people in gaza the human rights activists hav