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Wildfire in state history. it has already consumed an entire town, yet it is just one of the many fires americans have faced this year. the weather outlook is bad too, with drought and heat waves across many western states. some experts worry that this could go on for months. this aerial scanning team has been making intense night—time reconnaissance trips over forest fires for two months now. mike murphy's mission is to get as close to the fires as possible to scan them and then send detailed maps to firefighters on the ground. these are intense flights between eight and ten hours long, and...

Clouds from a nuclear explosion, they carpet the state with this thick haze. it is really difficult to know what is going on on the ground which is why firefighters want the scans of the fire. mike uses infrared cameras to see through the smoke. this is a live fire and it is building right now. this is all the front of the fire. all the red is areas of intense heat. from this height, everywhere you look, you can see fires, big and small. the sun is just setting now and we have been over five fires. you can see how far the haze goes, all the way into the distance. afterfour hours, we refuel and...

With the president confirming more than 20 suspects have been arrested so far. tanya dendrinos, bbc news. with yet more intense heat in the us this week, forest fires in many western states can be seen from space. the dixie fire in california started a month ago. it's the second biggest fire in the state's history, and is still raging. oregon is also battling one of the largest fires it's ever faced. to combat these historic blazes, new technology is being deployed. our north america tech reporter james clayton has been flying over washington state to see how infra—red mapping allows those i...

Islamabad. the local taliban group could reassemble in pakistan because they are going to be coming to power in afghanistan. and for india, they are worrying about what will happen in kashmir. the militants can happen insolence. what is happening in afghanistan, it is strategic, it has a huge concern and impact in the region itself. a huge concern and impact in the region itself-— a huge concern and impact in the reuion itself. ., ,, , ., , . the uk defence secretary ben wallace says afghanistan is now heading for civil war, which, he says, will lead to more poverty and create a breedign gro...

Ground. it has been a question of air support. ground. it has been a question of airsupport. 0n ground. it has been a question of air support. 0n the basis of 2500 soldiers who were there at the early part of this year, we have been able to provide support for the afghan national army to make sure the taliban remained in the rural areas of the south. this is totally heartbreaking and totally unnecessary. there was no reason to do this and we have broken afghanistan in a matter of weeks. ? what has gone wrong? you had spent years, the uk and the united states, training of the military. t5 it ye...