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Joined the efforts in greece. hejoins us from he joins us from kalamata. hejoins us from kalamata. hello, good evening. thanks so much for speaking to us. you actually live in the uk, but you've gone to help the firefighting effort in greece. yes. very different — firefighting effort in greece. yes. very different from _ firefighting effort in greece. yes. very different from what - firefighting effort in greece. jazz very different from what you're having to face now. tell us what it's like and what you seen. well, i've been fighting _ it's like and what you seen. well, i've been fighting f...

For that here yet. - well, climate change is being seen as playing a key role in wildfires burning around the world. the algerian defence ministry says 18 members of the military have died fighting fires in forests east of algiers. flames have been threatening towns and villages in the area. algeria is the latest country on the mediterranean to be hit by wildfires. president putin has ordered more firefighters to be sent to siberia to tackle catastrophic forest fires there. more than 80,000 square kilometres of forest have burnt in russia so far this year. earlier, nasa said smoke from the rus...

And there is a sense that climate changel is the responsibility of others — industrial nations like the usa, that have burnt coal- for more than a century. and while india is the third—largestl emitter, despite being home to 17% of the world's population, i it only produces 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. so, while other countries have i set targets for reaching net zero in terms of carbon emissions, there isn't even a date underl consideration for that here yet. well, climate change is being seen as playing a key role in wildfires burning around the world. the algerian defence mini...

In Teilen Griechenlands bleibt die Lage unverändert dramatisch. Die Regierung erfährt eine Welle der Hilfsbereitschaft aus dem Ausland. In Deutschland machen sich Spezialisten heute auf den Weg nach Athen.

Nothing more we could have done. >> reporter: the power of mother nature is just, it's awe-inspiring and you are right to stand where just hours ago a house stood. you know, it's very challenging because our firefighters want to do the very best they can for the communities that we serve. i think that's also a prime example of why we so strongly encourage people to, please heed those evacuation orders and warnings. >> and just looking at the bigger picture here, what i'm hearing from firefighters is that fighting fires, these fires, these massive fires don't have the same behavior that they us...