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19/08/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Canadian province declares a state of emergency

Canada dealing with its worst wildfire season on record

The western Canadian province of British Colombia has declared a state of emergency as the country deals with its worst wildfire season on record. Evacuation orders have increased as more than a thousand fires burn nation-wide. In the area around the city of Kelowna, in British Colombia, the fires are expected to worsen in the coming days. 

Also in the programme: starvation in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region; and Wagner group mercenaries in Belarus cause neighbours to move troops. 

Joining Gary O'Donoghue to discuss all this and more are Maria del Pillar Kaladeen, associate fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; and Ramy Inocencio, CBS News Foreign Correspondent. 

(Photo: A helicopter carries a water bucket while battling the McDougall Creek wildfire outside the Okanagan community of West Kelowna, British Columbia. CREDIT: REUTERS/Chris Helgren)

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