Death toll goes up in Los Angeles fires

As Los Angeles struggles to contain fires, the planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows, despite world leaders vowing a decade ago they would try to avoid this.

More than 9,000 homes and other structures have been destroyed or damaged by the fires burning through Los Angeles. A man is in custody after one of the blazes was started deliberately.

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(Photo: The wind whips embers while a firefighter battles the fire in the Angeles National Forest; Credit: Ringo Chiu/Reuters)