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this is you know the news live from berlin inferno the deadliest fires in california history are ripping across the northern part of the state leaving a trail of death and destruction emergency services struggling to contain the flames that have destroyed the heart of california's wine country and reduced entire neighborhoods to ash also coming up the united states and israel are pulling out of the united nations cultural organization unesco washington says the organization is anti israel and has not made sufficient reforms and producers anything opiate create female superheroes to fight child marriage b t bob girls break to bruise by showing away from tough topics in the classroom.

it's a pleasure to have you with us we begin in the u.s. where thirty one people are now confirmed dead and wildfires are raging across northern california making them the deadliest in the state's history and the death toll is sadly expected to rise even further with hundreds of people still missing while the blazes have been burning since sunday in the wine country or north of san francisco firefighters have not succeeded in bringing the worst of them under control dry conditions and fierce winds have been hampering their efforts will new evacuations orders now have been issued with the conditions of forecast to get worse over the weekend. while earlier we spoke to a mike the vaulter who is a journalist with the sorrow or radio in sonoma county where the fire seemed to

have a hit the hardest he took a tour throughout his community and described the situation for us take a listen. and i was able to take a tour of some of the most badly damaged areas of the city today for the first time with the highway patrol i can tell you that witnessing the devastation personally is far more striking intermixed than the pictures that you see on t.v. . to two neighborhoods copy park as it had been working class neighborhood leveled flat desolate. any direction you look at just flat ground where the upscale found growth neighborhood has more the look of a war zone these burned out vehicles piles of rubble were some of the city's most historic landmarks one that i can say that the recovery here is going to take a very long time and we also asked micah to look ahead for us and and tell us what the authorities and firefighters will be folks focusing on in the coming days. the focus here is dealing with the wind heading into this weekend right into saturday

is going to be the turning point if there's any if they can to hold fend off the winds for this weekend if the effort turns to recovery if the winds get bad it could create and some new problems for some of the more densely populated communities here and we've seen these problems all over again. my dog there are journalist with case are radio in sonoma county california we're porting on the california wildfires. all right and another a natural disaster is also proving deadly in vietnam where at least fifty four people have been killed in severe floods and landslides affecting central and northern regions where key infrastructure has been destroyed making rescue efforts very very difficult and more than thirty thousand homes are submerged and many communities have lost all their crops and livestock at some of the worst flooding to hit this nation in years and forecasters are warning it's not over yet where

they nother major storm on its way. want to focus now to iraq where tensions over last month's independence vote by iraqi kurds appear to be boiling over in iraq he general has told news agency a.f.p. that government troops have launched operations to retake kurdish help positions in and around kirkuk while the kurdish vice president has said thousands more critics troops have been sent to counter what it calls the iraqi threat while the country's minority kurds overwhelmingly voted to break away from iraq and form their own independent state that would include areas such as the oil rich care kook region. all right to discuss here let's bring in the campbell macdermid a freelance journalist in air bill just outside care cook want to start off by asking you what are you hearing exactly i mean is the iraqi army trying to retake kirkuk can you confirm that for us. yeah i mean there's

a lot of room as well and at the moment so you've seen you know social media is alive with conflicting reports i mean you mentioned that you have people reporting in and the name general saying there was an attack in the making or an operation in the making we've seen a lot of official denials from baghdad saying that is not the case that being you know troop movements because of the ongoing operation to clear isis from hawaii just south of coke but the kurdistan region is certainly not taking those reassurance that seriously and they're sending a lot of troops so you are seeing a troop build up in and around kirkuk by both the kurdish peshmerga and iraqi forces and the popular mobilization units the shia militias which are probably the biggest concern at this point can you elaborate a little bit more about what this all means are we witnessing the making of a potentially new internal conflict. i mean it's

a bit early actually to start you know to to say that i mean it's certainly extremely tense here at the moment but i think there are still cool heads on both sides that one of the conflict happening the worry is that you know an isolated clash might break out between you know some peshmerga and shia militia or something and that could escalate but certainly at the moment you know both sides are looking to take control of coke in one way or another but they at this point you know they're seeking to avoid a military confrontation which would be disastrous i think for both sides all right i want to talk a little bit more about of course the importance of kirkuk because it's been widely reported and documented that the kurdish peshmerga and the iraqi army have been key allies in the u.s. led coalition in its fight against the so-called islamic state so what is there a change of heart or is it just all about the crude. well i mean it is you know it's very easy to set its all about the oil but it's also it's much more symbolic

and you know that the kurds especially a very you know have a very emotional attachment to cook and the federal government sees you know control of disputed territories as you know an impingement on their sovereignty so it's not that the potential to get very heated but yes there is oil there the kurds feel that since the iraqi army left in two thousand and fourteen without defending the city and the peshmerga came in and of distended the city against isis since them that they they have no reason to give it back and they believe that you know enough people in the city want them there that they can stay there and they they shouldn't have to withdraw just because the federal government now demands that you know three years after they walked out of there leaving their weapons behind and without defending the city all right campbell mcdiarmid reporting there from erbil just outside kirkuk thank you thank you and we want to bring it up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. police in both new

york and london are looking into sexual assault allegations against hollywood film producer harvey weinstein that's as a fourth woman now also accuses him of rape while new york investigators are reviewing an assault case back from two thousand and four police in london meanwhile have received a new claim of assault dating back to the nineteen eighty s. us president donald trump has signed an executive order to add stripping back obamacare it'll make it easier for americans to buy cheaper health care plans with fewer benefits all critics say it could mean spiraling costs for people with existing health problems and previously attempts by the trunk of ministration to repeal the affordable healthcare act have been blocked by congress. a security guard killed in a las vegas gun massacre a week ago has been buried in the city's memorial park twenty one year old eric silva was shot while trying to help concert goers escape

a festival venue where the attack took place he was one of fifty eight people to have been killed in the shooting in. germany voted in national elections last month and today we have the results of the first opinion poll of the new parliament carried out by pollsters and for a test to die map while the election saw support for the governing parties including just on america's conservatives fall to historic lows where the vote also means the far right to alternative for germany will enter the bonus stock for the very first time. as germans went to the polls was probably hoping for a better result than she got the conservatives remain the strongest political force but suffered historic losses. c.d.u. c.s.u. the liberal f.d.p. and the greens to form a so-called jamaica coalition the party's colors of a same as the country's flag. german seem confident that marco can forge these four

different parties into a governing coalition three quarters of those polled by and for test the map think they'll strike a coalition deal only one in five think they'll fail. one of the criticisms levelled at makerere is that she had taken her conservative block too far to the left many of them want to return to more conservative roots and those calls were especially vocal from the very insistent party the c.s.u. . asked what political direction conservatives should take only a fifth of her spondon thought they should become more conservative a quarter so they should maintain the current course while almost half of all people surveyed thought the conservatives should become more centrist. pollsters and protest people whether they thought the parties have been honest during the campaign about their plans for after the election. the greens and the f.t.p.

came out best the other parties were all level pegging but the f.t. isn't clear last place only a quarter of respondents believed they'd been honest about their intent. and if there were an election this coming sunday the results would be similar to last month. the c.d.u. c.s.u. on thirty two percent the s.p.d. on twenty percent unchanged the f.t. . he loses almost two points to stand at eleven percent level pegging with the n.d.p. not far behind the left party and the greens both but ten percent. are lots more to come here's what's ahead. super girls to the rescue get ready to meet the cartoon characters on a mission to change attitudes toward girls and women in ethiopia.

that's coming up but first and that air berlin. set for takeoff for theory is another player who wants them to stay grounded yes one player and some of that half second thoughts now i mean this deal certainly sparked controversy in the aviation sector this low cost carrier ryan air saying they wanted to take the deal to european competition authorities the german were not fully camas commission is looking at starting an antitrust investigation investors though welcome the takeover pushing of tons of stock to a sixteen year high now under the deal germany's number one airline is buying up half of the country's second largest carrier the deal will leave the towns in a much better position to compete with foreign budget airlines like easy jet like ryan air which dominates europe's short haul routes in a moment we will look a bit deeper into that to deal with cost of corba first some facts and figures that

. the employees at air berlin have questions lots of questions the future of most of the eight thousand two hundred employees is far from secure even after a deal with the photons the airline is purchasing most of the planes for two hundred ten million euros that's eighty one of the one hundred thirty aircraft but very few employees are being offered jobs at the tons of seventeen hundred of air berlin former employees are already working there they were lent out to live tonnes of subsidiary euro wings their only an additional thirteen hundred jobs to apply for i know against it hit us you know tons of the impression is that lufthansa snatching up the best parts of air berlin for its own business all from the employees are just an afterthought that's not permitted under european and german labor laws. and. staff can't be left in the lurch like that but it's i don't think the employees will accept it. starts. but

the financial pressure on every lane is immense it closes its doors at the end of the month and the unions can see it coming up with a better plan for the remaining six thousand employees. are afraid that everybody will lose their jobs and it's a very dramatic situation at the moment we don't know of any solutions whether easyjet is still in the game what's happening to air berlin sick with mint and that will all be decided in the coming days but most of them will have to find new jobs or until the tension is also growing as complaints over a domestic monopoly could scupper the deal ryanair and other former bidders for ever then want to take their case to the european court they think look times are received an unfair advantage in clinching the deal that could also prove unfair for air berlin customers who can provide a time first of all it's sad we're losing our berlin but also look tonnes a has to do even less for their customers now that they're not having competition anymore.

now employees can only wait for answers that. b. in their favor. all right joining me now in the studio is my very aviation savvy colleague the stuff. because the first of all that deal would you say it's a good one is the best that ebeling could get well it depends who you ask if you ask leave time's up for them it is a gigantic coup. their low cost subsidiary euro wings in which the herbal imports will be integrated it doubles in size just from one day to the other just like that that is very rare and it doesn't have to go through painfully slow growth in this low cost market which is dominated by other players so for it is it is a big coup if you look at the air berlin staff well it's a it's a rather sad scenario for them of one the personnel pilots and flight attendants they have good chances of being rehired or taken over by loved ones or if they get rehired they're going to have to go through some pay cuts up to forty percent

that's what trade unions say and if you look at the ground staff and people working in the back office their chances of keeping their jobs over ok when you say that with the pay cuts i understand now what that lady in the report to meant when she said that service will probably suffer now we hear that obviously competitors on tapi about it but authorities monopoly commission etc they all want to look into it why. there's nary a is that tons of takes over eighty one planes of the about one hundred thirty that urban land has now the remaining parts that have not been snatched up out of towns that they are still up for grabs and according to the trust of stories they need to be bought by someone they're not supposed to disappear from the market if they did that would mean even more power to lose tons and then the whole deal could be scrapped all together now rabbi on the over on the horizon well there is easy jet they have been in talks with evelyn about for about

a dozen planes but. there has been no deal signed yet but there are other. other companies that you know may swoop in if easyjet doesn't get their way so there are talks but they haven't been finalized what does this mean for passengers just because there is the fear of growing tickets because a ticket prices for that matter because on routes where air berlin and move tons are used to be competitors. is now taking on its own subsidiary that doesn't sound like much competition to me ok cost of course but they're very own aviation expert thank you so much for this. is u.s. president trump about to abandon the iran nuclear deal it's a cause for concern for the countries who are helping to help negotiate it well other than the u.s. staying clued britain france russia and china the un's security council's permanent members plus germany will gather with you the group broke at the iran nuclear agreement in the summer of twenty fifteen in the accord iran promised that its

nuclear program is strictly peaceful in practice that means you're a human richmond is limited and the country stockpile is capped at three hundred kilograms while the reactor in iraq will be reconfigured so it can't produce any weapons grade plutonium and all this will be closely monitored by the international atomic energy agency well in return for it all economic sanctions on iran were left it let's talk a little bit more about this with scott lucas he is an american studies professor at the university of burnham and he joins us right now yes there is that think so much of professor for joining us it's really really difficult to tell whether all the tough talk coming out of washington is real because on the one hand you've got president trump repeatedly saying that you know iran broke the deal the spirit of the deal but the i.a.e.a. says no they're complying and congress also agree with iran complying with the terms of agreement and then we've had today right before coming on air the new york

times reporting that the u.s. will keep the deal so is this just all part of the art of the deal. ok well it's donald trump who wants to leave the deal getting to stage an appearance where he waves his fist furiously but it's a very small stick because his top advisors are telling him that the u.s. needs to remain in the deal for the sake of relations with european partners like germany to prevent iran from having the excuse to quickly return to higher grade uranium twenty percent uranium and because the deal quite frankly has been successful in containing iranian programs so while trump may want to sabotage this mainly because president obama negotiated the deal this is actually just a step in a much longer maneuvering we have to see if congress will now reimpose sweeping sanctions against iran and if congress does so how the iranians react and talk to

us a little bit about the u.s. u.s. is that credibility on the world stage how is china looking at this how are the europeans looking at this well i think there's a difference between truck credibility and u.s. credibility i think no one actually thinks that the person to make the art of the deal with now is donald trump i think you have to go to his advisors defense secretary matters such as state tillerson but that said i think the u.s. is at risk of isolating itself it is quite clear that china and russia will support terror on because iran has been complying with the deal and britain germany and france are now caught in a very tough position they do not see trump as being reliable they do not think it is a good idea to threaten to abandon the deal but do they actually began to renew more trading relationships with terror on even if this upsets others in washington let's let's talk about iran for a second we've got about forty seconds left they've said listen the negotiation stage is over we're not renegotiating so how are they taking all of this.

all their talking loudly about how the deal must be adhered to and declaring that they have european support that means if the us does not leave the deal iran will not retaliate on love us and this is a big time loss washington adopt new sanctions against the revolutionary guards the leading military force in turkey all right scott lucas professor of american studies at the university of birmingham thank you. now as the united states and israel have announced they're withdrawing from unesco the u.n. cultural organization created by the u.s. more than seven decades ago washington say the agency is anti israel and has avoided reform and is too expensive well this comes as u.s. co is holding a tense meeting to a pick a new director general candidates from qatar and egypt are among the leading contenders well the agency's next head will have to cope with losing its biggest source of financing power says you next go headquarters the side of the latest spat

between washington and the united nations the u.n. agencies official mission is providing education coaching human rights that includes keeping a list of world heritage sites but the u.s. government says unesco is too political we'd like to see the politics kept out of it and we see with this anti israel bias that's long documented on the part of you know asco that that needs to come to an end to the united states made the decision after a long deliberative process to pull out the u.s. is angry because u.s. can recognize her bronze old city as a palestinian side even though the city's team of the patriarchs also an important jewish holy land mosque it's also angry that syria was kept on the unesco human rights committee in spite of the country's ongoing civil war. the u.s. already i.c.'s go hundreds of millions of dollars now it's laving you know scott says by doing so it's betraying american values. united states is

a founding member of the whole idea that you can build peace through education science a culture communication. is basically an american idea it's not the first time the u.s. has pulled out of unesco it quit in the one thousand nine hundred six crabbing in esco is anti western in price so i view it a decision that took decades to reverse. this time around washington is planning to leave the door open to return and maintain observer status it's a position it hopes to use to reform the un's cultural i didn't see and is the access to education for girls is limited and girls are also subject to traditional practices like child marriage but one is european television producer wants to turn things around let's find out how and animated series with female superheroes is on a mission to change attitudes. of captivation on their

faces this school and. it's showing pupils the first episode of. means wisdom and. in the series three heroines fight for the equality of girls and women. before age fifteen and most of them will need to go back to school. to succeed in life. wants to change this it's important to the program's creators that children can identify with the show so they organize screenings of the pilot episode at local schools to see if people like it. so. something they know who they can connect with. after watching the

show the children write down what they liked or didn't like and which story lines they want to see continue. it was great because it was about. i've never seen anything like it. is the brainchild of. the trainer so she could no longer ignore the plight of young women in ethiopia. so i seen how can he saw this huge problem on his neck and in beauty and kindergarten everywhere so i start thinking how can you reach millions of children in my country with less course there was quality education. dr wade has already produced three successful t.v. and radio series which educate children across ethiopia in a fun way. she hopes to bad girls will become a success and help challenge taboos we're starting from hard core sound to make it

stop only married. the thing is you know that is why the part of animation is very interesting because it is animation it is fictional so people can pick a distance and. comfortable to talk about it and that's what we want the first instinct is talking about it. but it's not always easy. sometimes i get close treated you know shouldn't be creepin years to get to this point and you know i should reach more kids than by now you know and all east africa it's so slow because of so many broke bureaucratic. procedures or not support or. just the day to day by years. distributing the programs is difficult and resources are scarce social entrepreneurship is not yet common in ethiopia their policies don't stop with us because we're still look as

a business person so we've been passed past the same way where the missile would go where no readers we are in smaller resorts we have to do a lot. but the team behind to pick up girls is strong and motivated and they won't give up in the face of these obstacles that still negotiating with t.v. broadcasters. thank you so much for spending part of the day with us i'll be back at the top of the hour.

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