this is news coming to you live from berlin six hundred people evacuated from a wife fired. the rapidly spreading blaze has taken hold of woodland around fifty kilometers southwest of the city efforts to find it odd being hampered by order from the second world war in the. latest for you also coming up. pope francis de france to make the first. visit to ireland in nearly forty years.

of rocking the church will the pontiff respond to the growing pressure to investigate. and. treating politics a new prime minister is sworn in six. scott morrison takes over from malcolm turnbull who lost a party leadership struggle. is back tonight the new season kicks off the behind taking on hoffenheim for german football has a lot to prove. look at the challenges ahead. in a warm welcome to you i'm. around six hundred people have been evacuated from their homes as a wildfire blaze blazes close to the german capital in the rapidly spreading fire had. taken hold of

a large woodland around fifty kilometers southwest of the city despite that distance residents of good smell smoke from the fire this morning emergency services are still trying to combat the flames we'll go live to the scene just after this report. flames are ripping through this german forest the blaze has spread to an area size of four hundred football fields since it started on thursday . hundreds of firefighters have been working throughout the night to contain the places and there's an at a challenge the area is laden with munition perish in the forests during world war two. i have huge respect for the firefighters who are out there right now risking their lives we know there's i mean this i'm lying around in the forest residents said there were already some explosions. around six hundred villages had to be evacuated some had to spend the night in local shelters. the mayor of one of the

villages says the situation is unprecedented. and we've already had some big fires here in the region so we do have a little experience that will never seen wildfires in this dimension where they almost enter villages and i've never seen an evacuation on this scale before nine eleven was on the shop it's still not clear how the fire started but germany has been suffering under a massive heat wave for weeks leaving many forests and fields extremely dry now the challenge is to get the flames under control authorities say it could take days. and our current one hundred grand is in the town of troy and greets until still where the fire is raging and where residents of religious which had to be evacuated are taking shelter as we heard there the scale of this fire is unprecedented what's happening there now. well at the moment right as we speak the prime minister of the province in which we are called brandenburg province is in this hole behind

me where some of the people that were evacuated took shelter for the night for the past night and they are now waiting for information on whether or not they will be able to return to their villages soon at the moment they hope that this will be the case but it is not certain yet because the fire is not completely under control yet and the weather is also still unpredictable it's cloudy here it could possibly rain but at the same time there's quite a strong wind that is predicted to come up and that could fan the flames again so it's very uncertain at the moment how this is going to go on now you've been talking to some of the people who are being affected what have they been telling you what have they experienced. but what happened is that pretty late last night they had to leave their homes after that heard that the fire had broken off and had smell suits and seen the effects and in fact some people told us that they heard exploding munitions. exploding nearby or near their homes or within earshot at

least these are the munitions that have been left during the second world war and later because after the second world war until the eighty's there were thousands of russian troops stationed in this area they also have initials their pows in this area and they also left some of that i mean initially lying around in the forests so it's a very dangerous situation only the proper roads the reds that have been struck through the forest have actually been cleared of mines so the firefighters cannot really go to the source of the flames kind of go into the forest and a lot depends on how well the helicopters that are being used able to actually extinguish the flames and have the parties being able to say when do you find fighting operations will make it possible for people to return to their homes. now they haven't been able to say there is some indication that some of the people involved hope that they will be able to return today but as i say that's still very unclear and at the moment the people are being informed by the prime minister and by the local mayor about the situation at the moment i suspect that they will not

be able to return immediately because it's not quite clear how the weather's going to develop and whether the weather is actually going to help or stingers the fire if it starts raining or whether it's going to fan the flames again if those strong winds start coming up so it's very unclear how it's going to develop certainly the fire is going to end up burning for quite a long time still it's a very large area it's the largest fire in this region that has ever been experienced it will take days probably and possibly even weeks before the fire is completely under control so still very much a developing story hans brown thank you very much for being us up to date on the fire is raging not far from the german capital of berlin. pope francis is due to make his first papal visit to ireland in nearly forty years to speak and he's expected to grow much smaller numbers than turned out to greet john paul the second decades ago as he struggles to ring that in the great

confidence in the church damning new revelations about current and past sex abuse in the u.s. chile and australia have gotten to question the leadership of bishops and cardinals accused off protecting predator trees the vatican is facing growing pressure from catholics to cooperate with criminal investigative. joining me now is religious affairs correspondent martin welcome martin this so much of outrage with these latest new revelations which have come out about child abuse and tended to priests what kind of perception do you think the pope is going to get an island i think there is a mixed reception understandably i mean there is a part of a population that is still very much committed a large part of the population that is still very much committed to the catholic church a couple of churches still a massive presence through the country but at the very same time it's also true that partly i think because of the scandals of the sexual abuse revelations or last

ten years or so there's been a pretty systematic abandonment of the catholic church and this is very much reflected in newspapers and sort of public opinion one can see that you know there is much more of a polarization where s. and ninety's when you nine when john paul visited ireland the situation the demographic the religious demographics of the country were quite different the expectation is of course on the pope to see if anything will be said concerning protocol and policies of the bout to go see because this is a huge cause and growing cotton pressure on the catholic church to take concrete action we talked to in fact an activist who was working for an organization to end abuse by the k.g.b. let's take a listen to what he had to say fust the church is the largest global institution and i'm sad to sign one having been brought up a catholic that it is to use a business term it's the market leader in criminality in this particular area and i

think pope francis has the five years and it's time he did something concrete not just it's you need him out apologies. so we saw that martin i mean a colorful action is what people want at the moment and you see any action it's not known i mean there's been a change in tone so the letter that was you should only a couple of days ago by the pope's office by the pope himself refers to some of these episodes i mean sexual abuse no longer s. just a sin but no less criminal actions which goes to say that there seems to be at least a gesture that something will be done in terms of national authorities at the very same time what is true is that this pope has been occupying his position for now six years five almost six in there's been endless talk about both ciro tolerance to farther abuses and of putting in place particular protocols and boluses to deal not just with abuse but with the cover up one of the things that we saw coming out of

the pennsylvania grand jury. report is a matter of fact over this five or six years this kind of crimes continue to take place until i didn't is traditionally a catholic they have been social changes there in contradiction to religious and traditions for example legalization of abortion which is one recognizing gay marriage so i don't seems to be at a crossroads how do you think the pope is going to navigate this briefly if you can not and i think this is this is sort of a situation for the catholic church pretty much everywhere which is that society has moved away and although would preserve some of the values that the catholic church instills on its communities at the very same time in to stay in positions concerning divorce gay marriage artificial insemination sexual morality that stray from the church station it is no longer viable for the church simply to take the high road and say we just are we are or you know or without us for the church should remain relevant politically this pope knows very well that he has to

actually come closer to the values that no communities express arness of very good expression of this because the change that's been so obviously one so radical right thank you very much for those insights a pleasure. let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world hurricane lane is pounding hawaii with high winds and torrential rains as it moves across the pacific the storm has now been downgraded to category three but can still cause major damage with winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour the extreme downpours have triggered flash floods and landslides. south africa has accused the u.s. president donald trump of fueling racial tensions after he said farmers they're being forced off their land and many of them killed south africa's ruling a.n.c. party plans to speed up the extra push angel of land without compensation to redress racial imbalances in land ownership pretoria accord trumps tweet

misinformed. german chancellor angela merkel is visiting georgia as part of a three day tour of the caucasus she met the georgian prime minister. on thursday and said she rejected fast tracking membership for the country she lour head to the armenian capital yet of on before ending the trip in eyes about john tomorrow australia has a new prime minister after its former leader malcolm turnbull was ousted by a majority in his own party former finance minister scott morrison has been sworn in as the country's new prime minister morrison one a party ballot defeating his rival but forty five votes to forty he'll have to get to grips with an increasingly divided party that's desperate to stay in power and is grappling with poor polling results now off the top in australian politics the country's new prime minister said as we try for this new miracle of leadership

as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring their party back together which has been bruised and battered this week. but that was to ensure we bring the parliament back together. that we can continue to work to ensure that our country stays close together. i'm joined now from sydney by journalist and roger may not is keeping track of those developments i want to as we heard scott morrison says he wants to unite the party but how difficult will it be as he said it's been a tough and bruising and bad week for the party when i look to the point he's absolutely right it's been a week about political chaos and whether or not it will end with the election of scott morrison remains to be seen he faces a big struggle to unite the liberal party which has been riven you know by

concerns that energy prices and countless other issues in recent months and indeed the opinion polls were really done for of the liberal party coalition government earlier this week and that's what in many ways prompted this leadership spill earlier on today. scott morrison tried to do his best to. inspire the of the nation and his press conference earlier on today he delivered a rallying call to the middle australia asking for people to have a good one of the dignity of work and to build a stronger australia although exactly how he intends to i'm not quite sure and i'm sure what a mad can turn will have to say about these developments this week it's been of a difficult political week for him. or it's been a terrible week that he lost his job was to hard and things went from bad to worse

from monday almost he'd try to hang on but in the end today he had to give in to a leadership ballot and he said it wouldn't take part of the ballot leaving the contest open to three other people including scott morrison peter dunne who was his main rival and julie bishop who's the other foreign minister here he was clearly very very hurt by what could have been done to him really through this leadership ballot and he couldn't resist delivering a parting shot to those who don't undermine him over the past few weeks particularly peter duff who is his basically his notices mr turnbull branded him a ponens in the liberal party as wreckers who created absolute chaos and then he claimed to be a determined insurgency. to bring not only his government but his prime ministership. right right i mean out in sydney thank you very much having us

up to date on the political turmoil in australia thank you. to sport on the new minister yes season kicks off tonight in germany in the opening match defending champions by munich will take on hoffenheim jennings embarrassing early exit from the once cup as risk concerns over the competitiveness of the bundestag but the pairs appear ready to prove that doubt is wrong. the new bundesliga season is upon us ready to treat fans to another glut of emotions. germany's shocking world cup campaign however is still fresh in focus as well as the poor performance of bundesliga clubs in europe paying competition last internationally german football is going through a bleak period only but merely because stood out they made the semifinals of the

champions league last season and of march to six consecutive bundesliga titles with little competition under new coach nico because that's the champions expect their right to continue. its six months. by now six times champions in a row who want to make sure that we have champions again for a seventh time but we also know that the others will not make it easy. to try everything to take the crown office gotten by instalments is dangerous the top a race can only be competitive if other clubs boost their spending but you do the fifty plus one rule investors can completely take over the bundesliga clubs massive transfer fees paid by sides in england spain or by french heavyweights paras such a man simply cannot be matched dauntless to spend seventy three million euros on new players the most out of any bundesliga club after a turbulent twelve months there is hope of the revival is known as

a. situation where a lot of questions have to be asked. but i'm a long way from saying that everything was bad. but of course we know that we have to raise our performances so that we can once again treat our fans to proper football. the bonus leaguers becoming a development and selling league as they get runners up shell has sold central defender t.l.o. care to pay its chief a thirty seven million euro's but they still want to challenge by and for the championship. often harm also haven't invested heavily but their coach is upbeat in its final season of the club so be it every team basically wants to be champion we're giving everything to have a successful season and then we'll see what comes at the end of the campaign a more exciting season that's what old german football fans are hoping for but there has been a supporter backlash as the bundesliga becomes increasingly commercialized yet without the increased cash flow the legal fall further behind its rivals it's

a balancing act that the bundesliga must achieve in the upcoming season. away from this forum this weekend at the most a moscow will host a huge festival to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of gorky park named after the ride to maxim gokey it's one of the russian capitals most iconic landmarks in recent years has undergone a major facelift and won over a new generation of muscovites specially it seems those in love. for alexander valley area there's no better place in all of moscow even in the rain. corky park is in the center of the russian capital and it's at the heart of countless stories this is not what you are proposed to here when we were skating or thought. oh that's right i forgot to look. up that.

gorky central park of culture and leisure as it's officially known has just turned ninety. but. the park has twenty six million visitors every year and has long become part of the fabric of people's lives here in moscow. classic as. it's not slate classic for a date to meet here for a war look at the swans not the men imagine that everyone is loyalist lamisil move that they can see disappointed they aren't. have a hot dog and go to sleep on your own words it's quite critical about just the dismount i used when i was a kid i used to tears when it was my mother not only one but took a dip in the fountain we put our feet in the water it was fun movie still at the museum in the park shows how it all began in one nine hundred twenty eight corky park quickly became known around the world as a symbol of socialism it was part of the soviet drive to create a new athletic ideal even a new man does most of the blue it will read it when you go to the park was founded

the punctured of the epitome of soviet lifestyle. is percolation of three million people lived in humble and sometimes difficult conditions at the time of boards and markets don't much trees. around here there were sports grounds and clubs for popular soviet games like chess and checkers you could play volleyball basketball all the ball games ball or. sports and activities are still a big part of park life. but after a huge revamp in two thousand and eleven the park has also become a symbol of a transformed modern moscow. it was part of the soviet vision for a city of the future and ninety years later gorky park is still the park of the people. that report by the w.'s emily show when and now monica is with me and the money is rolling into open coffee as monica yeah yeah it's

rolling there not to us i'm rita official figures out today show that germany's governments from the national to the local level recorded a surplus of more than forty eight billion euros in the first half of this year and that produced a surplus of two point nine percent it's also the country's biggest surplus ever recorded in a hof year amid a very slight rise in spending but the wide difference between income and spend is likely to lead to new calls for increased public investment and seems like schools and infrastructure trading partners especially the united states have been critical of german plus low public spending keeps wages and prices down and it makes german exports more competitive than others. that's discussed that now is done you're cool but the front for the stock exchange down the aisle germany and it's close that is a never ending love story isn't it time to spend some money.

yeah exactly you just made a very good point talking to our retail there that the money is actually not coming to the individual that's something that many are criticizing that there's a big surplus is also there because a very high taxes germans are paying taxes here in germany are way higher compared for example to the united states and yes there is also the call that now investment should be made regarding infrastructure for example and not just talking about infrastructure on german rolls but also for example regarding. infrastructure here in germany and many areas here mostly rural areas in germany there is a way behind compared to other countries all right when it comes to money and how to spend it there's also a big do across the atlantic i'll be back with you in just a moment daniel because central bankers from around the world coming together in jackson hole wyoming for their annual economic retreat organized by the federal reserve and investors are especially awaiting saturday's keynote address from fred

if it's a chairman powell it'll be his first chance to comment publicly on recent criticism from the white house residence to say he was unhappy with the fed's plan to hike interest rates and i was a break with the tradition that presidents do not comment on the fed's decisions powells remarks in jackson hole will also be examined for any clues as to whether. the trade policies will hurt the u.s. economy. and while all of this is happening across the atlantic in frankfurt can certainly tell us whether the jackson role plays jackson hole plays a role in europe. yeah there are this is a topic here among investors on the trading floor of the side of course still the on going to trade a conflict investors will be monitoring very closely if they're going to be more interest rate hikes coming up during this year or during the next month most of the investors are pretty sure that because of the rather good development off the

economy in the united states we might see between three or four more interest rate hikes in the upcoming nine or twelve months something you just mentioned donald trump is not in favor of all he did is no go scenario basically a couple of days ago criticizing the fed even though the fat is supposed to be completely independent. in frankfurt thank you so much for this. meanwhile u.s. sanctions against russia appear to be biting the ruble has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar in two years and now in a bid to stabilize the foreign currency russia's central bank says it will stop buying foreign currency until the end of september. turbulent day for the ruble as it plunged to a two year low against the dollar then came the announcement from the central bank and calm was restored temporarily at least analysts say there's an easy explanation

for the volatility this is all related to the threat of sanctions far more more sanctions coming from the u.s. the market is full of rumors as to what may or may not be coming next out of the u.s. congress and that's creating a lot of nervousness and volatility in the room or at the ruble earlier this week the u.s. imposed sanctions on two russian shipping companies accused of trading oil with north korea and russia's alleged involvement in the. boys in a former spy said gay script all seen here on the right could result in a new far reaching set of sanctions on the streets of moscow the locals don't appear too fazed by the rubles declining value. could give most of my savings are in rubles so it doesn't matter that much to me my clients pay me in rubles too so i haven't suffered losses there either the only thing which worries me is that they say prices will be growing well let's see you do fly before

portugal for animal rights you know what other bit. better. but wait and see wasn't a strategy the central bank was willing to risk the rubles weaknesses come despite an increase in oil prices and a general improvement in the russian economy a fresh set of u.s. sanctions could swiftly undo those games. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you. six hundred people have been evacuated from a wildfire. has taken hold of a woodland around fifty kilometers southwest of the city efforts to fight of encountered by old munitions from baltimore to bury in the forest. just the news thanks for. having.

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