this news coming to you live from but six hundred people evacuated from a wildfire close to the german capital the rapidly spreading blaze has taken hold of a wooded area around fifty kilometers southwest of the city efforts to contain the fire are being hampered by only missions from the second world war buried in the forest we have allies opted feel also coming up pope francis prepares to make the first britain visit to ireland in nearly forty years with more revelations of child

sex abuse by priests rocking the church will the pontiff respond to the growing pressure to cooperate with investigators. and after a turbulent wreaking australian politics a new prime minister is sworn in for six in a decade scott morrison takes over from malcolm turnbull who lost a party leadership struggle. i'm the touchy ma around six hundred people have been evacuated from their homes as a wildfire rages close to the german capital the rapidly spreading blaze has taken hold of a large wooded area around fifty kilometers southwest of the city despite the distance residents of berlin could smell the smoke from the fire this morning. well emergency services are still trying to fight the flames we'll go live to the scene but first 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 added challenge the area is laden with munition perished 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 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 but we've 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 now of course one hundred grand is in the town of troy in britain close to where the fires are raging and it seems this old admonition buried in the forest is making firefighters work much harder how dangerous is it for them. well yes indeed some of the residents that we've talked to talked about the fact that last night when the fire started and they were told to evacuate their homes that they heard explosions in the forest that are not far away from where their houses are and everyone knows of course that there are these munitions lying around in the forest yet there were also two munitions factories close to this town since the

thirty's and in addition to that there were thousands of russian troops stationed here soviet troops i should say during the time when this was still part of of communist east germany and when they left they left behind also quite a large number of dumps of ammunition that one doesn't really know exactly where they are for the fire fighters that means that they're kondraty leave the roads through the forests that have been cleared of munitions that can really go into the forest to the places where the fires are actually raging to the source of the fire so that means that the helicopters that are being used to extinguish fire are particularly important because they can approach the faces from the top that can throw water on the fire from the top but the firefighters on the ground cannot go into those areas and what about the scale of this fine totally unprecedented as me how did not report. yes indeed it is the largest such fire that has ever been experienced in this region and the fact that it was felt all that was that it was

noticeable in but then fifty kilometers away from here is an indication of that there were people in berlin that work up this morning and thought their house was on fire because it smelt of smoke so strongly meanwhile the fire house being controlled to the extent that one of the villages one of the three villages that were evacuated has been secured and the people from that village about three hundred of them are going to be able to return to their village sometime the soft unknown but there remain two other villages which are still in danger and the fire itself obviously continues to burn on them in an area of about four hundred four hundred text has the prime minister of this province of brandenburg province who was speaking to the media just a little while ago said that it will take days at least to really control the fire if it doesn't come if it doesn't get found again by winds which are expected later the softer noon and dance you've been speaking to some of the people who have been evacuated what have they been telling you about the experience. well there were

some people who have who are in fact in tears this morning still when we talked to them about their experience really scared that the house might end up being burned stall not that they would lose their homes they all talked about the fact that they had very little time actually to collect important belongings first took only important papers possibles and insurance certificates things like that but not really items of of value such as photographs and things like that so they had to leave all that behind so they're very anxious to get back to their homes to hope that and hoping that they will be protected that nothing will be destroyed but really they are very moved and at the same time very pleased or very grateful that there are so many of the neighbors and people here and try and reach them the next great charm that are prepared to help them many people have in fact fall into shelters here with neighbors or with people in the town that just opened their

homes that had to be evacuated that's right hans don thank you very much for that update if we now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the wasn't 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 and rains of up to two hundred kilometers an hour the extreme downpours have triggered flash floods and landslides. south africa has accused u.s. president donald trump of fueling racial tensions after he said farmers the being forced off their land and many of them killed south africa ruling a.n.c. party plans to speed up the expropriation of land without compensation to redress racial imbalances in land ownership bitterly has called trump street misinformed and divisive. a powerful seven point one magnitude earthquake has struck along

peru's border with brazil the quake hit in the early hours of friday at a depth of more than six hundred kilometers there were no immediate reports of damage but social media users say tremors were felt across the country. france is due to make his first paper trip to ireland in nearly forty years this week and he's expected to draw much smaller numbers than turned out to greet john paul the second decades ago as he struggles to reinvigorate confidence in the church damning new revelations about current and past sex abuse in the u.s. chile and australia have called into question the leadership of the bishops and cardinals accused of protecting predator priests 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 intended to priests what kind of reception 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 got the lead church you got the look church is 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 resonating twenty 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 because there's a huge cause and growing course in 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 because you 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 or 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 whole i've used and it's time he did something concrete not just it's you need him out apologies. so we saw them i mean a call for 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 featured 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 further abuses and of putting in place particular protocols and policies 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 the five or six years this kind of crimes continue to take place until i didn't is traditionally a catholic there have been social changes there in contradiction to religious 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 before 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 all of that would preserve some of the values that the catholic church instills on its communities at the very same time in history and 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 duster with 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 are in any so very good expression of this because the change has been so obvious one so radical right masinga thank you very much for those insights a pleasure. oh surely 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 marson one

a party ballot defeated his rival by forty five votes to forty he'll have to get to grips with an increase in divided party that's desperate to stay in power and is grappling with poor pulling with. the fierce tussle in australian politics the country's new prime minister said he would aim to keep the wounds in his body and in australia's bottom metabolism. now our job particularly for johnson on as we take forward this new mantle of leadership is a new generation. is to ensure that we not only bring in our party back together which has been bruised and battered this week but that will enable us to ensure we bring the parliament back together that we can continue to work to ensure that our country stays close together. and that was a strange years in your primary marson sydney correspondent roger man has been

following this story and i asked him how difficult it would be for him to unite the party behind him after such a terrible and wreak in the country's politics. he faces a big struggle to unite the liberal party which has been written by you know by concerns of the energy prices and countless other issues in recent months and indeed the opinion polls were really down far out the liberal party the coalition government earlier this week and that's what in many ways problems here this leadership spill earlier on today. scott morrison tried to do his best to. inspire the of the nation at his press conference earlier on today he delivered a rallying call to the middle australia asking for people to have their good one of the dignity of work and to build a stronger australia older music lee how he intends to i'm not quite sure right

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