and more determined to gain something human for the next generation including the empowerment series of global three thousand on t w. this is the deputy u.s. coming to live from berlin six hundred people evacuated from a wildfire close to the german capital the blues are still going to code for a wooded area around fifty kilometers southwest of the city efforts to control the file being hampered by munitions from the second world war buried in the forest we'll go live to the scene for the coming up. good to see flashpoint protests to

stay on top of the city in force ready reference to something fails on a rescue boat in brussels if it's threatening to revolt its european union funding if the situation is not resolved. plus when you see your football is back tonight the new season kicks off with byan taking on hoffenheim to win support of house and looks approval after a disastrous what's up we look at the challenges ahead. and welcome to you i'm. around six hundred people have been evacuated from their homes as a wildfire reaches you know the german capital the blaze has taken hold of a large wooded area around fifty kilometers southwest of the city but and residents awoke to the smell of smoke this morning. hundreds of firefighters are battling the

blaze but their work is being hampered by munitions from the second world war buried in the forest we'll get a live update from the scene but first the support. flames are ripping through this german forest the place has spread to an area the size of four hundred football fields since it started on thursday. hundreds of firefighters have been working to contain the blaze and fierce and at a challenge the area is littered with munitions that were buried 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 nation 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. my son was worried he said father come to me.

and i live alone. i don't have a wife anymore. now i hope that nothing is happening to my house. we can only think the authorities for what they've done for us. everything is fine . the mayor of one of the villages says the situation is unprecedented. and i think 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 and i was on a shop. in germany has been suffering under a heat wave for weeks leaving many foreigners and fields extremely dry but it's still unclear how the fire started. our reporter.

is in the town of cowen and beats him close to the fire melanie it seems that the situation is improving what is the latest. well in rita it's true there has been some major progress in trying to contain the fires that a blazing here but the situation really is far from resolved according to the latest update so we got earlier today by the prime minister. there is still three hundred and fifty hectors on fire here and think about it you can see the firefighters behind me there are so many all over the forest firefighters and military they have been trying to put the fire out all night all day and still such a large part of the forest is on fire which is of course really really scary for a lot of people here and really really think about how much smoke there must have been for people in berlin that's what we've been hearing and reading all over social media today to be smelling this smoke to that now you can see smoke behind us because we're in the secure position but when you come closer to the forest

there really is smoke everywhere and now just that has just come in we've just had some other reports of two smaller fires that were kind of started by the big fire that has been blazing around here will keep on updating you on this one of course but i must say there are also some positive good news for some billet is here one village has been allowed to return that three hundred eighty people to their homes the houses have not been damaged so people are hopeful that hopefully the firefighters and military can get a hold of the situation very soon and that they want to talk to order i mean they shouldn't be buried in the forest is that posing a danger to firefighters or to what extent is it posing a danger. it's of course posing a big danger and it's been really scary for a lot of people that i've been speaking to you've mentioned it in the report as well people this morning told me that close to their homes they had seven eight explosions going off and this is an area where we do know there is

a lot of ammunition in the ground this is where the battles were fought during world war two we know that there was some ammunition factories around here ammunition depots but as soon as the fire comes close if they can go off and they pose a big danger for the firefighters who cannot leave the roads which have not been cleared. if they go on the roads that haven't been cleared that would be posing too big a danger to them so they have to be careful as well as the people to make sure that they stay in their houses are you talking to some of the people affected by the five sort of they've been saying to you about their experiences it's been truly heartbreaking to see how emotional their responses were these some of the responses people crying they were telling me it was very stressful for them to have to leave their house and ten to thirty minutes to just grab what they can a lot of them only

grabbed insurance papers the papers for the houses in case they do down they didn't have time to take any belongings that was very stressful for a lot of people but at the same time a lot of others told me that it's been wonderful to see how welcoming the rest of the population was a lot of people opened their doors well come people in they could sleep in their houses and didn't have to spend the night in the town hall so it's been pretty amazing to see how people here are coming together and trying to get through this quite tense situation here just outside. thank you very much for that update. if we now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world german chancellor angela merkel has landed in the armenian captain a get a van as part of a three day tour of the corpuses metal was greeted at the airport by the armenian prime minister nicola pasha me and she flew in after visiting georgia and will

enter tour with him tomorrow with a stop in i said by john. hurricane lane is pounding hawaii with high winds and torrential rains as it moves across the pacific just told me it's now been downgraded to category three but can still cause major damage with winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour extreme downpours have triggered flash floods and landslides. 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. the e.u. has warned italy to refrain from making threats to withhold funding from the block over a refugee ship dispute about one hundred fifty refugees have been stuck on the d.g. r.t. vessel the syrian port of mia since monday night it is deputy prime minister says

his government missed being part of its annual you contribution if other european countries don't take in some of the refugees the european commission spokesperson said the bloc operates on the basis of rules and not trends. justice correspondent bendigo joins me now and it sounds like there's a standoff going on between rome and brussels who do you think is going to blink first. but there certainly no appetite to blink here in brussels because this threat from italy is seen as a kind of a political blackmail a kind of populist brinkmanship to reach these goals which cannot be reached in particularly goshi asians and not the note that you commission is responsible for taking in margins but the member states and the twelve member states in brussels you deliberating who can take some of these people from the the but it's not clear

who will do that and by the way we g my is always open reading was false numbers it's not twenty billion euros the italy's paying to the us only twelve and if you take off the contributions he gets from brussels it's only three and a half billion net payments for italy so if the italian government was to carry out its threat the impact on the european union financially would be negligible. but politically it would be a disaster because legally italy's obliged to pay it's like in your private tennis club if you don't pay the fees you get to keep it out at some point so it's legal to be taken to court by the commission and something about but this has never happened before never ever a member state threatened not to pay its dues so this is quite new for bosses this is what i'm president of a move as you say of political brinkmanship by one e.u. member but what does it tell us about. the e.u.

has a refugee policy is it what. it tells us it doesn't work it's. in the case actually because the member states are not following the rules they have set the dublin rules in shambles nobody is respecting them anymore and now they have gone to a case by case scenario every ship that arrives in italy is now or the kind of concern and negotiations and the you need a stable long term arrangement how to relocate migrants but this is still in the making but the so far there's no perspective to reach that any time soon then begins in brussels thank you very much dysport on the new bundesliga season kicks off tonight in germany in the opening match defending champions by munich will take on hoffenheim the jimmies embarrassing early exit from the want to go up as various concerns over the competitiveness of the bundesliga but the plaza

appear ready to prove the doubters 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 have marched to six consecutive bundesliga titles with little competition under new coach nico because that's the champions expect their writing to continue. its six month. ban and now six times champions in a row who want to make sure that we're 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 clients dominance is dangerous the title

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 paris such a man simply cannot be matched dawson 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 top two or more situation where a lot of questions have to be asked but i'm a long way from saying that everything was bad. 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 lakers becoming a development and selling league as they go runners up shell has sold central defender t. locator to p.s.g. for thirty seven million euros but they still want to challenge button for the

championship. often harm also haven't invested heavily but their coach is upbeat in his 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 mostly what comes at the end of the campaign a more exciting season that's what all 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 fullness they can muster in the upcoming season. finally from me and king a former guitarist for the us rock band lynyrd skinner and co-writer of the hit song fetal alabama has died he passed away in nashville tennessee at the age of sixty eight he had been battling cancer king have to create limits gets powerful to play guitar son prominent and such classics as free bird.

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