this is deja vu news live from berlin get out while you can australians are urged to flee catastrophic bushfires i've seen the fine as it is the cause of the jump roads and that's just i mean this is moving constructed because fortunately and this you know you can do to one local fire chief says conditions are so bad that when a fire takes hold we are not able to stop it also coming out to libya's former president evo morales takes a plane to mexico to go into exile but back in the bolivian capital laptops the

army and police threaten the crackdown on drastic. israeli towns near gaza come under rocket attack it's in response to it and israeli airstrike that killed a commander of a palestinian militant. and she may not fly but this pig feels right at home at the airport meet the therapy paid helping to make air travel a bit less stressful for nervous flyers. i'm sumi so much got to thank you for joining us australian firefighters are on high alert for a catastrophic threat from bushfires now dozens of fires like these are raging in the states of queensland and new south wales they stretch almost a 1000 kilometers along the east coast from brisbane to sydney residents of some 100. 1000 homes near sydney are doing their best to take shelter after authorities

warned that it was too late for them to leave their homes now a fire that erupted in sydney's northern suburbs in the late afternoon in mediately cut off exit routes from some residents and one local fire chief says conditions are so that that when a fire takes hold we are not able to stop it. i. protect life. protect property. and sure everybody is a safe as possible. these are the principles guiding austerities on australia's east coast bracing themselves for the worst bushfires in the nation's history more than 50 plays us are burning across the state of new south wales authorities are expecting conditions to get even worse. but plenty of people have heeded the warnings and of left over see others of charges amount to and accordingly i would vos to those who still might be is that it used to like to leave almost those flaws

and children is now you know your only option as far project. fires are expected to spread quickly due to high temperatures and strong winds. are warning of catastrophic fire danger for to city of sydney to. about 6000000 people are affected by the fires and people in communities have been urged to stay away from bushland and to flee their homes before the fires escalate we've had the history for 27 you never had this before we live in the blue mountains where it was forced to but we've never had to destroy property or this is unbelievable i've seen the phys the. roads and that's just i mean that's even more than catastrophic because watching them in this you know you can do and the least fiery scene everybody just were. 3 people have been confirmed dead and at least 150 properties have been lost so far authorities have to clear

a 7 day state of emergency in the area i and we can speak to journalist roger maynard in sydney now hi roger bring us up to date what is the latest that's been happening. well they predicted that this would be a day of catastrophic conditions and judging by the pictures that are coming out of so many parts of the strait is eastern seaboard let's certainly confirms the view here he said the blazes broke out in the the northern suburbs barely a 20 minute drive from the city albert rich and the the fireman of the far posters were on to it immediately within minutes a hercules aircraft flew in and doused the entire area with pink slime pirate tarrant and does the flames almost immediately so that emergency was over and but but but the been many many other fires breaking out all over the area out further west than in the western suburbs of sydney the fires up in the blue

mountains there been fires further north at tarin 3 homes were destroyed and in the wine growing area of $100.00 barely there were 3 fires there as well and the conditions have been getting worse all day. all up with or his reckon there's been some 300 fires around the state during the course of the day 11 new emergency fires as they are classified and 70 of blazes are still burning many of them out of control tell us more about the emergency precautions that have been taken out there where you are in sydney. well obviously there are a lot of people are preparing a standing by to help with the situation we've got something like 3000 firefighters on the ground both working literally around the clock at the moment trying to deal with the places in sydney and elsewhere in new south wales and those about 20000 emergency service personnel standing by to go into it further assistance if need

state police firefighters and even the army there's also a fleet of helicopters sangbae to go in fly people out to isolated areas where fires my. old so it is the 1st time the city which is a 0 to $5000000000.00 people as actually being classical as well as a castle strong disaster area and the seeding much of sydney is built in the cloak of black cloud of dust if you like as the smoke from countless flies around the state descend on the city raji now the australian government has been criticized for its approach towards climate change let's listen to the mayor of one town in a new south wales not a political thing it's a scientific fact that we are going through climate change and of course it's not relevant at the moment when people's houses of burning and you've lost lives but

they are over all thing is we are sorry draw in this country we haven't had rain for 4 years in some places. all the dams and creeks and rivers are drawing a and we need to look at what we're going to do about that in the future and to deny climate change is to me a very ill informed and educated way of looking at things. roger how much criticism is the government facing her for failing to do something about those climate conditions. well a lot to be honest but the lady was the mayor of glen innes you lost her own home at the weekend in the fall and her words in the statement clearly have struck a chord here and the crisis sparked a war of words over who's actually to blame for the bush fires with the government being accused of ignoring climate change unless led to some really ugly scenes

particularly in parliament today well one greens senator accused the politicians of being nothing short of arsonists for ignoring the issues in the problems that might have caused the bush fires and to being supporters of the coal industry which he plea was a contributing factor the prime minister scott morrison has tried to distance himself from these suggestions he refuses to pin the crisis directly on climate change while the same thought in the recent green groups who are being accused of being partly responsible for the bushfires but preventing. has a reduction programs taking place during the winter period when ok a lot of impossible to clear up a lot of the there's a takes on the ground journalist roger maynard speaking to us there from sydney thank you now former bolivian president evo morales is on his way to mexico where

he's been granted asylum what alice resigned on sunday and protests against alleged election fraud his resignation has left a power vacuum in bolivia where unrest has continued on the streets of the past the police and the army are threatening a crackdown ever morale is heading to mexico into exile the mexican foreign minister car fare him did in a tweet he assured the ousted believe leader your life and integrity are safe. while many believe ian's accused morale is of growing increasingly autocratic in his 14 year rule across latin america he's still often viewed as a champion of the poor who brought economic growth to one of the region's most impoverished countries like these supporters who gathered outside the believe an embassy in mexico city they claim rallies resignation was prompted by a coup at the table morales was a democratically elected president what will follow him are measures that are brutal exploitation measures against workers and farmers.

morale is ousting has left a power vacuum the deputy head of the senate says she is willing to take over as interim president until new elections are held to help the country get through the crisis but the decision is up to the believe in congress. this is just to provide some certainty for the country. for an end to the vandalism. so that there are no more deaths women who are raped. i don't think bolivians deserve this it's urgent that there is some certainty for the people. so if civil organizations agree i will take up the task. the really even after morales departure tensions remain high on the streets of the capitol. police and the military are steeling themselves for more violence.

to france now where the 2nd edition of the paris peace forum is underway president is hosting the event and the heads of some $27.00 countries are attending as well as business leaders and n.g.o.s in the event aims to encourage international cooperation to solve a variety of global problems including climate change and terrorism and cyber security to the people of the city and france from ca to reporter philip turl is covering this story and paris hi philip what are the biggest points on the agenda there today. well it's been a busy day so far the french president emmanuel michel opened the proceedings this morning with a speech before the 30 heads of state and governments who have arrived here in paris for this summit there are 2 main messages which are being put forward the 1st one is that the world needs a great

a multi nationalism and the 2nd message is that concrete projects need to be promoted so on the 1st point there the french president has said instead of turning their backs on the problems of the world the world needs to come together heads of state and government need to work more closely with n.g.o.s with religious groups with companies with individuals individual citizens everyone needs to club together to fight against the main challenges facing the planet that is to say climate change terrorism drought migration all of these major issues he says that are threatening the real cohesion of humanity and the 2nd point all those projects all the important issues that i just mentioned all going to be discussed here over the next 2 days and 10 important projects are going to be worked out they're going to be announced tomorrow and they will receive help benefit over the next 12 months this time next year when the next summit is held those. projects will hopefully

hopefully have borne their fruit this is a new format from the french president what is this peace forum about. well it's basically to bring people together this is the opposite of for example the united nations it's the opposite of the devil summit where just heads of state and government all there are lots of workshops taking place lots of citizens gathered lots of 7 hours taking place just taking place in front of me with the president of cameroon who is talking to delegates there to discuss what role africa come play in fighting climate change for example in fighting terrorism what individuals can help do what other institutions companies can all do to help in this global effort president macro is keen to underline that populism is certainly not the way forward and that many of the world's continents can all

contribute towards that notably europe it says he says that europe has experienced years of on race 2 world wars so is well placed to know that there are many challenges facing the world and that europe needs to come together to face those challenges as one nation and not as individual states report of the maternal speaking to us there from paris thank you very much. let's check in now and some other stories making news around the world activists are back on the streets of hong kong today following some of the worst violence in months of anti-government demonstrations on tuesday police fired tear gas the protesters who blocked streets and set a car on fire outside one of the city's universities. security forces and she lay have fired water cannon to disperse protesters the country's seen weeks of often violent anti-government unrest chile's government unveiled plans on sunday to draft a new constitution but the opposition says the proposals don't go far enough. and

former u.s. president jimmy carter is in the hospital after a series of falls the 95 year old will undergo surgery to relieve pressure on the brain carter broke his pelvis when he fell last month at his home in plains georgia . israel has been carrying out more airstrikes against palestinian militants in the gaza strip after its targeted killing of a top palestinian commander overnight israel says. of the palestinian militant group islamic jihad was behind a series of rocket attacks on its territory palestinian militants responded by firing rockets at israeli cities including tel aviv citizens across southern and central israel have been instructed to stay inside it is one of the worst escalations of violence on the israel gaza border in years. and let's go right to our correspondent tanya kramer she's covering the story for us in jerusalem hi tanya israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been speaking what

has he said about this escalation. well yes he spoke a long side to the army chief of stuff and the head of didn't turn security agency shin bet they were coming out of a very long a security cabinet meeting and you basically explain again why israel targeted this senior. jihad leader early this morning he said he was accused terrorist a ticking. time bomb and that he was responsible for many attacks over the past year and that he was actually also planning a major attack and that this operation was approved by all the agencies and the government together over the past. week or so so they were basically also 2 messages here and what they had to say on the one hand to the militant factions in gaza that israel knows where they are that they can target them if they need to be

but also to the public because a premise netanyahu said again that is when it's not really interested in escalation but this might take time basically calling on the public also to have the instructions they're giving by the home front command here and this already does appear to be a significant escalation tanya where do you think this is heading. well this is so still to see i mean the israeli army has said they're expecting that this might take a couple of days i mean this is still the early i was going to hard and other militant factions have actually you know put out several statements already saying this has crossed red lines and now of course we're hearing israel has also started airstrikes but interesting leaders have said that these are as strikes on locations that they are saying are related to islamic jihad to not as

a huge aggressor week saying that they're holding how must responsible for everything so it's also question how hamas will join in then the long term of let's not forget also their civilian population in gaza with a lot of uncertainty about what's happening as well as on the israeli side in the southern. areas particularly but also further north with rocket barrages also coming in on the their territory correspondent tonya kramer reporting there for us now from jerusalem thank you. now most schools in southern iraq are closed after kitchener's announced a general strike in support of the protest movement that has rocked the country for 6 weeks in recent days security forces that sought to crackdown on rallies that protesters have kept going with sit ins in the south and across the capital back that. the 14th floor of this building used to be a turkish restaurant now this monstrous concrete structure from the saddam hussein

era is a symbol of the protests in iraq a few weeks ago snipers fired on protesters from up here now the protesters themselves have occupied the building. has been scorching here since the beginning of october the 35 year old is unemployed and he sees little opportunity for himself in the country. if you from the roof looks out over taria square focal points of the protests against the greed and incompetence of the ruling class. the government has done nothing for us in the past 17 years we've been rolled out. but the government is proposing a series of reforms it hasn't hesitated to fire on citizens with tear gas and live ammunition leading political parties have reportedly vowed to crack down on the protests the price has been high she steen people were killed in just one weekend

and hundreds injured with hospitals overwhelmed people are treated on the street. the worst thing is when patients are choking on nerve gas and we can stabilize the condition the jewels look and the limbs seize up. clashes have erupted on bridges leading to the government quarter as protesters try to enter the country's nerve center and nobody's allowed to get close to the prime minister's office or the iranian embassy because even tehran has drawn the protesters ire iranian mullahs occupy key positions in iraq and control powerful militias fearing a loss of influence the millers many believe want to massacre. directing operations in baghdad they control the entire security operators they torture protesters with their own special methods it's all follows

a certain script. in iraq it's all about oil money and power billions of stashed away in secret all the while infrastructure crumbles electricity cuts out water is contaminated and the education system is collapsing. carly and his friends have had enough they want nothing less than radical change. look at the magic to goldman suppresses our protests takes us hostage kills us 2000 over this anything we need to be liberated and that we should win the revolution all massacre iraq's future is unclear and so to the face of millions. let's look now at some more stories from around the world in northern syria at least 6 people are reported dead and more than 20 wounded after 3 bombs exploded in the kurdish majority city of coming there was no immediate claim of responsibility

but kurdish leaders have warned that so-called islamic state sleeper cells pose a threat in the region. afghan president ashraf ghani says his government has released 3 high ranking taliban captives in an apparent prisoner swap for 2 western academics the insurgent group has been holding the australian and american professors hostage for more than 3 years it's not yet clear when they might be freed. foreign policy chief federica michael rennie along with germany france and the u.k. have urged iran to reverse recent breaches of the $2550.00 nuclear deal or face action last week tehran announced it was resuming low grade uranium enrichment at its underground fordo nuclear plant. that when we think of animals that can offer us humans emotional support it's mainly dogs and cats not usually pigs but you're about to meet lee lou she's a therapy pagan part of

a program that brings trained animals to san francisco's airport to help passengers who have a fear of flying. it's just another day of work. she's part of san francisco international airport swag brigade she's not catching any flights but a person smiling to help stressed out pass and just relax. people are very happy to get distracted from the travel from their routine whether they're flying to on their journey or litigation or work but everybody is usually very happy. that it seems it's not to load a whole bush there's no lipstick on this pig. just perhaps a touch of nail polish. and people seem to enjoy it. i've never seen one here so it's interesting that it's fun i got really excited. just

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including li lu who obviously loves holding the line lunch. some tennis news now and world number one rafael nadal had a disappointing start in the a.t.p. finals group stage with a 1st career loss to germany's alex and that's fair in straight sets the dollar's hoping to secure the year end number one ranking but was completely outplayed by the reigning a.t.p. finals champion world number 7 said have has now beaten roger federer novak djokovic and the doll in consecutive matches at london's o 2 arena. and earlier on to finalists us won his debut match at the a.t.p. finals in london after overcoming danielle medvedev in straight sets in their round robin clash she had lost all 5 of his previous encounters with the russian but a strong performance playing the 1st set to retire break and from there the greek

player took control of the match he broke medvedev serve in the 2nd fast which he eventually won 64 to get asked to the perfect start after the season ending turned . ok let's get a recap of our top stories here on d w australians living in rural areas in the state of new south wales have been urged to flee to cities as bush fires raged across the state residents of some 100000 homes near sydney are also at risk. israelis are taking cover as towns come under palestinian rocket attack this follows an israeli airstrike that killed it and islamic jihad commander and gaza israel says he was behind a series of rocket attacks on to its territory. and the bolivia's former president evo morales has gone into exile in mexico he left bolivia's capital of costs preparing for more violence as the weeks of protest against allege of fraud in the

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