this is deja vu news live from berlin get out while you can australians are urged to speak catastrophic bushfires i've seen the fires and the fires up to jump roads and that's just i mean that's even more than catastrophic because what you know and this you know you can do that. one local fire chief says conditions are so bad that when a fire takes hold we are not able to stop it. also coming up the libya's former president is a moralist takes a plane to mexico to go into exile but back in the libyan capital of the army and

police threaten to crack down on the breast. israeli towns near gaza come under rocket attack it's in response to an israeli airstrike that killed the commander of a palestinian militant groups. and she may not fly but does this take feels right at home at the airport neatly loot the therapy paid helping to make an air travel a bit less stressful for nervous flyers. i'm serious i was going to thank you for joining us australian firefighters are on high alert for a catastrophic threat from bushfires 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. a 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 immediately cut off escape routes for some residents one local fire chief says conditions are so bad that one of the fire takes hold we are not able to stop it. protect life. protect property. and sure everybody is so 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 blazes are burning across the state of new south wales authorities are expecting conditions to get even worse. plenty of people have heeded the warnings and of left early oversea others of chosen not to and accordingly i would volunteer to those who still might be there is that it used to like to leave or most of those flaws

and children is now your your only option as far pro-choice. 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 people in monterey both 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 use never had this before we live in the blue mountains where it was forced to but we've never had to destroy it probably thought this is unbelievable i've seen the finest in the. jump roads and that's just i mean that's even more than catastrophic because watching them in this you know you can do and always find a reason everybody's just working. 3 people have been confirmed dead and at least 150 properties have been lost so far. have to clear

a 7 day state of emergency in the area. and we can speak to journalists 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 australia is a scene sequel that certainly confirms that view here in sydney blazes broke out in the the northern suburbs barely a 20 minute drive from the city albert rich and the the fireman the far posters were on to it immediately within minutes a hercules aircraft flew in and doused the entire area with pink slime fire retard and dust the flames almost immediately so that emergency was over and but but but have been many many other fires breaking out all over the area out further west in the western suburbs of sydney the fires up in the blue mountains

that have been fires further north that tarin 3 homes were destroyed and in the wine growing area of 100 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 far as they classified and 70 blazes are still burning many of them out of control tell us more about the emergency precautions that have been taken that there where you are in fitting. well obviously there are a lot of people are preparing a standing by to help in this situation we've got something like 3000 firefighters on the ground with working literally around the clock at the moment trying to deal with the places in sydney and elsewhere in new south wales and those are not 20000 emergency service personnel standing by to go into give further assistance that

need state police firefighters and even the army there's also a fleet of helicopters sangbae to go in fly people out to the isolated areas where fires my. oulds so it is the 1st time the city. of 5000000 people has actually been classical and. it was a castle strongly disaster area and the seat much of sydney isn't built in the cloak of black cloud of dust if you like as the smoke from countless hours around the state descend on the ragini of 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 overall 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 do not 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 glynis you lost her owner of the weekend in the fire and her words her statement clearly struck a chord here and the crisis sparked a bitter war of words over who's actually to blame for the bush fires with the government being accused of ignoring climate change and last lead 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 be 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 time there are some green groups who are being accused of being partly responsible for the bushfires by preventing. has a reduction programs taking place during the winter period when ok minor thing possible to clear up a lot of the there's the vegetation on the ground journalist staff writer may know it's because they're from sydney thank you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world french president in modern call has kicked off the 2nd

paris peace forum government and business leaders from 30 countries have gathered to tackle a variety of pressing global issues on the agenda are terrorism cyber security and climate change notably absent is the united states. hundreds of catalan independence activists have clashed with police while blockading a key border crossing between spain and france the protesters demanding autonomy for the northern spanish region brought traffic to a standstill on a highway bridge the crossing was blocked in both directions. security forces in chile have fired water cannon to disperse protesters the country has seen weeks of often violent anti-government on the rest of us government until plans on sunday to draft a new constitution but the opposition says the proposals don't go far enough. former bolivian president evo morales is on his way to mexico where he has been granted asylum morales resigned on sunday amid protests against

a legit election fraud his resignation has lost the power vacuum in bolivia or unrest has continued on the streets of the us the police and the army are threatening a crackdown ever morale is heading to mexico into exile the mexican foreign minister confirmed it in a tweet he assured the ousted believe your 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. will 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. of the really. even after morales departure tensions remain high on the streets of the capital. police and the military are steeling themselves for more violence. you're watching the news still to come we visit the 14th floor of

a building in baghdad to find out what drives the young men who've been clashing with the iraqi government forces for the last 6 weeks. but 1st israel has been carrying out more airstrikes against palestinian militants in the gaza strip after its targeted killing of a top palestinian commander over night israel says. 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's 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 alongside the

army chief of staff and the head of the internal security agency shin bet they were coming out of a very long security cabinet meeting and he 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 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. the militant factions in gaza. israel knows where they are that they can target them if they need to be but also to the public because prime minister netanyahu said again. it is well it's not really interested in escalation but this might take time basically calling on

the public also to have the instructions 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 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 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 aggressive week saying that they're holding hamas responsible for everything so it's also a question of how hamas will join in then the long term of let's not forget also

those 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 live from jerusalem thank you now most schools in southern iraq are closed after teachers announced a general strike in support of the protest movement that has rocked the country for 6 weeks and recent days security forces have sought to crackdown on rallies that protesters have kept going with sit ins in the south and across the capital baghdad . 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. the view from the roof looks out over teria 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 wrong. 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 15 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't stabilize

the condition of the jewels log in the limbs seize up. clashes have erupted on bridges leading to the government quarter as protesters try to enter the country's nerve center nobody is allowed to get close to the prime minister's office or the iranian embassy because even tehran has drawn the protesters. iranian mullahs occupy key positions in iraq and control powerful militias fearing a loss of influence the millers many believe want to massacre. there without a doubt go directly operations and by 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. mari and his friends have had enough they want nothing less than radical change. to the governments pressures are protests takes us hostage kills us it hasn't over this anything we need to be liberated and that we should win the revolution or massacre iraq's future is unclear and so to the face of millions. now to some more stories from around the world afghan president says his government has released 3 high ranking taliban captives and then the apparent prisoner swap for 2 western academics the insurgent group has been holding australian and american professors hostage for more than 3 years it's not yet clear when they might be freed. activists are back on the streets of hong kong today following some of the worst violence and months of anti-government demonstrations on tuesday

police fired tear gas at protesters who blocked streets and set a car on fire outside one of the city's universities. and former u.s. president jimmy carter is in the hospital after a series of falls the 95 year old will undergo surgery to leave relieve pressure on the brain carter broke his pelvis when he fell last month at his home in plains georgia. saying in the u.s. the supreme court will hold hearings today to consider whether president trump's administration's illegally ending the so-called dreamers program it allowed undocumented migrants brought to the u.s. as children to live and work there legally the program was introduced under the obama administration. georgetown university in washington d.c. is where you've gone sally's studies and lives. she was born in mexico but was brought up in our zone or. is an undocumented migrant but as

a doctor recipient she's been able to make great leaps towards a better future now i have a better chance of getting more scholarships of attending university and getting a job like i had never had a job until i got to college and they were when i got my 1st paycheck and i was able to fill out that social security box and i was like this feels so weird and it feels good and also like i was able to get us that i.d. but it's little things like that that make it easier just driving itself in arizona you know that if you don't get stopped by a cop they can't like to point you. and dr recipients have not been afraid to protest they've been organizing demonstrations like this one in washington d.c. in the friends of the program the president ordered an end to dock in 2017th but several federal courts challenge the president's move the final decision lies with the supreme court close to 700000 people who were brought to the u.s.

as children have wondered you know lived to renewable 2 year authorizations to live study and work in the country future despite having lived most of their lives in the u.s. look some search. now we've seen all across the country side with our people our movement saying that the decision to end the 1st place was wrong if this case goes in a direction in which the program is ended or wound down in some way the lives of not just immigrant youth in this country but their families their networks their communities are put in immediate danger there is a lot at stake with the supreme court. and georgetown is nervous about what the future holds but remains hopeful. i'm kind of numb to the whole point of this what's going to happen since i was appears that's going to happen to dreamers. just let me know because at this point i'm kind of like i need to make a plan and if that plan is going to the u.s.

i need to know. but i am in a way i hope i don't get heartbroken by the decision and like every time i do get a bad decision is just grief over it for a few time for a few days and then getting back up in fear you know alternatives that's been my whole life and i think it will continue to be my whole life. and other doctor recipients will have to wait a decision from the supreme court is expected some time before next summer. now it's the future of television and everyone wants a piece of the action we're talking about streaming services and disney is the latest to enter the fray alongside the likes of netflix and amazon disney plus is hoping to attract legions of star wars fans with a new series out today but it will need plenty of subscribers to recoup what it's spent on the service. for star wars fans the wait is over locked and loaded the mandan laurean is here. from

a galaxy far far away has cost disney $100000000.00 and it stars say it shows. it's pretty spectacular in its scope it's tackler in the characters in the way they're drafted it's the tackler and the amount of talent that we have both in front of and behind the camera and a complete prefer. the mountain laurean is not even disney's most expensive creation free streaming service at $12500000.00 per episode because half as much as the new mom t.v. show. the corporation is also hoping a back catalog of classics from its own studios will help encourage people to pay best $7.00 a month and we do sweep. bussin you see the breath that library when you see it there's disney animation pixar animation there's lucas film this marvel of the national geographic and you think about the library as it exists within each of those areas it's a mass the entertainment industry is waiting to see the impact of disney plus and

fellow new kid on the block apple t.v. plus i'm bringing the big question is whether people will take on additional subscriptions or if fans can be tempted away from established players like netflix and amazon prime either way. it's time to prepare for streaming wars. now when we think of animals that can offer us humans emotional support it's mainly dogs and cats not usually takes but you're about to meet here she's a therapy fake and part of a program that brings trained animals to san francisco's airport to help passengers who have a fear of fly. it's just another day at 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 the passengers relax. people are very happy

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