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this is deja vu news live from berlin get out while you can australians are urged to flee catastrophic bushfires i've seen the fires he's described as a bit jumped roads and that just come in the city of mold and kids throw food because what she learned in this you know you can do this. one local fire chief says conditions are so bad that one of the fire takes hold we are not able to stop it. also coming up israeli towns near gaza come under rocket attack it's in
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response to an israeli airstrike that killed of the commander of the palestinian militants. believe us former president evo morales flies to mexico and exile but back in the bolivian capital apos the army and police threaten to crack down on the grass between his supporters and opponents. and she may not fly but this pig feels right at home at the airport to meet the therapy paid helping to make air travel a bit stressful for nervous flyers. i'm sorry someone's got 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. others along the east coast from brisbane to sydney residents of some
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100000 homes near sydney are doing their best to take shelter after authorities warned that it was too late for them to leave their homes 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 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 blazes are burning across the state of new south wales authorities are expecting conditions to get even worse. up plenty of people have heeded the warnings and of left early obviously others of chosen not to and accordingly our
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vase to those who still might be there is that it used to like to live on most of those farms and shouldering is now your your only option as far praja. 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 had to have a 27 use. just before we did in the blue mountains where it was forced to but we've never had to destroy a problem this is unbelievable i've seen the fires and the cause of 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 fire reason everybody just works. 3 people
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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. 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 that certainly confirms the view here and said the blazes broke out in the the northern suburbs barely a 20 minute drive from the city albert rich and the the fireman the firefighters were onto it immediately within minutes a hercules aircraft flew in and down the entire area with pink. pirate tartan 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
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further west and 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 are 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 fires as they 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 not there where you are in sydney. 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 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 are not 20000
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emergency service personnel standing by to go into it further assistance it needs faith 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. olt so it is the 1st time the city which is a 0 to 5000000000 people has actually been classical as well as a castle strong disaster area and the seeding much of sydney isn't built in a cloak a black cloud of dust if you like as the smoke from countless hours around the state descend on the ragini 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
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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 i 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 sailing to do something about those climate conditions. well a lot to be honest but the lady was glynnis you last of the weekend it's good to the stable and clearly have struck a chord here on the crisis. who's actually to blame for the bush fires with the government being accused of ignoring climate change
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a last lead to some really ugly seems particularly in poland today well one greens senator accused the politicians of being nothing short of the awesomeness were ignoring the issues in the problems that lot of calls the bush buzz and to being supporters of the coal industry which he plea was a conservative reflect a journalist roger maynards because they're from sydney thank you now israel has been carrying out more airstrikes against militants in the gaza strip after its targeted killing of a top palestinian commander overnight 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 and years.
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and for more on this story we can speak to journalist has a aleutian he's following this in gaza city has and thank you for joining us can you bring us up to date on what's been happening at the moment there in gaza. well as you mentioned today was a day of exchanging fire firing rockets from gaza tens of orcutt's were fired into they say the city's reach tel aviv but most of it was the nearby cities that israeli jets and air forces targeted many places mainly military sites and some of the some people some of the. no faction claimed responsibility or. announce anything but apparently they are those people was. according to his well the they stand behind firing rockets so
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since the morning gaza. is a different day it's out of there is this coalition after years of of the quietness squalls government institutions and banks are closed today. and now israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he did speak earlier at a press conference let's listen now to what he said about the killing of this gaza militant. with a blue moon. in the past year this arch terrorist was the main generator of terrorism from this trip. planned and carried out many attacks. he fired hundreds of rockets of communities in the gaza periphery suffering we haven't ignored he was in the midst of crossing additional attacks these 3 days he was a ticking bomb so we took that so we heard the words there at a ticking bomb you know how significant it was he. well i mean
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actually it's weird how how how this name become in the top news actually the name of a. couple of months ago as israel accused him of standing behind foreign group gets into his well. when the rockets fired when when and that and yelling himself was giving a speech and the city of ashdod before the elections. he is he is not the top leader of a military wing of this let me that is not the fair specimen he is one of the commanders was in me she had said he is the commander of north. region in the gaza strip. talks and people started to talk about about him since they started to accuse him. of standing behind the rockets fired into israel and it has now led to this as you said significant escalation as in
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what do you think this is heading. well this is the this is a hard question to answer it's too early to say if there is going to be a force war it depends actually to be honest on the how mass reaction hamas is the biggest power in gaza and it has its the biggest. military capabilities in gaza if they joined. in and they responded and fire and rockets into israel it might go broader and bigger but if hamas which is more. willingly according to analysts that will will will give the opportunity to islamic jihad to respond. which means that this would be. limited and it will has and within. short time maybe days maybe hours we don't know.
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our journalist has been speaking to us from gaza city thank you very much. let's get around about some other stories making news 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 qom initially there was no immediate claim or for sponsibility but kurdish leaders have warned that the so-called islamic state and sleeper cells pose a threat in the region and afghan president ashraf ghani says his government has released 3 high ranking taliban captives in an apparent prisoner exchange 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. 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 in recent days security forces have sought to crack down on rallies but
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protesters have kept going with sit ins in the south and across the capital backed up. 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 terri a 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
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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 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 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 once
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a massacre. there without a doubt go directly operations in bardo 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. and his friends have had enough they want nothing less than radical change. the government suppresses are protests takes is hostage kills us it hasn't offered is anything we need to be liberated not a human. revolution or massacre iraq's future is unclear and so to the fates of millions. of. former bolivian president evo morales has flown to mexico where he
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has been granted asylum what alice resigned on sunday amid protests against alleged election fraud his resignation has left a power vacuum in bolivia where on rest has continued on the streets of the past between rolla supporters and opponents 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 . well many believe ian's accuse 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
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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 capital. police and
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the military are steeling themselves for more violence. let's take a look now at some more stories from around the world activists have been back on the streets in hong kong following some of the worst violence in 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 french president in modern mccall has kicked off the 2nd paris peace forum government and business leaders from 30 countries have gathered to tackle overriding of pressing global issues on the agenda are terrorism cyber security and climate change the u.s. is not attending. 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 . staying in the u.s. on the supreme court will hold hearings today to consider whether president donald
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trump's administration illegally ended the so-called dreamers program it allowed undocumented migrants brought to the u.s. as children to live and work there legally a program was introduced under the obama administration. georgetown university in washington d.c. these were gone sally studies and lives. she was born in mexico but was brought up in arizona. is an undocumented migrant but as a doctor recipient she's been able to make great leaps towards a better she. 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 and just driving itself in
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arizona you know that if you. you don't get stopped by a cop they like to point you. dr recipients have not been afraid to protest they've been organizing demonstrations like this one in washington d.c. the friends of the program president ordered an end to dhaka in 2017 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. is children under dr. 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 ports 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
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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. in georgetown is nervous about what the future holds remains hopeful i'm kind of numb to the point of what's going to happen to her was that the it'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 through the u.s. i need to know. but i am in a way i hope i don't go heartbroken by the decision and like any 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 and for alternatives that's been my whole life and i think it will continue to be my whole life. how do you show you the other doctor recipients will have to watch the decision from the supreme court is expected sometime before next summer.
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now 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 a fly. it's just another day of work fully. she's part of san francisco international airport swag brigade she's not catching any flights but a person smiling to help stressed out passengers relax. people are very happy to get distracted from the travel from their routine whether it's their flying to on their journey or location 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
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a touch of nail polish. and people seem to enjoy it. i've never seen one here so it's interesting because it's fun i got really excited her 1st a fairer singapore airport. they did their tricks like a gala. but leave doesn't do just simple tricks she has a knack of bringing people together. we walk in and we find today that most people have their heads buried in their devices they're not engaged we walk in people start to look up they start to react they respond super positively they start to engage with each other and. the program is a hit with time flies but is it all a bit of a bore fully lose. their lives very well faucheux life. to people she'd
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read fairy tale and that means that she's happy. it seems everyone is happy including li lu who obviously loves holding the line lunch. tennis news now and the 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 on that set of in straight sets the dollar's hoping to secure the year end number one ranking but was completely out played by the reigning a.t.p. finals champion world number 7 stead of has now beaten roger federer novak djokovic and nidal in consecutive matches at london's o 2 over. let's get a reminder of our top stories now here on d w australians living in rural areas of the state of new south wales have been urged
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to flee to the 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 fire this follows an israeli airstrike that killed an islamic jihad commander and israel says he was behind a series of rocket attacks on its territory. and to libya's former president dave on what i've gone into exile in mexico he leaves libya's capital cost preparing for war violence after weeks of protests against alleged fraud in the recent presidential election. coming up next on did abuse asia small yet again over the indian capital makes breathing a struggle for residents. aiming for gold leaf the young indian boy who is refusing to let a tragic accident get in the way of his dream. and the u.s. student auto warm beer fell into
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producers are the ones primarily responsible for the safety of the food you buy but you can protect yourself and your family from diseases and the whole pipeline the 5 key is to safer to use them you also have a role to play. this is a shop coming up fog out by pollution another day off choking smaug in the indian capital of how much can its residents take plus. auto won't be it died after being imprisoned in north korea now his patents are seeking justice right here in berlin. and we meet a 6 year old dog whose parents believe that becoming a beauty queen is how best to escape.
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