the mere fact i merely wish to the ends justify the means. to change witnesses starts december 13th on w. . this is the w. news live from bali bush fires burning out of control in australia several fires of now combined to form a mega finally sydney shrouding the country's largest city in a cloud of toxic smoke fog pfizer say it's too big to close out also coming up far as to on the streets of paris activists expressed their rage opposed economic

reforms that they say will make loans on affordable. and searching tonight 6 u.s. authorities launch an investigation after a deadly shooting by a saudi and then at a u.s. naval base in florida. i have a gun for glad you could join me 5 forces 8 australia all battling hundreds of fires in the country's east they include a massive bush far north of the largest city city it was formed as many smaller blazes joined together and authorities say it is now too big to. grow as the shriners. and even a finite or a deadly swell of flames spinning out of control. these. just some of the dozens of

blazes this a ripping across eastern australia several fires have come together in a mega fire in an area roughly 60 kilometers across leaving the nearby city of sydney swaped in toxic smoke. the speed and unpredictability of the fire leaves rural residents with little choice so any told them are just come over to sorcery just leave bushfires a common in australia but meteorologists say climate change is exacerbating this fire season it's an extreme challenge especially for firefighters who could notice what for the next where there's a 30 meter fire boris i mean you start to go there's little relief in sight forecasters say more hot dry and windy conditions are on the way in the coming days . well to another area of environment concern oxygen in the world's oceans is being lost at an unprecedented rate threatening sea life

important ecosystems and some coastal communities scientists speaking at this weekend's un climate change conference in madrid say that the rising temperatures overfishing and pollution also blame one of our own alex forrest wising joins me now for more on this good to see alix tell us more about these findings and what's or who play well this is being compiled by scientists working for the i you see and that's the international union for the conservation of nature and it's the largest report of its kind and what they all warning people is that the warming seize on leading to dead zones that means there is no oxygen left and they've also highlighted 700 sites where there was virtually no oxygen left that's up from just 45 in the 1960 so you can see that there is has been a huge change over the last few decades now all fish need dissolved oxygen to survive but the launch of species need much more. so for example choose and sharks

what do they do to get that oxygen now where they go to the shallower waters where they can get hold of the gas that though at least invulnerable to fishing that leads to another problem of overfishing and there is one other issue here and that is nutrient pollution it's something we've heard about in the past where chemicals come off the land they go into the water the seas the rivers because of farming and industry and again are exacerbating this problem so scientists are very concerned about it it sounds concerning it also sounds fairly scientific so what does this mean in reality well i think scientists are really trying to to remind us all just how important the oceans are to our lives and how they protect us for example from climate change and that's because they absorb the huge amount of carbon dioxide that's in the atmosphere and also heat so if oxygen starts to just disappear it's going to have an effect such as a loss of habitat a loss of biodiversity so already scientists to say this will have

a huge impact on fish stocks which again are already under threat because of this overfishing and let's just remember that all our marine life is already facing problems from things like plastic pollution what's perhaps mood worrying though is that scientists are saying in the long term they don't really know what effect this lack of oxygen is going to have in the future or something you never want to hear from scientists so what needs to be done well they want there to be immediate action in 3 areas 1st of all curb greenhouse gas emissions get rid of this nutrient pollution to the chemicals running off the land and stop the overfishing the thing is it sounds very good on paper very difficult to put into practice when you're talking about global leaders who can't agree on things we know that some of those leaders don't even particularly believe in climate change and those that do will be concerned about the political impact the economic impact but the scientists

a saying you have to act and you have to do it now absolutely issuing that warning on a very important point indeed alex forrest whited thanks so much. well let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world united states and iran have each freed a prisoner in a swap a chinese american detained for 3 years on spying charges and in a rainy and accused of violating u.s. sanctions have returned home it was a rare act of cooperation between the 2 hostile countries. hundreds of haitians took to the streets of quarter class on friday to call for the resignation of president jovan weiss antigovernment protesters are unhappy with corruption fuel shortages and a runaway inflation that is plaguing the country haiti has seen several months of protests pushing the economy towards collapse. in india a woman who was set on fire by a gang of men has died in hospital police say the woman was on her way to testify

in her own rape case when she was attacked the case has provoked outrage in the country. well france is reeling from the largest strikes in decades which of course transport chaos across the country the national rail operators said 110th of trains were running off the union members are on strike in protest against changes to the national pension system government plans to unveil the reform on tuesday expected to include incentives to make people work longer labor unions say the plan threatens hold one workers brock's truckers also block highways to protest rises to tax. when i see we spoke to our correspondent lisa lewis in paris and we asked her if your thirty's they're well prepared for those protests as you can see right behind me there's a heavy police presence here at this demo by the city union one of the

a far left unions here in france they are demonstrating against the recent labor market reform unemployment benefit room but obviously also against the pension reform it's a big picture they say it might about call the president they say is taking apart our social security system but people are really angry and they're really afraid many people here have told me you know the plan i'm on a close bond is to bring together $42.00 you mentioned systems into one single system and they understand that the current system might not be sustainable in the long run but they just don't trust the president to do the right thing they think that he's just going to take away from those who are already struggling to make ends meet. well the u.s. already has such in for most shooting by saudi air force lieutenant at a u.s. naval base in florida the saudi national was training to become a pilot he killed 3 people wounded several others before police shot him dead

a saudi government has condemned the attack. the saudi air force trainee opened fire in a classroom building at the u.s. naval station in pensacola where a couple of 100 foreign students are in training in washington president trump said king solomon of saudi arabia had called to express his condolences. said that i'm sorry people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the american people so much the f.b.i. hasn't yet named the shooter or commented on his possible motives there are many reports circulating. that the f.b.i. deals only in facts but at the naval station florida's governor addressed latent concerns i think there's obviously going to be a lot of questions about you know this individual being a foreign national being a part of the saudi air force and then to be here training on our soil that the do

this the station's commanding officer has defended the international training program saying it's important to train aviators of the united states partner nations. when i take a look at a few more stories in the headlines all saudis in samoa say almost 90 percent of the people have now been vaccinated against measles the south pacific on a nation has this to the coast you imposed because of an outbreak of the disease measles has killed 65 people in samoa in recent weeks with thousands of others infected by the virus. anti-government protest in chile and to the 50th day on friday with both peaceful and violent demonstrations taking place across the country protests began a hike in subway says in october that broke into a broad movement demanding better education health care and pension reforms. germany social democratic party has $4000000.00 it's to need it so that critics of

the party's coalition with chance and i'm going to macro's conservatives fears that the s.p.d. could quit the government have been and instead delegates the party conference and by then have voted to open talks with macros pops. in about well the european film academy meets in berlin today for the yearly film awards and joining me in the studio is our culture correspondent scott roxburgh good to see you scott before we delve into human rights when this award ceremony it is not without controversy is it no i mean it's always good to have a little bit of controversy this time of course it's fairly big one with a man is quite used to controversy roman polanski a polish director if the controversy is not about his new film which has been fairly well received by a period drama fairly well received by critics but it's well planned skin cells because you know the nations for the film awards came out just a couple of days after new allegations emerged a french actress humorist polanski of raping her many many years ago in 175 when

she was just 18 and this is the latest in a number of new allegations about a very old cases of sexual assault of course and most people do know plans played. pled guilty to sexually rape in 1077 in the u.s. when he was the 13 year old girl he of course was never in prison for that crime because he fled the u.s. before being sentenced and has been a fugitive from us just ever since the controversy of course is around a man who's been accused of these these crimes and in such a form is the european film awards and a french woman's rights group has called on the european film awards to boycott the film and to rescind the nominations so far the european film had a huge chance as the awards isn't doing that and they're more or less sitting on the fence they said they're looking at the issue but they're more or less sitting on the fence with regards to rumble and any shells that might win do you think i think don't really know i mean the film itself has been fairly well received by

critics that one jury award at the venice film festival this year were premiered but i think would be a real shock if they ignore the european film awards if they can or all the controversy around the film and around plants himself particularly because this year there's so many great films that are in competition there too amazing movies that i think most of the top awards this year one is pedro almodovar as pain and glory which is really a late career masterpiece of a spanish director and if there's antonio been doubt as someone i think it's probably best the best role this entire career really plays a lightly fictionalized version of a lot of our himself in the movie and then there's the favorite to from the most a great director this comes with already having received 10 oscar nominations and one oscar win for all of your coleman who plays queen and the film and it's a movie that i think completely changed the rules about period drama period drama amazing amazing movie so i think if the european film awards listen to me they probably won't but if they did i'd say there are a lot better movies to give the top prizes to than the polanski i'm sure that is.

thank you so much indeed. well you know 1st of all tabletop as person mentioned back emerged victorious from a thrilling abundance league about with by munich rummy benson by eenie that penalty in the warning in the waiting moments sealed a 21 victory for blood bath cementing best surprise hold on 1st place by an 2nd straight loss puts them 7 points off the top spot. let's take a look at the rest of the brain does lead is saturday games are much a 14 dortmund how much does the dorf like 6 be tough and haim cyborg defeated will spoke an outspread downed by nts on a friday frankfurt drew with hatta. tennis star caroline wozniacki will retire from the game off the next month's australian open the former top ranked player in the women's game won the australian open in 2018 but later announced she had rheumatoid arthritis now she's currently ranked 37th in the world posting on

social media was yaki said her time in has nothing to do with her health and everything to do with starting a family. you're watching news from budding coming up next 6 shift living in the digital age looking at how to choose the right he will remember you can always find us on twitter news this morning a web site as well is d.w. dot com and have it all framed but in thanks to your company. to today's world. 70. historical turning point in politics business. model run up people of the islamic revolution. making its initial flirtation is

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