because there's so much to discover when. you. meet for minds. you're watching the news live from berlin australia faces another day of catastrophic fire conditions authorities warn that high winds and scorching temperatures could worsen the emergency as the prime minister is expected to return home from holiday also coming up. on a natural gas pipeline from russia to germany. after the u.s.

president signs off on sanctions we'll look at why washington doesn't want the project finished. college that. they should have one. and british lawmakers back prime minister boris johnson deal putting the u.k. on track to leave the european union at the end of january. a michael joins us bush fires are continuing to burn through parts of southern australia emergency services confirmed on saturday that one person was confirmed dead in a fire zone near adelaide high temperatures and strong winds created quote catastrophic conditions for firefighters trying to battle more than 100 fires across the state

of new south wales some roads outside sydney were closed and north already has asked people to delay their holiday travel plans for the day. for more on that we're joined now by journalist roger maynard in sydney roger thanks for being with us would you tell us more about the conditions on the ground how are the bushfires affecting people and wildlife or will thousands of people are hoping urge to leave their property i went out to one of the other today areas earlier on today the miles or kilometers southwest of sydney and there was sort of an eerie calm. very very hazy smoke of course quite still in many ways it's one of the people are very very sturdy but there were indications that the that they're losing it a little bit they're getting increasingly stressed by what's going on around them for instance i went when the police roadblocks and little village and the police.

are stopping people from going back to their homes so if you leave your house you can't get it again and that's causing a lot of problems that people are running short of food so that they've devised a scheme whether they phone a friend or relative outside the police cordon to go to the shops on their behalf they bring the food stuffs the police call and the people in the house go down to the police cordon and get return home because if they go over the police cordon then they're not allowed to return and of course they want to stay to protect their property so that's causing a little stressed also there's a lot of stress about animal life too you know pets like cats and dogs are used to being taken by their owners to places of safety but he can't really do that with the horses and farm animals so a lot of people a little land owners outside the main dangers are inviting people with pony is them cattle and sheep to go and seek shelter on their property and that's helping to ease their problems so a strain is really really around in these sort of times so people coming together

so what can you tell us about the state of the fire right now is it under control. far from it there are 6 fires burning at emergency level in new south wales alone but they're likely to get worse as the day progresses we we've got a big what they call a suddenly bust a wind coming up from the toilet at the moment once those winds which gust up to 100 kilometers an hour hit the fucking area and it's got slanderous flames create flying embers and quite possibly increase the the area where those fires are raging at the moment fire chiefs describe the conditions as catastrophic which is at the top end of the emergency level in south australia too will have died bushfire related instance over the past 24 hours but a similar situation of fires burning in southern queensland and also in gets land in victoria where the fires were so bad so intense they're apparently generated their own weather system that gives you an idea of bad things up to this gracious

roger as you know prime minister scott morrison has been widely criticised for being out of the country while australia is burning where is he now. and what really has for sure but we understand he's somewhere over the pacific ocean the suggestion is that it's going to arrive back in sydney a bit later this evening australian time the acting prime minister has confirmed that is on a plane back to sydney when he gets off the plane is going to have a lot of explaining to do to him to restore his image and and get the public back onside because the that the fact that he's been away at this moment all week of turmoil as australia burns hasn't gone down too well with the public at large he's going to have to put out his own political fire roger maynard sydney thank you so much roger. the company laying pipes for the nord stream to gas pipeline between russia and germany says it's halted work

the subcontractor all seize says the move was in response to u.s. sanctions on friday president donald trump reprove sanctions against companies involved in the pipelines construction the us has criticised the project for handing too much power to russia. the sanctions on the north stream to project are included in a wide ranging us defense spending bill president signed the legislation into law at a ceremony held at andrews air force base just outside washington. now my honor to . sign the 2020 national defense authorization act into law. the sanctions target companies involved in the almost 10000000000 euro project to double the pipeline capacity carrying russian natural gas to europe's leading economy germany most of the pipeline has been completed all seized the company building the unfinished section through danish territorial waters announced it was

holding its work in anticipation of the new law washington had made it clear in advance that noncompliance would have consequences. you know senator cruz who is the sponsor of the bill wrote a letter to the c.e.o. of aussies today basically saying as soon as this bill is signed into law you're out of compliance and you are subject to sanctions so it's a it's a it's a hot topic. the u.s. move has angered germany a longtime ally. rejects the idea that washington can legally impose sanctions on 3rd parties. even ex come to have flown been against extraterritorial sanctions we have the same problem with iran in my opinion the only solution is to hold talks very decisive talks with against letting these extra territorial sanctions take effect. this. despite the anger in berlin

germany is not planning any action against washington that's not the case with russia the other partner in the pipeline president vladimir putin has threatened retaliation moscow has made it clear it will go ahead and finish the project whatever the united states does. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world in istanbul thousands of people have marched in support of china's mainly muslim weaker minority there calling for an end to the crackdown that are seen upwards of a 1000000 people sent to detention camps in northwestern china the protests follows social media post from turkish and german football star. who condemns china's actions poland's lower house of parliament has passed legislation that would allow the government to punish judges who make rulings considered unfavorable to the country's right wing government during weeks of protests against the measure the european union had asked poland to suspend the bill which it says are roads

judicial independence. u.s. aviation giant boeing suffered a setback friday when its starliner space capsule failed to climb high enough into orbit the u.s. space agency nasa's says the unmanned spacecraft was on a test flight to the international space station boeing says the spacecraft missed its planned orbit due to a timing error. now u.k. prime minister boris johnson won last week's snap election promising to get bracks it done and now he has his e.u. withdrawal deal passed the house of commons with room to spare there's still more to do before it becomes law but friday's vote puts the u.k. on course to leave the e.u. in january 31st the 2 sides will then have until the end of 2020 to strike a trade deal. after winning his historic election victory last week boris

johnson said he wanted to heal the nation and in the house of commons he presented his bracks it bill as a step towards that was a time that together as one reinvigorated nation one united kingdom filled with a renewed confidence in our national destiny and determined at last to take advantage of the opportunities but not a lie before us but despite the sweet talking johnson had stripped away many of the sweetness to reason may had added to help and peace support it before the election that raised passions from the opposition. that's things that are vanishes not only workers' rights that are being downgraded it is parliamentarians rights because the ability of the legislature to scrutinize executive has been taking a hit is bad for democracy. outgoing labor leader jeremy corbyn still licking his wounds after humiliating defeat drew attention instead to what he saw as bracks it's damaging implications for ordinary people will sell out on this deal will be

used as a battering ram to drive us down the path of yet more deregulation. and so wards i took sick deal with donald trump he didn't draw attention to a surprise in johnson's bill which will limit the negotiating time to just 12 months critics argument will give the prime minister that's room to maneuver in talks johnson says it'll speed things up it is true we depart from the e.u. on the 31st agenda that point breaks it will be done it will be over johnson's mantra during the election was bracks it done but it's unlikely that the argument over britain's place in europe will end with this bill on the new rules books toys home wares and millions of returned or unsold items on amazon or tossed in the trash even if they're perfectly good the abundance of ways has gotten the attention of the german government which now wants to prevent retailers from destroying products they can't sell. these photographs are

a testimony to our consumer society christmas lights electric fire as books they were taken in an amazon distribution center in germany and made available by the environmentalist group greenpeace they show new goods still in their original packaging goods that will never reach a consumer that destined to be destroyed journalists discovered that a waste disposal company removes containers full of new goods from the site every week and takes them to be incinerated interviewed and is a productive valuable resource is going to every one of these products which are often small products made in se asia and shipped around the world and it's a comb the pictures come from this amazon site near hamburg amazon paxson posts around $1000.00 passes a day here mostly from 3rd party vendors who pay to store their goods at the site amazon takes care of sale and shipping. economist's be an aztec or has carried out

extensive research on amazon's business model he say's if the party vendors can't sell their goods storage costs eat up their profits. if an article hasn't been sold in a year then storage costs rise to 170 years per cubic metre by then it's clear it can't be profitable and very does a pressure towards destroying the goods. amazon doesn't deny that new goods are being destroyed but it say's it's a general problem in the industry but why can't the goods be donated to german retail federation ses they would still have to pay sales tax and they want that to change in hoarders a soviet excuse you want to make clothes shoes in order to pay 19 percent value added tax scrapping that it would have an immediate effect. the german government now say that in future the trashing of new goods should only happen in exceptional

cases and it will be made harder to destroy new or return goods and they want to read examine the rules on sales tax they also want retail giants like amazon to publish figures on goods they destroy so it will be clearer to what extent our consumer society is a throwaway society. to sports now in the final weekend of matches before german soccer takes its annual winter break on friday's match hoffenheim beat dortmund 21 dortmund scored 1st hakimi cross for mario to make it one nil and 17th minute hoffenheim had to wait until late in the match to reply. level the score in the 7th minute and. scored the winner with just 3 minutes while i and finally some dramatic footage of 2 massive cruise ships that collided off the coast of mexico the carnival glory rear ended the

carnival legend as it docked on the caribbean island resort of cozumel in a statement carnival said 6 passengers had presented themselves to the onboard medical center with minor injuries how does that happen. goodness you're watching news from up next. we'll look at open source software and how some new platforms might change the tech scene don't forget you can get all the latest news on our web site that's. more news at the top of the hour. here. so you.