you're watching the news a lot from berlin and australia faces another day of catastrophic fires authorities warn that high winds and scorching temperatures could worsen the emergency this says their prime minister is expected to return home from holiday also coming up. in his prime minister calls a meeting of ministers to discuss security in the country as protests over a controversial new citizenship law heats up and the death toll from recent clashes rises. work on

a natural gas pipeline from russia to germany grinds to a halt after the u.s. president signs off on sanctions we'll look at why washington vizard want to project complete. a michael thanks for joining us bush fires are continuing to burn through parts of southern australia emergency services confirmed on saturday that one person was dead in a fire zone near adelaide. high temperatures and strong winds have created catastrophic conditions for firefighters who are battling more than 100 fires across the state of new south wales several roads outside sydney are close enough thirty's are asking people to delay travel plans to the region at least 3000000 hectares of land have been torched across the country in recent months people wildlife and property

are all in danger as the fire showed no signs of winding down 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 hope been urged to leave their property i went out to one of the listed areas earlier on today 2 miles or kilometers southwest of sydney and there was sort of an eerie calm there a very very hazy smoke of course quite still in many ways it's one of the people are very very stirring but there were indications that they're there 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 who are stopping people from going back to their homes so if you leave your house you

can get in again and that's causing a lot of problems that people are running short of food so that they devise a scheme whether they phone a friend or relative outside the police cordon to go to the shops on their behalf they bring the ugly the food stuffs the police called 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 easily being taken by their owners to places of safety but he can't really do that with the horses and farm animals sent a lot of people a little land owners outside the main dangers are inviting people with pony years and 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 to people coming together so so what can you tell us about the state of the fire right now is it under control. well from it there are 6 planners 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 torah 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 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 in bushfire related instance over the past 24 hours got a similar situation of fires burning in southern queensland and also in kit's land in victoria where the fires were so bad so intense their parity generated their own weather system that gives you an idea that things are just 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 but really it has for sure but we understand he's somewhere over the pacific ocean the suggestion is that he's going to arrive back in sydney a bit later this evening australian time the acting prime minister has confirmed and that is on a plane back to sydney when he gets off that plane is going to have a lot of explaining to do. to restore his image and and get the public back onside because the the 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 everything on political fire that's roger maynard again sydney thank you so much roger. to india now where prime minister nuri enda modi has called a meeting with his council of ministers to discuss security in the country this comes after violent clashes over a controversial new citizenship law more than

a dozen people have been killed in protests and death tolls all rising the new law would allow illegal immigrants who have fled religious persecution to apply for citizenship but the law does not apply to muslim critics are calling it discrimination in say the law violates india's secular const constitution for more information let's bring in correspondent. in delhi. reports say 5 more people have died in these clashes what more can you tell us about that. but if i could more part. of the thought that. far on what a week ago or yesterday there was and. walked out on the speech of. the wire reports how that back up those damn phone calls that.

the most of being. and the evening they work catches with the police because of what the team did there are some scouting and come to florida thirds of the police got it brought on charges using water cannons began to call them in the. area the police however are the 3 things that the why isn't that called thousands of people by the team lawyers look i'm leaning that they were not allowed to access the meeting some of the even my house for that of a different opinion coming from both sides because it's something that the government is clamping down much harder than it should against any cooked attack and that while there have been violence reported most of the thought that a large be peaceful and armed and such a pushback or do you really involve them should be criticized and also a bit of internet come down things used to suppress the time but there's a lot of pushback coming although that burns again. ok prime minister noda has

called for security meeting what response can we expect from the government micah's the government have spoken out briefly of the out the process again this could all be are calling for people commenting complimenting hominy they're also saying that it's the last launch from indian muslim dickie to be can do you think that even though this is a piece of 'd that sort chapters are do you think the hope for the for the problem from such a meeting is that the government should think about undermining middle of it he's courting confrontation with the big. government and why is that he is under the thumb fox we gotta stop showing he thought that that out against the integrity of the nation he indicated that the government i'm going to back out and feed these protesters as miscreants rather than ballots civilian voices. mr johnson for us in india thank you so much. let's take

a look now 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 is seen upwards of a 1000000 people sent to detention camps in northwestern china the protests follow social media pose from turkish 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 u.p.a. and union had asked polling to suspend the bill which it says erodes judicial independence . a company laying pipes for the nord stream 2 gas pipeline between russia and germany says it's halted work the subcontractor all seized says the move was in response to u.s. sanctions on friday president donald trump approved sanctions against companies

involved in the pipelines construction the us has criticized 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 trump signed that legislation into law at the ceremony held its space just outside washington. so it's 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 speaking economy germany. most of that 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 all seems 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. magicks the idea that washington can legally impose sanctions on 3rd parties the. next come to have long 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. 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 a moscow has made it clear it will go ahead and finish the project whatever the united states does. u.k. prime minister boards johnson won last week's now election promising to get 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. on january 31st the 2 sides will then have a 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 before us but despite the sweet talking johnson had stripped away many of the sweetness to reason may had added to help them piece support it before the election that raised passions from the opposition . those things that vanish is not only workers' rights that are being downgraded it is commentary and rights because the ability of the legislature to scrutinize executive has been taking a hit is bad for democracy 2. 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 argue it 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 get 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 now they may not be ninjas or even teenagers but conservation authorities in bali are counting on these heroes in a half shell to help save the did. fighting sea turtle population the majestic marine animals are under serious threat of extinction from commercial fishing illegal trade and climate change these 7 gentle giants were rescued by authorities and have now returned safely to the sea with a careful not from human helpers. or. you're

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