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a now the day of catastrophic fires and all sources are worsening the warning that high waves that school shooting temperatures could make the emergency even worse. i'm an eclipse mackinnon thanks so much for joining us india has seen fresh protests against a controversial new cisterns ship law despite a government ban on the public gatherings in the capital delhi demonstrators took to the streets with the slogan don't be silent don't be violent more than a dozen people have been killed in clashes with author ities police say more than 600 people have been arrested the new law gives illegal immigrants who have fled religious persecution a chance to apply for indian citizenship but it does not. applied to muslims

critics are calling it discrimination and say that all violates india's secular constitution. and for more let's bring in d.w. correspondent. who's in delhi in the show reports are suggesting that more people have died in these protests can you confirm that for us well yes i know there are more deaths that have been reported yesterday but over the last 10 days there have been all but a dozen people killed in violence around the protests against the citizenship amendment act now yesterday of deaths were reported from neighboring state of looked at reddish but even in the national capital while no deaths have been reported there were protests held to the big test today there also protests planned and being held today as well yes this process centered on the grand mosque and were largely peaceful but later in the evening the did the walls into weiland protesters alleged that the police started about on charge and started using water cannons

against the protesters without any problem but the police they have of the protesters have started burning vehicles which is why these started using force that have also been allegations of excessive use of force against the police to the spirit and also brought us to frustrate to the government is not trying to do more and that this heavy clampdown including internet shutdowns in different parts of the country is basically to squash the center and that the government is unwilling to listen however protesters insist that they will keep at it that they will come out on the streets every day until the government revises this law they're also hoping that if not the indian supreme court may be able to strike down this law as unconstitutional ok so increasing levels of frustration and violence what's the government's response to the situation. well so far now the government has spoken very little about this they're saying that people must remain calm they must not take to the streets as much and they're trying to assure people that their prime

concern that this law will affect indian muslims is unfounded they're saying that this law doesn't have anything to do with indian citizenship as an indian citizen that has to do with granting citizenship to migrants from other countries people of course are not agreeing with this as much they want dialogue but the government they want a delusion but the government's stance is also clear in another aspect they have come out leaders have come out and said the law has been passed it is what it is and also just yesterday of the government put out a media why is that it did in media channels in india just stop showing divison of anti a national content that wireless india's national integrity it was deafening to the protests so clearly the government sees the process as just the doings of miscreants and what they call anti-social elements and raunch representatives of ballots civil civil disagreement civil unrest so there's definitely a quantic happening here and the government will have to ignore it but exactly how

they would do it if they would actually listen to both of those is still something we have to wait and watch for thank you nimish as well reporting for us in delhi. now the plight of the week as a muslim ethnic minority in china has been gathering increasing international attention at least a 1000000 ethnic week of muslims are reportedly being held against their will in china's asian jagging province of parts of what beijing calls an antiterrorism campaign one country that has cultural ties to the week as is turkey where thousands of protesters have marched to show support for a week of people in china. the. turkish people take to the streets calling for an end to china's crackdown on over a 1000000 people for their religion their solidarity comes in part from the fact that they share a linguistic and cultural connection with the persecuted muslim leaders many insist

that more people should be taking a stand on these shows. we believe that against china's repression of our brothers nice tech astonished eyes it's a society the government and the entire muslim community in the city that must take action in addition to david nice it all on your promise to get it to the shooters china has faced growing international condemnation for setting up a network of camps in the west of the country where weekers are reportedly pressured to renounce islam support the ruling communist party and integrate with china's majority han culture but not many muslim leaders have openly criticized china's treatment of the weaker us besides turkey's rich heir to 10. 1 person who has spoken out is german turkish soccer star masood. his stance brought praise from turkey's protesters secure people this will be an all mr

honorable behavior inspired as we thank him. china for its part has repeatedly denied any mistreatment of weekers the foreign ministry says ursule has been quote completely deceived by fake news and false statements let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world explosions all reported one of syria's main oil and gas refineries off the water. calling a coordinated terrorist attack state media saying that rockets are believed to have been fired from identify drones the blast has disrupted production at the site this attack comes as serious suffers from an acute energy shortage due to western sanctions. a fierce storm battering spain and portugal has killed at least 5 people strong winds and torrential rains have damaged buildings and roads and cut

power lines across the iberian peninsula authorities are warning that conditions are likely to get worse as another powerful storm is heading for the region. poland's lower house of parliament has passed legislation that allows the punishment of judges who make rulings considered unsafe or favorable to the government opponents have demonstrated for weeks against the changes the european union voted to suspend the bill the e.u. commission says it erodes judicial independence and has launched legal proceedings against the country. now massive bushfires all raging across australia as new south wales state was to blazes around sydney burning at emergency levels emergency services have now also confirmed that 2 fireflies has died on thursday night high temperatures and strong winds have created catastrophic conditions but firefighters battling more than 100 fires across new south wales several roads heading out of

sydney all closed. people to delay travel plans at the start of the christmas period at least 3000000 hectares of land have been torched across the country in recent months people wildlife and property are all in danger and there is no significant rainfall expected in the next couple of months. joining me now from sydney is james morris he's the spokesperson for the new south wales rural fire service james thanks so much for joining us authorities say things have reached a catastrophic level sydney which is where you are is surrounded by raging bushfires can you describe to us what this means catastrophic fire danger declared for parts of new south wales for us that makes it easy as bad as it gets we still soaring temperatures today up in the meat to hot forty's winds in excess of id to 100 kilometers after a southerly buster a southerly wind chimes coming through a number of areas which even at the moment i was doing you far as in not central

and northern new south wales flaring up threatening homes due to that wind chimes i always say in a number of areas threatened are right across there is in western sydney and through the blue mountains through northern sydney through our whole 3 area and even down on our new south wales south coast as well we do have reports of a quantum number in dot widespread areas of hinds lost and damaged today and unfortunately have reports of one person that is still on accounted for so it will be some dies unfortunately before we will be able to confirm just how much devastation these was to die along with days winds and soaring temperatures of coles and james how off firefighters has and emergency personnel coping with this incredible situation of course many of the volunteer firefighters are volunteers. oh look they can i think tremendously well given the circumstances are here in new south wales we've been battling these blazes since the end of july up in northern

and western parts and and obviously it's coming down now through central and eastern parts of new south wales are looked to far far as our target a lot of our emergency services workers are exhausted but we've seen a lot of relief coming in from back into state counterparts right across australia as well as international far far as coming from america and canada and they he for $38.00 to deployment which will lay out our crews to have a bit of rest but certainly we've got a long road ahead and they saw it as as you mentioned that have burned out more than 3000000 hoped it is will not be extinguished and that threat won't be reduced to a get significant widespread rhyme which of these studies and on the full cost to at least made to life a very all right change that morris from the new south wales moral fly a 7 thank you so much for talking to us that is very very difficult time. now it is the final weekend of been this league of matches before german soccer takes its annual annual winter break come friday hoffenheim beat dortmund 21

dortmund scored the 1st traffic kimi crossed from our you get so to make it one nil in the 17th minute of whom had to wait until late in the match to reply sagas that dummy unleveled these school in the 87th minute and andrei come out scored the winner with just 3 minutes left. of the loss will definitely keep things exciting at the top of the bundesliga table with leaders rb leipzig. and by a new nick all playing later today and joining me now for more is the sports correspondent talking. who do you think has the momentum right now to finish before the winter break is over for us are in germany there's actually a name for the team that finishes at the top of the table at the halfway point so after 17 matches right before the winter break and that is my stuff which in english of course just means autumn of champions now this will be the 1st time in 9

years that they have my style is not going to be buying munich. and it's going to come down to sake and what's yet mention. and the numbers don't lie if we take a look at the table we see just how tight things are at the very top it's going to who they are having a small but anyway i'll tell you how it exactly you know we have like to get tight on $34.00 points each and ride tick of course is on top because of the better goal difference that could all change today if sake lose and win then they would go on top and then the table also doesn't lie we can't see it but by and munich are in there and so you know they're out of the running of the hips. my sister they trade in my 4 points but i think it's refreshing to just sit here and not to be talking about by instalments i think that's a sign of how competitive the leak is ok now as we said earlier the league goes on

break up to this weekend's matches just tell us a little bit about some of the sort of the biggest talking points that we've had so far from the competitive competitiveness and got back making that surprise title challenge i think one of the big talking points has to be i've worked and i mean they have had an incredible season so far right now they're in 7th place but at one point they were in for and that was so memorable because they were ahead of by and munich and that meant so much to the coach and the team and piebald is having their best start to win as he goes he's an effort and also worthy of mention child under david wagner i mean he's transformed them they went trough fighting relegation last season to perhaps this season positive possibly even finishing in the top 4 so that's all good but there's also a bit of bad and a bit of not a lot of bad but if i have to say that there one thing that is a bit of a big bat at the moment is perhaps thought mind you know will this be another missed opportunity because they have been throwing away points way too easily i'm able to finish in a games and the idea of course has to be v.a.

audits video assistant referee i think it's still the decisions are still really controversial still confusing a lot of fans and players and it hasn't provided the consistency in the caribbean that we had hoped for by now our rights to leave the hotel thank you so much for joining us. you're watching t w news live from. thanks for joining us with you going to talk. to the what is he doing here for d.w.i. . we're going to talk about. the so-called bridge. let's have a look at some of the problems. so you don't want to.