if you look at the. i am. this is d w news live from berlin australia's struggles to contain catastrophic bushfires or there is a warning that high winds and scorching temperatures could lead to even more devastation and we'll get the latest from sydney also coming up germany hits out at the u.s. off to the u.s. president signs off on sanctions against a pipeline that would bring russian gas to germany well look at why washington doesn't want the project completed. and at least 23 people die in violent protests

against a new indian citizenship bill muslims say it marginalizes that. somehow and i am free glad you could join me australia's bushfire crisis is going from bad to worse fire crews are struggling to contain the spread of blazes around sydney now a combination of wreck or temperatures drought and powerful winds is powered the inferno at least 8 people have died since the fires 1st began. the smoking remains of a home after bush fires swept through the area. these residents in new south wales fought the fire as well as they could before firefighters arrived and took over it happened quickly. we saw this mark and fall out basically rushing towards us over

the hill and basically every minute it was probably kilometer. before eventually it just hit a fence and we're pretty much there finding the ass off the fires or some of us truly is most extensive ever they have left 30000 square kilometers of charred land in their wake since october over 800 homes have been destroyed several states are affected by this blaze was raging in the country's south on the outskirts of the city of adelaide but the forest on fire wild life have nowhere else to go pushing the animals closer to people's backyards and into their homes record temperatures powerful winds and low humidity are creating the conditions for the fires to spread presidents say the constant danger is something they've learned to live with. we night that probably only a matter of. days oh wait well we have another. that.

will definitely stop and ready. the sheer scale of these bush fires is pushing fire and rescue services to their limits and the fires are still getting worse. well joining me now from sydney is james morris he's a spokesman for the new south wales rural fire service james thank you for taking the time to talk to us out such a critical time now we understand the high winds have been called the casing efforts what does that mean so you'll firefighters and they walk. good afternoon to you helena look as you mentioned those winds caused a lot of issues for us yesterday afternoon we saw those wind gusts in excess of i t 2100 kilometers per hour which caused very challenging and erratic fire behavior far far as to try and control and slow the spread of restraints and very incredible footage coming out of those 4 grounds of forefathers trying to defend homes and properties where they can some air is residents going down to the local fire

station and forefathers are protecting those residents while they still continue to battle the fire as you mentioned unfortunately we've saying 8 people lose a lot of that they say and so far including 2 of our own far far as i mean recent days unfortunately jeff an andrew of holes leapai brigade who are out are protecting their community and had done sorry dain day out for a number of wakes the ses and so very charged last day and that brigade holds the popper guide where back out yesterday on the front lawn again in and on behalf of those 2 members sent me a tragic loss james any sign of relief in sight. fortunately nice on of relief in sight i would you have more favorable conditions up in the next 4 or 5 days before we see again an increase in temperature and winds but until we get substantial rhein significant rain for days on end we want to say they far

as extinguished we have brought can time and lawns but that still means that they'll be a lot of foreign landscape for a long time yet of meteorology not predicting any significant for costs of running until at least need to at the end of february so still some months yet and still some of the worst weather yet to come all right james morris from the new south wales rural fire service thanks for talking to us and all the best to you connie. well taken out of the other stories making news around the world at this hour french holiday travelers are facing major delays as well as cancellations as the nationwide transport strike continues paris rail travelers face long waits for crowded trains with the system running a half capacity transport workers are part of the largest strike called over pension reforms. hotel years in venice say that fears of new flooding have cut the number of hotel reservations by almost half restaurants are also receiving far

fewer bookings last month the highest tide in decades left parts of the italian canal city submerged. the u.s. has officially announced that the funding of a new military branch focused on winning battles from space president donald trump announced space force a 16000 troop military unit designed to defend american interests in space. while germany has objected strongly to new u.s. sanctions against the north stream 2 gas pipeline from russia to germany but says it will not retaliate the sanctions affect the companies involved in the construction of the nearly completed undersea pipeline through the baltic sea one swiss dutch firm involved in the project has already said it will suspend its operations washington says that the pipeline will make germany in europe too dependent on russian energy. germany's vice chancellor had this to say about the

u.s. sanctions. these sanctions constitute serious interference in the internal affairs of germany and europe and of our sovereignty we object to them in the strongest terms moreover this behavior is entirely in comprehensible and is not at all appropriate between friends and nato allies 1st and his words their vice chancellor scholtz will do. this and he had a crystal joins me now in the studio to talk through all of this good to see me here so the construction of north stream to its ground to a halt for the time being do these sanctions mean that project is off the table all together. and it's actually very unlikely that u.s. sanctions will stop this project from going a hot head over all because it's more strategic than it is a technical question at the moment there's a swiss company that is simply afraid to continue any work because of the threat of sanctions and they have specialty ships so that the technology you can't replace

but what you also can't replace is that strategic alliance between germany and russia on this particular point of energy security and supplies this is a project that's also been hotly debated within the european union and the united states simply wants to kill it it's unlikely it will do so because it's also a matter of principle even for the opponents that imposing sanctions is simply against international law and how international business is currently done we're talking about matter of principles you know critics say that these sanctions aren't so much about protecting europe from russian influence for example when it comes to the u.s. president instead he wants to make sure that more american gas is sold to europe how much weight would you give to those claims while. it's absolutely clear that the united states wants to sell liquid nitrogen gas and what don't use tried to do and it's getting a lot of criticism from the opposition for right now is to reassure the americans

that it would buy equipment not. it could not have been gassed by saying that it will build those terminals and at the same time following the strategy of ensuring gas supply security with russia and the united states is the country upon which simply european security german security depends on and we're actually seeing that issue of security security being mixed up with the overall strategic question of if you're not with us on the issue you clearly are against us so i think this is only the beginning of no longer standoff potentially more hostile policy not just of this project to follow and on that point i mean it seems that we've now got another issue between germany and the u.s. on the table you know adding to trade for example adding to nato payments how damaging potentially could this nordstrom to raul be toward already strained relationship what we heard it from the vice chancellor in that sound bite at the very beginning it's seen as

a rather damaging as an interference in the criticism is unlikely to get much stronger on the rest of records but off the record we're clearly seeing damage done to the underlying trust between germany and the united states but also europe on the u.s. and a departure from any kind of reliability on that strategically important partner across the transatlantic with strategic interest stretching so much into economics and how the e.u. how germany turns out its and security in the future chief political as a mechanic and thanks so much for your analysis at least 23 people have been killed in violent protests in india against a contentious new law gives illegal immigrants who have fled religious persecution a chance to apply for indian citizenship but it doesn't apply to muslims now they according its criminalization and a violation of india's secular constitution. these women in

some state expressed their objection to the new citizenship law peacefully with a citizen in a field their muslim assamese and they see the legislation as part of a hindu nationalist agenda the main herald deeper discrimination they're afraid they'll become a minority. the government is taking steps that will result in a disappearance of the assamese identity if the assamese people are to not protest our language will disappear here and of course. there are 200000000 muslims in india and ease about the new law has spread across the country critics of prime minister narendra modi and his government say making citizenship easier for non muslim immigrants than for muslims undermines the constitution they want to divide the indian society based on religion they want to create a separation and a distance and if. there are fears among indian muslims that they could become 2nd

class citizens in their own country. the rising death toll as police crackdown on protests is only fueling those fears. well forbes magazine has published its 2019 list of its richest creators on the video platform you chiva and when you think of who could top that list you probably wouldn't guess that it's an 8 year old kid from texas but that is exactly who it is or his tell us more about child that you choose star ryan tangy is d.w. reporter for him good to see you tell us more about ryan and crucially i guess we ended up making so much money well i have to admit i mean a little bit of dulles of this kid i mean when we were his age we were probably very happy to get some money from our parents doing some you know chores around their house but ryan has earned $26000000.00 u.s. dollars in the past year i mean he started. out you know in the unboxing presence

and given your views about tories expanded into a media empire and now does scientific experiment child friendly scientific experiments with his mother and educational toys and this has all of this is expanded into a brand of line of toys clothing home goods sold at target wal-mart and amazon even has a spin off television show on nickelodeon and deal with who to repackage his video i mean his 23000000 subscribers and his you tube channel and i just took those school today and some of the videos i mean all of them are really in the millions in terms of so quite a quite a resume for an 8 year old is so impressive and nothing against drawing a toll but i mean why is he so popular on you tube i guess specifically what i'm getting at is who is his audience who's watching him while other children i mean experts are saying that you tube is becoming the world's most popular babysitter i mean according to a recent pew research study done this year videos with children in the average

almost 3 times as many views as other types of videos from other high subscriber channels so in the same ballpark as ryan's channel and another study said that 81 percent of parents with children or younger let their kids watch you tube i mean when you see these kids these days i mean they can hold an i pad and log into that and find their favorite videos within seconds so that's what it is yeah good job brian we should definitely be trying to take some of his tips i think for him thank you so much indeed. well the final been does lead to much day of the calendar year is well underway with saturday's games all over so let's take a look at how things have on ravelled so far we've got by and left it late to beat lights they came from behind to defeat outspoken low down vetted by a man shall go and tribal action at the points minds lost to 10000000 they've accused in and how to balance

a no battling mentioned bloodbath on friday hoffenheim stunned dortmund and on sunday just off post when he won badly in a frankfurt travel to part of. why you're watching news from berlin up next reporter looks at the lengths some families will go to in their quest to find the perfect christmas tree and have an entree about impacts your company you're going. to. take. your wedding with a little under feet once to make the game so special. the wrong. path.