for the future. because we can make a city. in such good. news a line from an apology from australia's prime minister for vacationing in hawaii while parts of his country burnt. prime minister you have other responsibilities and hardship except the christmas. thousands of firefighters are struggling to contain catastrophic blazes across several states will go to sydney for the latest also coming up. europe takes the u.s.

to task for sanctions on a pipeline transporting russian gas to western europe the measures could push up costs and delay construction. and like to top the german football league heading into the winter bringing. a 31 win at home to outgroup was enough to guarantee their lead in the bundesliga will have all that trimmed and. a michael ok glad to have you with us. australia's prime minister scott morrison has been forced to apologize for taking a holiday at the height of the devastating bushfire crisis emergency crews are struggling to contain hundreds of blazes around sydney a combination of record temperatures drought and powerful winds is fueling the

inferno at least 9 people have been killed since the fires began but there is hope at last of a break in the weather. the reality of the fight against the flames told. the force of nature overwhelming. here. just. here more than 3000 others are on the front lines in new south wales and one of the biggest fire disasters australia has seen to have lost their lives. the response prime minister scott morrison outraged by leaving for a holiday in hawaii is a crisis peaked he's returned with repentance. obviously return from that has caused some great anxiety in australia and. acknowledge that.

you had the benefit of hindsight and would have made different decisions. the past 2 days have been desperate in new south wales a situation officially catastrophic as one official said as bad as it gets exhaustion is setting in. take management and the dry and the relentless nighter this season is certainly taking a toll on so too is a geographic spread of the activity just to go challenges transport and an accommodation challenges spreading and moving people across such a broad geographic area all add to the challenges of. the intensity of the. cold weather moves in but still. on the assessments of the damage caused. journalist roger maynard ease in sydney following the blazes there roger prime minister scott morrison has

apologised after returning from vacation is you're likely to be any political fallout for him in other words are australians buying what he's selling. not really being rather cynical i think at this stage in his absence overseas sunning himself in hawaii while much of australia and certainly didn't go too well and he's been and certainly pilloried in the press and on the social media as a result of that he is under a lot of pressure too politically to pull out all the stops to try to restore his image this morning and went immediately to the rural fire service headquarters in sydney to major officials and also to discuss strategy with them also there were fighters from america and canada who arrived in australia over the weekend to try to offer a helping hand during his press conference scott morrison accepted the criticism

levelled at him and apologise for any offense corps has done here period to concede that climate change might have been the qutub drew factor in all this he emphasised that it was not possible to make a direct connection between climate change and any particular incident a lot straighter and about $60000000000.00 a year from the export of coal so there's a lot riding on this and he is not prepared to give that sort of business away immediately anyway well mercifully temperatures around sydney have dropped hasn't helped firefighters much. yeah it's a lot cooler in sydney so they have about 2324 degrees celsius compared with 4445 degrees yesterday so news will drop in temperature and that certainly helped firefighters who've been battling blazes in the blue mountains now for most of the weekend is help them to gain some degree of control although a limited amount of control because these fires are so immense earlier today we

heard of another potential disaster in an area south west of sydney in a little town called balmoral which has a population of about $400.00 of the prime minister and the state premier of wind to this particular part of the world earlier on today and and and the work was that although no one's actually been allowed back into the village yet that most of the village has been lost such was the force of claims overnight and that's why the story is going to repeat it is so many areas of australia at the moment you know even in the blue mountains and in southwest of city we've got this sort of christened of flame and certainly a lot of the outer reaches. and no one can really stop it basically. that was journalist oh roger maynard there speaking to us for a short while ago germany has strongly objected to u.s. sanctions against the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany the

sanctions target companies building the pipeline under the baltic sea washington says the project gives russia too much power over your and it's offering its own gas as an alternative. the gas pipeline has just 300 kilometers to go this signature aims to stop it dead in the water the new u.s. law imposes sanctions against companies building the pipeline washington says north stream 2 will make germany too dependent on russian energy none of your business says german vice chancellor scholtz. all these sanctions constitute serious interference in the internal affairs of germany and europe and of our own sovereignty we have jack to them in the strongest terms moreover this behavior is entirely in comprehensible and is not at all appropriate between friends and nato allies. the sanctions target companies like swiss based all sees it operate ships that lay pipelines at sea but because the sanctions could threaten business

the company does in the united states its announced its suspending work on north stream too many german politicians are outraged by the american measures. just wants more markets for their fracking gas they want to force europeans to buy environment damaging fracking again. but the government says it won't retaliate. and we do not want to trade war whether on this issue or any other we believe the political differences should be resolved politically and shouldn't contribute to making the trade conflicts worse conflict to. the consortium building north stream 2 says construction will continue but finishing the pipeline may now take longer and cost more. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. protesters in hong kong are staging a sit in against china's treatment of its weaker ethnic minority the u.n. and human rights groups estimate that china has detained between one and 2000000 we

good muslims in camps under harsh conditions beijing denies mistreating the weak years and says it's conducting an antiterrorism campaign. ashraf ghani seems headed for a 2nd term as president of afghanistan according to preliminary results he won september's election with just over half of the vote the announcement had been delayed by irregularities in a recount gunnies nearest rival was abdulla currently the country's chief executive . at least 18 prisoners have been killed while riding in a jail in honduras the fighting broke out in a prison located in the northern port town of tayla represented relatives of the dead prisoners gathered to collect the bodies for burial. protests and public anger have dominated the news in haiti for months now as people become increasingly frustrated by a government they see as corrupt the political crisis is making it more difficult

for aid agencies like doctors without borders which is working to stop haiti's medical system from completely collapsing. barbed wire and concrete separates the rest of port au prince from the hospital run by doctors without borders since last november around 170 medical professionals have been working here many are from haiti itself but they're joined by volunteers like thomas schaefer from switzerland who wanted to help rebuild the country's medical services. because it is full nights it's a major medical crisis since the last unrest most of the public facilities have closed off there are a few private hospitals but the majority have also closed their doors shut for the rest. of the 4 months people have been taking the frustration to the streets poverty stagnation and anger have fueled the protests more than $100.00 people have lost their lives much of the rage is directed at president moyes who is accused of corruption while many go hungry and the security situation continues to deteriorate

this 11 year old was shot in the stomach almost all patients are victims of violence resulting from a power vacuum that has allowed gangs to take control of the streets and inflict their will on any who crossed their path. security is tight around the headquarters of the opposition they've brought serious charges against the president and have been calling for a new transitional government since january. that will make sure that members of the governments who have enriched themselves illegally will pay that they. will unify the people to rebuild the country we've already worked out a plan to do so the. better. he is on the brink and there's no sign the humanitarian catastrophe will end any time soon. sports now and german football lives are on top of the league or as the league enters christmas break the team secured the top spot with

a $31.00 win at home to out. how sport coach marching schmidt managed to smile as he greeted his counterparts nearly an argos mon. against leipzig of all teams philip max would have to sit out the match with a sore throat leaving it all up to his strike partner saw the need to lash now. and he rose to the occasion opening the scoring for the visitors with their 1st chance in just the 8th minute i be a goal of the season for the summer newcomer i been checking video replay for a possible offside took 2 and a half minutes which is bad to feel the fire for opponents of the system say it kills the mood i after that light sic woke up i but they couldn't capitalize on any of their 1st half chances so i bit but that changed in the 68

minutes when conrad lima got hold of the i the austrian netting the long overdue equaliser was it was like 6 sixteenth's shot in the game and they finally managed to take advantage of one. might say wanted to make sure they went into the winter break top of the table and that was good. 12 minutes later when patrick ship was shipped off felix will do well i was headed in to make it to what the. right seat played a clever game the rest of the way team over on us stepped on the gas and set up substitute use of posts and was champion and round out the $31.00 scoreline in the final minutes of the saying by now it's all very tight all the top teams are there in the mix be a lot of big things happening for us and spring up and we won't. feel like this.

next year. in the summer with us but 1st leipzig will be having a merry christmas at the top of the table. let's take a look at all the results so far on match day 17 for to berlin and gladbach ended scoreless by and left it late to beat both berg like they came from behind to beat oxburgh clone downed verger braman shotgun freiburg shared the points minds lost to 10 men leverkusen on friday hoffenheim stunned dortmund and on sunday to set off host berlin in frankfurt travel to paddle board. now for some more breaking news breaking news hundreds of sea turtle babies freshly hatched at a wildlife refuge in pakistan have just released into the sea the arabian sea specifically this year nesting sites had been disturbed by storms adding urgency to

efforts to look after the ads of this endangered species the babies all seem to know which way to head with a bit of luck they could turn out to be 100 years old. coming up next shift living and living in the digital age looks at the latest developments in the open source community and a reminder you can get all the news on our web site that's d w dot com i'm michael in berlin we will have more news at the top of the hour. i know nothing. but nice and nothing. new to make this drama even if. next time rachel join me for me to complete a whole.