this is d w news live from australia's prime minister is forced to apologize for vacationing in hawaii all parts of his country burn thousands of firefighters are struggling to contain catastrophic blazes across several states will go to sydney for the very latest also coming up hong kong police crackdown on a 16 rally as activists try to call attention to china's alleged abuse of its weak muslim minority. and a youngster saves by at munich again 18 year old you just sure it's

a scene scored for the late to germany's record champion the games will spill. on many people's mackinnon thanks so much for joining 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 end thought i least 9 people have now been killed since the fires began but there is hope at last all of a break in the wet. the air is acrid the pall of smoke dense the impact on people's health can be serious smoldering ruins and the town of lift

go in the blue mountains. there's a. lot of. logs lost. you. know. the village of balmoral has been almost entirely destroyed the fire came so fast steve harrison didn't have time to escape. the day before i had actually built myself a small kid down the back. so it's. just big enough for me to call and so i knew he'd be in there for half an hour before. saturday was catastrophic sunday less so it was cooler firefighters could make some progress in containing fires but the fire chief made very clear the crisis is far from over. we've got to keep in mind that we're not expecting any rainfall to mike any meaningful difference for those 4 hours until

january january february that's the way to go i was still talking for 6 weeks at best before we start to see a meaningful reprieve in the weather australia has already been fighting wildfires for months extreme heat and drought brought about an early start to the fire season challenging weeks still lie ahead for the public and the firefighters who are battling not only blazes but also exhaustion. and journalist roger may not joins me now from sydney rogers sunday did bring some relief from the extreme heat but has that helped the firefighters much. well to a certain extent yes i mean the weather is a lot cooler here today and that's given firefighters a much needed breather and doesn't mean the emergency is over but it's certainly looking a little bit easier to control a strong southerly wind passes sydney over the weekend cool temperatures and also dissipated much of the smoke we've been suffering here for the past few weeks

that's the good news is the bad news is that a mega fire in the blue mountains west of sydney continues to reach through bush land and this morning there are also details of averting of another major fire loss in south australia at cuddly creek in the adelaide hills it's now known that 70 homes have been destroyed there and $227.00 motor vehicles and in another major fire which you were alluding to were just now whist of sydney the small community of laurel has been literally devastated by a ferocious blaze overnight which seems to have destroyed much of the village now balmoral is home to about $400.00 people i was very close there only yesterday a lovely part of the world normally but many of the 150 houses are not believed to have been lost i will say where to bushfires the blue mountains are causing

problems you say extraordinary levels of destruction you're talking about here the prime minister has now apologized after returning from his holiday in hawaii given the situation how's that gone down with australians. well not particularly well i mean australians are basically pretty cynical people and they have girl talk of politicians particularly politicians all prime ministers ago and all in a time like this he's been in it criticised and lampoon do 'd a certain extent on social media period in the newspapers here and he's under a lot of pressure politically so he's pulling out all the stops to repair the damage and try to enhance his image this morning he went to the rule for our service headquarters in sydney they had all the offices there for their efforts and up at the press conference he did accept criticism leveled at him and apologize for any offense caused by his absence over the past week all right fred remain out in

sydney think he say much. like. so look at some of the other stories making news around the world the president of afghanistan ashraf ghani seems headed for a 2nd preliminary results suggest he won september's election with just over half of the vote had been delayed by irregularities and a recount gunnies nearest rival abdullah abdullah is currently the country's chief executive. at least 18 prisoners have been killed during riots and a jail in one door us the fighting broke out in a prison located in the north port town of tayla relatives of the dead prisoners gathered to collect the bodies for burial. cuber is getting its 1st prime minister and more than 40 years tourism minister no admirer of cruz takes over the post last held by communist leader fidel castro a rare is expected to share responsibilities with president kennedy and

a plan to decent for lies power. protests and public anger that 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's all night it's a major medical crisis since the last on rest most of the public facilities have closed there are a few private hospitals but the majority have also closed their doors shuffled nicely. for 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 in 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 cross 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 any members of the government who have enriched themselves illegally will pay that they can see yes which will unify the people to rebuild the country we've already worked out a plan to do so. norgate better. on the brink and there's no sign

the humanitarian catastrophe will end any time soon. in hong kong police cleared a rally by pro-democracy demonstrators in support of china's we get ethnic minority police used pepper spray and arrested people off the scuffles with protesters this followed a mostly peaceful session in hong kong by around 1000 demonstrators the protesters say china is abusing an estimated one to 2000000 we get muslims detained in camps beijing denies the abuse. correspondent phoebe kong was out there ali. it was the reginald peaceful rally held in the central business district in hong kong over that was an alcoholic home protest turn out to show support to the most them we guess in china will face oppression so suddenly as some of the riot police officers they stormed into the rally to arrest someone a suspect to remove a chinese national flag from the flag pole so they use pepper spray of the times to

arrest those guys and some of the pows has to stay on the pasta bottles and other objects the police in response they were outraged because this is a rally which is authorized by the police and they quickly the senate into chaos that actually we heard gunshots on sites that the police they actually buy it's probable as to some of the people in the f.b.i. and these 1st anyone who wants to stay here and the atmosphere here has been you know heated up again and maybe and not the following night in hong kong. sports news now and full 2nd place needed a win against had to keep them level on points with the league leaders but they found the going tough in the german capital they only managed a nil nil drole against the scene led by the former usa coach. patrick palin season has brightened up of late they were looking to spoil christmas

for the 3rd straight victory to pulling his best 1st half chance came from a free kick when this counterattack ended in a foul on davies. moving stepped up. his effort crashed off the crossbar much to the relief over stranded here and sama in the truck back to. the other end the phones were inaccurate markers to ram was dinoire. and offside for all your noise house did the rebound on to school stage left. marco was a sight not performing like credible content. as for the title. 2 direct bosses in the 2nd half got back the best shots of the game but on the side play are fighting to make it count another simple say for ya starting still trying to score no one more opportunity before the whistle but he is good to his mistress' use shoulder swipe symbolic of god but struggle in front of the answer go marco ruses

disappointment is you're going cleans my arms hard for rewards while gladbach now food 2 points behind lights hats ahead into the winter break unbeaten in 40 games. and by munich have made it official hanzi flick will remain head coach until the end of the season the reigning german champions have won a set that 10 games under flick and that run continued on saturday with a 2 nil victory over vostok buy and have lost a number of 1st team players through injury and that means opportunities for some up and coming stars such as a senior old joshua. client down to the bare bones a midfielder in a forward helps make up the back line as well spokane prowling for points the midfielder in question have you martinez was forced to limpopo in the 1st half to an out of sorts jerome but saying his replacement at the back fire on top throughout fully could see me almost scoring with this stunning strike in the 51st

minute couldn't catch deals with the regular save to keep things level. another example of defensive heroics or jerome bruce alone picked thomas miller's pocket at the back post soon after the frenchman out of nowhere just like the day. the wolves they went close themselves might see on old shot the flick thing just wide of the post all of a glass not knew that this was his side's best chance of stealing all 3 points. 10 minutes to go continue no off just result see on the 18 year old repeat wednesday's match winning debut heroics. just 2 days later the youngster turned home a motocross story my 2nd consecutive game for boy. cannot be pushed aside now that confidence but cannot reach the games a bit later on floating home off the robot leventhal ski team up for a simple finish above cycles waved away as handy flip side grabbed another victory but what of the interim coach his future. to some of the least we'll

see how things develop but he's doing a good job we're very happy with the development of the squad and we're very satisfied with him so i'm with the way he's conducted himself in public says that's a huge. boy wonder does it again as boy get the points. let's take a look now at all the results so far on match day 17 we just heard about has had to draw with blood and binds victory over the old spoke like came from behind to defeat out spoke which means they top the bundestag a table going into the wind break cologne downed that but even cheika and drew. to 10 man leave a coup isn't on friday hoffenheim beat dortmund and on sunday to send off host and frank travel to. you're watching the news live from but end up next

a documentary about the restorers of modern art what's who have to deal with the strangest materials we meet one has worked on everything from sculptures made from shells to what made from elephant excrement at his studio in los angeles so stay tuned for that if you caton to now on behalf of the whole team thanks so much for watching. us on has been a good show for coming. surely news from africa the world joining 2 exceptionally stories of time discussions continue and we'll come to the day of you suffocating program tonight from one to meet one uses easy to our website to deputed.