definiens overmatched. 19. big clue to debate was december 23rd. this is d w news law if a land australia's prime minister is forced to apologize for vacationing in hawaii while boston areas of his country and thousands of firefighters are struggling to contain catastrophic blazes across several states will go to sydney for the latest also coming up afghanistan's president ashraf ghani appears to have been reelected by a narrow margin in long delayed results from september's election but his rival abdulla

up their loved ones he wouldn't concede a correspondent that has the details and like to talk to the german football league heading into the winter break a 31 win at home to old school was enough to guarantee their lead in the bundesliga let action coming up later in the show. i'm just beginning thank you 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. at

least 9 people have now been killed since the fires began but there is a bit of hope at last of a break in the wire. the air is acrid the pool of smoke dense the impact on people's health can be serious smoldering ruins in the town of let's go in the blue mountains. lot of. logs last year last year and i think it was you. 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 bag. so it's. just big enough for me to call him through it like he did there for the 4th. 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 writing fall to mike any meaningful difference to those farmers until january january february that's the why the guy was still talking for 6 weeks best before we start to see a meaningful reprieve in the web 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. take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world indian prime minister narendra modi has defended a new citizenship law that muslims say discriminates against them addressing his supporters in new delhi he said there was no need to worry for muslims born in india or so indian parents at least 23 people have been killed in violent protests

against the. creations of those saying in a presidential election and the tight outcome as expected the current president conservative. rover which cost to vote in the morning in the capital of zagreb the ballot comes days before croatia takes over the european union's rotating presidency. bowing starliner spacecraft has returned safely. their cell phone or summation is issue issue fullest enough to abandon plans to duck the vehicle of the international space station the unmanned probe made what nasa called a bull's eye landing at the military white sands missile range in new mexico. the afghan president musharraf's ghani appears to be heading for a 2nd preliminary results released a short while ago show that he won september's election with just over half the

vote in al smith had been delayed because of irregularities and a recount turnout was under 30 percent and a 3rd of the votes cost were declared invalid gunnies nearest rival of the law the law who currently shares power was him as the country's chief executive says he does not accept the result and wants an investigation. for more on this let's bring in journalist elena t.v. he joins us now on the phone from the afghan city of jalalabad good speech to you ali what's the reaction been to the preliminary preliminary election results what are people saying. reaction has been pretty much as expected it's very much following along party lines so that those who support the president you know the president gave a speech just about an hour ago a very hopefully very upbeat probably a good look an actual man they are going to a group of porters are following along that line and with the law as you said earlier you know he's really adamant in

a boarding process not properly vetted that the counting was not proper that there were many issues technical issues and other kinds of issues that he felt could be too broad and he really sticking to that plan so for a lot of people on the one hand you know that the result is finally out but they know that the road ahead could still be very long ok and as these results are preliminary could they still change to a greater extent. there is a chance that they could change that. probably seems unlikely and that they would actually change in any kind of a dramatic way and really realistically the issue now is for the president to convince his rivals that he won a fair mandate that the election was acceptable and that they should essentially accept his government and possibly even though that he's willing to bring on joining his government and basically his whole issue let's move on from this issue

and let's work towards peace talks with the taleban and let's work towards developing the country in the way that he can do that by trying to convince these rival. that you know they should accept the results because otherwise it will essentially just be nitpicking you know different percentage points back and forth until one party is happy i mean what about afghans themselves will they accept such a place result especially after about a 1000000 votes were actually declared invalid i think the avalon people at this point they're just flat out they're tired you know they waited almost 3 months for the results and they really want to move on you know there are so many business people that are essentially holding back their stock and their cargo because of that there's so much investment that's being how backed because of the certainty around and they think that people just really want an answer more than and unfortunately with the only life than 2000000 people voting and so many votes discounted they know that there is not really about their vote as much anymore it's

much more about moving along with the process and just getting on with the issues that need to be taken care of alina t.c. reporting from jalalabad thank you very much. now caution pakistan has sentenced a former university that tried to death for blasphemy tonight have nice was accused of making social media posts insulting islam when he was a university that trained 21st scene prosecution lawyers celebrated the verdict by handing out sweets in the courtroom but for a trial took place in well tom a city in central pakistan. tonight have its lawyer denounced the decision to do the see in court leave. it will. be baseless. and highly because i believe in the sea and because. of the. ok i'm joined now by shamming all shams from de w.'s asia desk channeled

the verdict has been called a gross miscarriage of justice by rights groups what other reactions have there been to this well most markets not human rights are terrorist and organizations have got to go do you condemn their decision. it's a travesty of justice there was not strict fair trial for a few days hebrews accused like 6 years ago and it was put in prison he was a solitary confinement there has not been any fair trial so there are huge question marks about the trial. the organizer should miss the different sections. at the same time. many people in congress are just blasphemy is a very sensitive issue here an office thought very kind of her. it was a good decision because any. should be punished according to islam now pakistan's

tall tough blasphemy laws all controversial critics say they used to actually target minorities and liberal activists is that right. it is right because these laws that were introduced in the 1980s bar in islam this military dictator have been used against religious minority. time and again and also very secular people in pakistan so all right now you are you have to start. or there are certain. laws and. so they are used against religious minorities as well as secular muslims. they should be condemned and monk. and i have his lawyer says he wants to appeal the court's ruling is there any chance that all of the defendants death sentence could be even best well the

orders i believe will take you to the supreme court where we hope there will be a fair trial. blaster me a sponsorship death in pakistan so it is very different girl even for the course as you saw a christian woman on the skase that she spent 10 years in prison on false accusations of blasts of blasphemy and at the same time. due to punish the culprits themselves the so-called culprits so it is a very difficult situation the hope that there would be a fair trial supreme court. will be allowed to do present is going to be presenting their viewpoint and also another way that have these could be pardoned by the president of pakistan. it's rare but we have to see but we have to. be sure that. not many. blasphemers have been punished by the supreme court they have not been executed i think charlie sounds from asia desk thank you very

much. thanks. all now and lights on top of the bundle as the. team secured the top spot with a 31 win as to. how sport coach marching schmitz managed to smile as he greeted his counterpart elian now goes 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 thought he i need a left now. and he rose to the occasion opening the scoring for the visitors with their 1st chance in just the 8th minute of the b. a goal of the season for the summer newcomer above checking video replay for possible off so i took 2 and a half minutes which is bear

a fuel the fire for opponents of the system to say it kills the mood i have to that leipzig woke up to a but they couldn't capitalise on any of their 1st half chances my but that changed in the 68 minutes when conrad lima got hold of the ball. of the austrian netting the long overdue equaliser by it was like 6 sixteenth's shot in the game and they finally managed to take advantage of one of let's say wanted to make sure they went into the winter break top of the table and that was guaranteed 12 minutes later when patrick shit i shipped off felix. and headed in to make it to one have. quite sick played a clever game the rest of the way stepped on the gas and set up substitute use of pulse and 5 to tap in and round out the $31.00 scoreline in the final men. it's

i. know it's all very tight all the top teams are there in the mix they'll be a lot of big things happening for us in spring we won't. be doing this so next year yeah we'll see in the summer or don't but 1st it will be having a merry christmas there at the top of the table. all right let's have a look at all the results so far on match day 17 has a bilin drew with blood and by and beat votes for as we just heard their lights came from behind defeat book which means they are top of the bundesliga table going into the winter break cologne down that i believe in shaker and i book through my notes lost to 10 man leave a cruise and on friday hoffenheim b. dortmund and on sunday just laid off host lin and frankfurt travel to part of

vaughan. it watching live from berlin coming up after the break shift living in the digital age but how big tech companies are increasingly focusing on open source software stick around for that if you can i many mackinnon and bellina on behalf of the whole team here thanks so much for your company. for. 15 years of religions for peace. from many different things are working together toward a common goal being peaceful resolution of religious conflicts. now all

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