this is g w news ally of a problem and australia's prime minister is forced to apologize for vacationing in hawaii while the last areas of his country thousands of firefighters are struggling to contain catastrophic places across several states also coming up. afghanistan's president ashraf ghani appears to have been reelected by a narrow margin and long delayed results from september's election but his rival our beloved loved ones he will not concede a correspondent has the details. and in football

a youngster saves by munich again 18 year old joshua c. scored the late one after germany's record champions against books called. mackinnon thanks very much for joining us australia is prime minister scott morrison has been forced to apologize for taking a holiday at the height of the devastating bushfire crisis mergence he crews are struggling to contain hundreds of blazes around sydney a combination of record temperatures drought and powerful winds is fueling the insurgency at least 9 people have now been killed since the fires began but there is some hope at last of a break in the weather. the air is acrid the pool of smoke dense.

impact on people's health can be serious smoldering ruins in the town of lift go in the blue mountains. 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 cool down the back. and. just big enough for me to crawl in 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 there as far as 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 roy just sunday did bring some relief from the extreme heat but has that helped the firefighters much. or to a certain it's in the air some of 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 but 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. cuddly creek in the adelaide hills it's now known that 70 homes have been destroyed there and $227.00 motor vehicles 'd and in another major fire which you were alluding to were just now wist of sydney the small community of moro 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 people i was very close there only is today a lovely part of the world normally but many of the $150.00 houses are not believed to be lost i will say where to bushfires 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 that they have a girl over top of politicians particularly politicians all prime ministers ago and all of the time like this he's been in it criticised and lampooned do 'd a certain extent on social media pilloried 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 far service headquarters in sydney then to all the offices there for their efforts and up at the press conference he did accept criticism leveled at him and college was far any offense caused by his absence over the past week all right fred remain out in

sydney think he'd say much like. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now 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 also indian parents at least 23 people have been killed in violent protests against the little. creations of voting in a presidential election where a tight outcome is expected the current president conservative kalinda gets a row which cost her votes in the morning in the capital of zagreb the ballot comes days before crucial croatia takes over the european union's rotating presidency. bad weather conditions have caused a cargo ship to strand off the italian island of sardinia the vessel vessel was on

its way to spain and strong winds pushed it against the rocky coast line rescue workers managed to evacuate the crew of 12 no injuries have been reported. and the afghan president ashraf ghani appears to be heading for a 2nd term preliminary results released a short while ago show he won september's election with just over half the vote in outland had been delayed because of irregularities and a recount turnout was under 30 percent and a 3rd of the votes cast were declared invalid garny nearest rival abdullah abdullah who currently shares power with him as the country's chief executive says he does not accept the result and he's saying that he wants an investigation. now protests and public anger have dominated the news in haiti for

a month as people become increasingly frustrated by government they see as deeply corrupt political crisis in the caribbean island nation 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 if it's a major medical crisis since the last unrest most of the public facilities have closed there are a few private hospitals but the majority have also closed their doors to the lies that. 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. we'll make sure that all members of the government who have enriched themselves illegally will pay. c.s. which will unify the people to rebuild the country we've already worked out a plan to do so the new game. is on the brink and there's no sign the humanitarian catastrophe will end any time soon.

is now and we'll start with football 2nd place needed a win against hats a ballin to keep level on points with the latest but i found the going tough in the german capital and me managed draw against the team led by former usa coach. pats of butter in season has brightened up of late they were looking to spoil got back to christmas with a 3rd straight victory to pull in his best 1st off chance came from a free kick when this counterattack ended in a foul on davies and what move and stepped up. his effort crashed off the crossbar much to the relief of a stranded here and zama in the crowd back next to. the other end the foes were inaccurate markers to ram was denied by b. the yosh try an offside throw your noise house school ended the rebound and the school's stage left. marco's aside not performing like credible contenders for the

tight. to direct passes in the 2nd half gave got back the best shots of the game but on the side play our fight to make it count another simple say for yosh. still trying to score on the 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 rose as disappointment is you're going cleans man's heart for reward what got back now full 2 points to high. i'd like to see parents are headed to the winter break unbeaten in 4 league games. and beyond munich have made it official hanzi flic will remain head coach until the end of the season the reigning german champions have won 8 of their 10 games under flick that run continued on saturday with the 2 know that trio of adults folk have lost a number of 1st team players through injury and that means opportunity is the up

and coming stars such as 18 year old joshua. button down to the bare bones a midfielder and a forward helped make up the back line as will spur came prowling for points the midfielder in question have you martinez was forced to limp off in the 1st half to an out of sorts jerome boateng his replacement at the back corner on top throughout both fully could see me almost scoring with that stunning strike in the 51st minute couldn't catch steals with a direct kill or save to keep things level. another example of defensive heroics or jerome bruce alone picked up a smallish pocket at the back post soon after the frenchman out of nowhere to save the day. the wolves they went close themselves might see on all shot the flick thing just wide of the post all of a glass none knew that this was his sides but chunks of stealing all 3 points. 10 minutes to go continue your she was a c. on could be 18 year old repeat wednesday's match winning debut heroics just 2

minutes later the youngster turned home a move across to a nice 2nd consecutive game for boy munich surged in every pushed aside now that confidence but cannot be put the game to bed late tom slotting home of the robert levin dusty t.v. for a simple finish. offside calls waved away as handy side graft another victory boy wonder does it again as boy get the points. all right let's take a look at all the results so far on match day 17. we just heard about has had draw with blood and by arms victory over spork lights came from behind to defeat outspoken which means they topped the bonus league table going into the winter break cologne downed that i believe. drew my last 210 man live acoustic on friday hoffenheim dortmund and on sunday just the doff host in berlin and frankfurt travel to part of born. now his

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our web site that's d.w. dot com so now i need to just mckinnon on behalf of the whole team.