the chance of the people threatens the old order. cars. is the story of an era that defines overmanaged today. 979 the big new day since december 23rd. this is the deputy news live from berlin croatia's opposition candidate leave his country's presidential race preliminary results show left wing former prime minister and so on will out of it ahead in the 1st round of voting but with

a runoff ahead all eyes are on the 2 right wing candidates vying for 2nd place. also coming up afghanistan's president ashraf ghani appears to have been reelected by a narrow margin in the long delayed results from september's election but his rival abdullah abdullah warns he won't concede. and hong kong police cracked down on a city that has activists call attention to china's reported abuse of its weaker muslim minority. i'm way of blue cruft thanks for watching polls have closed in croatia's presidential election preliminary results show a tight race between 3 candidates tight enough to trigger a runoff between the top 2 the winner will lead croatia as the country takes up a prominent task for the european union. it's an election that's being watched

closely in european capitals. she is due to take over the e.u. council presidency on january 1st so the women will have a role in setting the tone in brussels for the next 6 months it's been a close 3 way rice being competent conservative kaliningrad bachata which looks to be travelling slightly after losing support during the campaign result shows social democrats are on milan of each piece to put ahead of her and nationalist miroslav should koro is a close the as elsewhere in europe immigration has been a big issue in the camp high scorer has promised to dispatch the army to protect crisis border as leftist milan of which says he disagrees crisis prime minister has also got involved in the election if it's loses it will be huge blood to him and to a successful crisis in a presidency said the prime minister has been out on the hustings on behalf of his

fellow conservative. we have confidence in the wise judgment of the croatian people and the electorate which we believe president grab our qatar of which will win a majority of the vote. but instead. is facing a tough battle to win reelection early results show the country looks headed for a runoff on january 5th which. earlier we spoke to correspondent on who has been following the election for us from neighboring slovenia with just 2 candidates now in contention we asked them who might have an edge in the january runoff. that is very hard to say of course expressing ministers who are in milan which from the social democrats he managed to to. the left wing specter of political specter in creation but gravity terror which incumbent president is not too far away from him and not to forget the 3rd candidate he

nearest law school he's an extreme heart right wing nationalist and is dead let. her which also to conduct a complaint it was very much right we leaning with a lot of nationalist topics she brought into her campaign and to she might collect quite some votes from from him in the 2nd round so it's quite open race i would see she probably might be the next president elect again but it will cast a shadow on her presidency being elected with the rules of the extreme right wing australian firefighters have begun making progress against hundreds of bushfires after cooler weather ended days of record breaking temperatures as the intensity of the fires drops the extent of the damage caused during the heat wave is beginning to emerge. the air is acrid the dense smoke is causing serious health

problems. homes laid waste in the town of lythgoe 80 kilometers west of sydney. dad out of a. lot of. logs lost a lot in the. news. of. the fire storm all but wiped the village of balmoral southwest of sydney off the map the flames came so fast that steve harrison had no time to escape. the day before i had actually built myself. into. the heat in there from. saturday was catastrophic sunday. it was cooler and firefighters could make some progress in containing the flames

but the crisis is far from over. we've got to keep in mind that we're not expecting any rainfall to make any meaningful difference to those farmers until january january february that's the way to go i was still talking 4 to 6 weeks at best before we start to see a meaningful reprieve in the weather. here. has already been fighting wildfires for months extreme heat and drought gave this year's fire season an early start. prime minister scott morrison returned from a vacation in hawaii after widespread public criticism earning the nickname smoko for not being present during the country's worst ever fired in the agency he said he was sorry if his absence it caused offense a response that many have branded as inadequate. challenging weeks still lie ahead for the public and the firefighters who are battling not only the flames but also

extreme exhaustion. right. now for some other stories making news around the world. turkish president roger tayyip erdogan has warned europe of a fresh influx of syrian refugees erda one says tens of thousands of people are moving towards turkey after syrian and russian forces intensified bombing in live from. the militia calling itself the libyan national army says it sees the granada registered ship with turkish crew members forcing it to a libyan port for inspection the l.m.a. wants to bring down libya's un backed government in tripoli and rejects a maritime border deal between that government and turkey. indian prime minister narendra modi has defended a new citizenship law that critics say discriminates against muslims addressing his supporters in new delhi he said there is no need to worry for muslims born in india

to indian parents at least 23 people have been killed in violent protests against the long. afghan president gunny appears to be heading for a 2nd term preliminary results released a short while ago shore show he won september's election with just over 50 percent the announcement had been delayed because of irregularities and a recount turnout was under 30 percent and a 3rd of the votes cast were declared invalid johnnie's closest rival. who currently shares power with him as the country's chief executive executive says he does not accept the result and wants an investigation. now earlier we spoke to a journalist in kabul and asked him what another term for gunning means for people there i think people are very tired of this election process you know they just wanted to be over it's been through 3 months since the election took place and

people have been waiting for results and now we're seen again but there are questions of legitimacy we're seeing that doctor of the law is refusing to accept the results saying that the clean votes were not counted that fraudulent voter counted that white spread fraud was committed that fraud in the election leaves as much damage as a suicide bombing would so really you know it's not resolving very much because it just seems to be leading to more electoral tension and more political drama for the people. journalist in kabul moving to hong kong where police have broken up a set in protesting china's treatment of its weaker ethnic minority the demonstrators accuse beijing of abusing over 1000000 weaker muslims that it's held in camps something that chinee the chinese government denies the standoff between police and protesters marks the latest violence in more than 6 months of under arrest in hong kong. a rally for freedom of speech that ended like this.

anger and violence between activists and place. bottles 5 protesters respond furiously to the police action. amidst the scuffles and office appointees guy had demonstrators. this is what activists are complaining about they say china is threatening the liberties of the people of hong kong still have. hey i think that basically we're all fighting against it's a totalitarian regime more or we don't want. china. to become this fun defeat to pull. through until. the rally started peacefully in hong kong's financial district hundreds of democracy activists staged a cd and to show support of mainland chinese ethnic wages some will mosques with the flag of pro independence activists in the weakest province cian jiang on the

dice a beijing once a silence pushing chang and hong kong. i know about the so-called re-education camps where over 1000000 wages have been kept and they feel something like that could also happen here. i come here to did was of course. because they. had to face. repression from their communist government in china after months of protests for more democracy in hong kong some feel on the independence will guarantee they live with these things otherwise i wore the she have to die could be the hong kong of tomorrow. the secretive artist banksy has unveiled his latest work on the tiffany same with a political twist it's on display in a hotel in bethlehem the city believed to be the birthplace of jesus today both bethlehem and the hotel which banksy himself is involved in find themselves in

israeli occupied west bank and bank sees nativity scene so does baby jesus. at the 1st glance this new banksy installation just looks like a typical nativity play now take a closer look it's not the christmas doll that is shining on to baby jesus mary and joseph it's light that is coming through a shell hole on a demo concrete wall a reference to the israeli built beriah they could be seen from every room of this hotel. he called this amazing piece of or the score of bethlehem. and it's a scar on him it's it's a play on the worth of growth the sort of affluence car. the artwork as a metaphor for how palestinians live today in bethlehem and the rest of the palestinian territories. wools off just like the name of the hotel where the

installation and many other banks are on display. banks is trying to be a voice for those who cannot speak simply like this. he's trying to help. our situation through art to make the palestinian voice reach a word through art. resistance and through art. that typical thanks to work provocative and disturbing. several 1000 people gathered sunday night at berlin's brandenburg gate to mark the start of hanukkah the jewish festival of lights lighting the 1st candle on the 10 meter high menorah was the head of germany's central council of jews yosef shuster hanukkah is an 8 day festival celebrating a jewish military victory over greek forces in ancient israel it falls any time

between the end of november and the end of december. and from one holiday tradition to another the winners of spain's el gordo christmas the lottery are celebrating tonight after taking a slice of the world's richest raffle total of almost $2400000000.00 euros are paid out this year with the $4000000.00 euro prize going to $170.00 lucky ticket holders as per tradition the winning numbers were sung by schoolchildren live on television . el gordo or the fat one is a huge part of spain's christmas calendar instead of creating one huge jackpot a lottery is designed to allow as many people as possible to win or at least break even. something i'll definitely get a ticket for and coming up after the break it's the bonus league with nick mckenna climb closing out the last match day before the winter break. 2nd to last

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