a peaceful resolution of religious conflicts. now female members or for religions for peace from the middle east or demanding a larger role. in. the mail peacemakers stores. this is news coming to you live from turkey warns of a new refugee crisis tens of thousands of syrians have fled fresh attacks by russian and syrian government forces in the ad lib region turkey's president says

his country wouldn't be able to cope with the influx warning of consequences for europe too also coming up afghanistan's president he appears to have been reelected by a narrow margin in long delayed results from september's election but his rival. was conceit. plus firefighters hope a break in scorching weather will help them fadel massive bush fires raging across the country at least 6 people have died in more than 100 homes have been destroyed . good to have you with us syrian government forces backed by russia and other allies are pushing to retake the bridge in the last major. a bit of rebel held territory

in syria and home to $3000000.00 people tens of thousands are fleeing the violence heading towards turkey turkey's president richard that one theory is they could eventually enter turkey which is already home to nearly 3700000 syrians the largest refugee population in the world or one has warned there will be consequences for europe if that happens. the desperate search for people buried in the rubble left by another bombing in syria as strikes by russian and syrian forces continued throughout the weekend. they're aiming for al qaeda linked militants what they hit here was a busy market. we were here when the missiles hit and we have nothing to do with this gk we are all civilians here my son was wounded this is a civilian area what can i do. to smoke rises from another drop to bomb on for another family it's time to pack up and leave. is taking his family away

from the violence. whistling again because of the heavy bombardment by the criminal bashar al assad yesterday more than 400 rockets hit this town. and they set off while more family with nowhere to go. joining many many more fleeing the renewed offensive. checky say $80000.00 people are currently heading towards its border with syria and the situation is deteriorating shi'ite. if the violence towards the people of live does not stop this number will rise even more in that case turkey will not carry such a migrant burden on its own the negative impact of the pressure we will be subjected to will be something that all european nations especially greece will also feel. at the moment there's no option for this new wave of displaced people

other than join half a 1000000 of those who fled to the turkish border this year already invited to safety but living conditions the u.n. describes as horrific. afghan president appears to be heading for a 2nd term results show he won september's election with just over 50 percent the announcement had been delayed because. irregularities and the recount counties are close as rival says he does not accept the result. after months of political limbo preliminary results of the september election are finally out ashraf ghani appears set to win a 2nd term after securing just over 50 percent of the vote in a t.v. speech on sunday ghani hailed the announcement as a victory of the whole country. that have hit the market we are going towards national trust. us that we are moving from division towards national unity.

the resells have been repeatedly delayed admit technical issues and accusations of fraud in a vendor the election commission try to launch a ballot recount that some claim would favor ghani. that attempt was halted by the incumbents main rival now to live up to the law. he eventually allowed a recount to go forward earlier this month but he's not content with the outcome and says the results are not legitimate. we want the election complaints commission to remove the fraudulent votes from the transparent and clean votes and submit the results based on the law. if the outcome stands johnny could carry on with his demand to late peace talks with the taliban over the past year the president has been sidelined in direct talks between the

u.s. and the taliban. but the announcement of the final result could take weeks meaning what gunny now needs most is patience. and say look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today thousands of protesters in lebanon have called on the new prime minister to resign the rallies in the capital beirut and in other parts of the country came as house began talks on for mentoring a new forming a new government demonstrators are demanding an overhaul of the political establishment and they reject the as a member of the ruling elite. officials in ecuador say they've been able to contain an oil spill near the galapagos islands the spill occurred when a crane tipped over onto a barge that was carrying 600 gallons of diesel fuel the boat saying with one person injured in the incident. and at least 8 people in the philippines have died

after drinking coke and wine a popular party beverage more than 200 were also being treated in hospital for symptoms of holies ning the cases were reported in 2 provinces south of manila and officials have temporarily banned sales of the wine. boeing's starliner spacecraft has returned safely to earth the unmanned capsule suffered an orbiting failure during a test flight preventing a planned docking with the international space station the u.s. space agency nasa said the craft made what's called a bull's eye landing at the white sands. sol range in new mexico. to croatia now where the race for the country's presidency is heading to a 2nd round after no candidate won it outright majority in sunday's election a leftist former prime minister zoran may lot of edged top the 1st round of voting he'll face incumbent conservative kalinda grab archetype of each in a whole january 5th the winner will lead croatia as it takes on the presidency of

the european union. before let's cross over to journalist d'albret in zagreb but tell me what tell us what's at stake in this election while the role of the president in crow show is largely. ceremonial but that he also or she. creates the foreign policy. is he's the he or she is the commander of the army and of course the biggest question in this election is the ideology the difference between the conservatives the right we the left or center. basically in this election the pain focused more on my goal that than on concrete

issues that the country is facing and that they are actually in that the main of the president's authority for example they shop on immigration and things like that but more spoke about the economy and and the ideological issues that don't really have anything to do with the role of the president. ok so many candidates for standing in that 1st round of election but there will be a closer focus on these 2 figures who will be in the runoff what can we expect in that runoff ballot next month well we have former prime minister who wasn't successful as the prime minister hume 31 turn before losing the election and we have being company the president still sitting pretty. much now. the rights the conservatives actually won in the 1st

round around 50 percent of the vote because their vote was split between the incumbent and the challenger prone even further right. who who chose the president on that side and basically this shows that the most the majority did. vote conservative now the question is whether or not. we'll be able to pull in those votes from the right or will those people stay at home in 2 weeks time next month and not vote at all actually. croatia takes over the rotating presidency of the european union in january how does that factor into this election given what you said about the presidency actually having a lot of influence on foreign policy. well actually whether or

either of these candidates when i think that you can be smooth transition and good cooperation between the government and the president. the president the president sees of course in the in the hands mostly in the hands of prime minister. language who is a. conservative from from crimea creation democratic unity the same part the company president calling that property which is. basically. all he would i think he would have a good really working relationship with the long range residents as well so that wouldn't wouldn't really be a problem those of these candidates have a lot of experience in foreign policy work a ministry of foreign face. was the minister of foreign affairs and of course is the president over the last 5 years ok well thank you so much that was the bridge.

thank you. australian firefighters have begun to make progress against hundreds of bushfires after cool weather and the 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. laid waste in the town of 80 kilometers west of sydney. the 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.

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 mike any meaningful difference to those farmers until january january february. still talking 4 to 6 weeks at best before we start to see a meaningful reprieve. 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 smoke

for not being present during the country's worst. they have a fire in the agency he said he was sorry if his absence had 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. for. the winners of spain's el gordo christmas last 3 are celebrating after taking a slice of the world's richest raffle a total of almost $2400000000.00 euros were paid out this year with $178.00 lucky ticket holders each taking home $4000000.00 euros per turkish and the winning numbers were sung out by schoolchildren live on top of. el gordo or this one is a major part of spain's christmas calendar this it of creating one huge jackpot the

lorries designed to allow as many people as possible to win or at least break even . coming up after the break it's a bonus league with nick mckenna kline and closing out the last match day before the winter break 2nd the last little door took on known berlin on sunday while last place faced frankfurt find out how they fared next on the buddhist. i'm sorry martin thanks for being with us here on d w news i'll be back again next hour. in the eye of climate change. africa's mike. what's in store for.

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