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this is t w news coming to you live from berlin turkey warns of a new refugee crisis tens of thousands of syrians have fled fresh taxed by russian and syrian government forces in the it live region turkey's president says his
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country would not be able to cope with the influx warning of the consequences for europe too. also coming up afghanistan's president musharraf's ghani appears to have been reelected by a narrow margin in long to late results from september's election but his rival of a philips warns 15 vote to see. plus firefighters in australia hope of break in scorching weather will help them bottled the massive bush fires raging across vast stretches of the country at least 6 people have died and more than 100 homes have been destroyed. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us syrian government forces backed by russia and other allies are pushing to retake the bridge in the last major bit of.
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rebel held territory in syria and home to $3000000.00 people tens of thousands are fleeing the violence heading towards turkey turkish president reza time out of one fears they could eventually enter turkey which is home to nearly 3700000 syrians already the largest refugee population in the world had won his war and 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 while 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
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from the violence. whistling again because of the heavy bombardment by the criminal bashar al assad yesterday more than 400 rockets hit these 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 shah. 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
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other than joined half a 1000000 of those who fled to the border this year already invited to safety but living conditions the u.n. describes as horrific. afghan president ghani appears to be heading for a 2nd term preliminary results show he won september's election with just over 50 percent the announcement had been delayed. because of irregularities and the recount johnnie's close as. says he does not accept the result for. 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 had hit the market we are going towards national trust. us we are moving from division towards national
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unity. the resells have been repeatedly delayed admit technical issues and accusations of fraud in a vendor the election commission tries to launch a ballot recount that some claim would favor ghani. that attempt was halted by the incumbents main rival how to live up to 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. could if they outcome stands danny could carry on with his demand to lead peace talks with the taliban over the past year the president had been sidelined in direct talks between the u.s.
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and the taliban. but the announcement of the final result could take weeks meaning what gunny now needs most is patience. earlier we spoke to journalist early latif here in kabul and asked him what another term for gunny means for people there i think people are very tired of the selection process you know they just wanted to be over it's root 3 months since the election took place and people have been waiting for results and now we're seeing again that 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 widespread fraud was committed that fraud in the election leaves as much damage as a suicide bombing well 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. and that was journalist t.v. there in kabul now australian firefighters have begun to make progress against
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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. a lot of. logs lost in the field. 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.
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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 rifle 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 in the weather. 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 day of
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a fire in the agency he said he was sorry if his absence had caused offense a response many have branded as inadequate. challenging weeks still lie ahead for the public and the firefighters battling not only the flames but also extreme exhaustion. to. the race for the country's presidency is heading to a 2nd round after no candidate won an outright majority in sunday's election leftist former prime minister's. top the 1st round of voting he'll face incumbent conservative. in a runoff poll on january 5th the winner will be as it takes on the presidency of the european union. well earlier i spoke with journalist. in zagreb i asked him what's at stake for croatia in the selection while the role of the president in crow show is largely. ceremonial by that he also or
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she. creates the foreign policy. is he is he or she the commander of the army and of course the biggest question in this election is the ideology the difference between the conservatives the right wing and the labs or the center. basically in this election the pain focused more on i know all that than on the 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 the ideological issues that don't really have anything to do with the role of the
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president. thanks let's take a 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 rallies in the capital beirut and in other parts of the country came as house began talks on forming a new government demonstrators are demanding an overhaul of the political establishment and they reject 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 sank with one person injured in the incident. at least 8 people in the philippines have died after drinking coke in a wine a popular party beverage more than 200 were also being treated in hospital for symptoms of poisoning cases were reported in 2 provinces south of manila and
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officials have temporarily banned sales of the wine. and 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 crowd made what's called a bold side landing at the white sands missile range in new mexico. the professional footballers association has called on the british government for an inquiry into racism in the english game this after germany international antonio allegedly faced monkey chants during chelsea's 2 nil win over taught him hotspur on sunday chelsea defender a blue ticket was targeted by some spurs fans after he was involved in a clash with sone grown men who received a red card the referee stopped play during the 2nd half when we together complained
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about the abuse. and have promised to take the strongest possible action but again it is player to face racism in the premier league earlier this month ben chester united's fred was targeted by manchester city. german soccer now and welcomed on the final match day before the bundesliga heads into the winter break after a tough start to the season on your own have been performing well but struggling decide or got the better of them on sunday. last season disallowed off one of the over achieving new boys in the division based on the round that has been the story of new ones campaign still it was the home side who drew 1st blood in the 38th minute zac stephens goalkeeper was helped along by oliver fink and reuben headings how much home his 11th of the season i drew one foot 2 from the very top drill and
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just pushed go in for us. or no one came out on the front foot after the break though and just 3 minutes after the restart the guests were level when parkinson reacted quickest to punish a sloppy carrots for matty a similar on and give the travelling supporters something to cheer about. just past the hour and a she was denied by stephan who stopped this rebound before just finally managed to clear their lines when you were knocking on the door of a 2nd away win over the season but those hopes were dashed by eric tommy in the 98th minute when he stole all 3 points for 40. substitutes on me with a speculative effort to stop a rough cabbage off guard and bounced in off the post. a gutsy and to the 1st half of the season for the visitors crucial relegation battle points for the
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hundreds. the school was just a little funny puts an end to day 6 k. run in the book to see. 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. hunnicutt is an 8 day festival celebrating the dedication of the holy temple in jerusalem during the 2nd century b.c. . you're watching the news coming up next our documentary film. watch. staying informed. language courses. video audio.
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