the end. this is you don't read news live from tens of thousands of people are told to evacuate as flames close it almost certainly a 2nd largest city now that far fighters are struggling against bushfires fanned by strong winds and school sheen temperatures lightning started more than a dozen new fans overnight or so coming on 3 years in jail for the scientist who claimed he created the world's 1st genetically edited baby the chinese court says that the full capacity disrupted the medical to do which is on the rise clinical

experiment. and remembering victims of the holocaust one stumbling stone at its heart we take a look at a german artist memorial project known as the shelter shack dedicated to preserving the memory of individuals killed by the nazis. and heaven are free glad you could join us in australia a new heat wave is igniting more bushfires increasing the toll that the blazes off taking across the country now $100000.00 people have been urged to flee 5 melbourne suburbs as flames are encroaching on the victoria state capital a volunteer firefighter has been killed battling a separate far in the countryside tent victim of the blazes now the high level farleigh it has led to the cancellation of hundreds of. displays for the new year.

if there's one thing that's considered a given at the end the feature here it's the images from across the world are flashy new year's celebrations and there is pride in being the ones to kick off the yearly affair. and you know new save the world looks at city if every single year and i look at vibrancy if i look at our passion i look at our success. but for the last 3 months australia has been battling some of the worst bushfires in decades the blazes are predicted to peak on new year's eve despite the growing forecast the city of sydney confirmed on monday it would go ahead with this year's fireworks show planned i remember a time when we've had total fall bans in place in the greatest in the region where we haven't been i would accommodate the risk elements for conducting the new year's a fall works in the in the sydney harbor area particularly we just thought now

level of of coverage to ensure a safe and effective. function denouncement just sydney's fireworks display would still take place despite the bushfires has sparked outrage a quarter of a 1000000 people signed a petition to scrap the celebration plans i think i should spend up to this here. this is all happening but this is the 1st time. that it's been like this in sydney it's not going to be like the next you know what does labor the year and do it again next year while bigger ring over sydney's fireworks continues volunteer firefighters are battling the blaze with little success. over on the bushfires i'm joined now by journalist roger may not in sydney roger bring us up to date with the latest. they haven't 1st for the details of the words to say externality as their own story the new southward fire service has confirmed that wildfire light was killed and 3 other seriously injured when their trucks rolled during

a player wins at a place near albany on the new celt wells with tauriel order so that brings the total death toll so far during this bushfire crisis to 10 of course this will only add to the concern and the grief still $1000000.00 australians as far as continue to rage along much of the country's eastern seaboard the main focus of attention has to do it is being only east gives land area which is to the east of victoria will towards new south wales border about 750 kilometers south of sydney now fires multiple fires have been raging there all day and they're readily spreading across the region prompting the evacuation of thousands of people all the 1000000 of them home of the war on holy the moment have decided to stay here and take their chance with the weather temperatures meanwhile have soared to 40 degrees plus and the fires of already closed many main roads so long for your situation there as it

is in much of the rest of the country project does australia have the manpower and resources to deal with these new fires that you mention because as you say we've already seen so many volunteer firefighters involved. yes this is turning into probably the worst bushfire season that anybody can remember in australia in terms of the scale and intensity of the fires thousands of firefighters are working around the clock to try to kill them from spreading but there really is very little they can do a lot of work it's a long list impossible task here in new south wales there are 100 major fires still burning hard for them are still out of control and tomorrow looks like being stood at the policies and so far we've got record low temperatures predicted there is strong dry winds and for those who are they still have to break out to the south of sydney down to the south coast of new south wales where many people go there well

it is at this time of year so you know it's right now the crisis is unfolding and we probably won't know the full impact of the situational conditions until 2 laura as you mentioned this is a team i meant various plans for works in sydney they've been cancelled due to the bushfire threat but not the wasn't on display at sydney harbor how all 40 justifying this. well there's been a lot of talk about canceling the fires because you know it's not really a good look you have a lot smoke a system blankly much of new south wales and said you know it will pass for life but at the same time the fireworks display on sydney harbor a key major tourist event for australia a 1000000 people turn up around the foreshore of sydney harbor area to watch the fires the fireworks themselves and also the of the follow ups i see blood and estimated 1000000000 until this isn't that sort of around the world is

a very very important occasion you know the same time a lot of people feel that it insensitive to have these fireworks at the moment and you know even the deputy premier new south wales tweeted today that the we shouldn't take the risk that these fires fireworks this fireworks display should simply be cancelled on iraq john may not in sydney bring us up to date with the latest thank you. in a 2nd about some of the other stories making news around the world the government of ukraine and russian backed separatists have exchanged prisoners captured during the country's 5 day a conflict that is the 2nd major prisoner exchange this year the conflict in eastern ukraine has claimed 13000 lives since 26 and. a court in cyprus has found a 19 year old british woman guilty of lying about being gang raped by 12 israeli men she was found guilty of the charge of public mischief which carries a fine of up to 8 years imprisonment she'll be sentenced in just over

a week. volunteer members of a church the to the u.s. state of texas shot dead a gunman who opened fire at a sunday service killing 2 in attendance in september and you know came into effect in texas allowing licensed gun owners to carry weapons in places of worship. when a chinese court has jails a scientist who claims to have created the world's 1st gene edited babies to other researchers involved in the project received lesser sentences and far now last year jane quite shocks the international science community announcing that he had used a gene editing technology to alter the genes of 3 babies he came to edited their d.n.a. to prevent them from contracting a hiv the announcement was met with widespread london nation in china and feel around the world it's a fuel problem let's get more on this now with abi and schmidt from the science department he joins us from boston good to see you fabienne talk to us about the

ethical issues at play here. you know basically the issue is is that we did a intervention what's called an intervention in the germ line which means that basically he changed the genetic composition of the embryo before it was conceived to before the. egg and the sperm basically came together and that means that the genetic manipulation that he conducted will be carried on in future generations and this was something that was never done with humans before and that most. medics and bioethics for its entire totally cards damage with you and it looks like china was a bitch caught off guard versus. is therefore now or tries to. to set as kind of symbolic and to as

a scandal by jailing the junk. do we know what happened to the children. the mutation that he. many pure later does cause a c c r 5. mutation it's something that will or he hopes at least will make babies or the children immune against each i.v. virus however 1st it's not clear whether this will actually work the 2nd point is that is c c r 5 gene is also important for making people immune against. dangerous for example influence us so it is possible that these children eventually will have it high or likeliness of contracting infants or even maybe a fatal form in other words the life expectancy according to

a study by berkeley berkeley medics experts who looked at a huge british database and compared data. the life expectancy is probably lower than that of of baby said would have been born just as normal conception not forbid could this have happened in europe and if so what sort of punishment could be expected then. ok i'm not quite sure what punishment could be expected but i think i would ruled out that in europe doctors would do that because as the committees would never allow something like that to happen i think in china as the difference to europe is that china was really trying to push hard for water with gene editing technology and it looks like as a structure of who did this experiment actually has approval from his hospital 1st now that all storage fees are denying it and puts it putting the blame on him and say he forged documents but these documents that were online even if it's

a time of trial and shortly afterwards or once he announced it looked pretty convincing to me at least so it looks like he had tested approval or even formal approval at the time and now everybody is trying to wash his hands of him having spit in a ball thank you. well today marks a milestone for the world's largest decentralized memorial the so-called stalled for shine all stumbling stones is a project launched in the 1990 s. in germany to preserve the memory of individual victims of the nazi era at the addresses where they once lived now the new s. stone in the town in the southern german town of mending and makes a total of $75000.00 of these brass plaques late so far. house number 11 was home to the jewish married couple the rosenbaum's until it was seized by the nazis in 1038. fled with her husband to live in exile he later committed suicide

the family's fate was long forgotten now to stop a diner or stumbling stones have been laid in their memory the latest installation brings the number of shelters steiner to $75000.00 the project's founder going to demick laid the stones himself each marker is crafted by hand they are now found in $26.00 countries visible reminders of the crimes of the nazi regime for the families fate and everything else that took place that never stops being shocking things that happened which are just unbelievable. but the project is not without controversy in munich the city council chose a different type of memorial in response to criticism. the sun. king mentioned here in munich some of the names have been deliberately smeared with dirt and dog feces. and this thing is this and that's why we decided to place the memorials and eye level. but munich is an exception for many people the stumbling

stones are a suitable form of memorial if you didn't know they were jewish neighbors that's why we need to memorialize them that is where they lived and the heart of our community it's. been meddling in an independent association cast for the still pushed on keeping the memory of these tragedies alive so something like this never happens again it would be news from but indeed every news asia is coming up in just a moment all the but monks in the ancient japanese capital of nowra have completed their annual year and dusting of statues designated as national treasures at a buddhist temple the ritual takes place every year on the 29th of december when buddha statues are cleaned before the start of the new year well even now with these pictures by thing now.

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