i am. this is the dougherty news live off from bahrain a security scare in the heart of germany's capital police cordoned off the area around checkpoint charlie off to suspected gunman follow was reported we'll get the latest from our akin to up the seat also coming up tens of thousands are ordered to evacuate as flames close in on australia's 2nd largest city melbourne lightning started more than a dozen in new bushfires overnight emergency services are struggling to contain blazes fanned by strong winds and school to temperatures. and remembering

individual victims of the holocaust one stone this time the german artist marks a milestone with his project dedicated to preserving the memory of jews killed by the nazis. i'm headed home free glad you could join me police have surrounded buildings and cordoned off parts of the german capital after reports of the gunshots and the incident occurred near checkpoint charlie a major tourist attraction that was once a cold war border crossing between east and west belin. we're joined now by manu as shy as he was at the scene a man who was heard contradictory reports about the incident what has been conserved now. well i would 1st heard that there has been some shots

being have been some shots being fired at 130 this afternoon after caffie and you check on charlie just behind me but the police didn't confirm so far that the shots has happened but they sent a special team here and you can see you see the police vans are at the scene also numbered as was at the scene earlier on it left since and the operation you say to be under control i think it's almost over no you can see behind me there's no the traffic has resumed again the one part of the street is still a corner cordoned off but at the moment it looks like a police operation that at least has been has ended now all right so what's happening there now. well now to special or unique has left the scene the evidence has left the scene as well police have charged about one suspect one the man who allegedly shot fired as in that cafe that man you

see there and identified he's still at large or even have been fired we don't have more information at the moment. thanks a lot. in australia a new heat wave is igniting more bushfires increasing the toll that the blazes ought to taking across the country 100000. if there's one thing that's considered a given at the end the feature here it's the images from across the world a flashy new year's celebrations and there is pride in being the ones to kick off the yearly affair. and you know new so if the world looks at city if every single year and i look at our vibrancy by 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 asplund 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 years a far worse in the in the sydney harbor area particularly we just horton our level of of coverage to ensure a safe and effective. function denouncement of 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 that but next you say you know what just labor the and do it again next year while bigger ring over sydney's fireworks continues volunteer firefighters are battling the blaze with little success.

for the sake of it now some of the other stories making news around the world the turkish government says that it's fast tracking legislation in parliament aimed at approving the deployment of turkish military forces to libya now. the country's foreign minister may have little trouble sure no announce the move after meeting with opposition leaders seeking support the plan a vote on the bill could now take place as early as thursday. cautions you don has sentenced 27 members of the national intelligence services to death the torturing and killing a protester earlier this year is the 1st time that a sudanese court has handed down convictions related to the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations this year. churchgoers in the u.s. state of texas have shot dead a gunman who opened fire at a sunday service killing 2 parishioners in september a new york came into effect in texas allowing licensed gun owners to carry weapons

in places of worship. the government of ukraine and russia russian backed separatists of exchange christmas tell pitcher in the country's 5 year conflict ukraine's freedom nationals arrived in kiev very the night the conflict in eastern ukraine has claimed more than 13000 lives since 20 faulty. and chinese court has jailed a scientist who claims to have created the world's 1st gene edited babies now 2 other researchers involved in the project received lesser sentences and fines now last year john couey shocks the international science community by announcing that he had used gene editing technology to alter the genes of 3 babies he claims to have manipulated their d.n.a. to stop him contracting a hiv the move was widely condemned in china and around the world will be specific let's get more on this now with avi and schmidt from science department he joins us from boston good to see you fabienne talk to us about the ethical issues at play

here. you're basically the issue 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 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 herds and talk a totally comes demba to earth and it looks like china was a bitch a court of god mrs darcy is there for now or tries to. to set is kind of symbolic and it was

a scandal by jailing the junco 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 since 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 lightly most 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 a baby said would have been born just as a normal conception right forbid could this have happened in europe and if so what sort of punishment could be expected that. ok i'm not quite sure what punishment could be expected but i think i would load all that in europe as 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 the did this experiment actually heads are proven from his hospital 1st and all their storage fees are denying it and books are putting the blame on him and say he forged documents but these documents that were online even if it's a triumph of trial and shortly afterwards or once he announced it looks pretty

convincing to me at least so it looks like he had tested approval or even formal approval at a time and now everybody is trying to wash his hands of him having spit in a bomb thank you and ambitious project to preserve the memory of holocaust victims has reached a milestone showed us china german for stumbling stone is have been placed all over europe now the newest process plaques placed in the southern german town amening and bring the number to 75000 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 steiner or stumbling stones have been laid in their memory the latest installation brings the number of stopper steiner to $75000.00 the projects founder

going to demi 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 the family fate and everything else that took place that never stops being shocking things that happened which is just unbelievable. but the project is not without controversy in munich the city council chose a different type of memorial in response to criticism. there's room in here mentioned here in munich some of the names have been deliberately smeared with dirt and dog feces. this week 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 as well we need to memorialize them it's where they lived in the heart of our communities.

in meminger in an independent association cares for the still pushed on keeping the memory of these tragedies alive so something like this never happens again. australian boat has one of the hope that your race the world's most grueling ocean challenge while the race started in sydney and covered almost 630 nautical miles down australia's east coast about 1200 kilometers to hobart on the island of tasmania now the creek completed the course in a little over 2 days sheep and also won the race in 2017. well from football to tennis to gold sports fans are taking stock of the year gone by as they start to dream of what the new year may hold in store for their favorite teams and styles has and it back at some of the sports highlights of 2095. parade of champions the united states won a record extending 4th women's football world cup and their star meghan repeat you

know so-called every individual award possible as much for her passionate pleas for gender equality as for her own field exploits in men's club football liverpool ring supremum winning the champions league and the club world cup in tennis the women's majors was shared 4 ways but french open winner ash party ended the year as number one. for the men it was 2 grand slam titles each for rafa nadal and novak djokovic the greatest comeback came in gulf where tiger woods won the masters age 4311 years after his last major victory following personal injury problems athletics had its usual up and down year kenya's game became the 1st person to run a marathon in under 2 hours but it will not count officially. the world championships in doha were overshadowed by low spectator numbers the heat and

doping but shelley and fraser pryce stole the show for the women adding to multiple record whole of 9 golds the world championships the russian doping scandal intensified with the country now banned from all major sporting events for 4 years after being accused of manipulating data clean russians may compete as neutrals must say these last formula one great nicky lauder at age 70 and lewis hamilton secured an emotional 6th title underdog south africa beat england in the men's ruby world cup final c.r. khaleesi became the 1st black male captain to lift the trophy proving let repine know that politics and sport can go hand in hand. when officials in indonesia have captured a crocodile suspected of having eaten people locals and sent away the province believes the 5 metre long reptile killed 2 villages on a riverbank wildlife experts are blaming changing weather patterns and humans

living into the reptiles natural habitat the animal was secured with nets. conservation and.