this is e w news live from butting into tens of thousands are ordered to evacuate as flames closing in on a stray the 2nd largest city melbourne lightning started more than a dozen new bushfires overnight versions the service is also struggling to contain blazes fanned by strong winds and school district temperatures. also coming up new zealand prime minister just in the are down has fans around the world and in the media some kiwis have had enough of a magazine appearance is there saying quit the photo ops and do your job.

and have a home for a glad you could join me atheist new heat wave is igniting more bushfires in australia increasing the devastation the blazes are inflicting across the country now 100000 people have been urged to evacuate the suburbs of melbourne those flames close in on the city a volunteer firefighter has been killed battling a separate far the countryside the 10th victim of the blazes hundreds of new year fireworks displays have been counseled. if there's one thing that's considered a given that the in the fee cheer it's the images from across the world are flashy new year's celebrations and there's pride in being the ones to kick off the yearly affair. and you know all new save the world looks at subi if every single year. and i look at vibrancy by look at our passion 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 parts of the greater sunni region where we haven't been i would like the risk elements for conducting the new year's a far worse in the in the sydney harbor area particularly we just thought now level of of coverage to ensure a safe and effective. function denouncement 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 just for 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 year so you know what does labor day here and do it again next here while the bigger ring over sydney's fireworks continues volunteer firefighters are battling the blaze with little success. are those taken up now some of the other stories making news around the world the turkish government says it is fast tracking legislation aimed at deploying military forces to nydia foreign minister may have to travel sure no one else to move off to me to. seek support for the plan a vote on the bill could take place as early as thursday. a course in sudan has sentenced $27.00 members of the national intelligence services to death the torturing and killing a protester early this year it is the 1st time that a sudanese court has handed down convictions related to the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations earlier this year. 2 members of a church security team in the u.s.

state of texas and shot dead a gunman who opened fire at a sunday service killing 2 people in attendance in september a new law came into effect in texas allowing licensed gun owners to carry weapons in places of worship. reports of gunfire and a possible robbery neighbor lives famous checkpoint charlie triggered a major security operation earlier today police now say they have not been able to confirm that shots were fired a used shell casing from a suspected starters pistol was found nearby. the chinese court has jailed 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 fines now last year. the international science community by announcing that it used gene editing technology to alter the genes of 3 babies they claim to have manipulated their d.n.a. to stop them contracting aids hiv the move was widely condemned in china and around

the world let's get more on this now with schmidt from science department he joins us from bond good to see you fabien talk to us about the ethical issues at play here. you know basically the issue is this john couey did a intervention what's called an intervention in the germline 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 conduct it will be carried on on future generations and this was something that was never done with humans before and that most. medics and bio ethics exam for it's in talk talk leakers demo the 4th and it looks like china was

a bitch caught off guard mrs darcy is there for now or tries to. to set as kind of symbolic and it was 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 of the children immune against the h r v virus however 1st it's not clear whether this will actually work the 2nd point is that this 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 a high all likeliness of contracting influence 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. a baby said would have been born just as normal conception right sided 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 a 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 waterways gene editing technology and it looks like there's a structure of who did to this experiment they actually had to approve it from his

hospital 1st and all their 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 tacit approval or even a formal approval and it's a time and now everybody is trying to wash his hands of him having shit in a bomb thank you. and ambitious project to preserve the memory of holocaust victims has reached a milestone shellfish dyna gemini forced on things to have been placed all across europe in the newest cross plaques placed in the southern german town of men you can bring it on but to 75000. house number 11 was home to the jewish married couple the rosenbaum's until it was seized by the nazis in 1038 marta fled with her husband to live in exile he later committed suicide the families fate

was long forgotten now to focus diana or stumbling stones have been laid in their memory the latest installation brings the number of still pristina 275000 the projects founder going to demi laid the stone some self each marker is crafted by hand they are now found in $26.00 countries visible remind us of the crimes of the nazi regime for the families fate and everything else that took place at 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. from. here in munich some of the names have been deliberately smeared with dirt and dog feces. 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. they were jewish neighbors that's why we need to memorialize them where they lived in the heart of our community. in meminger in an independent association cast for the still priest time keeping the memory of these tragedies alive so something like this never happens again. now she is the most recognizable prime minister in new zealand's history but if you campaign is edging citizens to turn the page on just send some a saying she should be spending more time on issues and less time on photo shoots with the debate has spilled over from social media to the magazine on who to call not spend is here with us to talk more about it called tell us a bit more about way this is coming from i mean just in our journey she's what 39 years old she's been in office just a couple of years but she really has become the face of new zealand and her face is all over the place recently dozens of different magazines international t.v.

programs there's a couple of biographies already about her so some new zealanders say they're fed up with all the media coverage of just and are there and they've started a campaign against the prime minister and it's called turn our journey involves just that turning our journey see here in these videos turning around books and magazines with a face on the cover one person here saying on twitter i just did my 1st turn our journey of the local supermarket i wasn't going to but there she was all teeth and tinsel on the front of yet another women's magazine this started as a pretty small movement on social media essentially telling our durned to get back to work stop taking all these pictures but it's really generating a pretty passionate discussion right now in the country not to mention i mean often women are criticized for not smiling and off i guess you can't please everybody and what about the prime minister's supporters what are they saying how they react right and she does have a lot of them they love her stance on women's rights on the environment on the way

the she handled those shootings at the mosques in christ church they've launched a counter campaign which know the numbers are actually bigger it's called return our journey and you can see a bit of that here they're doing the opposite they're flipping those covers back the right way around and book shops and supermarkets their argument is that you know look the anti are done campaign is sexist one person here says just imagine the superhuman effort it would take to turn around and. the trump cover that you see in the bookstores but their main argument is this look a leader is capable of doing 2 things at once saying and i'm sure just in the can run the country and pose for a couple of photographs and of course we should say that there is an election an election coming up next year rice in new zealand does this campaign shed any light on her chances of being reelected the thing is so her party the labor party has been on a roller coaster ride since and she took power in 2017 and here's what i mean you can maybe read into the t.v. ads a bit here so back when the labor party took over as part of a coalition government it was behind the rival national party here you'll see the

numbers coming up then by this summer she really led the way for a surgeons of labor a way ahead in the polls in june 51 percent to 37 but then falling back again a big dive its lowest polling number since 2017 her personal rating falling as well of there was a scandal with sexual solved complaints within her own party the economy not doing so well so we'll have to see what happens in 2020 whether she is returned to office or turned out of office. to call nason thanks for that. now australian boat c.g. brown has won the ho but your race the world's most grueling ocean challenge the race started sydney covered almost 630 nautical miles down australia's east coast about 1200 kilometers to hobart on the on and off tasmania the crew competed the course in a little over 2 days it also won the race in 2017. when

officials in indonesia have captured a crocodile believed to have been eaten which is believed to have eaten excuse me local residents of so in a way the province now the 5 metre long tadas thoughts have killed 2 villages on a riverbank off are experts wildlife experts are blaming a change in weather patterns and humans are moving into the reptiles natural habitats the animal was secured with nets and has been moved to a conservation center. just reminded of the top stories that we're following for you here on d w 100000 people have been urged to leave 5 melbourne suburbs as flames are approaching the last 32nd largest city a new heat wave and high winds have found hundreds of blazers across the country 10 people have been killed and more than 1000 times destroyed so far. we're watching news coming up next arts and culture get you can always get the latest news around the clock on our web site that is d.w.

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