this is from thousands of told to leave their homes those flames close in australia 2nd largest city lightning ignited more than a dozen new files overnight emergency services are struggling to contain blazes found by strong winds and scorching temperatures in the program. 3 years in prison for the scientists who claim to have created the world's 1st genetically. accords in china accuses the former professor of magical. time despite the prime

minister's international. news even. just in the media. telling him to quit the photo ops and concentrate on the. i'm for welcome to the program. 100000 people have been told to leave melbourne's of new heatwave ignites more bushfires this time in the state of victoria volunteer firefighters been killed battling a separate fire in the countryside the victim of the blazes that began in new south wales have led to the cancellation of hundreds of new year's fireworks displays. if there's one thing that's considered a given at the end the feature here it's that 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 a new save the world looks at sydney every single year and i look at vibrancy 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 but i remember a time when we've had total bans in place and the greatest in the region where we haven't been i would like the risk elements for conduct in the news 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 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 a span of just get 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 the next you know what does labor day and do it again next year while the bigger ring over sydney's fireworks continues volunteer firefighters are battling the blaze with little success. and they don't correspondent roger may not even save me australia and sent us this update 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 fill those i'm spreading but it really is doing little they can do a lot of work lee it's a long list impossible task here in new south wales there are 100 major fires still

burning half of them are still out of control and tomorrow looks like being the worst day of the violence season so far we've got record high temperatures predicted very strong dry winds and funds of already started to break out to the south of sydney down on the south coast of new south wales where many people go there all of it at this time of year so you know it's it right now the crisis is unfolding and we probably won't know the full impact of the situational conditions until 2 laura. so a list roger made a speech into us from sydney we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world or thirty's in somalia right now believe that saturday's that deadly bombing in the capital mogadishu was planned by a foreign country an explosion at a busy intersection killed at least 90 people officials have named the country under suspicion but say they will continue their investigation with the help of foreign intelligence agencies. of course in sudan has sentenced 27 members of the

country's national intelligence services to death for torturing and killing a protester in february it's the 1st time sudanese court has handed down convictions related to the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations earlier this year. the government of ukraine and russia backed separatists of exchange prisoners captured during the country's 5 year conflict the free trade in survive to care for overnight conflicts in eastern ukraine has claimed more than $13000.00 lives in 2040. the family of grafton thomas the man accused of stabbing 5 people in an orthodox jewish community and a new home on saturday and says he has a long history of mental illness in a statement issued by their lawyer the family owns and said he had no known history and semitism. a court in china has jailed the ice sciences to claims to created the world's 1st gene edited babies 2 of the researchers involved in the project

received lesser sentences and fines last year who quite shocked the international science community by announcing that he'd used gene editing technology to alter the genes of 3 babies he claims to have manipulated their d.n.a. to stop them contracting hiv the move was widely condemned in china and around the world. we get more on this from 5 in schmidt from the w.c. science department to welcome what was the principal objection to who john. work. basically the point is is that he intervened in the what's called. the basically it's a genetic make up of the babies and he he did to kind of. design a baby creation and that is something that is considered an absolute no no and

among bio physicists and medics and so on because it basically what open a pandora's box full of designing your baby was genetic engineering and you never know what's going to come out of it also one has to consider that the genetic changes that one does in these embryos and these babies and these later dulled humans will be passed on to future generations so he as i understand it he was trying to make these children immune to hiv did he actually achieve that. there's some question about it there was a study published since then in summer that actually said that it's not certain that these kids are now all these once they are dolls that they will actually be immune to age. is immune to each of the but one also has to understand that nowadays with and to retrieve viral medicine it is possible to actually prove vente

children born to parents who had h i v from actually contracting hiv so the point is are other medical ways around it so. basically interfering was the. genetic makeup of most of the interesting thing now we are where we are is that he has undertaken this unethical and bad and research what are scientists and do with it do they look at the at this what do they try and build on it or do they just leave it alone. i think that basically it's a question of what the chinese are going to do with it they want to i think get out of the headlines as soon as possible with this story they're probably going to look at housing these. people these children develop over time there was some research suggesting that they have a lesser life expectancies. then they would otherwise have but this is based on. on basically

a produce epidemiology studies on the basis of data of british. patients 400000 british patients and they looked at who had seen kind of genetic different differences and what that mean now one doesn't really know how healthy these people will be in the long run but obviously the sentencing of says by a physicist what he is. means that the chinese or sororities are interested in getting all those headlines as soon as possible i don't think that we're going to see more research being done or much more research being done in this case we're talking to you thank you for joining us from interview science. i'm bishops project to preserve the memory of holocaust victims has reached a milestone stop us diana it's german for stumbling stones have been placed all over europe the newest brass plaques in the south and german town of mending and

bring the number 275000 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 still for steiner 275000 the projects founder going to demi laid the stones him self 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. now.

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. you didn't know they were jewish neighbors that's why we need to memorialize them that is where they lived in the heart of our communities. in miming in an independent association cast for the still pushed on keeping the memory of these tragedies alive so something like this never happens again. there she is behind me probably the most recognizable prime minister new zealand has a hob but a new campaign urging kiwis to turn the page on just a campaign of say she should be spending more time on issues and less on photo shoots debates a spillover from social media to the magazine island who to call not specifically

a small but welcome call where's all this criticism coming from well i mean she's 39 years old not even 40 yet she's been in office a couple of years but really just in our journey as the face of new zealand and her face has been on all over the media recently we're talking dozens of magazines international t.v. appearances there are a couple of biographies now actually already about her some new zealanders say they are fed up with all that media coverage and they've started a campaign against the prime minister it is called turn our dern involves just that turning our dern you see it here books magazines with her face on the cover people are flipping them over one person here saying on twitter i just did my 1st turn are done at a 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 relatively small movement fill. mostly people kind of fed up saying get back to

work stop posing for all these photo shoots it's generating a very passionate discussion there in new zealand. a sort of the prime minister's supporters say she has many supporters and many of them love her stance on women's rights she was one of the few leaders to actually give birth in office she has a strong environmental credentials people love the way that she handled as well the mosque shootings and in christchurch they've launched a counter campaign its numbers are actually much bigger phil and it is called return our journey you see what they're doing they're the doing the opposite they're flipping those covers back the right way around you see here those magazines coming back around and one of their arguments is that the anti are during campaign it's sexist one person here saying just imagine what superhuman effort it would take to turn around all those trump or putin magazines and interest them on the cover but their main argument is a you know a leader is capable of doing 2 things at once just and our germ can quote run the country and pose for a couple of photos because presumably this this company there is no. i'm not

actually saying she's doing a bad job well that's hard to say i mean of course she has her supporters and her detractors if you look at the polling numbers you can get a sense maybe of how she and her party are doing in new zealand what people would voters think about them and that's been a bit of a roller coaster so when her party and our journey took office in 2017 they were actually behind their rival national party you see the numbers there this summer though a huge climb labor way ahead in the polls 51 to 37 a big surge but this winter in november tanking back to its lowest polling numbers since $27.00 teen her critics say the economy in new zealand is slowing her party has failed to deal with the sexual assaults and will within within its own ranks her personal rating also taking a bit of a dip but still just and are joined by far and away the most popular candidate for prime minister that the country has so looking ahead to the election 2020 she may return or she may be turned out of office walked away from the election.

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