my name is sarah kelly and i worked to death. this is the news line from tens of thousands are told to leave their homes as flames close in on melbourne australia 2nd largest city lime ignited more than a dozen new bush fires overnight urgencies services are struggling to contain blazes fanned by strong winds and scorching temperatures also on the program 3 years in prison for the scientist who claim to have created the world's 1st genetically edited course in china accuse the former professor of disrupting the

magical. i mean despite the prime minister's international popularity some new zealand has something going to campaign against just in the media. telling to quit the photo ops and to focus on the job. i'm phil girl welcome to the program. 100000 people have been told to leave melbourne suburbs us a new heat wave ignites more bushfires this time in the state of victoria volunteer firefighters been killed battling a separate fire in the countryside the 10th victim of the blazes that begun 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 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 'd looks at city 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 to city of sydney confirmed on monday it would go ahead with this year's fireworks show as planned but i remember a time when we've had total fall bans in place in 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 a span of just get this here. this is all happening but this is the 1st time. it's been like this in sydney it's not next to you know what does labor day and do it again next. while bigger ring over sydney's fireworks continues volunteer firefighters are battling the blaze with little success. journalist roger may not is in sydney and sends 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 kill them from spreading but there really is very little they can do automatically 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 violent season so far we've got record high temperatures predicted very strong dry winds and funds 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 tomorrow. that's roger mine out in sydney now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. military has released a video of air strikes that is carried out against a pro iranian militia group in iraq the pentagon says it targeted 5 bases of the hezbollah brigades in retaliation for the killing of an american contractor the militia group spam to take revenge. authorities in somalia and i believe

a deadly bombing in mogadishu was planned by a foreign power of explosions a busy intersection killed at least 90 people officials have not named the country they suspect and say they'll continue to investigate the help of foreign intelligence agencies. of course in sudan has sentenced $27.00 members of the intelligence services to death of torture and killing of protesters in february the 1st time sudanese court has hunted down convictions of the crackdown against the program obviously demonstrations early this year. the family of amount accused of stabbing 5 people in an orthodox jewish community in a new york home on saturday says he has a long history of mental illness in a statement issued by a lawyer grafton thomas' family also said it had no known history hante semitism. a court in china has jailed scientist who claim to have created the world's 1st gene edited babies to other researchers involved in the project received less the

sentences and fines last year who joined quite shocked the international science community by announcing that he'd used gene editing technology to alter the genes of 3 babies claimed to have manipulated their d.n.a. to stop them from contracting hiv the move was widely condemned in china and around the world is the case we get more on this from schmidt from the w.c. science department don't welcome what was the principal objection to who john kweisi 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. a designer 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 indy's embryos in these babies and these later dogs humans will be passed on to future generations so if as i understand it he was trying to make these children immune to hiv did he actually achieve that. there is 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 adults that they will actually be immune to age i.v. . is immune to each of the one also has to understand that nowadays with and to retroviral medicine it is possible to actually prove and children born to parents who had

h i v from actually contracting hiv so the point of other medical ways around it so . basically interfering was the. genetic makeup as most of the interesting thing now we are where we are is that he has undertaken this unethical and band 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. oh 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 these kind of genetic defect differences and what would 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 are storage he's interested in getting out of the 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 thank you for joining us i thought bench met from the science. project to preserve the memory of holocaust victims has reached a milestone stop a style of german for stumbling stones have been placed all of the europe the newest brass plaques in the south and german town of men in britain the number to 75 thousands of. 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 standing stones have been laid in their memory the latest installation brings the number of stopper 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 the family faith 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. there's been mention 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 you didn't know they were jewish neighbors that's why we need to memorialize them 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. to turn the page on just a campaign to say she should be spending more time on issues and less on photo shoots debates a spillover from social media to the magazine aisle and the. small 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 is 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 door on 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. so one 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 so 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 they're doing the opposite they're flipping those covers back the right way around you see it here those magazines coming back around and one of their arguments is that the anti are durn 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 leader is capable of doing 2 things at once just quote run the country and pose for a couple of photos because presumably this this campaign that there is no. i'm not actually say 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 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 wouldn't 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 washed away for the election. now australia is the edgy back house when they haue bought the yacht rights the world's most grueling ocean challenge for the birds set off from sydney harbor and

covered almost 638 nautical miles that's about 1200 kilometers down the country's east coast to hobart and then on a diff tasmania it's about complete the course of just over 2 days don't stop one in 2070. this is the interview coming up next to business africa with stephen beardsley i'll be back at the top of the out of the day. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word published in the book. rico is in germany to learn german and why not come with him it's simple online on your mobile and free to set d w z e learning course nikos free german made.