this is the light from tens of thousands of told to leave their homes those flames close. australia's 2nd largest city lightning strikes on the street and feet of ignited more than a dozen new. emergency services are struggling to contain the blaze all over the country also on the program libya's embattled government could soon get another 3 help from turkey is lining up support to send troops to the north african country but there are warnings that move could further the stabilizer region. 3 years in

prison for the scientist who claims to have created the world's 1st genetically edited course in china accuses a full professor of disrupting the magical. i'm still going to welcome to the program. under 1000 people have been told to leave melbourne suburb new heat wave ignites more bushfires this time in the state of victoria a volunteer firefighter has been killed battling a separate fire in the countryside the victim of the places that began in new south wales the fires 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 a new save the world looks at sydney if every single we're and i look at 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 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 accommodate 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 next to 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. a journalist or roger may know how the inside and explain the debates around the city's world famous new year's fireworks display to take place. well there's a little laura took in the fires because you know it's not really a good look you have a lot smoke it's been blankly a lot of new south worlds and said you know it will pass for much 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 city in all but area to watch the

flyers the fireworks themselves and also the of the farm workers are seen by and estimated 1000000000 until isn't there a round the world is a very very important occasion you know the same time lot of people feel that it's insensitive to these fireworks at the moment and you know even the deputy premier yourself wells tweeted today that the we shouldn't take the risk that these fires fireworks this fireworks display should simply be cancelled. in sydney germany is also debating whether to ban new year's eve fireworks buying fireworks is a lie for 3 days following the christmas holidays and cities around the country have him lit up with pyrotechnics set off on the big night critics argue the fireworks core serious injuries air pollution and harm wildlife the burly night sky lit up by cascades of fireworks over the brandenburg gate the new year's eve display has

drawn legions of locals and visitors for decades some wonder if fireworks are still appropriate but many want to keep their tradition. this is if they say we have to wait until 10 pm that might help a lot but if they limit or ban the whole thing that's wrong. that's finished i mean . i don't think the environmental hama severe enough to ban the fireworks from force it's terrible i don't care if i can't see the stars i'd rather look at the sky some other day when there is no fireworks so i'm against the ban. fireworks in germany are big business at new year's 100000000 euros worth. some people like these fireworks fans near cologne are so passionate about them that they camp out the night before to make sure they can buy the biggest and the best but this year in germany over 30 cities have placed either a partial or a total ban on new year's fireworks. health experts warn that fire crackers and

rockets release over 4500 tonnes of fine particle emissions on a single night. fine particles are extremely harmful to the lungs especially for small children and people with lung problems as my patients and the elderly they can experience acute shortness of breath. but for the foreseeable future fireworks will continue to pollute the air while they dazzle the eyes it's no use holding one's breath until eco friendly rockets and firecrackers are available. as take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. military has released video of asterix and carried out against a probably arabian militia group in iraq the pentagon said 5 bases of a hezbollah brigades were targeted in response to the killing of an american contractor the militia group says it will retaliate. with ours is in somalia not

believe a deadly bombing in mogadishu it was planned by a foreign power explosion as a busy into say. action killed at least 90 people officials have not named the country they suspect and say they'll continue investigating with the help of foreign intelligence agencies. the family of a man accused of a stabbing 5 people in a rabbi's home in new york say he has a long history of mental illness in a statement issued by their lawyer grafton thomas' family also maintains it not expressed any anti semitism. turkey's government is rushing a bill through parliament that would approve the deployment of troops to libya the turkish foreign minister flew to cover seoul who met with the opposition to discuss the legislation which is expected to pass without difficulty the government says it is answering a request for military assistance from libya's un recognized government in tripoli libya pro-government forces seen here struggling to fend off an offensive from

rival forces in the east of the country that by militia leader khalifa haftar. caught in china has jailed a scientist who had claimed to have created the world's 1st gene edited babies to other researches involved in the project received lesser sentences and fines last year who joined quite a shock to the international science community by announcing he used gene editing technology to alter the genes of 3 babies he claims have manipulates their d.n.a. to stop him from contracting hiv the movie is widely condemned in china and around the world well these days we can get more on this from fabulous schmidt from the w.c. science department don't welcome. what was the principal objection to who. work . yeah basically the point 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 by all 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 doll to humans will be passed on to future generations so 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 other one also has to understand that nowadays with and to retroviral medicine it is possible to actually prove vent 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 as most of the interesting thing now we are where we are is that he has undertaken this an ethical and banned 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 trainees 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 than they would otherwise have but this is based on. on basically a epidemiology call 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 that means now one doesn't really know how healthy these people will be in the long run but obviously the sentencing office's biophysicist what he is. means that the chinese or sororities are 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 fabens met from the science. project to

preserve the memory of holocaust victims has reached a milestone stoppage deila germans a stumbling stones placed all of europe the newest brass plaques in the southern german town of meminger 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 marta fled with her husband to live in exile he later committed suicide the families 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 stopper steiner to 75000 the projects founder going to demi lay 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 from 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. 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. they were jewish neighbors that's why we need to memorialize them where they lived in the heart of our community. in miming in an independent association cast for the still priest time keeping the memory of these tragedies alive so something like this never happens again. just force in australia is. the world's most grueling ocean challenge other boats

set off from sydney harbor covered almost 630 nautical miles that's about 1200 kilometers off the country's east coast to the island of tas made it completed the course in just over 2 days it also one in 2070. officials in indonesia have captured a crocodile believed to have 8 local residents of the ways you province a 5 metre long reptile is thought to have killed $2000000000.00 on the riverbank wildlife experts blame changing weather patterns and humans for moving into the reptiles natural habitat items secured with nets so he's being moved to a conservation area. don't forget you can always get the w.'s on the go just download from google play from the op store and give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news groups are using to send us photos videos. stayed up you are coming up

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