this is deja vu news live from berlin thousands of people are trapped on the beaches as wildfires close in the blazes cutting off escape routes forcing people to flee to the shoreline and hope of rescue authorities are struggling to keep the fires forms at bay we'll talk to a man who stayed behind to fight the flames also on the show. carlos golan is dong the former the song boss flees japan where he faced trial for financial misconduct he says he's escaping persecution. and

a shock sighting off the italian island of sicily 3 huge killer whales traveled more than 6000 kilometers from their home off iceland to the mediterranean. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us all fears are growing at this hour for the residents and tourists trapped by raging fires in a number of coastal towns australia people are sheltering at this hour on the waterfront preparing for possible evacuation by sea now it is an unprecedented situation across the country the area's worst affected australia's 2 most populated states new south wales and victoria now the town of melaka is where 4000 people have fled the fire there down the beach right now we'll be going to that area to

find out more but 1st here's a look at the scope of these blazes which have claimed 2 more lives a father and a son attempting to protect their home. stranded by the seaside. thousands of tourists and locals are being held hostage by raging wildfire in the town of monaco and it's too late to leave so all they can do is wait along the beach for help to come. on those have made the difficult decision to stay behind but the authorities that they are now on their own. everybody in that community that had a plan to go to the page at the bridge we are aware is the perm you said some people chosen not to take that goss and are mining their homes in those oscillated communities we want you putting fox into the eyes here is fully briefed on the fully aware if all that impacted on that community in melbourne temperatures on

tuesday peaked at 41 degrees celsius in some places the places are so intense the thick smoke turned 30 tonight and aerial reconnaissance and water bombing have to be halted the fire so causing dry lightning storms that themselves are starting fires. when fawaz are crowding there on whether you have. a super hot columns that go up to 131415 kilometers in the air it's not saif then there is obviously the very commonsense issue of not being out of the city so much might so much so much impact in terms of moving around australia has been battling huge bushfires for several months mostly on the eastern coast on tuesday almost $300.00 fires were registered and the places have consumed more than 40000 square kilometers of land. get more now from don ashby

he's a mela who the area resident who a vacuum waited his family if you days ago but remained behind himself to protect the family home don thanks so much for joining us can you tell us where are you right now and what's the situation where you are. i kind of at this point in time actually i met she on the veranda was actually my family highballs he said i was lucky because friends to take. i did i did i do you took off that my heart was the book that she could take people but anyway i she have been if you can do you get i believe vikki very very strong. and then sky. it's been 22 degrees. ok now we understand you mentioned your your family home sorry to hear that you lost that's the news we have here we have you here we yes very sorry about that now he let you go ahead. got to go on.

yeah i'm tell us a little bit about the about the home you lost what you aren't able to save into flames swept in that quickly well what happened was that. that the the fire fronted got to got to the stage where it was and i don't think she did teach something just. as there was a 5050 club with a father call long. never stops for they get there they was there was the spot ahead they can be into it they came into the community from the bush as it kid on the edge of the edge of the created it to the edge of the thames shit my have screwed up fortunately very close to that age and a number of has these and they had and then some more has is going to go to my house is my house and said there was a how say how

a whole cluster of 2 endings that were the that was the dam. and let me jump in there don what are people like you doing to get food and water and what do you know about the the 4000 people in the center trapped down at the shoreline. do they have food and water. and bicycle a dad with the ed at the beginning it is catastrophe there is about 10 taxes paypal via that we've managed to get rid of a lot of the vatican and the schools likewise there are at that a full pasties probably a bad lot they could they could make out and they get it sure i should with that i . bet. that that's had academy of power with i where they were originally stying is the fact the plight when i had maps die but it's dying out it's not a distant 2nd today because they're actually being there is repeated a poet i guess because they because these are big business i said hostile ok so how did you have nukes because they do have enough supplies food and water that oh yeah

they're there they're there they're big and we have we have an emergency center i relate there are there is did they have for there is food there is supplies that are that the travel to the right of these clothes ok but anyway we got to get to get stuffy the easy to buy that doesn't have all you have to have this don ashby resident from the moller today area filling us in on the very latest on thanks very much for that. well a former renault nissan c.e.o. carlos going is apparently jumped back in japan where he's waiting trial on financial misconduct charges he's now 11 on there are private aircraft he holds a lebanese passport he said in a statement that he was seeking to avoid in just that and persecution by what he called a rigged japanese system. this is the house in beirut that carlos golan is said to have fled to but there's no sign of him here just lights and the security guards

outside saying he's not at home. many lebanese feel the former neeson c.e.o. as a successful businessman and is a symbol of the country's large diaspora but in tokyo the unexpected turn of events has sparked outrage. that can do good will come because the kind of thing people with power and money can get away with. it a little doting on i've seen a few media reports but there are some things that don't did that i don't understand. the my i think he fled because he did something wrong. but whoever escapes wins you know i and many people with money. going to skate to lebanon is the latest stunning twist in a roller coaster journey that saw him fall from boardroom to detention center. here he spent more than 100 days in spartan conditions far removed from his sometimes extravagant lifestyle. the automotive tycoon stands accused of underreporting

is salary to the tune of $85000000.00 prosecutors also allege he skimmed off millions of dollars from the company for his personal use. go on has repeatedly denied all accusations in a statement the 65 year old said the japanese justice system was quote rigged and that he escaped injustice japan does not have an extradition treaty with lebanon so it's unclear what steps tokyo might take next. so where could this be headed for more market johnson businesses here in the studio good morning something bright going says he's being persecuted by government officials is not anything to back that up well you know we've been covering the story of course over the past 12 months but so much else have been happening so i had to read up a bits to jog my memory and it's true i mean the gun case certainly has put japan's to dish ill system in particular the hostage system into the limelight something

that we didn't really know much about beforehand japan has an incredibly low crime rate and perhaps it's not just because it's a well functioning society people a simply too scared of being arrested in the 1st place we remember the cars going was arrested in november 28th and he faced a trial in april 2020 as a long time and that has to do with the japanese system focusing on interrogation with the aim of getting a confession and prosecutors seem to be a little hostage system yet they seem to be able to keep people locked and to take as much time as they need i mean give you an example for a minor crime like shoplifting. they can keep a shoplifter. of up to $23.00 days this something unthinkable here so when going says that he's not fled to justice but in justice and probably just the length of time he was kept under arrest be. for facing trial maybe he has

a point ok well certainly there are differences as you pointed out between the western japanese our traditional systems certainly in terms of pretrial detention monica how did he escape certain wasn't being that well i didn't know him or what i did he had some help but this is the question isn't it i mean he was on bail and that didn't include that he was allowed to leave japan his lawyer confirmed that just a short while ago his lawyer also says that he was completely taken by surprise that he still has all 3 passports he was born in brazil carlos ghosn has french and lebanese citizenship so how did he escape i mean everybody who was asked to comment on it has so far either declined to like a spokesman nissen said we don't talk about this spokeswoman for the lebanese embassy in tokyo said we have no idea what was happening and the french junior economy minister has just come out saying well hold on 1st of all nobody's above the law but as

a french citizen he would be entitled to consular support what we know he's left japan on a private plane via turkey he's now in beirut and without an extradition treaty as we heard japan can do very little about it right now so where does this go from here interesting interesting because go and say well 1st of all he was a giant in the auto industry he he rescued nelson from the brink of bankruptcy mosque the mind of de aligns with ren know and after this major blow. where he's been faced now with 4 charges that's still in place including for enriching himself through payments to a dealership in the middle east and where is he now he's now in lebanon out of reach and he says he can now finally commute freely with the media and he's looking forward to doing though starting next week 2020 is going to be well maybe we'll find out more about the case and brian i can see it because he would movie in the making and i certainly see some press conferences next week definitely down the

pipeline monica thanks very much. well the end of your holiday season is of course one of the busiest times for travel but our next story is about a remarkable journey made by a family of killer whales a group of orcas is stunned researchers by travelling some 6000 kilometers from iceland to the mediterranean in just a few weeks they were spotted by a talent. better route this amateur video captured a scientific people would ever have expected in the mediterranean. these 2 italian fishermen certainly never imagined that when they went out into the strait of messina near sicily they'd encounter 3 massive killer whales swimming alongside their boat the 1st thing they noticed was a giant fins reaching out of the water delinquent we'd never seen anything like it and then we realized it was a killer whale 1st we were scared of animals or twice the size of my boat but then

the excitement overcame the fear we managed to film the video. uploaded to. researchers say the orcas are part of the same group that came from iceland and was spotted off north western italy earlier this month it's one of the longest migration routes ever recorded for the species the killer whales can be found around the globe they generally favor cold waters and are rarely seen in the mediterranean it's unknown why the animals ventured this far from their usual habitat were where they'll travel to next. let's get your monitor now of our top story in australia thousands of people are trapped on beaches wildfires close in their blazes cut off a steeper roads forcing people to flee to the hope of rescue 12 people have now been killed in the australian fires several manus. this is deja vu news live from berlin coming up next we have our documentary film doc film

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