because there's so much to discover. cheerios. made from minds. this is from thousands of australians escaped the wildfires sweeping the country by fleeing to beaches to the last so far to struggle to keep the flames from hundreds of fires up back. on the program. and since the new year with protesters promising to continue to fight for democracy as china's president.

protesters in iraq attacked the u.s. embassy that chanting death to america the u.s. strikes on the country. i'm going to call for justice to be courageous and confident to confronting the challenges of a decade new year's stress. stress is the key to tackle climate change you can see here in full in just a few hours. i'm so gail welcome to the program. the australian city of sydney has welcomed the new year. with a massive fireworks display despite many other parts of the country are not celebrating there are growing fears for residents and tourists in several coastal.

region 5 people have sought shelter on the waterfront and the preparing for possible evacuation by say it is an unprecedented situation and worst affected have been australia's 2 most populous states a victorian and new south wales in the town of kuta on the coast that's where full 1000 people have gathered on the beach to escape the flames the blazes of also claimed to lives a father and son as they try to protect their several of those stranded by the seaside. thousands of tourists and locals being held hostage by raging wildfire in the town. to leave so they can do is wait along the beach for help to come. back. the fire is along.

and we have a look at. those across the region have made the difficult decision to stay behind but the authorities. they are now on their own. as the. 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 fires are causing dry lightning storms that themselves are starting fires. when fawaz arkwright in there on whether you have

a super hot. up to 115 kilometers in the air it's not saif then there is obviously the very common sense issue of not being out of the city. 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. and to give you an idea of what emergency crews are facing the new south wales fire and rescue service has released base footage of one of its crews being caught in a burning forest about 170 kilometers south of sydney. glad to say the crew escaped unharmed.

home call has also welcomed the new year with a toned down spectacle over victoria harbor city authorities called off a traditional fireworks launch from the center of the harbor for security reasons yes well they replaced by laser show and projections pro-democracy protesters have been rallying around the city forming human chains through shopping streets and neighborhoods and the latest development in months of protest. the chinese president xi jinping address those protests in his televised new year's address and call for a return to calm and stability in the territory his comments come a bit high tension and they say more than 6 months of sometimes violent pro-democracy demonstrations said the economy into recession and tarnish the city's reputation as one of the world's safest. a crowds of protesters attacked the u.s. embassy in the iraqi capital baghdad they were angered of

a recent u.s.s. truxtun auditing on iranian backed iraqi militias the us president donald trump has accused iran of orchestrating the protests washington says all u.s. personnel are safe on the digital forces will be sent to god the compound the hezbollah brigade supporters crossed the river tigris in the morning and marched toward the u.s. embassy to demonstrate. their protest began after a funeral service for fighters killed in u.s. airstrikes on sunday. the militia officers had previously killed a u.s. citizen. the demonstrators broke through the embassies external security barriers and made it as far as the last security wall of the embassy building in baghdad among the demonstrators shiite clergy and a radical militia leader. the other look on the this is the command center for the destructive operations it was from here that iraq's sovereignty was violated. the

demonstrators managed to force their way into the compound in the afternoon they remained there until security personnel deployed tear gas to disperse them. washington says it's confident it knows who's backing the shiite militia as president donald trump tweeted earlier. iran is orchestrating an attack on the u.s. embassy in iraq they will be held fully responsible. it was only after several hours that iraqi security forces arrived to protect the embassy grounds. let's go to washington then where we joined a w's a bureau chief. of alexandra how seriously is washington taking this attack. very seriously i would say secretary of defense has announced that the pentagon is sending additional marines to protect you as personnel in iraq and according to

media reports 2 apache helicopters were sent to fly over the embassy and a clear show of force additional as secretary of state's pompeo spoke with the iraqi president and the iraqi prime minister on the phone today and according to the state department he made clear that the you will protect and defend its people now the u.s. has invested millions in military aid in iraq since they talk old saddam hussein so how will the u.s. attack iraq you're talking on the u.s. embassy those 2 incidents how's that going to affect their relationship well i think that it's fair to say that the strikes conducted by the last sunday against iran in a malicious have resulted in a serious political crisis for the united states in iraq the iraqi government condemned those airstrikes and iraq's national security council even threatened to

rethink its relationship with the ass led coalition and now the attack on the u.s. embassy in the havel the protected green zone so we have to assume that the protestants must have halves of the tacit permission from the iraqi security officials so we're dealing here with the serious political crisis to tassie potential of still king and american is in the country and handing and advantage to iran and its competition for more influence in iraq just we heard the us president donald trump he blames iran masterminding this attack the relationship between the u.s. and iran is already fractious how does this affect. well i think so far and despite the existing tennyson's to ask strategy has been to rely on sanctions and more on last 2 miro iran's activities and president from has

repeatedly repeatedly said that you asked us not looking for a new and novel conflict in the middle east however we have to say that with this very unstable situation on the ground in iraq and i think it can happen if there isn't our incident and our provocation the ass may be forced to respond and that means that the situation could escalate i was wonderful naaman in washington thank you know it take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world court in slovakia has sentenced amount to 15 years in jail for his role in the murder of an investigative journalist sold one confessed to acting as a go between in the killing of young could see that and his fiance that murder in 2018 sparked a political crisis in the country and gold has frozen the assets of the daughter of

the former president the move against isabel dos santos is part of an anti corruption drive africa's wealthiest woman she amassed a fortune through stakes and gold companies during her father's term in office she denies any wrongdoing. musicians from the paris opera have given an impromptu performance on the steps says he's famous to us do you opera this is part of a protest against the president calls pension reforms a union spokesperson said the reforms would damage the quality of the troops performances. a c.e.o. . has jumped bail in japan where he was awaiting trial on charges of financial misconduct is now in lebanon after arriving on a private at craft. citizenship in a statement was to go said he was seeking to avoid injustice and persecution what he said was a rigged japanese justice system this is the house in beirut where carlos ghosn is

believed to have fled but there is no sign of him and the security guards outside say he's not here but a neighbor has shown up wanting to welcome him to lebanon with a card. many lebanese feel the former nice and c.e.o.'s a successful businessman and is a symbol of the country's large diaspora but in tokyo the unexpected turn of events has sparked outrage. i'm like him i think he fled because he did something wrong. but whoever escapes wins you know i and many people with money go in as main lawyer says he heard about his clients flight via media his entire defense team has lost face in japan as they repeatedly said there was no risk that gold would run away. we were not completely by surprise i'm dumbfounded personally i don't yet even know

how to make contact with him. 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 regained and that he escaped injustice japan does not have an extradition treaty with lebanon so it's unclear what steps tokyo might take next. we can take

a closer look at this with stephen bisley from d.w. business welcome steve let's start with the escape how and why did he get from japan into lebanon fill the answer is we don't know how exactly there are reports that he was hidden that he was stowed away in a plane and that he was flown to lebanon but lebanon also says that he entered legally and what we're hearing beirut's authorities in beirut said that they have no plans to take legal action against him it's hard to imagine how that exactly happened he did surrender his 3 passports as a condition of bail his lawyer even said that he still has those passports in his possession. and his lawyer also said it would seemingly take a large organizations to sort of put this together he was under house arrest his documents with him and there's really no explanation as to how the why is a little bit clear lebanon is one of his citizenships the population there is rather sympathetic to him he's seen as a local kid who made

a good as it was said in the reports also the government there is in a little bit it's very turbulent government there they don't have an extradition agreement with japan it's unlikely that they'll be in a position to sort of conclude one that there could be pressure on their governments and basically go to the beginning whenever he's actually been able to surface and speak in his being detained that he considers this a plot against him that he considers this a trumped up charges and he doesn't think he's going to get a fair shake. if you look at the interrogations took place the idea that he would not be allowed to have contact with his wife so that was a condition also from the judge these were very strict conditions set around him and he believed that he was set up for failure for a trial that was coming so what happens next what happens next is raw going to wait to see with bated breath how exactly he did this how he got out and what's going to happen from go inside as he's going to try and twist the narrative here he's going to say all right now i can talk here is what i see here's the way i see it and here's the the hand i was being dealt he didn't have

a lot say probably about nissan and we're probably going to see a lot of big interviews and big stories with them in the coming days what'll be interesting to see is how in japan this goes over what they're going to do what kind of pressure they're going to put on levanon and they were going to pressure their allies will put on levanon he's a big name he's a big name and this is quite a case so we're all fascinated to see where this goes so it's a big story for the new year steve bisley from the thank you if you. also sports book is laying aside soccer only resting during the season's the winter break so fall proceed munchen plot back up being one of the best teams in the league a raising hopes of the foles could win their 1st top flight title since 1977 so it's a look back at the hot season filled with promise. he's a big reason for the team's performance mark. the coach's formula for success pressure the opponent switch quickly from defense to often and shoot more on net indeed the full have been quite a surprise. this is a teacher who are enjoying

a high position in the standings it's important that we also understand what's happening internally is something special for us but it didn't come by accident we worked hard for it in the 1st half of the season and that's why we're all so proud of it. looks very stable and can bounce back and also helps the newly signed players brail mbulelo and mark adapted well to the team. in this one front and we've always made sure that we get along with each other off the page as well as in the locker room every player who gets a chance to show the qualities he has and that he can demonstrate those qualities in a gaming the most important thing is that was successful together. strong team spirit and successful soccer that's what makes glovebox standout and awakens memories of the 1970 s. when the team won the league 5 times and twice the u. a fuck up the forerunner of today's europa league one of its former stars tells us

more. through here we are in for munching gladbach is a club which certainly has a lot of history. but at the moment we're working on getting the club on stable footing so that's enter dition and future prospects definitely go hand and hand it here he said. so far things are working out in fact blood is ready to rights. more history as it enters the final half of the bundesliga season the now a group of killer whales has stunned researches by shuffling more than 6000 kilometers from iceland to the mediterranean sea in just a few weeks and they were spotted by a fisherman in italy who as you're about to see but hardly contain their excitement but it's a good. route this amateur video captured a sight few 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 encountered 3 massive killer whales swimming alongside their boat the 1st thing they noticed was a giant fins reaching out of the water feeling quite alone 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 but we managed to film the video. to see that bite of the. 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. as we've been hearing at the top of the program celebrations to welcome in the new year on that you decade ah well underway

in some parts of the world despite the bush fires property in australia simply plans ahead with its spectacular display over the harbor bridge. before that's new zealand was one of the 1st to ring in the new year with staging their. it's just part. of life from up next german chancellor angela merkel said new year's address back at the top of a good. book or than on myth border where the average day in venice now i'm beginning and it's 9

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