this is big news live from building the world brings in and new decay berlin has welcomed the 20 twentieth's with a fireworks display at the brandenburg gate celebrations have also taken place from oakland to london bringing images from around the globe also in the program strivings are counting the cost of bushfires that have swept through coastal towns 3 lives have been lost and hundreds of homes destroyed authorities are now trying to get supplies to communities cut off by the fog. and angela merkel calls for

germans to be courageous and confident in confronting the challenges of the new decade. to dress the chance of also stress is willing to tackle climate change. i'm anthony held welcome to the show and i just cities across the globe have been putting on spectacular shows to welcome in the new year and the new decade in berlin thousands gathered at the brandenburg gate to say to 2019 and hello to 2020 is a look at some of the best of the new year's celebrations from across the globe. the final countdown of the decade and the 1st few seconds of the 2020. counties of bilin as well come the new year at the iconic brandenburg. gate which fireworks

accompanied by bass have been seen 9 symphony i. 12 hours earlier the new zealand was the 1st major city to see in the new year with pyrotechnics erupting from the city's sky tower and over the water. in australia the fireworks from sydney's harbor bridge went ahead despite calls for the show to be cancelled because of the devastating bushfires the country is experiencing i was in hong kong the traditional fireworks display was replaced with a toned down light show this year with authority citing security concerns following months of pro-democracy protests. in the north koreans were treated to a televised spectacle from the capital pyongyang thousands of people had gathered

in kim il sung square to usher in the new year i ended by the world's tallest building to burj khalifa was the center of a display featuring fountains projections and fireworks from the 800 meter tower. london's big bend rung in the new year in the british capital the familiar chimes were accompanied by an elaborate pyrotechnic display from the london eye lighting up the river thames and the thousands of revelers celebrating the arrival of 2020. cats. in australia residents are returning to the ruins of their homes that have been ravaged by bushfires 3 people have died and at least 200 houses have been raised by fires in the states of new south wales and victoria or thoreson now delivering food and water to thousands of residents who are. and the day.

is still burning and the. possible rescue mission. stranded by the sea side. thousands of tourists and locals are being held hostage by raging wildfire in the town. it's too early to leave so they can do is wait along the beach for help to come. back. the fire is along the beach. and they have a look at each just. across the region have made the difficult decision to stay behind but the authorities are there now on their own.

as the. mining. communities. impacted. elsewhere in melbourne temperatures on tuesday peaked at 41 degrees celsius. in some places the places are so intense the thick smoke turned day to night and aerial reconnaissance and water bombing had to be hold it the fire so causing dry lightning storms that themselves are starting fires. when fawaz are driving there on with them have their super hot columns that go up to the unfolding 15 kilometers in the air it's not saif then there is obviously the the very common sense issue of not being out of the city so much my son 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 management i'm joined now from melbourne by luke haggerty he's the spokesman for victoria state center for emergency management like we're seeing apocalyptic scenes in victoria particularly in the coastal town of melaka a new day has dawned there what has died like revealed in that corner of the state . what we. are period and more broadly across keeps land raging which is where they far as it is that we've had significant impacts to property site lots of property losses we don't know the exact numbers but we know that it has been a significant recently receiving for us from people who were in military use or a number of houses unfortunately. because melaka creator is continuing

to provide its claws to that community so if you know what it drops some supplies into that community in rural site city a place by a cross to support that community we supplies to die longer tonight and challenge is how we continue to support that community but also a number about the communities across that raging who are currently are sliding is not right access to a number of communities right now communities are we debt has without telecommunications access sorry it's a challenging situation for the residents who are living in that part of this site at the moment and that's why we sort the assistance of the deface force in this trial yet to provide us with nighty a crop in 90 baseballs that will be outed as support the supply to the communities but also ice assets that will assist us with far as far as i look at my same

difficult to comprehend for those of us watching from elsewhere in the will but could the situation get any worse in the coming hours and and dice. well unfortunately even our it's the new eat this is only the 2nd month of summer for starting to die that means that we've got at least 2 months. of hard drive without it as small morally we're not saying any writing in the forecast and that's what we need to our consignees far as unfortunately that means that any time we say strong we use these for as a guarantee you continue to spray that means you're going to continue to threaten the communities that have been cut off or for about 3 new communities throughout. and they serve very very large far as they are not just burning plane now either the burning in the northeast of air strikes and we've also got a number of far as that are very new south wales right across the state or

a. whole north face of victoria parts of new south wales that are really suffering from these you are is looking getting ennobling thank you and your time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world for marina nissen boss callus going is in lebanon after skipping bail in japan where he was awaiting trial for financial misconduct in a statement gun claimed he was not flaying justice but was escaping political persecution his legal team said it was shocked by the clients. and goal has frozen the assets of the daughter of the former president the move against isabelle does santos is part of an anti corruption drive known as africa's wealthiest woman she amassed a fortune taking stakes in and golden 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 of the city's famous but still opera as part of a protest against president emmanuel mcrae pension reforms the union spokesman said the reforms would damage the quality of the troops performances. british police have charged a man with criminal damage for allegedly slashing a painting by the spanish moss the. incident happened at the tight model of the wake and the damaged work is worth more than $23000000.00 euros. crowds of protesters have attacked the u.s. embassy in the iraqi capital baghdad in response to recent u.s. airstrikes targeting an iran backed iraqi militia it was president donald trump has accused iran of orchestrating the protests washington says all u.s. personnel at the embassy are safe and that it will deploy more than $750.00 additional soldiers to the country in response. 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. on the other look on that even though 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. angela merkel is calling on germans to be courageous and confident in meeting the challenges of a new decade the german chancellor also used her annual new year's eve address to stress the need to tackle climate change. it's the end of the year and the end of the decade the world is getting even more complicated but german chancellor angela merkel doesn't paint a bleak picture even if she clearly points to a pressing issue the key word climate the. global warming is real it threatens us it is caused by human activity as are the crises that arise out of global warming so we must do all that is humanly possible to combat this challenge

to humanity there is still time this does move. american says the recently agreed climate protection laws a step in the right direction even if young environmental activists say the law doesn't go far enough but merkel says the government must consider all citizens and that by talking with steve you are guided by the values of freedom solidarity and respect for the dignity of every single person as well as the principles of the social market economy these values will also remain our compass in the next decade . mero says it's the state's duty to defend these values against anti-semitism hate and violence and this also applies to refugees and migration merkel stresses that solutions are needed within a european framework where in their minds off the only within the community of the european union can we assert our values and interests and secure peace freedom and prosperity europe must strengthen its voice in the world therefore will also stand

up for this in the coming year during the german e.u. council presidency for example by holding a summit of all member states with china and a meeting with the african states. and so chancellor merkel concludes the year problematically with concrete plans for the future implying there's still much work left for her to do. now to a rare display of humanity from a usually unflappable figure francis the pontiff showed he's just as likely to get grumpy as the rest of us during i walk through st peter's square in the vatican francis had been shaking hands with people in the crowd and was turning to leave when a woman yanked him back the abrupt gesture appeared to cause the. slap to hand. and after a telling off before walking the wife visibly annoyed. within moments his holiness was back to more from in the judy's. doing.

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