biala dast frankfurt airport city managed by for part. of. this is d w news live from to lend scrambling to escape the flames nops evacuations are under way in australia as people flee the deadly wildfire as thousands are on the road others away seem to be ferried to safety by boat and the halts dry and windy conditions are expected to get worse we'll go to sydney for the latest also coming

up deadly flooding in indonesia forces tens of thousands of people from their homes in and around the capital jakarta officials warn more heavy rain is in the full cost. and turkey edges closer to sending troops to war torn libya lawmakers a due to vote on a proposal for military intervention that could end up escalating the conflict in the country. also coming up what's next for europe's most powerful woman and german chancellor angela merkel goes into the new year looking to shape her legacy the speculation mounts about who might succeed. as mackinnon thanks so much for joining us. australia has ordered mass evacuations of coastal communities as bushfires right across the southeast navy ships and

aircraft are delivering food and more says the thousands who have fled the town of molecule to and taken refuge on local beaches the worst some a wildfire is on record have left at least 18 people dead at. australia's soso eastern coast as no one ever kitchen zone people have been told to leave as soon as possible as authorities declared a state of emergency. it is imperative that you look after your social responsibilities look out for yourselves and your families and you out to those men and women who are fighting as far as we keep you so if you do exactly what i say military ships an aircraft tough in deployed to provide humanitarian assistance bringing in much needed food and medical supplies to cut off areas the military vessels will be able to evacuate up to 1000 people at a time from the harbor in the tory to see journey to one of the designated ever creation ports takes around 17 hours this means that the mass evacuations will go

on well into the weekend when weather conditions are forecast to worsen again. the winds are expected to be very strong the food plus degrees temperatures we've got a lot for in the last guy that we grew local time. residents are taking the warnings seriously. side anybody diet. demise and i had parents try to scare to scare. or to do is put your foot receives no no no to just go just get out and go. when you say that for a new just now you're not meant to believe it just go. smoke is too sick for helicopters to fly in and help with every accusations those wanting to leave will now make their way to the ports. ok let's go straight to journalist rebecca

a my in sydney rebecca thanks for joining us how much of a difference will the navy ship that's now arrived offshore to make given that it can only take up to about a 1000 people and what awaits the evacuees at the other end so malik lucia is a relatively small town that has been ravaged by the last few days so there are thousands of people needing to be evacuated so this will make a difference for those who most need to leave the area to save shelter immediately there have been some other people who have been desperate to lade who are balkanized they were in private boats already and they have left so it will make a big difference to those needing to lay them for those left behind it will be a matter of bracing as conditions are expected to worsen once more and it will be another wake also until people can leave the road so there is also talk of.

you asians being attempted for the elderly and infirm once that is possible to do so for those who don't make it on the best. now the new south wales government has declared its 3rd state of emergency what does that mean exactly. well it's a decision not made lightly and the premier gladys berejiklian has declared that today beginning tomorrow is friday the next 7 days and that gives the group 5 service the power to right the government's resources so they had commissioned a shame to simmons will be ordering the closure of roads way it will also mean that the roofies service has the ability to shut down utilities like oil gas and electricity to forcibly evacuate people as well from those risky areas and to occupy properties and ted down infrastructure where they say fit to all

storage he's all saying that preparing for a catastrophic conditions again on saturday how many people are likely to be on the move as conditions intensify into the weekend. already there is a mass evacuation underway tens of thousands if not a 100000 people have been and are currently on the move today tens of thousands of curious tell ready settled into their holidays on the south coast of new south wales and in a slim victoria the school days fires here it's so they have some of those have been cut off from power and water the last few days not already as of now said that if there is a small window in which people can evacuate to say areas they have been accused outside petrol stations with some petrol stations running out of fuel completely and others giving a limit of 50 latest queues outside supermarkets and we've saying pictures of in the supermarket shelves is stripped bare so there are traffic jams of up to 25

kilometers long as many many people are attempting to lay the same area out all at once as conditions are expected to intensify once small over the next few days journalists rebecca in ma in sydney thanks very much. and in the nature severe weather has triggered a deadly flooding in and around the capsule officials say some 2 dozen people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced by raging flood waters for cost as all warning of heavy rain and more flooding and the coming days. trapped on a tiny island in the floods. this man was lucky. a desperate rescue effort saved him. 'd sneer by floodwaters were overwhelming washing away everything in their path tens of people

have been killed and tens of thousands more evacuated indonesia's president tried to offer reassurance. if a disaster agency needs to coordinate with provincial governments and search and rescue teams to give people who are affected by the floods a sense of safety and well yeah this is a good. that some of them are. but he also cautioned people to limit their expectations. but a guide but in terms of our ability to respond to flooding by the central government is still quite knew it was up the money and there are still many projects left to complete. he. for hard hit residents in the capital jakarta life and death choices and long delays i see. when the what your reached the 2nd floor we decided to evacuate. we asked for help to be evacuated at 8 am but we could only move out at 2 pm. and a sense of

a terrifying new normal. but it was and we hope this will never happen again because these floods keep coming back every 5 years i would not look at the un the wall of whether we like it or not we have to face this because we live here. how much support the up but it is. everyone's working to clean them salvage what they care more rain is expected on the weekend. let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a woman and her 2 adult daughters have turned themselves into authorities in western germany following a fire that devastated the city zoo police say the woman admitted symbol inching sky lanterns on new year's eve that are believed to have caused the blaze 1st the animals died including most of this is a. taiwan's military chief of staff has been killed in

a helicopter crash shen uming was aboard a blackhawk chopper when it went down in mountains north of the capital taipei officials said 7 of those aboard died the air force general was in command of the island's defenses against china. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has asked parliament for immunity from corruption charges immunity would protect him from prosecution while he remains in office and some yahoo was indicted in november on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust. now turkey's parliament has begun discussing whether to authorize a one year deployment of troops to libya turkey supports libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli the motion before parliament in ankara would send turkish soldiers to the libyan capital where they would defend the government against forces loyal to the powerful load after his fighters control several suburbs and turkey fears he's planning to launch an assault on the city some 2000

people have been killed so far in the conflict. and for more let's go to natasha stats political scientist an expert for the middle east she's in cultures to u.k. tasha thanks for joining us why is turkey interested in sending troops to libya. well turkey wants to back up the tripoli government because they have been friendly with them for some time now i mean they have both economic ties with them they had made a maritime agreement where they could carve out rights in the mediterranean so they made that agreement with them they had all kinds of construction agreements and contracts that they had been given and this is dated back even before from gadhafi was in power but this continued with the tripoli based government and as general have tires forces have to team you to gain more and more land this is put

a lot of these contracts in jeopardy turkey feels increasingly isolated in the region as an economic zone was created with countries like egypt israel cyprus and greece and to racine that turkey just wants to have more control over the region it seems that if it can prop up the tripoli based government better i mean already been defying the embargo imposed by the u.n. on arms it's been sending in arms and weapons and so forth but now it seems like it's going to get more and more involved than it had been in the past and you know also have to mention the element that turkey believes after its forces even try reading ethnic turks in libya that's the 3rd largest ethnic group after arabs and berbers as there had been arrests of ethnic turks and the bombing of misrata a city where there are a lot of ethnic turks and so it seems that it's going to be very critical to defending both the tripoli government and these ethnic turks from david lee to the aggression of half hours for students can you talk about the possible pump

sequences of a minute train intervention in the region and also internationally. well it is very significant because the war larger countries more powerful countries get involved the more difficult it's going to be to come up with any kind of peace agreement the u.n. has been trying to broker a peace agreement for some time now but it's complicated by the fact that you have to his forces be supported by countries like the u.a.e. like russia and egypt and now you have turkey on the other end of it now it becomes a proxy war it becomes escalated you're going to see the civilian count go up in numbers and we already saw just since 20. 8 or 9000 people have been killed 20000 people have been injured but we're going to see much much bigger numbers of civilian casualties when it gets internationalized like this all right natasha lin's that political run test and middle east expert thanks so much for having me

in kenya 200000 people live in the refugee camp it is one of the biggest such camps in the world and it's been home to thousands of somalis for nearly 3 decades the kenyan government's plan to close it has been postponed repeatedly humanitarian aid for the camp has been considerably reduced in recent years most recently food rations have been cut our correspondent melanie current about reports now on what that means for those living inside the. rice yellow beans some cooking oil that's the food ration hoopy mohammed and his family of 9 are supposed to survive on yet another month since she fled somalia as a child almost 30 years ago who has lived as a refugee and. she says life in the camp has become even more difficult since the

world food program reduced their food distributions because of budget cuts the agency can only afford to provide 70 percent of the recommended daily food intake. but now we're. now we are very desperate and there's no can no food at all how can we survive if we don't have food and we have peace here but we don't have food to survive on and no healthcare. the people have to dab's refugee camps have been living on the threshold of imagine seeing for nearly 3 decades now with humanitarian organizations struggling to provide basic services in the face of dwindling donations and funding they say their situation has consistently west the refugees here fear the world has simply forgotten about their plight. kenyan law restricts freedom of movement and forbids refugees working here this

means more than 200000 refugees in the camps most of them women and children depend on ever scarcer humanitarian aid aide workers in the camp are concerned that that is being neglected and the more recent humanitarian crises is smart only the food that is affected is also or that a program that provides services have to distribute but i hope the services nutrition services because you're in roatan centers and all of them that are affected by the budget cut the international community. they think maybe the dubs let's talk about that see there because the. in the. house. has been holding out for a month with her baby daughter who suffer from malnutrition she needs a solution. that if i could support

my family i wouldn't have to come in. only someone who's helpless goes to the hospital nobody else wants to be at the hospital. who has hopes of frustration and fear for her children her son however cannot be treated by the doctors here he has a heart condition that need special treatment and resources are not available in the underfunded camp. helen all dying in this camp nobody is taking us anywhere i can't help myself nobody is treating my sons every night we wonder if you will die or not. will be hopes she'll eventually be resettled to a place where her son can be treated and to other children will have enough to eat all she wants is the life of an ordinary citizen not

a refugee until then she hopes that people politicians and agencies will start remembering the people again. you're watching news still to come starting in the new year on a legal high why illinois has become the latest u.s. state to greenlight cannabis. first to austria where conservatives have struck a coalition agreement with the green posse the deal follows 3 months of tough negotiations sebastian quotes will remain chancellor of the greens and training at national government for the 1st time the conservatives previous alliance with the far right freedom party collapsed over a corruption scandal. a could austria's coalition between the conservatives and the greens also be a model in neighboring germany well it's an idea that is being discussed in berlin as political parties especially the conservatives look to the future beyond

chancellor. merkel has said she will not run in the next general election late next year during the remainder of her. looking to shore up the e.u. as it confronts new challenges. angola americal in her natural habitat at the most recent e.u. summit here europe's longest serving head of government has been forging compromise for 15 years yet there are telltale signs of a chancellor on her final stretch in office what was supposed to be her latest budget speech became a foreign policy roadmap largely removed from the nitty gritty of domestic politics i notice that it's very easy to be critical of the u.s. which no longer wants to take on responsibility in the places it used to but 1st information that points back to ers here in europe. m.p.'s increasingly see merkel focused on her european legacy. of i believe she is

focusing everything on the germany you council presidency but that won't be easy that will take more than launching a successful e.u. china summit in the fall. harvest it will be a tough program if she wants to celebrate becoming the big european leader and at the end of her chancellorship that he found wished with germany's e.u. presidency coming up in the 2nd half of 2020 merkel needs to mend the strategically important marriage with france to fulfill her key aim a united europe that can stand up to an increasingly dominant china back home her own party worry that her refusal to actively back a successor could weaken germany's position. speaking of political leadership i think she. should think about supporting someone so to give us. the germans and the europeans and everybody out there who could play

also a role for stability in that someone is still widely tipped to be his successor as party leader anecdotes come catherine bell and also defense minister she recently called for a more active role for german troops on the world stage she offers the kind of clarity even merkel phones have lately been missing at the top i see only one deficiency that's the lek of a national strategy which shows transparency about drum and interests and german strengths and weaknesses the current german chancellor isn't a lame duck yet but the clouds of a long goodbye are hanging over her office in berlin it's an open secret here that the main reason why anger merkel continues to ride out her coalition woes back home is her concern over the stability of the european union at the same time many are struggling to imagine what a post merkel germany or europe would look like. and for more on this i'm joined

now by our political correspondent emanuel shaz emanuel thanks for being with us now we just heard in that report that people are now starting to look ahead to a post markel germany what might that look like i mean today we sourced austria's conservatives agree to a coalition with the greens is that a possible scenario here in germany as well but is it being discussed this option off the greens being in the government we see we've seen here in germany especially in the past that there was a surge of interest for the green party you so so the years with fridays for future are demanding that politicians include more green policies in their agenda so it sets any in everyone's mind and if you look at the green party here in germany. the leader of the co-leader of the party ease of personality that is that is much loved by the germans themselves so could he be the next chance to go yes that's

a possibility and could coalition government be composed by the conservatives and the greens so here in germany just like we saw in austria in austria that's a possibility yes now could we see a new government sooner rather than later given that merkel's coalition with the social democrats is increasingly under strain the coalition is under strain especially since the d.s.p. to social social democrats elected new leaders in december leaders that are far more leftwing. and compromising than the former one that being said we have seen many interests in that coalition ever since it started and yet it sticks together and not least because indeed a bring stability to the country especially in the wake of the rise of the far right in germany and as so in the wake of germany having to put its impose on european policy if it wants to remain a deciding power here in europe so i think so there's

a consensus within the. current coalition to maintain their stability for now and if you look at the results this coalition already full feed 2 thirds of its of what it had agreed upon so so far it is a coalition that is that these shaky but also delivers its promises all right. thanks so much thank you now illinois has become the 11th u.s. state to legalize cannabis the governor has also pardoned thousands of people convicted in the past of low level drug offenses at the stroke of midnight it became legal to buy cannabis there. this is the right way for some the excitement was so high that they forgot to show their i.d. from the 1st of january illinois 21 and older can legally buy up to 30 grams of cannabis as well as cannabis infused products. for many it was worth queuing up in

subzero temperatures to get their hands on the state's 1st legal. super farm now are you just you know to do things like part of history for chicago come be a part of it really i was up for sale it's incredible it's incredible i just can't believe we're finally here i'm really excited and i know everybody that i know is really excited as well little surreal or is a little crazy like i'm walking to the counter and there's here is everywhere it's showing me and i'm buying we legal cannabis this is just unbelievable with the legalization also come some 700000 pardons for people with low level cannabis convictions and a quarter of the nearly $60000000.00 projected annual tax revenue will go to communities affected by the war on drugs or thought chiefs are open about the economic benefits of the new comers illinois is a stablish in itself as the 1st state in the nation to legalize in

a way that truly porch equity 1st illinois joins 10 of the u.s. states and the district of columbia where recreational counted because it's legal the u.s. narcotics agency however still considers cannabis a dangerous substance. now a quick reminder of the top stories we're following for you today australia has ordered mass evacuations of coastal communities as bush fires raged across the nation at least 18 people have been killed in dishes awful calls to tary further in the coming days. and so they weather has triggered deadly flooding in and around the capital jakarta officials say some 2000 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced by raging floodwaters full cost is warning of heavy rain and more flooding in the coming days. and watching the news life next conflicts and me thank you. my israeli prime minister who resigned to thank white

for reform he left behind a questionable human rights record under forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website that is the call i mean you compose mckenna in berlin on behalf of the whole team here thanks so much for joining us. the law.

into the conflict confronting the culture of. ethiopia has come a long way in the short talk for. a new peace deal with air traffic and the new

prime minister apparently determined to bring accountability for the human rights abuses of the posse didn't all my guests this week here in brussels it is these creatures to suffer i use my reality to so many. conflicts. next on decoupling. all. whatever we begin to do day will get out of c o 2 in the atmosphere an increase of the temperature. reading firstly we have to start by starting to decrease the amount of c o 2 records there are now this is actually not a hard problem it just takes will power over there are very important economic interests to own a lot of coal who own

a lot of oil that are doing everything possible to make sure this doesn't happen and we have to fight them by 2050 will be well on the way to grow a lot of older adorable solar wind i'm optimistic that. we're not totally safe as b.c. . i mean who for these friendships these cleaning up your mess isn't a no no how do you sleep at night and i have asked an apology for my people live in the need to try to ease an old ethiopia has come a long way in a short time there's a new peace deal with eritrea and the new prime minister apparently determined to bring accountability for the human rights abuses of the past my guest this week

here in brussels is his previous us off haile mariam decile and who denied for many years good human rights violations had taken place.