this is t w news live from scrambling to escape the flames and mass evacuations are underway in australia as people flees the deadly wildfire as thousands are on the road others are waiting to be ferry to safety by boat on the hoffs dry and windy conditions are expected to get worse we'll go to sydney for the latest also coming out deadly flooding and in asia forces tens of thousands of people from their homes

and around the capital jakarta officials warn more heavy rain is in the full costs . and turkey edges closer to 70 troops to warsaw in libya well may cause a few to vote on the proposal for military intervention that could end up escalating to a conflict in my country. and also coming up bombings that was once thought impossible we meet a pioneer growing fresh vegetables in one of the world's most inhospitable climates the dog total winter of norway's on the roads. and you can make it on thanks very much for joining us. australia has ordered mass evacuations of coastal communities as bush fires raged across the southeast navy

ships and aircraft delivering food and water to thousands who fed fled to the town of malik and taken refuge on local beaches the was summer wildfires on record have left at least 18 people dead. australia's soso eastern coast is now 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 safe to do exactly what i say military ships and aircraft have been 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 the weather conditions are forecast to worsen again. the winds are expected to be very strong that the food plus degrees temperatures we've got a lot for in the last guy that we time. residents are taking the warnings seriously . side anybody dying. demise and i had parents discard. it. just. over 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 not meant to believe you 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 mine in sydney rebecca thanks for joining us how 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 label denies there 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 unto people can leave the road so there is also talk of.

evacuations being attempted for the elderly and infirm one study is possible or to do so for those who don't make it on the vessel 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 friday the next 7 days and that gives the group 5 service the power to operate the government's very sources so they had commissioner shame to simmons will be ordering the closure of roads ways ses 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 save it to now

authorities are saying they're 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 teller ready settled into that base holidays on the south coast of new south wales and in a system victoria was 4 days fires so they have some of those have been cut off from power and water the last few days not thirty's have now said that if there is a small window in which people can evacuate to say areas they have been queues outside petrol stations with some petrol stations running out of fuel completely and others giving a limit of 50 latest per car 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 more all over the next few days journalists rebecca in ma in sydney thanks very much in indonesia severe weather has triggered deadly flooding in and around the capital jakarta officials say some 2 dozen people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced by raging flood waters forecasters are warning of heavy rain and more flooding in the coming days. trapped on a tiny island in the floods. this man was lucky. a desperate rescue efforts saved him. 'd smear 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. 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. some osama but he also cautioned people to limit their expectations. but i but in terms of our ability to respond to flooding the central government is still quite when you have the money and you are still many projects left to complete me there but he. for hard hit residents in the capital jakarta life and death choices and long delays i see them when the water 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. it was and we hope this will never happen again because these floods keep coming back every 5 years but at the end of the wallow whether we like it or not we have to face this because we live here. by how much. it is. everyone's working to clean and salvage what they can more rain is expected on the weekend. now some of the other stories making news around the world taiwan's military chief of staff has been killed in a helicopter crash shani ming was aboard a blackhawk chopper when it went down in mountains north of the capital taipei officials said 7 others aboard died the air force general was in command of the island's defenses against china. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has offered to parliament for immunity from corruption charges immunity would protect

him from prosecution while he remains in office who was indicted in november on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust. 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 they would defend the government against forces loyal to the powerful warlord after his fighters control several suburbs in 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 stat to political scientist an expert for the middle east she's in culture stay u.k. attached 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 and 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 they had all kinds of construction agreements and contracts that they had been given and this had dated back even before from gadhafi was in power but this continued with the tripoli based government and as general have tires forces have continued 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 in and i've been in the past and you know

also have to mention the element that turkey believes after us 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 what david leapt to the aggression of half hours foursomes can you talk about the possible pump says of a minute trained intervention in the region and also internationally. well it is very significant because the more 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 un has been trying to broker a peace agreement for some time now but it's complicated by the fact that you have to use forces these supported by countries like the u.a.e.

like russia and egypt and now you have turkey on the other end of that now 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 20158 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 police are on test and middle east expert thanks so much. woman and her 2 adult daughters have turned themselves into authorities in western germany following a fire devastated police say the woman admitted ordering paper sky lanterns on the internet apparently unaware that illegal in germany is believed flames from the airborne candles coals the blaze occurred on new year's eve and it killed dozens of animals. flowers and candles a cray felled zoo more than 30 animals were burned to death here after

a fire broke out at the 8 pounds. among the dead animals are highly endangered apes like around the tans from borneo lowland gorillas from central africa and chimpanzees from west africa. a total of 8 apes were killed amongst them massah europe's oldest gorilla he was 48 years old the fire in the ape house broke out shortly after midnight the house was also home to fruit bats and birds they were all killed in the blaze but 2 chimpanzees survived. police say the fire was caused by a sky lenten launched for new gear the owner contacted authorities soon after the fire reportedly unaware that the sky lanterns are banned almost everywhere in germany including whether zoo is located.

because. the people wonder set off these lanterns with good wishes and of course they didn't think that could lead to what happened here. i must say i think it's courageous of them to go to the police and say yes we're responsible i find a leak stream a decent and they have my respect. well cray film zoo now remains closed investigations into how the fire spread are and away. ok let's bring in correspondent donna rego who's in at the zoo down i'll sorry she's a saying a mother had 2 adult daughters are responsible for the fire was likely to happen to them now yes that's right well what we know so far like i was previously shown in the report is that they have turned himself into police now they are potentially going to be charged with negligent arson and that

type of charge could carry a sentence of up to 5 years in prison but they could also face just a fine instead this these details we'll learn more about them as the day progresses people have been bringing candles and flowers clearly this is something that's really affected people what is the zoo doing it to manage this tragedy. yeah that's correct you can see right here people came in to light candles lay flowers passers by talked to earlier even said that they almost feel like the monkeys and apes and the animals in the zoo were almost their relatives here in this town and that's why they feel like this disaster is very much very close to their heart we know that the zoo remains closed and it allows the people to come here and pray and light candles and bring their flowers we also know that the zoo

might take further actions and investigate whether some materials from which the roof was built maybe there were too flame a bow or dangerous and the zoo will keep on updating further on today and to apes apparently survived the fire do we know what's going to happen to them. well we don't know what's going to happen to them yet but we do know that at least their situation is stable and good management is very satisfied with at least the way that these monkeys survived and we are hoping for their full recovery very quickly. write down a reg of and thanks so much. you're watching the news still to come. growing fresh food in one of the world's of the northernmost settlements we meet the pioneer is making it possible. the 1st it's to austria where conservatives have struck

a coalition agreement with the green party the deal follows 3 months of tough negotiations the best and courts will remain chancellor with the greens and trade and national government for the 1st time the conservatives the previous alliance with the far right freedom party collapsed over a corruption scandal. could austria's coalition between the conservatives and greens also be a model here in neighboring germany it's an idea that's being discussed in berlin as political parties especially the conservatives look to the future beyond chancellor angela merkel's tenure has said she will not run in the next general election judy late next year during the remainder of her term looking to shore up the e.u. as it confronts new challenges. angela merkel 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 road map largely removed from the nitty gritty of domestic politics i noticed 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. as a dozen short hearted it will be a tough program if she wants to celebrate becoming the big european leader and at the end of her chancellorship. with germany's e.u. presidency coming up in the 2nd half of 2020 machall 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 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 the lack of a national strategy which shows more tropes transparency about german 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 angola machall continues to ride out the 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 now as part of our look back at some of the top reports filed by correspondence in 2019 where going to take you just in no way it's one of the most northern human settlements in the world and it's the home of a man attempting something that's considered impossible grown food in the 3 months long night. this is not a u.f.o.

it's a greenhouse inside it drops to minus 20 degrees celsius during the dark polar night only when the polar day begins will benjamin vidmar see things growing here we have some days you know with the midnight sun there's sun in theory 24 hours a day so it just moves around in the sky and it can get like $2530.00 degrees in here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice. finally a bit of sunlight and darkness prevails for months in winter it's minus $25.00 degrees celsius the tundra here is permanently frozen there are more polar bears in small part than people. of all places benjamin did mark gross food here the world's northernmost settlement. this one i think looks good too and then this one tree for the 4th one is on the table so it's an experiment together with his

colleague benjamin works in what they call their lab the seeds only sprout when the climate is nearly tropical they've planted basil parsley crust lettuce cucumbers and chili peppers. so if you see that we've got the human the up now off to remove the tower and it was yeah yeah because we lifted it from a friend to the wall 45 so yeah definitely. there are polar garden is still in the test phase they're gathering data at 1st that mark just wanted to be able to eat fresh vegetables that's how he came up with the idea by 3 o'clock in the afternoon it's pitch black again benjamin has gotten used to this although he's from florida this former ship's cook got stranded on the icy archipelago 10 years ago actually enjoy the dark season when the light comes back we get very busy and you have to run all of the time so that's the challenge as you

don't know how to shut it off but for me the dart season is just to tell you whether it's dark or light out benjamin's gardening business is booming his stock is in high demand and his capacity is limited small bart is about a 1000 kilometers from norway's north cape ordinarily all foods must be flown in which is expensive and not ecologically sound. that's the last half. of so. there are some clues for you and. that's why benjamin vidmar wants to prove that things can be done differently. to talk to other ships also on was a tremendous i promise you to. give him food to get out. it's amazing to have this for sure for sure but besides being delicious the soil they. one gets recycled little think you everybody should take care of your good thoughts just for you. benjamin food mart thinks a circular economy can work and he wants to prove it right here in small part.

some sports news now and david stern the former commissioner of the national basketball association the n.b.a. died on wednesday aged 77 he'd suffered a brain hemorrhage in december stern was the league's longest serving commissioner spending 30 years in the job before handing the reins to the current commissioner adam silver pictured on the left stand was credited with making the n.b.a. a global brand and he oversaw the birth of 7 new franchises as well as the creation of the women's n.b.a. and the n.b.a. development league. and fall on sharon made international headlines last month after becoming the 1st woman to beat a man at the b.b.c. darts world championship she's now been named as one of 9 challenges to compete alongside the top 9 players in this year's premier league darts competition the 25 year old became an overnight celebrity of to making it to the 3rd round of the

world championship and it's all the more impressive given the share is a former headdress of her only started playing darts in her teens. now you may have seen the spectacular new year's eve fireworks around the world but you've probably never seen anything like this these on the early 2000 drones flying together in the night sky over shanghai the machines of program to create different formations shapes even words at the end of the a countdown the show ended with the drones forming the chinese characters of shoemaking meaning dream chaser. you're watching news coming up next in news asia we meet the young people putting their futures on the line and marching for democracy in hong kong. and what's next for india's anti citizenship law protests a leading analyst tells d.w.

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