handful of escape routes smoke so thick that helicopters can fly australia's bushfire crisis shows no sign of abating in the worst affected state mega blazes have consumed 4 times the area lost to last year's amazon rain forest fires now the country's prime minister is really feeling the heat i'm phil down in berlin this is the day. everything. on earth we get nothing if we would see if we would north korea we would be flooded with the nice things we'd a mother didn't feel like i understand the very strong feelings people have but most everything. there is still you know some very dangerous days ahead good nor. bad was. 7

also on the day interpol asks lebannon to arrest fugitive former c.e.o. carlos to goad who skipped bail and fled japan rather than face charges of financial misconduct despite this his friends think he's gone to a better place. he was confident about the future he's got a lot of plans and that's the most important thing he's surrounded by his family and friends he's at home here in his country. so to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and around the world to welcome australian authorizes have declared emergencies and ordered mass evacuations in new south wales and victoria the states hit hardest by some of the worst wildfires on record the evacuation orders are likely to last for days as forecasters warn that high temperatures and stronger. are expected to return at the weekend 18 people have died in the crisis

and thousands of homes have been destroyed. this is what firefighters in australia have been dealing with for months in some cases and this is an example of the aftermath the town. or what was the town a blaze tore through here on new year's eve. since then thousands have been awaiting rescue relief anything the plan is for the navy to use ships and helicopters to bring them to melbourne about a 17 hour journey by water. and destruction devastation and this is just one of so many towns in the southeastern states of new south wales and victoria that have felt the fury of the latest wave of bushfires. side anybody. now had parents.

people have died but a final count hasn't been tallied yet some are still listed as missing one of the dead is fireman jeff keaton who passed away battling a blaze just before christmas at his funeral on thursday his young son received an award for bravery on behalf of his dead father. forecasters say it'll be the end of the month before there's any significant rain and a possible end to the crisis the next catastrophic conditions are forecast for this coming weekend with temperatures expected to top 40 degrees celsius. well the. public relations disaster for the australian prime minister scott morrison he was heavily criticised for going on holiday at the bushfire crisis began and his recent visit to the scorched footage of a cabal go in new south wales went down badly with a lot of calls. on the low over the world.

well over the last of the thing to help out now that sam don't have a lot of money 7 but we have the don't meet the prime minister now you need your real. right. we do. need body or we're not like your other and you. know well 7 the good note. well dr you promised to scott morrison well the reaction in kabbalah go is not an isolated incident. raging across the country with many australians fed up with what they say is a lack of leadership. nasr is here with more welcome so we just saw that much of the anger being directed at the prime minister yeah absolutely and a lot of that really does come from some of his own major missteps i'm sure you remember

a couple of weeks ago morrison was actually on vacation in hawaii during one of the high points of this fire crisis and now there's been another similar incident during new year celebrations morrison was accused of ringing in 2020 with a party at his residence and many australians are not exactly happy about that here's one of them he happens to be a member of the rival labor party here is saying look australia is burning there are 4000 australians stranded on the beach at mali as we saw in the piece well this happens australia's prime minister sipped champagne while watching fireworks and then you can see his opinion of morrison's liberal party there we have to mention a spokesperson denied that morrison had a quote party he says this was just a few close friends and family members coming over for dinner but either way the optics here not greats the hawaii vacation didn't look good especially as he and his government really under increasing pressure now to act but this does seem to be more about more than just optics people do seem to be really quite angry absolutely

i mean this is really about a lack of action on the part of the government many fire victims saying that that help isn't coming fast enough the response of the federal government just has not been good enough especially in those rural areas that we saw with just been hit so hard by this and this is one person on facebook who's been updating his followers on the situation where his mother lives and you can see that here she lives in a small coastal town in new south wales and he writes there's no power there there's no mobile phones there's no internet no utilities the town is out of. you want food no open roads to get in or out the water catchment for the bay has has all been burnt why isn't the government doing food drops or water drops why or why isn't bringing in generators to the harbor where's our defense force here is you can see many people very frustrated at the lack of response it's not only the federal government it's the state government as well you have to understand states are in charge of emergency services there scott morrison liberal party currently in

governments in new south wales the hardest hit states the party they're being criticised now for actually cutting the budget for response in terms of fire management earlier this year or last year it turns out as well the emergency services minister of that same state has also gone on holiday he is currently on vacation with his wife in europe he says he will cut that vacation short to get back to work on friday but again i mean unbelievable to see these people in charge off taking holiday so briefly co what has the government done prime minister morris and as we saw be getting a lot more military involved we saw those rescue ships of the navy army aircraft getting involved as well deploying supplies also helping with evacuations he says he can only do that when the states request help the biggest discussion though is still climate change morrison's government has been denying the link between climate change and these fires but a majority of australians say this is a big threats we want to see more action coalesce we thank you so much.

turkey's parliament has passed legislation authorizing a yearlong deployment of troops to libya in support of the internationally recognized government in tripoli the deployment he said to be necessary to defend the libyan government against forces power a loyal to the powerful warlord khalifa haftar turkey said that if libya's government is toppled it would bring further instability to the region. we can take a closer look at this without us aleko mati who's a founder and director of libyan think tank they said institute he joins us from london welcome to d.w. how would the turkish troop deployment affect libya's conflict. well it's certainly going to. progress really barker's russian mercenaries over the last several months in the making on the front lines also has tripoli. who now goes from the suburbs

lightly populated areas around tripoli. tripoli and that's truly significant given that there is almost 2000000 people in their own tripoli let alone the hundreds of thousands that were displaced from those last campaign in benghazi and. controls and i suppose that the intervention is coming where the national cooled really need to. be requesting around 7 or 8 months from its european partners from countries that were its existence like brutally u.s. and and other european countries and bullshitters their schools well and it was also if turkey does intervene in this this is about more than just that 2 rival factions within libya they have turkey intervenes this brings them into contact with other external powers. listen a little of those cameras have been there for a long time so i think it's difficult for them are. today's the gloom and given that it's full and open and it's out there in the an ugly guy getting the guy who

actually could get busted it so just follow him as a group that's all. there has been a 7 or 8 month campaign after that has used french procured u.s. missiles russian special forces and iraqi troops for the last couple of months brings them into contact with larger maritime deal that the u.s. government in libya signed with with ankara early last month and that is about something very very different that's about the natural gas reserves re-entry 3 trillion dollars worth that are under the sea in the eastern mediterranean and that gives circular didn't claim to destruct the ability for greece egypt and israel to exploit that without them and it gives them a almost the sovereign rights to challenge them so it is certainly more about that than just the local factions in it because people have been asking what what what say in this for turkey turkey says well the valid regional allies say they were part of a ottoman empire the send more us more cynical view is that yes it's all it's all about those. fuel resources in the say. well it's certainly one of

those things i don't know whether or not it is about the old little limbaugh being being revived and. i'm not sure i buy that they could have worked with me in the legal actions and it being the case they certainly work with the internationally recognized government it really went with them after the request was made by the government like that because they thought abandon the last 8 months really un and the un security council and the responsibility we shouldn't forget the data response the sort of let's all april fool that invaded tripoli he did that in the presence of and so you consider as the u.n. chief. that some are only a week after that his word will really be national and national conferences are looking for peace and reconciliation ok perhaps elections so they don't like is that it was almost right i don't want to get in this that this is this last question because western military interventions have often suffered because insufficient attention is given to what should happen when the fighting stops does

turkey or indeed the libyan government do they appear to have such a plan. well it is no go and it's in very recent an expansionist true government from western interventions started from over the last couple of years plan is to try to stop it and if anything it could be a revisiting and asked in a crisis that he was involved in and it will save you all this kind of frightening really solves the real kind of balance. so that peace or peace loops can be revisit at the moment we should think about it being an intervention the intervention has come from the e.u. egypt and russia over the last 8 months and have not done that with any elementary approval already. fishelson the symbol that we're going to. be raining down drew strikes on tripoli to be killed at least 2 thirds of the civilian population is considered a man so i think it's it's difficult to market by the occasion we should mention religious context as it has been since april who doesn't thanks for joining us on

a sat i'll give marty from the start i came stitchers. go spectacular scape from japan where he was under house arrest awaiting trial for financial misconduct remains shrouded in mystery one theory is that the foreman a son c.e.o. hid inside a musical instrument case that was then taken on to a private plane bound for turkey where he boarded another private jet to lebanon japanese prosecutors have now raided mr guns tokyo and interpol has issued lebanon with a red notice and requesting his arrest but it's still not clear if japanese authorities in their search of guns residents found anything to explain how he slipped through the net the lebanese capital of beirut the camera crews have laid siege to the home of the former mission chairman. after his arrival there gold explained that he

believed the japanese court system was unjust that is arrest had been politically motivated go on scene here in archival footage plans to speak to journalists next week lebanon has now received an official request from interpol to arrest him as a fugitive but neighbors don't believe he's a criminal. he did help nissan and renault achieve the stature yes as a businessman he did well indeed as a lebanese man we're proud of him. journalist ricardo carvalho is a close friend of call this go and he spoke to him after his escape you knew he was confident about the future he's got a lot of plans and that's the most important thing he's surrounded by his family and friends he's at home here in his country. going to skate to lebanon is a 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 auto tycoon stands accused of unreported his salary to the tune of $85000000.00 prosecutors also allege he skimmed off millions of dollars from the company for his personal use tokyo has no extradition treaty with beirut japan's justice department is left holding guns bond worth around 12000000 euros. stephen busily from the business is tracking this story for us welcome steve there has been some progress arrests have been made. in this case we know that some people have been detained in this is only been is to bill in turkey so they're expected to give statements talk about 7 people related to believed to be related to that transfer that we heard about from the flights coming out of japan

where changed over it is to bowl and then a new plane went over to beirut so it's for pilots i believe 2 ground crew and then one other airport worker in cargo i believe so that may help us begin to sort of unwind exactly what happened and where this all leads and we'll talk about the charges he was facing in just a moment but what was it about japan's justice system to made him so reluctant to face it japan's justice system had a reputation even before this going case before going was arrested but his case if they threw it into the spotlight it's often called a hospice hostage the justice system because it's so focused on earning confessions because prosecutors have really everything engineers are sort of geared towards towards their success that is they can detain people much longer you heard in that case he was held over 100 more than 100 days we heard in the piece. of evidence cherry rules are in their favor they don't have to share all evidence with the defend. and we saw with going also that a lot of these levers were pulled he was held in detention for

a long time he was even not allowed to speak with his wife in some cases under certain orders so the conviction rate is 99 percent in japan the coast going solve the direction things were going and wasn't too happy with it so he's facing the japanese charges against the better claims that fits. to fiddle the books and there's this all this financial misconduct allegations of but he says it's politically motivated but doesn't seem to be anything particularly political about being caught with your fingers allegedly at a multi $1000000000.00 till everything about these 2 companies is political by 2 companies i mean nissan and renault they have this strategic alliance france is owns 50 percent of revenue and nissan is a very important company in japan it's a cultural icon he was the key that held them together. he could communicate with both sides he made it work somehow he turned this whole lines around made it the 3rd largest in terms of sales he was key it is political in that sense in that what

happens to these companies directly affects these countries but also he was he was looking to merge the 2 companies before his arrest that was seen as threat a threat potentially to nissan at least this is how he construes it and that's why he believes that he was given the hook as far as the compensation charges has actually been indicted as well on these same charges and they've actually started with the f.c.c. and the u.s. on the same charges of underreporting compensation they said that going should have done more japanese prosecutors agree but nissan also faces liability for this so it is very confusing and what about because it was go go it was the man who's who saved the company who towed it around how are they feeling about this they being brought in such a scandal. obviously i mean. it's been a black eye for them and also the. car companies really struggled cents and all car companies have struggled in the past year just due to falling revenues but there's

especially struggle because again go on was that he communicated between brando and nissan and we're already seeing some friction between the 2 renault not everyone was sold on the allegations against going on it wasn't well communicated to them and then there was this attempt to merge with fear earlier this year or last year i should say that wasn't communicated to nissan and so we're seeing some real friction between the 2 and that's also affecting the paths that they're taking in their revenues potentially ok so even now it's all gone international what a japanese or a prosecutor is saying briefly with nothing they've been on holiday for the past few days this is the biggest holiday in japan right now and no one in the japanese prosecutorial system has seemed to want to leave their holiday they haven't said anything we've seen them rummaging through his house recently but that's about it so it's interesting to see how little has been said we're waiting to hear more stephen because the data business thank you. not to austria where they government conservatives have struck

a coalition agreement with the green party following 3 months of negotiations sebastian courts will remain chancellor with the greens entering national government for the 1st time laying out the details of their coalition deal with your party said they want to make australia a european foreign and climate protection. so could austria's coalition between conservatives and greens be a model for close neighbors germany ideas being discussed here in this political parties especially the conservatives consider a future without chancellor merkel who has said that she will not run in next year's general election for the remainder of her term chances 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 roadmap largely removed from the nitty gritty of domestic politics and it is 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 us 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 counsel presidency but that won't be easy that will take more than wanting 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's really fire in motion with germany's e.u. presidency coming up in the 2nd half of 2020 mackall 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 do 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 fans have lately been missing at the top i see only one deficiency that's the look of a national strategy which shows france parents 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 angola machall 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. illinois has become the 11th u.s. state to legalize cannabis the governor also pardoned thousands of people with convictions for low level drug offenses it became legal at the stroke of midnight. this is the right way for some the excitement was so high that they forgot to show

their id from the 1st of january illinois is 21 and older can legally buy up to 30 grams of cannabis as well as cannabis if you use products for many it was worth queuing up in subzero temperatures to get their hands on the state's votes legal pot. super. no i just thought you know to do things like part of history for chicago why not come be a part of it earlier i was up for new year's eve so you know it's incredible it's incredible i just can't believe we're finally here i'm really excited and i know what everybody that i now is really excited as well little surreal i was a little crazy like i'm walking to the counter and there's here is everywhere and it's showing me. 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 texture of a new will go to communities affected by the war on drugs authorities 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 puts equity 1st illinois joins 10 on the u.s. states and the district of columbia way every creational kind of business legal the u.s. not caltex agency however still considers cannabis a dangerous substance. that was the day as ever they come to say as it continues online you'll find us on twitter to use the help and forget to use the hash tag of the day. for good.

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