would have died of hunger and down. to sleep storage churning fish teeth. this is the news live from berlin tensions escalate between the u.s. and iran american forces hit iraq's baghdad airport killing the powerful a rainy and general. iran says the u.s. bears responsibility for the consequences. also coming up scrambling to escape the flames mass evacuations in australia as deadly wildfires which rage unchecked the

navy's ferrying hundreds to safety thousands more hit the roads the hot dry conditions are expected to worsen. and flashpoint latin america uncertainty and popular demands for change drift this region we look at the way forward for the const. i have brian thomas great to have you with us iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has warned that harsh retaliation is waiting for the u.s. that after a u.s. airstrike on baghdad airport killed the iranian general kasam so the money the head of rand's elite quds force commenee is also the clare 3 days of national mourning for the general staff it was considered the architect of tehran's military operations in the middle east. the u.s.

asked came in the middle of the night later the pentagon tweeted this strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans done trump usually very active on twitter tweeted only this image long as that 100 iranian state t.v. confirmed the death of gentle customer. iran's top security body called an urgent meeting for friday. saturday foreign minister mohammed joanne sharif tweeted the us act of international terrorism targeting and assassinating gentle soul amani is extremely dangerous and a foolish escalation the u.s. government has accused me of having a key role in fighting in syria and iraq he reported directly to the country's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini. also killed the deputy commander of the uranian

backed militias known as the popular mobilization forces the u.s. has accused the group of being behind the recent attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad experts say the death of salam mani could be a turning point in the middle east and potentially drole retaliation from iran and the forces it backs in the region against israel and u.s. interests. ok we're going straight to baghdad now we're joined by pascha maga covering the story of for us there how might around respond to the killing of the head of. so mali. well iran's supreme leader khamenei said that there would be severe revenge for the killing of her for money and the money was chris one of the most important and influential men in iran as the head of iraq's or who she regards so things are still developing it's

unclear exactly what will happen. you know u.s. . military bases u.s. military forces within iraq from the oil fields all of those are at risk ok the oil fields are grossed a lot of play here now is a powerful head of the iranian revolutionary guard so mali has been in the crosshairs of the u.s. before but the u.s. never pulled the trigger why has washington decided to do so now and do you think that this actually came of a shock to almost everyone but you know leading up to this there have been several attacks from iranian backed militias on you had some forces within it all and in the days of the up to the u.s. contractor was killed in iraq the military base that is hosting this forces following that the u.s. carried out for airstrikes against the militia that they believed the high that attack and killed around 28 militia members in the response that there was an

attack on the american embassy or. sit in. and i think that attack and so the money came in response to the attack me embassy which resulted in the security cameras getting burned in front of that and the sequel forced their way into the entrance and in the reaction to the killing of the american contractor i don't i saw was the linchpin for iran's notorious abroad in iraq in syria other flashpoints as well can iran's revolutionary guard is a fact of without him. i think it remains to be seen it's impossible that this is how important are let me play so well their own solution god will be able to join you in the same way without one will be very difficult he was a tolerant figuratively been the leader for years and. it's unclear exactly what

will happen the only thing that is different from the mentally reshape. the future trouble that on the region ok there's a lot of concerns right now about a broader escalation is that the expectation what are people in baghdad fearing might happen though i think people in baghdad are worried that they'll get caught in the crosshairs between the u.s. and there are. people who have spoken to you are a free that there comes you will become the battlefield for a sleeping tensions between us don. thanks very much for that update for us this morning from baghdad pesher maughan for us. it's to australia now where 2 navy ships are evacuating thousands of people who are main stranded by raging bushfires the wait to be taken to safety from the beaches around the town of balad kuta. a visit to

a fire ravaged house the prime minister scott morrison came in for sharp criticism for not doing more to help the victims of australia's worst fires in living memory . 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 of. or what was the town ablaze 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 died. demised 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 degree celsius. let's bring in journalist roger maynard in sydney now roger australians facing yet another difficult day including at malik khuda can you give us an update on the mass evacuations are going on there again merely curio about 2 to 7 be able departed a little label earlier all today but that's the 1st of 2 decorations

the larger ship h.m.s. shots will be leaving in the next hour or 2 with 85900 people on board who will be heading down the coast to the mornington peninsula where they will disembark of 17 hours that it will take some time so uncertain at this stage with the ship will then return to. it because it's uncertain how many people want to get out we heard about 4000 people being stranded there but it appears a lot of those lucky little people and others tourists who don't want to leave their cars behind like arrogance it would be good as this sort of think and are prepared to wait it out and risk you know the the the foreigners and the smoke i don't know a lot of people have been ordered to leave holiday towns and destinations south of sydney ahead of the next heat wave that's expected today later today tomorrow what's progress looking like on that front. well pretty successful actually we've

seen a thousands of people evacuate the south coast of the world over the last 12 to 24 hours they've really taken heed of the fire advice that would be too dangerous to stay there by tomorrow when these heat wave temperatures and strong winds are expected to return as a result of that we've had a huge traffic jam going up from the south of the world toward sydney and across to canberra as well but the evacuation seems to have worked and people seem to have got enough fuel to or to get out of that area and breathe a bit of a sigh of relief but a lot of people are staying to it has to be said a lot of the locals the residents of decided to stay and try to protect their home which have a way they can you know with up with a hose pipe or whatever and they're just taking the risk it was more important to protect their home in the league at this stage ok the prime minister scott morrison is coming in for a lot of criticism of right now what kind of pressure is he under

a lot of pressure i mean you've probably seen the extraordinary footage of him being lambasted by locals in one of the villages which was badly hit in the fires a couple of days ago he was really abused by a by one or 2 people to such an extent that he made a hasty exit to his limousine and got out of the area pretty quickly i mean he's come under a lot of stick in for a lot of stick because of the perception that he's not taken climate change seriously and he has to take much more serious action than he has done so far then of course that was a question of him going away on a week's holiday you know why before christmas but you know a lot of pressure he's trying to stand his ground he's trying to tell people look i understand you know why you feel angry but let's just be patient and we'll get out of this crisis roger thanks so much for that from sydney this morning thank you. let's get your brief done now on some of the other stories making the news at this hour people in the indonesian capital jakarta started returning to their homes after severe flooding forced tens of thousands to evacuate at least 30 people are

known to have died others are still missing monsoon rains and rising rivers want thousands of homes and cut off electricity over a wide area. a key cattle and separatist already has agreed to help break the deadlock in spanish politics and abstain and a confidence vote in parliament next week that will allow prime minister pedro sanchez to win sanchez's socialist party reached a coalition deal last month after another left wing party bus the parliament still needs to confirm him as prime minister. police in paris have used tear gas to disperse protesters from a manual more crones party headquarters as the standoff over the president's planned pension reforms continues trade unions have called on the public to step up their protests national train services have been disrupted by strike action for 29

days now making this the country's longest strike since 1968. the conflict in the middle east may be dominating the headlines this morning but latin america is another potential flash point in the new year several states are beginning the year roiled by a certainty and growing demands for change. latin america could be facing another year of heavy unrest the upheaval in $21000.00 came fast spread quickly and unfolded in several places all at once. protests helped push bolivia's leftist president evo morales from power after nearly 14 years rumors of electoral fraud had sparked protests against the country's 1st indigenous president the turmoil led more brothers to flee from bolivia he's vowing his coalition will win back the presidency in fresh elections later this year. in she lay long considered one of

south america's most stable democracies deadly anti-government protests have raged since october plans to hike metro fares initially sparked the unrest but it has morphed into a broad political movement demonstrators want better governance and solutions to economic inequality and president sebastian pinera says chileans will vote on a new constitution in april in colombia tens of thousands have marched in some of the biggest protests in the nation's recent history they were triggered by rumored plans to raise pension ages and there were wages demonstrators also say the government is doing too little to address violence against social leaders and indigenous people. argentina finds itself in one of the world's worst economic messes inflation is at an annual 55 percent the economy is in deep recession poverty is up and the value of the peso has tumbled argentina can't pay its foreign

debt of over $100000000000.00 it's a familiar story for the country which has been repeatedly bailed out by the international community argentina's new center left government is vowing a raft of measures to battle the economic crisis. then there's venezuela whose political standoff seems without end last january won quite go as asserted his authority as head of the national assembly and claim to the presidency from nicolas maduro who is accused of election fraud and dictatorial rule not much has changed since despite massive anti-government protests oil sanctions and more than 50 countries including the us backing why don't as inflation approaches 200000 percent venezuelans have resorted to bartering for fuel and other necessities. so what does the new year hold for south america to talk about that i'm joined by ilene sofia hairs on research fellow at the german institute for global and area studies thanks

so much for coming in this morning. can you tell us are there similarities between the political and economic crises and protest movements we're seeing and just heard about in the south america. yeah i think there are indeed similarities in spite of the differences between the south american countries. i have often heard. journalists speak about inequalities and that in american countries that led to the protests but i think this is not. enough as an explanation for the protests. another important factor. the strive for a. democrat to say show off let an american country. and there's a place to i think all the countries that are involved at the moment and protests

and it involves also. yeah a struggle between the old and new elites. not not necessarily left and right which i categories that blaring a bit. but yeah it involves civil societies that are pushing for democratic change ok one place where this really happened is it is in chile and in chile a student groups of young people are often at the forefront of the of the protests there are they tapping into a broader dissatisfaction with with what you're saying are the new elites. yeah i think these students are they they have have not experienced. the dictatorship of peanuts a bit so they're free of certain for. is that their parents generation might have and they they also represent broader. parts of the it's

in the indian society is it also not this left right paradigm that we're used to is it's something else yeah i think it's an alliance of several social groups and you can. you could really tell if they were long to a certain politico. area of the society but i think it's a broad and i n's of groups ok let's go to chile now for a look at how students there are driving protest movements. it's another busy day for bill and lot on the. talks meetings roundtables coordinating mobilizations on the fly all before 3 pm that's when her campus is evacuated for security reasons every day the protests have turned life upside down but a lot on the doesn't mind for her the revolt was long overdue. or more took them more to call it i think their own home for

a long time people were afraid to protest because they couldn't see how badly they'd be repressed or what they could lose. but among my generation that fear is a lot smaller. with a century long tradition of spearheading social uprisings chile student associations are a force to be reckoned with experience has taught them that coordination is key the current demonstrations have become a melting pot for dozens of different causes so before bilin heads into a big meeting of social leaders she sits down with representatives from other universities to unify their message for you know i think the bad thing in a way is that we're already asking for many things. that's enough social momentum right now to deal a heavy blow to the system but we need to be coordinated. we need to push for a referendum the strikes and the munchies have become very repetitive every week we say let's try but the message needs to be clear today we're striking because we need a constitutional referendum. gathered with national union representatives bilin

exposes the students 3 fundamental demands a constitutional referendum a revitalization of the public education system and then immediate end to human rights violations at the hands of the country's riot police. law enforcement agents are being accused of excessive use of force rape torture and even manslaughter in the context of the protests. but the police surely have protocols but i believe they dehumanised the protesters to the point that they're just the subjects of looters that need to be executed. but bin them refuses to be intimidated she's determined to keep protesting. i did a great fool to be living this moment in history. but i'm also frightened saddened nostalgic thinking about the fact that people have died for this. what it does.

and all those finding alongside her know what they're asking for a lot but driven by a newfound sense of community and a desire to change the course of history they don't seem likely to settle for anything less. manzer or very hard what needs to be done to address what the protesters want to see happen in their countries a stark choice. so. 11 important point there are at the core of the process is the constitution still. it needs to be changed because it has been made to be rewritten by the legislatures that is that the demand yeah there is a strive for a constitutional change or reform or maybe a new constitution. and this applies also to other left in america and countries where. civil societies demand democratic change and the respect of

democratic rules what's not being respected in terms of democratic rules generally or in chile. well i think the state is not so used to being response of to public demands and as an american country is tends to respond with high degree of repression and violence and that doesn't i've contemporary anymore ok so what protesters want is a shift in how they're treated by their governments and police and security forces as well i would imagine yeah i think they're demanding for a more responsive state ok thanks very much alina sylvia here's one for the german institute for global in the area studies thanks for coming in thank you we're here in germany a woman and her 2 adult daughters have turned themselves into authorities following a fire that devastated the zoo killing dozens of animals some of them endangered

species police say the women admitted ordering paper sky lanterns on the internet apparently unaware that they are illegal in germany and saw flames from these airborne candles calls the blaze on the year's eve. flowers and candles at craye felt zoo more than 30 animals were killed here after a fire broke out at the 8 enclosure many have come to express their sympathy. you don't clippard students work and everyone who knows the zoo is sad even outside of germany as well so it's always bad when something so terrible happens and no matter where it happens didn't get interesting i was here almost all day yesterday because i couldn't bear the sadness alone. it helped to see so many mourners here and i cried i couldn't have stood it at home so. a total of 8 apes were killed including one called masa europe's oldest gorilla who was 48 years old the fire in the enclosure broke out shortly after midnight it was also home to

fruit bats and birds they were all killed in the blaze police believe the fire was caused by a sky lantern launched 4 new year a mother and her 2 daughters turned themselves into authorities soon after the fire reportedly unaware of the fact that sky lanterns are banned across germany. because. the people wanted to set off these lanterns with good wishes and of course they didn't think that could lead to what happened here. as long as it is i must say i think it's courageous of them to go to the police and say yes we're responsible i find it extremely decent and they have my respect man was picked the ape enclosure burned to the ground but 2 chimpanzees managed to escape the inferno but he brought him home to 4 of the 2 survived the fire with minor burns we don't know how that happened they were then sedated and moved to another enclosure and

moved before it while craze shelves the remains closed investigators are examining how the blaze spread so quickly. we have some football now and star striker zlatan ibraheem of it has arrived in italy ahead of his return to e.c. milan after 18 months playing in the united states for l.a. galaxy the 38 year old struck a deal with the italian side for use of player played for it from 2010 to 1212 and he remains a big fan favorite there. by those chanting supporters of the airport is expected to start training today with the club currently struggling and stuck in 11th place in the italian league. this is the news these are our top stories around is vowing revenge for a u.s. air strike at baghdad international airport that killed 7 people including the head of iran's elite quds force general because seems to the money the pentagon has

described the attack as a quote defensive action to protect us 1st in l. a broad. mass evacuations are underway in australia as emergency services battled the country's worst ever wildfires or desk as one high temperatures strong winds will return this weekend. turkey's parliament has agreed to send troops to support libya's un backed government turkish soldiers will head to tripoli to defend the city against forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar. but there are fears their presence could aggravate the conflict there. lebanon has received an international wanted notice from interpol for carlos go on requesting his arrest the former nissan bosket bell in japan this week and fled to lebanon while awaiting trial for financial misconduct japanese prosecutors raided his home in tokyo on thursday.

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