story. corps in board must. start to january 27th on d w my. i am. this is the w. news live from but a president warns that america will hit back hard and fall stiff textron retaliate for the assassination of a top military leader iran is holding a series of funeral processions for general kasim selim money today sanjay us as strike killed him in baghdad want to wrong known as the rest of the world waits to

see how the islamic republic might seek revenge. and the toll from australia's bushfires keeps on rising as does criticism of the government's handling of the crisis at least 24 people have died in the fires and there's no way inside. the at. 500 humphrey welcome to the program u.s. presidents donald trump has won the his country is targeting a 52 radians sites and will strike very hard on a false if it is attacked now iran has vowed revenge for a u.s. drone strike that killed its top military commander on friday mourners have filled the streets of the southwestern arabian city of avast where the remains of come on the qassam so the body has been returned from iraq meanwhile more u.s. troops are. added to the region soldiers and equipment left north carolina

a key weight adding to the hundreds who left earlier this week and in iraq shiite muslims have marched in funeral for sessions to show their grief the prime minister has declared 3 days of national mourning. was mourning and anger on the air as the funeral procession for iran's top general cassim celeb money and iraqi commander. arrives at the holy shrine and not just thousands have come to pay their respects here in iraq but on the streets of tehran to hear iranians demanded vengeance after a u.s. strike in baghdad on friday killed soleimani. we will avenge your general's death he was not just an individual get a whole country they did not just kill one person they killed the country. and that i will call it ring his love to him he was the general of our hearts and i haven't been feeling well says yesterday it's like if lost my own father the pain i

feel will be gone and so we take revenge in turkoman a very soleimani was the mastermind behind iran's military engagement in the middle east for the last 2 decades and a close ally of iran's supreme leader. and the revenge for his death seems already to have started on saturday a rocket fell inside baghdad's heavily fortified green zone near the u.s. embassy another on an air base housing u.s. troops. it comes after iranian president hassan rouhani vowed during a meeting with so many still to that his country will retaliate. mr rouhani when the blood of my father's friends were shed he would take revenge for them now who is going to take revenge for my father's blood. they will everyone will get revenge for the martyrs blood don't you worry about that meanwhile u.s.

president trump warned that the u.s. is ready to respond should iran strike any americans are american assets trump has repeatedly claimed that solomon is killing was necessary to protect american lives . to iran has appointed general esmail ghani to replace alemany kill now be responsible for iran's foreign military operations the. art let's talk to did earlier 4 to chase winter now who covers the middle east a chase within seeing some huge crowds turn out for the funeral procession in iran how unified is the country behind the regime right now and do they want to see retaliation. i mean according to polls universal marilynn poll for example is the most popular figure in public figure in iran so i mean it's his sort of martyrdom in their words right has basically created the story of her martyr. and they rally around the flag effect and so. if anything

this is some ways hope that the regime in iran as far as retaliation i mean a retaliation is going to come at a time and place of iran's choosing him in my not my sort of be immediate they're going to play their card try to play their cards well diplomatically politically before i think that they take any major drastic for television and as you mention of course they are in that period of mourning right now we've been taking a look at live pictures of mashad in the east of the country as they await that funeral procession that meanwhile the u.s. president trump has been warning that america could hit 52 in iran how seriously do you think those threats are being taken. i think our steps are being taken seriously i mean the iranian regime is worries about you know regime survival in the end and so you know they don't want you know a whole bunch of. airstrikes on 52 targets in their country on the other hand i

mean they're going to like i said before i mean i think we're going to play their cards a little. they're going to escalate and they're going to copulate at manor 1st are going to see it probably in iraq politically. by boosting getting their kicking the u.s. troops out of the country through the iraqi parliament with their. allies. so i mean that they're taking it seriously but i do want to point out i mean this is the danger here is an escalation spiral right because. iran's going to retaliate now trumpets put himself in a position publicly that he's going to respond in a harsh manner again so this could provoke. you know a major war because iran would respond to strikes on the homeland in a very very harsh manner across the entire region absolutely and as you mentioned i mean there are so many moving parts in this proxies for example and all not point i mean what do you think all the countries in the region off thinking about the spike

in tension between the u.s. and iran because i mean ultimately it could affect them right. i mean no country in the region. was informed about this beforehand so i think they're a little shock israel was informed beforehand. you know you see the saudis who are obviously worried about being drawn into this. issue in response you know responses try to deescalate. turkey as well another regional player you know the u.a.e. as well which would be on you know on the front lines also worried so they all want to try to deescalate the situation and i just think that shows a little bit how the united states is doing in this pretty much alone right and that's a that's dangerous right chase when teddy w. reporting kind of the middle east thanks a lot thank you. well now to some of the other stories making news around the world

thousands of people have marched in hong kong a border to protest against traders from mainland china the trade is by duty free products in hong kong and resell them in china locals say it pushes up prices hong kong has seen more than 6 months of anti-government protests. the death toll has risen sharply in the collapse of a hotel under construction in southern count or thirty's in the city of cat food another dozen bodies from the rubble bringing the total to at least $36.00 now they did manage to rescue a puppy raising hopes of finding survive this. encourage voters are going to the polls in the 2nd round all the presidential election now the vote is a runoff between the former prime minister is that a minute of it he is a social democrat and the conservative incumbent kalinda good advocate overage. australia's bushfires are being described as a national catastrophe and just take

a look at these orange skies now they've turned our in from all of that smoke and think about this they're not in australia as whole they're over all cleaned in new zealand now that is over some 2000 kilometers away at least 24 people have now died in the blazes thousands of lost their homes and experts calculate that more than half a 1000000000 animals have been killed or prime minister scott morrison he's facing strong criticism for his handling of the crisis emergency services are hoping that cooler temperatures will bring some rest fight on sunday but it's not expected to last. another costly and deadly day in this month's one catastrophe on. saturday soaring temperatures and strong winds fans hundreds of blazes across 3 states. the source of fire fight is powerless to halt the destruction. the flames consumed hundreds of properties leaving local communities shocked they told us

they have to. fight with the court much their heads in the court of what. will they say as i see it on. the steps. battling the worst bushfires in living memory strain leaders admit they're in uncharted territory we can't pretend that this is something we've experienced before it's not because the weather activity we're saying big stand and spread of the far as the speed at which they're going the way in which they're attacking communities who've never seen fabi full is unprecedented in. satellite images showed the scale of the far as long as straightly south east coast the severity of the crisis has prompted prime minister scott morrison to mobilize up to 3000 military reservists to assist exhausted volunteer firefighters marson has faced intense criticism for his response to the disaster. with real or disagree that tell much we enjoy it much you know

a lot at risk by doing a lot of unity or do you know again and the people of the straw yeah that's what i do but until you stop in order to fix a government meeting. cooler conditions are expected to give some relief to fire fighting efforts but officials warn the reprieve won't be enough to get farzana control little lauren put them out of long this we're joined by james morris he is a spokesman for the new south wales rural fire service thank you so much for being with us james taking some time to talk to us at this stressful time we've seen already thousands of people evacuated what is the latest where you are where are you and your operations. yeah good afternoon to you look still a lot of people affected right across new south wales particularly in the south eastern quadrant of the state unfortunately we've saying are

a number of times last week significant losses in the past 24 hours a number of times especially on the southeast coast certainly from nowra down old white to the victorian border i have to the impact assessment crews are still learning the very early stages of starting to identify properties in the locks of the stage we've got 60 homes we believe that have been lost but we know that's well and truly going to be into the hundreds just due to access issues of the moment so we'll continue to work overtime and dies once we get access and to identify those on the properties old structures that have been damaged but the the next biggest thing is obviously a recovery phase and trying to get people back into their hinds that they're still standing might those areas sayf stronger still what normality we can into these very much on president to situations that we've got going on he james what's the big picture for cost here i mean i know it's a tough question right now but any idea when these wildfires might be under some

kind of control. the only thing and i know we said it in a number of interviews that we've done now but until we get significant ryan here in new south wales we will not see in time and they lodge fawaz in the last 24 hours they straw's a very much spread into a very rural rugged a remark trying similar to what we've seen one of the last 3 to 3 months which means that we now need and you can time and months identified we have a lot of work that's going to need to be done to contain these flaws in the army why we will be i can time it on the whole they saw as he's been way say a number of days if not weeks of constant and consistent trying to they are down i doubt they say why all right thanks for your time and all the best to you and your attains out there thanks very much for your. now how much would you pay for a nice fresh piece of china on a chopper the sushi tycoon is just handed over the equivalent of $1600000.00 euros

that's for a complete cina fish that was at the traditional media at tokyo's fish market it's the 2nd highest price a china has ever fetched and this is the fish in question a $276.00 a can a ground blue fit in the waters off northern japan a successful betta was the owner of a renowned sushi restaurant chain here also for the fish that set a record a year ago. and just a reminder now the top story we're following for you here on d.w.a. the remains of the radian in general cast some sort of money to return to iran 2 days after he was killed by an american it drone strike in baghdad thousands are attending a funeral procession in the city of top as u.s. president donald trump is going to run not to threaten america. you're watching

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