discover the a. lead. subscribe to documentary on you tube. why subscribe to d w books your favorite writer seems like to see myself as the can't stand in the strange grown up world and still be on your to look up. prince harry says a public royal wife is not the wife for him or his wife british way of watchers call it a crisis for the house of windsor a symbolic abdication of the throne tonight the prince who will probably never wear the crown has found happiness as a private man not as a man of the monarchy i'm braganza berlin this is the day.

it's extraordinary is the area thank you took the step without consulting the queen and they've chosen to do the opposite goes well i think what they've done they've got everybody down to this young couple has been through some terrible times i think they have time of holding museum season on the face some of it really quite aggressive and not least easily forgivable saying that he once lived in one country call for the not that i don't quite see how that's going to work even that he wants to be doing things. told suddenly become mr how the way. he just doesn't work like that he and his wife child is like the best thing to do is for them to take a step back and they should be an obstacle to. also coming up tonight a continent a blaze australia's bushfires in the millions billions of lives animal lives now

walk. you know what did they do you to deceive what we've done to them what did they do they were here this is their land this is not l.a. and. and we have absolutely destroyed it and it is heartbreaking. well to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the story that has engulfed the u.k. that has nothing to do with brights it in fact it's being called next it prince harry and meghan markle have announced that they will step back from their royal duties and spend more time in north america in other words a royal couple are relocating outside the u.k. quitting their job which means no royal paycheck anymore the news reportedly took prince charles and even the queen by surprise harry of meghan's wedding back in 28 scene was seen as

a new start for the british royal family but the honeymoon between the u.k.'s tabloid press and the newlyweds did not last very long. and the decision by prince harry and the duchess of sussex one has certainly given people across the u.k. something to talk about here's a sample of commoners opinions about this very royal. it hasn't made a comedy show i think it's been brewing for a long while and is the shining and because the what's been spent on them with the role letting in windsor and the royal family as a heritage of us i think it is a shame. that they decided to do that and sit in the understand i think i understand that kind of scrutiny and to the way that the media is betraying me good luck with it i can see why they would feel the need to step back i think is going to turn all people off and in turn the law in the family. seems to go unnecessary

you know with for the sake of a week or 2 and a few conversations beforehand the paddock ground. a lot of this sort of noise might have been avoided if they want to leave the royal duty so to speak and from us to that. they come how their cake and eat. it can have their cake and eat it too it will candy we'll talk about that i'm joined tonight by graham smith in reading england he is with the british group republic which campaigns for the abolition of the british monarchy it's good to have you on the show graham so based on the news in the way the media in the u.k. are reporting it i have to ask you was prince harry is he a secret member of your organization. i wish there were but he is very clearly still a marxist ear so he wants to have escape needed as that last comment said i mean you know he's not going to be is still going to receive a very large amount of part not least during huge massive pressure on the

london police force and or police who provide all of traction because he has said on his website since the initial announcement expects that continue even though they're living on a different continent so i'm not quite sure how expects that work that's a huge burden. strained police force and out capital and he also seemed to expect to continue to help out. more cottage which despite names very large home in windsor near london. the taxpayer spent millions of pounds on doing up to the expectation that would be there. and he is still keeping the time and this is a problem because that title isn't in the family heirloom as an official public state. title if you like and it was given to him on the understanding that you would do something with it in terms of forming world duties and in. making markland

want to commercialize it and turn into a brand which will make their money is that what you think is going on here are they trying to basically get out of the duties that come along with having that title and use that title to turn their status as a couple that into a brand that they can cash in on in north america. well i mean i think it's fairly clear from what they've said and what if you look at the sussex dot com website you will see that nothing is only what they are. planning and that's not ok you know you can't say on the one hand we're going to step back from all this on the other hand again to set themselves up as this kind of. sussex rounding to sell themselves. independently of the british state i mean you know

that they either have to be private citizens or know how they announce their little house in their titles and now as of today you are yes though no i'm going to take no more money from the tax that won't eat lives mr or mrs wins or mr or mrs wales whatever they want comes out. i would be the 1st bill that's not with entitlement you that is a huge mistake on their well they can't do that though can they can they agree because if they were to if they were to become just like you and me to become just citizens of a country and without the security then they would be putting themselves in danger or i mean they have security for a reason right. lots of celebrities have security i mean anybody who. has a large fortune and is in. will pay for security and that is commonplace in the loss of 5 companies that were provided by the state does not owe them

a living and you will no use them 3 security on taxes you know the metropolitan police is there to. listen to the whole of london and all sort of on a national police. services such as oil and mighty protection and it is under huge financial strain and they have said that they are now going to move to canada and the british police officers were begun fact was involved in here and not. indefinitely and others were stationed. in order to facilitate their end an inmate. plans for the list what do you think at the end of the day what does this decision do to the future of the british monarchy i know you'd like to see it abolished but when i look at what you have netflix for example everyone watches the crown it seems the the queen or the royals seem to be rather rather popular i mean

it doesn't look like we're close to seeing them turn buckingham palace into a subsidiary of walt disney world. well i mean things always closer than they seem at the time i mean you know any major. change in history usually comes with some degree of surprised when he or she happens within 5 to 10 years of steady progress to wants that and result in the thing is that what years now and quite a lot of trouble but also sometimes they now have a independent wing or bunch of the family operating under their own laws in north america they have prince andrew who is continually facing baybay serious accusations of relation to the extreme case they have. queen who is getting pretty old national spats turned 94 and can turn now says is looming large on the horizon does not command the same respect and support between those

that support them or his country is high it is why shallow and we did opinion polling around the time of how these where the show did boston people were not interested in the wedding the vast majority of people were fairly indifferent about all of those but were at the moment happy to continue with the institution but there's all sorts of reasons for that and a lot of that is because people have stock to challenge the institution to think about it and the source of storage pool the nuts and bolts and. you know bit by lines and you can guess who will stop me is this really a sensible way to operate in the 21st century it's a valid question i mean it's hard to predict what's going to happen to the house of windsor but we can say tonight for one thing that this story certainly has distracted the country about the face breakfasted. with the word next you know graeme smith with theme anti-monarchist free republic joining us tonight from reading graham it was good talking with you thank you thank you.

well the united states and canada are tonight saying that they have intelligence that shows iran likely shot down the ukrainian international airlines plane which crashed on wednesday the airliner was on its way from the iranian capital tehran to the ukrainian capital kiev at the time the very same time that iran launched its air strikes on bases in neighboring iran a name that u.s. officials have told american media that iranian air defense systems may have accidentally shot down the plane which killed 176 passengers and crew earlier today u.s. president trump was asked about the connection between iran's missiles and the crash i have my suspicions it was very i don't want to say that because other people have those suspicions also. it's a tragic thing when i see that it's a tragic thing. but somebody could have made

a mistake on the other could've could've made a mistake it was flying it was it was flying in that our system has nothing to do with us and it was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood and somebody could have made a mistake some people say was bin cannick i personally don't think that's. even a question or earlier this week as the u.s. and iran appeared ready to go to war iran also announced that it will no longer abide by the iran nuclear deal b.w.c. political editor. asked the head of the german parliamentary foreign affairs committee norbert ripken should europe continue to stick to that deal. absolutely and as long as there is no better option to make sure that iran does not develop nuclear weapons i think we should stick to that of course we have to see and we have to face the fact that the u.s. has withdrawn from this treaty and by this economically has massively damaged the

effectivity of the agreement so we should stick to that perhaps we should embrace his proposal to broaden the negotiation and the relationship to iran not only to focus just on the nuclear aspect but to include for the regional aspects in order to create a broader arrangement for regional stability i think we should we should embrace and appreciate this approach and i think there the role for the europeans to make this possible is absolutely vital and crucial now europe keeps talking about broadening this iran nuclear deal trump wants a new deal which also has his name on the paper how do you read the accent of the u.s. president right now. i read his actions in the way that he is absolutely determined to avoid war. he thinks at the same time that he can't afford to be seen

as weak and this is absolutely terrible to the iranian leadership they want to avoid war despite their aggressions. but they can't think they can't afford to be seen as weak so i think there is a viable. approach by the yours president to substitute the j.c. a which he has lost all the time with a new diplomatic approach how far this can go we have to see but this at least is a new tune from washington that he is not only sticking to the policy of maximum pressure but that he has introduced the aspect of negotiation and diplomatic approaches what will happen to german engagement in iraq if the u.s. troops have to be. this is absolutely clear we want to stay because we see. objectives there as not yet accomplished to really

have the victory on make sure that isis is is. is defeated in iraq and to contribute to the stability and unity of the country. so we want to stay there but if the united states were forced by the iraqi government to leave the country because they are declared as not being welcome there then we would also have to leave because we are interdependent in our military presence there and we need to have the u.s. there as our allies and partners know about what can head of the foreign affairs committee of bonus talk thank you very much. here. everything is just so. sorry sir. but our off by the hot process that led to the head always you can rebuild all recycle all of

that it's just stuff. you know what did they do you to deceive what we've done to them what did they do they were here 1st this is their land this is not l.a. and. and we have absolutely destroyed it and it is heartbreaking. australia is burning that is a statement about one of the country's worst fire seasons on record but it utterly fails to convey the unprecedented dimensions of death and destruction i want to show you an image from nasa which will give you maybe an idea of just how massive the wildfire disaster has become this is the red dots show fires today if we were to go back 7 days ago there would be even more 15000000 acres of australia have burned in for our u.s. viewers that's roughly the size of west virginia it's 8 times larger than the worst ever wildfires in california which happened just 2 years ago and on new year's day

australia's capital campbell recorded the most polluted air on the planet thanks to endless plumes of smoke that have turned skies blood red we know that at least 25 people have been killed by these fires more than 2000 homes destroyed but the human tragedy it is still very small compared to the catastrophic loss of wildlife it's estimated that more than one that there were yet i'm saying this right now 1000000000 animals have died so many scientists are predicting long term damage to many of australia's delicate eco system so will the images and the numbers are powerful but personal accounts well they help to tell the story even better and to do that i want to pull in my colleague ben physical he's here in the studio with us tonight and if you don't know ben is from australia he just returned from there this morning it's good to have you back here in berlin which is not on fire one

faith in one piece and you know when we share images like this we hope that we're helping to do the story justice and tell the story. but tell us what kind of country did you just leave behind. it's. a smoldering pile of ashes basically red glowing skies a moonscape some people have described it to me i mean i was flying over my country and could see just out of the window one point in time 3 full fire as huge pillars of smoke going up into the sky i mean basically a straight a's going up in it's a really really sad situation and we're talking about it here but can we say tonight that everyone in australia that you meet is directly affected or knows someone definitely who's directly affected and the scary thing is people are saying al country could become uninhabitable in the next 20 years imagine that i mean i was thinking about retiring one day history i think it will change those plants or

people is there is there a sense of panic there is there a sense that this is a tragedy this is a disaster that we can get through and recover from this is the interesting part the government keeps saying this is normal this is how strained has always been a straight is always had to deal with fire as this is how the forest regenerates the problem is we just had the hottest driest year on record there's no rain in sight and once these fires ripped through these regions without rain there's not going to be any sort of vegetation growing back you've got so much carbon dioxide going up into the atmosphere it's becoming a catastrophe not just for australia but for the whole world i want to talk with you just a moment about the government's reaction to what's going on reverse we want to talk about what's coming up this week another heat wave is expected in the next few days in australia is expected to flame australia's fires further we have this report

beginning in sydney. sydney's bond dight beach normally a place of sun sea and sand recently it's smoke that's dominating the world famous attraction casting a haze over the swimmers and sunbathe has. historic bushfires in new south wales protecting businesses all over the state including a bond i supply chains are being disrupted and customers to keeping away. from a serious point of view it's being probably the worst we've seen because of the foists so we're going. to reduce numbers it's the 1st time i've ever seen that like this. look at my window and i fancy the water and that's very ironic for 47 years further down the beach it's a similar story that they see the nearest shop taking it down a 5th film or theatre no would normally expect from this time if you had someone say australia on fire obviously we have experienced more fire than any other year

since i've been here. but the problem is with tourist here that you don't want to come australian prime minister scott morrison is well aware of the problem during a visit to another tourist favorite kangaroo island this week he is told they make is not to be put off by the finest destroyers i've been destroyed your store a lot of applies to come and bring your family and enjoy your holidays back upon die they'll be hoping that message gets through with a fire is certain to burn for months to come. here for months to come this is a huge story in australia been let me ask you how would you describe the reporting and the coverage of these fires i mean it's made news. if it was on t.v. constantly in australia with one community being evacuated after the next. in the

newspapers it would be on the front cover sometimes a lot of the moto papers would put it on page 3 or 4 occasionally like some of the international papers as well some of those that are also heard by the moto media. and it continues to be a case that the most media has a stranglehold on public opinion astray the many people in a straight is still do not believe in climate change it's not just a prime minister. well the deputy prime minister. it's a lot of people and a coal industry that wants to keep on churning and keep on digging up a straight to keep on adding to carbon dioxide and making a lot of money yeah the very good point climate change deniers are accused of trying to use claims of arson that arsonists have calls these fires to maybe snuff out the connection between these fires in climate change and that includes even the son of the u.s. president to show you what donald trump jr tweeted just 2 days ago. truly

disgusting that people would do this god bless all stroy more than 180 alleged arsonists have been arrested since the start of the bushfire season with 29 blazes deliberately lit in the crypt my for nancy she here that is that also haven region of south east new south wales in just 3 months ok what we have to correct yeah is the fact that just 24 people were touched right that number is not correct at all so the dangerous thing is when when you like something when you tweet something and you know this you have to really check what you're tweeting what you're putting out there the other thing is there are people who are putting out that information on purpose to try to confuse people to confuse the situation and to fit in with their extreme ideas or their arguments and that's a really sad situation because short any sort of tragedy there are often people who have who are lighting them on purpose to get attention because they see

it all. because they want to be heroes and try to save people from those fires and they get out of control but in this case it's a really small handful some of these people were also volunteer firefighters but the volunteer firefighters the thousands who've done such a fantastic job did not deserve this sort of coverage and the coverage is the coverage of bell. an acute disaster and we know that reporters are telling people about what's happening right now or is it put within the context of climate change you know this is something that has come to stay that that. gets left out and it's the tragedy of the personal tragedy the losses sure and it's a tragic situation but you have to go a step further and look at the warnings that the australian government had been given over a decade ago that this could happen the warnings from climate scientists that we're

going to have hot to dry seasons and that will lead to more severe fire situations and and that's being left out of the narrative which which is really dangerous dangerous for people who died in this and all of those animals you mention the figure a 1000000000 and i know a 1000000000 animals and then we had to be difficult to leave in the modern day behind the back i mean what did you tell your family when when you left them. that's a hard one as well i mean there are people within my own family who don't believe that this is climate change driven and it's a difficult situation it's a difficult one sure to approach in a country which is consensus based yeah a media as well that's consensus driven. and a stranger is not leading the way a straight is going backwards at courting to experts well we certainly hope that things will change that things will get better for australia you know for your family as well we're glad to have you here safe and sound ben thank you. well the

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the plane killing all 176 people on board.