it's not the wife or him or his wife british royal watchers call it a crisis for the house of windsor a symbolic abdication of the thrall 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 broke off in berlin this is the day. it's an. area of make it took those steps without consulting the queen and they've chosen to build the opposition goes well i think what we've done we've got everybody down this young couple has been through some terrible times i think they have target a cooling media intrusion on the trade some of it will be quite aggressive and not lead easily forgivable saying that he once lived in one country call for the not i don't quite see how that's going to work he's in that format he wants to me during

thinks. told suddenly become mr how he will be just doesn't work like that he and his wife and his new child this night. is for them to take a step back and they should be allowed to. also coming up tonight a consummate 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 say they we here this is bad law and this is not l.a. and. and we have absolutely destroyed it and it is heartbreaking. 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 but here he is meghan's wedding back in 20 team 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 comment to show i think it's been growing for a long while and this is shine and because that what's been spent on them with the role letting in windsor and the royal family. the heritage of i think it is a shame. that they decided to do that i didn't understand i think i understand the

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 a lot of people off and in turn the law in the family. seemed to be unnecessary you know with for the sake of a week or 2 in a few conversations beforehand prepare the ground. a lot of this sort of noise my i've been avoided if they want to leave the royal duty so to speak and finest to that. but they come how the cake and eat. they can have their cake and eat it too 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. well i wish there were but

he is very clearly still a marxist here so he wants to have his cake neat as that last comment said i mean you know he's not. he is still going to receive a very large amount of part not least during huge massive pressure on the london police force or police who provide all 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 not being strained police force and out capital and he also seem to expect to continue to help out. more cottage which despite names by a large home in windsor near london which the taxpayer spent millions of pounds on

doing up to the expectation that will be there. and he is still keeping the time and this is a problem because our partners and the family heirloom is an official. 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 that making markland arity 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 they're going 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 now have their mouths lancing their titles and. as of today you are yes though never going to take no more money want. lives as mr or mrs winds or mr or mrs wales were 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 they can't they can't be 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 didn't they would be putting themselves in danger i mean that they have security for

a reason right. lots of celebrities have security i mean anybody who. has a large fortune and is in the public eye will pay for security and that is commonplace and there are lots of private companies that were provided by the state does not owe them a living anymore knows them through the security on taxes you know the metropolitan police is there to provide policing for the whole of london and also it provides national police. services such as oil and mighty protection and it is under huge financial strain and later said that they are now going to move to canada and the british police officers were going backwards and forwards between here and north america. indefinitely and others were stationed. in order to facilitate their end and 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 what 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 are always close and they seem at this time i mean you know any major. change in history usually comes with some degree of surprise for what he she happens within 5 to 10 years of steady progress who wants that and result and the thing is they want years now and quite a lot of trouble for autism and. they now have a independent wing or bunch of the family operating under their own rules in north america they have prince andrew who's continually facing baybay serious accusations in relation to the extreme case they have. queen who is getting.

old now she's back to turn 94 and control now says it is looming large on the horizon and he does not command the same respect and support between those that support them or his country is high it is why shall and we did all in my own times how these where the show did not pass and on people who were not interested in the wedding the vast majority 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 don't really stop to challenge the institution think about it and the source of storage put all the nuts and bolts out and. you know bit by lines in guess who will start making 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. graeme smith

with theme anti-monarchist free republic joining us tonight from reading 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 unnamed 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 not our system it 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 mechanical 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 would else and 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 facts 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 the 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 action 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 kyra 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 president to substitute the 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's 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 leave. this is absolutely clear we want to

stay because we see our objectives there is 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 the declared us and as not being welcomed 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 final fast committee of bonus tax thank you very much. here for. everything. so he sort of. was off

by the hard process that saluted i have always you can rebuild all beside and care about all that all of it is 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 now on new year's day australia's capital camber 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 there we get 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 swell 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 facilities here in the studio with us tonight if

you don't know ben is from australia and 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 you know when we share images like this we hope that we're helping to do the story justice until 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 now country could become uninhabitable in the next 20 years imagine that i mean i

was thinking about retiring one day history and i think it will change those plants and 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 a stray 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 whoa 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 beach normally a place of sun sea and sand recently it smokes that starman ating the world famous attraction casting a haze over the swimmers and sunbathe this. historic bushfires in new south wales protecting businesses all over the state including a pond i supply chains are being disrupted and customers a keeping away. from a tourist point of view it's being probably the worst we've seen because of the foists so we're good. you know reduced numbers so it's the 1st time i've ever seen the like this system of city where i look at my window in a fancy the water and that's very ironic i believe a 47 eans further down the beach it's a similar story that they see vinnie

a shop takings a town a fish film of the eno would normally expects from this time the few i heard someone say australia are 5 obviously we have experienced more fire than any other year since i've been here. but the problem is when tourists hear 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 replies 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 ben let me ask you how would you describe the reporting and the coverage of these fires i mean it's made world 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 many people in a straight is still do not believe in climate change it's not just a prime minister or the deputy prime minister. it's a lot of people and a coal industry that once they 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 called these fires to maybe snuff out the connection between these fires in climate change and that includes even the

son of the us 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 our citizens have been arrested since the start of the bushfire season with 29 blazes deliberately lit in the crypt my for not season here that is that also haven and region of southeast new south wales in just 3 months ok what we have to correct yeah is the fact that just 24 people would write 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 have 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 pup. as to get attention because they're sick or. 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 belt acute disaster and we know that reporters 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 often gets left out 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 in the disk would happen the warnings from climate scientists that we're going to have hot a 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 to address dangerous for people who died in this and all of those animals you mention the figure a 1000000000 and i know bill you know i know it had to be difficult to leave the modern day behind your 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 to approach in a country which is consensus based a media as well that is consensus driven. and a stranger is not leading the way a straight is going backwards according 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 good to have you here so you've. been thank you. well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online to find us on twitter either d w news or you can follow me a print off t.v. don't forget to use the hash tag the day i remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that.

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