it's not the life for him or his wife british way of watchers call it a crisis for the house of windsor a symbolic abdication of the federal 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 and this is the day. it's extraordinary is the irony of making a took the step without consulting the queen and they've chosen to do the opposition 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 want to have a cooling media intrusion on the face on the big meaty quite aggressive and not leave easy think of the old saying that he wants to live in one country and call for the not that i don't quite see how that's going to work and that should matter who wants to be doing things. told suddenly become mr harry will be just doesn't

work like that he and his wife and his new child decide. to do this for them to take a step back and they should be in that state. also coming up tonight a consummate a blaze australia's bushfires in the millions billions of lives animal why now walk . you know what did they do you to deceive what we've done to them what did they do say they were here this is bad law and this is not l.a. and. and we have absolutely destroyed it and it is heartbreaking. but 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 the royal paycheck and the more the news reportedly took prince charles and even the queen by surprise harry of meghan's wedding back in 28 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 when they had 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 shell i think it's been growing for a while and is a shining and because that what's been spent on them with the role letting in windsor and the royal family. the heritage of us i think it is a shame. that they decided to do that sitting in the stand i think i understand the

kind of scrutiny and to the way that the media is portraying making up with it i can see why they would feel the need to step back i think is going to turn off people often in turn the law in the family. that seems to be unnecessary you know when for the sake of a week or 2 and 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 from this to that. they come how the cake and eat. it can have their cake and eat it too full 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 escaped media 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 lease provide all of tashan 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 being strained police force and out capital and he also seemed to expect continue to help out. more cottage which despite names of 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 entitled isn't a family heirloom it's an official. state. title if you like and it was given term on the understanding that you would do something with it in terms of forming world 2001 where that maybe mark and kerry want to commercialize it and turn into a brand which will make them 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 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 branding 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 now saying their titles and. as of today yes though no i'm going to take no more money that's what. lives is mr or mrs winds or mr or mrs wales or whatever they want comes out. i would be the 1st bill that's not what they do that is a huge mistake on their well they can't do that they can't they can't 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 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 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 and he will no use them 3 security on the tax you know the metropolitan police is there to provide policing for the whole of london and all sort of on a national police. services such as oil and attention 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 back was an order been hearing not. indefinitely and others were going to station. in order to facilitate their end and inmate. plans i look at what you have netflix for example everyone watches

the crown it seems 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 close the most name of the timing you know any major. change in history usually comes with some degree of surprised when he or she happens within 10 years of a steady progress towards that and result and the thing is that what years now and quite a lot of trouble but also means they now have a independent wing or bunch of the family pledging under their own rules in north america they have prince andrew who is continually facing baybay serious accusations in relation to the extreme case they have. queen louise getting old national turned 94 and can turn now says it is looming large on

the horizon and does not command the same respect and support between those that support the monarchy his country is high it is why shallow and we did opinion poll in my own times how these wedding should the boston join 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 really stop to challenge the institution to think about it and the source of storage put all the nuts and bolts up and. you know bit by lines and you can guess what was startling 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 or we can say tonight for one thing that this story certainly has distracted the country about to face breakfasted. with a word next you know. graeme smith with the anti-monarchists 3 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 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 as some people say was been 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 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 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 sings at the same time that he can't afford to be seen as weak and this is absolutely terror to the iranian leadership they want to avoid war despite the 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 u.s. 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 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 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. 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 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 the bundestag thank you very much. and my. everything. so you sort of crawl. the water off

by the hard process that's really there have always you can rebuild all resign care about all that all of that is just stuff. you know what did they do you to do what we've done to them what did they do they were here 1st this is their land this is not 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 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 facilities here in the studio with us

tonight 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 pace in one piece and you know when we share images like this we hope that we're helping to do the story justice in 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

now country could become uninhabitable in the next 20 years imagine that i mean i was thinking about retiring one day at a stretch 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 straight has always been a straight is always had to deal with fire as this is how the forest regenerates the problem is we've just had the hottest driest year on record there's no rain in sight and once these fires rip 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 sunbathers. historic bushfires in new south wales protecting businesses all over the state including on die 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. look at my window in a concert or water and that's very ironic i've been here for 47 eans further down

the beach it's a similar story that they souvenir shop takings a town a fish film of the eno would normally expect 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 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 astride your store a lot of replies to come and bring your family and enjoy your holidays back at bon di they'll be hoping that message gets through with the fire is certain to burn the 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 in the coverage of these fires. i mean it's made well use. it 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 owned by the moto media. and it continues to be a case that the middle media has a stranglehold on public opinion astray the many people in a strange 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 to a very good point climate change deniers they're 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 what's 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 with tchotchkes 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 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 were 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. 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 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 hard drives 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 you know your 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 it's a difficult situation it's a difficult one shoe approach in a country which is consensus based a media as well that's consensus driven. and a stranger is not leading the way a straight is going backwards at 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 glad to have you here safe and sound and thank you. well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online to find us on twitter either you w. news or you can follow me of brant 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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