how can life go on after all the terror? everyone can endure the fear we felt every day. when russia started august 25th on dw, the this is to the news of life from berlin. at least 55 people dead in wild fires in hawaii. tardies there expect the death toll to rise, and the governor says it's the worst natural disaster to hit the state in its history. also coming up, the former south african president, jacob zoom is home following a brief spent in prison, it was released under

a new program aimed at reducing overcrowding in jail. the island good craft, welcome to the program. at least 55 people have died and wildfires on 2 hawaiian islands. many more still missing. the governor says the blazes are the worst natural disaster in the history of that us state. residents are shocked by the speed with which the fire spread and many report harrowing escapes. the tropical island now we is unrecognizable. the search is ongoing for hundreds missing. after flames, fanned by dustin hurricane traveled along the coast with alarming speed, wiping out an entire town in their pass. the son survived by jumping into the

pacific ocean. now to get out we left our vehicle and my my phone live and our 5 kids we are down. the ocean ocean inside the start together held. the fire has decimated entire communities. turning more than a 1000 homes into piles of ash and debris, leaving thousands of locals homeless vacuum who left days ago are starting to return, basically shooting our burning house right through the camera lens, right, there are what's left and this is our 1st time coming back and like actually knowing that our house for now we haven't really known anything for the last couple of days. the disaster is one of the deadliest in the us states. history is a heart breaking day. without a doubt,

what we've seen today has been catastrophic. but we tell you there is going to be a team effort to bring our state back. experts say climate change is increasing the frequencies and severity of extreme weather events. bathrooms, which is a meteorologist based on washington dc, following these fires and joins me now. matthew, tell me a little bit about these fires. how are they different from the ones hawaii is used to see as well traditionally alive. apparently the very small fires that break out in kind of a field or something like that. in this case, this was a big, residential fire there really got the entire town. it reflects a 2 different things. one very bad and unfortunately series of weather as a weather conditions are overlapping. when number 2 changes in the land use, for starters, we have a truck besides the big hurricane passing about 80900 kilometers to the selves of hawaii. hurricane durham wasn't a big deal for the island where begin pulling winds out of the nor that slight

normally flow eventually went down the mountains, doing something called alan sloping. still pockets of air which seat up in dry out as it went down, the mountains exhilarating downwards. the cause of the faster winds, no lowlands, that helps to stand the plains. in other words, not the power line or something like that spark. the fire fire was able to very quickly grow and take advantage of it is feed into dry conditions. thanks an ongoing drop there. so again, that's cost fire grow very quickly. however, 506070 years ago. a fire like this likely wouldn't give spread as quickly, but nowadays, because of land use because we're sort of heating over field, putting more neighborhoods and structures in the fire cannot from one structure to the next and get out of control very quickly. so natural factors combined with human decisions or policy making, would you call this then a freak event, or is it something that officials there could have foreseen and tried to prevent? i think the overlapping series of different factors a play likely did make this

a freak event. however, i do think we need to be better with urban planning. in other words, if we have to have an evacuation via for a fire truck site loan, anything, can we get everybody from one point to another quickly enough? if there's a fire and somebody trapped at the beach, do we have the logistics to get them out of there quickly? are there a sideways back wage and browsers are only one road in and out of town? i don't know necessarily the circumstances that we're at play, and i don't think any of us do with this particular incident, but these are the questions that should be in the back of our minds, especially as we recover as we rebuild communities. are we building things that are more vulnerable? are we building communities that have a better re course in the future if an event like this begins to unfold again? and this is just one fire and yet another summer of what seems to be tied as traffic wildfires all around the world. can we draw any, any broad links between these various you know, seemingly natural disasters? a just a really good question. i'm glad you asked, you know,

hawaii instead of unusual in that because it's a tropical island, it's such sort of a small eco system with changes so quickly over very short distances that it's tough to try to tie this. take you into the climate change that said over much of north america europe, asia, we can make a very strong link between increasing area bern, bigger fires, bigger wildfire seasons, wider windows for fires and more stream fire behaviors and the effects of human influence. consider the western parts of north america, for example, it's hotter, it's dryer there, thanks to stagen high pressure, largely catalyzed by communities. climate change has been heat. jones that investigates, dries out the landscape, which in turn cost the temperature to more than even more get the self reinforcing cycle that makes the ground just right to burn at the same time. because the he told me is here because we have to keep those are getting stronger the atmosphere, the lower levels expand the little bit thanks to the heats, which means the ceiling. the triple part of the lower atmosphere is a little taller, which means that the smoke plumes can grow taller. almost like thunder clouds. begin to deal with changing winds with highly amas. beer. sometimes rotate

sometimes just below. oh, even more and you get more of a spring fire behaviors. so there are a lot of factors that play, i don't think was why it's easy to tie, that climate change has more land use but holistically across much of the world. we are seeing very strongly between the buyers and human influence and the answer. a fast management. scary list of factors there, that magic of which is broken down for us. thanks so much. thank you. are now turning to some other stories making headlines right now. fragments on a russian missile let falling into the grounds of a children's hospital and keith. it was shut down by ukrainian air defenses. they are fatality place ghost as no one was hurt. explosions were also heard as sirens warranty people to take shelter authorities in moscow court in off a park where they say they successfully intercepted are you creamy drone? the defense ministry says the aircraft crash, but it was electronic and jammed. that would make it the latest apparent ukrainian drone attack on russia this week. germany's spiegel magazine says,

the german government is open to sending german made tarus cruise missiles to ukraine. keith has been asking for these missiles for months, but chance to allow shouts has so far opposed sending longer range weapons to ukraine. if they do get delivered, the missiles would probably be modified to limit their range of the tal risk. who is messiah capable of hitting targets up to 500 kilometers away? the long range capability of these messiahs is the main advantage. and the reason why germany just has attempted to transfer them to ukraine. critics argue with this quote in a bit key to a tech russian territory. canada is the 12 gotten a couple of the major countries of agreed that the alliance should not be drawn into this confliction in washington. and berlin attach great importance to this is therefore, the key point here is the range of the whether or not we supply money with which one can attack targets. not directly related to military operations in ukraine. in

the cutting it was, i'm german use outage, ego reports german defense minister bowers pissed char. we s, as in talks with the manufacturer of the marseilles, the objective we pro, getting their target system to limit its range and prevent ukraine in a text on russian territory. this quick, last weeks too long for critics and the main opposition party. ukrainian aircraft are in a very small number in a bad condition. and there was no answer priority in the occupied areas for ukraine . and therefore, it would help to send these massage from several 100 kilometers a broad german trans to the old off shore. it's is known for his course and when it comes to delivering heavy arms to ukraine and taking his time about making decisions for being hoffman is a doctoral research fellow at the university of oslo and a defense expert. i asked him earlier whether these missiles are what ukraine needs most right now. yeah, absolutely. so it's,

it's another type of long range stripe weapons that do great and has received a bunch of over the last couple of months 1st from the united kingdom, which sent the storm shadow, christmas. all and then from frost with the same resolve but which is known in paris under the name of the golf ici. and the thing is, these miss all systems, they are very effective in targeting russian positions, logistical halls, house transportation notes of food are behind the front line, which is important for another type of long range strike weapon that can effectively try it. the russian troops behind the front line former south african president, jacob zoom is back home. after a brief stint in prison sumo was set to restart a sentence he began 2 years ago for refusing to answer questions over. corruption

allegations is arrest sparked large riots. i left hundreds of people dead. the one year old former president only served 2 of his 15 month sentence in 2021. before being set free on medical parole release that was later found to be unlawful and zoom was ordered back to jail. and then he was there for less than one hour under a new program to avoid prison overcrowding that released that without giving you a correspond to diane hawker is in south africa and told me more about the program that allowed zoom to walk free. a little surprisingly the department of correctional services this morning and now that they would be not only releasing former prisoner jacob, but what they called a 9500 people who were going to benefit from a sentence. remission program is essentially means that these prisoners would non violent offenders would be either serving at least a portion of the sentence. oh,

depending on how much time is lived actually be allowed to go free. and this is obviously something that would benefit. the former president, he had about 13 months left of that sentence and as the content of both of quote offender, it would be considered a non violent crime. i say so everyone from the president on down to anyone else who might be in prison. a critics might be saying that he's receiving preferential treatment given his high profile status. are there any signs of any truth of this as well? i think the timing of the announcement definitely does raise some concerns of the department of correctional services. said that they began to process as early as april this year, but then on need may be announcement this week. in fact the morning. that's what was expected to return to prison. so there's definitely

a lot of questions about the timing of deputies. however, they have been some other extenuating circumstance circumstances. there was a major fire and riot at one of the prisons in south africa, which has list of the overcrowding in the worst states. the department said that be, were about $3000.00 prisoners, didn't have a bids to sleep in. and they say that this also led to this decision taking place at this time. but of course, opposition party lead is all very unhappy with the decision saying that it's preferential treatment and the amc or making decisions the benefit of the amc members. so maybe out of jail, but is he out of the woods? what other legal headaches is he facing? certainly not out of the woods williams, because he's actually due to reappear for his criminal case in court next week. that's a criminal case that's been dragging for some time. he's been appearing on an old,

but the actual proceedings have not begun. it's because of various objections. that sumac himself has been raising due to the processing that the prosecution has treated you unfairly. and as a result, we haven't actually seen the single witness on the stand at the 8. and there's also the violence to keep in mind related to zoom is arrest, are people worried there that there could be further violence depending what happens to him next? or i would imagine that this decision williams would actually stay of any such violence. and perhaps that is why it came about in this manner. they have been previous threats, but if a zoom of what to return to prison, that those of the people who support him would return to the streets. and many south africans have been very concerned about that taking place. this decisions now leaves the hands of gaining the quotes to conclude his criminal case. and we'll have to see what will happen in that instance. right. do you have your course mind

time? how could there with the latest in south africa? thanks very much. rushing to the news. let's get you a reminder of the top story. at least 55 people have been killed and wildfires in the us state of hawaii. officials. i expect that number 2 rods, thousands of residents have been evacuated. that's all from me for now. do you have any news agent with them so soon as of next month, we'll cross that mark you soon. thanks. the people in trucks insured when trying to free the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. the beast chris.