confront to the life of the shutter by trauma, ice as life starts january 24th oh, d w w . news line from berlin. donald trump, the steps of his threats, if they control agreement and the panama canal, the president elect refuses to laws using the attorney for us to get his weight. seeing us security is at stake, also coming up around $30000.00 residents are told to flee a rapidly growing wildfire in los angeles authorities. one conditions are extremely dangerous. a strong winds fanned the flames and social networking joined that it is indeed it's fact checking program on things back in facebook and instagram instead of plans to rely on the users to monterey this content

the i'm aaron tilton in berlin. thank you for joining us. us president elect donald trump has refused to release the military force to gain control of both the panama canal in greenland. since winning the election, trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to take over the strategically important water. wayne island during his 1st term and office trump expressed an interest in buying greenland, which is in autonomy his territory of denmark, a long time us ally and nato member of the governments of greenland and denmark have repeatedly rebuffed his offers from pest. once again set his eyes on greenland posting on his side truth social on monday. he said, a greenland is an incredible place and the people will benefit you tremendously if and when it becomes part of our nation. we will protect it and cherish it from

a very vicious outside world. make green and great again, your position. and on tuesday, the future presidents doubled down on his claims or even refusing to roll out military most military while we were waiting for national security purposes. i've been told that for a long time, long before i even ran, i mean people have been talking about it for a long time. you have approximately 45000 people there. people really don't even know if denmark has any legal rights to it. but if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security. that's for the free world. i'm talking about protecting the very well from may beach we maxwell. his son donna junior was on a brief visit to greenland officially as a tourist and not holding talks with officials. and the officials in denmark has made it very clear several times. the greenland is not for sale. confederate,

it has in fact chosen a new danesh coat of arms, was a prominent pulled up at depicting greenland. many see it as a statement of solidarity greenland as a self governing territory, but belongs to the kingdom of denmark. and or use them, some is definitely a correlation between the new coat of arms and the politics in denmark, about stronger recognition of greenland and the federal islands and can indicate it's credible the royals do admin. the king frederick has a close connections agreement, not that much love for internet. i'm store, store cabinets here from pedo, already expressed his desires to own reading, and during his 1st presidency, the island nation has a strategic location in the arctic for trade and defense. and the bounty of natural resources i asked, are washington correspondent, you know, new milan if we should take from interest in greenland seriously, as well as the repeated mentions over the years are an indication of seriousness.

then i guess it is fair to say that he might be pretty serious at this time as well . now you mentioned in the report that i, he already tried to by greenland in his 1st term. in fact, he had to postpone a state visit in 2019 to denmark after the danish prime minister said that greenland wasn't for sale. and that was an absurd idea. this is something that she has had to say again this time around and so has off the prime minister of greenland itself. and, you know, we have to say that, so his refusal to rule out the economic and military co, ers, and those in themselves are quite serious pronouncements. now this is trump, we don't know how much action will follow on from speech, but of course he is hard to ignore. last month, the danish government actually said that it was boosting defense spending for greenland after remarks made by trump again about how he was interested in buying

greenland. danish officials have said that that was purely coincidental and not at all connected to trump's remarks, but it's hard to imagine that trumps are known to be walla tile. foreign policy was completely absent from their minds. now on the face of buying agreement sounds kind of bizarre. do we know why trump is so interested in the territory? or yeah, he's called buying greenland an absolute necessity. and he really does seem to be looking at it from several spot standpoints. one is the security standpoint, greenland of course, is located between the us and europe. it strategically important at a time where russia, china, and the us are vying for control over the arctic. greenland is also rich and natural resources. we're talking about oil and gas and we're talking about rear or it's metals. so there are plenty of reasons for trump to be interested in greenland

now as to whether greenland itself is interested in trump dot bit. we really don't know but interesting to note that. so greenland is quite in a specific time. politically speaking, there's an independence movement there that has been gaining some momentum over the last few years. uh, independence from denmark i should say. but whether they would really just want to switch ownership from the danish hands to american hands, as is quite questionable, really instead of i don't know, be able to determine their own futures. you have at least the question of the hour now this whole comes while we're having vague threats of military action against american allies like green and greenland of denmark and panama. and also suggestions that the us could try to annex canada or these signs of things to come from the us as foreign policy under trump to still so you know, those are, those are quite remarkable statements that he has been making. he's talked about taking over the panama canal from panama,

is talk to about making candid all the 51st aid. he's called the border between the us and canada and the artificial line. so really i think it's difficult to say whether he has a concrete foreign policy goal in mind that when he says these things, but i think it does betray a certain kind of mindset. perhaps it's a mindset that harkens back to his a former role in life as a realize staple goal, where it was important for him to take land and own structures. but that is just me speculating, but i think there is something to it perhaps. so when he talks about his vision of america, what he's really talking about is a more expansionist vision. when he talks about making america great. again, perhaps what he actually means is going back to america with more imperialistic impulses. and i do have the feeling that so this is another layer to america 1st that we're going to end up talking about more and more as his administration

progresses. now we truly are leaving an interesting times. i'm afraid we have to leave it there. that was dw janelle don't allow on. thank you very much for your analysis. tens of thousands of people up in order to evacuate their homes. as a wildfire spreads rapidly in the hillsides of los angeles, the flames have been fanned by a fierce wind storm beckett's southern california on tuesday, and forecasters say the conditions could last for days. buyer has consumed more than 5 square kilometers in the pacific palisades area. in western lane and firefighters are struggling to keep it from spreading. authorities say, many buildings have already been destroyed. and i got an update on the situation from jason comfort. only i'm a journalist with nbc, and i heard the radio issue here that firefighters are facing are what's called the amber cast. so an amber from a palm tree or something to that effect in the pacific palisades may get caught by

the winds and then go up to about 3 miles away and started another fire. and then an ember from that fire starts a 1000000 fire. and it, what it does is that spreads and firefighters really, really in right now, there's about and a couple of 100 of firefighting personnel, from firefighting crews around southern california who are there to hell. but we've learned that and just the past couple of minutes that some of the embers are actually catching life guard towers on fire. oh, so there's nothing else on the beach except the sand and a life guard tower. and that ember found that life guard tower somehow. so my and now it's been burned to the ground, so it's very, very difficult for firefighters to be quicker than the wind. uh earlier today, we saw people trying to get out of the pacific palisades. and unfortunately, the roads there are very narrow, they're not, they weren't built with a mass evacuation in mind. and people were at some points, ditching their cars and running down the road to safety,

with suitcases of their lives in there. and that's all they had. and then something i have never seen having covered fires for the past 2 decades here. and i like is fire crews and to bring in bulldozers to build those all of the a band and cars off of the roadway in order to get more people the safety. so fire crews have opened up evacuation centers, which is a normal practice here in uh, uh, southern california. and people are just being asked to avoid the area. if you don't need to go there. if you don't live there, if you're not picking up somebody like an elderly parent or a disabled siblings, i'm going to that if i stay out of the area, stay away. and they're just trying to get them as much food and water as possible. now we have to worry about air quality in the area as well. to that was done was jason kepler, donio met a c e o mark soc coverage, says the social networking giant will scrap fact checking on facebook and instagram

and replace it with a community based model. similar to that on the x, the change march, the reversal of policies put in place by meta to stop in this information, criticized by conservatives in the us over a legend censorship. a change of rules with potentially far reaching consequences. matters says paid fact checkers will no longer be used on facebook and instagram, leaving users to comment on the accuracy of post themselves. you weren't meant to see your mug. zack, come back, announced the decision in a video message. we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content, but the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes even say, accidentally censor, just one percent of post. that's millions of people. and we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes in too much censorship. this step is a reversal of matches policy with zach could back previously supporting active

content moderation. something fiercely criticized by president elect donald trump and his allies, cooks use the company of blocking their voices and threatening consequences. speaking at a news conference, trump who was banned from facebook for 2 years in 2021 has welcome to move. very simple, honestly. i think they've got them a long way. meta facebook. i think they've come a long way. i watched it. the man was very impressed if i watch it, actually, i watch it on fox. i'm not allowed to say that. say it directly respond to probably human rights activists reacted with shock to the announcement that we've been investigating matter for 4 years now. and we've seen them really progress in terms of therapy, etc, to detect this information. we like to elect to just information and hey on,

on this platform and to see they suddenly time the it so clearly to the curry face with tom and his administration is really disappointing thing. and as i used to have really negative claiborne, implication rights groups say a better solution would be to invest more heavily to improve the work of fact checkers instead of getting rid of them. so now the new rules will be taken effect only in the us. it's not clear if they will come into force in the you and the rest of the world. here's a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world remains or former us president jimmy carter has been brought to the us capital where he will lie in state for 3 days. carter was president from 1977 to 1981. later won the nobel peace prize for his monetary and work. he died on december 29th. at the age of 100. south greeves and beach present music your faces

a new attempt to arrest him on the interaction charges. a top investigator says he will break this gear. the barriers at the presidential compound, the presidential security service stopped authorities from taking him into custody in recent days, over his brief and position of martial law abiding ministration has imposed sanctions on members of students wrapping support forces, including the honest leader and mohammed home without any dogs, no washington says v r s f has committed genocide in the country. tens of thousands have been killed. and so dens, since the war between the countries army and the r as f broke out almost 2 years ago, usually they get and here's a quick reminder of our top story at this hour. the west president elect donald trump has refused to lock military force to gain control of the panama canal. and pretty much since when did the election from has repeatedly expressed his desire to

take over thinking strategically important waterways and islands. and you're up to date off the back and in the top of the hour with more news. thank you very much for joining us. the .