on the success of the sites and for the rest of the us say also rise starts january 18th on dw, the this dw news line from berlin, tens of thousands of presidents are told the fleet your rapidly growing wildfire. los angeles authorities working conditions are extremely dangerous. a strong winds fanned the flames also coming up from the program. donald trump refuses to allow, using military force to take over greenland. the president elect has renewed his peaceful control of the arctic island, saying it's essential for us security the,

an air until welcome to the program. tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes as a wildfire spreads rapidly and the hillsides of los angeles. the flames have been found by a fierce wind storm that hid southern california on tuesday in forecast received. the conditions could last for days. fire has consumed more than 5 square kilometers in the pacific palisades area in western at length and firefighters are struggling to keep it from spreading over the same. many buildings have already been destroyed . i got an update on the situation from jason kemp of donia, a journalist with nbc, and i heard radio right now. the fires in about 1200 acres burned a little bit more than that. but the winds in the area are really the story wind gusts of up to 40 to 60 miles an hour this afternoon. later tonight,

wind gusts are expected to be about a 100 miles an hour. and the 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 start. they may have fire and it, what it does is that spreads the firefighters really, really, in right now, there's about 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 catch you life guard towers on the buyer. oh, so there's nothing else on the beach except the sand and a life guard tower. and that amber 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. and of course,

that's also putting many people at risk, and our current numbers indicate that $30000.00 residents under evacuation order is do we know how they're being helped? as of right now, they're being told to do exactly what they're being told to do. 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 buyers for the past 2 decades. here in l. a. is fire crews and bringing bulldozers to bulldoze 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. now, as you're indicating the last answer, california is no stranger to fires, but how and use an unusual is the challenge of fire sizes are facing right now. so these wind gusts have up to a 100 miles an hour later this evening are going to be hard. but we haven't seen wind gusts like that in probably about a decade and we haven't had any significant rain problem. so up in northern california, they're getting drenched, but in southern california, we're not getting any rain down here and there is none predicted in the, in the near forecast. so this is creating

a very dangerous fuel for these fires. it's very dry and there is no holes. there's no health of mother nature and site. so what fire trees have been doing is they've been pulling and other resources from other parts of the country. they've set up stripe teams just in case to see, okay. it may get hot over here in may, you know, be combustible more over a year. so they've had strong teams in place, and they hit this thing this morning with everything they had. it's just, again, it's not fast enough. was or to stay under the weather forecast doesn't seem to be helping the firefighters. and so is there any indication when they will be able to get these blazes under control? so the high waves are supposed to stick around the rest the rest of the week, maybe until thursday night, possibly friday morning, here in southern california. so this fire is probably going to be fueled over the next few days when they actually get some containment. i'm guessing maybe the

weekend when a fire crews are able to get some surrounding areas calm down and maybe get a handle on this thing. but it looks like fire crews are going to be on this thing for awhile, especially if we're seeing houses go down and more people being evacuated. malibu just burned a couple of weeks ago and that's right next door so that it may hit that burn scar and not have any more fuel and that might help as well. all right, the withdrawal is jason couple don't here in los angeles. thank you very much. for your reporting. thank you. met a c e o marks dr berg says the social networking giant will scrap fact checking on facebook and instagram and replace it with a community based model of similar to one that works. so for an x, the change marks or reversal policies put in place by method to stop in this information, but 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 mike, 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 if they 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 a bag 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 wirelessly. i think they've come a long way, met a 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 trucks. i'm not allowed to say that say it directly respond. ready you probably human rights activates, reacted with shock to the announcement or the we've been investigating metrics for 4 years now. and we've actually seen them really progress in terms of their ability to detect this information. we looked uh like to just information and hey on, on this talk from and to see they suddenly time the it say clearly to the carry phase with tom and his administration is really disappointing thing. and as i used to have really negative classification 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. and us president elect donald trump, has refused to allow military force to gain control of both the panama canal. in greenwood, since winning the election from has repeatedly express his desire to take over the strategical important water wayne island. during his 1st criminal office, trump expressed an interest in buying greenland, which has an autonomy, his territory of denmark, and a long time us ally. but the governments of greenland in denmark have repeatedly rebuffed his offers from has once again set his eyes on greenland posting on his side to the social on monday. he said in 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 voice military where we were going 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 that 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 official it's in denmark

has made it very clear several times that 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 is a self governing territory, but belongs to the kingdom of denmark. and on each step, 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 yang can indicate it's credible the royals do admin. the king, frederick holmes, has a close connection to green, not, not that much love forage, that i'm store, store cabinets here, from pedal already expressed his desires to own reading. and during his 1st presidency, the island nation has a strategic location and the optic for trade and defense, and the bounty of natural resources. here's a look at some more stories making headlines around the world. still remains of

former us president jimmy carter has been brought to the west capital where he will line state for 3 days. carter was president from 1977 to 1981 and later won the nobel peace prize for his humanity carrying work. he died on december 29th, at the age of $100.00 south for using peach president and so few old faces a new attempt to arrest him and his direction charges a top investigators, as he will break the security barriers at the presidential compound. the presidential security service stopped authorities from taking you into custody and recent days, over his brief and position of martial law. in order to quake has killed at least 126 people into that many others were trapped as dozens of aftershocks shook. the remote region in western china tremors were felt as far away as india. this is the moment the quake struck just 75 kilometers from mount everest.

the world's highest mountain struggles the border between china. it's nicole quite kid, close to the city of scott say in the chinese autonomous region of tibet rescue is what quickly on the scene as china, as president g, mobilize them all out effort trim is also rattled the net police capital cut man to 400 kilometers from the epi center and cause i was sleeping when it happened, what the bed was shaking. you know, i felt my child was moving the bed, but then the windows tottered, moving and 9 stood. it was an earthquake about it. i took my child and went outside, i'm still in shock. oh, i'd be more comfortable you that to freezing temperatures, added to the misery for the injured in those left homeless as thousands of troops and firefighters was sent in to help caesar teaser we will strengthen seismic

monitoring and early warning. we will spend no effort to search for anyone trapped, provide medical care for the injured, for, for a sense, relief, and provide for the basic needs of residents to keep it simple. so how strong the area or is vulnerable to size, make activity exp, but say there's no way to predict when a quick might strike. but the local authorities are well prepared. this is the 6 big that's quick, that's happened in the region over the last 100 years. this disaster is not on the same scale as the of quake which killed nearly 9000 people in the pool in 2015. but it has caused expensive damage in one of 2 pets. earliest cities to. here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you at this hour. tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes. as

a wildfire spreads rapidly in the hillsides of los angeles, authorities say many buildings have already been destroyed and that conditions there are extremely dangerous and you're up to date will be back at the top of the hour with more news. thanks for joining us. the name is the calls back saved. now thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it loud as would have been nosy, bad. it gets everyone to king. check out the award winning called called the called back.