as we say, there is never giving up every weekend on d w the . this is the w news volumes from the land. tens of thousands of los angeles residents, a told to flee rapidly growing wild fires. power can strength, weddings of finding the flames as people race to escape tresses of neighborhoods. also coming up on the program, the us sanctions, the lead of saddam's, r. s. s militia refusing him, of directing his forces to commit genocide. and the social networking company messa, or is ending it's the policy fact checking program on facebook and instagram. it wants to rely on its uses to flag this information instead, plus

a special report from ukraine with the adoption rates for often children on the rise box. in the midst of rule, the process can be especially difficult for the prospective parents. the w tools to one couple, waiting to hear if they qualify the menu mckinnon. welcome to the program. tens of thousands of people in los angeles have been ordered to leave the homes as wildfire spread rapidly in the cities hillsides. the flames have been fined by dangerously false twins from a storm that hits southern california. on tuesday, it has consumed more than 5 square. columbus is in the pacific palisades area and west anela. as an enclave known for its beaches and multi $1000000.00 celebrity homes slash lights has all struggling to keep the blazes from spreading all star se,

se many buildings have already been destroyed. it is a race against time to bring residents of an elderly cast them to safety. in the middle of the night, wildfires broke out here and out to dana in the foothills, northeast of los angeles on tuesday evening. they are now tearing through the neighborhood the brush spies that started hours earlier in the coastal pacific palisades still out of control. the affluent area is home to many los angeles does including the coach of the basketball team, the la, cuz j reddick, the just want to acknowledge and send thoughts and prayers to everyone in the policies. right now

it's where i live, my family and my wife's family and my wife's twin sister have evacuated. i know that a lot of people are um, freaking out right now, including my family and from the sound of things with the winds coming tonight. i know a lot of people are scared when the fire started, some residents did the best to try to keep it today. tens of thousands let their homes closing traffic jams on the narrow roads. many escapes justin time. i have never seen the fires with this close to the cars. people left their cars and policies drive burning up the hillside, palm trees, everything's going. and the wind and the firemen are great, but property damage is property, damage losing lives, dogs, animals, horses, a lot of horses in the neighborhood. so. yeah, so that's, that's the,

that's what the blazes raged across. thousands of acres and a mass of hours of g. t firefighters being called in to help set colleagues on the ground too. and now facing a battle on several fronts. right, let's get an update with jason campus. tony i, he's a journalist with nbc an i out radio in la, jason, it's the middle of the night and i like so thank you. first of all so much for joining us. could you updates us on how things are looking at this point? the pictures we are seeing are extraordinary. um and i believe now uh, firefighters are actually baffling. 3 blazes. is that right? and that's right. and in total, we've only burned officially about 5000 majors, but if you look at it from some of the pictures online and, and social media,

people who are filming from their balcony from miles away. obviously the official numbers of that acreage and the charge land in southern california is going to be in probably the 10s of thousands one percent does come up here. the firefight is dire. the winds are gusting up to about a 100 miles an hour in some spots. and that's causing the embers from mainly the palm trees. to float a several miles down the road or across town. and that starting another spot fire and then that starts another fire and then that starts another fire. so the firefighters are spread very, very then right now. and all they're trying to do is just try to stay ahead of it. but there really is no way and with the winds gusting up to a 100 miles now there's no way they can fight that. people are trying to get to safety as soon as they can. and the roads are very,

very narrow and very small in that part of southern california. so that's causing traffic jams. and that's causing a lot of panic for people trying to get to say, right, i mean, tens of thousands of people in outlander evacuation or does this that any health available for them? i mean, how, how easy is it to escape from the situation? well, it's not great. yesterday we saw people uh, digging their cars and running down the street, holding suitcases full of their belongings because that's the only thing that they could do. firefighters have made it their job to make sure that they're telling people a when we tell you to go, it is time to go. this is not a drill. this is a very serious situation, and there's a valuation centers that are being open. but the problem is, is that the fire is moving so fast, and it's so a radek that if firefighters tell people to evacuate in one area or down one

road and the wind shifts, it moves so fast that they don't want to get people trapped in. in that area, we are hearing reports and people getting hurt, trying to evacuate, and uh, some people remaining in their homes and the fire creeping in on them. we have heard that we believe that some people may have sustained some broken bones on trying to get out and have an evacuating man. we're not exactly sure the details of that situation, but it, it, it's not, it's not fantastic here in southern california right now. these are very apple in areas, multi $1000000.00 homes being burned to the ground. right. i mean, just put into perspective the severity of these fires for us with seeing the pictures. but what does this feel like if you're in this situation? well, i live about 20 miles south of the biggest fire the palisades and you can taste

it. i'm inside an air condition building and you can still daisy give that little smoke taste in the back to your throat. obviously you can hear it in my voice, but everybody's walking around very congested. so air quality is what is being effected for the, the masses in southern california. but walking around and see the landscape totally engulfed in flames. is a scary feeling just in general, especially when you live here in southern california. we are the land of sun and sunny beaches and it's not that way. right now the entire email south bay was covered in smoke yesterday. and it's probably going to be that way for the next couple of days due to this wind storm that we're currently on the gentlest jason come padaya in la. jason, thank you so much for your time. we really appreciate it and do stay safe. thank you. so much all right, we're going to take

a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. and garza health officials say a wave of israeli strikes hit the territories southern district to phone eunice. late on tuesday, a dozen people were killed including 7 children. at least 5 strikes. talk is head comm units according to the territories from us or on health ministry. one hit the on the once, the area with thousands of displaced palestinians and living in tents along the coast. south korea's impeach president, unit suck hill is facing a new attempt to arrest him on insurrection. challenges. and self investigation says he will break through the security barrier is that the presidential compound, the presidential security service stopped also received from taking you into custody and recent days that's off to he briefly imposed. marshall in december of the us hasn't used saddam's are assess militia of genocide saying it has systematically moded and rapes,

members of certain ethnic groups and duffel. they bought an administration has imposed sanctions on our assess leda. mohammed hummed on douglas, saying he best responsibilities for the actions of his heights. his tens of thousands of been killed ensued on since the war between the countries ami um the recess broke out. almost 2 years ago. we tossed him ali as a legal advisor at the round wellenberg sent us the human rights income. paula uganda. he told us what effect this declaration of genocide by the us will have ensued on and thank you for the opportunity. and i think uh, this determination is long overdue. uh, it was already in edwards when it went before we made the nation based on clear and convincing evidence that there were other support for us this. and it's a life malicious. i've engaged in um, you know, i trust that a crime specifically in genocide. we also identified for the axes fueling uh,

the trust citizens for that. and so unfortunately, more often than not the genocide determination of care when just in a slide is already complete. but i think um this, when it comes with uh you know, to measure it to you, it is a duty to prevent father genocide but also duty to punish this is based on their the genocide convention. and i think this is really what we, what is needed now. i think the 2nd or it is, it is a recognition to victims of grievances that people have done for people to. so then have been, you know, quiet for the last couple, you know, is about the trust that is about genocide in particular. i think this is just a commission to their suffering and grievances as new thompson ali,

the role in bug sent that to human rights that he was a speaking to us from. come paula, now into bets, off to shots, freezing conditions and difficult terrain. all complicating rescue efforts of the an us quite killed at least a 126 people. the chinese officials say hundreds of people are trapped tuesdays us click on the trim is but followed is reduced thousands of homes to revel. this is the moment the quake struck just 75 kilometers from mount everest. the world's highest mountain struggles, the border between china, pull the quite kid close to the city of sic got 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,

do 400 kilometers from the epi center fluid and cause i was sleeping when it happened was that 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, but i'd be more comfortable either. freezing temperatures added to the misery for the injured in those left homeless as thousands of troops and firefighters was sent in to help to use it. these are, we will strength and seismic monitoring and early warning. we will spend no effort to search for anyone trapped, provide medical care for the injured or for a sense, relief, and provide for the basic needs of residents to keep it simple. so how strong the area are is vulnerable to size, make activity x. but say there's no way to predict when a quick mind strikes 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 coolest expensive damage and one of 2 pets. earliest cities, a there in germany, political policies are launching back. i'm paying for the general election that's going to be held here on february. the 23rd of this not vote was cold off of the collapse of the governing coalition. according to the latest pulling from the deutschland trend from last month shots level of shots is policy, the s p d is continuing to lose ground as well behind the fall rights alternative for germany policy, the opposition conservatives. the c d u. c su, looks set to win the largest share of votes with litigation maps as the trunk full of candidates. now both shorts and that's wants to leave the next government and they are making the policy differences. 3012, as one of these 2 men set to become germany's next tom slept. all i've sold is

trying to defend his job against swedish mats, the man whose party currently leads in the poles. the only thing they have in common. they cannot stand each other. as if you are embarrassing gemini, the way you acted, your ease creams with fits and that's, that's a friday max likes to talk. rubbish well done. it's not the 1st time because of a vine, boise. so if i had to, using to maps would likely end off schultz, his political career. and along with it, germany's resistance to supplying ukraine with water once most from brandon towers, cruise missiles, just one week after salts headed to keys for the each mats made the same trip and the sold ukraine's president said lensky, you're going, you must do everything to enable ukraine to make use of its right to defend itself without any limitations. the stones, full a sold condemns as an unnecessary provocation of lesser need,

always play russian roulette with germany. security. the bustle is also about many a thing economy. well, salts plans to take on new debt for investment politic mats wants to stimulate growth through tax breaks, less bureaucracy when map sees the need for a migration you ton including turning people away at the border. so since this, his government has already implemented strict on migration laws and points to folding numbers. the 2 top contenders for chance, like class and personality. and on the key issues of this, the next in next month, selections will fundamentally decide which direction europe's largest economy will take. so the messa see mont, cuz like a bug says the social network and company will scrap the policy site, checking on facebook and instagram. and we'll replace it with the community based

model similar to that on x. and that will change monks, a reversal of policies put in place by messa to still miss information. those policies were criticized by conservatives in the us. so going against freedom of speech, a change of rules with potentially far reaching consequences. manta says, paid fact checkers will no longer be used on facebook and instagram, leaving users to comment on the accuracy of post themselves, meant to see, oh my god, come back, announced a 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 methods 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. very simple, honestly. 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 to probably human rights activates, reacted with shock to the announcement that we've been investigating metrics for 4 years now. and we've seen them really progress in terms of their ability to detect this information. we looked at electro just information and hey on,

on this platform and to see they suddenly time the it so clearly to the carry phase with tom and his administration is really disappointing. thing and as i used to have really negative legal implications, 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. all right, let's get a little from w correspondent, jack parrot, who's joining us from brussels. can see jack. we just heard that these new rules only apply to the us. so now is it likely the matter is going to apply these changes to europe at some points and, and you know, if it did, how would the respond or yeah, i mean, that's definitely the concern on your end. that's what everyone in your opinion is

looking at and why, why is your so important? firstly, because it sort of prides itself on being the boss, student of tackling this information and ensuring free speech and protection of uses through legislation in the world. it's sort of sees itself as something of a world leader in not, not at the moment i've been speaking to officials, hearing brussels about exactly what this would mean. they say they won't comment directly because current the won't matter what mountains that could bug. cuz the nice only affects the american market, the american jurisdiction bought under the use law, which is known as the digital services that they are opinion, insists on some form of content met motor ration, but not specifically how it is done. so at the moment, these 3rd party reporting with the, the rod, this is the people that are fact checking in what's going on on the platform. that's how the method is doing it. but if not to would want to change how it does. it is content motivation, for instance,

community knows the community knows style system, then what it would have to do within form would be to be able to inform the institutions of the european union, the european commission, which is in charge of this. and basically prove through what they call a risk analysis assessment. the method would have to put fluid that it works. the system that they have in place that what that tried to do through the community noted system way use is detecting this information and this information and reporting it. but that was to make sure that content that is seen on the platforms kind of neat was and that would be quite a long process. but the european union isn't exclusively against it. being done in that way. it just says that all of these big type type platforms have to be able to prove that the systems work. all right, let's have a closer look at what mach stuck a bug and says uh, the messa c o. i'm closing here with going to luck with president trump,

to push back on governments around the world, but a going off to american companies and pushing to sense more. so jack, what does this mean in concrete terms? what is meta actually threatening to do here? i'm sorry i'm yeah i've, i've lost my connection to you. so i kind of hit the question, but i think what you're asking about is specifically about form and infringement procedures and height of the european union would try and deal with with this. and essentially, what they've done so far when it relates to ex, uh, the, the platform formerly known as twitter. if they haven't, all of a sudden investigation into the operations of acts for the community noted system that it operates. they, they're worried that risk management, content, motivation, dog, pathogens, ad transparency, and also data access on being done properly by eggs. we don't know quite what the result of that infringement procedure would be, but it is going to be seen as something of

a blueprint. so what happens going forward now is specifically on the the accusation or the suggestion of mark zuckerberg is trying to curry favor with donald trump. and that's why he's decided to change the system. now that is something that is pretty complicated for the european union to deal with what happens in the united states. and this sort of clash of the titans between these big tags, sort of men like a little mass, lot like mugs that could bug who were trying to. what with donald trump and try and what forward your opinion. and the officials and the leaders are looking at that seeing, you know, must get tied to them in some sense is we seeing the germans be a tied to the brits, for instance, as well, the british prime minister. so there's a lot of uncertainty about exactly what this is going to mean. what's happening in america in spreading outside of that, whether you'd be in union officials have been trying to do is try and say that listen, everything's under control. we've got digits to services that that means we can

loans these infringement procedures and move, move against these big platforms. if they start to spread information, if they're not doing enough from a political point of view, how they interact with trump is going to be interesting because the problem is threatening terrace on a multitude of products. well, he wants to fight the european union's on trade. and on top of that also on digital issues as well. at the moment we're focusing on this because of, it's just a matter of because of what the law must been saying. but donald trump may want to try and choose his battles when he's a coming to the european union, specifically on things like trade on yeah. talk park in brussels, thank you so much. that one of the most important entertainment on consumer technology conventions has started in las vegas in the us and is the big stuff of this is see if it's not tech geeks paying attention. though the annual annual show

provides the rest of us with a glimpse of what could soon be trending and consumer electronics. a device that perfectly applies lipstick without holding it in your hand. headphones that don't play music but clean your e is what you can watch the process on your phone for a small companion that helps you fall asleep more easily with breathing exercises. these are just a few examples of an over to of products presented at this is c e s. in las vegas. there's lots to discover the, all the useful, the funny and the practical one smaller exhibits has present their innovations here. big corporations are given the big stage, south korea and electronics company, l g presents of wireless tv sets, as well as a trends parent screen and a vision of

a connected homes up. i got dryer during the night, so i raised the humidity to the family's comfort level. everything is a ok. depends honda and sony ya showing of the results of the collaboration. the electric field model now comes with so nice tech built in visitors can help in test themselves and semi conduct a manufacturer and video both the new graphics processing unit that is set to be 3 times faster than its predecessor, according to the manufacturer of contemporary, particularly life like images, things to watch, official intelligence, the c as in las vegas, usually runs for 4 days on the industry inside has invited guests and journalists

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