the for the rest of the world, us say of the also right starts january 18th on the dw, the . this is dw news live from berlin, tens of thousands of los angeles residents and told to flee rapidly growing wildfires. wind with flames. breakouts in a 3rd area of the city consuming homes as residents race to escape. preston neighborhoods will say coming up on the program who will lead to germany's next government shawn slow off, shots fights for his political life against conservative challenges. lead elation mats the outcome, promises to have consequences fall beyond these violin. and the social networking company messa is ending. it's the policy fact checking program on facebook and

instagram. it plans to rely on its uses to flag misinformation. instead, the money keeps makennan. 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. a 3rd fire has broken a house in the northern hills of the city, the flames. they've been fined by dangerously false twins from a storm that hit southern california on tuesday. fire has consumed more than 5 square kilometers in the pacific palisades area in western l. a and it is spreading westwards. firefight is a struggling to keep the blazes from spreading and authorities say many buildings have already been destroyed. it is a race against time to bring residents of an elderly cousin to safety. in the

middle of the night, wild fires 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 store 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 palisades right now. it's where i live, my family and my wife's family. my wife's twin sister evacuated. i know that a lot of people are 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 their 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 read. i've never seen the fires with this close to the fires. 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 really the blazes raged across thousands of acres in a matter of hours of g

t firefighters to being called in to help sat colleagues on the ground too. and now facing a bustle on several fronts. jason company on yours, a john list in la and with firefighters. the now baffling 3 blazes. i asked him to update us on the current situation. the that's right, and in total we've only burned officially about $5000.00 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 and 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, 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 bite 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. the problem is, is that the fire is moving so fast, and it's so a radek that a 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 of people getting hurt, trying to evacuate, and 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 affluent 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. 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 am inside an air condition building and you can still daisy give that little smoke taste in the back your throat. obviously you can hear it in my voice, but everybody's walking around very congested. so air quality is what is being affected for the, the masses in southern california. well, 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, you know, 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 up to. unless jason can put donia in la. jason, thank you so much for your time. we really appreciate it and to stay safe. so here in germany, political parties are launching the campaigns. so the general election that's due on february, the 23rd. it's not the vote, was called off to the collapse of the governing coalition suite. elation mounts is the conservative cd policy candidate. you can see him here in the middle. he is attending a meeting of his policies. bavarian fits the policy, the c s, you know maps is tipped to be the next tron slack. as the cd you see us, you look set to win. the largest share of both mounts outlined is leadership plans

including fixing what he said is the critical state of the german economy. and the need for tax were to reforms. he also said your needs to be prepared for the quotes . disruptive politics of us president elect w's chief political edison. mikayla kirsten. is that the very and see us you policy amazing and the southern germantown of the on and she told us more about what the dash, matt said. absolutely. i mean one look at the polls. his cd, you sees you around 30 percent, the strongest policy he is according to the polls, the most likely mind to become the next time slot. and that's why we immediately put those questions about the disruption that donald trump is already announcing to him. and he basically onset on the very issue of regulation of when it comes to social media here. of course, the loan mosque seen as interfering

a recommending for germans to vote for the far right alternative for germany policies. we saw facebook and now and so meant to announce that then no longer will be fact checking, wanting less regulation. and that is something i expect it to be a demand on the table from the top to administration. and here we have some believe those math. so off of question on what he tends to do, does he stick buying european regulation that yes, woods, that regulation should remain in place at the same time. it should not interfere with press freedom. i'm listening closely to that it already becomes the brother pound what the future friction points could become that because press freedom is what is seen as the regulation on the other side of the atlantic. so that will be a very interesting one. so the indeed come into office after this february 20 start elections, and that is almost traditional tension between and within this conservative comp of the cd you see issue there was also a bit of question mark whether both sides side by side when it comes to the

question of providing ukraine with the tower system. here we learn again, that's an foolish mass that he becomes also would be in the save of delivering that, but only is if it is a joint decision with allies. and we learned from the very and system policy, which has been more skeptical that it sees this as definitely for cool to be made by a few to tonsils. you can tell already both feel pretty certain that that's going to go that way. mm hm. the tourist system, of course, is the, the missiles that's a that you train wants from germany. just to clarify that. can i ask you a shout? you know what strategies mounts is using to try to set himself apart from the current john jones that what i feel it's a while he has in a way, um, an easy issue to go on, which is the economy that's also his personal friend strength and used to work full of black rock, the shoot investment company here in europe as that is what he would like to focus

on. at the same time, he stresses that migration cannot stay the same. you said that has to be a complete policy turnaround on the economy. on migration, but also when it comes to how many is representative broad, we're still to learn what exactly that means he will hold hold of may just be till not later in the month. but we do know that his focus is clearly on europe taking a leading role in germany. this thing more need to sit in that again, something that's he would need to define on the economy. he is all about essentially cutting down on funding that is going into making the economy green a. and he sees almost as, as the other end of the spectrum, investing in dynamism into the german economy. which condy is really in last face when it comes to european colonies in growth. in fact, it's heading further into recession. shayla, thank you so much for bringing us up to date. that's the w, as chief political editor. let me tell you, let us know. let's take

a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. and then it's holly and jenn list, arrested in iran and jail for 3 weeks has been freed battalion prime minister, georgia maloney's office, said cecilia sol as plain have left her on and that she is returning to instantly sallow was reporting in the rainy and capital last month when she was detained, just off to the us and instantly arrested to a rainy and nationals, the export violations linked to a deadly attack on american servicemen and garza health officials say a wave of this really strikes hit the territory southern district of calling unit slates. on choose day, a dozen people were killed including 7 children. at least 5 strikes targeted on eunice according to the territories, how most are on health ministry. one hit the own milwaukee area with thousands of displays, palestinians, and living in tents along messa c,

monks look above says the social media company will scrap said policy fox checking on facebook and instagram, and that it will replace it with a community based model. similar says athletics, the change that marks a reversal of policies put in place by message is still missing information. those policies were criticized by conservatives in the us for 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. you weren't meant to see your mike's out. come back. announced the decision in a video message. we built a lot of complex systems, moderate content, but the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes even as they

accidentally censor, just one percent of posts. 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. 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 matter 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 platform and to see they suddenly time the it so clearly to the curry face though 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 on his off brussels correspondent jack power con, how that you might respond if messa also implement these changes in europe. that's

what everyone in your opinion is looking at and why is your so important? first of the, because it sort of prides itself on being the boss, student of tackling this information and ensuring free speech and protection of use is a 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 here in brussels about exactly what this with me. they say they won't comment directly because current the what meant to what was that could. but because in those only affects the american market, the american jurisdiction bought under the use know which is known as the digital services act. the your 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 essentially people that affect checking what's going on on the platform. that's how the method is doing it. but if method would want to change how it does,

it is content, moderation, for instance, community knows the community knows style system, then what it would have to do would inform it 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 for what they call a risk analysis assessment. the method would have to put forward that it works. but the system that they have in place that they're trying to do through the community noted system way uses or detecting misinformation and this information and reporting it 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. a c, w, his job park. now the us has accused to don's our assess militia of genocide saying that is how systematically motors and rates members of some ethnic groups and for

the bite and administration has impose sanctions on our assess leda mohammed having done diag low saying that he has responsibility for the actions of his vices, tens of thousands of been killed and sit down since the war between the countries on me i'm the are assess pro council most 2 years ago. you look for, for utah, somali is a legal advisor at the raul bowlin bugs center for human rights income. paula uganda. he told us order effect this declaration of genocide by the us will have in sit 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 it is i'm a nation based on clear and convincing evidence that the support for us is and it's a life malicious. i've engaged in um, you know, i trust that a crimes specifically in genocide. we also identify it for an axis, fueling uh,

the trust citizens with that. and so unfortunately, more often than not the genocide determination of care when genocide 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 part is it is a recognition to victims, grievances that people have done for people to. so then have been you know, quiet for the last couple, you know, is about atrocities about genocide in particular. i think this is just a commission to their suffering and grievances thompson,

ali of the rollinback center to human rights. the speaking to us from can paula now into batch off to shocks freezing conditions and difficult terrain. a complication rescue efforts often as quite kills at least a 126 people. chinese officials say hundreds of people of trumps. she's days of quake, and the trim is the followed, reduced thousands of homes to revel. this is the moment the quake struck just 75 kilometers from mount everest of the world's highest mountain struggles. the border between china, nicole, the 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, but i'd be more comfortable. you then freezing temperatures added to the misery for the injured in those left homeless as thousands of troops and firefighters was sent in to helps you to decent, 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 sofa, essential 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 quake might strike 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 bits. earliest cities off to 3 years of war against russia or an increasing number of ukrainian couples are adopting often children. the right has doubled since the invasion in february 2022. but in the midst of a conflict, becoming a parents can be a difficult process. dw namisha joyce, well reports now from ukraine and growing up on the ground for the 41 young children living in this office in ukraine, closeout each and this basement shelter is the 2nd home. the sleep here. so the 9th on disrupted by adding but they often have to come here in the daytime to make sure that when there isn't an error rate, we use every chance to keep the kids out in the fresh air when they're not sleeping

or eating lives or by their outside stop the envelope need one to or for one child, something else? holmes. this is also interesting. even looks a little like you see? oh yes, i want them with blonde, has cool beer planning and hoping to adult into you're also considering sebastian the yes i am. they don't have an age or gender in mind. they just want a little sibling for that 11 year old daughter for now. sure you look at his cheek source and he looks a lot like how sonya was. she was also choppy like that the gospel have wanted to adopt for a long time. but their plans, what do you need when russians occupied their hometown butcher at the start of the war? now the deacon thought in a training for prospective adoptive sped, and perchance you assume i go to an explosion start and she gets

good. would you? yeah. so not a picture to me, she can only sleep in the lap of someone come for thing. like come on more dot. we have mom. wow. what is new kids need a feeling of safety protection parents give unfortunately the children in the openings don't have. this is the my dad among more and more ukrainians was signing off to adopt adoption, trina, honest thoughts you up with discuss says the process is emotional and difficult to learn. that was the thing for me. it's a positive result with a family adopt as a child. but it's also a good result. when adults find the strength to tell themselves for this we, we're not ready for dish. and when i was talking to the doctor and what i'll do me, feels ready and already have a plan. a thought that talks about the future,

she's interrupted by a message on her phone. what's the decision on whether the can adopt is waiting for them at the post office? a i was wondering if i can open it in front of you, but if it's negative, it's not going to be very good material. everything hinges on this. then we'll need to have that doctor about the floor plan. if the decision is positive. focus because it's a yes, the process can take months but maybe one of these children will find okay. and become part of a new family with katia. and a lot of this is a quick reminder for you of our top story today. tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate the homes as well. fine spread rapidly on the hillsides of los angeles. authorities say conditions are extremely dangerous. many buildings have already been found was that you are safe to stay with us on the

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