so we ask mine because no one should have to make up your own mind dw may for mine's the, this is dw news life from the land. tens of thousands of los angeles residents, a told to flee rapidly, growing wild fires, wind whips, flames break house in a yes, another pos of the la area, consuming homes and says residents, race to escape, threatened neighborhoods will say, coming up. we're going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico incoming us president, donald trump presses to change the month of to already assessing his sites on canada and greenland migration. take center stage in germany,

small selection of the country les, in millions of people in the last years. now the conservatives leading in the polls from top top of the protection the money to this, mckinnon. welcome to the program. tens of thousands of people in the los angeles area has been ordered to leave the homes as wildfire as a spread rapidly in the cities hillsides so far has broken out in the northern hills. at the see, the flames have been found by dangerously. fost wins from a storm that hits southern california on choose day. fire has consumed more than 5 square. columbus is in the pacific palisades area in western l. a. and it is spreading westwood fi sizes 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 cast them to safety. in the middle of the night, the 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 store 2 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 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, 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've 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 really the blazes raged across thousands of acres and

a mass of olives of g t firefighters being called in to help the colleagues on the ground of the 2. and now facing a bustle on several fronts. case a company or is a journalist in l. a with firefighters, then l. baffling 3 blazes. i asked him to update her from the current situation. that's right. and in total, we've only burned officially about 5000 acres, 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. the sound 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, 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 now under evacuation or does this that any health available for them? um, i mean how, how easy is it to escape from this 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 8. 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 solar 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 and 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, and evacuating me. and 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. and these are very ab luminaries, 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. so 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 and in the air condition building. and you can still days that you get 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. 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, 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 come padaya in la. jason, thank you so much for your time. we really appreciate it and to stay safe. so here in germany, political policies are launching the campaigns for the general election that is due on february the 23rd. it's not so it was cold off of the collapse of the governing coalition. conservative cd policy candidates, lovely maps, you can see him here in the middle. has attended, has been attending a meeting of the see to use the variances to policy. the c s, you know, maps is to,

to be the next job and trump, sla, as the conservatives are looking set to win the load. largest share of the vote as shown, flat mounts says he wants to fix what he said is the critical stage of a gentleman economy and introduce tax reforms. he also said your needs to be prepared for the quotes disruptive politics and some of us present elect. donald trump. migration is also high on the conservative agenda in this upcoming election . so we're going to take a closer look now at where they stand on this issue. jim and is sent to ride christian democrats and the very and putting those, the c s. u. a talking tough on migration. because that's who has been too much migration to germany in recent years, both illegal migration and some legal migration. this needs to change and not just cosmetically put fundamental cost me to. so when i go to the, in the last 10 years,

germany has taken in many people from 2015 close to a 1000000 syrians came playing war in the country. and in 2022, a similar number of refugees arrived from ukraine. that has led to problems with some local authorities struggling to provide housing, schools, and other services. some polls show votes as c migration as the biggest problem, the and the strong support for anti immigration policies. the onset recording to the center, right. see to you and see us, you turning back people at the border repatriation of those convicted of criminal offenses and the policy of returning syrians to their country following the full of the asset regime. they've even cooled for the removal of gym and nationality from people with your citizenship, if found guilty of crimes. well,

our show says government has made it easier to obtain gym and citizenship. the conservatives want to reverse that trend. the total i turbo naturalization has led to a fundamental change in our country. if we don't change it again, jim and they will look different in 10 to 20 years. some people want that. the greens in the left is, but we don't want it in this fault. you avoid this needs to define some say, such idea is risk making, naturalize germans into 2nd class citizens sending a message. they can never be integrated back into the electro climate where the message of anti immigration policies is attracting, support gym and a cetera right. politicians clearly feel they need to tell voters they want to isaac controls on who comes into the country and who can stay. let's talk about this with maximilian patient. he's a professor of social at the find mine university of applied sciences. welcome to

dw, thanks so much for your time today. um now migration has of course being a major topic in germany over the past decade. tell us what you think about the way it is being debases by candidates in this current election campaign. i think we kind of sort us very radicalized migration, just cross, even with nationalistic attitudes, migration, it's purely seen on the secuity if use. and this was a long way to go because in 2015 and you had these pictures and there was a welcome called in from an e and menu, um, uh, open to migration box. and all this very, very back sliding movement in from an e. concerning to this in front of simmons or for a few trees. and even though we've had creation of people, we have to drum citizenship and you use the wood. a rabble. radicalized discussion of the fall royce, as the policy has been gaining support in germany. how do you see that impact

saying the messaging of the main political policies on the topic of, of monk migration that they make as a see thing this discussion up? yeah, we know from research from all around europe. um, when you take over the program and ideas of the far right then of cost of power rises, strength funds and not the i'm a political parties become soft as in the netherlands and frogs and feelings. and now we have the case in germany and very strong in the pulse and many potties uh, um, overtaking their of, of positions. and i'm a single just really new about this election campaign. so that's um principles of democracy and the flaw uh, open ended questions. even by pots, you select the conservatives and the social democrats. mm hm. there is a good chance that the conservative candidate relation maps could be the next trim

and a chancellor. if that happens, what would that mean? the migration policy and jeremy yeah. one of the instruments, the comes of it says i proposing is to complete externalization of asylum procedure as to the countries outside of europe. um, so the aim is to have no one here to death, no asylum claims in germany. and this is a very hard as a chance to watch a find them um, policies in the last 2 years. and we can also see that the comes of itself, uh you are really trying to ultimately the question you p long because they want to have some more push back. that's the drum and the bought us and this is not in a comes with the to was couldn't of to you can hold up trust us. mm hm. so you're talking about externalizing asylum procedures, questioning your laws. a loss in particular is your biggest

concern about the future direction of gem and migration policy. i mean, we can see the industry, pests, we 18 debates, even people who are citizens of germany. and i know i'm the tech because if they are committing crimes, then repatriation is discussed. and i think this is a problem because these people i'm now discriminates. it was a um, uh, always on the press and i think this is not a yeah. um, good atmosphere, uh for a liberal democracy and i think germany is now in line with our countries in europe by of, for example, austria. but we maybe half now a file with governments and maybe in some years as i also just possibilities. last thing is now we need really a stop of these. radicalized migrations, the base,

and i'm all fixed oriented and human rights based approach. maximillian patient, the professor of safe a little. thank you so much for your time. we really appreciate your insights. thank you. so let's take a look now, some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. and goals of health officials say a wave of his race strikes, hit the territory southern district, just con eunice slice. on tuesday, a dozen people were killed including the 7 children. at least 5 strikes, talking to his con units according to the territories, how most run health ministry, one hit the own milwaukee area with thousands of displays. palestinians living intense along the coast and italian gen list arrested in iran in jail for 3 weeks has been freed, italian prime minister, georgia maloney's office, says cecilia sol as plain left to iran and that she is returning to instantly sallow was reporting in the arabian capital last month, when she was detained, was just off to the us initially arrested to a rainy and nationals,

the export violations linked to a deadly attack on american servicemen. the eu has rejected claims of cents a ship made by messa c. monk stuck a bug like a bug whose company owns facebook, and instagram made the accusations about you rules the requests social media companies to delete posts, that spread false information. it's unclear how messa will comply with those rules . the company has announced plans to scrap the policy front, checking, replacing it with the community and community based model, similar to the one already used on the platform x. 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. it is meant to see

your mag zacko bag 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 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 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. you probably human rights activists 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 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. but you have an account so that when i saw it says issued a stern warning to us. president elect donald trump, who the, his threats to takeover. all the countries, so it said the invite liability of board is applies to every country. trumpet said he wants the us to take control of canada, of greenland and of the panama canal. most recently he announced he would be changing the name of the gulf of mexico. donald trump has yet to take cause of the white house. but oh, really, he's stating his sites much further to we're going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. the gulf of america. what a beautiful name and it's appropriate, it's appropriate for it started from statement did not come with any explanation

about how or why he plan to change the name. it's just the latest in a string of claims he's made about us expansionism. in addition to the gulf of mexico, he's also state has sites on the panama canal, claiming the us will take control of the crucial shipping lane. canada is also on trump's wish list. he wants to absorb the know the neighbor and greenland. the resource rich danish territory is also in his sites to his son, donald trump junior touch down in greenland capital nukes this week, supposedly on a tourist visit to inbox. prime minister says greenland future, it is from greenland, people to decide from it as a very close ally to the us. there is a reason to be pleased with the growing interest, but it has to take place in a way that is respectful to of the population of green. the other leaders have been more beloved, tended as prime minister justin true doses. there isn't

a snowballs chance in hell of canada becoming part of the us. and panama leaders say via canal will remain panamanian. so at any of our canals, sovereignty is not negotiable. yes. and as part of our history of struggle and in europe, versatile conquests are able to see. but down the trump does not appear to be detected. speaking to reporters, he refused to roll out using military. it's unknown like action to take control of the panama canal. your green loan is bid for growing global reach, seemingly escalating a heat f, as in alteration in less than 2 weeks. and we can speak now to benjamin, tell us who's the director of the democratic strategy and then initiative. and he will serve a new book on german and european, secure as a good c. benjamin, thanks so much for joining us. now. following all of these remarks that trump has

made several, you leaders have been very clear in the criticism and you know, making it clear that the, what less of the countries attack, the silver and borders is from really was to put his words into action. how do you see the european union responding? well, good afternoon, a pleasure to be back with you. ah, 1st of all, that's important to emphasize that we don't know how donald trump would act. we don't know that he would necessarily turn any of these words into action, so it's important not to overreact before we actually know what would really happen . but it does indicate a really significant potential departure in us policy. if trump was way not these words, and it would be a sad time for, for the us, it would be a sad time for the democratic world and for the nato alliance as well as for the european union. the question then comes, what could the european union and its members states actually do about this?

and that really highlights the problem of having made ourselves considerably dependent upon the united states for security. there's nothing wrong with being good allies, but that means really paying your way and doing your share. and that's why your opinions and canadians have been rather delinquent. so we've left us hours without the true capabilities to stand up for ourselves with a couple of exceptions about products and u. k with nuclear weapons. although god forbid it should come to that state of affairs. faults has denounced trumps remarks as a form of imperialism. what, what do you make of that assessment? it's a very fact statement and honestly i think it's fairly accurate the way that donald trump has been talking about the territories surrounding us. uh yeah, canada and close to the us in greenland is rather reminiscent of the way russian leaders and the rest of the propagandists of talked about you crying and talked about the own they were growing. and again, this would be a truly sad departure for the united states. what trump to enact that,

because it does rather look like a form of mike makes right of antique democratic, imperial thinking is made very clear that we don't know what donald trump will do. however, what would you say europe in countries needs to do, how do they need to adapt in order to maintain a working alliance with the us, with this kind of rhetoric in the background as well. interestingly, the challenge for europe actually remains largely the same. the strategic challenge that is here, it needs to get its own house in order on defense, it needs to spend more on defense and procure the kind of capabilities that would allow us to properly defend ourselves and play all correct part in the nato alliance. that hasn't changed as a result of donald trump selection it hasn't changed as a result of these remarks and more over europe. i cannot make situation dependency on china. for example, that hasn't changed as a result of these remarks. either. a strategic challenge has remained clipped. the

circumstance in which we have to try and meet it is what is potentially changing. but i find it interesting and a little regretful that some people have spoken in since trump's remarks about a wakeup call or about plunging europe into chaos. with these calls for 5 percent defense spending, if this is what it took to plunge you into chaos, you haven't been paying attention for the last 3 years. so actually, ultimately, our challenge remains the same. and how do you see from the dresser it's affecting the ease economy as well as politics within the blog? because it seems to me that there's never been more of a need for you to see right now. well, unity as such is overrated. uh, because it depends unity around which position, if it's unity around a position that we best and compete relation to russia, for example, that's no good if it's unity around the strength of outstanding upfront values defending ourselves. that's kind of unit. we could use the unit right benjamin. i'm

sorry, we've run out of time, but benjamin tell us direct to of the prospect strategy initiative. thank you so much for joining us. and that is all we have time for my new groups. mckinnon. thank you so much for watching the w, the

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