what do we say they're about never getting up every weekend on d w, the you're watching t w now is coming to live from berlin firefighters in los angeles. say they cannot contain multiple wild fires. authorities say their focus is now not on saving homes, but on saving people's lives. tens of thousands has an order to flee different neighborhoods across the la area. also ahead on the program, the social media company that a is ending. it's a 3rd party, fast check in on facebook and instagram. i moved many c as meant to appease donald trump. we're going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico

and incoming us president donald trump threatens to change the map. after all, ready, setting his sites on canada and of greenland, the clare richards, and thank you so much for joining us. at los angeles fire chief says at least 2 people have been killed and many more injured by wildfire. as he called a wide spread disaster fires are raging out of control across at least 3 parts of the la area authority say more than a 1000 buildings have been destroyed and that the blazes continue to grow with quote, 0 percent containment. it is a race against time to bring residents of an elderly cason to safety in the middle of the night the 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 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 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 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 their best to try to keep it today. tens of thousands flat the homes, causing traffic jams on the narrow roads. many escapes justin time. 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. that property damages, 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 the mass of olives of g t firefighters to being called in to help set colleagues on the ground too, and now facing a baffle on several fronts. meteorologist

matthews approaches following developments in l. a. i asked him how these wildfires got so out of hand or you know, the rainy season typically begins and like late october, early november. so every time we get these offshore wind events, there can be fire weather, but usually by like november december with the rain the vegetation isn't desperate to burn. and so we wouldn't typically see what we're seeing right now. but to get that this time of year, you know, to have the dry conditions to have the extremely strong winds, the worst winds, and many places. since 2011. it's a classic recipe for disaster. what's happening right now is that there's high pressure spinning clockwise north of california. that's pushing air over the top of the mountains and is kind of squeezed over the mountains with accelerates. then it exhilarates down hill. it keeps up, it drives out even more. so you have dry weather, hot weather, sapping the ground of moisture and a weight you have strong winds to stronger than a hurricane in many areas, causing just such

a significant impacts. we already so i guess to a 130 kilometers per hour in burbank. that's a city in the los angeles metro areas. they've never seen augusta over a 170 kilometers per hour. so it's no surprise. these fires are growing so quickly . the passage by are already $1200.00 plus victors, the fire $930.00 hector's. both are growing and matthew beyond the very obvious and immediate dangers that these fires post your residents, what kind of health issues do fires of this size present? well obviously of course there, there's a, the national infrastructure that will be suffering, but at the same time to all this vegetation, all the material that is being burnt many which is building materials that are being burnt. and of course, that's all to have a setting of the atmosphere. so air quality is a huge issue. los angeles is the 2nd biggest city in united states and they are suffering from a very concerning air quality right now. all the particulars in the atmosphere. and one thing it's really concerning, you know, there's so much smoke that we can actually see it on the weather radar. the weather

radar is bouncing off those, particularly it's in the atmosphere. it's up to about 5 to 6 kilometers high right now. so that's a huge concern to and really the fact that this was happening and such a major metro area this time of year is very, a typical and doesn't bear the fingerprints of climate change despite the fact that this is so a typical, i mean, los angeles is no stranger to wildfire, as you think about the scale of the damage that we're seeing could have been prevented in any way. i think that's really tricky. you know, there, there's so much discussion around building and something called the wildland urban interface. so in other words, kind of at the edge of communities, there's an area where for us, bleed into towns. and of course that areas not super for us. it, but they do have trees. they do have robust, they do have the education. and the question is, how much of a buffer do you need on the edges of towns? in this case, clearly not enough, but it's, it's also problematic to see how many people are struggling to evacuate. the fact that we saw people abandoning their vehicles because the roads were flock,

shows to be a road network. the road rate might not be sufficient to allow evacuations when they need to happen. and so it will be a big issue for civil engineers down the road. to figure out if we're designing towns that are resilient to wildfire episodes like this, particularly as to where it becomes hotter and dryer in the winter time in the years ahead. absolutely. now in this particular case, is there any relief insight? what does the weather forecasts look like for the next hours and days ahead or so the winds right now are beginning to settled back a little bit. that's and they're still screening. they're still bad right now, but i think by this afternoon, local time, they will begin to weekend. thursday will be a better day. the winds won't be as bad, but remember it will still be very hot. it will still be very dry. and even if no new fires prop up, we already have the extra in fires that will be very difficult to combat. so i don't think the firefighters will get too much of a leg up tomorrow. then into friday, another round of off shore wins pushing those buyers, helping to expand even more in percent,

but potentially igniting new fires. so really friday will be a very bad day and end of the weekend, as well as have been very insightful. thank you so much for taking the time as we do all of us. matthew, a couple of meto has announced plans to scrap 3rd party fact tracking on its platforms, instagram and facebook. it will be replaced with a community based model similar to the one already used on x. and so far that's only in the united states, but met a ceo market. dr. burke has indicated that the change could also come to europe, despite the e. u. laws requiring social media networks to delete the false information. soccer burke has accused me your opinion of censoring social media. a claim the you reject 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 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 a bag previously supporting active content, moderation, or something seriously. 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 people. honestly, i think they've come 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 seen them really progress in terms of their ability to detect this information. we would like to just information and hey, on, on this platform and fee of a sudden you 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 claypole application, writes 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. more on this story, let's speak to my ts ketchum. i'm a senior researcher at behind, sprayed all institute in homework. he specializes in digital media regulations and also advise as the german government. welcome. so we've heard meta plans to replace fact checkers with a community note system that's similar to the one already used by x. what are the pitfalls of that approach to content moderation? a community notes on a such a bad institution. it's a good idea to include your users in um, designing your product. but committed to notes are a hit and miss, and they usually come rather late, about 15 hours when after a post is published, the 1st committed to notes appear. and by that time, 80 percent of the sharing of the post is already done. so it's much better from the

standpoint of a human rights, consistence content, moderation to start with professional a fact checkers that work quickly. and that can quickly and easily attach labels to posts, which decreases. and we know that from studies which decrease a sharing, if opposed to staples as mr. disinformation and your view, do you think all this is really about free speech? we know talk about, of course, a case of trump office platform 4 years ago. many are wondering whether this is his attempt to try to get back on the good side of the incoming us president. without a doubt. absolutely. this is not a bad free speech. you just have to have to consider how trump address like a book in one of his last books. he said that if it ever does one of those things again, uh like in the last like purpose or like some things uh, it's like

a good in the last elections, family and friends, and the outcomes, which of course it didn't a trump thing. so he is like a book is going to spend the rest of his life at present. that's a clear threat by the incoming us president. and obviously, obviously it's like a broad looked at what a mosque had been doing to come on the good side of, of, of trump. and did the same thing for meta by talking, you know, by using the same talking points, talking about censorship, talking about leg as a media, a by the having a new policy chief, the former uh, george w bush adviser, join him a and a and then in exchange for next big claim for a british private politician. and he is the new part of the chief went on a fox news to report upon about those changes and they clearly are designed to put him back to the good graces of truck. now as things currently stand, this decision to scrap fact checkers only applies to the united states. i'm curious

though, do you think that you law would require a different approach? so there are no boundaries on the internet. so any changes made to the us version off of a facebook end of the other mit the product. the fact is going to be the other 8 in europe. an iep, a lot doesn't necessarily require fact checkers. what it requires is the quick deviation of immediate content. so what you need to automated systems that he now plans to use. it also apply just platforms to provide risk assessments regarding how their rules and practices impact the decision making processes. how they impact public health, how does it impact the rights of others? he will quickly needs to submit such a new risk assessment. and the commission is going to look very critically edit. also in lights of the political pressures which we cannot expect to come from,

from washington. and his uh, 2nd folks do policy chief, a set of fox news that together with the new administration, they're going to work on ensuring that no foreign governments pressuring us a company is doing something illegal. that's obviously a, a, a reference to the, the, the rules that the european commission can implement, the digital rules that can implement. and they are obviously afraid of those rules . and they want to use the term connection to stop the repeat commission from exercising their rights to include it protects your pin citizens. thank you so much for speaking with us today on dw, that is my ts katelyn from the hubs. bridal institute. pleasure. it's now european leaders are also warning us president elect donald trump not to invade

other countries after he returns to office later this month. trump has said he wants the us to take control of canada, greenland, and the panama canal. he also announced that he would be changes the name of the gulf of mexico. donald trump has yet to take her to the white house, but or really he's switching 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 its appropriate its appropriate board started from statement did not come with any explanation about how or why he planned 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 as sites on the panama canal, claiming the us we'll take control of the crucial shipping lane. canada is also on

trump's wish list. he wants to absorb the know the neighbor and green button. the resource rich danish territory is also in his sites. his son donald trump junior touch down in greenland capital nukes this week, supposedly on a tourist visit in macs. prime minister says greenland future is from clean linds people to decide some as a very close ally to the us. there was a reason to be pleased with the growing interest, but it has to take place in a way that is respectful to as the population of green, the book of a lead is have been more beloved tenant is prime minister justin true doses. there isn't a snowballs chance in hell of canada becoming part of the us. and panama, as 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 then

your reversible conquests are able to see but don't the trump does not appear to be detect. speaking to reporters, he refused to roll out using military or, you know, it's unknown like action to take control of the panama canal, or green loan. a lot of his bid for growing global reach, seemingly escalating a heat of his, an old duration in less than 2 weeks. well, german chancellor, all off shoulder says your readers are baffled after us present elect. donald trump refused to rule out military action to gain control of greenland. this principle, the principle of the inviolate ability of the boldest applies to every country, whether it lies east or west of us. every stage must adhere to it, whether it is a small country or a very powerful state. it is a fundamental principle of international law and the court elements of what we call

western values. that can and must be no compromise on the 2nd get. let's bring indeed of the correspondence, simon young in berlin for more on this assignment. good to see you. trump's remarks and for setting off alarm bells across european capitals. we've just heard the german chancellor there does the german government really think that trump will follow through on his words? it's a class pretty hard to say i they the last shelves didn't mention donald trump by name. he just said that he and some of the european leaders that he's been speaking to felt uneasiness, about statements coming out of the us recently. um, and what he did was refer to the helsinki a cause that is with the cold war era agreements that were intended to sort of, um, reduce tensions between the soviet blog and the west. and in particular, the key provision, the boot is,

should not be changed by force. anything shots began the statement by referring to a rough is more in ukraine. uh huh. and you're pointing out that it's, it's a violation of international law. so i think it's pretty clear that what the gym and governments really worried about it is the idea of these remarks by trump tech . somehow on the mulling, at the main argument of the west, at the, in regards to the ukraine bull. namely that russia's invasion is a legal so i doubt whether the german government necessarily thinks that donald trump is going to invite at any where the point is that he appears and the right to be questioning. the principal and germany of course, is that to hold fresh elections coming off in february, according to the latest polls of chancellor schultz. we heard just there is going to be out as chancellor. are there indications already of how

a future germany going ahead into 2025 might handle the incoming trump administration as well. i think it's certainly going to be a rough ride it it well, it depends. you know, cause what comes out of trumps white house. how many challenges he throws out a lot of focus. well, i think we'll have to be on maintaining the traditionally good relationship between germany and the us. but also that will be a need for, you know, reaction, adequate reaction to any sort of challenges. and in particular, also keeping the european nations together. when a trump, for instance, pulls back on support for ukraine that will make a headache for gemini and the other european allies. that key of has on trade your, your donald trump talks about a trade was and he's liking for the terrorist, particularly on gym and cause at but you know,

politicians here like the economy minister robot holiday. so i well know where we can stand up to donald trump as long as the european countries stick together. and of course, he points out, you know, a lot of so called jim and cause and you are actually manufactured in the united states. and a lot of us jobs depend on them as well. all right, well, thank you. as always for the analysis, let's do, they'll be, is simon young to it'll bring you up to speed now with some other world news headlines today. russian attack on the city of zach for each out in southeastern ukraine has left at least 13 people dead. that according to the regional governor around 30 other people have been injured and hospitalized. russia has intensified attacks and eastern ukraine in recent months with severe impacts on civilians. how us to me and medics say is rarely airstrikes across because i have killed more than 2000 people. one striking killed at least 10

in a monthly story building and gaza city. another attack in there all by law killed at least 7 people. this comes is international mediator stuff off efforts to seal a ceasefire and hosted relief still between israel and thomas austria and foreign minister alexander schellenberg that has been named interim chancellor. had of new coalition talk led by the far right freedom party. schellenberg demanded assurances that the party would keep austria free from russian influence. the rose kept her party one over 29 percent of the vote in september of parliament for election coalition. talk between other parties have so far failed. angelus talley and journalist as arrived in rome after being freed from detention in iran. cecilia salo was reporting intact, wrong last month when she was detained. this shortly after the us and italy arrested to iranian nationals over export violations linked to a deadly attack on american surface man. a south korean cortez issued

a 2nd arrest warrant against impeached president union. so your after authorities failed to arrest him last week, will be on bottled president has been barricaded inside his residence, where he's protected by hundreds of security personnel. his lawyers say he's still there despite rumors that he'd fled. do you know if he's east asia correspondent, james, trader reports from sol in this hillside, sol residents, south korea's impeached president, to use social hiding from arrest eunice under investigation for the insurrection, following his board speed to impose marshal nor, and we're in december. but despite the seconds arrest warrants being issued against him, he's a faded detention with the security locate. and on wednesday, protests and supports of union swelled on the road. i'm sorry, it is confound many of the processes behind me. they've been paid for a number of consecutive days now and then making today they wouldn't leave this

place. and so what they view is the threats and so feel secure despite widespread criticism that use motion will declaration, many support is believe they are protecting democracy due to it's 2 years old, tens of thousands of people have shredded blogs. you'll save them and left the names in history to protect democracy and don't tell you on the whole democracy can be achieved by sitting still say fear of losing the election. the humans removal would trigger. is the key driver for his buckets. the on one hand, what are returned to democracy enormously, but on the other hand, they are afraid of, of who will get into power from that that they may lose the next electoral battle. south korea vaccine president his us till thursday is to prevent physical conflicts in their efforts to arrest you. but with no sign of him bucking down,

it's still not clear how this volatile chunk to in south korea's politics will come to an end attorney. now to another trend, you might have heard of bird watching. it's been on the rise since the krona virus pandemic bought a new smart bird feeder, equipped with a tiny camera, is transforming the hobby and making it accessible from indoors. a shot at there's a grapple with his babies, a yellow throated warbler. and if we look closely, a flock of fighting red winged blackbirds, the co founders of a bird body, say they are anywhere between $20.00 to $30.00 species of birds in us back yards. and that their intention is to help people connect with nature. sometimes perhaps, not surprisingly, the bird feeder even attracts a sneaky squirrel just before we go quick reminder of our top story. the, for awhile fires are burning out of control in the los angeles area,

with authorities are calling 0 percent containment. b l a fire chief says 2 people have died and more than a 1000 buildings have been destroyed. tens of thousands of residents of the order to evacuate their homes. and that is our show. thank you so much for watching the

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