and certainly our services be our guest at frankfurt and bought cd managed by front bought the you're watching dw name is coming to live from berlin firefighters in los angeles. say they cannot contain multiple wildfires. authorities say their focus is now not on saving homes. but when saving people's lives, tens of thousands has been ordered to lead different neighborhoods across the la area. also ahead on our show, the social media company meta is ending. it's 3rd party fat checking on facebook and instagram. a move that many seats as sent to a p is donald trump. we're going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico and and coming us president donald trump threatens to change the map for already

setting his sites on canada and greenland the clare richardson. welcome to the program. the 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. authorities say more than a 1000 buildings have been destroyed and at the blaze is continue to grow with quote, 0 percent containment. as the sky has changed its color in the los angeles area, a series of wild fires that started on the outskirts of the city has spread to several sub urban communities. the places have already destroyed or damaged thousands of

homes. tens of thousands of presidents have been ordered to evacuate as the inferno continues to rage. armageddon i'm driving towards on right now, and i don't even know what to say. i'm speech. so some shots, just so sad for devastated communities, we lost $600.00 fire helps, and that was the fire, one of which was fine. and now i don't even know how we're going to be able to recover from this. and the battle against the flames remains a mess of challenge. dry weather and extremely windy conditions with speeds up to 160 kilometers per hour have time. but efforts to contain the fires aircraft had to be grounded due to the strong winds, while the firefighters on the ground overwhelmed. and the fire continues to grow was 0 percent containment. we have over $500.00 personnel

assigned, and unfortunately, we have to reported fatalities to civilians unknown cause at this time. and we do have a number of significant injuries. local fire departments have us off. do you see firefighters to help? that's all the places and say the costs as you have to be investigated. the situation remain style. the national weather service has predicted a continued red flag weather event with strong winds and low humidity's, placing all residents of los angeles county in danger. and even in downtown l a, where people are safe from the flames. the inferno is becoming more dangerous, with the quality getting worse. meteorologist matthews approaches following developments in

a way. i asked him how these wildfire has got so out of hand. you know, they're really sees and 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. 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 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 accelerates down hill. it keeps up, it drives out even more. so you have dry weather, hot weather, sap thing, the ground moisture and a weight you have strong winds to stronger than a hurricane in many areas causing just such a significant impacts. we are in so i guess to a 130 kilometers per hour in burbank. that's a city in the los angeles metro area. they've never seen a gust 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 hector's, the entire $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 as well obviously of course there, there's the, the national infrastructure. they 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 kind of a setting of the atmosphere. so air quality is a huge issue. los angeles is the 2nd biggest city in the united states, and they are suffering from a very concerning air quality right now, all the particulates 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 particular 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 in such

a major metro area this time of year is very typical and does bear the fingerprints of climate change. despite the fact that this is so, a typical, i mean, los angeles is no stranger to wild fires. do 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's, there's so much discussion around building and something called the wild window 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 the air is not super for us. it, but they do have trees, they do have robust, they do have vegetation. and the question is, how much of a buffer do you need on the interest of the 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. there, 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 resilience to wildfire episodes like this, particularly as to whether it becomes harder and dry or 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? 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 tomorrow. then into friday, another round of off shore wins. pushing those by or something and expand even more and pertain, but potentially igniting new fire. so really friday will be a very bad day and end of the weekend as well. that have been very insightful. thank you so much for taking the time as me urologist matthew

a couple of g o. b you is rejecting claims of censorship made by meta ceo. mark is dr. berg, soccer burke, whose company owns a facebook and instagram made the accusations over e u. roles that require social media companies to delete posts containing false information. this comes as met announced it's getting rid of 3rd party fact checking in it's us operations and replacing it with a community based system similar to the one already and use on x. 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, zach 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 math as policy with zach her back previously supporting active content moderation. 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. 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 fox. i'm not allowed to say to say it directly respond to 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 live. i'd like to 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 claiborne, implication 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 he has kept in mind as a senior researcher at the hines, brutal institute and home board. i asked him about the dangers of replacing fact

checkers with the user moderation. this community notes out 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 them. 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 uh, 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 miss or does information in your view, do you think all this is really about free speech?

we know dr. burger force, a kitchen 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 had to had to consider how had trouble addressed like a book in one of his last books. he said that if it ever does, uh, one of those things again, uh like in the last like purpose or like some things uh, it's like a book date in the last elections, family and friends, and the outcomes which of course it didn't a trump thing. so he is like a bug 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 burg 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 week's quaker over 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 mid product backs is going to be the, the rates in europe. and your p lot doesn't necessarily have a quiet fact checkers. what it requires is the quick deletion of the content. so

what you need the automated systems that he now plans to use. it also applied 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 light of the political pressures which we cannot expect to come from, from washington. and his, uh, 2nd folks do policy chief. a said on fox news that, together with the new administration that goes to work on ensuring that no foreign governments pressuring us a company is doing something illegal. that's obviously a, 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 trump connection to stop the commission from exercising their rights to include it protects your pin citizens. thank you so much for speaking with us today on t w. that is my ts katelyn from the hun sprayed all institute pleasure. while european leaders are 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 changing the name of the gulf of mexico. donald trump has yet to take colors at the white house, but 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 to 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 green light and the resource rich and 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, it is from freeman's 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 blond 10. that is prime minister justin true doses. there isn't a snowballs chance in hell of canada becoming parts 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 that. but the trump does not appear to be detect. speaking to reporters, he refused to rule out using military. you cannot make action to take control of the panama canal. your green loan is bid for growing global rage, seemingly escalating a heat of his an old duration in less than 2 weeks. germany's chancellor. all off schultz says you leaders are baffled after us president elect donald trump refused

to rule out military action to gain control of greenland. it's principally the principal of the inviolate ability of 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 core elements of what we call western values. that can and must be no compromise on the 2nd get. i asked are political correspondence simon young, whether the german government really thinks trump will follow through on these threats. it's a class pretty hard to say i made 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 referred to the hosting here. cool is that is with the cold war era agreements that were intended to sort of reduce tensions between the soviet block and the west. and in particular, the key provision, the boot is, should not be changed by force anything, shouts began. the statement by referring to russia is more in ukraine, and you're pointing out that you're, 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, the main argument of the west, at the, in regards to the ukraine will, 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. well, it depends. you know, cause what comes out to have trumps white house. how many challenges he throws out a lot of focus, 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. and if 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 or on trade your, your donald trump talks about a trade was and he's liking for a terrorist, particularly on jem and cause. but it 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 circled gym and calls 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 that's due to be is simon young time now for some other world news headlines. palestinian medics say is rarely airstrikes across gaza have killed more than 2000 people. one strikes killed at least 10 in a multi story building and gaza city. another attack in there all by law kills at

least 7 people. this comes as international mediators step up, efforts to seal a ceasefire and hosted release deal between israel and time. us austria and foreign minister alexander schellenberg has been named interim chancellor. had of new coalition talk led by the far right freedom party, schellenberg demanded assurance as if the party would keep off free or free from russian influence. 0 skeptic party won over 29 percent of the vote in september's parliamentary election coalition talks between other parties have so far failed. and as holly and journalist as arrived in rome after being freed from detention in iran, cecilia sala was reporting into her on last month when she was detained. this shortly after the us and italy had arrested 2 iranian nationals over export violations linked to a deadly attack on american service. men ukrainian

officials say russian missile attacks killed at least 13 civilians and wounded dozens more in the southern city of zachary asia. president willing, there's a lensky called the daytime attacks, cruel. he's urging ukraine's allies to step up the pressure on russia this week. so lensky is due to me key allies, including us officials, to drum up support for the last time before donald trump takes the white house shock, and grief, and deputy everywhere. according to a part of these russian strikes, hit the button gilling and intruding bessengers called this adobe. he goes and buildings also came and did a dock is people who are leaving from work to the main entrance of the building. and that's when the attack happens to very loud explosions. moderate explosion, the fog smoke. these people have faded down. they were crossing the road

when the striking ukrainian of fish and sea minutes before dark people had been born of high speed miss times. and slight buns being fight at the zip code, we shared each and for some to the warning scheme through the according to the you when the war between russia and ukraine is intensifying, sees as we approach 3 years since the russian federations full scale invasion of ukraine progress towards a peaceful resolution remains elusive as we witness a dangerous escalation of hostilities september in fact, march the highest number of civilian casualties since july 2022. so far, the warrant has killed and wounded tens of thousands of fight this and civilians or a south korean court has issued a 2nd arrest warrant against impeached president,

to use so fuel. after a forty's failed to arrest him last week, the embattled 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 had fled. these all these east asia correspondent, james, trader reports from sol. in this hillside, sold residents south korea's impeached president of human 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 his secondary rest warrants being issued against him, he's a vague to detention with the security locate. and on wednesday, protests and supports of human swelled on the road outside his confound. many of the processes by means of the day for a number of consecutive days now and then making said they would leave this place.

and so what they do is the threats and so feel secure. and despite widespread criticism, did use motion to declaration menace the process of his belief. they are protecting democracy due to it's 2 years old. tens of thousands of people have shredded blogs . you'll state them and left the names in history to protect democracy, you know and tell you on the whole democracy can be achieved by sitting still say fear of losing the election. the humans removal would trigger is a key driver. so he's buckets. they on one hand, want a return to democracy, a normal c, but on the other hand, they are afraid of, of the will get into power from that they may lose the next elect. oral battle. south korea's action president is still thursdays to prevent physical conflicts. in their efforts to arrest you, but with no sign to pin backing down,

it's still not clear how this volatile chunk to in south korea's politics will come to an end to those james state are reporting from soul and with that, you are up to date, stay with us, so i'll be back after a short break to take you through the day. i'm sorry, richardson, emperor, atlanta, thank you so much for joining us. the

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