foot soldiers of mazda, the success of the to the rest of the world. us say the value of the also rise starts january 18th on dw, the . this is dw news live from berlin, firefighters in los angeles. say they cannot contain multiple wildfires. tens of thousands have in order to flee different neighborhoods across the la area. as hundreds of homes are engulfed by the flames. also coming up the deadly as russian attack on ukraine and weeks at the time missiles fly kits. the city is f r e shop. police 13 civilians their report to killed the

i'm aaron tilton. berlin, thanks for joining us. firefighters in los angeles are unable to contain wild fires raging in several parts of the city. the official desk told has no reason to 5, with many more injured, more than a 1000 buildings have already been destroyed and the largest blaze, making it one of the most destructive fires ever in california. the sky has changed its color in the los angeles area. a series of wild fines 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 precedents if in order to evacuate as the inferno continues to rage, the army get it. 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 community,

we lost 600 fire homes 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 the 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 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 duty

firefighters to help bethel 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, or what's bringing dw reporter stuff on simon's who's on the scene in los angeles. so stuff on the we've been seen seems of vast devastation and there's also images that you could only describe is apocalyptic on social media. so tell us what exactly are you seeing? well, um they're not far off with characterizing those. so what we see here is that the

color pick, you know, but the truth is maybe not the color pink, but massive destruction is here on display, on every corner. your turn right behind me. if you see here, this wire crew is trying to really extinguish the last flames of what destroyed a jewish temple here in pasadena. it's completely gone, a complete loss. and if you look around, maybe our current, i could do the, see all the houses and other properties here on this compound, completely gone. if you look up there, into the mountains, there is where the fire came from and this is the e to the fire. that's basically to the right of the pasadena of the, i'm sorry, of the public, said heights fire. they're both are still growing. the winds up picking up a little bit. this fire here. it consumed. 10600 acres. and there is hundreds of firefighters employed here deployed, and of course,

the mayor of l. a as well as the fire chief here said it's all hands on deck because they really need everybody who has experience with fire fighting to be here or, and all those fires $34.00 in total with this 13 others to actually charcoal those claims which come back their structures to uh, get a place again. of fire is jumping from one street to another one house. the spirits to others are completely destructed. then another one spared its completes if you will, chaos and complete the arctic destruction here. so in the face of all that, destruction is really banks the question, how exactly did these fires spread so quickly of the while? that was a surprise. uh, it wasn't a surprise that we were supposed to have santa ana winds here. that was news from 3 days ago, but the worst based on what happens is maybe one or 2 brush wires and with moderate speed. now, those santana wins came here with a 100 miles per hour,

tornado strings and down the hills, picking up the fire and really dropping it basically onto the outskirts of the city . kind of 5 tides, a year, ethan pasadena lp, you know, and so on. so now we have 4 big fires and again, the speed and the ferocity of those fires was not what was expected. prepared for 2 does not make you the master off if you had for. if you have to deal with for master fires. as we can see behind you, firefighters are doing their best to contain the blazes. at the same time, officials are saying that they're 0 per 10 percent contained. so the question is, how bad could things get into the coming days? easily worse than it is now, it's already really, really bad if the winds are picking up and ex thank goodness, as of now, this is not in the forecast. but if this is happening and firefighters cannot get

a quick handle on growing fires still, then things can get even worse. maybe not here locally, where i am right now. but just let's say 2 miles this way or 2 months. that way, anything can happen when those winds pick up. and of course, you know, the problem is when those winds pick up and when they are sustained the strong and then you can put any air assets into the air. no helicopters would drop fire retardant or water or fixed wing plains which carry a lot of fire. we talked the water and i really needed to put a damper on all those fires here. otherwise this is free growing and just with ground crews fire department l. a fire department, california fly, a cow, fly, or hot chart and some all over the nation. even the president saying, hey, we're sending 2000 national guard to help you. you cannot do this with boots on the ground all. only you need to have all the assets at display at your fingertips and after the employ them if that's how possibly goes to weather is not playing along well then things can get easily worse here. right?

that was dw importer stuff and simon's in los angeles. many thanks for your reporting and to stay safe. you create new officials. a russian missile attacks killed at least 13 civilians and wounded dozens more in the southern city of the body shop, prison, voluminous lewinski 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 meet key allies, including us officials, to drop 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, killing an intruding bessengers. adobe he goes and buildings also came into the 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. well,

the reason for my explosion, the fog smoke, these people have faded down there will crossing the road when the striking ukrainian operations see minutes before the attack. people had been born of high speed miss times. and flight bombs being fight after the 30 sheer beach and for some to the warning scheme to the a cleaning president. accuse russia of deliberately targeting civilians is nothing now most cool. we must have put pressure on most of the we must 1st rush into peace and we must continue doing everything necessary to protect lives and stop this. and at the same time, it's crucial to maintain that unit to your phone. i apologize, america and europe, and our partners around the world for helping us get key to the u. n. c's war

between russia and ukraine is intensifying, is as we approach 3 years since the russian federation is full scale invasion of ukraine. progress towards a peaceful resolution remains elusive as we witness a dangerous escalation of hostilities. so far, the ward has killed and wounded tens of thousands of fight this on civilians. for more than this, i'm joined by joshua shifting some senior fellow at the cato institute and associate professor at the university of maryland. thank you for joining us. so donald trump supposedly help. thank you. donald trump says he hopes the world be over in the next 6 months, but the question is, what would an acceptable and look like for russia and what would it look like for ukraine? well, we have to distinguish between the ideal and the pragmatic. when we talk about acceptability, i think for russia, the acceptable, the ideal acceptable would be essentially control over ukraine. not necessarily

incorporating ukraine into russia, but controller for ukrainian politics of ukrainian geo politics. and certainly no membership in nato for ukraine, where it's for ukraine. obviously, this is a desired, there's a desire to reclaim the last territories and the don bass, as well as the desirability of gaining if that admission into nato. certainly the gold standard, then security guarantees. i think pragmatically, if there's something in the middle that we might see is acceptable. but those are the ideal outcomes at the moment. i know you mentioned ukrainian a membership as nato. of course, that is always on the table when it comes to the demands, but would need to be willing to accept a member involved in an act of conflict with russia. almost certainly not. we've already seen during the war the us, germany and others be incredibly reluctant to even consider ukrainian membership in the alliance so long as the war is a hop war. and indeed, there should be concerns as long as the war may resume the future. this is not a candidate for membership that the alliance would like to take on at this time.

now speaking pragmatically, what type of concessions would both sides have to make if they are to reach a ceasefire deal? well, i think on russia's part, it's going to have to give up the idea of controlling ukraine even by a proxy, by the knots of finding the regime is they put it. that's obviously a method that's certainly the claim. likewise, they're going to have to accept the ukraine will have to have the ability to deter it if not defend itself in the future using its own resources on its own terms for you create. on the other hand, we're going to, we're talking about the situation and zalinski is already alluded to this, where the, the idea of reclaiming all the territory last to russia in the open data, the hostilities falls by the wayside. and yes, you create is likely going to need to step back from its native membership aspirations at least as a politically realistic objective in the near term. norris dimension, they're most going to have are some miles or pardon their goals. do you think we could see an end to the war or is it more likely to become a frozen conflict?

if a ceasefire deal is ever to be reached? as well as a frozen conflict is still and it's still a war that has stopped. so i think a cease fire deal is a kind of in to the were or frozen conflict is kind of in into the war. but if the idea is a peace treaty, according to what we saw in 1945 or in 1918, i think it's far more likely. we're going to see some things a ceasefire that gradually diminishes the exciting and intensity it came to what we see, what we saw in korea in 1953 or the various airbus really cease fires that held for a period of time, at least in the 1950s, 19 sixties, before peace was formerly codified of decades later. no vladimir put in as long as the spectre of nato to justify some of his countries more controversial foreign policies. do you anticipate a change after the west handling of the ukraine conflict? if there is going to be a change, it's only going to be more intense. it's very obvious that prudent blooms. the wes

probably defined for preventing him from shooting victory against keith. during the course of the conflict. we can debate whether that's a legitimate position or not, but if that's going to be put into interpretation of events as he already alludes to that we're going to see prudent blaming the west in plenty, nato. and in particular, more and more as a cause of the call they can justify for the russian foreign policy behaviors. because of the spectrum. nato enlargement was joshua, for instance, senior fellow at the cato institute and associate professor at the university of maryland. thank you very much. for your analysis and just a reminder of our top stories, firefighters and los angeles are unable to contain wildfires raging and several parts of the city. official desk told has arisen to 5 and more than a 1000 buildings have been destroyed. the fires are among the most destructive, ever recorded in california and with that,

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