the young people clearly have the solution. the future is 77 percent every weekend on dw the. this is the w news. why from berlin? dudley wildfires burned out of control in los angeles, consuming vast stretches of property. a new fire has broken out and the hollywood hills triggering fresh evacuation orders and threatening iconic landmarks. the fast moving fires are spreading across multiple neighborhoods. also coming up, lloyd austin makes his last trip to raj time air based in germany. as us defense secretary to meet with you, chris allies at 2 vs off the countries air defenses. before donald trump takes office,

we're going to be changing the name of the gulf of mexico and then coming us presidents, donald trump threats to change the mass after already subbing his sized on canada and greenland. the marietta evan stain is good to have you with us. a new fire has broken out in the hollywood hills in los angeles threatening landmarks length, adobe theater, where the oscar ceremony is to be held in just a few weeks. authorities have ordered evacuations for thousands of people. firefighters are so far unable to contain several blazes raging across the los angeles area. at least 5 people have died and more than a 1000 buildings have been destroyed. home to home,

consumed by flames. fierce winds up and propelling the infernal here and all to dina, controlling the places has been near impossible. i've lived in this area for over 20 years and we've seen fires in the mountains in the hills, but never anything like this. whole neighborhoods or kingston are rated. some residents have been returning to the chart ruins of their former homes. a year was our home with my sister, and we've lost practically everything, but the flames have consumed on years of dreams. here. everything here has turned to ashes from the air, a wider view of the scale of a disaster. smoke stretching off for hundreds of kilometers from space. satellite imagery captured the 2 biggest places, the palisades and even fires neighboring states are sending resources to help the

president find promised a strong federal response as he met with california. as governor and other top state officials, the the more than a 100000 people are under evacuation orders for customers. they commer wins, could help fire fighting efforts in the coming days. but as the blazes rage out of control, the extreme risk to life and property will remain dw reporters, stuff in simons is on the edge of the so called sunset fire, near the hollywood hills. while you have to the right, this is where we are sunset,

fire hollywood hills, very push neighborhood where a affluent area. yeah. of course, hollywood hills and those folks who are right behind me were the last ones who were hit by evacuation orders. and we asked law enforcement here, pretty much everybody left t o y because of the fire, which is going on. actually on the other side of the hill, it's growing and it's not under control. it's 0 percent contains. it is the latest blaze popping up in and around los angeles. the biggest still is the power sets fire the winds were picking up about an hour ago now died down a little bit here and there is a good side. why? because you can see it. but maybe you can hear it's sarah helicopters up in the now those are spotters, they are not. the helicopters would dump a lot of which dump a lot of water, but is a good sign when dying down air assets for the firefighters in the air. and that means they can actually come bed effectively, pipe fire,

which they couldn't in the last 24 to 48 hours at all. well that's, we've been saying there are multiple fires burning simultaneously. and earlier you sent us some footage from the east and fire, which is near pasadena. what was going on there? a well, it's of a scene of destruction, really chaotic destruction. it's a, i wouldn't describe it as a war zone or a collect the fuck. the destruction is really a immense, very, very way the big and significant church is gone. synagogues going templates going, business is gone, homes gone, lot of people came back to destroyed neighborhoods, entire neighborhoods gone, wiped of the earth, basically burned down to ashes. and, and that is hard for those people that this fire, the fire with the 2nd biggest is now starting to be contained 1020 percent may be but you know, a long way to go for the fire department here in l. a. as well as cal fire,

the state firefighters here, and anybody else who is fighting this fire, that's why it's all hands on the x. the fire are chief, he off l a is, was the mayor of los angeles. that's why the governor of california said anybody with fire fighting experience, please get your jelly jack inspect on. come year help us. we're in trouble. there's 5 big fires. hassling us here in l. a. and this is as you know, l. a. so there's a lot of stuff going on. you a lot of sites, movie production, a lot of people, if you will, you set it yourself. uh, some of the fires are 0 percent contained according to officials. so how exactly our fire fighter is going to be able to bring them under control? the only chance is when nature helps and how is it helping by dying down those sent in a wind just 24 hours ago. those winds packed 100 miles per hour,

tornadoes strong gusts. that is amazing. now i would say we're at like 30 between 30 and 40 miles per hour at times. that is still not great. but as i said, you hear sometimes helicopters in the air and now the fire department see in the firefighters will start to use those air assets. and they are crude because to dump huge amounts of fire retards, and water on fires which pop up again and again. and to really give them a, basically the best penalty to those flyers. and you can only do this if you have those air s as if you have fixed wing airplanes and highly comforters who can really, really doubts those claims. with just boots on the ground, it doesn't matter how many fire part is or hot shots, a groups you put on the ground that you cannot win this fight if the santa ana winds blowing as they do now a little bit. and half those fires jump from place to place uncontrollable. you can only take a defensive measure there and step way back and let the fire do what the fire does burning things down. that's what nobody wants here. of course,

that's why the winds have to die down the plains after they had a cup. this have to go into the air and then l a is a good chance you to combat that fire suit and stuff on. i want to ask you about the thousands of people who've been told to evacuated, where are they taking shelter? yeah, that's a, a growing problem because, you know, of course, shelters are organized to them in, in, in schools and safe places by the city government to buy city officials and the state. uh, so there is effort to really have those people uh, be provided with a safe place. but um, you know, they, those safe space. the social, the places have to be built up. they have to be uh, organized and that's what the city is actually doing right. now, so it's not all smooth. and hunky dory. yeah. a lot of people are in the lot or heard for that reason. it's really cumbersome. they don't have necessarily any way to go. so they rely on friends and relatives, you know, to find

a place for the night, or maybe for 2 nights if they can find the official shelter. but the shelters are there and they will be increasing in numbers in the next few hours. next few days until the situation is sol, to that was the double use stuff in simon's in los angeles for us stuff, and thanks for your reporting. we appreciate it, and please do stay safe. while we also spoke earlier to john hines and who lives in the los angeles suburb of alto, dina, and was forced to evacuate from the fires. sure. so last night, when the fire started about dinner time, my son and i went out to the fire line, which was at the canyon very close to where we live. and the fire burned through the evening. and i went back to my home in the middle of the night, but in the morning when i woke up, i had now seen the devastation through the neighborhood. and this is a very historic neighborhood at the base of the san gabriel mountains in los angeles. these homes are well over a 100 years old. and so now you're seeing these hundreds of homes that are been devastated in the immediate area but,

but the fires are continuing. and so this is actually the problem is that many, many fight homes are on fire. and because of the big wins that are ongoing, from the previous few days, it's jumping from house to house. and so it's still very, very dangerous. and so the evening was really going through the mountains which are at the, the front of the canyon. but now all of the homes are threatened, and so the wave is going from the west to the east because of the winds. and so i decided now that my home would be threatened and i came down to orange county to stay with relatives as well. while fires have become more frequent outside the regular fire season in southern california, and we ask me urologist matthew cook poochie why these fires are causing so much destruction in southern california. fires are part of the landscape fires a part of the ecosystem. it happens every few years, but when you start building bigger and bigger and bigger cities, you're going to have more potential for damage loss in casualties. in this case

however, you have very densely packed in neighborhoods with no real brakes for fire to stop that. and so in situations like because it's easier for the fire to run all the way down to the foothills and potentially to the ocean until this has either contained or verse of the ocean. i don't really see much of an end inside. even there aren't really many natural barriers here. one other point, you know, you mentioned moments ago, the january's not typically when we see these fires, you're exactly right. we ordinarily would see them until about maybe october or november by which point the winter range would start to arrive and come december fire season should be over. that's not really the case. we just haven't really seen any arrival the winter rains. it's been so incredibly dry over the past few months . we've seen less than a quarter of the typical rate involved. and so in the winter time, when we get the strong wind events and the landscapes of tinderbox, you get big time fighters like this that are more typical of big pharmacies. all right, let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world. palestinian medic say is really air strikes across gauze. i have killed more

than 2 dozen people. one strike killed at least 10 in a multi story building near garza city. another attack in the year a block killed at least 7 people. this comes as international mediators step up, efforts to seal a cease fire and hostage release deal between israel and how much of the italian journalist as arrived in rome, after being freed from detention as a ron, cecilia sala was reporting in payroll. and last month, when she was detained, it was shortly after the us and italy rest of it to iranian nationals over x board violations linked to a deadly attack on american service. and at least 19 people have been killed after gunman tried to storm the presidential complex and chest capital in jemina. a government spoke 1st and so the incident was not a terrorist threat. chad phase as regular attacks by the is from this group bulk of

a russian attack on the city of the upper region in southeastern ukraine has left at least 13 people that that's according to the original governor. around 30 others have been injured and hospitalized. russia has intensified attacks and eastern ukraine in recent months with severe impacts on civilians. in the coming hours ukraine's president's let them here is a lensky will meet with allies at the us. military. is raj time air base? here in germany? it's the last such gathering for us defense secretary, lloyd austin, before donald trump takes office later this month. one focus will be air defense, soleski. once more of it, both the us and germany have already provided patriot anti aircraft systems to ukraine. the u. s. has supplied attack and long range missiles and also given keith permission to fire them into russian territory. germany has also provided gephardt, anti aircraft tags and iris anti aircraft systems. while you cranes,

partners have given more than $120000000000.00 worth of military aid since rushes full scale invasion nearly 3 years ago. about half of that amount has come from the west and another 25 percent from germany, which is ukraine's 2nd biggest becker. a beeping of kias arsenal of modern anti missile. and the anti drone weapon rate could also reduce pressure on so cold mo, bile, air defense units. they move quickly to make the most of last century's weaponry, dw correspondence on your phone record, joined a group of journalists, given a closer look at how these defenders stop missiles and drones, from hitting their targets. the fights and the skies over ukraine every single night. nobody, a defense units like these take on deadly russian added techs these

units are not as sophisticated as the wisdom provided featured for iris pieces, but it cheaper and can move quickly outside key. this cool use this to different weapon system. a talk is supplied heavy machine guns, modeled on it's better known american come to box the into browning to shoot down drones, hold them above the main goal is to shoot down targets flying at low altitude for the moment while we have thermal imaging on it, which allows us to detect and make corrections and destroy the target overall google issue of the problem. and they also use this, the multiple soviet era, similar to the american made single anti aircraft besides the system. it's capable of shooting down crews besides, those will be split 3 of the finding the target, the messiah limits, the sound,

and light signal. a green flashlight lights up here. this is a high so this means you can shoot at the target. doesn't show show most no, but the put to this unit was put together just months of the rushes full scale invasion. they had just 3 days to present the weapons before being put into the fighting. and on behalf of there are a lot of attacks now. they're massive, they can even last all day. but those are what's it silly that even when a defense teams like be successfully shot down and beside this danger from the fiery wreckage of the target falling beside and told jeffrey often can people and damage buildings and infrastructure, the positive value. there are cases one, we should issue a head drawing, but it applies for another 5 to 10 kilometers cycle, and that will then at one point or falls a cool people. recently, a girl died near visor, q, and a lot of people are the, i've read the comments and by it's terrible. most of the people say the military is

to blame and i get the room. but how many people would have missile destroyed if it hits its target in kiera from april or odessa all, often near the 3 years of war, the menu or say they need more ammunition and weapons to continue competing russian attacks. and they see there's one more thing that's just as important should be. there is a new issue. the not the people have to understand that this is because it was big loss to end in order to ended, we need to mobilize so that people can be rotated to them. so that when we have given weapons a good boy, we can train and have the opportunity to defend ourselves with these weapons. uh yeah, hold on with movies. uh oh, boy, not this uh, 2 boy. talks with weston allies may result in mil weapons, but it would still be ukrainians themselves. we'll have to take the personal risk on the front line. us and our correspondence. sonya folic are who found that report

and joins us now from king of sonya. good to see you. tell us just how bad is the shortage of man power for the ukrainian armed forces we ukraine has really been struggling to, you know, you know, replenish its rags and rotate exhausted troops off the front of this has become a very pressing issue of the quotes address the most new recruits now are quite old . they about $45.00, the unmotivated. there's a reason to procure that said that the brigades you created for gate that was trained in fronts and provided with western weapons. a lot of people gave supposedly deserted. you're creating media has talked about some problems with managing and stopping some unit. so i think, oh, this adds to this picture of people, joe, now being reluctant to sign out of the army, you will be running out of willing recruits. and, and, and this is a little despite publicity campaigns with various brigades of creating parliament

and some of the call up age from 27 to 25. it also added additional value. do you say the least of those trying to dodge the to off when you speak to or lead you pregnancy or false? people understand that, you know, there is a need to talk more young men to the all me. but i think this mobilization policies quite unpopular, the reports of young men trying to hide from recruitment offices. uh, you know, leaving the country in the causal and still trying to evade the draft. and this issue of mind publish voltage now has to be communism editing with you. queen, size to be with president savanski has no business to public calls by the by did administration to for the laws like they should age to 18. this is a sensitive issue in ukraine given that the country already, you know, pieces of demographic questions. so now what to ask you about the recent attack on the city of suffer regia. it was one of the deadliest attacks on civilians and recent months. what more can you tell us about it? of the that's correct. i mean,

the visuals go from the ends up with you. she says this attack happened yesterday in the middle of the office. it, it said with residential buildings and of industrial facility, the deputies. so these guides bombs that they use use of having to also struck crammed injury. i'm giving passengers not present the landscapes see reactive to this attack. seeing, you know, there was nothing more cruel than bomb being a city said knowing that or do the civilians will supplement. you said russian title has to be stopped. and it has to be said that russia has been using these guided bones. these get these highly destructive precision guided munitions of josh has been using them to hit you printing and modest with these like so me and khaki, but also is up with the shell which the board of your premium, you know, occupied land in the thoughts. and let's put something in ski as now said that he would be, you know, urging his partners to be at a meeting and drum shining, somebody to, to boost ukraine's capability supply and protect ukraine from these destructive

bones which are quite difficult to intercept with uh, amazon it depends on the site. well, sonya just uh, what are the expectations for this meeting at the us air base and raj time here in germany. i mean we know that donald trump is about to take office uh at the end of january. um, what could you crane hope for to what i think the summit comes at the really close crucial moments for ukraine. you know, given that the war is now kind of approaching, it's a todd, your mock, ukraine is, you know, continuing to lose ground in the eastern russian pulses. its leaders now are now under pressure to negotiate as, as long as the trump, as he said, a gift set to enter the white as prompt as a full set. he wants to get us out of a rush, is what and you praise you wants to negotiate the dispute. i think there is a feeling she'll know and ukraine despite all the places of support that you'll see today. as i'm starting, that is a lot of uncertainty. sure about you know what,

what comes next with the, with the us, we continue to to back, you print a minutely in, in the robust bottom. thank you for that. sonya that was the d. w. as on your phone, the current reporting for us from t if we appreciated to south korea now, where a court has issued a 2nd arrest warrant against and peach president you. so you'll, after authorities has failed to arrest him. last week, the battle president has been barricaded inside his residence, where he's protected by hundreds of security personnel. his lawyer say he's still there despite the rumors that he'd fled. w's east asia correspondent james cheater has this report 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 bush speed to impose marshall lower and we're in

december. but despite the seconds arrest warrants being issued against him, he's a faded detention with the security brocade. and on wednesday, protests and supports of union swelled on the road of societies. confound many of the parts 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 that use motion to declaration menus, to 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 and don't tell you on the whole democracy can be achieved by sitting still say fear of losing the election. the use removal would trigger is a key driver for his buckets. the on one hand want,

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's action president is still thursday, is to prevent physical conflicts in their efforts to arrest you, but with no sign it and bucking down, it's still not clear how this volatile chunk to in south korea's politics will come to an end. the 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 now said 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 facing 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 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 tier a tree 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 completing 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 leaders 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 the trump does not appear to be detected. speaking to reporters, he refused to rule out using military. you cannot make action to take control of the panama canal, or green loan. a lot of his bid for growing global rage, seemingly escalating a heat f, as in alteration in less than 2 weeks. so that's the latest on the delay. you can

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