if you were asleep i was paying for and now i asked them when generation was now on the team to ministry this kind of fun. i feel like there's the this is dw news live from berlin. dudley wildfire is burned out of control in los angeles, consuming vast stretches of property. the new fire has broken out in 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 ron sean air base in germany as us defense secretary, so nice with ukraine's allies to beef of the country's air defenses. before donald trump takes office and deadly violence following mozambique disputed election force

has many families to sweep into neighboring malawi, dw tossed the most and beacons who have found refuge, the mariana evans, dean. it's 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 a few weeks. firefighters are so far on able to contain several blazes raging across the los angeles area, burning homes and forcing residents to flee. at least 5 people have died in more than a 1000. buildings have been destroyed. home after home, consumed by flames. of the fierce winds up and propelling the inferno

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 that ever. so last night, when the fire started about dinner time, my son and i went out to the fire line, which was at a 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. home neighborhoods are payments generated. some residents have been returning to the charred ruins of their former homes. the year was our home with my sisters, and we'd lost practically everything, but the flames have consumed 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. that from space satellite imagery captured the 2 biggest places. the palisades and eating fires neighboring states are sending resources to help. president biden 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 los angeles is the 2nd largest city in the united states and is now witnessing one of the worst series of fires and this history. authorities have ordered evacuations in 5 areas. to w reporters. 7 simons spoke to us from the edge of the so called sunset fire, which erupt is near the hollywood hills. while you're up to the right, this is where we also said fire hollywood hills, very push neighborhood where a affluent area year, 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 can change. it is the latest blaze popping up in and around los

angeles. the biggest steel is the power says 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, they are a helicopter this up in the now, those spotters, they are not, the helicopters were dump a lot which dump a lot of water pot is a good sign. wind dying down air assets for the firefighters in the air. and that means they could actually come bed effectively, pipe fire, which they couldn't in the last 24 to 48 hours at all. well, as 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, but the destruction is really a immense, very, very way the big and significant church is gone. synagogue school and templates going business is gone home school and lot of people came back to discharge nevo, its entire neighborhoods gone. wipe of the earth basically burned down to ashes and, and that is hard for those people. let's this fire they eat and 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 co 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 also as well as the mayor of los angeles as well. the governor of california said anybody with fire fighting experience, please get your jelly jack and spec on come here 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 here, a lot of sites, movie production, a lot of people live here where you set it yourself. uh, some of the fires are 0 percent contained according to officials. so how exactly are firefighter 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 santana wins just 24 hours ago. those wins packed 100 miles per hour, tornadoes, strong gulf. 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 in the firefighters will start to use those air assets and they are critical to some huge amounts of fire. we targeted 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 acids. if you have fixed wing airplanes, and how they comforters, who can really, really doubts those flames 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 plaintiff. then they had a couple of have to go on 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? of the 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 places. so show 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 a lot of hurt 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 an official shelter. but they'll shelters are there. and they will be increasing a numbers in the next few hours next few days until the situation is so that was the w's stuff in simon's in los angeles for us stuff. and thanks for your reporting, we appreciate it, and please do stay safe. all right, let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world. you as president elect donald trump and his wife maloney. i have pay their

respects to the late president. jimmy carter in march transfers returned to the us capital since his supporters rioted there over the contest of 2020 election. on january 6th of 2021. trump is expected to attend carter's funeral on thursday. a russian attack on the city of separation south eastern ukraine has left at least 13 people dead. that's according to the regional governor. around 30 other people have been injured and hospitalized. russia has in tens of 5 attacks in eastern ukraine and recent months with severe impacts on civilian or in the coming hours ukraine's presidential of mirrors. lensky will meet with allies and us military's rom shine air base. here in germany, it's the last that's gathering for us defense secretary, lloyd austin, before donald trump takes office later this month. one focus will be air defense.

zalinski wants more of it. both the us and germany have already provided patriots anti aircraft systems, the ukraine, u. s. has supplied attack and long range missiles and given key of permission to fire them into russian territory. germany has also provided gephart and anti aircraft tanks and iris anti aircraft systems. ukraine's 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 at 25 percent from germany, which is ukraine's 2nd biggest becker will beefing of kids arsenal of modern anti missile. an anti drug weapon re, could also reduce pressure on ukraine's so called mo bile, air defense units. these types of units move quickly and must make the most of

existing weapons to w correspondence. sonya fall in the car was given a closer look at how they operate. the fight to the skies over you clean everything is nice. me buying a defense units like these take on deadly russian. add a tax these units are not as sophisticated as the wisdom provided patriots for iris the system. but they cheapo and can move quickly outside key this girl use this to different weapon system. a talk is supplied heavy machine gun models on it's better known american come to box the into browning to shoot down drones, hold them above the main goal was 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

people show the probability and they also use this, the multiple soviet era, you know, similar to the american made single entry across, besides the system. it's capable of shooting down crews besides, when you sit through your of the finding the target, the messiah limits, the sound, and light signal. a green flashlight lights up here. this is the hold i. so this means you can shoot at the target. so gonna say sure, almost no, but the put to this unit was put together just months of the rushes full scale invasion. they had just 3 days to clean up the weapons before being forced into the fighting. and on behalf of there are a lot of attacks now there are message that can even last all day. but those would sincerely that even when a defend stains like be successfully shot down to beside this danger from the fiery wreckage of the target falling beside and told,

jeffrey often killed people and damage buildings and infrastructure. the park about their cases when we should issue a head drawing, but it applies for another 5 to 10 kilometers guide to invest a little then at one point or falls before the recently a girl died near visor. keith, i learned a lot of people. 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, what a missile destroy, it hits its target in kiera from april or odessa. and i was often near the 3 years of war, the menu or say they need more ammunition and weapons to continue come to the russian attack. 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 this 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 have to take the plus the risk on the front flight, a dw sonya fall in the car file that reports and a short time ago, she told me more about you cranes, drastic manpower shortages. ukraine has really been struggling to, you know, you know, replenish its rags and rotate exhausted tubes of the front of this has become a very pressing issue. the quotes to address the most new recruits now are quite old. they are about $45.00 there. unmotivated. there's a recent research here that said that the brigades, ukraine, forget, that was trained in fonts and provided with western width. and a lot of people from the use of possibly distorted ukrainian media has talked about some problems with managing and starting 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 this is 0 despite publicity campaigns where various brigades of the crate in parliament have someone know what the call up age from 27 to 25. it also added additional balance. do you pay those diesel? those trying to dodge the to off when you speak to or to read your pregnancy or false, people understand that, you know, there is a need to tow more young men to the all me. but i think this mobilization policy is 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 mine, published voltage now has become and is an irritant with your queen, size to be with president savanski has, you know, this is probably caused by the, by did administration to, for the like vision 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 reba. it was one of the deadliest attacks on civilians and recent months. what more can you tell us about it? that's correct, i mean the visuals go from the ends up. what do you show says this attack happened yesterday in the middle of the off. it said were risk actually buildings and the industrial facilities. the debrief of these guides bombs that they use use of energy also struck and crammed injury. i'm giving passengers and the presence of landscapes see reacted to this attack. seeing, you know, there was nothing more cruel than bomb being a city said, knowing that ordinarily civilians will supplement use. the 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 car keys, but also is up with the shell which border you premium. like, you know, people headlines in the thoughts and let's put something in ski is now said that he

would be, you know, or genius block. those to be at the meeting and drum shine in germany 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 and just uh, what are the expectations for this meeting at the us air base and rubbish 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 what i think the summit comes out to really close crucial moments for ukraine. you know, given that the war is now kind of a pro, to gets a todd, your mock ukraine is, you know, continuing to lose ground in the eastern russian pulses. it's, it's leaders now are now under pressure to negotiate. as i've done as drums, as he said, it gets set to enter the white, those problems as

a full set. he wants to get us out of a rush is what and ukraine he wants to negotiate. a dispute. i think there is a feeling here now and ukraine despite all the places of support that you'd see today. that's what i'm showing, that there's 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 minute to be in the robust by them. thank you for that. sonya that was the d. w. as on your phone, the current reporting for us from t if we appreciate it. i, a class is over. a disputed election in the southeast african country of mozambique are forcing thousands of people to flee many crossing the border to a neighboring malawi. the main opposition leader of a non c remodeling returned home on thursday after fleeing after the hotly contested vote back in october monthly and said he was ready to take part in talks over the election, which he says were rigged to w. travel to the 10 gone evacuation camp in malawi to speak to people about the

journey and the struggles they now face. there are a puerto ulten shakara centers. this report arriving in malawi as a relief from many families fleeing the violence in mozambique. we ahead because of the disputed selection and the violence. life is tough. my love is peaceful. i wish my country was like the people here or if i did have, i feel like when i crossing the border to get to this, the bank you wish. and camp was a difficult and dangerous journey. many recount the harrowing time they had gazing here. but it's a struggle to x these basic supplies once they have arrived. a john does the city it does because my children and i slept 3 smelled full nights and the forest arrived here hungry and exhausted. suddenly there was acute shortage of food on the children are only getting a little porridge we played with them allow the government to provide us with some

becomes with what we need otherwise, we will stop the video since i came here, i've been sleeping on an empty stomach, we only had 2 scoops of mayflower. there's no accommodation, no blankets, and i only have to dress. i'm standing up and be able to call this temporary camp is one of the 4 that have been c sap on the allow we southern border. thousands of people have slaves, mozambique move in. 3000 of them are in this camp alone. officials wanted dia risks as they struggled to manage the sewage and people desperately seeking refuge . we're ready now remodeling. this place is slowly becoming a breeding ground for colorado and other multiple diseases. the main problem, besides food is that a camp has no toilet thinking about it. if nothing is done color, i could soon break out rid of her. you know, if i'm on a, the malawi government is trying to scale up its support and the ceasing of

a formal attempt to base or accommodate the thousands of people crossing the border . already some tense has been fixed there with support from you and hcr and also malawi, red cross, and other partners. there's also a change that i've been put there. however, the biggest challenge we have, nothing on the site is access to what that as there's only one full full on the site. so we're trying to look at measures on how we can ensure that water is provided to decided before we move everyones to these sites. malawi is already struggling to provide enough food for its own population. and the surgeon arrivals risk adding to the instability via leaving many in malawi n mozambique, hoping that tom can be restored across the border as soon as possible. the w as diane hawker, is following developments and mozambique for us. and she joins us now from johannesburg to see a dan. so why has the opposition leader of announced

a modeling decided to return to mozambique now as well, mariana, the timing in dissertation is really everything the most in beacon president elect . daniel chapel is expected to be ignored, grated on the 15th of january, which is next week, wednesday and $19.00. it says that he should be in new grade to be in state. and it seems like he plans to hold a parent allow inauguration process instead of daniel chapel. this is of course, expected to create quite a lot of excitement in to a certain extent, some uncertainties in the country. we saw that one's on the arrived this morning to a gaggle of priests and supporters at the airport in the photo. and there's a lot of expectation of what he will do next over the next few days between now and back. you know, gratian date. all right, so the opposition leader planning

a parallel in all your ration. how is this likely to impact most and beaks political landscape and are there concerns there, there that there could be more violence they all of course concerned that they could be quite a lot more violent. we've already seen 278 people reportedly killed in some other reports from other. a civil society groups in mozambique, they say that number could be even higher. today we've seen large groups of people walking through the streets of a mozambique on a, through the streets of my put so in particular, most in beaks capital hoping to hear what the next marching orders are from 1991 time it has been charged by the government for inciting violence, and there is a $330.00 could be a risk that if found by police, if he is to be arrested,

that could spark even bull protest. all he himself could call for additional protests over the next few days. there is an expectation that he will make further addresses. now that he is back in the country, he was in a self imposed exile. but it seems that due to the single gratian he has felt the need to return to the country. and as he said, i make sure that he gets inaugurated in state. well ones on it. and also others have been calling on the south africa government and others to intervene. is that likely to happen as well? we have seen some, if it's to, to mediate and to, to, to create some kind of calm in mozambique over the past few weeks. we know that the and golden government has also been calling for the to become of africa, has sent an invoice to mozambique to try and get the different political parties to

come to the table and try and find a solution that solution. it's lucky a how it will come about because the views also different as to what the to outcome in the election is. for example, the for the mo party, which is the routing party, has accepted that he does one by 65 percent way as the opposition parties in the country believe that one's on the has, has one and for baby to be any kind of, of reaching of middle ground, someone will have to compromise on the position and you haven't seen any appetite for that. that's for the w's, dan hawker in johannesburg for us. many thanks indeed. or you're watching the double you news. the reminder now of our top story. another wildfire has broken out in los angeles in the hollywood hills area. authorities have ordered evacuations for thousands of people as fires, destroyed homes and trenton landmarks. firefighters are so far unable to contain

several blazes reaching across southern california were at least 5 people have died . you're up to date on p. w. news on marietta evans dean. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more headlines for you. thanks for watching. the

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