foot soldiers among the success of the sites for the rest of us say of the altar rise starts january 18th on dw, the . this is dw news live from bell and dudley wild fires, but out of control in los angeles, consuming vol, stretches of prophecy. a new fire has nap root canals in the hollywood hills, triggering fresh evacuation autism trusting eye clinic landmarks, the false moving fires, spreading across multiple neighborhoods. also coming up on the program, lloyd austin is in germany on his last visit. as us defense secretary is due to meet with you cranes. allies on with president reload him, is zalinski to talk about basing up keeps military before the white house changes.

hands and crowds gather in mos on beach capital is its main position. lee is ever tons from exile. he claims he's the president, but says he is ready for talks on a disputed election. the 95th is mckinnon. welcome to the program. a new fi i has broken house in the hollywood hills in los angeles, the threatening landmarks like the old, the fish where the oscar ceremony is to be held in a few weeks time. 5 fights has also fall. unable to contain several blazes raging across the los angeles area funding homes and forcing residents to flee. at least 5 people have died and more than a 1000 buildings have been destroyed at home after home,

consumed by flames. fierce winds up and propelling the inferno here in 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 there. so last night, when the fire started about dinner time, my son and i went out to the fire line, which was of 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 and los angeles. these homes are well over a 100 years old. whole neighborhoods are convenience generated. some residents have been returning to the charge ruins of their former homes. a year was our home with my sisters, and we've lost practically everything, but the flames have consumed in 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 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 fire truck. okay . more than a 100000 people are under evacuation orders for cost or say 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 in front of it as a senior fine management. experts at the european forest institute is joining me now from a show in a drum and a welcome to the w. thank you for your time today. you began your career, i believe is a wildland firefighter in california 20 years ago, given your experience, could you put into perspective for us, what los angeles firefighters are dealing with right now? yes, it's of course, very hard when conditions the high winds from the santa anna were then compounded by another wind didn't top a graphic feature. so this wind and hot air was compressed and sped up even further than the normal santa ana would be, which, you know, was the head of the fire,

which caused a lot of trees and power line issues even before the blazes got well established. so this created access issues for firefighters. these are very steep slopes and the surrounding area, which are held together by, you know, brush and root systems. when those burn away, boulders come rolling down. with roads also being blocked off by a power lines by people who are out of band in their cars. there is just a lot of of chaos in the 1st hours of an incident like this, which, you know, i can only imagine it is, is very difficult to even get a bearing. and the 1st priority is of course, life and property is not even containing a blaze, and there's still people trapped in their homes. are still trying to make access to some of these areas. yeah, i mean, it sounds like a logistical nightmare. but again, i mean we see these pictures, but i'm sure we don't know what it is like for these 5 slides is describe to us what it feels like when you're facing a fire, when you're actually standing in front of these lanes as well. that's when you're

training kicks and you know, you have your go mode, you start, you know, thinking differently, you know, more clearly if you will, you're, you're trained to, um, you know, act in a scenario like this. and yeah, i mean is, these are, these are folks that are working long, long hours and doing everything they can to, to protect their communities. and, you know, there's, they're doing their best. and of course, looking out for people helping people who, you know, sometimes people just come wondering out of the smoke it also listening to scanner traffic. i mean there's, there's new houses catching fire even now, even today, there's a new reports of people needing to be, you know, transported to a safe area. and so, yeah, your training kicks in and you just do it. you have to do is there's no 2 ways about it. other are not flat slices, you know, i mean there really stretch there and that was one of the really challenging aspects here is there's a simultaneity of events. there's multiple,

very high priority. fire is going on, there's not enough firefighters to even address every single, you know, house, it's on fire. obviously, you have to tree eyes. you have to say that, you know, there's nothing we can do is standing here pouring water even if we have it, some of the areas of the hydrant pressure is completely dropped. so they're needing to truck water into some of the areas. so, you know, you really have to prioritize about, you know, where, where one puts which ones resources and in the summer months you have an additional, $10000.00, approximately federal white land firefighters. many of them also stationed in southern california. that would have been there within, you know, minutes or, or hours of an event like this happening. and these resources aren't available right now. the only the permit stuff are even air aircraft contracts. of course, with the high winds. you can't fly so much aircraft. but even in commer conditions, the standby contracts, you know, only run a certain part of the year. so the timing of this is also strained resources even

further. what the local authorities need to be doing now to help people cope with the situation and all they actually doing the right things. of course, i mean, it is not for me to know past any criticism here. i think there will be a lot of questions asked after the fact that, you know, questions are, you know, why wasn't the power shut down in some places where the, you know, the winds were forecasted. um, you know what, what compounded this was this mountain wave, a wind event, which not only caused so so the santa ana winds are a supercharged super heated air that comes out of the great basin from a high pressure system. and kind of washes down towards the sea. and then you have the this wave effect, which creates as near as surface turbulent factor, which means that the winds don't necessarily behaviors one might expect in a santa and a wind event. and it compound it. so it wasn't even faster so i mean this was just really the worst possible worst case scenario and then also multiple fires on top

of that. so, i mean, i'm sure, you know, every authority, every firefighter out there is, is doing absolutely their dampness to, to try and, and, you know, prioritize and 3 eyes and, and see how they can make progress here. and, and also, you know, catch any new starts. i mean, this isn't the end. there's still expected through next wednesday. even so this is, this is we're in the middle of it right now. it's, it's not over like some of the, you know, like a few years ago in colorado and nearly a 1000 homes burned down the snow, put the fire out the next day. and that, you know, that was kind of the end of it. where we're in for the long island. this one i just talked to us briefly about the kind of homes that are being destroyed. i mean, many of them are quite old on the i'm the location. yeah. so these communities are nestled up against the, you know, vegetated areas and narrow steep canyons. and here it really comes down to

ownership. so a lot of the surrounding areas owned by one authority. so, you know, even if a private property owner wanted to do something to create a bigger buffer zone, and that doesn't necessarily mean that they could, that said there's also a lot of very affluent properties affected. and if you can afford a, you know, a 20000000 dollar or 6000000 dollar home or whatever that i'm sure, you know there's, there's going to be questions as to why, why aren't these homes better prepared? why are these homes better fire proof? and then you have a lot of a lot of these more historical homes. one thing most of these houses haven't comment is that they're all wood construction. even within this, you know, if you go down the streets, these homes are even connected to each other by wouldn't fences. there's, you know, eucalyptus trees interspersed. there is palm trees. there's, there's a lot of landscaping that is still flammable and of course you have a lot of, you know, more conscious people to, to the issue. because this is, you know, a yearly issue in this part of the state. you have more people that are becoming

more conscious about what they plan in, in terms of landscaping and their yard. but one has to say, i mean this, this is an urban can play gratian and so even after the band fire front passed in the home, didn't initially catch fire smoldering, you know, debris or something that may have gotten established and quickly dealt with. had they had enough resources to go around what have been picked up and so you have homes, you know, starting to catch fire and going up every few minutes. there's a new structure fire that's reported even now because they just don't have enough resources to uh, you know, tackle this as one. what if it, you know what you were an incident on a much smaller scale. lyndon has wall far has gotten harder to contain in, in the last 20 years. are you seeing a change to yeah, so when i 1st started out, i mean if you, um you know, ended up in a situation like this. uh, that was kind of a, a once in a career type of fire as, as we used to call it. and these, these folks are, you know, facing this on a, on

a, you know, when i say folks in the firefighters and firefighters are now facing these types of scenarios. these urban complaint, your agency is really extreme fires, extreme fire behavior. this is an annual event. now, and also a year round of that clearly. and so, yeah, i mean the, the, the compounding effects of, of a dry and climate, you know, this area hasn't had much precipitation since last may with the drying of the santa ana winds. but it remains to be toll, you know, to, to be, you know, deciphered weather and how much, you know, climate change had a direct impact on all of these factors finding accomplishments in a way that led to this devastating situation. um, you know, that will be a lot of analysis afterwards. but 11 thing is clear is that you know, the, the drawings, the overall lengthening of the fire season, it's nearly doubled since the eighty's this fuel is available to, to burn much for many more days. out of the year and does so frequently as

a lot of these fires are even caused linden front, i fine management expert. thank you so much for joining us today and for your analysis. thank you. all right, let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines today, and you as president elect donald trump, and his wife, milan you pay their respects to the late president jimmy casa it month. trump sus, return to the us capital. since his support is, ryan said that over the contested 2020 election on january, the 6th of 2021. trump is expected to attend conscious funeral on thursday. and italian journalist has arrived in rome off to being freed from detention in iran. cecilia sala was reporting into ron last month when she was detained shortly off to the us and easily had arrested to a rainy and nationals of an export violations linked to a deadly attack on american servicemen. ukraine's president of

autumn is landscape will meet today with allies of the us military's. i'm stein at base here in germany. now this is the law such gathering and the law such a thing for us defense secretary, lloyd austin before donald trump takes off the slice of this month. one of the focus will be at defense zalinski. once more of it, both the u. s. and germany has already provided patriots anti aircraft systems to ukraine. the us to supply the tech comes long range missiles. i'm given keith permission to file them into russian territory. germany has also provide to get pod m t across the tags and iris t across systems. now you cranes upon those have given more than a $120000000000.00 worth of military age since russia launched its full scale invasion nearly 3 years ago and hoff about hoff of that amount has come from the u . s. another 25 percent from germany, which is ukraine's 2nd biggest becca. now pacing up keeps austell of more than

empty messiah and nancy, during weaponry, could also reduce pressure on ukraine's. mo bile, defense units is kind of units move quickly and must make the most of the existing weapons, dw correspondence on you found the cold was given a closer look at how they operate, the fights and the skies over you creed. every single night. nobody, a defense units like these take on deadly russian arrow techs these units are not as sophisticated as the wisdom provided patriots for iris the system, but it cheaper and to move quickly outside key. this cool 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 is to shoot down targets flying at low altitude for the moment while we have thermal imaging on it, which allows us to detect, make corrections and destroy the target. overall people show the probability and they also use this, the multiple soviet era similar to the american made single entry across, besides the system. it's capable of shooting down crews besides those when the city where you're finding the target, the messiah limits the sound of light signal, a green flashlight lights up here, this is a high so this means you can shoot at the target. doesn't say sure most little, but the push 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 they're massive. they can even last all day. but also it's,

it's silly 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 thrown, jeffrey often killed people and damage buildings and infrastructure will have a positive about their cases. one we should issue a head drawing, but it applies for another 5 to 10 kilometers cycle. that's just a little then at one point or falls a quote before the recently a girl died near visor, king of a lot of people are the i read the comments and by it's terrible. most of the people say the military is to blame and i get the 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 come to the russian attack. and they see there's one more thing that's just as important should

be the 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 see boy and talks with weston allies may result in mil weapons, but it would still be ukrainians themselves. we'll have to take the plus the risk on the front flight dw correspondent terry schultz is out in the us military base and i'm fine with this meeting is happening today. hi terry. i was does zalinski wants to get out of today? what does he need to achieve as well? one of the most important things, of course, is that the ukraine defense contact group would continue to exist. nobody knows if

that's going to be the case under the incoming trump administration. who, of course, has given no certainty at all about what kind of support is going to continue for ukraine. much less whether it's going to continue to lead this monthly meeting of some 50 countries, which goes a long way toward drumming up support towards making sure that support is maintained. nobody knows what's going to happen under the trump administration. beyond that, president zalinski who was just speaking a few moments ago is asking for more air defense. this is crucial to protect infrastructure and the population under russia's uh, continuous assault, of course with winter coming and the energy infrastructure constantly being bombarded. this is a huge concern for president soleski. he also focuses opening remarks heavily on drones on manufacturing drones there and ukraine as sonya was, was talking about as well. it's very important for ukraine that europe can funds ukraine's own manufacturing industry so that it speeds up the delivery of these

weapons and get them into the hands of ukrainian soldiers. much more quickly. you mentioned, terry, that there's been no sudden say nothing is known about how donald trump will react what he will do, how determined all ukraine's other west and back. cuz if the us does pull it support as well, it's not just the western backers of ukraine, but many of these countries are along the front lines themselves. and they know they don't have any choice, but to try to help you frame continued to be the buffer between them and what they expect would be put next to move into the baltics into poland. those countries along the front line very much believe that they need to continue helping ukraine do this. so there's not really a choice in their eyes. they very much hope that, of course, the united states will continue to provide aid in any format that you, i don't think most people are expecting that press a present intellect. trump will continue to provide, has to be a that's going to ukraine right now. but it's very important for nato allies as

well as ukraine, that this us support continue in a stronger form is it can possibly be managed. right. i mean, it has been ukraine's biggest single or time baccha hasn't yet. so, i mean, is there any tool could all about us increasing military 8? well, this administration, secretary, austin only speaks for the outgoing biden administration. and he's saying that he says that himself, you know, he's, he's a speaking right now to the group in, in sort of, in his deldrick term. he started, he started this contact group, he started these monthly meetings himself and very much considered it, his baby that every month he would be calling up the capitals and saying, what more can you give? come, come to me in a month at the round stein meeting and show me more ammunition, show me, you know more, more howitzers and know, nobody knows if there's going to be that impetus every month. and it really leaves

both the ukraine and europe in a lot of uncertainty. and secretary austin, of course we'll, we'd like to hand off this meeting and hope that the united states will continue this leadership. nobody has any idea and you know that that's really hanging over this meeting here today at rooms time. terry, thank you so much for the outside of the dummies. terry schultz reporting from i'm fine in germany to then take you to the southern african countries mozambique. now, which is into them a little after a highly controversial presidential election in october, and now the opposition lead of an m. c. o. one lane has returned to the country. he fled in the office and most of the vote international observers say that election was mobbed by irregularities. mon blaine supports his say. it was rig he's now expressed his willingness to participate in talks to resolve the crisis. let's take a listen to what the opposition leader said. the i'm here to

break loose narrative that i am voluntarily absent from dialog initiatives. so i'm here. i'm hearing the flesh of say that if you want to negotiate, if you want to talk to me, you want to come to the conversation table. i'm here. we all still correspond to diane, who will cuss a her take on the return of my son geeks opposition lead to 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 will 9. it says that he should be new, great 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 idea arrive this morning to

a gaggle of priests and supporters at the airport in the photo and the is a lot of expectation of what he will do next over the next few days. between now and back, you know, gratian date, he's always diane who. ok, now the volume and spunk by mozambique disputed election is forcing growed numbers of people to sleep, many mos on beacons. and now heading north to malawi in search of safety, dw, travel to the 10 going the evacuation comp in malawi to speak to people about the journey and the struggles they now face. the arriving in malawi is a relief from many families sling 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 think i have one. i crossing the border to get to this evacuation camp was a difficult and dangerous journey. many recounts the harrowing time they had gazing

here. but it's a struggle to x these basic supplies once they have arrived. john gets a pretty good 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 able to call this temporary campus one of the 4 that have been c sap on the allow we southern border. thousands of people have sleep, 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. if nothing is done color, i could soon break out rid of her. you know, if i'm on a, the malware is government is trying to scale up its support and assessing up 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 my lovely red cross and as a partner, there's also a change that i've been put there. however, the biggest challenge we have, nothing on the site is access to water as there's only one full full on the site. so we're trying to look at midges 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 sewage and arrivals risk adding

to the instability via leaving many in malawi en mozambique. hoping that com can be restored across the border as soon as possible. i as well that you are up to date, my money keeps making. it's like so much for watching dw news the

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