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eye bring golf is good to have you. with this, we begin with the worst wildfire, as california has ever faced, thousands of firefighters are battling destructive blazes across the greater los angeles area. and they have not yet managed to bring the flames under control. the wind whipped fires or destroying homes and forcing residents to flee. at least 5 people are confirmed dead, and more than a 1000 buildings have been destroyed. fires rage in the hills across los angeles. as a highly comforter carrying water flies above the flames. in a few tile attempt to dump in the inferno fires in our burning and at least 5 different areas across the city and beyond. the latest in the heart of hollywood in the policy, it's a coastal region close to the malibu neighborhood. over a sizes and structures have been destroyed and the number is expected to rise. this

was the 1st area to be ravaged by fire after the blaze broke out on tuesday. almost everything in this shopping i have lived, has been destroyed. this man returned to his home into policies, neighborhood on wednesday. all that was left was rubble and burn tact. cars, everybody slots, not just this community. community next door, i'm sure all the people up there are lost. everything is pretty devastating. this is pretty devastating us president joe biden, and the governor of california gavin you some have visited los angeles mayor car in by said while both offered help the winds are proving to be overwhelming. i spoke with president buying today and governor newsome earlier today. and they assured me a full federal and state support as we head into tonight. we are still facing

strong and a radical when the conditions which are partly responsible for the spread of the plays improved on wednesday night board are expected to worse and again. linda in pronto is a former california firefighter mil, specializing and fire management at the european force institute. he told us what the los angeles crews are dealing with. and it's of course, very hard when conditions the high winds from the santa ana 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 x, 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 and it is very difficult to even get a bearing. and the 1st priority is, of course, life and property. it's 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. 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, oh the, you know, there's nothing we can do is standing here pouring water even if we have it. and 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 permanent staff are even aired 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 and that was the forward california firefighter linden pronto of speaking with his earlier, with the flames are edging closer. just have a poly woods, best known landmarks, the sunset fire burning near the hollywood hills is raised for years, and sites like sunset boulevard could soon be engulfed and evacuation order is in

force. in some areas, i was watching, disbelief as this wildfire in the hollywood hills. bones ever close. evacuation old is are in place as people try to flee before the place gets any nearer i live here. i've been to the point one year, so it's time to get the sunset fire a rock to don't wednesday evening. quickly doubling in size. it's burning just above hollywood boulevard. not far away. is hollywood walk of fame? home to some of n lays eye clinic landmarks. and it's famous movie industry. when i got off on beverly this morning, i'm looking this way. you can literally see like

a clear view aware of some of hollywood spigot, stalls have seen that own homes go up in flames, including act to billy crystal, celebrity paris hilton, said she was heart broken to lose her malibu mention efforts. now focus on the hollywood hills as emergency services, try to stop this by a spreading any further. all right, so i want to go now to step on 0. g is standing by in understand, pacific palisades, they are right on the edge of one of these fires that is still out of control. step on, tell us, what are you hearing, where you are, the bread. i'm actually in huntington palace sites and i just want to you to see, and i've used to see what it looks like when firefighters,

how many hundreds and thousands there are lose a fight against what happened here. just 2448 hours ago. check this out. this is huntington in this neighborhood is i would say to between 95 and 98 percent completely destroyed, completely destroyed. if you see those trees, those trees are not. there may be a life, but they're also burned down. so any thing he, everything you see is gone completely a few minutes ago and he didn't agree to talk to us. but we just made a gentleman here who had literally a meltdown to break down by seeing and his house or the house of his mother 90. 5 years old for the 1st time, there is nothing left. there's a chimney left and that's it. so this old lady and this, somebody lost everything. they, on the other side, you see those garden hose as we see once in a while, when we drive along here and go through the neighborhood,

those car knows it's going down the driveways. this is assigned for people trying to complete the destruction. i have never ever seen anything like it and it's not my 1st fire. okay . always day which deaf on are not the last us. okay. okay. unfortunately it looks like we've lost our signal to steph on. we apologize for that, but we're going to stay in california. i'm joined now by someone who is directly affected by the fires ton of waldron is a resident of santa monica and i understand she is currently trapped in her home due to heavy smoke toner. i'm glad that it looks like you're safe right now, but your situation sounds all full. tell us what, what's going on, where you are as well i'm, i'm fairly close to p c h,

which is uh, the pacific highway that goes from santa monica. you know all the way up, up north and it's been completely devastated. and basically that's my only way out is going on p. c h, and it's closed down. most of my friends lives in the palisades. the lost, their house has been a matter of seconds and the schools where my kids went, as you know, went to school and the areas that, you know, it's just this one of the most beautiful wild areas of los angeles. and is it everything's, everything's gone. and right now we've had to seal our windows because prior to this there's been an epidemic going around with, you know, respect respiratory illnesses. and so um, yeah, all of this is it can get even more hard. i mean, i can, i can barely walk right now cuz i can't catch my breath because of the air. so sick

. and so all i can do is really weight it out. and, and just be as a support to, you know, friends who have been displaced and literally lost an entire life. and just a matter of couple of hours with the tenant, have you been given any instructions on what to do? i mean, if the smoke becomes worse, it's so much so that, that you need to evacuate. mean have, you know, had the, i don't, the fire authorities have, they told you what to do and when you should do that in case you need to leads. i know we've been talking, i've been um, but basically texting with my neighbors. um, you know, finding out, you know, who's going, who's staying, you know, what should we do? but we've decided that the best thing is just to stay to stay in place. but uh, yesterday we could see the outside. it was, it was night all day because of the of the tombs as of start start smoking. the

smell was just and talk 1st is nauseating in. but today the sun is shining and nobody would really know that anything's going on. but the moment you open the door, you use this to smell the undescribable and it doesn't live. i just wanna be clear, are you by yourself in your home? yes, i have, i'm by myself with my, with my dog and i could, i could choose to maybe try find a different way out. i could. um, but right now the fires are like all around us. um. well, any action we had and were probably, you know, i think we're, we're probably, we're probably in the best place that we could be heard right now to me is that, do you have, do you have enough? do you have enough food and bottle water? for example, let me in case you're, you know, you're stuck there for the foreseeable future in los angeles for so many years that, um, you know, you'd have to be in stay not to have um, you know,

since the pad in my, my cupboards are, are full you know, we're always ready for an earthquake. we're always ready for, you know, the different things that are going on. so we, we definitely have all our supplies in place. and, you know, that's what makes us angelenos, we're, we're, we're jocelyn. we're ready and, well i, i mean if i could, i know a lot of people watching this. i know a lot people are going to be worried about you. i mean, so d, i've seen me, you've got a car, and if you saw that the flames were coming towards your house, i assume you would be able to drive and try the other way. right? yeah, i have to literally, i have the ocean front of me. so it's, it's not as though the, you know, all the events. i'm near better speech, which is got some of the oldest trees in los angeles and a lot of watch it's and so on. so, um, but yeah, no, i would definitely, i would definitely um, you know,

head towards the beach and i will see. okay. but actually more dangerous is interesting is when the wind comes up is that, you know, have so many palms is true. you have so many streets times so that i'd be more afraid about being hit by something. yeah. um for my car, hit by something been actually just, you know, buckling down and staying at home. i've been lying low. i put my bed on my mattress on the floor and i've got my air purifier going. yeah. so that you know that the smoke too. um, you know, i, i, like i said, i typed up my windows right now. the air quality doesn't seem to actually right now it's, it's like it's, it's a little bit airy because it just, everything just seems to be normal. i mean, they live seem to it how to do for those of us on the outside looking at, i mean, this happened very quickly. um, were you caught off guard? i mean, or did you, did you fear that this was going to be a while for fire season or situation that,

that we wouldn't soon forget with no idea. absolutely no idea what was going on. in fact, i've been in bed um, you know, and i have had a tow bed and, and, um, yeah, you know, pneumonia. so i've been a pretty cut off, and then i got a call from one of my friends and you know, can i drop my dog off because we're evacuating? and i said, what do you mean you evacuate? and i opened the door and i could barely step outside cuz the wind us were so strong. yeah. um. and then from that point on, it just was like a domino effect. um that uh, you know, it's just kind of funds believable. and then my son, who is at the university of santa barbara, all his friends live in the palisades and he was just calling every minute saying mommy selling. so the house is going mommy's so and so is like the mommy, you know, it's like and they're all explained. so they're not even with their families. um so they have absolutely nothing to do. yeah. but i'm sure he's worried about his mother is i'm sure a lot of people will after they see this interview,

we certainly wish you all the best of the ton of waldron you in santa monica. i hope that you feel better, and just to myself, i just want to say that i consider myself a very, very lucky people are going to really reflect. oh yeah, i think so i, i have, you know, i feel my heart just goes for it just, it's just, i'm, you can, i mean, you can't believe it with your own eyes. all right, tom, we appreciate your time all the best to you. thank you. thank you. the ukraine's president bottom zalinski and the us defense secretary lloyd austin and have attempted to put pressure on the incoming trump administration. in the last meeting before the white house changes hands, they said cutting off military support to keep would lead to more aggression in chaos. often announced the us will send another $500000000.00 in security aid to ukraine,

including missiles and equipment for finder objects. germany also pledged more a today, ukraine's t allies have been holding talk at the rom stein airbags in western german. austin, closed the dogs by stressing the importance of maintaining support for you. great. and today this contact group provides more than a common understanding. it provides a common cause in today, some 50 countries are conscious, are coordinating closely with ukraine to send vital, consistent and cutting edge security assistance. and that has helped ukraine turn your brain struggle into one of the great military success stories of our time. i'm leaving this contact group not with a farewell, but with the challenge the coalition to support your brain much not flinch.

it must not falter. and it must not fail. your brain survival is on the line. but so is all of our security. alright, i want to bring in the reading of the role. now she's with the worst studies department of kings college london. she joins us from munich. read is good, the senior, happy new year to you. i want to get your reaction 1st, that what we just heard from the secretary lloyd austin there. he said that what we've seen happen in ukraine has made you create one of the greatest military success stories of our time. is that the case a good evening brandon and of course, happy new year to you. well, we'll have to consider at the end, the contacts that ukrainian military has been a fighting proxies since 2014,

and many of them were russian sponsored proxies. russian theme sees the site ukrainian miller tree is the only military if you will, that has been fighting a peer to peer or since the 2nd world war. because the mission stuff, the need of fruits have seen in the past uh 2025 years on very different from what we're seeing in ukraine right now. and of course, given the cemetery and the cycles, the ukraine armed forces. yes, you could say that it was a military success because a lot of people worst kept. it goes to the korean, i'm forces will be able to push back the russians and would survive only maybe 2 weeks before the russians take you crazy. we know that ukraine is in the midst of a 2nd offensive in rushes chorused region. it's facing a barrage of missile attacks from russia. and what do you think zalinski, president zalinski, what does he need? most right now for me is western partners to push back russian forces

so what we're seeing in the course essentially is the proliferation of the wine of compact, which doesn't really benefit the ukrainian forces, given the fact that they are losing a lot of key supplements in the dumbass, the problem is of course, to create needs more military aid. more artillery shells, more troy's more airy defenses. but there is a bigger problem and here and the problem of treating the problem of man power. the problem of the search and, and this is something that has to be solved internally unless need to would be agreeing to sams nato troops to fight in ukraine to provide that additional manpower. but there are a lot of issues, political and military issues related to that. and this is not a stab suck, need to a would be willing to go even the suggestion of president and the crime that need

a troops might be deployed to ukraine to oversee some sort of a ceasefire. hasn't been very welcomed amongst other european leaders. the us defense secretary austin today announced another $500000000.00 in security assistance to ukraine. how helpful is that pledge for the country's military at this moment as well? it is certainly better than nothing. the problem here is that, um, ukraine is to receive an us or a 3800000000 from the united states, and that money will have to be located to ukraine when donald trump enters the oval office. and so there is a lot of insecurity in terms of what will happen and how long the 8 to ukraine will last. and that being said, the 500000000, certainly they will pluck some holes. but it also depends on how quickly you can

convert of money into equipment and deliver it to ukraine. and again, as i said, if you don't have many power to operate the equipment that's being delivered, then it is in vain because there are several problems that need to be solved. central tenuously, in order for the ukranian troops to be able to hold off as a russian offensive ends and on beth. we know that in the couple of weeks donald trump is going to become us president again, if the united states withdrawals and support for you, great. would it be possible for other allies of ukraine to feel the american boyd to should that happen? and the, the future trump administration has already signaled that the war in ukraine will not be sold within 24 hours, but instead in 6 months. so it might be that there will be still aid from the united states. that being said to the united states was drawer aid. that will be detrimental for ukraine because the european needle members simply do not have that

capacity to blogs of huge whole which will be left by the united states. and again, the european defense industry is very different and structured very differently from the one in the us. and it also lacks investment even now, as pointed out by admiral robust, for instance, one of the issues that europe in needle members of suffering from at the same time, nato is looking to increase its own defense spending to prepare for a potential war with russia or against russia, therefore, healthy breeding at the same time will require careful allocation of resources which us cars anyway. therefore, i think that it will be a huge blow to ukraine. should that happen? okay, well, read them wrong. as always, we appreciate your time and your analysis tonight. thank you. thank you for having me. here in germany,

there is growing concerned that you learn mosque is interfering with the campaign for next months. nationwide elections, the bill you there has publicly endorse the far right alternative for germany party and he's called on to the current chance or a wife shelves to stand down. now most cuz platform x is now carrying a conversation between musk himself and one of the a if these leaders, the american election may be over. but the law must, is still campaigning in other countries. elections. and every single week, she's used as ex platform to insult key fit goes in jem and politics. the tesla billionaire called the chancellor of food on the president a tyrant box. it was his endorsement of the right when populist alternative for germany party that rustled the most feathers. this was done, the multi 1000000000 and musk is doing is interfering in a democracy. he has no respect for democracy, respect. so then we'll get to your cartoon network. he said only the f

d could save germany mosque, then outlined his argument in an opinion piece, praising the these low tax on t emigration policies. security services, a monitoring the party seeing is a suspected case of right 20 extremism and responds to concerns that the party is to extreme. must groups portraying the f d as far right is clearly false. considering that alice slide all the parties leader has a same sex partner from for lanka. does that sound like a lot to you? you know, i must, is going fires are granting the f. these candidate for chancellor alice vidal a one hour conversation on x type list. the 3 sure thing is not most the most, cuz the 4 digit postage, right wing extremists are targeting to and as you can say is no, that'll be what you need. the best way in this country i get, and that is sometimes, you know, totally disagree with the screw, i guess, pumpkins. and that's why is, is to hook you to p and conservatives to all right. easy about musk lionizing right

when populist. my 1st message is to calm down and then pick to not to take every street and every message from being so serious as we discuss it currently in europe . and my 2nd point is that uh, the network he's, he's supporting is obviously a network which is not supporting the idea of more corporation on european and even on global level. that's why i think he's on the wrong side of history. what remains on clear was whether the erotic billionaires flirtation for the german far right below, timidly help or heart. the former us president jimmy carter has been honored with a state funeral in washington dc. the $39.00 to us president died last month at the age of $100.00 eulogies for multiple speakers. honored carter's loved for people and his humanitarian work around the world. former us president george bush bill clinton and brock obama attended the service along with current president joe biden

. and president elect donald trump. pardon will be laid to rest in his native plains georgia following a smaller private ceremony later today. and i'll be back in 90 minutes with more world news followed by the day hope to see you this. the

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