>> two massive wildfires in australia turn into what could be an extremely rare mega fire. over 200 homes have been destroyed so far. france is the latest country to get caught up in the snowden affair. paris sumance the u.s. ambassador over new revelations of spying. and france's new wealth tax has many football bosses fuming. that law would slap a 75% tax rate on stars' salaries but it is football clubs that would foot the bill. thank you for joining us. first in australia two massive

fires are inching slowly toward each other if the searing heat and high winds get worse those bush fires in southeastern australia could meet up creating an extremely rare mega fire not far from sydney. more than 200 homes have been destroyed so far. >> a blazing front of 300 kilometers. it is just one of several across new south wails in the worst fire disaster the state has seen for nearly half a century. several blazes remain out of control across the blue mountains just 100 kilometers from sydney. firefighters battle to contain them. they fear increasingly strong winds and searing heat could see the three main fronts merge. a state of emergency was declared on sunday. however, suggestions that all communities in the blue mountains where 76,000 people live could be evacuated.

>> it has been forced evacuations. we are continuing to see a very responsive very measured considered community that's heeding advice and making decisions and where appropriate choosing to relocate and follow that advice. >> amid the chaos reports of looting. this couple say they returned to find their home ran saked by thieves. >> how can people do this when we're going through enough without that as well? >> wildfires are common in australia but these ones are uncommonly early. the fire season doesn't usually start until december. investigations are ongoing. the defense department said it was looking to whether there could be a leenching between one of the fires -- links between fires and explosives. >> not long ago i spoke to journalist from a rescue center near sydney.

let's listen to what he had to say. >> about three or four days ago there was a big fire that went through the area and the evacuation center was full at that time. things calmed down in the last three or four days. late this afternoon there was another evacuation. more people coming in through the doors. a lot of people are confused. they only have minutes to get out of their house when the evacuation alerts come through. they literally walk out and into the center with the clothes on their backs some bringing in pets and some obviously don't have time to bring in some of those pets as well. some of them valuable items they have to leave at home. some of the stories are quite chilling. some people try and stay and fight the fires. other people actually leave. >> next, egypt was rocked by more protests sunday. police fired tear gas at

hundreds of supporters of morsi. the police moved in to a muslim university after protesters throwing stones cut off a main road nearby. this was the second day of clashes at the university in cairo. this protest come amid heated debate over a new law that would place tougher restrictions on protesters including heavy fines and possible jail time. also on sunday in cairo masked gunmen moved in on a wedding at a christian church. three people were shot dead after the ceremony including an 8-year-old girl. egypt has been on edge since morsi was pushed from power over three months ago. >> more blood spilled in the suburbs of the egyptian capital. this time after gunmen sprayed bullets on a koptic church in the late hours on sunday. the unichede attackers fired

indiscriminately. >> everyone knows every sunday there is a wedding in the church. there was a lot of traffic outside when a motor bike and car approached the crowd. the car stopped and the gunman started shooting and ran away. >> security was tight after the carnage that enveloped the streets of cairo's neighborhoods. the attack signaled the spread of violence that has gripped egypt since the coup that ousted the president morsi on july 3rd. >> what is happening is affecting all of egypt. and not only the christians. this is enough. people are getting sick and tired of this. >> koptic christians make up 10% of egypt's 85 million people but this is the first attack targeted christians in cairo.

the country's first elected leader overthrown. >> a bomb on a pass junior train in pakistan has left five dead an 16 wounded. the blast went off on a railway track in the troubled southwestern province. that explosion was so strong it threw the train from the tracks. three brothers are reportedly among the dead. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in paris today meeting representatives from arab league at the u.s. embassy one day before western and arab powers are due to immediately with syria's opposition in london. to push again for the long delayed peace talks in geneva with the syrian regime. >> this is a case now that has more questions than answers as investigators seek to uncover the identity of a mystery girl found living in a roama camp in greece. dna test cls firm that she is

not biologically related to the couple claiming to be her parents. that couple says the girl was adopted illegally. >> this little girl is at the heart of a mystery. she was discovered after police raid add roma camp in northern greece on wednesday. her favor coloring raised alarm bells and dna testing proved the girl is not related to the couple who claim to be her parents. further investigation turned up more discrepancies. the woman claimed to have given birth to six children within a 10-month period. while police were unable to locate 10 of the 14 children the couple registered as their own. authorities arrested the couple. charging them with abducting a minor and carrying false papers. their attorney says a surge is under way for the biological mother and this is all just a misunderstanding. >> the claim is that we never

abducted this child. we just adopted. >> authorities are worried maria as the 4-year-old is called could be part of a child trafficking ring. social workers suspect the couple of mid knapping the girl and sending her out to beg or worse. >> the illegal sending of children from [inaudible] could be an abduction. that's why we made this effort internationally. >> over 8,000 calls have been made to a greek charity after it launched an appeal for more information about maria. >> france has summoned the u.s. ambassador over new spying claims. paris is furious over a report that the u.s. national security

agency secretly recorded millions of phone calls here. that report came out on the website of the french newspaper. its proof? documents leaked by former u.s. security expert edward snowden. >> shocking and unacceptable. that's how the french government reacted to revelations by the newspaper that the u.s. agency was spying on france. >> we have a close relationship with u.s. intelligence services to fight terrorism. but if a friend, an ally spies on france or other european countries that is totally unacceptable. >> the report based on documents leaked by edward snowden back in june says they swept up more than 70 million records over a 30-day period. the nsa program automatically recordrd conversations from flagged numbers as well as text messages based on key words.

but the nsa didn't just target people suspected of terrorism but also high profiled individuals from the world of business and politics. >> we have already been alerted back in june and we had a strong reaction. but apparently we have to do more. these types of actions targeting privacy between partners are completely unacceptable and we must quickly make sure that they are no longer in practice. >> over the summer snowden leaked documents showed the nsa was spying on several french embassies and the french mission at the united nations. >> for more i'm joined by ann. thank you for coming in to see us here. we heard the interior minister call these revelations shocking. do they really come as that much of a surprise for france? >> i don't really think so. you heard him said that they already knew about this in june.

what probably comes as a surprise this time is the prapts the extent, the intensive and extensive spying on the french citizens. but i think the clue here is the other terms, high rampinging politicians and economic actors on the french scene. i think that probably is what has caused the extraordinary move on the part of the french administration to call the american ambassador, which is something that is usually reserved for very, very serious situations. and which comes at a very crucial moment in the relationship between the united states and france in as much as they are working together on the syrian question, which is the most important question of the day. my feeling is that those revelations that they are making really have more to do with the, what i might call the quality of the spying this time

meaning that it doesn't just target the ordinary french citizens but important personalities maybe at the very top of the french government and also probably at the very top of the great french enterprises,. >> what might the reasons be behind this kind of spying? top political leaders, business executives? >> well, it's all left over as it were from 9/11. and in the sense the nsa has the technological means to spy on everybody basically. and to -- and maybe it kids itself in a sense to thinking with that enormous amount of data it can pull out very useful things. and when it does come into contact with useful political or economic information well, the natural tendency of any spying agency is going to be to report it to its government and that government will make use of it.

and of course this could be dangerous even for allies. >> what kind of spying might there be from france on other nations? is there something could we imagine something like this on the flip side? >> well, i'm sure that france is like every western country nowadays that has the means. and intelligence personnel is spying on the united states. in fact there have been situations in the past where it was revealed and proven that france had spied on the united states. so i'm afraid, it's a very general phenomenon. it's only that the united states has the means to really do it in an absolutely humegoss as it were way. which i must i think it should be said and everybody knows it constitutes a threat to democracy. >> thank you very much for that. >> you're welcome. >> france's new wealth tax has

got many football bosses fuming. that law slaps a 75% tax rate on salaries over 1 million euros but it is football clubs not the players that would foot the bill. >> a controversial sporting debate at french parliament over so-called super tax of the country's football bosses hoped they would be exempt from. over the law france pays a 75% rate on salaries over 1 million euros. clubs rather than individuals will foot the bill. 13 clubs over y'all will be affected forking out over 44 you're ost between them. >> football has been losing money for the past three years. this year it is going to lose another 60 million euros. what is being added will make it more difficult for clubs. if this was put into action tomorrow big clubs would fall.

it is french football that would suffer. >> several clubs have threatened to strike against the super tax which was the promise of the president. the tax was offered at individuals but forced to redo it as a business tax after the court called it excessive. they say it will bring in an extra 500 million a year for the french state. >> stay with us. >> asked to explain comments he made sharing an explosive interview the former france captain called his critics tramples and parasites referring to former players as

well as journalists. france coach said he regretted his remarks. monaco missed the chance to keep pace with leaders after throwing away its lead on sunday. they move off the bottom of the table following the drop. scoring a last minute equalizer. two points clear of monaco at the top. went fifth in the league after a convincing win. opening the scoring before a second half goal. they still lead the way two points ahead of chelsea and liverpool. clairemont got back to winning ways by winning.

the fullback went over 8 minutes to give the french side an early lead. the second try arrived. touchdown. adding a third. making it 65 games unbeaten at home. the late drop goal secured a losing bonus point. 23-16 the final score. >> 15th career title and second of the season by defeating the dutchman at the vienna open. the second seeded german is enjoying an indian summer at the grand old age of 35. he won in the final in austria 12 years ago but had to dig deep this time around. he won the opening set. trailing to an early break in the decider but once again came back to take the match. collecting her first wta title

of the year in luxembourg. the world number 10 in denmark dropped the two service games but reeled off the next six games. appearing in her first final. it was a similar story in the second as she looked well in the set early on. her experience begin to tell. she climbs to 48th in the world rankings thanks to her performances here as she won the last 11 points of the match. winning 6-2 6-2 to seal her 21 rts career title. kevin mag nessen won in barcelona after a dominant performance at the circuit. the dane

started for pole on the th time. the 21-year-old never relinquished that advantage as he secured his fifth race win. finished second. the 21-year-old was also second in the driver's standings. he suffered a mechanical failure allowing will steveance to take third place. in figure skating, japan took the win in detroit. the silver medalist le going into the free skate and she stayed despite falling on her opening triple axel. because of the technical difficulty she still finished with a score of 204.55 points. defending champion with 11 points further back in second while 14-year-old russian finished third. and a pair's world record as they defended their title. the world champions were ahead

of the field finishing with 237.71 points. canada's kirtsen and dillon posted a personal best score of 208.45 as they finished second. >> on the next australia reports on the devastating wildfires. american creating and protecting his creations from vappedlism and an animation short celebrating 75 years of superman. entire forests reduced to ashes and houses totally destroyed by

flamentse. these images posted on line by new south wails and australia. the series of major wildfires. the fires which have been caused by the unseasonably hot temperatures and strong winds have prompted authorities to declare a state of emergency were the center of discussions. the government in new south wails has teamed up with google to create this interactive map so citizens can stay informed on where and how the fires are spreading. the shade is in which areas the firefighters have the flames under control and where they continue to rage. and as often the case there is a great show of solidarity on line. the red cross has launched its appeal to provide those who have lost everything with basic necessities.

this environmental group is asking to help the wild animals, asking people to leave water out for wild life to keep them hydrated while firefighters continue to battle the flames. british graph iti artist is currently in new york city where he is undertaking residency for october. his plan to turn the city into an open air gallery. covering the walls of the big apple with his famous sfreet art. new yorkers are delighted. although he has received a lot of praise not everyone in new york is a fan. in fact, there's a number of twitters users have reported to back them up, most of his works

have been vandalized several hours after being discovered. something scores of new yorkers have been quick to condemn saying how saddened they are. as we can see from these images others have taken it upon themselves to eraise these acts of vandalism. arming themselves with scrapers and brushes looking for pieces that have been defaced trying to cleeb them up so as many people as possible can see them as they were intended to be seen. the german chancellor merkel published recently is seeking inspiration from her tired eyes and wind swept hair and seeking pairedies is an icon of popular

culture giving her trendy glasses, a nose piercing or even a hippie beard. artist has imagined what squirrels would look like in some of the world's super heroes. batman spiderman and thor. you can check out the entire collection. film makers and artist have produced an updated this short to mark superman's 75th anniversary. following the man of steel throughout the years from his first comic book appearances to the television shows and feature films. it's an incredible piece of work will be a massive hit with fans everywhere.