♪ tens of thousands o o tourists and residents fleeing australia's eastern coastline with bushfires threatening to cut off the area. military helicopters are moving in to rescue those trapped in the flames. japanese prosecutors raid the after hearlos ghosn

skipped bail and fled to lebanon. the latest from tokykyo coming . parliamament vovoting on whether or not to send troops into libya to help t t u.n. backed government in tripoli. the international community warning against an escalation in the e untry's civil war. a warm welcocome. i am in paris. we will start in australia where a weeklong state of emergency has been called to get the bushfires under control. the east coast had been thee hardest hit with tens of ththousands of touriststs andd residents beining ordered to be evacuate vacation towns before high wind and hot weather hit this weekend. naval ships and helicopters are moving in to help thousands more trapped by flames. eight peoplele have been k killd with monday -- since monday, with 18 missing. what is here from our sydney correspondent, -- let us hear from our sydney correspondent. australian authorities

are preparing for a worst-case scenario and we have conditions set to be hot, dry, and windy. it is set to be a a difficult ad dangerous daday for firefighters up and down the east coast. declared aales has seven day state ofmergency,, which starts t tomorrow. that is the e third state of emergencyince november. there are four leave zones with tourists and people who o do not need to be they are told to gett out now and be outt by y saturd. by exit i is being hampered road closures, fuel shortages, and traffic gridlock at thousandsf cars takake to thehe roads at once. in eastern victoria, the army has s been mobilized to evacuaue peopople and bring in food, wat, and other supplies toto cut off

,ommunities in the s seaside ton thousands remain stranded. up to 800 people are set to be evacuated at 7:00 a.m. friday morning, and t the navy ship,p, which arrived from sydney. >> it is a d devastatingng sisituation.n. governmenttime, the continues to be slammed for its inaction on climate change. the prime minister gave a press conference. did he address that at a all? rachelle: he did. the primime minister, scott morrison, gave his first press conference of the new year. he continues to take heat t over what manany perceive as climatae change inaction and a lacack of leadership during this bushfire emergency. the australian leader wawa heckled by a protester today as he and his wife toward a buyer

-- toured fire ravaged communities. today he showed no signs of budging from the government's stance. he continued to defend australia's climate policy, saying that the country is meeting and beating its targets. when,o caused controversy despite this unpnprecedenteded crisis, he told australians that therere is no need to panic and ask to those waiting to be patient. le fromthat is rachehel sydney. france said it would not extradite carlos ghosn. citizen of france and lebanon. he jumped bail to avoid charges. france, werives in

will not extradite him, because france never expedites its nationals. we will apply the same rules that we would apply to everyone else, that does not prevent us from thinking that mr. ghosn should not have fled from japanese justice. genie: his home in tokyo was searched by police today. for the very latest, let us bring in michael. what more can you tell us? 2:00 p.m.,e -- about ded his localrs rai home. it is widely presumed that what they were mainly looking for is evidence, and clues that could help them piece together exactly how it is that he escaped. that therestanding was were cameras set up inside his home to monitory him -- to monitor him. what exactly happened and how he

was abable to o arrange his esce is a main part of the investigation. they are looking at cctv in the neighborhood to see what they can find. genie: japapanese authororitiesy ththat they were holding his the passports, new reports say that he had a spare french passport that allllowed him to travel. tell us about that. a very: that is a also interesting development, because not only did he have a spare enench passpsport, apppparentlyt reports suggest that the japanese government about it. they allowed him and wanted him to have it, somehow. this is a strange development, because during the time he was allowed out on bail, one of the arguments made was that he was not a flight risk because he did not have any passports to travel abroad. if it turns out that the government to sell -- itself allowed him to have a spare passport, there is a

contradiction in what was understood to be the conditions of his bail, at least publicly. genie: this is truly a global story. there has been another development out of turkey. michchael: that is right. as most people know at this point, when ghosn left from japan, he flew via turkey before he arrived in lebanon. it seems that on the turkish side, when he made a brief stop, immigrationoms and policies may have been violated. b beenn people e ve detained by y authorities, four pilots and other airport staff who are suspected of having knowledge of, or participated in illegally facilitating his moves through the country. genie: thank you for that.

top military official has been killed in an air force helicopter crash that left seven others dead. it went down in the mountains outside of taipei. the helicocopter was flying to e northeastern city when it crashed. the general was in charge of taiwan's defense against china. people have, 16 been killed where severe flooding has ruined the new year. 19,000 more lost their homes. 90 districts of jakakarta were t by heavy rains and rising riverr levelsls with thehe violent wear sparking a landslide. is the worst flooding in almost seven years. triggered by heavy monsoon rains that lashed the cities on new year's eve. homes,, submerged

displacing thousandsds and claiming lives, including that of a 16-year-old boy died, a lecture -- electrocuted by a power line. >> m my son's body had to b be covered in newspaper. people pass b by and ask if they had known the victim. pierre: to prevent electrocution's,s, the state electricity utility switched off power to hundreds of waterlogged districts, home to about dirty minimum -- 30 million people. 19,000 people have been displaced after floodwaters reached three meters. ricarda's inch -- jakarta's international airport was s shut down, it runway flooded. authorities have deployeyed 120,000 rescuers. >> the safety of the people should be a priorityty. the disaster mitigation authority, search and rescue

teams need to momove well and gt people affecteted by floods a sense of safafety. piererre: indonesia's national medidic -- disaster mitigation agency has warned that further flooding is still exexpected wih downpoururs forecast for the several days. the less flood- of this magnitude dates back to 2013 when several dozen people were killed. genie: in turkey, the parliament is debating and voting on sending troops into libya. that government is fighting the government in eastern libya. the international commmmunity is urging restraint to avoid an escalation in the country's civil war. the turkish president told officials last week that the tripoli government had invited turkey to send troops, and that deployment would take place

following a vote in the parliament. give have given and w will all forms of support to the tripoli government, which is fighting against a general backed by arab countries. forces of the warlord general are engaged in a battle of conontrol of tripoli, fightig forces belonging to the government of national accord. signed a military cooperation agreement with ankarara and maritime accord whh extetends turkish claiaims to mediterranean territorial waters. nick: a rival a administration says that the moves are escalating regional tensions. >> he is obsessed with the idea of observing -- restoring the glory of the ottoman sultan.

in order to control the arab world, and the whole world. nick: the libya envoy says the deals signed by turkey and tripoli are an escalation. the arab league expressedd serious concern over an aggravated situation. the civil warg are to take place this mononth n berlrlin. geninie: benjamin netanyahu is asking parliamament for immunity in the three corruption cases against him. the move could delay trials for months and after the upcoming election in march. netanyahu was indicted over allegations that he granted state favors, hundreds of millions of dollars to israeli media barons and exchanged for gift and good coverage. he has denied any wrongdoing saying he is the victim of a witchhunt to oust a popular

right-wing leader. in the u.s., a man whoho nationald america's basketball association has died. david stern was the longest-serving commissionener, credited with makiking the game into the p powerhouse itit is t. the tributes pour in for a man who revolutionized the game and those who played it. david stern is credited with the renaissance of basasketball, and leaving a legacy y on the leak that he managed. he took over in february, 1984. he led it from its humble beginnings to be a global entertainment phenomenon. by his end of his time as commissioner it was beingng broadcast into hundred companyny -- countries. the $24enefs from billion tv contracts. he helped build household names out of giants like magic

johnson, michael jordan, shaquille o'neal. he oversaw the glory days of the dream team, when the first u.s. olympic men's basketball squad to include not only active nba players, but the stars of the game won gold. now the teams mean big money. worthw york knicks are $400 billion. in 1984, all the teams were million. $400 he was the ultimate game changer and inducted into the international basketball federation hall of fame in 2016. genie: do not forget, if you want to check in on any of the news stories check in on our website. france24.com.

>> toxic, unreadable. among the scrap yards the smoke never clears. >> this is unbelievable. they will not remove the rubbish. >> copper, aluminum, it is there for the taking. we burn away the plastic day in, and day out. >> waste, and aluminum. >> our world has been stripping away waste for six years, selling by weight the metal he

recovers. he makes that -- he makes less than three euros a day. it is like -- >> what is it? rubber, and the fire sometimes. >> along with most of the people, they come from the most -- the north of the country or jobs are hard to client -- defined. >> i went here to find one. , think every day i am working all the time, because my family need something to eat. >> it is difficult to figure on manyany work here of the ththousand, but several thousand at least. every morning they crossed the bridge to the scrap yards, and every year the slum grows, encroaching further along the lagoon.

cars, computers, mobile phones, televisions, all manner of electronic devices end up here, sorted, stripped, and dismantled. there is a fully developed disassembly line where everyone plays a part. here, nothing is lost and everything is reuse. in this workshop, they are melting down aluminum to make cooking pots. >> the message is clear, even for the young. he is 16 but has already spent three years scouring the ground with a magnet. >> i will go around and take scrap and then common scale -- salad. -- cell it. metals, copper, alimony him --

aluminum. >> 2.5 kilos, that puts them around 30 euro cents. you can find anything in the rubbish, that it is electronic waste that is the most stop -- sought after for the metal it contains. most of it comes from outside ghana. computers. computers from overseas. like this one, from france. you see, made in france. >> the european union has prohibited the export of e-waste. it is the equivalent of 2.5 billion smartphones, which leave europe illegally every year.

♪ to trace the journey, we head 40 kilometers from the capital of prague. it is the main entry point for the 200,000 tons of electronic equipment arriving in ghana each year. most three quarters is used equipment. but for electronic waste, there is no import ban. operatives assure us that they take e-waste very seriously. belongings ofal some of our citizens who have gone outside of the country, and are coming back home. they offloaded these items into a container. todaday is the dayay that w we e going g to inspect theirir confinement. >> the job is to differentiate

between waste and use goods. it is it is -- it is in this gray zone that traffickers operate. >> this shipment came in from spain, television shut -- sets and radio sets. this consignment has been flagged as possibly suspicious. >> it is really very hard for the inspection officer on the ground to make that differentiation that this is used. it is only when it is subjected to tests that we can then establish that it is e-waste/ 2700 containers that arrive, s some inevititably slip through the netet. on this occasion, the agent claims everything is above board. >> it is for family use. that is what i can say. it has been therere for some years, a t they want t to come into t the countrysoso they them, but lists of the

items. >> this is not waste? >> no. >> only 15% of the goods are unusable. begin a begin it a -- new life before ending up in a wrecking yard sooner or later. ♪ >> a brief you are taking matters into their own hands. after spending 10 years, he has become something of a celebrity. >> good morning, how are you. >> every morning, the clinic has had a full waiting room. treatment is virtually free. have 10 people who go to

the pharmacy and take the medicine. and i said i will play to their income and's -- and see the doctors. >> three nurses work shifts and a doctor comes twice a month. the clinic does what they can to treat the patients. many suffer from respiratory difficulties.. burnt, and things the air becomes polluted. very highly polluted. course, they y can geget all kd of disiseases. >> he moved into the neighborhood a year ago, and her airwaves are causing her pain. when i moved in, i did not have this cough. >> to wear -- to raise awareness, he has become highly important in the community and fordents turned to him

advice. as health problems sore, even thelivestock -- soar, even livestock have to pick through the trash. is a stone'sd throw f from one of the most important food markets in the country. >> air and soil l is very much polluted, and you see the things they are selling, and people are going to eat. it will affect the life of the pepeople. study,rding to a u.s. this is among the top 10 most polluted sites on the planet. lead, mercury, and arsenic are permanently present at levels s 100 times greater tn internatational safety standard. ththe llution isis a major concern. the environmental protection agency is a department t tasked with dealing with pollutions. this is a key issue to the

agency. >> it goes beyond the boundaries, because all of those aree also peoeople are exposed o some level of thesese heavy memetals. issuesider ththese to be an and we thought that it was important to protect the health of our people. damage,te the evident ghana waited until 2016 before adopting a new law banning the import of e-waste. the law was not only late, but difficult to enenforce. for the time being the government is relying on its partner -- train the to train the scrap workers. clinic c andall training center. >> in the first moments, the main focus of our work is to transform the existing jobs.

so, that the people working here at the moment can have the proper earning of living of what they are doing, and not to add more jobs. ofrichard is in charge putting the improvement program into action. he knows the scrap yard and its workers and has already trained 20 people. >> hello. how are you? how is work? andepairs, preconditions, recycling mobibile phones. >> we have been doing this for the past 20 years, they get to appreciate that there are another method that they can employ. and it willl minimize the risk f the ratesnd minimize that they expose them. >> thanks to the training, adam has been able to diversify his

income. >> so far only a handful of workers have benefited from this training. too few to lead to any hope of radical change. there are thousands of were -- waste workers who work the site each day. in the meantime the burners will go on burning, despite the risks to their health and the environment. it is their livelihood. will bery that they held sololely responsible for re pollution n generated by the si. come take us one by one. >> he lives on the others of the lagoon with his wife and eight-month-old son, overlooking the toxic fumes. he has one dream, to leave. to be able to put enough aside to go back north and start up a small business. there is another life you wants

for his son. >> so, like me, i do not my son to come and work, because our work is not t good at all. i want my

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