leave at uk could told you thanks for joining us oppression mckidd in baghdad. those wildfires rage so australia 7 people have been confirmed dead over the last 2 days and maybe 200 homes destroyed bringing the death toll from this season's blazes to 17 the biggest fires have spread across 2 states in australia southeast victoria and new south wales authorities are now of delivering food and water to thousands of people who fled the coastal town of kuta and took refuge on the beach . fueled by searing temperatures and fast moving winds more than 200 fires continue to consume a strain southeastern states of new south wales and victoria. fire food stays rescue volunteers to take shelter in that truck as flames surrounded them. the crew made it out safely we also have a very real challenge at the moment with a couple of loss a lot of communities where we've got reports of of injuries and burn injuries to members of the public we haven't been able to get access via roads all of our aircraft it's been socked you know to digress and we simply can't access nor can the

passion mckidd is covering this story from baghdad and joins us on the line welcome to d.w.t. pascha what's the situation in 100 around the embassy compound now. things have quieted down somewhat as you said the protesters have withdrawn after receiving a command from some of the militia leaders telling them. there are a few people said they want to stay longer but overall things have quieted the u.s. says it is now deploying troops to guard the embassy how is that likely to affect the situation. i think we're you know currently in a situation where it seems like the tensions between the u.s. and iran are not going to go away any time soon and the u.s. bringing in more troops to iraq. is not going to do anything to calm those tensions so it's more troops arrive what do you expect to happen. xpect it will probably most likely it will cause some anger among some of these same militia groups many of whom are iranian backed and have been demanding for u.s. troops to leave iraq completely not bring in more people iraq has been struggling with protests for months now we see these at