hunter valley has become the center of the any debate here and a plan to close the country's. path station. we've got some very wet and windy weather coming into the northwest of europe over the next couple of days beyond this particular and of cloud very blustery conditions that comes out first area of low pressure starting to see the remnants of hurricane lili followed by harken that maria down into the southeast in kona all the way weather still in place here as well some more big time very downpours just around the island sea so the grease pushing into that western half of turkey between nazi battle still seeing germany five weather for vienna seventy's. bad powder not too bad but you can see the germany seeing some rather wet weather coming through the next size of a wet and windy weather come monday that does look a very blustery day across a good part of england some areas of wiles' clad in the rain streaming in looking to bring in the course france as well actually the western side of the may could see a little more cloud just rolling through a little clout there stand

hunter valley on the island. the owner of the oldest coal fired power station in australia says it's showing its age millions of dollars are being spent to keep the forty five year old little plant running before we ties in five years but the government is pressuring operator a.g.l. to continue producing power for another five years beyond then saying it's key to securing electricity supplies a.g.l. is considering the request but says it would be better off investing in new cleaner technologies such as wind and solar so it's a natural progression of whatever anything comes to the end of its technical you'd run the roller over whether you extend it or whether. there's something new in this but certainly the economics to lead you towards your goals being provided for energy and. you know very flexible efficient technologies providing that capacity the hunter valley north of sydney in new south wales is at the center of the energy debate here because it's a major coal mining and power provider the little power stati

i mean our beloved especially hunter valley today congress center of everything to have a plan to curb the country's out it's called five house they from. however seymour pretty lively downpours across central parts of china recently in a long line of cloud and rain pushing right out into the east china sea the i was sea pushing up towards the japan over the next couple days it will sink its way further southward shanghai had a pretty wet week last week i'm afraid this further heavy downpours in the forecast over the next few days and i think we are likely to see some localized flooding if you show as to just pushing up towards the south china hong kong all the edge of those so humid it thirty three degrees celsius the showers they continue to stretch their way across indochina target particular seeing some really nasty weather recently heavy showers too into the eastern side of india that into central and southern parts of the kountry and those heavy showers do look set to persist the western ghats still pretty disturbed long line of one soon all rain is coming in here the monsoon is

reports from the hunter valley. the owner of the oldest coal fired power station in australia says it's showing its age millions of dollars are being spent to keep the forty five year old little plant running before we ties in five years but the government is pressuring operator to continue producing power for another five years beyond then saying it's key to securing electricity supplies a.g.l. is considering the request but says it would be better off investing in new cleaner technologies such as wind and solar so it's a natural progression of whatever anything comes to the end of its technical you'd run the roller over whether you extend it or whether you. do something new in this but certainly the economics to lead you towards your goals being provided for energy and. you know very flexible efficient technologies providing that capacity the hunter valley north of sydney in new south wales is at the center of the energy debate here because it's a major coal mining and power provider the little power station is in

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from sydney temperatures starting to fall away but you can see the wildfires burning around the hunter valley we are going to see those fires continue to some time yet but they are largely contained i am place to say about one hundred flights were delayed as a result of these fires burning thirty three celsius why the staff knew in sydney twenty one maybe twenty two over the next couple of days that cold staying very much in place close still for melbourne twelve. along europe's baltic borders tensions are increasing as nato strengthens its defenses and russia gears up for war games over its own of course we don't want worried about unpredictability of russia we have to be prepared and we have to accept it but will the conflict rehearsals ever translate into the real thing as they say if you don't want a war prepare for war and people in power reports is tonia going on a bear hunt at this time on a. welcome back here without a zero live from doha your headlines more than twenty people have been killed in a fire somalis in boarding school most of them were teenagers the local fire chief told t

valley, right? so this was -- he was doing this just after hunter had gone up the valley. and sheridan made sure to burn a great deal of land. he left it rather barren. but, you know, still used, guys, they didn't destroy everything in a way. this was not indiscriminate destruction of property. there was not indiscriminate -- there wasn't murder on some kind of mass scale. i have little doubt civilians were harmed in this process. both black and white civilians were attacked. but there was no policy, no conscious policy for doing anything like that. and there was certainly no policy of destroying public buildings, public monuments, the kind of heritage of the antebellum south. well, maybe there was an exception. so when sherman -- so you know let's say september of 1864 sermon takes atlanta, which is an amazing prize for the united states army. it essentially seals the election for lincoln. he then marches his troops after waiting in atlanta for a little while, marches his troops down to savannah. takes savannah just before christmas. offer it as a gift to his commander in