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we've got fawaz spreading from north face new south wales a queensland border down to the south coast of new south wales those logistical challenges transport and. and accommodation challenges spreading and moving people right across such a broad geographic area all add to the challenges of for to increase rotation lower temperatures have helped the fight but there's no rain forecast for the days ahead and temperatures will soon rise again enter chapelle al-jazeera and it's not just australia suffering from a lack of rain southern africa is going through its worst drought in decades with 45000000 people affected across 14 countries it's also taking a toll on precious wildlife nicholas hogg has a story now from zimbabwe are the worst affected countries. deep in zimbabwe's multi-billionaire and people are dying of hunger margaret my gunday in her 5 grandchildren are picking what will be their 1st and last meal of the day for the pumpkin leaves weekend by months of this diet by gunday worries the worst is yet to come. what do you and your wife they smell food in the end we asked songkran that tend to go on sometimes i think long to underneath

strikes that have paralyzed transport and other services president mccraw has offered to make changes but his office insists reforms must go ahead. the australian state of new south wales has declared a state of emergency to deal with the threat of bushfires authorities are warning that the threat from fires will continue to rise over the next few days extremely hot weather is worsening the situation the country suffered its hottest day on record this week with annual average temperatures of nearly 41 degrees celsius hotter than ever australia is going through record high temperatures and for a few here that's just another reason to make a splash. the creature is spared the health rest dehydration can be deadly. for the fauna rescue team the threat to wildlife is foremost. that's why i know. there's probably not very much food up there because of the drought there's not a lot of water they do theme in the river but some people have been calling out of the river this morning. so it's just going to get worse and worse this is going to build up their already did one apparently hanging in trees. down here with 6075 more of the really made of and the extreme heat is compoun