. >>> three guys from sweden, taking a dip in northern australia. litchfield national park.ething is about to pay them a visit. it is that something's home turf. not happy about these guys intruding. >> i don't like how you say something. >> the guy has the camera filming his buddy felix anderson. felix over here this side of the screen. >> you think we can go through this? >> i think you may already see the something blending in. >> oh. >> why get closer? why get closer? >> watch this. you think he might be playing freeze. no boom! >> oh! >> did he attack that guy? >> he jumps at him like a flying ninja. look at this. and just a split second, that thing launches itself over the rock, almost slaps felix right in the face with its head. look at that. >> get out of the water. >> this one is small. what's to say there isn't a much larger one nearby keeping an eye on his baby. >> i don't know if he knew what was on e other side of the ro in the first karate tail whacked him. >> nothing gets your adrenaline pumping like a crock ka dial ninja. >>> check out this video captured out

. >> more lively showers coming in across parts of northern australia, particularly of course -- across the north and west. an area of clouds tumbling its way in there. a good deal whether -- wetter. is still very hot in perth, temperatures around 30 degrees celsius looking for high temperatures around 32 for brisbane. drying out toward the southeast. rain affecting new zealand the next couple of days -- further north we may see a tropical storm developing around the solomon islands which would bring increasingly what weather across the region. pretty wet across the good part of southern india and sri lanka, the northeast monsoon, one terrain's across a good part of sri lanka now struggling with widespread flooding. over 300,000 affected. north, largely dry. winter weather along afghanistan and northern pakistan and the far north of india, in the process of petering out. we have rain petering out across the arabian peninsula. in doha, lively downpours into the overnight period into friday.the fall, saturday 8:30 eastern. >> welcome back. our top stories on al jazeera. thousands of peopl

you started to do or planned to do rotational b-52 deployments to northern australia. >> well, you know, we're having a -- as you saw the outcome of the -- [inaudible] and what was there. we have a wonderful relationship and alliance with our australian counterparts, particularly in the mil-to-mil area, and the two countries we continue to look at opportunities where we might partner better to be able to provide, you know, provide a better security structure in that part of the world which has growing importance, i think, to the global security environment and the global economic environment. >> [inaudible] >> my name's -- [inaudible] china news agency of hong kong. you mentioned before that you like to see a mature military-to-military relationship with china, and secretary panetta and secretary -- [inaudible] have invited china to join the green pac exercise of 2014. how do they respond that, and have you any, have any -- [inaudible] chinese counterpart regarding the military-to-military exchange program in 2013? and how would you deal with the new chinese military leader? >> yes. wel

you started to do or plan to do rotational b-52 deployments to northern australia. >> well, you've seenthe outcome of the -- what was there. we have a wonderful relationship with the australian counterparts, and the two countries we continue to look at opportunities where we could partner better to be able to provide, you know, provide a better security structure in that part of the world, which has growing important to the global and economic security environment. >> from west china, news agency of hong kong. you mentioned you'd like to see a mature military to military relationship with china, and sec that pa panetta has invited chia to join the green pack as -- [inaudible] how do they respond to that, and -- [inaudible] regarding the military to exchange in 2013, and how would you deal with the new chinese military? >> well, i -- first of all, let me say that i think the middle to middle relationship in the last couple of years, between us, have been quite historic. they have increased, and they have endured what in the past might have made them be truncated. they endured, you know,

you started to do or plan to do rotation to northern australia? >> well, we are having, you saw the outcome of the ombudsman and what was there. we have a wonderful relationship and alliance with our australian counterpart, particularly in the middle to middle area, and the two countries were continue to look at opportunities where we might partner or better to be able to provide, you know, provide a better security structure in that part of the world, which has growing importance i think to the global security and private and the global economic environment. >> i am with chinese agency in hong kong. you mentioned more or less you like to see much or military military relationship with chi china. and secretary panetta has invited china to join the greenback exercise in 2014. how do they respond to that? and have you any, have any -- [inaudible] chinese counterpart? regarding the military to military exchange program in 2013? and how -- [inaudible] first of all, let me say that i think that the middle to middle relationships in the last couple of y

. >> a bush fire in australia has threatened homes in northern sydney. firefighters had contained the blaze, which caused traffic problems as thick smoke blew across the city. according to local media, officials believe the fire was started deliberately. the european commission says it is doing more about youth unemployment, which stands at almost 24%, more than 3.5 million people under the age 25 in the eurozone. >> the eu executive presented a proposal for all member states to offer so-called "youth guarantees," ensuring training for young people in the few months after they leave school or lose a job. >> waiting rooms are full of young people. the crisis has hit them hardest. in countries like spain, up to one-half of young people are unemployed. under the european union boss proposed scheme, everyone under 25 who applies -- european union's proposed scheme, everyone under 25 who applies would be guaranteed a job or training within four months. >> we have to invest in europe's young people. we cannot afford to leave them. we have to give them the skil

and australia, new zealand, canada. ulster, northern ireland's. >> hongkong and singapore? >> yes. >> how about africa? but they had a relationship with egypt -- >> they had a relationship with egypt. i thought they sort of control egypt going into this. but the deal was come up they administered the country to safeguard the suez canal. they did that. in south africa, they had the republic of south africa. and they had some somalis were land, territories there that the -- completely unprepared everywhere for war. and i think that the british army plus the australian army had five or six divisions. the canadians -- all of them put together, even if they could all get to england were outnumbered by hitler's army 7 or 821. but they weren't in england ready to go. they were all around the world. the australians and british and singapore when that fell. so after dunkirk, here is a country like a boxer, down on one knee. about ready to call it a the. >> when did the blitz of london occurred? >> that is actually part of the battle of britain. the air battle began in mid july. >> o

this very controversial what's known as the northern territory intervention, northern territory is in the north of australiaeports of child abuse sent military and police into these remote communities and began patrolling the streets and setting up curfews. that was really salt in the wound force a population that felt once again white australia was telling them we know what's best for you. that really didn't help. >> this tv station really a huge leap forward? >> massive leap forward? >> amy is our resident aussie. thank you very much. we appreciate it. >>> in new zealand it's already friday, and if you buy the way some people read the mayan calendar, it means the end of the world should have hit that part of the world by now. we'll take a closer look at the hyster hysteria. tually share something. ♪ the lexus december to remember sales event is on. this is the pursuit of perfection. it's lots of things. all waking up. connecting to the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. ♪ it's going to be amazing. and exciting. and maybe, most remarkably, not that far away. we're going to wake the world