generally speaking the electorate don't really have much time drivable liberal or labor party roger maynard for us are from sydney today roger thanks for bringing us up to date . now it's being hailed as a giant leap forward for weather forecasting after sixteen years of intense planning testing and construction a new satellite was sent into orbit last night to monitor when systems around the globe. began when. the satellite was launched from the european space agency's spaceport in french guiana it's been named eolus after the keeper of the winds in greek mythology scientists hope the data collected will help more accurately predict extreme weather and climate change. this is deja news live from berlin don't forget we always have more of these and other stories at our website that's good of you dot com for now though for me brian thomas in the entire news team thanks so much for being with us and rita will be with you again at the top of the hour so. these creatures should see this for the mystical. good icon of the fish and. do we really know about the man behind the dark shades. just mom

electors as australian are to sions at our daughter likes madness that there is a problem by be there roger maynard in sydney for us they've roger thanks very much and good. here in germany about six hundred people have been evacuated from their homes as a wildfire blazes very close to the german capital berlin the rapidly spreading fire has taken hold of a large woodland about fifty kilometers southwest of the city now despite that this is a residents of berlin could smell the smoke from the fire this morning the blaze covers an area the size of about four hundred sports feels under the firefighters are combating these flames but the work has been made much harder by munitions from world war two that are out buried in those forests people have said the police rather have said the people though are not in danger. one local politician are going to basco praise the emergency services in the face of many complications here's what he had to say so i have future specs for the firefighters who are out there right now risking their lives we know there's ammunition lying around in the forest residents said

roger maynard for us from sydney today roger thanks for bringing us up to date. u.s. president donald trump has accused his former lawyer michael cohen of lying under pressure from prosecutors investigating campaign finance violations the white house grappling right now with allegations the president orchestrated an illegal cover up to buy the silence of two women who claimed he had affairs with them as a result the president is confronting mounting legal and political threats. in his guilty plea michael cohen admitted to violating campaign finance laws during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election he said he was instructed by a candidate it understood to be to trump to make payments to two women to finance their allegations they had extramarital affairs with trump in an interview on fox news trump tonight. did they come out of a campaign they didn't come out of it came from me and i did about it i don't know if you know but i tweeted. about the payments but they didn't come out of the campaign my first question when i heard about it was did they come out of th

let's bring in australian journalist roger maynard for more on this good morning roger is australia on the verge of getting a new prime minister it certainly seems that way it's very likely that australia will have the new i mean but tomorrow let alone one hundred percent. depends on whether a lot illusion for a spill succeeds tomorrow if that does happen then nothing to the prime minister said he will resign and he will stand down and open the way flora here's a is near misses to stand along with also be two other candidates the treasurer scott morrison and possibly the foreign minister julie bishop so it's all up at the moment very very undecided about exactly what's going to happen but humans are likely to be an interesting day to say the least ok roger what prompted all of this what was there a galvanizing issue. well the brahmanist has been on the outer if you like in the past few months now he's full and dramatically in the opinion polls and so has his party the liberal party that's partly because of the government's an energy policy prime minister up turnbull is seen as a center

general die as soon as possible to review after our response plans let's go straight to journalist roger maynard in the city for more days you are roger morrison saying there his top priority is australia's crippling drought but he also said he wants to unify is party after what has been a bruising week can he do both. very hard in my ability but a little bit of progress with the drought funds and of money into helping the farmers but his biggest task of the moment is the to unify the party then of some of the forty people and he is you know voted against him in that of today's ballot which went you know forty five to forty in its flavor so he's that means quite a lot of significant. a sixth of the party still disagree with malcolm turnbull and scott morris and lois's larsson was a very close ally of turnbull and you know full of many of his economic policies and you had only a climate change and emissions targets. whether or not the the right wing of the liberal party will now you know come in and win the golden and support scott morrison jumbles successor well that remains to be seen ok sounds

let's go straight to journalist roger maynards standing by for us in sydney good morning roger this time yesterday we were talking about the possibility of a change where you are what was the deciding factor in turnbull's quick exit. well basically it's been a day of high a political drama started earlier this morning the prime minister demanded to see all forty three people's names on a petition before he agreed to call what's known as a leadership spill here it took a couple of hours a sort all that out it also took more legal shenanigans when the solicitor general have to give his advice on whether peter dutton was a liberty to sit in parliament that was turmel as a main rival and then that was also to learn and the leadership spill went ahead just before lunch and. it was a three way race between peter dugan scott morrison and julie bishop as the foreign affairs minister julie bishop didn't make the the first round of the ballot and she she had to withdraw after the first round and left it between scott morrison and peter dunne and scott morrison won the day about forty five votes to