and journalist roger maynard joins us now from sydney. hi roger. so could you bring us up to date on the fires? how much of a risk do they pose right now? well fortunately and in the high temperatures and the strong winds up largely down a cooler southerly wind out of iraq within south arrived in sydney. but it's only going to be a temporary reprieve with another heat wave forecast for the middle of the week. the latest emergencies or record high temperatures here in sydney and other parts of new south wales marking and unusually early start to the season on a straight is eastern seaboard of one stage more than 80. crossfire and the bush is with burning across the state threatening homes. and causing mine up property damage temperatures hit 49.6 degrees centigrade in outback new south wales, the highest move in the figure, since records began. and here in sydney at sydney airport noticed a record $43.00 degrees centigrade with coast to temperatures, only marginally less thousands flock to cities, beaches recorded a temperature of 40 degrees centigr

journalist roger maynard in sydney, thank you. thank you. it's now the united nations says more than 40 people have been killed in a brutal massacre in northeast nigeria. motorcyclists are said to have gunned down civilians, villages, and towns borno state. no one has admitted to carrying out the chilling but the militant group boko haram has attacked the area in recent years. the victims of a gruesome massacre laid to rest in a mass burial. the reports say the farm workers were attacked by armed insurgents on motorbikes. while they were harvesting rice. some were shot others that their throats cut did as there were 6 of us in the bush. then we headed back into the village. we were shocked when we got there. the moment we found the bodies and that was where the main killings took place. then we went through a nearby village called good though. we met so many people fleeing from our village without knowing where they were going. the huge amounts of harvested rice was set on fire. it is, you know, this is the most violent attack on civilians i

and journalist roger maynard joins us now from sydney. hi roger. so could you bring us up to date on the fires? how much of a risk do they pose right now? well fortunately, i'm in the high temperatures and the strong winds up largely done down. a cool southerly wind from south arrived in sydney, but it's only going to be a temporary reprieve with another 8 wait for qantas for the middle of the week. the latest emergencies or record high temperatures. here in sydney and other parts of new south wales marking and unusually early start to be of final season on the straight is eastern seaboard, one stage more than 80 crossfire and the bush were burning across the state, threatening homes and causing mine up property damage temperatures hit 49.6 degrees centigrade in outback new south wales, the highest move in the figure, since records began. and here in sydney at sydney airport noticed a record $43.00 degrees centigrade with close to temperatures. only marginally less . thousands flocked to sydney's beaches which recorded a temperature of 40 degrees c

earlier i spoke to journalist roger maynard in sydney. i asked him how this year's wildfires compared to last year's when australia suffered one of its worst ever fire seasons. blasphemers coincide with a period of intense drought, which turned much of the countryside into a bushel. tinderbox, if you like. but there's been a lot of rain in the past few months, so dry conditions don't pose quite so much of a problem this time around. certainly no one wants a repeat of the bush farmers and say, which burned about 20000000000 acres last summer and decimated wildlife. i mean, so we're seeing the beginning of this fire season right now. if it does get worse, have firefighters learned something from last year's disaster that they can apply to this year? well yes, i mean, since the last bushfire season, there's been a major government inquiry into the causes of the fire and how best to handle it in future. among the conclusions were the need for more fighting, as it's more planes dumping water on to fuzz, improved back burning controls or critic

i spoke to journalist roger maynard in sydney, he had more of the australian prime minister's furious reaction to the chinese with the post. he branded the image as as repugnant. any demanded what he called this truly offensive image be removed from the social media site and he demanded an immediate apology for what he described as an outrageous and disgusting slur. now the post alludes to the findings of a report into the alleged murder of afghan civilians and prisoners of war by members of australia's elite, special is services group while they were based in afghanistan, several years ago. now these allegations have not been proven in a court of law and are china's insensitive response as had the capacity to further damage relations quite seriously. between the 2 countries are furious. marzan said the chinese government should be totally ashamed of this post. but of these 2 countries are big trading partners, is there any sign either side will try to make amends? well are not at the moment, certainly the row with further, obviously further damage relations between camber in beijing.