a significant heat wave across much of southeastern australia. you will be expecting a cooldown through the next several days. first i want to talk about -- see that swirl on the satellite imagery, that's the remnants of a tropical low that came onshore earlier this week. it's still bringing heavy rainfall around the border of western australia and the northern territory. some areas here seeing from 150 to 200 millimeters of rain. definitely the risk of flooding. things are dry toward the south, there's a cold front coming through that will push off towards the east. temperatures will be reflecting this thankfully. you have been seeing temperatures into the high 40s in some locations for the past week. 40, down to 28 by saturday. take a look at melbourne, nearly a 20-degree drop in a 24-hour period, all the way down to 23. definitely it is going to feel like night and day out here. summer back to normal temperatures at least for this time of year out here in southeastern australia. meanwhile a blizzard watch an warning is in effect for the northe

moving fine is intensified by i think what it is more dozens of bushfires are blazing across southeastern australia officials issued an emergency warning after two fires months in the grampians national park in the state of victoria. residents were told to leave immediately authorities are struggling to contain the blaze. no point in the situation is likely to get to the morris in adelaide temperatures soared above forty flight degree celsius on thursday who did whatever they could to simply cool down. even animals the zoo would give an icy treats to feed me melbourne is also wilting under the extreme heat temperatures was so high on thursday that organizes suspended play in the australian open to several hours. hundreds of pounds of already being treated for heat exhaustion health officials are urging people to keep cool. we need to restate the dvd release is a serious and in the snow nor any time for a student in to restate that hate and will be on time and we need to wait to get a second inning the place is set to continue through friday. but in many areas temperatures dropped on the thirty cels

dozens of wildfires are raging in southeastern australia as a country bakes in a sweltering heat wave there's a state of emergency the tory is out of control blazes forced people from their homes temperatures have soared about forty celsius across much of the country or senior shrilly an open tennis tournament to postpone matches after player and ball boy collapsed twenty thirteen was already australia's hottest year on record. while the arctic standing ice is gradually opening up access to massive oil and gas reserves hidden under the polar sea bed but with an increasing number of states aiming to exploit the region's richest getting all to agree on how to divide it up could prove tricky and tense. explains. melting ice caps in the arctic have ignited a military build up over the world's smallest ocean and the riches buried beneath it the arctic circle is believed to contain thirty percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and fifteen percent of its oil the future of the world economy to some extent is dependent on the arctic and i think you know russia and canada the united st