of my book has opened an investigation of potential negligent arson the german defense minister ursula lyon as we've heard is visiting the area right now as we speak and she will definitely be asked to give some answers as her how come to put in despair the german military under her leadership is able to commit such mistakes or is to be responsible for such incidents without the ability to properly take care of that so a lot of difficult questions coming from the residents of this area and local authorities but solutions and answers yet to be given. just give us a sense of the scale of this. i mean is it under control of authorities got it under control well we're now talking about roughly eight hundred hectares of more land being burned just to give you some proportion this is roughly one thousand football fields now the fire is under control in the sense that it's no longer spreading any further however it's also far from being over what we know is that or the key word everyone is talking about at the moment is the weather yesterday this area saw some thunderstorms and contrary to what pe

potential negligent arson just a short while ago where i'm standing right now defense minister ursula funder lyon was visiting also taking pretty much the same questions from residents and local authorities asking how could this be how could this be that the bundeswehr the german military under your literal leadership has caused such a disaster with seemingly not such good means to handle it. but apart from an apology that from the line has issued both yesterday and today to local authorities saying that the incident should never have happened the way did they are unfortunately very few solutions at the moment and even fewer answers all right down a we've already mentioned this fire has been burning for about three weeks which is also quite shocking give us a sense of the scale of the fire and are they even close to getting it under control. yes well we're right now talking about something like eight hundred hectares of moral and burning which just to give you some proportion is roughly one thousand football fields so the fire is definitely under control as of now in the sense that it's no longer