offering them the chance of asylum but the process is long and uncertain and top of the queue for up wickens goes around the block most here anyway say that's not what they want and they feel if they can just hold out they'll eventually get through given the current position of both mit's co and the u.s. but seems very unlikely. john holeman out zita up to the. bush fires have now been burning in parts of australia for a months the unusually early start to the fires at the very beginning of spring is because of an extend the drought the worst southeastern australia has ever endured from the armidale in new south wales under thomas reports. for a month large areas of southeastern australia have been burning a month not at the height of summer but in early spring the reason hot dry conditions and the years of drought there's been so little rain to moisten the ground and replenish rivers reservoirs and lakes that firefighters are fighting fire largely without water we use minimal water but it's just a matter of breaking up before breaking up the fuel. for. that all because of a drought there. v