Weekend the big question lingers who will come out on top of the table before the players go on holiday to discuss which teams have the best chance to take the lead. Mackinnon thanks so much for joining us. India has seen fresh protests against a controversial new citizenship of the war despite a government ban on the public gatherings in the capsule delhi demonstrators took to the streets with the slogan dont be silent dont be violent more than a dozen people have been killed in clashes with authorities people say more than 600 people have been arrested the new law gives Illegal Immigrants who have fled religious persecution a chance to apply for indian citizenship but its. Does not apply to muslims critics are calling it discrimination and say the law violates indias secular constitution. And for more lets bring in correspondent nisha gys well whos in delhi in the show reports are suggesting that more people have died in these protests can you confirm that for us well yes on now there are more deaths that have been reported yesterday but over the last 10 days there have been all but a dozen People Killed in violence around the protests against the citizenship Amendment Act now yesterday as deaths were reported from the neighboring state of looked at the issue but even in the National Capital while no deaths have been reported there were protests to the day yesterday there are also protests planned and being held today as well yes this part are centered on the grand mosque and were largely peaceful but later in the evening that did into weiland protesters allege that the police started about on charge and started using Water Cannons against the protesters without any problem but the police they have of the thought that stores had started burning vehicle as much as why these started using force that have also been allegations of excessive use of force against the police to the spirit and also brought us to frustrate of the government is not trying to do more and that this heavy clampdown including internet shutdowns in different parts of the country is basically to squash dissent and that the government is unwilling to listen however protesters insist that they will keep at it that they will come out on the streets every day until the government arises this law theyre also hoping that if not the Indian Supreme Court may be able to strike down this law as unconstitutional ok so increasing levels of frustration and violence whats the governments response to the situation. Well so far now the government has spoken very little about this theyre saying that people must remain calm they must not take to the streets as much and theyre trying to assure people that their prime concern that this law will affect Indian Muslims is unfounded theyre saying that this law doesnt have anything to do with indian citizenship as an indian citizen that has to do with granting citizenship to migrants from other countries people of course are not agreeing with this as much they want dialogue with the government they want a delusion but the governments stance is also clear and in other aspects they have come out with leaders of come out and said the law has been passed it is what it is and also just yesterday of the government put out a Media Advisory it did in Media Channels in india to stop showing davis of and a National Content but why release Indias National integrity they were just putting to the protests so clearly the government sees the protests as just the doings of miscreants and what they call antisocial elements and march representatives of ballots civil civil disagreement civil unrest so theres definitely a quantic tapping here and the government will have to ignore it but exactly how they would do it if they were actually listening to both us theirs is still something we have to wait and watch for thank you know me as well reporting for us in delhi. Now a company laying pipes that the north stream to gas pipeline between russia and germany says it has stopped construction the subcontractor all saying is says the move was in response to u. S. Sanctions on friday President Donald Trump approved sanctions against Companies Involved in the pipelines construction the u. S. Has criticized the project for handing it too much power to russia. I the sanctions on the north stream to project are included in a wide ranging us defense spending bill President Trump signed the legislation into law a ceremony held at Andrews Air Force base just outside washington. Just now my honor to. Sign the 2020 National Defense authorization act into law. The sanctions target Companies Involved in the almost 10000000000 euro project to double the Pipeline Capacity carrying russian natural gas to europes leading economy germany most of the pipeline has been completed all seized the Company Building the unfinished section through danish territorial waters announced it was holding its work in anticipation of the new law washington had made it clear in advance that noncompliance would have consequences. You know senator cruz who is the sponsor of the bill wrote a letter to the c. E. O. Of aussies today basically saying as soon as this bill is signed into law youre out of compliance and you are subject to sanctions so its a its a its a hot topic. The u. S. Move has angered germany a longtime ally. Berlin rejects the idea that washington can legally impose sanctions on 3rd parties. Come up we have long been against extraterritorial sanctions we have the same problem with iran. In my opinion the only solution is to hold talks very decisive talks with against letting these extra territorial sanctions take in fact. Despite the anger in Berlin Germany is not planning any action against washington thats not the case with russia the other partner in the pipeline president Vladimir Putin has threatened retaliation a moscow has made it clear it will go ahead and finish the project whatever the United States does. Massive bush fires are raging across australia is New South Wales state with 2 blazes around sydney burning at sea levels and the sea services have now also confirmed that 2 firefighters died on thursday night high temperatures and strong winds have created catastrophic conditions with firefighters battling more than 100. 00 fire as across New South Wales several roads heading out of sydney are closed and asking people to delay travel plans at the start of the Christmas Season at least 3000000 hectares of land have been torched across the country in recent months people wildlife property that all in danger and there is no significant rainfall expected in the next couple of months. Joining me now from sydney is james morris hes the spokesperson for the new of the New South WalesRural Fire Service james thanks so much for joining us or thorazine say things have reached a catastrophic level sydney which is where you are is surrounded by raging bushfires can you describe to us what this means for People Living in the affected areas. Good evening and you look terrible conditions he for ferries across New South Wales today as you mentioned catastrophic fire danger declared for parts of New South Wales for us that makes it easy as bad as it gets we still soaring temperatures today up in the mid to high fortys winds in excess of id to 100 kilometers after a southerly buster southerly wind chimes coming through a number of areas which even at the moment i was doing new fawzi not central and northern New South Wales flaring up threatening homes due to that wind chimes weve seen a number of areas threatened our right across there is in western sydney and through the Blue Mountains through Northern City through our whole sri area and even down on our New South Wales south coast as well we do have reports of quite a number of dot widespread areas of harms lost and damaged today and unfortunately have reports of one person that is still arent accounted for it will be some days unfortunately before we will be able to confirm just how much devastation these was to die along with days wings and soaring temperatures have coles and james how off fire fight has and in the Agency Personnel coping with this incredible situation of course many of the volunteer firefighters are volunteers. Oh look they can i think tremendously well given the circumstances are here in New South Wales weve been battling these blazes since the end of july up in northern and western parts and and obviously its coming down now through central and eastern parts of New South Wales so look so far as our target a lot of our Emergency Services workers are exhausted but weve seen a lot of relief coming in from interstate counterparts right across australia as well as International Far as coming in from america and canada and they he for 38 to deployment which will lay out our crews to have a bit of rest but certainly weve got a long road ahead and they saw it as as you mentioned that have burned out more than 3000000. 00 head to is will not be extinguished and that threat wont be reduced to a get significant widespread rhyme which at this stage isnt on the full cost of at least mid to late february. Change that morris from the New South Wales laurel fire service thank you so much for talking to us that is very very difficult time. Now its the final weekend of been disfigured much as before german soccer takes its annual winter break on friday health and beat dortmund 21 dortmund scored 1st im sure for kimi crossed for mario gazza to make it one nil in the 17th minute of time had to wait until later in the match to reply saugus i mean on the level that the school in the 87th minute and im very come out much scored the winner with just 3 minutes left. Of a loss will definitely keep things exciting at the top of the bundesliga table with legally does rb leipzig for a shipment and buy in munich all playing later today and joining me to talk about this more is the new Sports Correspondent tuckey alina thanks for joining us tell me who do you think has the momentum right now to finish. Before the winter break ok so in germany we have a name for the team that finishes top of the table in the 1st half of the season and that is hips and in english that just means fall autumn champions now heres where it gets interesting for the 1st time in 9 years my sister thats not going to be buying munich or dortmund its going to come down to 6 and mentioned. And the table doesnt lie if we look at it we see just how tight everything is safe and tight on 34. 00 points each but its like 6 on top because of the bed goal difference that all can change today if you like see of course win against. Lose against oaks work and win against her temporarily and then that would go on top and as we also saw in the table by an ache in threat they trailing by 4 points and i think its refreshing to sit here and to not be talking about buy and dominance for a change and i think its also a sign of how healthy the league has become and how competitive. It has become the season now as we said the league goes on break up to this this weekends matches tell us a little bit about the sort of the biggest talking points that weve had so far as so many to list i mean we just talked about it in just a few seconds ago the competitiveness all saw black box making that surprise title run who saw that coming at the beginning of the season and another great talking point worthy of a mention is high work and their coach to stanch i mean. Where in so i mean he gets really emotional on the sidelines thats always a bonus but they are right now in 7th place and at one point they were even in 4th place and that was so special for the top and they made a really big deal out of it because both the 1st time in the history there where head in the table ahead of by and munich so that was something really historic for them also were the mentioning of course and david wagner for example hes transformed this high from a team that was just last season fighting against relegation to perhaps possibly finishing in the top 4 of the season so thats all good but theres always the also a bit of bad and a bit of uglies so the bad of course i think here has to go to dortmund i mean they just havent been able to close games and it makes you question could this be another missed opportunity when it comes to the title run and the ugly i mean this is probably not going to be a surprise has to go to v. A. Our video assistant referee still a lot of controversial decisions still a lot of decisions that confuse the players and the fence alike and i think were still not at the point where we expected it to be where theres a lot more clarity and consistency all right steve is a limited psyche thank you so much. Now they may not be in inches or even teenagers but a conservation all thora see in bali all counting on the these heroes in a half shell to help save the declining sea turtle population the majestic marine animals are under a serious threat of extinction from commercial fishing illegal trade and Climate Change these 7 Gentle Giants were rescued by authorities and have now returned safely to the scene with a castle nudge from human health thats it watching t. V. News live from up next well stories stick around for that if you count. 50 years of religions for peace sitting so many different states are working together toward a common goal the peaceful resolution of religious conflict. 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