A pipeline that would bring russian gas to germany well look at why washington doesnt want the projects completed. And at least 23 people die in violent protests against a new indian citizenship bill muslims say it marginalizes them. A man and a home for you glad you could join me australias bushfire crisis is going from bad to worse now fire crews are trying to struggling rather to contain the spread of the blazes around the sydney now a combination of record temperatures drought and powerful winds has powered the info at least 8 people have died since the fires began. To smoking remains of a head after bushfires swept through the area. These residents in New South Wales fought the fire as well as they could before firefighters arrived and took over it happened quickly. We saw this mark and file basically rushing towards us over the hill and basically every minute it was probably had a kilometer. Before eventually it just hit a fence and were pretty much there finding the house off the fires or some of us truly is most extensive ever they have left 30000 square kilometers of charred land in their wake since october over 800. 00 homes have been destroyed several states are affected this blaze was raging in the countrys south on the outskirts of the city of adelaide with the forest on fire wildlife have nowhere else to go pushing the animals closer to peoples backyards and into their homes record temperatures powerful winds and low humidity are creating the conditions for the fires to spread president s say the constant danger is something theyve learned to live with. We know is that probably only a matter of. Days oh wait we have a not just struck but death. Will definitely stop and ready. The sheer scale of these bush fires is pushing fire and rescue services to their limits and the fires are still getting worse. Well joining me now from sydney is james morris hes a spokesman for the New South WalesRural Fire Service james thank you for taking the time to talk to us out such a critical time now we understand the high winds have been complicating efforts what does that mean so your firefighters and their walk. Good afternoon to you helena look as you mentioned those winds caused a lot of issues for us yesterday afternoon we saw those wind gusts in excess of i t 2100 Kilometers Per Hour which caused very challenging and erratic fire behavior far far as to try and control and slow the spread of we say its a very incredible footage coming out of they so far grounds of forefathers trying to defend harms and properties where they can some air is residents going down to the local fire station and forefathers are protecting those residents while they still continue to battle the fire as you mentioned unfortunately weve saying 8 people lose a lot of the season so far including 2 of our own far far as i mean recent days unfortunately jeff an andrew of holes leapai brigade who are out are protecting their community in hard done sorry dane day out for a number of wakes the ses and so a very tragic last day and that brigade holds the proper guide where back out yesterday on the front lawn again in and on behalf of those 2 members sent me a tragic loss james any sign of relief in sight. Fortunately nice on of relief in thought i would you have more favorable conditions up in the next 4 or 5 days before we see again an increase in temperature and winds but until we get substantial rhein significant rain for days on end we want to say they far as extinguished we have can time and lawns but that still means theyll be a lot of foreign lands guy for a long time yet of meteorology not predicting any significant for costs of running until at least meet 2 of the end of february so still some months yet and still some of the worst weather yet to come all right james morris from the nice south Wales Rural Fire Service thanks for talking to us and all the best to you connie. Well lets take a look now at some the other stories making news around the world french holiday travelers are facing major delays as well as cancellations as the nationwide transport strike continues paris rail travelers faced long waits for crowded trains with the system running at half capacity transport workers are part of a larger strike called over pension reforms. A fierce storm battering spain and portugal has killed at least 5 people strong winds interventional raise have damaged buildings and roads and cut power lines across the Iberian Peninsula authorities warn that conditions are likely to get worse as another powerful storm is headed for the region. Hoteliers in venice a fears of new flooding have cut the number of Hotel Reservations by almost half restaurants rules theyre receiving far fewer bookings last month the highest tide in decades left parts of the italian canal city underwater. The u. S. Has officially announced the funding of a new Military Branch focused on winning battles from Space President donald trump announced the space for say 16000 troop military units designed to defend american interests in space. Well germany has objected strongly to new u. S. Sanctions against north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany but says it will not retaliate now the sanctions affects Companies Involved in the construction of the nearly completed undersea pipeline through the baltic sea once with dutch involved in the project has already said it will suspend its operations washington says that the pipeline will make germany and europe too dependent on russian energy. Germanys vice chancellor had this to say about the u. S. Sanctions. These sanctions constitute a serious interference in the internal affairs of germany and europe and therefore sovereignty we object to them in the strongest terms moreover this behavior is entirely in comprehensible and is not at all appropriate between friends of the nato allies who has their vice chancellor schultz will be w. s chief political ad is im here to christiane joins me now in the studio to talk through all of this good to see me here so the construction of north stream to its ground to a halt for the time being do these sanctions mean that project is off the table to get known and its actually very unlikely that u. S. Sanctions will stop this project from going to high heads overall because its more strategic than it is a technical question at the moment is a Swiss Company that is simply afraid to continue any work because of the threat of sanctions and they have specialty ships so that the technology you cant replace but what you also cant replace the Strategic Alliance between germany and russia on this particular point of Energy Security of Energy Supplies this is a project thats also been hotly debated within the European Union and the United States simply wants to kill it its unlikely it will do so because its also a matter of principle even for the opponents that imposing sanctions is simply against International Law and how International Business is currently done. Were talking about matter of principles you know critics say that the sanctions arent so much about protecting europe from russian influence for example when it comes to the u. S. President instead he wants to make sure that more american gas is sold to europe how much weight would you give to those claims while. Its absolutely clear that the United States wants to sell liquid nitrogen gas and what germanys chide to do and its getting a lot of criticism from the opposition for right now is to reassure the americans that it would buy a liquid nitrogen gas by saying that it will build those terminals and at the same time following that strategy of ensuring gas supply security with russia and the United States is the country upon which simply European SecurityGerman Security depends on and were actually seeing that issue of security security being mixed up with the overall strategic question of if youre not with us on the issue you clearly are against this so i think this is only the beginning of no longer a standoff but potentially more hostile policy not just of this project to follow and on that point i mean it seems that weve now got another issue between germany and the u. S. On the table you know adding to trade for example adding to nato payments how damaging potentially could this north stream to raul be toward already strained relationship what we heard it from the vice chancellor in that sound bite at the very beginning its seen as a rather damaging as an interference in the criticism is unlikely to get much stronger on the rest of record but off the record were clearly seeing damage done to the Underlying Trust between germany and the United States but also europe and the u. S. And a departure from any kind of reliability on that strategically important partner across the transatlantic with Strategic Interests so much into economics and how the e. U. How germany turns out its and security in the future chief political ads in the attic and thanks so much for your analysis. Well at least 233 people have been killed in violent protests in india against a contentious new york gives Illegal Immigrants who have fled religious persecution a chance to apply for indian citizenship but it doesnt apply to muslims now theyre calling it discrimination and a violation of indias secular constitution. These women in some state expressed their objection to the new citizenship law peacefully with a sit in in a field their muslim. And they see the legislation as part of a hindu nationalist agenda the main herald deeper discrimination theyre afraid theyll become a minority. The government is taking steps that will result in a disappearance of the assamese identity if the assamese people do not protest our language will disappear here and of course. There are 200000000 muslims in india and an ease about the new law has spread across the country critics of Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and his government say making citizenship easy of a known muslim immigrants than for muslims undermines the constitution they want to divide the Indian Society based on religion they want to create a separation and a distance and if. There are fears among Indian Muslims that they could become 2nd class citizens in their own country. The rising death toll is Police Crackdown on protests is only fueling those fears. New zealand has ended a Gun Buyback Program brought in after terror attacks on mosques in christchurch this year the scheme ran for 6 months and the government banned certain semi automatic weapons and offered to buy them back for onus until yesterday the government calls it a Great Success but some gun owners are unhappy getting guns off the street literally people were still turning in their firearms on the last day of the Buyback Program the government says more than 30000 weapon owners participated turning in over 50000 guns. But i do believe that our communities are just a little bit safer for what is it could only be the last 6 months but there is still a lot more to do and im confident that the new Zealand Police can do that and be the safest country in the world. The measure followed an anti muslim rampage at 2 Christ Church mosques in march of this year when a single gunman killed 51. 00 people the massacre shocked the country where Mass Shootings were extremely rare the Prime Minister just in the artery moved quickly to ban semiautomatic weapons like the one the gunman used the Legislature Passed it nearly unanimously. Mrs speaker we are all to me here because 5050 people died and they do not have a voice we in this house are the voice and today mr speaker we have used that voice wisely. Further legislation now moving through parliament would create a registry to track all guns police say thats intended to make it harder for criminals and gangs to get access to weapons. But in a country where many farmers and hunters are attached to their guns the measures faced some resistance. Is a huge amount of violence on those that. Im aware that they are going to become criminals come tomorrow even as the buyback and the amnesty continues meaning gun owners can still turn in weapons with no questions asked but anyone caught with a bad weapon faces 5 years in prison. Or a sports team is now in the final born is a good match save the calendar year is well underway with saturdays early games all over us lets take a look at how things have unraveled so far or brian they left it late to be but like they came from behind to defeat cologne down dead it became an shocker freiburg shared the points mind lost as to 10 months later who is in and has have been in a now as i speak battling mentioned it glad back on friday hoffenheim stunned dortmund on sunday disallowed off host on your own bed in a frankfurt travel to part of one. Were watching the news from by and up next dr phil looks at one of the key steps towards german reunification on how the now frames island thanks to a company. 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