Confronting the challenges of a new day in her new address chancellor also stresses the need to tackle climate change. Im anthony held welcome to the show has welcomed the 20 twentieths with a fireworks display at the Brandenburg Gate thousands of bird lynas and tourists gathered to welcome the new year and the new decade crowds as youre about to see stretched for 1. 5 kilometers to watch the official display. Thousands of unofficial file words are also locking up the city as we speak and tens of thousands gathering at that iconic venue welcome in the new. Other magic cities across the globe have been putting on a spectacular show to welcome in the new year as well. You zealand was one of the 1st to see in the new decade with a firework extravaganza in auckland shortly afterwards taiwans one of the one tower in taipei was lit up in front of cheering crowds. North korea also put on a show 1000 people gathering in pyongyang to see the new year. In g bios well worlds tallest building the burj khalifa there was one of the center of attention day in the u. A. E. And london as well said goodbye to 2019 with the display from the london eye locking up the thames river and the houses of parliament while been told. In a strategy of growing fears full residents and tourists in several coastal towns who are now trapped by raging bushfires 3 people have been confirmed dead in the last 24 hours killed while trying to save their homes sheltering on beaches the navy has been called up for a possible brisky mission. Stranded by the seaside. Tourists and locals being held hostage by raging wildfire in the town. Its too late to leave so they can do is wait along the beach for help to come. Back. The fire along the. East just. Across the region have made the difficult decision to stay behind but the authorities. Now on their own. Communities. Temperatures on tuesday peaked at 41 degrees celsius. In some places the places are so intense the thick smoke turnkey tonight and aerial reconnaissance and water bombing have to be hold it the fires are causing dry lightning storms that themselves are starting fires. When fawaz arkwright in iran with them have their super hot columns that go up to 131415 kilometers in the air its not saif then there is obviously the very common sense issue of not being out of the city so much my son much so much impact in terms of moving around australia has been battling huge bushfires for several months mostly on the eastern coast on tuesday almost 300. 00 fires were registered and the places have consumed more than 40000 square kilometers of Land Management im joined now from melbourne by Luke Haggerty hes the spokesman for victorias state center for Emergency Management like were saying apocalyptic scenes in victoria particularly in the coastal town of melaka to a new day has dawned there what has died light revealed in that corner of the state. What we. Are period and more broadly across the land regime which is where they say far as it is that weve had significant impacts to property lots of property losses we dont know the exact numbers but we know that it has been significant recently receiving vos from people who were in military use or a number of houses any unfortunately. 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I look at my same difficult to comprehend for those of us watching from elsewhere in the will but could the situation get any worse in the coming hours the end and dice. Well unfortunately even our its the new eat this is only the 2nd month of summer for starting to die that means that weve got at least 2 months of. Hard drive with it us more morally were not saying any right in the forecast and thats what we need to how can time these far as unfortunately that means that any time we see strong we base for as a going to continue to spread that means were going to continue to threaten the communities that have been cut off or far about to actually threaten new communities throughout. These are very very large for it is there not just between excuse lendale a the burnie in the northeast of asteroids and weve also got a number of far as that are very New South Wales right across the state or a. Whole north face of victoria parts of New South Wales that are really suffering from those who are as looking getting ennobling thank you and you time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world for marine on this and boss tell us is in lebanon after skipping by in japan where he was awaiting trial for financial misconduct in a statement gun claimed he was not fleeing justice but was a scaping political persecution his legal team said it was shocked by the clients. Angola has frozen the assets of the daughter of the former president the move against Isabel Dos Santos is part of an Anti Corruption drive known as africas wealthiest woman she amassed a fortune drawing the 1st stakes in angola in companies cheering her fathers term in office she denies any wrongdoing. British police have charged a man with criminal damage for allegedly slashing a painting by the spanish moss the public picasso incident happened at the tate modern over the weekend the damaged workings with more than 23000000. 00 euros. Crowds of protesters have attacked the u. S. Embassy in the iraqi capital baghdad in response to recent u. S. Airstrikes targeting and iran backed a rocking militia it was President Donald Trump has accused iran of orchestrating the protests washington says all the u. S. Personnel at the embassy are safe and that it will deploy more than 750. 00 additional soldiers to the country in response to the hezbollah brigade supporters crossed the river tigris in the morning and marched toward the u. S. Embassy to demonstrate. Their protests began after a Funeral Service for fighters killed in u. S. Airstrikes on sunday. The militia officers had previously killed a u. S. Citizen. The demonstrators broke through the embassies external security barriers and made it as far as the last security wall of the Embassy Building in baghdad among the demonstrators shiite clergy and a radical militia leader. The other look on that even though this is the command center for the destructive operations it was from here that iraqs sovereignty was violated. The demonstrators managed to force their way into the compound in the afternoon they remained there until security personnel deployed tear gas to disperse them. Washington says its confident it knows whos backing the Shiite Militia as President Donald Trump tweeted earlier. Iran is orchestrating an attack on the u. S. Embassy in iraq they will be held fully responsible. It was only after several hours that Iraqi Security forces arrived to protect the embassy grounds. Well Angela Merkel is calling on germans to be courageous and confident in making the challenges of a new decade the german chancellor also used her annual new years eve address to stress the need to klak tackle climate change. Its the end of the year and the end of the decade the world is getting even more complicated but german chancellor Angela Merkel doesnt paint a bleak picture even if she clearly points to a pressing issue the keyword cloyd it. Is a Global Warming is real it threatens us it is caused by human activity as are the crises that arise out of Global Warming so we must do all that is humanly possible to combat this challenge to humanity there is still time know if this movie americal says the recently agreed climate Protection Laws a step in the right direction even if young environmental activists say the law doesnt go far enough but merkel says the government must consider all citizens and that by talking with stevie are guided by the values of freedom solidarity and respect for the dignity of every Single Person as well as the principles of the social market economy these values will also remain our compass in the next decade and. Marrow says its the states duty to defend these values against antisemitism hate and violence and this also applies to refugees and migration merkel stresses that solutions are needed within a european framework where in their minds off the only within the community of the European Union can we assert our values and interests and secure peace freedom and prosperity europe must strengthen its voice in the world therefore will also stand up for this in the coming year during the german e. U. Council presidency for example by holding a summit of all Member States with china and a meeting with the african states. And so chancellor merkel concludes the year practice magically with concrete plans for the future employer there is still much work left for her to do. Celebrations. Around the world ahead of the festivities we sent our correspondents out to ask people in a number of cities about their hopes and wishes for the new you. Know. I hope hong kong will become. Hong kong has always been called a cultural it does it because we focus on Economic Development we young people should show hong kongs cultural uniqueness to the world. For the coming decade i wish for the lebanese people to wake up and become aware that their religious and political affiliations would leave them no way and would never be and would never be the country. I would like lattimer putin to stop dollars hes been in power for over 18 years and im tired and i want to change for russia. Is disappearing just strongly. Obvious Good Governance good Economic Growth and i hope we get out of poverty to. Leave no wish for peace and prosperity and that we get along with our neighbors. I just want to allow for younger people i feel like a lot of the older people get more privileges and better everything and people do think about a life is up. When its really i wish that venezuela will become financially stable and that those who have left the country can come home. I think in the next decade the United States really focus on the people who are really the benefits that we have the citizens here. Also ally i like going immigrate to enter the country is equal because thats what were all about. If. Youre watching news from palin dont forget as always you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website at the dot com for now im Anthony Hallett in berlin wishing you a happy new year. With our superheroes. My mission is clear. And. Explore germany. Does it and Everything Else theres a lot