The country. 3 people coming forward following a deadly fire at a german soup both are seen as believe the illegal sky lanterns spot the planes that killed dozens of animals in the town of clayface on new years eve. And farming that was once thought impossible well meet a pioneer growing fresh vegetables and one of the worlds most inhospitable climates the dog total winter of norways finalists. I mean you could as mckinnon thanks for joining us. Australia in the authorities are taking drastic measures to save lives as some of the worst wildfires on record ravage the country with 18 people already confirmed dead and thousands. Of homes destroyed authorities have ordered Mass Evacuations in 2 of the hardest hit states now the worst affected state is New South Wales where fires have burned more than 4000000 hectares now to put that damage into perspective thats more than 4 times the number of hectors lost in the 2019 amazon fires the State Government of New South Wales has declared a 7 day state of emergency for a 3rd time in as many months and in the neighboring state of victoria roads in the bushfire areas have been cut off making it only possible to leave via sea routes and naval vessels are being sent to about evacuate people from. Just over their harbor to one of the ports close to melbourne the evacuations are likely to last for days amid the stream weather conditions. Australias sos the eastern coast is no one ever curation zone people have been told to leave as soon as possible as authorities declared a state of emergency. It is imperative that you look after yourself the responsibilities will talk yourselves and your families and you out to those men and women who are fighting as far as keeping such a do exactly what i say military ships an aircraft often deployed to provide humanitarian assistance bringing in much needed food and medical supplies to cut off areas the military vessels will be able to evacuate up to 1000 people at a time from the harbor in the tory to see journey to one of the designated ever kishan ports takes around 17 hours this means that the Mass Evacuations will go on well into the weekend when weather conditions are forecast to worsen again. The winds are expected to be very strong that the food plus degrees temperatures weve got a lot for in the last guy that weve agreed to time. Residents are taking the warnings seriously. And for side anybody diet. Demised and i had tyrants tied to scar tissue. Just. Over to do is put you off that reason is now. Just getting out and god. When you say that for and you just not youre not meant to be they just. Smoke is too sick for helicopters to fly in and help with their vaccinations those wanting to leave will now make their way to the ports. Ok lets go straight to journalist rebecca a ma in sydney rebecca thanks for joining us how much of a difference will the navy ship thats now arrived offshore to make given that it can only take up to about a 1000 people and what awaits the evacuees at the other end. So malik rouge is a relatively small town that has been ravaged by the last few days so there are thousands of people needing to be evacuated so this will make a difference for those who most need to leave the area to save shelter immediately there have been some of the people who have been desperate to label guys they were in private already and they have left so it will make a big difference to those needing to lay them for those left behind it will be a matter of bracing as conditions are expected to worsen once more and it will be another wake also until people can leave by the road so there is also talk. Of accusations being attempted for the elderly and infirm once that is possible or to do so for those that dont make it on they can best will now the New South Wales government has declared its 3rd state of emergency what does that mean exactly will its a decision not made lightly and the premier Gladys Berejiklian has declared that today beginning tomorrow friday the next 7 days and that gives the roofies service the power to operate the governments resources so they head commissioner shame fitzsimmons will be ordering the closure of roads where it will also mean that the group fire service has the ability to shut down utilities Like Oil Water gas and electricity to forcibly evacuate people as well from those risky areas and to occupy properties and tear down infrastructure where they say it to now authorities are saying theyre preparing for a catastrophic conditions again on saturday how many people are likely to be on the move as conditions intensify into the weekend. Already there is a Mass Evacuation underway tens of thousands if not a 100000 people have been and are currently on the move today tens of thousands of curious teller ready settled into that base holidays on the south coast of New South Wales and east and victoria before they fire here is so they have some of those have been cut off from power and water the last few days not already as of now said that if there is a small window in which people can evacuate to say areas they have been queues outside petrol stations with some petrol stations running out of fuel completely and others giving a limit of 50 latest queues outside supermarkets and weve saying pictures of him in a supermarket shelves stripped bare so there are traffic jams of up to 25 kilometers long as many many people are attempting to lay the same area out all at once as conditions are expected to intensify once more over the next few days. Unless rebecca in ma in sydney thanks very much. Lets take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world today lebanon has received an International Arrest warrant from interpol for carlos ghosn the form a new boss skipped bail in japan earlier this week and fled to lebanon he was awaiting trial in japan for financial misconduct just japanese prosecutors have raided goans tokyo home reportedly looking for information on how he escaped the country. Taiwans military chief of staff has been killed in a Helicopter Crash sheni ming was aboard a blackhawk chopper when it went down in mountains north of the capital taipei officials said 7 of those aboard died the air force general was in command of the islands defenses against china. Israeli Prime MinisterBinyamin Netanyahu has asked parliament for immunity from corruption charges immunity would protect him from prosecution while he remains in office and yahoo was indicted in november on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust. Turkeys parliament has begun discussing whether to authorize a one year deployment of troops to libya turkey supports libyas internationally recognized government in tripoli the motion before parliament in ankara would send turkish soldiers to the libyan capital they would defend of the government there against forces loyal to the powerful war. His fighters control several suburbs and turkey is hes planning to launch an assault on the city some 2000 people have been killed so far in the conflict. For more lets go to a. Political scientist an expert for the middle east shes in cultures to u. K. Tasha thanks for joining us why is turkey interested in sending troops to libya. Well turkey wants to back up the tripoli government because they have been present with them for some time now i mean they have both economic ties with and they had made a maritime agreement where they could carve out rights in the mediterranean so they made that agreement with they had all kinds of construction agreements and contracts that they had been given and this is dated back even before from gadhafi was in power but this continued with the tripoli based government and as general have tires forces have to team you to gain more and more land this is put a lot of these contracts in jeopardy turkey feels increasingly isolated in the region as an Economic Zone was created with countries like egypt israel cyprus and greece and to racine that turkey just wants to have more control over the region it seems that if it can prop up the tripoli based government better i mean hed already been defying the embargo imposed by the u. N. On arms its been sending in arms and weapons and so forth but now it seems like its going to get more and more involved in and ive been in the past and you know also have to mention the element that turkey believes after us forces even try reading ethnic turks in libya thats the 3rd Largest Ethnic Group after arabs and persians as there had been arrests of ethnic turks and the bombing of misrata a city where there are a lot of ethnic turks and so it seems that its going to be very critical to defending well to tripoli government and these ethnic turks from what david lee to be an aggression of half an hour is for students can you talk about the possible pump sequences of a military intervention in the region and also internationally. Well it is very significant because the more larger countries more powerful countries get involved the more difficult its going to be to come up with any kind of Peace Agreement the un has been trying to broker a Peace Agreement for some time now but its complicated by the fact that you have to as forces being supported by countries like the u. A. E. Like russia and egypt and now you have turkey on the other end of it now becomes a proxy war it becomes escalated youre going to see the civilian count go up in numbers and we already saw just since 2015. Or 9000 people have been killed 20000 people have been injured but were going to see much much bigger numbers of civilian casualties when it gets internationalized like this all right and tefillin stat political scientist and middle east expert thanks so much. A woman and her 2 adult daughters have turned themselves into authorities in western germany following a fire that devastated police say the women have admitted ordering paper sky lanterns on the internet apparently unaware of the illegal in germany its believed flames from the airborne candles cause the blaze it occurred on the news and killed dozens of animals. Flowers and candles a kray felled zoo more than 30 animals were burned to death here after a fire broke out at the 8 house. Among the dead animals are highly endangered apes like around the towns from borneo lowth and gorillas from Central Africa and chimpanzees from west africa. A total of 88. 00 were killed amongst them massah europes oldest gorilla he was 48 years old the fire in the house broke out shortly after midnight the house was also home to fruit bats and birds they were all killed in the blaze but 2 chimpanzees survived. Police say the fire was caused by a sky lantern launch of a new year a mother and her 2 daughters handed themselves in to authorities soon after the fire reportedly unaware that the sky lanterns a band across germany. Because. The people wanted to set off these lanterns with good wishes and of course they didnt think that could lead to what happened here. I must say i think its courageous of them to go to the police and say yes were responsible i find the leak stream me decent and they have my respect. Well cray field soon now remains closed investigations into how the fire spread are underway. Ok lets brand correspondent done a wreck of whos in. Donna authorities are saying that a mother and her 2 adult daughters responsible for the fire whats likely to happen to them now yeah thats correct well they might be charged with negligent arson and that offense might carry a prison sentence of up to 5 years or turn to a fine it needs to be said that police and the chief investigator said that the women did save a lot of trouble trouble and a lot of hassle for police. Because this might have turned into a very tricky investigation so he applaud them for confessing and turning themselves in now people obviously feel very affected by whats happened there for flowers they flip candles to remember the animals whats the zoo doing to to manage this tragedy. Yes well as you can see right behind me there is a vigil being held and many people come here to lay flowers to light candles one resident even told me earlier that these monkeys the apes that were killed were almost like their relatives here in the town and they mean they really meant a lot for them but the zoo for now is not confirming whether or not it will be open again to morrow there are discussions about that but the main focus of the manager of the zoo at the moment as he said is to take care of the remaining animals and to make sure that their will well being is kept including the pansies that survived the fire and thats right 22. 00 chimpanzees survive do we know what will happen to them. Well we dont know as of yet we know that the zoo is quote satisfied and contempt with their condition and we know that there are healthy and that they are being taken care of but there is no information as of yet as to whether or not they will remain in the zoo. Thanks so much. It watching t w news still to come. Growing fresh food in one of the worlds northern most settlements we meet me timing it is making it possible. The 1st austria where conservatives have struck a Coalition Agreement with the green party the deal follows 3 months of tough negotiations sebastien courts will remain chancellor with the greens entering National Government for the 1st time the conservatives previous alliance with the far right Freedom Party collapsed over a corruption scandal. Could austrias coalition between the conservatives and greens also be a model here in neighboring germany while it is an idea thats being discussed in berlin as Political Parties especially the conservatives look to the future beyond chancellor merkel tenure has said she will not run in the next general election in june late next year during the remainder of her term merkel is looking to shore up the e. U. As it confronts new challenges. In her natural habitat the most recent e. U. Summit here europes longest serving head of government has been forging compromise for 15 years yet there are telltale signs of a chancellor on her final stretch in office what was supposed to be her latest budget speech became a Foreign Policy roadmap largely removed from the nitty gritty of domestic politics only because its very easy to be critical of the us which no longer wants to take on responsibility in the places it used to but 1st information that points back to ers here in europe. M. P. s increasingly see merkel focused on her european legacy. And covers it constantly at a loss of i believe she is focusing everything on the germany you counsel presidency but that wont be easy that will take more than launching a successful e. U. China summit in the fall. As a dozen short hearted it will be a tough program if she wants to celebrate becoming the big european leader and at the end of her chancellorship he fired mr with germanys e. U. Presidency coming up in the 2nd half of 2020 merkel needs to mend the strategically important marriage with france to fulfill her key aim a united europe that can stand up to an increasingly dominant china back home her own party worry that her refusal to actively back a successor could weaken germanys position speaking of Political Leadership i think she. Should think about supporting someone so to give us surance the germans and the europeans and everybody out there who could play also a role for stability in that someone is still widely tipped to be his successor as party leader anika its come catherine also defense minister she recently called for a more active role for german troops on the world stage she offers the kind of clarity even merkel phones have lately been missing at the top i see only one deficiency thats the lek of a National Strategy which shows transparency about german interests and german strengths and weaknesses the current german chancellor isnt a lame duck yet but the clouds of a long goodbye are hanging over her office in belin. Its an open secret here that the main reason why anger merkel continues to ride out her coalition woes back home is her concern over the stability of the European Union at the same time many are struggling to imagine what a post machall germany or europe would look like. And for more on this im joined now by our Political Correspondent emmanuel shaz emanuel thanks for being with us now we just heard in that report that people are now starting to look ahead to a post markel germany what might that look like i mean today we sourced austrias conservatives agree to a coalition with the greens is that a possible scenario here in germany as well but is that if being discussed is option off the greens being in their government we see weve seen here in germany especially in the past that there was a surge of interest for the green party you so also the youth with fridays for the future are demanding that politicians include more green policies in their agenda so it sets any in everyones mind and if you look at the green party here in germany. The leader of the coleader of the party ease of personality that is that is much loved by the germans themselves so could it be the next chance that oh yes thats a possibility and could Coalition Government be composed by the conservatives and the greens so here in germany just like we saw in austria in austria thats a possibility yes now could we see a new government sooner rather than later given that merkels coalition with the social democrats is increasingly under strain the coalition is under strain is that it is since the d. S. P. Didnt so show social democrats elected new leaders in december leaders that are far more left wing. Uncompromising than the former one that being said we have seen many interests in that coalition ever since it started and yet it sticks together and not least because indeed a bring stability to the country especially in the wake of the rise of the far right in germany and as so in the wake of germany having to put its impose on european policy if it wants to remain a deciding power here in europe so i think so theres a consensus within. In the Current Coalition to maintain the stability for now and if you look at the results this coalition already full feed 2 thirds of its of what it had agreed upon so so far it is a coalition that is that there is a shaky but it also delivers its promises all right. Thanks so much thank you as part of our look back at some of the top reports filed by correspondents in 2019 we are going to take you to norway is one of the most northern human settlements in the world and its the home of a man attempting something thats considered impossible growing food in the 3 month long polar night. This is not a u. F. O. Its a greenhouse inside it drops to minus 20 degrees celsius during the dark polar night only when the polar day begins will Benjamin Vidmar see things growing here we have some day soon over the sun theres sun in theory 24 hours a day so it just moves around in the sky and it can get like 2530. 00 degrees in here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice. Finally a bit of sunlight and darkness prevails for months in winter its minus 25. 00 degrees celsius the tundra here is permanently frozen there are more polar bears in small bar than people. Of all places benjamin did mark gross food here the worlds northernmost settlement. This one for things looks good for 2 and then its for 3 for the 4th one is on the table so its an experiment together with his colleague benjamin works in what they call their lab the seeds only sprout when the climate is nearly tropical theyve planted basil parsley crust lettuce cucumbers and chili peppers. And. So if you see that weve got the humidity up now off to remove the tower and equality yeah yeah because we lift it from a friend to all 45 so yeah definitely. There polar garden is still in the test phase theyre gathering data at 1st that mark just wanted to be able to eat fresh vegetables thats how he came up with the idea by 3 oclock in the afternoon its pitch black again benjamin has gotten used to this although hes from florida this former ships cook got stranded on the icy archipelago 10 years ago actually enjoy the dark season when the light comes back we get very busy and you have to run all of the time so thats the challenge as you dont know how to shut it off but for me the dark season is just that you think whether its dark or light out benjamins gardening business is booming his stock is in high demand and his capacity is limited small bart is about a 1000 kilometers from norways north cape ordinarily all foods must be flown in which is expensive and not ecologically sound. Just the last half. Of so. There are some grounds for it and. Thats why Benjamin Vidmar wants to prove that things can be done differently. To talk to other ships also on the resume and this is probably going to. Give him food to get out. Its amazing to have this for sure its a small one besides being delicious. The soil they grow in gets recycled. There think you know everybody should take care of their kids are just going to. Benjamin fit mark thinks a circular economy can work and he wants to prove it right here in small bird. Youre watching news live from berlin coming up next in news asia we meet the young people putting their futures on the line on launching for democracy in hong kong. Whats next to indias Accounting System shipload process leading out unless tells t w m o u government will have trouble implementing the actors. And will meet a couple who found love on wheels on the dogs. A lot coming up next on news asia with fresh batteries change out of the gate you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website thats. 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