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Suddenly become mr harry will it just doesnt work like that he and his wife is he trying to psych thing to do is for them to take a step back and they should be allowed to. Also coming up tonight a consummate. Bushfires in the millions billions of lives animal why now walk. What did they do you to decide what weve done to them what did they do by we here this is their land this is not alway. And we have absolutely destroyed it and it is heartbreaking. Well to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the story that has engulfed the u. K. That has nothing to do with brights it in fact its being called next it prince harry and Meghan Markle have announced that they will step back from their royal duties and spend more time in north america in other words a royal couple are relocating outside the u. K. Quitting their job which means no royal paycheck anymore the news reportedly took Prince Charles and even the queen by surprise when harry of meghans wedding back in 28 scene was seen as a new start for the British Royal family but the honeymoon between the u. K. s tabloid press and the newlyweds did not last very long. And the decision by prince harry and the duchess of sussex one has certainly given people across the u. K. Something to talk about heres a sample of commoners opinions about this very royal. It hasnt made a comedy show i think its been brewing for a long while and this is shine and because of that whats been spent on them with the Royal Wedding in windsor and the royal family. The heritage of the us i think it is a shame. That they decided to do that i didnt understand i think i understand the kind of scrutiny and to the way that the media is portraying me that my people do i can see why they would feel the need to step back i think is going to turn a lot of people off and in turn the law in the family. That seems to be unnecessary you know with for the sake of a week or 2 in a few conversations beforehand prepare the ground. A lot of this sort of noise might have been avoided if they want to leave the royal duty so to speak and finest to that. But they come on how the cake and eat. It can have their cake and eat it too well candy will talk about that im joined tonight by graham smith in reading england he is with the British Group republic which campaigns for the abolition of the british monarchy its good to have you on the show graham so based on the news in the way the media in the u. K. Are reporting it i have to ask you was prince harry is he a secret member of your organization. Well i wish there were. Is very clearly still a marxist he has said he wants to have escaped media as that last comment said i mean you know hes not getting any is still going to receive a very large amount of part not least during huge amounts of pressure on the London Police force or to Police Provide all because he has said on his website since the initial announcement expects that continue even though theyre living on a different continent so im not quite sure how express that work thats a huge burden being strained police force and out capital and he also seem to expect to continue to help out. Not more cottage which despite names of a large home in windsor near london which the taxpayer spent millions of pounds on doing up with the expectation that will be there. And he is still keeping the time and this is a problem because that title isnt a family heirloom its an official. State. Title you know it and it was given to him on the understanding that he would do something with it in terms of forming world duties and where that maybe mark and harry one to commercialize it and turn into a brand which will make them money as it is that what you think is going on here are they trying to basically get out of the duties that come along with having that title and use that title to turn their status as a couple that into a brand that they can cash in on in north america. Well i mean i think its fairly clear what theyve said and what if you look at the sussex dot com website you will see that nothing is only what they are. Planning and thats not ok you know you can say on the one hand were going to step back from all this on the other hand again to set themselves up as this kind of. Sussex rounding to sell themselves. Independently of the British State i mean you know that they either have to be private citizens or now have their mouths lancing their titles and. As of today yes though no dont take no more money want. Lives as mr or mrs winds or mr or mrs wales whatever they want comes out. I would be the 1st bill thats not what theyve done that is a huge mistake on their well they cant do that they cant they cant they agree because if they were to if they were to become just like you and me to become just citizens of a country and without the security didnt they would be putting themselves in danger i mean that they have security for a reason right. Lots of celebrities have security i mean anybody who. Has a large fortune and is in the public eye will pay for security and that is commonplace and there are lots of private companies that were provided by the state does not owe them a living any more than a used them 3 security on taxes you know the metropolitan police is there to provide policing for the whole of london and all sort of on a national police. Services such as oil and mighty protection and it is under huge financial strain and they have said that they are now going to move to canada and the British Police officers were begun fact was an order been hearing not. Indefinitely and others were going to the station. In order to facilitate their end and inmate. Plans list what do you think at the end of the day what does this decision do to the future of the british monarchy i know youd like to see it abolished but when i look at what you have netflix for example everyone watches the crown it seems the the queen or the royals seem to be rather rather popular i mean it doesnt look like were close to seeing them turn Buckingham Palace into a subsidiary of walt disney world. Well i mean things always close and most name of the timing in any major. Change in history usually comes with some degree of surprise for what he she happened to end years of steady progress 2 months now and it was old and the thing is that what years now and quite a lot of trouble for all children is they now have a independent wing or bunch of the family. Under their own laws in north america they have Prince Andrew who is continually facing baybay serious accusations in relation to the extreme case they have. Queen louise getting old nationals back to turn 94 and can turn now says it is looming large on the horizon and does not command the same respect and support between us that support for the moment in this country is high it is why shallow we did opinion polling around the times how these where the showed the vast majority who were not interested in the wedding the vast majority were fairly indifferent about all of those but were at the moment happy to continue with the institution but theres all sorts of reasons for that and a lot of that is because people stop to challenge the institution to think about it and the source of storage put all the nuts and bolts out and they. Know bit by lightning guess who will stop me is this really a sensible way to operate in the 21st century its a valid question i mean its hard to predict whats going to happen to the house of windsor or we can say tonight for one thing that this story certainly has distracted the country about the face breaks it. With a word next. Graeme smith with the antimonarchists Free Republic joining us tonight from reading it was good talking with you thank you thank you. Well the United States and canada are tonight saying that they have intelligence that shows iran likely shot down the Ukrainian International Airlines Plane which crashed on wednesday the airliner was on its way from the iranian capital tehran to the ukrainian capital kiev at the time the very same time that iran launched its air strikes on bases in neighboring iran unnamed u. S. Officials have told American Media that Iranian Air Defense systems may have accidentally shot down the plane which killed 176 passengers and crew earlier today u. S. President trump was asked about the connection between irans missiles and the crash i have my suspicions it was very i dont want to say that because other people have those suspicions also. Its a tragic thing when i see that its a tragic thing. But somebody could have made a mistake on the other couldve couldve made a mistake it was flying it was it was flying in not our system it has nothing to with us and it was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood and somebody could have made a mistake as some people say was mechanical i personally dont think thats. Even a question or earlier this week as the u. S. And iran appeared ready to go to war iran also would else and it will no longer abide by the Iran Nuclear Deal b. W. C. Political editor. Asked the head of the German Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Norbert Ripken should europe continue to stick to that deal. Absolutely and as long as there is no better option to make sure that iran does not develop Nuclear Weapons i think we should stick to that of course we have to see and we have to face the fact that the u. S. Has withdrawn from this treaty and by this economically has massively damaged the effectivity of the agreement so we should stick to that perhaps we should embrace his proposal to broaden the negotiation and the relationship to iran not only to focus just on the Nuclear Aspect but to include for the regional aspects in order to create a broader arrangement for regional stability i think we should we should embrace and appreciate this approach and i think the the role for the europeans to make this possible is absolutely vital and crucially now europe keeps talking about broadening this Iran Nuclear Deal trump wants a new deal which also has his name on the paper how do you read the accent of the u. S. President right now. I read his actions in the way that he is absolutely determined to avoid war. He seems at the same time that he cant afford to be seen as weak and this is absolutely kyra to the iranian leadership they want to avoid war despite their aggressions. But they cant think they cant afford to be seen as weak so i think there is a viable. Approach by the yours president to substitute the j. C. A which he has lost all the time with a new diplomatic approach how far this can go we have to see but this at least is a new chuen from washington that is not only sticking to the policy of maximum pressure but that he has introduced the aspect of negotiation and diplomatic approaches what will happen to german engagement in iraq if the u. S. Troops have to leave. And this is absolutely clear we want to stay because we see our objective there is not yet accomplished to really have the victory on make sure that isis is is. Defeated in iraq and to contribute to the stability and unity of the country. So we want to stay there but if the United States were forced by the Iraqi Government to leave the country because they are declared doesnt as not being welcome there then we would also have to leave because we are interdependent in our military presence there and we need to have the u. S. There as our allies and partners know about what can head of the final Fast Committee of jump on this tack thank you very much. Everything everything. So we sort of crawl. The water off the hearts process thats really the i have always you can rebuild a lease i care about all that all of it its just stuff. You know what did they do you to deceive what weve done to them what did they do they were here 1st this is their land this is not l. A. And. And we have absolutely destroyed it and it is heartbreaking. Australia is burning that is a statement about one of the countrys worst fire seasons on record but it utterly fails to convey the unprecedented dimensions of death and destruction i want to show you an image from nasa which will give you maybe an idea of just how massive the wildfire disaster has become this is a the red dots show fires today if we were to go back 7 days ago there would be even more 15000000 acres of australia have burned in for our u. S. Viewers thats roughly the size of West Virginia its 8 times larger than the worst ever wildfires in california which happened just 2 years ago now on new years day australias capital camber recorded the most polluted air on the planet thanks to endless plumes of smoke that have turned skies blood red we know that at least 25 people have been killed by these fires more than 2000 homes destroyed but the human tragedy it is still very small compared to the catastrophic loss of wildlife its estimated that more than one that there were yet im saying this right now 1000000000 animals have died so many scientists are predicting long term damage to many of australias delicate eco system swell the images and the numbers are powerful but personal accounts well they help to tell the story even better and to do that i want to pull in my colleague ben facilities here in the studio with us tonight if you dont know ben is from australia and he just returned from there this morning its good to have you back here in berlin which is not on fire one faith in one piece and you know when we share images like this we hope that were helping to do the story justice in tell the story. But tell us what kind of country did you just leave behind. Its. A smoldering pile of ashes basically red glowing skies a moonscape some people have described it to me i mean i was flying over my country and could see just out of the window one point in time 3 full fire as huge pillars of smoke going up into the sky i mean basically a straight is going off in its a really really sad situation and were talking about it here but can we say tonight that everyone in australia that you meet is directly affected or knows someone definitely whos directly affected and the scary thing is people are saying al country could become uninhabitable in the next 20 years imagine that i mean i was thinking about retiring one day the street i think it will change those plants and people is there is there a sense of panic there is there a sense that this is a tragedy this is a disaster that we can get through and recover from this is the interesting part the government keeps saying this is normal this is how straight has always been a straight is always had to deal with fire as this is how the forest regenerates the problem is weve just had the hottest driest year on record theres no rain in sight and once these fires rip through these regions without rain theres not going to be any sort of vegetation growing back youve got so much Carbon Dioxide going up into the atmosphere its becoming a catastrophe not just for australia but for the whole world i want to talk with you just a moment about the governments reaction to whats going on reverse we want to talk about whats coming up this week another heat wave is expected in the next few days in australia is expected to flame australias fires further we have this report beginning in sydney. Sydneys bond dight beach normally a place of sun sea and sand recently its smoke thats dominating the world famous attraction casting a haze over the swimmers and sunbathe has. Historic bushfires in New South Wales reflecting businesses all over the state including a pond i supply chains are being disrupted and customers a keeping away. From a tourist point of view its being probably the worst weve seen because of the foists so were going. To reduce numbers its the 1st time ive ever seen the like this. In a concert or water and thats very ironic behavior 47. 00 eans further down the beach its a similar story that they see the nearest shop taking it down a 5th film of the eno would normally expect from this time of year i heard someone say australia are on fire obviously we have experienced more fire than any other year since ive been here. But the problem is with tourists here that you dont want to come australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is well aware of the problem during a visit to another tourist favorite Kangaroo Island this week he is told they make is not to be put off by the finest destroyers ive been destroyed your store a lot of applies to come and bring your family and enjoy your holidays back upon die theyll be hoping that message gets through with a fire is certain to burn for months to come. Here for months to come this is a huge story in australia been let me ask you how would you describe the reporting in the coverage of these fires i mean its made world news. If it was on t. V. Constantly in australia with one community being evacuated after the next. In the newspapers it would be on the front cover sometimes a lot of the moto papers would put it on page 3 or 4 occasionally like some of the International Papers as well some of those that are also heard by the moto media. And it continues to be a case that the motor media has a stranglehold on Public Opinion astray many people in a straight is still do not believe in Climate Change its not just a Prime Minister or the deputy Prime Minister. Its a lot of people and a coal industry that wants to keep on churning and keep on digging up a straight to keep on adding to Carbon Dioxide and making a lot of money yeah the very good point Climate Change deniers are accused of trying to use claims of arson that arsonists have called these fires to maybe snuff out the connection between these fires in Climate Change and that includes even the son of the us president i want to show you what Donald Trump Jr tweeted just 2 days ago. Truly disgusting that people would do this god bless all stroy more than 180. 00 alleged arson is have been arrested since the start of the bushfire season with 29. 00 blazes deliberately lit in the whats for that season here that is that also haven that region of southeast New South Wales in just 3 months ok what we have to correct yeah is the fact that just 24 people were touched right that number is not correct at all so the dangerous thing is when when you like something when you tweet something and you know this you have to really check what youre tweeting what youre putting out there the other thing is there are people who are putting out that information on purpose to try to confuse people to confuse the situation and to fit in with their extreme ideas or their arguments and thats a really sad situation because short any sort of tragedy there are often people who have who are lighting them on pup. As to get attention because they sick or. Because they want to be heroes and try to save people from those fires and they get out of control but in this case its a really small handful some of these people were also volunteer firefighters but the volunteer firefighters the thousands whove done such a fantastic job did not deserve this sort of coverage and the coverage is the coverage of belt acute disaster and we reporters telling people about whats happening right now or is it put within the context of Climate Change you know this is something that has come to stay that that often gets left out its the tragedy of the personal tragedy the losses sure and its a tragic situation but you have to go a step further and look at the warnings that the Australian Government had been given over a decade ago that this could happen the warnings from climate scientists that were going to have hot to dry seasons and that will lead to more severe fire situations and and thats being left out of the narrative which which is really to address dangerous for people who died in this and all of those animals you mention the figure a 1000000000 and i know bill you know i know it had to be difficult to leave in the modern day behind your back i mean what did you tell your family when when you left them. Thats a hard one as well i mean there are people within my own family who dont believe that this is Climate Change driven and its a difficult situation its a difficult one shoe approach in a country which is consensus based a media as well thats consensus driven. And a stranger is not leading the way a straight is going backwards at quoting to experts well we certainly hope that things will change that things will get better for australia you know for your family as well were glad to have you here safe. Ben thank you. Well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online to find us on twitter either w news or you can follow me a burnt off t. V. Dont forget to use the hash tag the day i remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day so you didnt. Get. To the point of strong opinions clear musicians of International Perspective 6. Months to savor rattling have culminated in a targeted killing by the u. S. 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