Hello, im ros atkins, this is outside source. Australias Prime Minister is heckled for his response to the bushfire crisis. You are not welcome here Scott Morrison was visiting a town where the bushfires killed two people and destroyed many homes. A state of emergency is declared in New South Wales where the crisis threatens to get even worse. Turkeys Parliament Passes a bill allowing the deployment of troops to libya to support the un backed government in the civil war. As transport strikes in paris enter their 29th day, police and protesters clash over emmanuel macrons Pension Reforms. And interpol has issued a red alert for the former nissan boss carlos ghosn. He was facing charges injapan, but hes fled to lebanon. To those watching in the uk and elsewhere and perhaps watching for the first time on pbs in the us, and will welcome to the First Edition of outside source of 2020. Whats happening in australia is unprecendented. The bushfires have killed 18 people, theyve killed close to half a billion animals, they are over twice as big as the amazon forest fires and theyre exerting extreme political pressure on Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Earlier, he was heckled in cobargo in New South Wales. Two people died there this week, many homes have been lost. Here, the guardian compares its main
street before and after the fires. And its residents wanted to talk to the Prime Minister. Youre out, son you are out beep. Bye beep. What about the people who have nowhere to live here he was meeting another angry resident who wanted to talk about more support for the rural fire service. How are you . Im only shaking your hand if you give more funding to our fire service. So many people have lost their homes. We need more help so, theres the Prime Minister walking away as one resident says they need more help. He then encountered a firefighter who was equally unenthused at the idea of shaking his hand. All right, how are you . After those encounters, Scott Morrison said hes not surprised people are feeling very raw. This crisis bringing incredible pressure on many australians. These are some of the latest pictures. This is victoria. You can see the scale of the fires. The volume of smoke being generated. Many of these are so big, they form their own weather events, which can then generate lightning that sparks more fires. This was filmed by firefighters from fire and rescue New South Wales. Again they show us the extreme conditions in which these men and women are working. And this is mogo in New South Wales. The devastation is all but complete. Thousands of residents and tourists are now queing to evacuate. The conditions are predicted to worsen over the weekend, with high temperatures and strong winds. New south wales has declared
a week long state of emergency. Thats because warnings suggest the threat level from these will increase. This is a satellite image that gives you an idea of the scale of this. Shows the volume of smoke spreading across much of the state. Or look at the figures. The amazon bushfires last year burnt 900,000 hectares. In 2018, California Wildfires burnt 800,000 hectares. In just New South Wales, more than 4 million hectares have been burnt in the past six months. Thats had devastating human costs. And the Environmental Impact is devastating, too. Ecologists at the university of sydney estimate 480 million animals have been killed by the fires, including 8000 koalas. Thats around one third of the koala population in New South Wales. Lets hear more from australians who are caught up in the fires. The fireball just came through at about 80 kph, hit the house and then we ran into the lake and all the embers and Everything Else were hitting us. Burnt our hair a little bit. We were in there for about an hour before we got rescued. When Something Like this stares you in the face, its very frightening. Id like to thank everybody that has done something for me. I think someone has dropped a bomb on us, basically. Thats what it feels like. Next, well focus on the town of conjola in New South Wales. The bbcs Shaimaa Khalil is there. The extent of the damage that these huges fires have caused here in New South Wales is all around. Homes have been ravaged, the earth is scorched, still smoldering, still hot. You can see the smoke. Four people died in the Small Community alone, one of them just up the street over here. This is one of the coastal towns where tourists have been given 48 hours to evacuate. Many of them have been trying to get out, it has been very hard for them to leave because the conditions around us are still quite hazardous. Residents are still in shock at what happened to their town. Some have left when the fires hit and others stayed to defend their homes. I could see it coming. You could see itjumping from house to house, and we had nearly eight houses alight. Did we sort of cheat it . But we survived. Yeah, its pretty traumatic. This picture was taken in conjola. Its featured on front pages around the world and was taken by the photojournalist matthew abbott. And matts been talking to the bbc. I came down the main street and this one house was on fire. You know, there was a bunch of neighbours trying to put the house out. Trying to remove garbage bins that were melting and trying to protect their own properties with hoses. Its a dangerous job. There are times when youre wondering should i get on this road or should i hold back. But its very important for photographers to be able to be there and see these things as they happen. And this image is probably testament to that. It has been seen around the world. And it gives an idea ofjust how serious this Current Crisis is for australians. Further south from conjola is the coastal town of mallacoota in victoria. People there had to take shelter on the beach on new years eve. This photo was taken in the daytime. You may have seen this image widely shared. And this is an 11 year old boy steering his family to safety in a boat. Dozens of homes have already been destroyed in mallacoota. And getting help in is becoming hard. Theres only one road into town its cut off. That means thousands of people are trapped. That means the Australian Navy has started to work on getting people out by boat. So we had the opportunity today to potentially move about 500 people out of mallacoota. The interesting thing about it at the moment is that some people they may want to stay with their a wheel drives and their caravans until such time as they may be able to get out by road. That could be a number of weeks. That could be two to three weeks at this stage. Now, meterologists will always tell you its impossible to link a specific extreme weather event with Climate Change. Theyre not so reticent on whats happened to temperatures in australia in the last century. Theyve increased steadily. Particular increases in the last 25 yea rs. And these long term temperature increases are connected to Climate Change, which in turn is caused by human activity. And we know there have been record temperatures during these bushfires. All of which means some australians argue the fires are a moment of reckoning. Brigid delaney is a journalist with guardian australia. This view has been widely shared if this doesnt shift the debate, nothing will. We must wait to see, but the government has yet to move an inch. Prime minister Scott Morrison argues he doesnt need to. He says he has acknowledged the link between reducing emissions and reducing the risk of bushfire
seasons such as this. Though remember mr morrisons Deputy Michael mccormack said that arguments linking these bushfires to Climate Change were the ravings of some pure, enlightened and woke capital city greenies. And hes still in the job. The Prime Minister also argues that australia is keeping its side of the bargain on Climate Change. Hes more from him on this. What we will do is ensure that our policies remain sensible, that they dont move towards either extreme and stay focused on what australians need for a vibrant and viable economy as well as a vibrant and sustainable environment. Getting the balance right is what australia i think has always been able to achieve, but right now the focus as i said at the outset is to fight these fires and to get people to safety. He is talking about balance but lets add some more context for that. Australia is the worlds Third Largest exporter
of fossil fuels, mostly coal. In 2018, australia exported m2 billion worth of coal. Fossil fuels are an enormous contributor to global warming. But they also provide jobs to around 50,000 workers in australia. And around 60 of australias electricity comes from coal fired power stations. Indeed last year, a new coal mine was approved in queensland. But the way australia is calculating its emissions is being challenged. This is all part of the paris Climate Change agreement. The government says its doing nothing wrong. The woman who created the paris accord, former french government minister, says australia is cheating. Extreme pressures again coming on
australia and its approach to this issue. Hottest temperatures on record in australia, unprecedented bushfires. You might this is a lead story in the Australian News media. It is for some. Heres the front page of Sydney Morning Herald. Then you have the Australian Newspaper owned by rupert murdoch, known to lean to the political right. Its main picture is about horse racing. Its main story is about yet to be confirmed proposals to restrict alcohol sales in western australia. And there are the bushfires. We saw this before christmas, too. On the day after australias highest temperature on record, the australian led on increased export demand for australian coal. More evidence that these fires, and more broadly, Climate Change are profoundly political in australia. The conclusions people draw about whats causing these fires and what to do about them will have consequences for how australians view Climate Change, how they view their fossil fuel
industry, which contributes to global warming, and how they view the future of the australian economy. That is why the media and the politicians and people are all playing paying such close attention to the conclusions being drawn. Heres latika bourke, correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald here in london. Australia is well used to bushfires, but this extremity, this intensity, this degree, australia has not seen before. And these are the worst in living memory. And so people are going around in australia say this is not to do with Climate Change, australia has always been this country of droughts, of fires and floods, and this is true. But the Climate Change scientists have always said that this is what would happen. Those things are become more intense and will become more extreme. And people are dealing with this inferno on their doorsteps
and they are seeing their houses razed and their homes lost and in many instances lives gone. Scott morrison has handled this extremely badly if you can see from that footage. He was overseas on holiday in hawaii when these fires really did start to get quite intense. And there were lives lost and at that point he was forced to come back. I think he resented that and now he is trying here to say to his supporters this is not Climate Change because the moment he accepts that this is to do with Climate Change he is in a very vulnerable position. Turkeys parliament has approved sending troops to libya to support the internationally recognised government there. The conflict in libya is between forces based in tripoli. They support the government of national accord. Its led by fayez al serraj, who is a known ally of turkey. The other side are forces led by general Khalifa Haftar, who is allied to another government which based in tobruk in the east. Already turkey had agreed to provide military support in return for greater access to libyan waters
in the meditarranean. Today, though, Turkeys Parliament also approved sending troops. Barbara plett ushers in turkey. There are no details about what this deployment will mean. A broad authorisation to deploy troops valid for one year but nothing about the scale of any potential sense or any day in the Vice President here said that certainly what they were trying to do was send a message to the renegade general at the very least. We do not have any details about how the deponent will happen. There are turkish commercial concerns involved here with the build up just past also talking about general Khalifa Haftar having threaten private investments and workers and turkish shipping interests in the region so thatis shipping interests in the region so that is something that the parliament wants to be seen to be doing sending about. Much like syria, libya plays host to broader geo political tensions. General haftars forces are backed by russia, the uae,
egypt and saudi arabia. Turkish is now fully aligned on the other side of that equation. Heres barbara again. The big picture is there is a proxy war in libya and turkey has been supporting the official government in tripoli but its mideast rivals including the uae and egypt have been supporting the insurgent commander general Khalifa Haftar who has been laying siege to tripoli for the past months. So for turkey to authorise sending troops risks escalating that proxy war. What president erdogan has said if he responded to a request to really big government, from an ally for this assistance. He has said that turkey is supporting the legitimate government and that those who are supporting the illegitimate attackers should stop doing so and he has said it necessary for regional stability. Stay with us on outside source. Still to come, interpol makes a request for the arrest
of carlos ghosn, the fugitive former boss of Nissan Renault who fled japan to lebanon. The main Political Parties in Northern Ireland have expressed the hope that an agreement to restore devolved government can be reached in the coming days. If there is no deal by the 13th of january, therell be an early election to the stormont assembly. Leading politicians from Northern Ireland have been meeting representatives from the british and irish governments at stormont. Our correspondent emma vardy explains why theres been gridlock there. Just to remind people, the unique situation of government in Northern Ireland requires a mandatory coalition between unionists and nationalists. Why this all fell apart was that the then deputy first minister Martin Mcguinness pulled
out of the executive and that collapsed the assembly. And one thing being talked about a lot today is attainability so that cannot be collapsed so easily in future. The dup in particular talking about that and again and again and again they have accused sinn fein of Holding People to ransom over this and want to make sure that the executive cannot be collapsed so easily again. This is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. Our lead story is a state of emergency has been declared in the australian state of New South Wales, the area worst affected by bushfires. Many thousands are being evacuated from their homes. Other stories from around the bbc newsroom a freak winter heatwave in western norway has pushed temperatures more than 20 degrees above the seasonal average. A record 19 degrees celsius was measured in the west of the country, norways warmest january day since records began. A mother and her two grown up daughters have handed themselves in to police in germany over a fire that killed more than 30 animals at a zoo on new years eve. The blaze was caused by sky lanterns which they bought online without knowing they were illegal. And Marvel Studios has confirmed a movie currently being shot will feature its first tra nsgender superhero. This year, the first gay character will be introduced in the eternals. More on that on bbc. Com. Frances strike against Pension Reforms has become a record breaker. Its into its 29th day, and so has outlasted the rail strike of 1986. On 6th january, it will surpass the length of the general strikes in may 1968. Here are the latest pictures. Hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police in the opera district in paris. All christmas operas and ballet performances were cancelled this year, although, and i appreciate this is somewhat of a tangent, on wednesday, the opera house staged a free concert outside the bastille opera in support of the protests. Elsewhere in paris, the Police Used Tear Gas while dealing
with protesters in the place de la concorde. There have also been protests at a total refinery in western france. More expressing their opposition to these reforms. President macron says he wont back down. He insists his reforms are needed to sustain future generations. This is what they are. The government plans to remove 42 different pension schemes and switch to a universal system for all workers. Unions believe these reforms will mean people having to work for longer, with less generous pensions when they retire. Pensions would no longer be based on a final salary calculation, but on career average, and workers would have to accumulate a number of points in order to start taking their pension. Then theres the issue of raising the retirement age of from 60 to 62. Bear in mind 62 would still mean being lower than almost all other eu countries. Certainly france funds pensions much more than most other european countries. A government report concluded that, under the existing system, the countrys pension deficit could be as high as 17 billion euros by 2025. Heres the analysis of Anne Elizabeth moutet in paris. It is a complicated discussion whether what they call the pivoting age is 62 or 64, but it is certain that even today you get less as a pension monthly. If you retire before 64. It is more complicated than that but it is the change into a point system that assumes that you will have a complete career over 40 years or 42 years. And this is a vision that to the french sounds like the 19705 or 80s when you started working for a company and you worked for that company throughout your life and then you left them. That does not exist any more, people have complicated careers, they have moments of unemployment and these moments are much longer and france and they are somewhere else. The whole idea of a career with one company doing the same thing all your life does not exist any more so there is this point of view that it is very unrealistic and the other problem is that in france there is a sharp difference. We still have and everybody is really happy with todays rate of unemployment and it it still 8. 6 and was
structurally 10 for decades. After 50, if you get fired from a company, it is difficult to find a job because French Companies do not like hiring what they call senior workers. With the result that lost people are looking at a moment where if they are out of a job which happens more and more often than they are looking to two more years of difficult times because they will not get hired again. Lets talk about carlos ghosn. Former boss of nissan, was facing charged injapan, but hes skipped bail and arrived in lebanon. Everyones trying to work out how. We know he was under house arrest injapan awaiting trialfor corruption. We know he took a private jet from kansai airport in osaka and that he arrived in istanbul in the early hours of monday morning. He then arrived in beirut on new years eve. And know he has a deep connection with lebanon his parents are lebanese, and while he was born in brazil, spent some of his childhood in lebanon and is well known and well liked there. Indeed hes featured on a stamp there. Also, crucually, japan doesnt have an extradition treaty with lebanon. Its worth adding that mr ghosn was also very popular injapan. He was considered a hero after he turned nissan around. Such was his status, his life was serialised in a japanese comic. His departure has led to multiple investigations already. But in november 2018, he was arrested in tokyo. Here are japanese officials raided ghosns former home in tokyo. And in turkey, seven people four of them pilots have been arrested. Theres been some suggestion that his family might have been involved in his escape. Mr ghosn put out this Statement Today to rule that out. It is impossible for the bbc to know the veracity of that statement at this stage. Afp reports that interpol have put out a red notice
for mr ghosns arrest. Thats a request for assistance, but interpol cant force its members to comply. Lina sinjab in beirut. We managed to have an answer from the minister of justice regarding the arrest warrant by the interpol. They said that they have received it today and they are going to do all the Due Diligence of legal investigation into the case. And they will take action in accordance to the findings of the investigation. However they will never extradite him or turn him back to japan because this is something they will not do for him. We will get much more information about that journey from japan to istanbul to beirut in the coming days and weeks. If you want more Background Information on any of the stories we cover, get that through the bbc news app. Welcome to our nightly look at what is happening around the world at the moment. The big story continues to be what is happening in australia. Now the wildfires in australia burning roughly an area half the size of england. Scorched by the heat and the smoke of course rising from it has been spotted some 4000 miles away. This massive brown tinge in the South Pacific as the sun set on thursday afternoon clearing away from new zealand where we saw skies like this on wednesday. Given a covering of the skies above most of the country and dropping fine particles onto the snow and the glaciers. That can have an impact
because those surfaces are not as white they tend to absorb more heat in those glaciers quicker in the weeks and months ahead. Lets return to the wildfires because the smoke has cleared for now and the wildfires burn and it could get worse across australia as we head into the weekend. The reason is that it is expanding again with heat wave conditions across many parts in the east but particularly from friday across parts of central and south austria towards the north of victoria. 45 or 46 celsius possible through friday afternoon and as the wind strengthens, tends to dry vegetation even more and any wildfires that are burning will be pushed and grow into another state of uncontrollable. Those winds pick up further, pushing the heat towards where he could see another all time record broken. Look westwards and temperatures dropping and suddenly winds in place for the time weeks for the weekend and welcome news as a bit more moisture takes and that takes heat out of it but also brings rain to the east of victoria and down
towards the territories and across New South Wales at least the southern half of that province. At the same time, very heavy rain into the northwest where it is been quiet so far. The first Tropical Cyclone set to make landfall we suspect, bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Europe now and the coolest conditions to be found in the mediterranean, we see lots of shower, cloud and thunderstorms but unusual warmth in scandinavia and the warmest ever winters day in norway and scandinavia on thursday with thursday night bringing a drop in temperatures and heavy rain and snow in the mountains and gale force winds. Snow continues here into friday, at the same time we see outbreaks of rain and spreading to the Baltic States and across germany and the low countries as well. Stays unusually mild across many parts of europe at this stage with those cooler conditions will push southwards as we go through friday and into the weekend and then doing so we fire up another area of low pressure with an advocate snow
across the balkans and some pretty Stormy Weather to come across the east of the mediterranean yet again. Things will cool off a little bit for us in the next 24 hours, after the grey skies the last few days into more a bit more sunshine. A few more showers but feeling colder. More details in half an hour. Hello, im ros atkins, this is outside source. Australias Prime Minister is heckled for his response to the bushfire crisis. What about the people who have nowhere to live . you are not welcome here Scott Morrison was visiting a town where the bushfires killed two people and destroyed many homes. A state of emergency is declared in New South Wales where the crisis threatens to get even worse. Turkeys Parliament Passes a bill allowing the deployment of troops to libya to support the un backed government in the civil war. At least 26 people have died in floods injakarta after the most intense rainfall in two decades. Lets return to our top story, these bushfires in australia. So much smoke has been produced that it has made its way to new zealand, 2000km away across the tasman sea. There have been hazy sunrises like this across the south island, where people have reported being able to smell the burning. Here is a picture is shared by rachel, who was close to the glacier, she says the caramelised snow is caused by the bushfires, white yesterday, it has gone brown today. We know that australias climate has been getting steadily hotter, we showed you this earlier in the programme, and heres another factor contributing to the intense heat fuelling australias bushfires unusual sea temperatures. Helen willetts from bbc weather
says the phenomenon is known as the indian ocean dipole. And its been strongly positive this year, one of the strongest that weve ever seen, and its when we get warmer waters pooling across the western side of the indian ocean, inducing more rains. So weve seen 300 of the average rainfall in some parts of the east of africa and devastating floodings. In contrast to that, cooler water pools further east across the indian ocean, so around the waters of australia, which inhibits the rainfall, and its slowed down the monsoon. So as a result, much of australia have had their driest spring on record. Also their second warmest spring on record. So youre left with exceptionally dry land, and dry land heats up more quickly than damp land, particularly in these long Daylight Hours of summer. So all the suns energy is used to heat, rather than to heat and evaporate. Now, whilst the indian ocean
dipole is the main driver, main climatic driver for what were seeing, weve also got this secondary issue, the southern annular mode, which is the roaring 405. Strong westerly winds are normally further south across, as you can see, the antarctic ocean. But actually through the latter part of spring, early summer, theyve drifted a little bit further north now. That does happen to time to time. But itjust means that weve got stronger westerly winds, dry winds blowing into the eastern side of australia, exacerbating the bushfires and bringing more dry air. And, of course, blowing the smoke into highly populated areas. And more high temperatures and strong winds are expected over the weekend, which is a huge concern for firefighters and residents in the path of some of these fires. Frances mao has been covering this story for the bbc website from sydney. Were just at the stage with these fires where were reallyjust exposed to the volatile weather conditions. So unfortunately, both today, today is friday in sydney,
in australia at the moment, and on saturday, thats when those conditions are due to really ramp up. We have stronger winds and higher temperatures, in sydney alone its due to hit about 40 degrees. So in terms of what we can do at the moment, what the government is trying to do is were in the process of a mass evacuation, where tens of thousands of people are trying to leave this region in the south coast of New South Wales, and in the east gippsland region of victoria. So this southeastern corner of australia between these two states. And authorities have basically warned people during this lull in the weather conditions, during these cooler temperatures, to get out now. And that process already started on wednesday afternoon and on thursday. However, there are so many people making their way out. And at the same time, there are outbreaks of the fire to or up and down these the princes highway and the monaro highway going back to canberra, moving along these highways that both the fire outbreaks and the fact that theres so much traffic
is impeding people from getting out. So, you know, Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterdayjust, you know, warned people and urged people to stay patient and remain calm you know, well get you out. And while this is all playing out, to what degree is it disrupting day to day life in cities like the one youre in . These towns are so close to the major cities that its having flow on effects. And while the smoke at the moment from these massive fires hasnt drifted into sydney, its really had a huge impact on canberra, because canberra is located inland right between between sydney and melbourne and justjust more inland from some of the south coast communities such as batemans bay and the smoke that has caused the air quality to deteriorate so much that yesterday canberra was ranked as a city with the worst air quality in the world, according to various air quality sites. And that also that means people in the streets there, theyre wearing face masks. Theyre dealing with respiratory issues. In fact, we had one sad incident yesterday where this woman stepping off the plane at the airport in canberra, she suffered an attack due to the poor air quality. My sister is down in canberra at the moment, and shes also saying, you know, were having to use face masks, having to stay inside. Its really impacting onjust daily life. Thanks to frances. Switching to new york, time for outside source business. Donald trump says hes going to sign a long awaited trade agreement with china on 15th january. Michelle fleury is in new york. Hgppy happy new year. I am slightly scarred by last year with donald trump saying one thing would happen and then another, half the things he said never came to pass, is this definitely on . Look, this was issued ina definitely on . Look, this was issued in a tweet, donald trump saying
there would be the signing of a trade deal in january there would be the signing of a trade deal injanuary the 15th, that is pretty much as close as one can get to a formal confirmation but we are still waiting for more details, though, from the commerce department, from americas trade representative, from the chinese themselves, for confirmation of this. However, when this deal was agreed in may to december, there was talk about signing sometime in early january, so it does seem likely that is the date. Crucially, it is a very scaled down trade deal that we are expecting to be signed compared to if you think back to the start of this dispute between the two giant economies, and what the us was seeking to achieve, what they have so far, based on the little we know of this deal, is an agreement from china to buy more goods from america, in return for some tariffs being reduced or not introduced. It
is very much scaled back ambitions, the tension between the two sides remains, though, very clear, not just untried but more broadly on geopolitical issues. Just to be clear, quite a few of those tariffs we have talked about over the last 12 months also will remain after the signing . What we have here is there we re signing . What we have here is there were more tariffs due to go into effect in december, there did not happen as a result of these negotiations, there was a further set of tariffs that were rolled back or cut in half from 15 , essentially halved. However, there is some, you know, 200 billion worth of imports from china into the us that still face ta riffs from china into the us that still face tariffs of 25 , so the us still has some degree of leverage, but what you are seeing here is the difficult stuff that needs to be negotiated in a phased two deal that donald trump alluded to in a tweet,
the question is whether they can ever get there, and that is a big ask. Got it, appreciate you taking me through that. Punctuality is increasingly important to air travellers, so consultants have come up with a study ranking airlines according to reliability. Cirium says russias aeroflot is the most on time, and the boss of cirium says aeroflots Business Model helps boost punctuality. Theyve moved up the rankings since last year, and its interesting, airlines themselves, they all have slightly different commercial models. They all have slightly different priorities, and they all have slightly different operating conditions. So aeroflot have a little bit of an advantage that theyre obviously owned by the russian government, as is their main airport, owned by the russian government as well. That happens in other locations as well. But it means that synergy between airline and airport to really get that ground crew operating correctly is really good for them. The new airlines are being built. But if you look at places like europe, i mean, heathrow works at pretty much at 99 capacity all the time. So if theres a knock on effect, if theres a flight, delay or incident within heathrow, that will obviously have a knock on effect for all those airlines. So capacity is something that needs to increase. We know that air travel is going to be increasing, and so we need to create that infrastructure to make sure that its built for that. Weve been producing the report for the last decade. Traveller experience is critical. And in the days it used to be youd look at the price of a flight and look at the convenience of the airport. Now you want to make sure youre going to turn up on time. Business meetings, miss flight delays and eating into leisure time. Travellers will look to see, is the airline going to get me there on time . Drones are becoming increasingly common in our skies, and the hunt is on for efficient and sustainable ways of powering them. One team of inventors reckon Hydrogen Cells are the answer. Take a look at this. There was a thunderstorm the day before. So it was really touch and go on the last day or so whether we actually get to fly it. It was a huge relief when we actually managed to do it and at the same time, all our hard work paid off. So this is the reactor we have in here is actually what we flew in boston. Whereas it might take hours to recharge lithium ion Battery Powered drone, it could take minutes to do that with hydrogen. Maybe in the next 20 or 30 years, we could even start thinking about how to put this in commercial
flights and decarbonise air travel, which is very important for our climate. Stay with us on outside source. Still to come, new Research Suggests Artificial Intelligence can spot Breast Cancer more accurately than doctors. The transport secretary, grant shapps, has said northern, the firm running the biggest rail franchise in the north of england, is not fit for purpose. Mr shapps was speaking as railfares rose, on average, across the country today by nearly 3 . Emma simpson has the details. Ona on a terrifying scale and burning into many different areas to stop, the flames are causing a massive shock. Even in a country that is used to fire. Usually, the blazes strike scrubland. These are instead tearing
into the forests which means the fires are hotter and taller and harder to tackle. The impact has been devastating. With lives lost among firefighters and residents, more than 1,000 homes destroyed and an estimated death toll among animals of 500 million. So whats behind these fires . Scientists researching the fires say conditions have created a perfect storm, with Climate Change heating the planet and adding to the dangers. Clearly, the warmer, drier weather that we expect to see with Climate Change, and what we have probably already seen in australia, leads to more vegetation being available to burn and more vegetation being available to burn earlier in the year. So the fire seasons have lengthened, beginning earlier and also finishing later as a result of Climate Change. The past year saw fires around the world. In the amazon rainforest, they were started deliberately to create farmland. And in california,
they encroached on urban areas. A view from space of the australian fires. The smoke drifting to new zealand, where on this glacier the ice and the sky turned dark. The sense of threat is far from over. David shukman, bbc news. Apologies, that was a report by david shukman, not emma simpson. This is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. Our lead story a state of emergency has been declared in the australian state of New South Wales, the area worst affected by bushfires. Many thousands are being evacuated from their homes. The Trump Administration recently created a task force to address violence against American Indian and alaska native women. But some native women say the president has tasked the very
agencies whose negligence helped facilitate the violence to investigate their own shortcomings. Sophie long went to alaska to speak to some of the women and families affected. Heres her report. The words they sing and the drums they beat honour the women and girls lost from their community the murdered and lost Indigenous Women of alaska. This woman was 32 when she was last seen in october 2012. Laurie wilson went missing in 2016. Tracy day was 43 when her daughter last saw her in february last year. Theyre just a few of the thousands of native women who have gone missing across the united states
and have never been found. Ashleyjohnson barr was just ten years old when she was last seen. She was found, dead, here in a vast meadowjust a few miles from the home in kotzebue she shared with her six siblings. Her father now worries for his other children. I just want to say sorry to her and stuff like that, you know. What do you want to say sorry for . Not being there for her, not protecting her as a parent. Not protecting her. He takes me to the place ashley had been playing with herfriends. Eight excruciatingly long days later, his worst fears were confirmed. Ashley had been sexually assaulted and murdered. At a tribal gathering in the state capital, there are Shocking Stories revealing the prevalence of violence
against girls and women in native communities here. There is not one of my sisters i dont know that hasnt experienced some sort of domestic abuse, rape, sexual assault, it runs the gamut, molestation of children. It is highly prevalent in my family. The epidemic of abuse spans far beyond remote communities. Anita has compiled a database documenting the missing girls across north america. Law enforcement in this country has a very deep culture of racism, sexism and that kind of good old boys mentality is really strong. We see that in Law Enforcement at all Different Levels and all different states. Its an incredibly serious allegation, and i would say uniformly there is no basis for that belief. Understanding the cause of this epidemic and abuse is complicated, its causes are complex, but the voices of the women gathered here are now starting to be heard. There has been a somewhat dismissive attitude, if it is a native woman
that has gone missing. Well, maybe she is just out and about. Maybe she brought it upon herself. That is absolutely unacceptable anywhere at anytime. This is where everybody came, the senator. Ashleys abduction and death did stir hearts across the united states. A 41 year old man has been charged with her murder. Herfather can hope that he might see some kind ofjustice. Hundreds of others, though, continue to wonder where their daughters are and fear what could happen to them. Sophie long, bbc news, kotzebue, alaska. In indonesia, at least 26 people have died in flooding injakarta. Theres been the worst rain there for 20 years. 377 mm of rainfall was recorded in one day east of jakarta. More than 60,000 people have been evacuated out of jakarta. Here you can see the extent of the flooding across jakarta with large parts of the city submerged under water. This is normally a busy highway injakarta, but as you can see, not much traffic is moving along it now. A man in some kind of surfboard, but these roads are not functioning in any meaningful way. A range of different rescue operations, many involving small dinghies like this one, as people stranded in their homes are picked up and then taken to drier places. And the consequence of all of this, long queues and lots of all of this, long queues and lots of places, including the Main International airport, it was closed on wednesday due to the flooding, it has since reopened, but not before many thousands of people were held up. This graph from indonesias Meteorology Agency shows the intensity of rainfall since 1996 when records began. Rainfall above 150mm per day is considered extreme by the agency. You can see the bars in red where rainfall exceded 300mm per day, it happened in 2007, and its happening again now. Floods are common in indonesia around this time of year, but the amount of rainfall in the last few days has caught many by surprise. Here are some local residents. Translation this is the worst flooding ive ever experienced in my 22 years living here. It has never been like this before when the rainy season comes, we know what it will be like. We wait to see if the water is flowing fast, but usually the water level is not this high. Jakarta is one of the fastest sinking cities in the world and experts say it could be entirely submerged by 2050. This has prompted indonesias president joko widodo to announce plans to move the capital to the province of east kalimantan
on the island of borneo in the next few years. The president has blamed delays in building flood defences for the severity of the damage caused by this latest flooding. Heres the bbc indonesians resty woro yuniar. Here is one of the worst flooded neighbourhoods in jakarta. As you can see behind me, workers are cleaning the mud off of the streets. Residents were evacuated when two metres of water hit their houses on new years eve. While this neighbourhood is regularly flooded, residents have no other choice than to come back to this area once the water disappears. The president of indonesia has said he wants to move the capital to a new location, but people dont want to leave. Translation this is the biggest flood ive ever seen since 2002. It looked like an ocean. The rain was very heavy. This is the new year. Imagine 2020 greeting you with a massive flood. But i want to continue to live here, because when the floods hit, my neighbors and i are in it
together, not alone. There have been many plans down through the years to try and improve the situation injakarta, from cleaning up rivers to digging drains. But none have been big enough to really tackle the problem. Its highly likely that this is not the last time children will spend their new year at a shelter. Resty woro yuniar, bbc news, jakarta. I want to finish with a remarkable sign story. Some new research out today. It suggests Artificial Intelligence is more accurate than doctors in diagnosing Breast Cancer from mammograms. The study, published in thisjournal, nature, was carried out by an International Team including researchers from google health. They designed and trained a computer based on x rays from nearly 29,000 women and found a produced 1. 2 fewer false positives. Thats where a healthy mammogram is incorrectly diagnosed as cancerous. And 2. 7 fewer false negatives, where a cancer is missed. The Current System here in the uk uses two radiologists to analyse each womans x rays, which is time consuming, so the benefits are obvious. Professor Fiona Gilbert worked on the study. The thing about the ai is that it doesnt get tired, it doesnt get distracted, which is what we find happens to radiologists. The reason we have two radiologist in the uk is the second radiologists will pick up an additional 6 10 of cancers. And the ai, too, of course, doesnt miss that 6 10 that are potentially detectable. And thats why we think its such a great innovation. And so were hoping that well be able to use that tool with one of the radiologists and hopefully will improve their performance. We need to be careful that the ai doesnt worsen performance of individual readers, because individual readers
performance can vary quite a lot. In the uk, it is quite a narrow performance range, but elsewhere its broader. So what we need to do is we need to take the tool and test it prospectively with individual radiologists and see what happens to recall rates and see if it does reduce the number of falsely recalled women and make sure that we dont miss any cancers when radiologists are using the tool or at least it doesnt increase the number of missed cancers. So theres a lot of important work to happen before we can start really using it in earnest. So some very important studies which will now take place in the uk. Very interesting stuff, you can read about that in the Health Section of the bbc news app, if you have that, go to the app store and search for bbc news, you know the rest. Thanks very much for watching, we will be back with you on monday. Bye bye. Hello there. Thursday brought predominately cloudy skies, some rain for some and a brisk south westerly wind. This translated to photos like this. This one sent in by a weather watcher on thursday. But despite the cloud, the wind and the rain, temperatures quite widely managed to get into double figures, above where wed expect them to be for the time of year. That is set to change as we move into friday. These two weather fronts sink towards the southeast, squeezing away that milder air. You can see the yellow on the map here and replacing it with something fresher. So as we move into friday, the models start across the south of england, plenty of cloud and some patchy outbreaks of rain. But that will clear towards the south and east. And then well see plenty of sunshine. A scattering of showers feeding in from the north west could be wintery over high ground,
looking less windy than thursday, the exception, though, the northern isles, where there will be gales and the temperatures dipping away, a fresher feel to what we saw on thursday with highs around nine degrees celsius. Temperatures dipping away after a mild start in the south. Into the weekend, then, High Pressure takes charge. A few weather fronts around the top of that High Pressure. So further towards the north, the greatest chance of seeing some outbreaks of rain. More in the way of cloud here as well, but dry and bright for southern and eastern england. Thats where the best the brightness will be found. The temperatures at a maximum around ten degrees celsius. Not a great deal of change to come as we move into sunday. High pressure still in charge, it edges a little bit further towards the east. Now this weather front towards the north, that will bring some patchy outbreaks of rain. Again, more in the way of cloud across scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of northern england. The best of the brightness to be found further south,
and here the best of the dry weather too. The temperatures quite similar to saturday, perhaps a degree up, a maximum around eight to 11 degrees celsius. As we move into monday, that area of High Pressure edges a little bit further towards the east, it gets replaced by this weather front, moving its way gradually eastwards. Well see a spell of rain, it could be heavy and persistent at times, turning quite windy with that as well. Temperatures on monday fairly similar to the weekend, looking at a maximum around ten, 11 degrees celsius. As we move into tuesday, we see one weather front clearing towards the east. The next one not far off, pushing in from the west. Were looking at another spell of wet weather. So tuesday has wet weather working its way eastwards, particularly heavy in the north and west. It could fall as snow for a time over high ground. And it will turn windy as well with that wet weather. Temperatures looking pretty mild and maximum around 12, 13 degrees celsius. As we move later through the week, we continue hold on to this strong jet stream. So well continue to see areas of low pressure driving that unsettled weather, say further wet and windy weather to come. At times, there is a little uncertainty. Towards the end of the week, though, across the southern half of the uk, this area of High Pressure could build and then wed see something dry. But like i say, little uncertainty with that at the moment. So as we move through next week, it is looking unsettled. Well see areas of low pressure moving and bringing rain at times could be heavy and persistent potential for some quite high rainfall totals accompanied with some strong winds, which could be potentially disruptive and some mild temperatures. Bye bye. This is bbc news. The headlines at 10pm a state of emergency is declared in south east australia amid warnings of more bushfires. Its the largest forced evacuation New South Wales has seen as thousands flee the path of the flames. The fireball just came through at about 80 kph. Hit the house and then we ran into the lake and all the embers and everything were hitting us, burned our hair a little bit. Theres anger over the governments handling of the emergency, as the Prime Ministerfound out when he toured the area. How come we only had four trucks to defend our town . Because our town doesnt have a lot of money, but we have hearts of gold, mr Prime Minister. Delays and cancellations on the railways, but fares still go
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