Spot fires raging nearby new years celebrations get underway in sydney with a massive fireworks display over the famous harbor bridge and opera house. Last go and flees corruption charges in japan the former new chief but surprise arrival in lebanon a. Deadline to to sob times up for the gunmen blamed for an outbreak of fighting in the capital the Central African republic. And we begin with breaking news from iraq when members of an iranian backed group and their supporters have boxed into baghdads heavily fortified green zone and surrounded the u. S. Embassy the iraqi Prime Minister. Has warned against any aggression and foreign embassies and hes urging the remaining protesters to leave most of members of the iranian backed popular my belies ation forces. Reported to have pushed down a door and broken into the compound some areas were set on fire and Iraqi Security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds more than 60 people have been injured the demonstrations f
Ch welcome to outside source. Austlias Prime Minister is being heckled for his response to the fire crisis. You are not welcome. Anchor h v wasisiting a town where bushfires have killed people and destroyed many homes. A state of emergency has been declared in New South Wales where the crisis is threatening h worsen ithe coming days. Turkish parliament passed a bill authorizing deployment of troops tlibya. E protesters havashed in paris over emmanuel macrons pension reforms. And interpohas issued a red alert for carlos cohen, facing charges in japan, but he has fled to lebanon. Hi those of you wa in the u. K. On bbc news, we ching elsewh bbc world news, and watching for the first time on pbs in the united states, a warm welcome to outside source. What is ppening in australia e unprecedented. The bushfires hlled 18 people, killed close to half a billion animals. They are over twice as bigam as thon forest fires and they are exerting extreme political pressure on the Prime Minister. Earl
Business news,in hasaerospace giant boeing released embarrassing internal messages which show employee doubts a about the nowowgroundd 737 max jet. Welcome back. Thatis denying allegations a ukrainian passenger plane which crashed to the ground outside tehran was brought down by an Iranian Missile strike. All people aboard that flight lost their lives. At least 63 of them were canadians, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has seen intelligence which suggests it was an Iranian Missile that brought down the plane, although he said it may have been unintentional. The plane crash in the early hours of wednesday morning came as a run conducted missile strikes targeting u. S. Missile bases in iraq to avenge the killing of its top military , by u. S. Soleimani president donald trump. Iranian state tv showed images of what are believed to be the black boxes from the ukrainian airliner that crashed in tehran on n dnesday. Both the cockpit voice recorder and the igight dataa recorder ae s
And bringing in the new year that is australia and before that museum and leading the way in our showing in 2020 were taking a look back as well at some of the stories that made headlines in 2019. And porous with the sport including the disappearance of a football is father colombias world cup made failed it demands answers from the new head of the countrys army. So were going to start with those unprecedented scenes of anger at the largest u. S. Diplomatic post in the world members of an iranian backed group and their supporters marched into the heavily fortified green zone in the iraqi capital baghdad and surrounded the u. S. Embassy some even managed to break into part of the compound a security post at the entrance of the building was set on fire they were risp. On doing to those u. S. Airstrikes in iraq and syria on sunday where camps belonging to the iranian backed Group Hezbollah brigades were struck violence erupted on the same day funerals are being held for the fighters who w
Unions are stepping up their battle against proposed pension reforms. This is the largest industrial action france has seen in decades. From brexit to mexit. Harry and meghan saying they will step back from real duties. It seems they have forgotten to tell the queen. We will take a look at the royal fallout. Brent im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and around the world, welcome. In the last few minutes, the canadian Prime Minister has echoed u. S. Reports intelligence officials indicate iran likely shot down the Ukrainian International airlines plane, which crashed on wednesday. The plane was on its way from the iranian capital to the ukrainian capital. Unnamed u. S. Officiaials have td u. S. Mededia iranian air d defee systems may have accidentally shot down the plane. Ukraine has asked western nations to provide any evidence, intelligence or whatever they can that could show or corroborate these allegations. The plane was carrying 176 people. 63 of them were ca