Leaves behind a trail of destruction and hes a wanted man into polyfuse a request to detain the former chairman going skipped bail in japan and fled to lebanon. Im paul race for the sport the n. B. A. Pays its tribute to david stern the man who built the modern game and on the court last years most valuable player gets 2020 off to a flying start for the box. Hello everyone in the past half hour the parliament in ankara has approved a government motion to deploy troops to libya in support of the un recognized administration in tripoli thats been fighting against the war lord Khalifa Haftar remember it was his forces who launched that offensive to capture the capital last april turkey says its troops will protect its. Right in the mediterranean and interests in libya like the deals that anchor in tripoli recently signed on military cooperation and maritime boundaries but there were challenges turkish opposition parties were against the move they say ankara should have 1st given priority to a diplomatic solution so lets start in ankara mohamad jos our correspondent whos been following this one today mohammed take us through the vote how decisive was it. Quire decisive come on 325. 00 members of parliament voted 41184. 00 vaulted against of course it is the vaulting power. And its Affiliate Party the m h b harvin parliament that sold out. More from the sale through parliament the opposition legislators were really hit in their opposition to it saying that turkey should not get sucked into the murky quagmire about the civil war in libya you saying that they cant free is yet to recover from its military interventions in neighboring syria and they have warned. There was a need for diplomatic been used to be pursued fost is that of putting turkish boots on the ground in libya of course and this is something that the Party Leaders are not in listening to they have a poll on and it could be. Of days according to the Defense Ministry which is the defense minister speaking saying that theyre ready to deploy soon as possible so there is some sort of. I mean the whole process was also for struct with d members of parliament been called in from recess a week early so it looks as if turkey is really itching to take its troops to libya and as soon as possible and just turkey get out of this moment i made a reference in the introduction that you shared interests in the region can you give us a little more detail. Well yes turkey has always said that it has a moral responsibility to help its neighbor to the sea to libya. Invitation by the government in tripoli but again. Quick to point out that there are far greater interest at play here and particularly this combo for. Energy resources on the islam part of the Mediterranean Sea which at one point turkey was lagging behind after israel. Cyprus and greece signed an agreement for an exclusive Economic Zone on a pipeline that would ship. Natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to europe. With that agreement the maritime bone boundary ugly meant that turkey ha signed with libya it gives it a huge illegal way and really increases its chances of also pursuing. Natural resources in the Mediterranean Sea and also makes for the other calm quiet difficult to wish turkey away because it would be controlling a huge part of that is that Mediterranean Sea and particularly because it was a very long coastline on the mediterranean side so. Knowing very well that if he comes to power in tripoli given the advances hes been making in recent days and weeks they no doubt deal will be off the table and that is something turkey is really came to protect and see the continuation of the government of National Accord staying in power in tripoli mounted on korea thank you for all of those details this conflict in libya has many regional powers vying for influence turkey says it can help that u. N. Recognize government in shipley to fight off the war after in his advances remember have to stronghold is in the east into brooke. Over the past few months russia has deployed find his 2 assists half his soldiers the United Arab Emirates egypt saudi Arabia France they have lined up behind huff to the u. S. Publicly supports the government of National Accord in tripoli but President Donald Trump has praised after in the past and qatar also backs the tripoli governments a senior political analyst in the shower with me here now and as i listed off all those countries here it just its just reminding me and mohammed ben the reference as well to syria in the past all these different players who all want their little slice of the action there is an absolutely the problem with it has. Most of them are on the wrong side meaning they claim publicly that they are for the internationally recognized government in tripoli while secretly covertly they are supporting the warlord that is attacking the International Recognized government in tripoli and this is where the paradox lives we have an internationally recognized publicly declared support for the government virtually even countries like france that until today it says we recognize the internationally recognized government in tripoli and yet this seems to be in all ways and means supportive of the drive against tripoli certainly it is the case by the United Arab Emirates and egypt now the question is is the United States because you mentioned the United States back in april but has them from out of nowhere called after this is when he launched the i mean salute a pro in the United States was supposed to be in support of the government tripoli so what happened was sympathies of something very simple happened that they before he was meeting with the egyptian president of the fatah sisi in an hour or 2 before he was talking to the crown prince in abu dhabi or in the United Arab Emirates so clearly the american president was convinced by regional leaders and by his National Security adviser john bolton to support Khalifa Haftar but since then things have changed the United States today is taking a bit more of a. Hands off if you will approach not exactly in support of half that and so now that we have this vote in turkey with the troops will be going and how much of a game changer is that because turkey doesnt go into military action lightly and it is a Strong Military force how much does it change the game in libya certainly this is neither sort of side will move on the part of turkey nor is it altruistic totally. Turkey this is a strategic move that has 3 layers though it a geo political move that looks at the Eastern Mediterranean and tries to see where it positions itself favorably in this case on the side of libya against another emerging 30. 00 greece israel and egypt 2nd militarily it deploys in some form or another in support of tripoli in order and thats the 3rd layer to position itself at the table in berlin because if this deployment should mean anything its not to escalate the war but rather to speed the process of negotiation oh my goodness ok my wonder shara thank you so much for that mullins our senior political analyst of course. Now i made reference to this grace and israel and cyprus as well expected to sign off on a multi 1000000000. 00 pipeline agreement which does play into this wide a story the east west story its the east med to pipeline which will begin in israels advance on base and off shore gas reserves it will run across the mediterranean to the greek on it of crazy it will then go on to the greek mainland it could provide up to 10 percent of the e. U. Use natural gas needs John Psaropoulos in athens for us on this one what is the latest on this one as far as it actually being approved. The agreement thats being signed to stay in athens in just a few hours is an agreement of government intent its an Intergovernmental Agreement that settles the terms on which this pipeline would be built politically and legally it isnt an agreement to build the pipeline that has to be done by commercial companies and the companies the consortium in charge of doing that is comprised of the Public Gas Corporation of greece and the Italian Company edison together they have formed a Company Called poseidon which has to find 5200000000. Euros possibly more in order to complete this project so it is not a easy undertaking but the 3 governments have been discussing the wording of todays agreement for over a year and they are now going to make it public and that is a political statement of will and of intent and that is a very important step forward i think the timing of this signature is also not coincident it is coming on the heels of last novembers agreement between turkey and libya delineating an exclusive he cannot. Between the 2 coastlines across the middle of the eastern Mediterranean Sea the agreement between israel greece and cyprus is not an exclusive Economic Zone agreement it is simply a statement that were going to build this pipeline were going to do everything we can to see that it is built even so it adds another layer to all these competing interests you would have had not one and i talking about turkey and libya just now you mentioned as well the deal that they signed so many competing interests in a pretty close part of the world. It is and there are 2 broad Energy Alliances at work here one is the emerging alliance between turkey and russia to build more pipelines into europe the other of course is the one that you mentioned earlier between the emerging gas powers of the Eastern Mediterranean and greece and eventually hastily which is expected to sign on to this agreement in due course. This is not necessarily a clash of interests but its becoming a clash of interests because of greek turkish disagreements on delineation of the Continental Shelf which has been an outstanding issue since 973. 00 and that is a huge problem for the commercial Energy Interests of the region it is also a huge problem for the 2 governments who. Had attempted with the greeks had attempted to invite the turkish side to settle this issue at the International Court of justice at the hague in 1976 since then the 2 sides havent come as close as that to approaching any sort of International Forum so there is a danger of even a conflict in the region we spoke earlier with greeces Energy Minister about that how is turkey likely to react to days agreement between the 3 countries he said. Everybody has to understand that this year this is the year 2020 we are in europe we want all the countries of the. The region to cooperate but of course this has a prerequisite which is International Law and the spirit of goodwill. Capsular its the greek position greece is calling on turkey to sign on to the International Law of the sea and to abide by those principles turkey has so far said it has a different interpretation of what the law of the sea should be ok that is john in athens 1st thank you john. Little earlier we heard from tuck in who is an International Oil and Energy Consultant also a former Research Officer at opec yanna he told us this is more of a political move by the 3 countries than any viable commercial project at this stage they go she shows between these 3 countries 1st it was between cyprus and greece when this gas was discovered 4 or 5 years ago and then israel joined these negotiations have been going on at the political liberal quite a many times last summer as well but it isnt for him to my mind it is still missing that commercial Company Aspect that has to be investment of 67000000000. 00 committed to this it is mired in politics old controversy and there is scope of taking challenging it and so on so there would not be a commercial Company Ready to invest that much in this whole project is more it cannot be more of a political issue. Lets have a look at what else is coming up for you on this news hour taiwans top military officer is killed in a Helicopter Crash just days before the island goes to the pole its also why a former member of the u. S. Special forces is training me and ethnic minorities ready to defend her title but will naomi osaka be flying high at the Australian Open paul has the details of that life. So more on that story on taiwan now with a military chief and 7 other people have been killed in a Helicopter Crash air force general and other officials were going to visit troops in the northeast and it all happened just days before president ial elections foreign slowly as a report. A tangled mess of metal and troops this is where the blackhawk helicopter came down in a mountainous area near taipei it was flying from the capital to the northeastern city of iran but it lost contact shortly after takeoff. As soon as the helicopter disappeared from writer to blackhawk helicopters took off from song sang airport to the saw it soldiers from the lang young military command were also dispatched to search and rescue. The Defense Ministry says it set up a task force to investigate the calls that were 13 people on board among the dead as taiwans military chief force general shen. He was responsible for overseeing the islands defense against china which considers taiwan as its own territory and has threatened to use military force to take back control of taiwan holds president ial and parliamentary elections on january 11th and the president chiding when its seeking a 2nd term a political analyst says the military chiefs death will likely impact the Campaign Talking Points once the candidates return to campaigning i think well see a president s i emphasized that she has been a supporter of the military and shes been a supporter of increased military spending in the other side will probably go away to criticize for example by saying yeah you spend more money on the military but youre not spending it correctly youre not spending it on an update as for example that will probably be talking boyd from the other sat there have been a number of incidents involving blackhawk helicopters in recent years the latest was in 2018 when a black hawk crashed off taiwans east coast killing the 6 people on board florence italy. And now evacuations have begun and relief supplies of arrived for thousands of australians stranded in fire ravaged homes 8 people have been killed this week in New South Wales and victoria with 17 people still missing the support from charleville its. 4000 astray leonids were forced onto the beach and stranded here for 3 days now how has arrived for the victorian town of mela kuta the navy ferried people out by the only route possible the ship masked in the smoky heights at the moment were moving people out of course its a smart cleaves will be able to get aircraft into melich her to to. Not transportation of people out of there as well when you want to they have a narrow window or high temperatures and strong winds a forecast for australias south east on saturday in New South Wales fire and rescue has advised her to leave and residents to prepare for extreme fires in the shaded areas from batemans bay south to the Victorian Border a 250 kilometer distance down the coast and another block inland i think the big thing that weve got on the wide the my mind is that its the largest mass rely cashen of people out of the region that will give a sign and people are going have to be patient the right people are queuing up to get into petrol stations through traffic is unable to get her to go to help them to get out of thousands heeded the advice to leave batemans bay and drive north towards sydney many with nothing left to save but themselves and a house is gone its completely burnt we found out yesterday morning to show. We went out there that the block that we were on has been burned from one side or the other does not apply to grass on it theres nothing left. About 1300. 00 homes have been destroyed in New South Wales since the fire season began in october its been a record breaking year the fires arrived earlier and with more fury the normal straight in Prime MinisterScott Morrison counterclaims its a consequence of manmade Climate Change is no doubt Natural Disasters turned that why andrew because thats what they are up by our Natural Disasters what were saying is we have we cannot control the Natural Disaster but what we can do is control our resp