By a narrow margin in a moment delayed results from septembers elections but his rival Abdullah Abdullah warns he wont concede a correspondent has the details. And in football a youngster saved by i mean it once again 18 year old yoshua and sexy school the late winner for germanys wreck or champions against votes but. Im having a home for a glad you could join me australias Prime MinisterScott Morrison has been forced to apologize for taking a holiday at the height of the devastating bushfire crisis now emergency crews are struggling to contain hundreds of blazes around sydney a combination of record temperatures drought and powerful winds is fueling the inferno at least 9 people have been killed since the fires began but there is now hope at last of a break in the weather. The air is acrid the dense smoke is causing Serious Health problems. Laid waste in the town of 80 kilometers west of sydney. The storm to the village of balmoral southwest of sydney off the map the flames came so fast that Steve Harrison had no time to escape. The day before i had actually built myself a small bag. Just big enough for me to call and so i hit in there for half an hour. Saturday was catastrophic sunday. It was cooler and firefighters could make some progress in containing the flames but the crisis is far from over. Weve got to keep in mind that were not expecting any rainfall to make any meaningful difference to those 4 hours until january january february thats the way to go i was still talking for 6 weeks at best before we start to see a meaningful reprieve in the weather committee. Has already been fighting wildfires for months extreme heat and drought gave this years fire season an early start. Prime minister Scott Morrison returned from a vacation in hawaii after widespread public criticism earning the nickname smoko for not being present during the countrys worst ever fire in the agency he said he was sorry if his absence it caused offense a response that many have branded as inadequate which. Challenging weeks still lie ahead for the public and the firefighters who are battling not only the flames but also extreme exhaustion. Well that he was photogenic may not an ask him how australians had responded to Prime Minister morrisons apology. Well particularly well i mean australians are basically pretty cynical people and they have girl talk of politicians particularly politicians all Prime Ministers ago in all its own like this hes been know it criticized and lampu do d a certain extent of social media spirit in the newspapers here and these are a lot of pressure politically so hes pulling out all the stops to repair the damage that joy to enhance his image this morning he went to the rule service at coors and certainly they had all the offices there but there are efforts at the press conference he did accept criticism leveled at him apologize for any offense caused by his absence over the past week. Where votes are being counted in those back to start after people went to the polls of parliamentary elections on sunday and have been seen as a test of democracy as the 1st election since the death of authoritarian leader president Islam Karimov 3 years ago changes to the electoral norm include at least 80 percent of candidates must be women 5 parties are competing for seats Rights Groups say that the government continues to stifle genuine opposition now results are expected on monday. Well to talk more about this im joined in the studio now by bobo more out of their life who is from a speck a son he is also a researcher with Reporters Without Borders as an ngo promoting freedom of the press thanks for joining me how free and fair do you think this election has been thank you for invitation to do monitored whos been cursed social networks and i saw that there were. While lucians in some illusion points for example one man. Put. 9 or 10 routines into the books. There we not such well asians i think that these relations are not fair because the government didnt do a load. You do dual candidates in opposition parties to these elections and could you tell me more about the state of press freedom and his back stand no was big praise more free than in the period of Islam Karimov bought only with sites and blogs with food in fair fair cover the situation in the county. State newspapers and t. V. Channels continue. To pressure the government policy now this week we saw the british magazine the economist name was pakistan the country that had travelled the farthest 82019 whats your assessment whats your reaction to that. Maybe is the economist keeps mine to only the launching of a freight car in sea change in this because done by the inflation and position of pharmacists and the intrapreneur are we worse than we are worth and then healy in the period of. Ok bonior had a delay from Reporters Without Borders thank you not stop thank you. Lets take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world protesters across iraq have taken to the streets to oppose the nomination of the Education Minister qusai. To the post of a Prime Minister and now they accuse him of having close ties to iran the previous Prime Minister resigned last month and a constitutional deadline to find a replacement has already passed. Indian Prime Minister neurons are modi has defended a new citizenship lure that critics say discriminates against muslims addressing his supporters in new delhi he said there was no need to worry for muslims born in india or to indian parents at least 23 people have been killed in violent protests against the rule. Croatians of voting in a president ial election where a tight outcome is expected now the current president conservative collin the kids heard all of it cost her vote this morning in the capital of zagreb the ballot comes days before croatia takes over the European Unions rotating presidency. Well afghan president ashraf ghani appears to be heading for a 2nd term preliminary results released a short while ago show he won a septembers election with just over 50 percent now the announcement had been delayed because of irregularities and a recount turnout was under 30 percent and a 3rd of the votes cast were declared invalid carneys closest rival Abdullah Abdullah who currently shares power with him as the countrys chief executive says that he does not accept the results and he wants an investigation. Well for more lets bring in journalist ideality for you joins us from the Afghan Capital kabul ali what are people there making of the prospect of another term for ashraf ghani as president. I think people are pretty tired of the Selection Process you know they just wanted to be over its been through 3 months since the election took place and people have been waiting for results and now were seeing again that there oppressions of legitimacy were seeing that doctor of the law is refusing to accept the results saying that the clean votes were not counted that fraudulent votes are counted that widespread fraud was committed that fraud in the election leaves as much damage as a suicide bombing what so really you know its not resolving very much because it just seems to be leading to more electoral tension and more Political Drama for the people you know with those allegations and the fact that these results are preliminary how much could they still be subject to change i think getting them to change will be very difficult because it only lead to more problems it could lead to a 2nd round which would be even more problematic because they would have to wait until after the winter to conduct that so really the best thing that the president can hope for his point is to convince his rivals that you know this was a clean election that this was a proper election and the best thing is to do is to accept his government you know as he said this is the continuation of the republic and he really sees it as a positive mandate for him so what he wants is for them to accept his victory and you know if it takes them joining in the government if theyre willing to come in and you know i think thats a concession is going to have to make at some point or another with at least some of them but i think more than anything he just wants this done and he wants this over badly i wondering do you think afghans would accept such a close result especially considering weve got about a 1000000 votes that were declared invalid. I think that one people you know dont have much faith in the electoral process and we saw that only 120000000 people turned out so whoever becomes president will only be declared the winner with about a 1000000 votes in a country of 32000000 people so i think at this point you know what the people really want is some kind of closure you know they want to move on to the other issues theyre businessmen whose goods are stuck at different courts and at different corners willing to come in because they dont know how to invest their people you know wanting to know whats going to happen with the negotiations with the taliban was going to happen with the relations with the u. S. And with other countries and i think they just want to start to get answers once again and so the reality is is that you know a lot of people know that they dont really have a change in the way these things are run and that the decisions will be made anyways but i think what they just want is a sense of closure the right journalist at either t. V. Reporting for us from kabul thank you so much. You. German football now and by media cas made it official handy flick will remain head coach until the end of the season now the rain in general champions have won 8 of their 10 games on the flick that run continued on saturday with a 2 military over vosburgh by have lost a number of 1st team players through injury and that means opportunities for some on up and coming stars such as 18 year old yoshua at sexy. But down to the bare bones a midfielder and a forward helped make up the back line as wolfsburg came for out in 4 points the midfielder in question have you martinez was forced to limpopo in the 1st half to an out of sorts Jerome Boateng his replacement at the back fire on top throughout her fully could see me almost scoring with that stunning strike in the 51st minute couldnt catch steals without a miraculous save to keep things level. But another example of defensive heroics or jerome bruce alone picked thomas millers pocket at the back post soon after the french went out of nowhere to sleep the day. The wolves they went close themselves actually on all shot the flick thing just wide of the post all of a glass not knew that this was his sides best chance of stealing all 3 points. 10 minutes to go continuo of us was a see on the 18 year old repeat wednesdays match winning debut heroics just 2 minutes later the youngster turned home a motocross to win a 2nd consecutive game for by munich surgeon every pushed aside now thats confidence but cannot report the game to bed late on slotting home of the robert levin dusty t. V. Box for a simple finish. Off cycles waved away as handy flip side graft another victory boy wonder does it again as boy get the points. Well lets take a look at all of the results so far on match day 17 well doesnt offer. 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Your news from berlin up next while stories reports from the indian swimming swimming champion with no arms dont forget you can always get the latest news on our website thats d w dot com im headed home for about and thanks for your company and c. C. Where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t. V. Shadow and a few newspapers with official information as a journalist i have worked on the street for many counters and they told