forecasters warn the strong winds could lead to catastrophic conditions this week. computer programming can be child's play out child as whiz kids are told in the future. i'm phil welcome to the program. we begin with fresh fears of another war in the middle east after a u.s. drone strike killed a top of rain in general the attack at baghdad airport today in iraq killed general kasem selling monny the head of iran's elite quds force was seen as the architect of military operations in the middle east the strike also killed the hondas and the iraqi paramilitary group leader with close ties to iran iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has warned the united states that it faces harsh retaliation the u.s. has ordered its citizens to leave iraq and is sending thousands of extra troops to the region. of the iranians took to the streets of their capital on friday in the 10s of thousands. of the they chanted no compromise no surrender fight the u.s. the news of general solomon is killing sparked fury among the protesters who directed their anger at the west. miami carty have all the same thing they did to us should be done to them and their leaders should be killed all of them should be killed. military officials also spoke of revenge for the killing of the man who was widely seen as the 2nd most powerful figure in iran. and we know your way out the americans should prepare themselves for a slap in the face the americans must know now that after this crime that they have committed they will face no safety or peace anyway. this was all that remained of the vehicle carrying the iranian general and the iraqi militia leader after the american missile struck solid money had just landed at baghdad's airport hundreds was on hand to welcome him both were killed instantly along with at least 5 others the deaths are a major setback for iran and for iraq which loses an important military ally. now the u.s. says the strike was necessary claiming solomon had been developing plans to attack americans in the region. but speaking to cable news in the u.s. secretary of state mark pompei o said washington wants to avoid further conflict with iran so the body was plotting. her presence pretty clear we don't seek war with iran but with the same time we're not going to stand by and watch the iranians escalate and continue to put american lives at risk or that were spotted in a way that disrupts defense deters and creates an opportunity to deescalate the situation the reaction from tehran was swift and resolute supreme leader ayatollah ali how many issued a statement promising quote strong revenge and ordered 3 days of national mourning he also named a successor to solomon ie the generals former deputy as mail danny. the conflict was already escalating before the latest airstrike on thursday 750 american soldiers arrived in kuwait now washington is directing u.s. citizens in iraq to leave the country immediately. and get the latest from the w.'s washington bureau chief alexander welcome alexandra so why did the u.s. target general salim army and why now. well feel the u.s. of the ministration house that that was necessary to kill it's a lot of money to disrupt an imminent attack that would have put american lives at risk in the region and to talk more about that and the cost of consequences we are joined right now by the state department spokesperson morgan ortega thank you for being with us so can you take us to tell us more about this imminent threat sure i think there's been a lot that has gone on in the middle east recently let's just look at the past week we saw unfortunately attacks on december 27th i believe it was they killed an american contractor and also injured some of our service members we've been subsequently saw attacks on our u.s. embassy in baghdad all of these were sponsored trained abetted equipped militias that are and proxies of the iranian regime and specifically because of the money so over the past week we have seen those we were dealing with attacks we've been the president his national security team including secretary pompei oh that actionable intelligence that there was more attacks coming but i also must remind you it's not just about people are very focused on the intelligence which i understand because we did have to take defensive actions but people should also look at what hezbollah was saying in their public statements what they are g.c. and their regime said in their public statements even today talking about the seam death and talking about the fact that he was actively plotting and planning and so there's no secret everyone in the world knew what he was up to and the united states has warned and warned and warned and finally the president decided to take decisive action because we felt that the threat of keeping. the money alive was greater than the threat of taking him off the battlefield secretary promptly also said today that the u.s. remains committed to deescalation but in fact this is attack on the high ranking iranian military figure is bound to. escalate the situation isn't it know we were deescalating we believe you know we have seen not just the attack on americans you know in the past 2 months alone america has experienced more than 11 attacks on our facilities in the middle east from iran and there and their proxies we have also seen of course the downing of an american drone we've seen attacks on saudi arabia on not only on their own facilities but numerous attacks on their airports we've seen attacks on ships and the persian gulf so we have seen time and time and time again where america has exercised restraint we have reached out her hand of diplomacy but we warned the regime secretary pump aoe is on record warning the regime publicly privately do not attack american citizens do not go after our interests our soldiers our allies they continue to do it and so we had to take a step that would further deter americans from being killed and we took out a terrorist democrats in congress say that they should have been consulted before taking action do they have a point not really. now how are you preparing for a potential onslaught by the iranian forces or iraq and proxies in their proxies in the region what are you doing how to prepare or that's a great question the safety and security of americans is the highest priority for secretary pompei oh and certainly for president trump when he was weighing this very important decision we at the state department are working very closely with our colleagues in the department of defense to take as many actions as humanly possible to protect our diplomats our military you've seen the department of defense has announced today more troops headed to the region they announced that yesterday and there's been several announcements over over the past week so we're going to do everything within our power to protect americans and certainly the safety and security of americans was always at the forefront of our mind whenever making this incredibly tough decision thank you morgan. back to you feel now i'll xandra this is the 2nd time the united states has sent missiles against targets in iraq which is supposed to be absolved what does this tell us about america's attitude toward baghdad. well it's telling us forces 1st and foremost that iran is the centerpiece of the us foreign policy and that it was a priority for the trauma administration to strike on iranian proxies in iraq and to kill soleimani. even though each man state they would be risking their relationship with baghdad. alexander phenomena in washington thank you. the u.s. drone strike has drawn a variety of responses from across the international community russia was critical saying they step by washington could have grave consequences for regional peace and stability in our view such actions do not contribute to the finding of solutions to the complicated problems that have accumulated in the middle east germany's foreign minister i codemasters tweeted the u.s. military operation followed a series of dangerous provocations by iran however this action has not made it easy to reduce tensions in and continues that further escalation which could set the whole region on fire must be prevented but israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has spoken in support of the killings saying just as israel has the right of self-defense the united states has exactly the same might cost them a sort of money is responsible for the deaths of american citizens and many other innocent people. don't take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world man with a knife is going on the rampage at a park in a suburb of paris stabbing several people before running away police officers chased and shot him dead one of the stopping victims has been confirmed dead 2 others injured. police in turkey have detained 7 people for questioning over the carlos ghosn case and so his private jet company has admitted that one of its employees helped him flee japan still not been on one of its planes the former chairman had been awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges but he jumped bail and escaped. at least 4 people are dead after a hotel collapsed in cambodia after about 16 people have been rescued from the rubble the search is continuing for other survivors came down during construction time voters building industry has been booming but is plagued by safety problems. now to australia where deadly wildfires are problems in one of the largest. evacuations in the country's history more than 200 bases a burning across the heavily populated states of victoria and new south wales have already killed 19 people have been to thousands of homes officials say conditions are expected to worsen this weekend. nightmarish scenes like this have driven some people to the sea where they're now being evacuated. many roads are impassable and water is sometimes the only solution the decision is wrenching to survival but at a price a home he may have lost. meanwhile the government is coming under harsh criticism from both the public and some emergency service workers for not providing enough relief or doing so too late or both but now there's no middle ground the weather forecast for the next few days is even worse the call for a major evacuation for parts of the torah and you south wales it's loud and clear. this is why ferocious fog that is still out there and the conditions are going to be very difficult in the next 24 to 40 odd hours that's why the evacuation messages are so incredibly important but as far as i wrote a sky. has been killed on many occasions now and president particularly for this time of year in the length of the for a season and the absence of the death scene right ecologists at the university of sydney fear the death toll includes hundreds of millions of animals the places have destroyed more than $1300.00 homes and scorched more than 5 and a half 1000000 hectares an area far greater than the netherlands. knowings big. who's with the. new south wales welcome to day. we've seen footage of condensed and congested and closed roads out of residential areas affected by this fire and people have got to be asking will people actually be able to leave the affected areas in time. for the last 48 hours here in new south wales particularly down in the south coast areas of south of sydney we have as you mentioned asked a number of people to leave those locations because the conditions today are not not favorable for people to be in place down there so over the last couple of days we've worked closely with other agencies to be able to open roads to allow those people to move from those locations to a safer sport for example in sydney city before those conditions are set to see things flare out today you know we'll be hearing from forecasters the conditions over the weekend are set to get worse one wonders from the firefighting perspective if things do get worse is there anything more that you can do. so say the conditions that we're set to say again today are of course incredibly difficult for our firefighters in the ground in many cases there are huge flame heights i it's very hard very difficulty to jared lee attack so in many cases the firefighters have to actually fall back and protect life and property is a priority i in many cases they are supported by across the water bombing helicopters and planes but sometimes the smoke planes that are put out from these very large fires actually. prevent it craft from being able to access those fire grounds so of course it's very difficult conditions for all involved. just tell us if you would about the sort of conditions here your firefighters are in after all these weeks i know you've actually suffered more than one fatality that. yeah that's right we have got as you say same devastating impacts from these fires on including the loss of life and even the loss of life of our and firefighters which has been of course absolutely devastating of course for us to lose one of our own we've now lost 3 of our own firefighters so it's certainly taking a toll on our firefighters are hurting everyone in our agency is hurting but i guess the thing is that we have to get on with the job because we've still got a few hot weeks ahead of us where we will see a repeat of these weather patterns we prayed for a couple of days and then things heat up again and we see those strong winds which are causing these fires to flare up again and of course again threaten communities well we wish you well thank you for joining us from the new south wales rural fire service now to colombia which is beginning the new decades have made ongoing protests against the president if. right wing government host of issues are fueling the demonstrations unemployment corruption and drug violence crime so name just a few often overlooked however the growing calls to reform the country's health care system dwindling services no work to doctors and low pay and just a few of the problems doubly corresponded to nicole fruitage a small. one man will loves working at the hospital he likes to take his time with patients making sure they feel safe and that they understand their conditions and treatments but doing the job with such dedication has become increasingly difficult for many people working in colombia and health care. the. one out of 4 health care professionals are unhappy. at the news one of our system shortcomings is the pay that physicians receive. some of them have to work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. but overworked and underpaid doctors and nurses aren't the only ones feeling let down by colombia's health care system even in the capital where there are plenty of hospitals and clinics patients are finding it impossible to get even the most urgent appointments . i call the hospital every day but they don't have time for me i tell them please i suffer from multiple sclerosis i need special treatment and they never have time . to give you an appointment after one or even 3 months it's horrible healthcare service here is awful. such problems are related to structural weaknesses colombia's health care system is dominated by private insurance companies numerous of these intermediaries between patients and doctors have had the headlines for embezzlement and corruption the president of bogota medical association says it was their grief that caused the system to implode. isn't that says it is like the less services these companies provide the moment they make so the insurance company denies treatments or takes a long time to authorize them allowing the patient's condition to deteriorate would they even refuse to cover therapy all together. necessary treatments denied without explanation it almost destroyed this young woman's family her brother had alarming symptoms but his doctors weren't allowed to run the tests they needed to diagnose him. to visit the mrs but it took his insurance companies 7 months to authorize the cuts from january until august when they finally got the results they saw he had a brain tumor. and when we found out she had a chimera he's already lost his hearing and suffered irreversible brain damage. marianna is a nurse her self and has been participating in the protests suffering from the health care systems shortcomings as a patient and a professional she urges her fellow colombians to keep fighting for change. i'm confident there will be change someday maybe not exactly how we wanted to be that would be perfect i don't believe thoughts going to happen but some kind of change no matter how small for the time being it doesn't look like the government will heed people's calls but in the waiting room and on the streets colombians have run out of patience. here in germany the zoo has reopened days after a 5 promising closure and killed at least 30 or 40 saves almost illegal skyline since triggered the new year's eve blaze as people arrived at the zoo to express their grief zoo officials have described the reaction as an overwhelming wave of compassion. a sea of candles away to visitors that cry found sue in western germany the doors are open 2 days after a fire destroyed the enclosure killing around 30 animals. it's anything but business as usual the staff is struggling to cope with the forgotten and often said systems of the past 48 hours have been a nonstop nightmare for us i can hardly keep from crying what happened is horrible unbelievable we're trying to do our work everyone here is doing a great job. p.r. . staff open the doors to visitors with mixed feelings. and they are not to do about it of course we thought about whether or not it was the right thing to do but our animal still have to be cared for and a bit of normalcy helps so we also want to give the people of kafeel the chance to visit theirs you again good fire destroyed the enclosure just after midnight on january 1st more than 30 animals were killed including iran attends chimpanzees and gorillas the fire was caused by a burning paper lantern. it's more an atmosphere of group morning rather than a pleasant family outing. the people of cray felt are still in disbelief. i also came here when i was in kindergarten and in school when we found out what happened we were shocked it's deeply painful going to be too it's a title i knew these animals. which makes this experience even worse for me. it's so hard and is intuitive here we want to donate money to support the zoo and rebuild the ape enclosure. the aim is clear a new structure will be built the crane found soon has house tapes since the 1970 s. . is a scant sophists it would be a pity to let all this knowledge go unused it's clear that even if we don't know how the local or which types of animals there'll be at least we'll have primates again tens of thousands have already made donations to build a new enclosure but it won't be years until new apes will be housed at the crave zoo. evidence of climate change is mounting in the world's highest mountains in the. rising temperatures up and. alarming the lack of snow on the rights of glacial ice retreat is a real climate emergency. the 1000000000 people downstream who depend on himalayan snow melt for water. india's pindar glacier. one of many in the himalayas losing snow in mass as an alarming right. on a hindu yogi has lived here for most of his life. he's seen firsthand the impact of global warming. not hermeticum swishes be 10 feet of snow here in november but there's not even a foot right now it wants no 4 months maybe at the end of december or in mid january. over the past 40 years between dari glacier has retreated more than 2 and a half kilometers. and glaciology experts say there's no sign of it slowing down. the glaciers melt in summers and accumulate snow in winters but due to climate change or global warming some a period is extended and the winter season is shrinking. it means the snowfall period is shorter and the melting period is longer. and that's happening to more than $10000.00 glaciers across the himalayas it's also disturbing the mountain ecosystem as the ice recedes you feel ending soon. down in what can. be said the changes happening in glaciers are putting pressure on the biodiversity in that topography and in that climate. do. we have a. new species has started showing up here last year there was a mosquito and a bad bug new creatures a popping up there are leeches and at the riverside snakes have been found 20 to 30 years ago these species were not here. in. the himalayan glaciers stretch for 2 and a half 1000 kilometers across asia feeding for major river systems the loss of ice could mean a devastating future for the region. that with more and more of life's daily needs and tasks handled by computer apps the abutments code is a skill that's both practical and marketable but imagine learning to code an 8 year old boy. here i don't know the makes it seem like child's play this budding developer is so good at programming he teaches it online his channel has over 1000000 views. joe learned to coding when he was just 5 years old now he can fix bugs and lead much older students step by step through an apple coding app called swift playgrounds. got us all i have to pass all of the levels in order to teach otherwise if i can't really spell it out when recording the lessons how would that be ok louder than the. dad's a hong taught beat of the code that's made him an online sensation but wants to keep his son down to earth. it's what i've told him you haven't done anything remarkable. you've only recorded a few videos and the content taught is not so extraordinary just the basics in programming that. parents without a computing background can send their kids to classes like this and demand is booming china's i.t. education market is expected to be worth $4800000000.00 euros by next year the push for kid friendly curriculum comes from the chinese state which wants to develop a new generation of ai and robotic experts like coding whiz. and make china a dominant force in the world's cyber future. or in the future i hope to use code based on the chinese language so we can write and do more in this computing language. leader is already leading the way. his advice to his fans coding is a long term challenge so start learning now. this is d.w. news live from above and coming up next we'll take a closer look at today's a big stories of the day and no more world news for you at the top of the hour have a good day. oh. the funny. actually the risk meter just shows in the fudge thread shows how much. the business bought. them to. cause. come. the smart way to get where you're going. with the audio mobility show. on t w. 100 small feeds in my times. when i come from my daughter means uninformed contineu soft transmitting and information and when i was young my country was wrong and. the more prominent people most people were. to see. if one's mind soul to 2 in one of the not just. so that everyone in that town. listen to those again. nothing has been from inside my own car into not more than. even not by us i was it to him. by choice in this card because given their way toward transmitting the truth. when in the question how much and i was. the world subject became significantly hotter today i'm this time it's not because of the climate crisis the u.s. drone strike that killed a top iranian military commander has left a test run promising severe revenge on the governments around the world holding their breath so how will iran strike back against the world's only remaining military superpower i'm phil gale in ballin.

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