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Raging fires have devastated the continent, scorching a reported 27 million acres and killing 33 people. Bush fires are a part of life in australia and theyre often deadly. But the scale of these fires is unprecedented. Areas across multiple states have ignited. Australian cities have suffocated in smoke, on some days giving residents te worst air quality in the world. And according to one estimate, a billion animals have been killed. Scientists say Climate Change is transforming australias environment making it hotter and drier and exposing it to longer, more intense fire seasons. The fires started unusually early in september, and when we visited the continent this month, we found that australia is still burning. The fires have devoured forests like rivers of lava, smoke blanketing the landscape, the skies turning marmalade in the middle of the day. Its been a black summer down under, and its not over yet. It sometimes feels as if australia is at war, fighting against insatiable flames that are fueled by record heat, high winds and a country parched by drought, and this is whats been left behind in towns like cobargo, five hours south of sydney, where marilyn mills was trapped in her burning house. So the fire came up through here, is that right . Marilyn mills it started coming up here, just straight and i thought, im just gonna burn to death. Williams it sounds as if you were convinced that you were going to die. Mills and i thought, just die. Williams you wanted to die at that point. Mills yeah, if i could have killed myself, i would have done it in a second rather than burn to death. It was so hot. Oh my god williams 60 miles away, on the coast, the scenes on new years eve were like a modern day dunkirk. The fires forced people to retreat to the beaches, as flying embers gusted across the sand. Greg mullins they actually had to jump into the ocean to escape. The fires burnt right to the edge. Williams have you ever seen that before, people having to shelter on, on the beach and in the water . Mullins on a massive scale, over hundreds of miles in, in multiple communities, no. Thats just unprecedented. Williams greg mullins was there, an experienced fire captain battling towering flames. Mullins the wind was howling. When the fire came through, that sounded like a 747 jet landing. So the sounds, the sights, it was just, it was apocalyptic. I dont like this. Out, out, out, out. Williams mullins says hed never seen a blaze move that quickly. Mullins at one stage, i saw kangaroos come out of the bush on fire, and then just drop dead on the roadway. And ive never, ever seen that before. Because theyre fast animals. They know where to go. Williams this time lapse video from a dash cam shows how firefighters were forced to scramble in the face of rapidly approaching flames. In less than two minutes the fire consumed anything that didnt make it out. Hundreds of bush fires have burned for weeks on end, some of them merging into mega fires, and firefighters on the front line say nature has gone awry. Mullins i saw fire behavior i didnt expect. And what i learned later was that the fire had created its own weather system. Williams what do you mean the fire had created its own weather system . Mullins big fires can form storm clouds, which then you have an inrush of air at the bottom, you have downbursts, just like a normal thunderstorm. You have lightning that can start fires 20, 25 miles away. And firefighters can lose their lives. So one night, an eightton fire truck was picked up by a downburst and put on its roof injured the rest of them. Williams to drop fire retardant, australia is relying on borrowed flying tankers from north america. One of the planes went down in smokey conditions last month, killing three american firefighters on board. Mullins were so indebted to those people. And every firefighter felt it. Three of our brothers, albeit from the u. S. , lost their lives trying to help us. Williams australias firefighters are nearly all volunteers courageous, but exhausted. Theyre affectionately known as firies and we saw them protecting suburban homes. This fire is burning out of control and its just 25 miles from canberra, australias capital city. And what makes this even more dangerous are the conditions. Its windy today, its bone dry and its nearly 110 degrees. And its the changing climate that is at the heart of the problem, according to scientists. Joelle gergis 2019 was the hottest and the driest year in australias history. So we actually saw temperature records be broken all over the country. Williams Joelle Gergis is a climate scientist at the Australian National university and is a lead author of an upcoming United Nations report on Climate Change. Gergis this is the type of summer you might not have expected til the middle of the century based on past projections. So i think this is really redefining what it means to actually be living through a period of rapid Climate Change. Williams so youre saying you would have expected this kind of scenario that we saw this summer to happen in 2050 . Gergis yeah, potentially. Middle of the century. Williams are you shocked . Gergis of course im shocked. Williams gergis says australia is more vulnerable to Climate Change than any other developed nation, in part because its the driest inhabited continent. When it comes to Climate Change is australia a bellweather for the rest of the world . Has beker i think this summer most australians. And myself as, as a climate scientist, seeing the extreme level of heat and the bush fires and the Drought Conditions playing out so catastrophically has been, i think, a wakeup call to the world. Malcolm turnbull we have been mugged by the reality of Climate Change in this summer. Williams Malcolm Turnbull is a political conservative who served as australias Prime Minister up until august of 2018. Turnbull this is Climate Change in the raw. This is what we have been told to expect for years. Williams when you were Prime Minister, were you warned that the fires were getting worse . Turnbull well, of course. Everyone has known this. Weve been warned by the climate scientists. Everyone has been aware of this except for those who, well, the Climate Change deniers are aware of it, but they choose to deny reality. Its been a challenging time. Williams turnbull was bounced out of office by the right wing of his own party largely over his support for cutting carbon emissions. Turnbull the right wing climate deniers treat an issue of science and physics and fact as though it was a question of ideology, and their conduct is not just idiotic. It is downright dangerous. Dangerous for us here in australia and around the world. Williams youre talking about people in your own party. Turnbull of course i am. Yeah. Absolutely. Williams dangerous and idiotic. Turnbull well, of course it is dangerous and idiotic not to be taking the strongest action to reduce your Greenhouse Gas emissions. Williams turnbull was replaced by Scott Morrison, who has minimized Climate Change. He famously stood up in parliament in 2017 and taunted his opponents with a lump of coal. Scott morrison this is coal. Dont be afraid, dont be scared. Its coal. Williams morrison has prioritized protecting australias mining industry. Coal is the countrys second largest export, and members of the current government argue its not australias responsibility to act on Climate Change since the country only produces about 1 of global emissions. Isnt there some truth in that . Turnbull well williams i mean, if, if the u. S. Doesnt act, if china and india dont act on emissions, it doesnt matter very much. Turnbull well, if we williams what australia does turnbull well, if we dont act, if we dont act, a wealthy advanced economy facing the harsh reality of Climate Change, if we dont act and show leadership, why would anyone else act . Williams with his country on fire, the current Prime MinisterScott Morrison took his family on a hawaiian vacation. When he returned home, he was given a Cold Shoulder as he tried to comfort victims in the fire zones. He was heckled by seething residents. Youre an idiot, mate, you really are. Williams including in the hardhit town of cobargo where marilyn mills lives a lot of people in cobargo are angry with the Prime Minister. Do you share those feelings . Mills well, he didnt light the fire. Like, what can he do . Hes just a bloke with a whole bunch of people under him and theyre all idiots. laughs williams for you, it sounds like its the entire government that youre angry with. Mills well, they need to have a look at what, what threatens australia. Fire threatens australia. Thats our big thing, fire. Fire, drought, all those sorts of things, thats what they need to focus on. Williams greg mullins says he and 22 former fire and Emergency Service chiefs from all over australia wrote to Prime Minister morrison last april warning him of a looming catastrophe and requesting more resources to fight bush fires. And what was the response . Mullins ah, that he was too busy to meet with us. Williams he refused to meet with you. Mullins point blank. Told us to buzz off basically. Williams why . Mullins weve been told by senior Public Servants in canberra that because we uttered two horrible words, Climate Change, we were discounted as being activists, and we would not get a meeting at any stage with the Prime Minister. Williams we wanted to interview the Prime Minister about the devastating fires and their connection with Climate Change but he declined our request, as did other members of his government. Scott morrison has admitted that he made mistakes in his handling of this crisis. But what he has not done is make any change to reduce this countrys carbon emissions. Climate scientist Joelle Gergis says the future of australia hangs in the balance. Are the australian people being betrayed by their politicians . Gergis at this moment i think it is really reckless and potentially criminal because we know enough. We actually know enough about the science now. I think the science is crystal clear. And i think the impacts are now playing out now. Remember that australia is actually an extraordinary continent. We have the highest level of plants and animals that are found here and nowhere else on earth. Williams australias most iconic animals koalas and kangaroos have fared terribly, innocent victims of the fires. One scientist estimates at least a billion animals have died. We went to kangaroo island, off australias southern coast, where tens of thousands of koalas are believed to have been killed. 48 of the island has burned. Surviving koalas have been brought to a makeshift care center the living room of a family that runs a wildlife park. The baby koalas, some only months old, receive special attention. Many koalas were singed on their paws and arrived dehydrated. A mash unit has been set up to sedate them and treat their wounds so they may one day return to their habitat or whats left of it. Feeding grounds have been reduced to char. And just before we left the island, we came across this hungry kangaroo, scouring the ashes for something to eat. In the last two weeks its fnally rained, giving everyone some respite, and hope that this most brutal season of fires may be coming to an end. But the scars remain. In what used to be pristine wilderness ringing with birdsong and brimming with wildlife, there is silence. The music of the forest, in the middle of the australian summer, is gone. ticking australias bushfires hit close to home for the 60 minutes team who reported this story. Go to 60minutesovertime. Com, sponsored by pfizer. Xeljanz xr, a oncedaily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. Xeljanz ane even without methotrexate. Mage, xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections like tb; dont start xeljanz if you have an infection. Taking a higher than recommended dose of xeljanz for ra can increase risk of death. 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Last july, President Trump made the phone call to ukraine that led to impeachment. He asked the president of ukraine to investigate a mysterious Democratic National committee computer server that mr. Trump said was hidden in ukraine. We have found that odd request is a story that has grown over the years and was influenced by moscow. You may have wondered how the president was impeached over ukraine of all places. The answer is in the story of the mystery server a reminder that the u. S. And russia have been on opposite sides of a war in ukraine since russias invasion in 2014. Bill taylor ukraines security is important to our security, and the reason i believe that is that ukraine is on the frontline. Pelley few people understand whats at stake as well as ambassador bill taylor. He led the u. S. Embassy in ukraine as the Trump Administration withheld military aid while pressing for investigations of democrats. Taylor it was illogical, it could not be explained, it was crazy. Pelley taylors testimony carried the weight of his resume; west point, 101st airborne in vietnam, 33 years as a diplomat, and an expert on ukraine. Taylor the russian are fighting a hybrid war against ukraine, but its not just about ukraine, they are fighting a hybrid war against europe and against the united states. Pelley the war that the russians are fighting in ukraine, we have a stake in . Taylor we have a stake in, but its not just the military war. Hybrid war is more than tanks and soldiers. Hybrid war is information war, its cyber war, its economic war, its attacks on elections and as we know they have attacked our elections. Pelley the russian attack on the 2016 election included hacking the computers of the Democratic National committee. U. S. Intelligence agencies found, the russian government