And Helena Humphrey glad you could join me in australia a new heat wave is igniting more bushfires increasing the toll the blazes are taking across the country now 100000 people have been urged to flee 5 melbourne suburbs as flames are encroaching on the victoria state capital a volunteer firefighter has been killed battling a separate far in the countryside the 10th victim of the blazes now the high level foreigner has led to the council ation of hundreds of firework displays for the new year. If theres one thing thats considered a given that the in the fee cheer its the images from across the world are flashy new years celebrations and there is pride in being the ones to kick off the yearly affair. And you know a new story of the world looks at city. Every single were and i look at our vibrancy by look at our passion to look at our success. But for the last 3 months australia has been battling some of the worst bushfires in decades the blazes are predicted to peak on new years eve de
Corruption charges as character assassination during a televised inquiry. But was his testimony enough to counter the evidence against. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us another extension a guaranteed minimum wage and expanded Unemployment Benefits those are some of the goals from a germanys ursula fund a lion and she says shell be pursuing them if elected tomorrow as European Commission president now she made the pledges in a letter to reluctant lawmakers to succeed shell need an absolute majority. Keeping up with. Its not an easy task last week. She was on the move constantly meeting almost all the Political Groups of the e. U. Parliament. She needs to convince enough parliamentarians that shes the right woman for the Commission Presidency and that could be a problem especially with the social democrats in the European Parliament theyve called her commitments to being huge and they dislike that fund and i and wasnt even one of the lead candidates especially the german soc
The last 2 years these students have been collecting rubbish every day its helped clean up the camp and help to build some of its facilities for every 2 kilos of Plastic Waste they collect this School Receives a brick made of plastic and cement. And the School Canteen been built with them this school to watch tower was built with bricks to. For the environmental problem because we are diverting wastes away from the landfill so we are in effect. Some of the bricks are designed to allow rainwater to see through and that help stop the streets flooding for some activists this may not be the most ecological way to eliminate the problems of plastic but this is seen as an immediate solution to the growing problems of landfills across the Country Waste can now be used to manufacture building materials. But greenpeace says more needs to be done and Multinational Companies need to be made responsible for pushing the socalled sashay economy from coffee shampoo to cooking oil these Consumer Produc
Mean the fact that you would take a child and put them in a conflict zone like this is despicable and i for the disgusting but the children. Cant be held responsible for that and when we have kissed carefully considered their cases then we have taken action to scifi repechage them and will consider any other such cases particularly in the Security Issues demonstrators in hong kong of staged a sit in at the citys tax offices to keep up pressure on the government over a controversial extradition bill Andrew Thomas reports. This is a good example of the protesters new tactics disrupting the lives of government workers the business of government while not disrupting the lives of ordinary people in this city this building is hong kongs revenue tower essentially its tax office and there are only about 150. 00 protested the book the entrance but theyre doing pretty good job of making it clear that theyre going to keep the protest going albeit at a low level in between the big marches one of t
Good you. Know the these. I mean. Thats the only happy election. But the election you saw some. Happening last month. About 66 people were keel its not always been like this in some nations external unelected powers and blamed for playing roles in the demonic of democracy. Probably fall can choose sitting on a. Political science as we call. Complexity authoritarians authoritarianism where the government is elected by the electoral regulations are many permitted to give the advantages to the government to the ruling party. She believes this is happening mainly in thailand singapore i mean maher and cambodia some feel theres a basic solution to this downward trend in democracy to correct itself here in Southeast Asia a fresh change in leaders a passing of a torch to the next generation my. Its easier said than done if you change at the top of the many of these leaders or when they had to and then saying that their lives politics and so on lets hope that new generation of need. That grow