Also on the day interpol asks lebannon to arrest fugitive former c. E. O. Carlos to goad who skipped bail and fled japan rather than face charges of financial misconduct despite this his friends think hes gone to a better place. He was confident about the future hes got a lot of plans and thats the most important thing hes surrounded by his family and friends hes at home here in his country. So to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and around the world to welcome australian authorizes have declared emergencies and ordered Mass Evacuations in New South Wales and victoria the states hit hardest by some of the worst wildfires on record the evacuation orders are likely to last for days as forecasters warn that high temperatures and stronger. Are expected to return at the weekend 18 people have died in the crisis and thousands of homes have been destroyed. This is what firefighters in australia have been dealing with for months in some cases and this is an example of the aftermath the town. Or what was the town a blaze tore through here on new years eve. Since then thousands have been awaiting rescue relief anything the plan is for the navy to use ships and helicopters to bring them to melbourne about a 17 hour journey by water. And destruction devastation and this is just one of so many towns in the southeastern states of New South Wales and victoria that have felt the fury of the latest wave of bushfires. Side anybody. Now had parents. People have died but a final count hasnt been tallied yet some are still listed as missing one of the dead is fireman jeff keaton who passed away battling a blaze just before christmas at his funeral on thursday his young son received an award for bravery on behalf of his dead father. Forecasters say itll be the end of the month before theres any significant rain and a possible end to the crisis the next catastrophic conditions are forecast for this coming weekend with temperatures expected to top 40 degrees celsius. Well the. Public relations disaster for the australian Prime MinisterScott Morrison he was heavily criticised for going on holiday at the bushfire crisis began and his recent visit to the scorched footage of a cabal go in New South Wales went down badly with a lot of calls. On the low over the world. Well over the last of the thing to help out now that sam dont have a lot of money 7 but we have the dont meet the Prime Minister now you need your real. Right. We do. Need body or were not like your other and you. Know well 7 the good note. Well dr you promised to Scott Morrison well the reaction in kabbalah go is not an isolated incident. Raging across the country with many australians fed up with what they say is a lack of leadership. Nasr is here with more welcome so we just saw that much of the anger being directed at the Prime Minister yeah absolutely and a lot of that really does come from some of his own major missteps im sure you remember a couple of weeks ago morrison was actually on vacation in hawaii during one of the high points of this fire crisis and now theres been another similar incident during new Year Celebrations morrison was accused of ringing in 2020 with a party at his residence and many australians are not exactly happy about that heres one of them he happens to be a member of the rival labor party here is saying look australia is burning there are 4000 australians stranded on the beach at mali as we saw in the piece well this happens australias Prime Minister sipped champagne while watching fireworks and then you can see his opinion of morrisons liberal party there we have to mention a spokesperson denied that morrison had a quote party he says this was just a few Close Friends and family members coming over for dinner but either way the optics here not greats the hawaii vacation didnt look good especially as he and his government really under increasing pressure now to act but this does seem to be more about more than just optics people do seem to be really quite angry absolutely i mean this is really about a lack of action on the part of the government many fire victims saying that that help isnt coming fast enough the response of the federal government just has not been good enough especially in those rural areas that we saw with just been hit so hard by this and this is one person on facebook whos been updating his followers on the situation where his mother lives and you can see that here she lives in a small coastal town in New South Wales and he writes theres no power there theres no mobile phones theres no internet no utilities the town is out of. You want food no open roads to get in or out the water catchment for the bay has has all been burnt why isnt the government doing food drops or water drops why or why isnt bringing in generators to the harbor wheres our Defense Force here is you can see many people very frustrated at the lack of response its not only the federal government its the State Government as well you have to understand states are in charge of Emergency Services there Scott Morrison liberal party currently in governments in New South Wales the hardest hit states the party theyre being criticised now for actually cutting the budget for response in terms of Fire Management earlier this year or last year it turns out as well the Emergency Services minister of that same state has also gone on holiday he is currently on vacation with his wife in europe he says he will cut that vacation short to get back to work on friday but again i mean unbelievable to see these people in charge off taking holiday so briefly co what has the government done Prime Minister morris and as we saw be getting a lot more military involved we saw those rescue ships of the navy Army Aircraft getting involved as well deploying supplies also helping with evacuations he says he can only do that when the states request help the biggest discussion though is still Climate Change morrisons government has been denying the link between Climate Change and these fires but a majority of australians say this is a big threats we want to see more action coalesce we thank you so much. Turkeys parliament has passed legislation authorizing a yearlong deployment of troops to libya in support of the internationally recognized government in tripoli the deployment he said to be necessary to defend the Libyan Government against forces power a loyal to the powerful warlord Khalifa Haftar turkey said that if libyas government is toppled it would bring further instability to the region. We can take a closer look at this without us aleko mati whos a founder and director of libyan think tank they Said Institute he joins us from london welcome to d. W. How would the turkish Troop Deployment affect libyas conflict. Well its certainly going to. Progress really barkers russian mercenaries over the last several months in the making on the front lines also has tripoli. Who now goes from the suburbs lightly Populated Areas around tripoli. Tripoli and thats truly significant given that there is almost 2000000 people in their own tripoli let alone the hundreds of thousands that were displaced from those last campaign in benghazi and. Controls and i suppose that the intervention is coming where the national cooled really need to. Be requesting around 7 or 8 months from its European Partners from countries that were its existence like brutally u. S. And and other European Countries and bullshitters their schools well and it was also if turkey does intervene in this this is about more than just that 2 rival factions within libya they have turkey intervenes this brings them into contact with other external powers. Listen a little of those cameras have been there for a long time so i think its difficult for them are. Todays the gloom and given that its full and open and its out there in the an ugly guy getting the guy who actually could get busted it so just follow him as a group thats all. There has been a 7 or 8 Month Campaign after that has used french procured u. S. Missiles Russian Special forces and iraqi troops for the last couple of months brings them into contact with larger maritime deal that the u. S. Government in libya signed with with ankara early last month and that is about something very very different thats about the natural gas reserves reentry 3 trillion dollars worth that are under the sea in the Eastern Mediterranean and that gives circular didnt claim to destruct the ability for greece egypt and israel to exploit that without them and it gives them a almost the sovereign rights to challenge them so it is certainly more about that than just the local factions in it because people have been asking what what what say in this for turkey turkey says well the valid regional allies say they were part of a Ottoman Empire the send more us more cynical view is that yes its all its all about those. Fuel resources in the say. Well its certainly one of those things i dont know whether or not it is about the old little limbaugh being being revived and. Im not sure i buy that they could have worked with me in the legal actions and it being the case they certainly work with the internationally recognized government it really went with them after the request was made by the government like that because they thought abandon the last 8 months really un and the Un Security Council and the responsibility we shouldnt forget the data response the sort of lets all april fool that invaded tripoli he did that in the presence of and so you consider as the u. N. Chief. That some are only a week after that his word will really be national and National Conferences are looking for peace and reconciliation ok perhaps elections so they dont like is that it was almost right i dont want to get in this that this is this last question because western military interventions have often suffered because insufficient attention is given to what should happen when the fighting stops does turkey or indeed the Libyan Government do they appear to have such a plan. Well it is no go and its in very recent an expansionist true government from western interventions started from over the last couple of years plan is to try to stop it and if anything it could be a revisiting and asked in a crisis that he was involved in and it will save you all this kind of frightening really solves the real kind of balance. So that peace or peace loops can be revisit at the moment we should think about it being an intervention the intervention has come from the e. U. Egypt and russia over the last 8 months and have not done that with any elementary approval already. Fishelson the symbol that were going to. Be raining down drew strikes on tripoli to be killed at least 2 thirds of the civilian population is considered a man so i think its its difficult to market by the occasion we should mention religious context as it has been since april who doesnt thanks for joining us on a sat ill give marty from the start i came stitchers. Go spectacular scape from japan where he was under house arrest awaiting trial for financial misconduct remains shrouded in mystery one theory is that the foreman a son c. E. O. Hid inside a Musical Instrument case that was then taken on to a private plane bound for turkey where he boarded another private jet to lebanon japanese prosecutors have now raided mr guns tokyo and interpol has issued lebanon with a red notice and requesting his arrest but its still not clear if japanese authorities in their search of guns residents found anything to explain how he slipped through the net the lebanese capital of beirut the camera crews have laid siege to the home of the former mission chairman. After his arrival there gold explained that he believed the Japanese Court system was unjust that is arrest had been politically motivated go on scene here in archival footage plans to speak to journalists next week lebanon has now received an official request from interpol to arrest him as a fugitive but neighbors dont believe hes a criminal. He did help nissan and renault achieve the stature yes as a businessman he did well indeed as a lebanese man were proud of him. Journalist Ricardo Carvalho is a close friend of call this go and he spoke to him after his escape you knew he was confident about the future hes got a lot of plans and thats the most important thing hes surrounded by his family and friends hes at home here in his country. Going to skate to lebanon is a stunning twist in a roller coaster journey that saw him fall from boardroom to Detention Center here he spent more than 100 days in spartan conditions far removed from his sometimes extravagant lifestyle the auto tycoon stands accused of unreported his salary to the tune of 85000000. 00 prosecutors also allege he skimmed off millions of dollars from the company for his personal use tokyo has no extradition treaty with beirut japans Justice Department is left holding guns bond worth around 12000000 euros. Stephen busily from the business is tracking this story for us welcome steve there has been some progress arrests have been made. In this case we know that some people have been detained in this is only been is to bill in turkey so theyre expected to give statements talk about 7 people related to believed to be related to that transfer that we heard about from the flights coming out of japan where changed over it is to bowl and then a new plane went over to beirut so its for pilots i believe 2 ground crew and then one other airport worker in cargo i believe so that may help us begin to sort of unwind exactly what happened and where this all leads and well talk about the charges he was facing in just a moment but what was it about japans Justice System to made him so reluctant to face it japans Justice System had a reputation even before this going case before going was arrested but his case if they threw it into the spotlight its often called a hospice hostage the Justice System because its so focused on earning confessions because prosecutors have really everything engineers are sort of geared towards towards their success that is they can detain people much longer you heard in that case he was held over 100 more than 100 days we heard in the piece. Of evidence cherry rules are in their favor they dont have to share all evidence with the defend. And we saw with going also that a lot of these levers were pulled he was held in detention for a long time he was even not allowed to speak with his wife in some cases under certain orders so the conviction rate is 99 percent in japan the coast going solve the direction things were going and wasnt too happy with it so hes facing the japanese charges against the better claims that fits. To fiddle the books and theres this all this financial misconduct allegations of but he says its politically motivated but doesnt seem to be anything particularly political about being caught with your fingers allegedly at a multi 1000000000. 00 till everything about these 2 companies is political by 2 companies i mean nissan and renault they have this Strategic Alliance france is owns 50 percent of revenue and nissan is a very Important Company in japan its a cultural icon he was the key that held them together. He could communicate with both sides he made it work somehow he turned this whole lines around made it the 3rd largest in terms of sales he was key it is political in that sense in that what happens to these Companies Directly affects these countries but also he was he was looking to merge the 2 companies before his arrest that was seen as threat a threat potentially to nissan at least this is how he construes it and thats why he believes that he was given the hook as far as the compensation charges has actually been indicted as well on these same charges and theyve actually started with the f. C. C. And the u. S. On the same charges of underreporting compensation they said that going should have done more japanese prosecutors agree but nissan also faces liability for this so it is very confusing and what about because it was go go it was the man whos who saved the company who towed it around how are they feeling about this they being brought in such a scandal. Obviously i mean. Its been a black eye for them and also the. Car Companies Really struggled cents and all Car Companies have struggled in the past year just due to falling revenues but theres especially struggle because again go on was that he communicated between brando and nissan and were already seeing some friction between the 2 renault not everyone was sold on the allegations against going on it wasnt well communicated to them and then there was this attempt to merge with fear earlier this year or last year i should say that wasnt communicated to nissan and so were seeing some real friction between the 2 and thats also affecting the paths that theyre taking in their revenues potentially ok so even now its all Gone International what a japanese or a prosecutor is saying briefly with nothing theyve been on holiday for the past few days this is the biggest holiday in japan right now and no one in the japanese prosecutorial system has seemed to want to leave their holiday they havent said anything weve seen them rummaging through his house recently but thats about it so its interesting to see how little has been said were waiting to hear more stephen because the data business thank you. Not to austria where they Government Conservatives have struck a Coalition Agreement with the green Party Following 3 months of negotiations sebastian courts will remain chancellor with the greens entering National Government for the 1st time laying out the details of their Coalition Deal with your party said they want to make australia a european foreign and climate protection. So could austrias coalition between conservatives and greens be a model for close neighbors germany ideas being discussed here in this Political Parties especially the conservatives consider a future without chancellor merkel who has said that she will not run in next years general election for the remainder of her term chances looking to shore up the e. U. As it confronts new challenges. Angela merkel in her natural habitat at the most recent e. U. Summit here europes longest serving head of government has been forging compromise for 15 years yet there are telltale signs of a chancellor on her final stretch in office what was supposed to be her latest budget speech became a Foreign Policy roadmap largely removed from the nitty gritty of domestic politics and it is that its very easy to be critical of the u. S. Which no longer wants to take on responsibility in the places it used to but 1st information that points back to us here in europe. M. P. s increasingly see merkel focused on her european legacy. Of i believe she is focusing everything on the germany you counsel presidency but that wont be easy that will take more than wanting a successful e. U. China summit in the fall. Harvest it will be a tough program if she wants to celebrate becoming the big european leader and at the end of her chancellorship thats really fire in motion with germanys e. U. Presidency coming up in the 2nd half of 2020 mackall needs to mend the strategically important marriage with france to fulfill her key aim a united europe that can stand up to an increasingly dominant china back home her own party worry that her refusal to actively back a successor could weaken germanys position. Speaking of Political Leadership i think she. Should think about supporting someone so do give us. The germans and the europeans and everybody out there who could play also a role for stability in that someone is still widely tipped to be his successor as party leader anecdotes come Catherine Bell and also defense minister she recently called for a more active role for german troops on the world stage she offers the kind of clarity even merkel fans have lately been missing at the top i see only one deficiency thats the look of a National Strategy which shows france parents about drum and interests and german strengths and weaknesses the current german chancellor isnt a lame duck yet but the clouds of a long goodbye are hanging over her office in berlin its an open secret here that the main reason why angola machall continues to ride out her coalition woes back home is her concern over the stability of the European Union at the same time many are struggling to imagine what a post merkel germany or europe would look like. Illinois has become the 11th u. S. State to legalize cannabis the governor also pardoned thousands of people with convictions for low level drug offenses it became legal at the stroke of midnight. This is the right way for some the excitement was so high that they forgot to show their id from the 1st of january illinois is 21 and older can legally buy up to 30 grams of cannabis as well as cannabis if you use products for many it was worth queuing up in subzero temperatures to get their hands on the states votes legal pot. Super. No i just thought you know to do things like part of history for chicago why not come be a part of it earlier i was up for new years eve so you know its incredible its incredible i just cant believe were finally here im really excited and i know what everybody that i now is really excited as well little surreal i was a little crazy like im walking to the counter and theres here is everywhere and its showing me. Im buying we Legal Cannabis this is just unbelievable with the legalization also come some 700000 pardons for people with low level cannabis convictions and a quarter of the nearly 60000000. 00 projected annual texture of a new will go to communities affected by the war on drugs authorities are open about the economic benefits of the new comers illinois is a stablish in itself as the 1st state in the nation to legalize in a way that truly puts equity 1st illinois joins 10 on the u. S. States and the district of columbia way every creational kind of business legal the u. S. Not caltex agency however still considers cannabis a dangerous substance. That was the day as ever they come to say as it continues online youll find us on twitter to use the help and forget to use the hash tag of the day. For good. After. Enter the conflict zone come from doing the powerful. 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