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Raced through this part of new south wales. hes lucky to be alive. next minute, i looked up, and i didnt see any flame. i saw this great white ball of fire. thats all i can describe it is just a white hot ball of fire. i had to drive up that driveway, and by the time i got up to our bottom gate, the entire driveway was lit up with fire, both sides. parts of sydney have also been threatened. the fires are an unpredictable enemy. no—one knows for sure when, where or if they will strike. australi...

To our bottom gate, the entire driveway was lit up with fire on both sides. parts of sydney have also been threatened. the fires are an unpredictable enemy. no—one knows for sure when, where or if they will strike. australia is fighting back, but its impossible to tell when the battle will be over. phil mercer, bbc news, kangaroo valley. the headlines on bbc news: hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in iran to mourn the assassinated military leader, general soleimani. president...

Unpredictable enemy. no—one knows for sure when, where or if they will strike. australia is fighting back, but its impossible to tell when the battle will be over. phil mercer, bbc news, kangaroo valley. a british person will emit more carbon in the first two weeks of this year than a person in seven african countries emit in an entire year. thats the finding from 0xfam whove released a report revealing the huge inequalities at the heart of the climate emergency. they say it shows that while t...

Lives have been turned upside down. in kangaroo valley, ken stewart lost his home to the fires that raced through this part of new south wales. he is lucky to be alive. next minute, i looked up. i didnt see any flame. i saw this great white ball of fire. thats all i can describe is just white hot ball of fire. i had to drive up that driveway, and by the time i got up to our bottom gate, the entire driveway was lit up with fire on both sides. parts of sydney have also been threatened. the fires a...

Its not for them to tell me to not cover my face. got a now £90 fine — there you go, look at that! thanks, lads! £90! well done! he was caught up in the last of ten trials carried out by the metropolitan police. the met have had successes — there were three arrests from facial recognition on this test day alone — but the trials have proved controversial. 0pponents claim they are taking place in a legal vacuum. there is nothing in uk law that has the words "facial recognition". there is n...

Whats your suspicion? the fact that hes walked past clearly marked... i would do the same! it gives us grounds to stop him and verify... no, it doesnt! the police said this was disorderly behaviour, so they gave him a fine. the chap told me down the road, he said theyve got facial recognition. so i walk past like that — its a cold day as well. as soon as ive done that, the police officers asked me to come to them. so got my back up, i said to him, bleep off, basically. i dont want my face show...

Parts of sydney have also been threatened. the fires are an unpredictable enemy. no—one knows for sure when, where or if they will strike. australia is fighting back, but its impossible to tell when the battle will be over. phil mercer, bbc news, kangaroo valley. at the same time as those fires rage in south—east australia, extreme weather has been unfolding 3,500 miles away in indonesia, where floods have killed 60 people and displaced thousands from the capital, jakarta. duncan kennedy rep...

>> it is as devastating as it looks. at times it seems like it is the night in the middle of the day. this orange glow on the horizon much of the time. yesterday we were standing under this huge cloud of smoke and it was creating its own thunderstorm. you would hear the rumble. we saw video of some flames that were so powerful on kangaroo island that it created its own fire twisters. this is the other thing that is disturbing the behavioral analysts, the people who study the fire to figure out w...

Fire patterns yesterday was that even those who are tasked with trying to understand the behavior of how the fires move said they had no idea what was going to happen. the winds kicked up into the evening. at times reaching 80 miles per hour opinion and that, of course, embers flying and new fires were starting. in one case, one of the biggest wildfires in this area jumped over the river igniting new fires on the other side and putting entire neighborhoods under threat. officials were then going...

Conversation to deescalate tensions. >> and congressman, secretary of state pompeo also said, while on the surnday talk shows, members of congress would be briefed this week. as a member of the foreign affairs committee, what do you hope to learn? what questions do you want answered? >> we want to know exactly what the imminent threat was, how this decision was made, who made this decision, and hes not going to be able to duck those questions. president trump is not going to be able to duck thos...