Australia Bushfires Mega blaze likely on Friday evening | English BBC News | Everyday Big News

Australia Bushfires Mega blaze likely on Friday evening | English BBCNews | Everyday Big News

Australian bushfires:

well, let me bring you the latest on the Australian bushfires authorities are urging people living in areas that are under threat to leave or risk becoming trapped that warning.

Has extra urgency because more hot dry weather is coming we know in Victoria a state of disaster has been declared and these are the fire warnings there are red.

Extreme orange is severe and yellow is very high so almost the entire state is affected by that I want to update you on Kangaroo Island it's just off the coast of South Australia.

The situation there is pressing as you can see from this image the armies now being called in soldiers are knocking on doors telling people to leave.

This is the latest fire map on the island areas that have already been burnt out and marked in blue the area in red is where an emergency.

The warning is in place yellow means watch an act that means an emergency nearby and to be vigilant the mayor of Kangaroo Island has been tweeting about the situation saying the fire is still roaring and a few kilometers from the airport we are dead beat he says more broadly fires are burning out of control across three states.

In the southeast of the country across Australia, 27 people have been killed and more than 2,000 homes have been destroyed the prime minister says the threat is far from over.

I would encourage all Australians to continue to follow the advice of authorities to keep being kind to each other as the way you are thank you for your generosity and your support all levels of government will keep working to ensure that we come through this together by staying together let's turn to a place called Nowra.

In New South Wales Lucy Hawkins is there are over a hundred fires still burning here in New South Wales so there's a real concern about what the hot windy weather will bring in the next few days fires are a the natural part of Australian life,

But everyone here has been shocked by the ferocity of this year's season architect.

Nick Turner spent years designing and building a beautiful garden and home in the Kangaroo Valley he knew that this day would one day come he sheltered with eight of his neighbors in his home and watched a cyclonic firestorm head towards his house,

This is the story of how he and his neighbors survived and his home we save the house and the house saved us and that was a nexus that if it had broken at any point would have meant that we would have perished.

There was like if you're you know a very big thunderstorm but instead of sheets of water, it was sheets of embers and look like fire as a glow through the air.

The horizontal rain was horizontal burning pieces of wood flying through the air and leaves and the strength of the wind was just incredibly well next to a place called tom Iran.

In New South Wales Jonathan's head is there in the fire bleached bush along Australia's southeastern coast Gary Simpson's backyard has taken a beating some of his tallest trees badly charred have had to be felled and dragged a safe distance from his house,

He's been clearing up ever since a raging fire swept through last Saturday and preparing for more fires once the weather heats up again this was what was happening,

Here last the weekend the whole forest around his the house was ablaze at one stage I said this doesn't look good this whole area is it a wash with flames. It’s a pretty scary feeling yeah it can be scary yeah most definitely,

We’ve been very lucky we saved the houses were people down there down the coast on the south coast of New South Wales have been completely devastated it they've got only the clothes that they standing and that's a horrible the thing, of course,

There's and the urgency at the moment because of the fires continue to burn but some of the problems being created they're going to take years to resolve next we go to a town called Batlow.

Again in New South Wales, it was hit last weekend and at least 17 houses were lost this is one farmer in the area that's the most distressing.

The thing I think for most farmers is the loss of livestock we had just a small group of 140 sheep we lost half of them we had to shoot a few ourselves the veterinary services euthanized another 30 they were very kind and got us to stay up with up the house and we counted the gunshots as they finished.

He off our neighbor had 50 odd cows he's got three left well this bushfire crisis has put huge attention on Australia's fossil fuel the industry there's no doubt that

this the crisis is so severe in part because of Australia has been getting hotter across the last century and that shift is caused by global climate change which in turn is caused by human behavior not least emissions from fossil fuels,

And they're worth a lot to Australia you can see from this graphic it's the third biggest fossil fuel exporter in the world.

Coals exports will export were worth more than 47 billion US dollars in the last financial year and the industry provides around 50,000 jobs.

The governing coalition led by the Liberal Party is seeking what Prime Minister Scott Morrison calls a balance between reducing emissions and supports in the industry for the Liberals,

That means a number of things including the government signing off a nuke further north from New South Wales in Queensland that then resources minister.

At the time argued that there was a strong moral case for exporting coal to developing countries so if that's export then there's domestic energy use this is a recent report from the clean energy counts or the renewable energy Lobby telling us that fossil fuels made up 79% of Australia's total electricity generation in 2018 the equivalent figure in the UK was about 40%.

If that's the government's approach well this is the leader of the opposition Labor Party the road to a low-carbon future can be paved with literally hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs as well as supporting traditional jobs including coal mining clean energy jobs coal jobs all around we'll see this is from the organization carbon brief.

It has an analysis of all of the parties’ policies on energy and climate change from last year's election in its labor confirm the inevitability of transition from coal.

It says we need a plan to support workers and communities affected for there's little detail on how it will force through the move away from fossil fuels.

 It’s been keen to be seen to be supportive of coal here's a picture released by the Minerals Council of Australia showing for Labor.

MPs getting a tour of some mines last year as in many other places in the world short-term politics and long-term climate policy still sit uneasily in Australia both parties appear in their different ways familiar with trying to have your cake and eating it too as for the minerals Council of Australia we asked for an interview but it declined.