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Sydney, Australia is ringing in the new year with its world renowned fireworks, but as the country also faces an unprecedented wildfire crisis, many have questioned if these fireworks should be happening at all. The city had to get an exemption from the total fire ban to hold the fireworks show. Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he supports the decision to go ahead with the fireworks, saying the event shows his country s resilience, reports CBS News correspondent Ian Lee. Other supporters cited the money it generates for the economy, but thousands disagree. Amid the country s worst wildfire seasons ever, more than 275,000 adidas originals uomo people s adidas yeezyslide igned a petition to cancel the show, saying cities like Sydney that are already choking in smog from fires didn t need any more smoke in its air.The petition also said the millions of dollars being spent on the fireworks should have gone toward the firefighters battling the flames and used to protect some of the country s devastated wildlife. The fires have destroyed more than 1,000 homes, as well as habitats for koalas and other animals. I think they should just ban them just for this year while this is all happening, one woman said. Just leave it a year, and do it again next year. I think the money should be going to the fires and the adidas campus shoes bush and also the people in the country towns. It s ridiculous, another woman said.University of New Mexico associate professor Matthew Hurtreau, who studies climate and fires, said fireworks Ohgx Former trader gets 14 years prison for LIBOR manipulation
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is ruling out Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s suggestion that three detained American hikers in Iran should be swa stanley thermos pped with Iranian citizens held in the United States.Clinton said Wednesday that the hikers, along with other Americans jailed in Iran, should be released immediately on humanitarian grounds. She said there as there is no basis for their continued detention.Clinton, speaking at the State Department, called the allegations against the hikers and at least two other Americans held in Iran unjust.Her comments came a day after Ahmadinejad suggested in a television interview that the three American hikers be traded for Iranians that Tehran says are currently in U.S. jails.Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were hiking in Iraq s northern Kurdistan region in July when they accidentally crossed the border, their families have said. Iran s foreign minister said in late December that the three would be tried in court, but he did not say when a trial would begin or what the three would be charged with other than to say they had suspicious aims. Earlier, the country s chief prosecutor said th stanley canada ey w stanley cups uk ere accused of spying.Their families say that s ludicrous and last month hired an Iranian attorney to press the case.Ahmadinejad said there were indications they knew they were crossing into Iran. The last time anyone sympathetic saw the three was at the end of October, when Swiss diplomats were granted a short visit. T
Sydney, Australia is ringing in the new year with its world renowned fireworks, but as the country also faces an unprecedented wildfire crisis, many have questioned if these fireworks should be happening at all. The city had to get an exemption from the total fire ban to hold the fireworks show. Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he supports the decision to go ahead with the fireworks, saying the event shows his country s resilience, reports CBS News correspondent Ian Lee. Other supporters cited the money it generates for the economy, but thousands disagree. Amid the country s worst wildfire seasons ever, more than 275,000 adidas originals uomo people s adidas yeezyslide igned a petition to cancel the show, saying cities like Sydney that are already choking in smog from fires didn t need any more smoke in its air.The petition also said the millions of dollars being spent on the fireworks should have gone toward the firefighters battling the flames and used to protect some of the country s devastated wildlife. The fires have destroyed more than 1,000 homes, as well as habitats for koalas and other animals. I think they should just ban them just for this year while this is all happening, one woman said. Just leave it a year, and do it again next year. I think the money should be going to the fires and the adidas campus shoes bush and also the people in the country towns. It s ridiculous, another woman said.University of New Mexico associate professor Matthew Hurtreau, who studies climate and fires, said fireworks Ohgx Former trader gets 14 years prison for LIBOR manipulation
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is ruling out Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s suggestion that three detained American hikers in Iran should be swa stanley thermos pped with Iranian citizens held in the United States.Clinton said Wednesday that the hikers, along with other Americans jailed in Iran, should be released immediately on humanitarian grounds. She said there as there is no basis for their continued detention.Clinton, speaking at the State Department, called the allegations against the hikers and at least two other Americans held in Iran unjust.Her comments came a day after Ahmadinejad suggested in a television interview that the three American hikers be traded for Iranians that Tehran says are currently in U.S. jails.Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were hiking in Iraq s northern Kurdistan region in July when they accidentally crossed the border, their families have said. Iran s foreign minister said in late December that the three would be tried in court, but he did not say when a trial would begin or what the three would be charged with other than to say they had suspicious aims. Earlier, the country s chief prosecutor said th stanley canada ey w stanley cups uk ere accused of spying.Their families say that s ludicrous and last month hired an Iranian attorney to press the case.Ahmadinejad said there were indications they knew they were crossing into Iran. The last time anyone sympathetic saw the three was at the end of October, when Swiss diplomats were granted a short visit. T
