From the newsroom of the Washington Post, it's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.

Hosts Sarah Kaplan.

Hi, this is Elias, I'm with the Washington Post.

This is Post Reports.

I am routine powers.

It's Thursday, January 9th.

Today what fires in Australia tell us about climate change.

Trump's success in remaking the judiciary and the unfolding royal drama.

Hundreds of wildfires are burning across the eastern Australia.

These fires are the size of whole countries.

We're talking 26 million acres.

That's nearly 110,000 square miles of land which have been decimated by fire.

The fires have destroyed thousands of homes.

They've decimated wildlife.

The Australian government says that thousands of koalas have been killed.

Australia is already a huge country geographically.

So on top of several years of drought, there's so much fuel in the country that can burn

and these fires have become vicious and ferocious because of the dry material that's

being swept into the path of the fire.

Kate Shuttleworth is a journalist based in Melbourne.

She's been reporting on the fires for the past two months.

I've reported natural disasters, earthquakes in New Zealand and I've reported war.

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