You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 8th of January.

Reinforcements are being brought into Los Angeles to fight fires that have forced thousands to flee.

European nations warn that borders must not be altered by force after Donald Trump refuses to rule out military action to take Greenland.

And China steps up relief efforts in the earthquake zone in Tibet.

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This interaction is very new and very healthy and very positive.

It's peaceful interaction.

Even with people we don't agree with, it's amazing and it's never been experienced before.

Civil society activists in Damascus discuss the future of Syria.

The wildfires currently burning in at least three parts of Los Angeles

are so fierce that extra firefighters have been brought in from northern California and Arizona.

The worst of the fires is in the wealthy Pacific Palisades neighborhood

between Santa Monica and Malibu.

At least 30,000 people have been forced to evacuate.

Resident Lynn Levin Guzman told a local TV station

she went to her parents' neighbourhood to hose down their house.

They're 90 years old.

They've lived in this house for 75 years.

There's no words to even describe how heartbreaking, how heartbreaking.

That's your entire life. You don't get that bad. The memories are gone. I hope they're alive.

Mimi Teller from the American Red Cross is at an evacuation center in the city where people

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