"What is perceived is an underground tension"

The Australia fire emergency continues and the strong winds and rising temperatures are exacerbating the situation. Winter has been particularly dry, now the vegetation is ready to explode.

This NASA Modis satellite image provided by Maxar shows smoke from wildfires burning in in New South Wales, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. Source: NASA via Satellite image 2019 Maxar Technologies

South Australia, New Sout wales, Queensland and from today also Victoria, Australia's unrelenting bushfire emergency is showing no signs of easing as heatwaves threaten to exacerbate already precarious conditions.

We spoke about the situation in South Australia this morning with Alessandro Vecchiarelli, our cinema expert who was live from Mount Gambier, a city in South Australia near the border with Victoria.

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