Australian inferno

Published: Friday, 13 February 2009, 3:47PM

The fires sweeping across southern Australia have claimed nearly two hundred lives and destroyed entire towns. Tonight looks at the possible causes and asks whether we can expect more extreme natural causesin the future.

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