Firefighters hose down trees as they battle against bushfires around the town of Nowra in the Australian state of New South Wales on December 31, 2019. Thousands of holidaymakers and locals were forced to flee to beaches in fire-ravaged southeast Australia on December 31, as blazes ripped through popular tourist areas leaving no escape by land. (Photo by Saeed Khan/AFP Photo)





This handout photo taken on December 29, 2019 and received on December 30 from Victoria's Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) shows a helicopter dumping water on a fire in Victoria's East Gippsland region. Tourists and firefighters were forced to flee vast fires burning in southeastern Australia on December 30, as a heatwave rekindled devastating bush blazes across the country. (Photo by Handout/Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning/AFP Photo)





Burning embers cover the ground as firefighters (back R) battle against bushfires around the town of Nowra in the Australian state of New South Wales on December 31, 2019. Thousands of holidaymakers and locals were forced to flee to beaches in fire-ravaged southeast Australia on December 31, as blazes ripped through popular tourist areas leaving no escape by land. (Photo by Saeed Khan/AFP Photo)





Posters of protesters who have been killed in anti-government demonstrations and their belongings are displayed in Tahrir Square, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, December 30, 2019. (Photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo)





A demonstrator shouts slogans as he attends a protest against a new citizenship law, in Kolkata, December 30, 2019. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Anti-government demonstrators use the flashlights of their mobile phones as they take part in a protest in Edinburgh Place in Hong Kong, China, December 30, 2019. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A French soldier from the “Sentinelle military Operation” stands guard as Interior Minister Castaner (unseen) visits the security forces securing the Eiffel Tower to discuss New Year holiday security measures in Paris, France, 30 December 2019. (Photo by Christophe Petit-Tesson/EPA/EFE)





A woman bows down within a circle of women as they perform an African dance during the Second International Meeting of Women Who Fight, organized by the women of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), in Caracol Morelia, Altamirano municipality, Chiapas state, Mexico, Sunday, December 29, 2019. More than 3,000 women came together in an autonomous Zapatista enclave in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas over the weekend to unite against the patriarchy, violence and capitalism. (Photo by Isabel Mateos/AP Photo)





The Celtic Fire Theatre company PyroCeltica perform in front of Edinburgh Castle Esplanade ahead of a torchlit procession down the Royal Mile during Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations on December 30, 2019. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)





Animal figures on display during Ice Fantasy 2020, a festival of ice sculpture, at the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg, Russia on December 30, 2019. (Photo by Alexander Demianchuk/TASS)





Sikh devotees perform during a religious procession ahead of the birth anniversary of the tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, in Jammu, India, 30 December 2019. Guru Gobind Singh became leader of the Sikhs at age nine and founded the Sikh warrior community called Khalsa. Sikhs celebrate the Guru's birthday on 02 January annually. (Photo by Jaipal Singh/EPA/EFE)





Tourists take a selfie in Red Square decorated for New Year celebrations, with the the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower in the background, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, December 30, 2019. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





Dancers with the Carnaval del Pueblo, a group of performers from Latin and South America, during a preview of London New Year's Day Parade at the Covent Garden Piazza in London, England on December 30, 2019. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images)





Performers gesture, at Holiday's Market near Red Square, decorated for New Year and Orthodox Christmas celebrations in Moscow, Russia, Monday, December 30, 2019. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People watch confetti as it's thrown from the Hard Rock Cafe marquee as part of the annual confetti test ahead of the New Year's Eve ball-drop celebrations in Times Square in New York City, New York, U.S., December 29, 2019. (Photo by Jeenah Moon/Reuters)





Volunteers dressed as Father Frost and Snow Maiden present a gift to a resident of a nursing home on the occasion of the Christmas and New Year holidays, as part of the “Old Age for Joy” charity project, in the village of Sosnovskoye in Omsk region, Russia on December 28, 2019. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Mizuki (L) and Tsubasa take a selfie as they wait to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks at Southbank in Brisbane, Australia, 31 December 2019. (Photo by Dan Peled/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





The 9pm family fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sydney Harbour during New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Tuesday, December 31, 2019. (Photo by Dean Lewins/AAP Image via AP Photo)





New Year's Eve revellers from Asia with Australian flags and balloons in the shape of the new year 2020 in Sydney, Australia on December 31, 2019. (Photo by Richard Milnes/Rex Features/Shutterstock)