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trump says he'll announce his decision on the iran nuclear deal on tuesday. north carolina from london also coming up with a party of lebanon's sunni prime minister loses a third of its seats in parliament as hezbollah and its allies make major gains. as relatives mourn of sixteen year old girl who was raped and burnt alive in india a second teenager fights for her life after a similar attack. and more residents are told to leave their homes immediately to avoid toxic gas from hawaii is erupting volcano. and her u.s. president or trump says he'll announce his decision on whether to extend the iran

nuclear deal at eight hundred g.m.t. on tuesday earlier britain's foreign secretary appeared on trump's favorite morning t.v. show urging him not to pull out of turn fifteen agreement on white house correspondent kimberly health reports. after months of diplomacy and high level meetings at the white house between the us president at his counterparts in france germany and on monday the foreign secretary of the u.k. donald trump announced he had finally bade his decision trump tweeted he would make his decision public on tuesday whether to withdraw the united states from the iran nuclear agreement. the announcement follows a last minute effort by u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson to persuade try to keep the u.s. within the deal even with top trumpet ministry including secretary of state mike pump aoe but not donal. trump in the absence of a presidential meeting johnson penned an editorial in the new york times newspaper

and has been appearing on multiple u.s. t.v. networks urging trump to remain in the agreement he would be tougher on iran but not throw away that the the heart of the deal which is all about stopping them getting a nuclear weapon the deal was negotiated in twenty fifty and under the administration of u.s. president barack obama and included other european countries as well as russia and china it's designed to contain iran's nuclear program for civilian use only. trouble was to get out of the deal unless it's fixed to address iran's missile program a tehran's other military activities in the region on monday on twitter he called the deal a mess and criticized the man who helped negotiate it former secretary of state john kerry along with the president trump advisor rudolph giuliani is also criticizing kerry and what they call his shattered diplomacy this follows media

reports kerry recently met with the iranian foreign minister job as a reef at the united nations i don't think that we would take advice from somebody who created what the president sees to be one of the worst deals ever made is the latest signal us president donald trump is preparing to withdraw from the iran deal still france britain and germany have indicated they'll remain in the agreement regardless of the u.s. decision kimberly healthy at al-jazeera at the white house when iran's president says his country would also remain committed to the agreement even if the u.s. pulls out. your own chimay are down about a john me haul him regarding the nuclear agreements if our interests and objectives are protected by other parties to the agreement except america and we will be committed to it if america leaves the agreement it will not mean anything actually it will mean that the agreement got rid of evil that used to live inside it however if our objectives and interests are not protected we will choose our way if

america's goal is to weaken iran we confirm we will face that forcefully and with no hesitation or going back any american mistake or miscalculation will be met with a strong response that will make it regret it and feel like he is committed a strategic mistake. south korea set to continue as lebanon's prime minister under the sectarian power sharing system despite his party losing a third of its seats preliminary results from sunday's election show the share party has bought up and its allies with more than half the seats in parliament so no one has more from beirut. there was a clear winner at eleven on election. hezbollah and its political allies won the majority of seats in parliament it's being seen by some as a victory for iran the shiite group is backed by to her and it's the only lebanese

party that has an armed wing and its electoral games further empowers it politically hezbollah's leader called for cooperation. and. before the poll i stressed that there is a reality in lebanon and that is that no one can eliminate the other even if we have disagreements we want political stability we need to cooperate. the general elections was a loss for lebanon odds prime minister saddle had heads the largest bloc in the legislature but he still retains the majority of seats allocated to seventy muslims how did he faced opposition from within his own community have accused him of being too lenient with hezbollah which is fighting in neighboring syria when asked if he plans to change that approach the prime minister said the focus should be on development and improving the lebanese economy. i disagree with them on many issues and will continue to disagree with them but

what do i told the lebanese people will be stop working on services like electricity water roads and instead focus on political challenge levanon can't handle political crises. how did he clearly indicating his willingness to continue working with his political rivals he has led a national unity government since late two thousand and sixteen a cabinet that includes members of hezbollah. and the last election in two thousand and nine it was the pro western approach saudi alliance headed by saddle that won the majority of seats in parliament since then iran's influence has been growing not just here in lebanon but across the region and it has been at the expense of saudi arabia. saudi arabia used to play a big role in lebanese politics. for the better. i would be i was busy with other conflicts in the region like came out of the war there is a priority for riyadh. saudi arabia was aware that there are laws in lebanon were

no longer united and they couldn't be a force to confront his followers but riyadh would not leave the ground for iran. for now however there is little indication that lebanon is heading towards political instability lebanese politicians are talking about putting their differences aside and uniting now that the collection is over. beirut. nigeria's army says it's rescued more than a thousand book captives the hostages were saved from several villages in borno state. is in a state capital my degree. the one thousand people who have been rescued by the military actually rescued were actually rescued along round the bomb area which is on the fringes of the some piece of forest we've known and have heard of boko haram flight is trying to infiltrate that particular area and they've extended actually they reach into neighboring adam our state where some book or i'm suicide bombers

detonated bombs last weekend killing at least fifty people in the town of movie they've also from that particular area extended their reach into cameroon so the point is actually members of the multinational joint task force that comprises soldiers from cameroon nigeria and chad republic as well as being a republic which is not directly affected by book white and yet it's contributing forces to the fight against book around now that operation is called named operation d. point it's holding simultaneously as the army or regional forces launched another operation called operation last fall of on the shores of the lake chad targeting particular islands why they suspect that book quote unquote is are holed up in a caring from where they're carrying attacks now with that particular faction a book is actually are like to this next eight in west africa a group that the military in the region is trying to see that they've been denied access to arms and ammunition and freedom to operate in that part of the lake chad

region a section of south sudan's a position has formally rejoining the ruling party for the first time since civil war broke out in twenty thirty first vice president and former a physician chairman. and asked news ahead of peace talks to be held in attendance time the government hopes the parties rienzi. health advance the peace talks. capital. now we have the opposition under requests are still fighting the government but we have the forces under taliban during which ever since he became first vice president has been fighting much us forces basically he's been fighting the io which splits from the from the faction now we have them we have the io under taliban dan and we have the i under rick much are still fighting each other now they are you under taliban has the government to fight with them along with them there but there's still so many coalitions fighting out there there is that the national opposition alliance and they're still fighting the government as well

which makes it very hard to see how despite the the opposition under joining the government makes it very hard to see how they can try to bring together the other factions of the s.p.l. them to join being the current ruling party and try to end south sudan civil war obviously this war has been going on for four or five years more than a quarter of the country's twelve million population has been displaced and more than half of the population are in need of food aid will this will this reification and the conflict would be to be hard to see seeing that there are many other factions also involved but it could be a great step in trying to bring together or making at least making reunification attractive to the rest of the parties by weakening them and making it seem like there is nothing to fight for if you have a stronger coalition in the government at least six people have been killed in saudi led coalition strikes in yemen the raids targeted the presidential office in sana'a which is controlled by hoofing rebels could be fighting the saudi led coalition says twenty fifty. three for the protests only yemeni on.

demanding the withdrawal of troops really not arab emirates with one hundred eighty soldiers arrived last week pushing yemen's own forces to kill occasions that are reports. calling for troops from the united arab emirates to leave the island of subcultural. the people who live here say the north who rebels on the island that means your forces have no reason to stay in iraq his soldiers turned up forcing all too many troops and taking over some strategic locations they say it's part of the oil production to block forces loyal to exile be a mini president of the rebel man sort of hard. so-called troy is a world heritage site known for its unique and pristine watch from bottom and it's located just off the coast of somalia with access to major shipping routes the head of a provincial council e.-m. and ses the u.a.e. soldiers should leave. these forces are

present in sick otter are in volumes that can't be understood there are illegitimate troops in these areas are there forces that belong to the who ts to be fought by the coalition here the answer is a big no. yemen swore pits iranian backed rebels in the north against troops loyal to exile president hadi the uys part of a soda led coalition the stepped in three years ago to support hardy whose power base is in the southern city of other that's where the u.a.e. has been growing its influence funding and training armed yemeni groups now the u.a.e. is on the island of psychiatrists. yemen's prime minister said he's not to deployment there is an assault on human suffering to these protesters agree they also wanted the island unic would be destroyed to. muhammad i don't know. still to come this off while many iraqis doubt their first general election since the fall of our so will help lift them out of poverty. and after

a long walk through the corridors of power from a church in this one in preschool time is russia's president. hello there we've got lots of sunshine over many parts of europe at the moment it's in the north where the brightest weather isn't this is what it looks like in the northern parts of france everybody they're going to the beach huts and we've also got plenty of sunshine over a cross in belarus as well it was a glorious there but that sunshine is slowly being nibbled away we've got this area of cloud here that's working its way in from the atlantic making things cooler and also at times roll the wet and we've also got more unsettled weather in the south and not spreading so for more of us on tuesday we'll see those showers that we gradually drifting their way through parts of spain as well and all the way up

towards the east into parts of russia and then more of us will see their showers even as we head through wednesday they'll be pushing further north into poland into germany and we'll also see some in the southern parts of spain as well so all of that sunshine is gradually becoming confined to the far north across the other side of the mediterranean there is plenty of sunshine here but also a few areas of cloud a few showers perhaps over parts in morocco as well this area of cloud over libya that's gradually drifting its way eastwards and it will be picking up a fair amount of dust in haze as it does so i was well so hot along the north coast of egypt in libya but certainly to fifty. fresh perspectives new possibilities. thinnest jenison just one of the rooms that you have to understand little or hospital looks like with debates and discussion so what do you make of that copper terry misinformation

just since the rumors of false messages when he played graham's take you on it jenny around the globe. only on the mount is the. amount of top stories here on out or is there a us president donald trump says he'll announce his decision on whether to extend the iran you could do at eight hundred g.m.t. on tuesday days before the current agreement expires. saad hariri appears that to continue as lebanon's prime minister despite his party's poor showing in sunday's

elections shia party has been a major gains. and the nigerian army says it's rescued more than a thousand captives from several villages in borno state. a seventeen year old girl is in critical condition after allegedly being gang raped and set on fire in india a man has been arrested in connection with the attack that happened in eastern jharkhand state on the same day as a sixteen year old girl was murdered that she was also raped and burned alive and they suspect himself in the first degree burns to seventy percent of her body. meanwhile india's supreme court has ordered that the trial of eight hindu men accused of raping and killing an eight year old muslim go be moved to another state after the family's lawyer said they were. facing death threats. and twenty five thousand rape cases reported across injured twenty twelve this job i nearly sixty percent in just four years to forty thousand by twenty sixteen the conviction rate

for a best of for in the past forty years was forty four percent in one hundred seventy three to twenty seven percent in twenty thirty only one in four trials leads to a conviction in india and many cases go on reported because of the stigma attached to rape and sexual assault to talk more about this with yes i mean her son is the global executive director of equality and international adverts a group for women's rights based in new york thanks very much indeed for being with us in india promise emerged response has been criticized over this or do you think needs to happen to improve these statistics. well i think a lot needs to be happy needs to happen this is not a recent problem as you know in twenty twelve we had the rape of the young girl in the bus that led to her death which was very shocking and it galvanized the entire international community in addition to all the women's rights groups and other human rights groups in india after that you know very many report came out the

government of india took that very seriously looked at its legal system looked at what the gaps were and the challenges were to address this and some amendments have taken place that was completely revamped and now it's a much stronger law with a bigger definition of rape harsher penalties for rapists and you know more and more aspects of what women experience as rape have been put into the law but what hasn't happened is all the procedural changes were police guidelines to reporting the forensics guidelines you know how prosecutors take a case on so there's a lot to be done there and i am very disappointed with the current government's response to these three recent cases of rape but it is not surprising to me because if you remember had been the chief minister of good rock when the riots happened in two thousand and two against muslim community and there were one thousand people killed the whole police system did not work did not protect these people and

a lot of women were gang raped and they were prevented from filing cases at that time their cases in court and it again the government had to move those cases from good to supreme court had to move the cases from good drought to mumbai for justice to be done in one of those cases so it is not surprising to me what we're also seeing is the b j p government is complicit in being silent or even actively complicit in some of the rape cases in twenty seventeen we had a case where a young girl was raped by a member of the legislative assembly you know now and it took her father was then imprisoned and basically killed in prison the girl almost threatened to set herself and. fire outside the chief minister's office and that's when they took steps another member of the same political party in twenty fifteen predation called for people to dig up muslim women and rape their bodies and rape them so there's a culture there is the hindu nationalist government is almost stoking nationalism

hindu superiority and calling for these you know rapes of minority girls and believe girls i mean you really are going to intervene if you know india but i mean promise to murder originally was criticized for not using the word rape and then when he was in london he did say rape is rape but he did say also the issue should be politicized that it shouldn't be a question of counting up the rapes on the one government or not that it was everybody's responsibility do you think he is now. to try to sort this out we will see if he's on board i think it took a lot of international pressure to get him on board i know christine legarde called him out from the i.m.f. when he was in london people protested initially his response to all of these is let them let's ignore them and they will go away and given that there is a government complicity almost in the silence i think that his government needs to do a lot more first speak out about it and then ensure that the justice system really

functions for justice to be done in these cases because otherwise there is no deterrence these are going to go on and my other point was india has also fallen from number eighty seven under the gender equality index that's been done by the world economic forum that was in twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen there were number one hundred eight out of one hundred forty four countries so you are going downhill there and it really behooves this government to take action years later so i thank you very much indeed for you. thank you you. thank. iraqis go to the polls on sunday for the first general election since the fall of arsal years of war and political instability have left towns in ruins and the economy in decline and as imran khan reports from baghdad many iraqis doubt this vote will help reduce poverty levels. the locals call this the slums of thought it directs the name of this area in northeastern baghdad. it's one giant rubbish tip nestled into the poles of garbage lives some of iraq's poorest poverty rates are on the

rise to the extent the politicians and are paying attention a turning it into a campaign issue ahead of the general election in may. according to the ministry of planning poverty now affects thirty five percent of the population. the alley family lives amongst the rubbish they try and sell what recyclable goods they can find god them used to be the main income earner but he was injured in a bomb blast in a local market in two thousand and six and suffers from brain trauma and partial paralysis the family lives in constant fear of being thrown out of the slum. of the how the fish and then there's no future for the children living like this we all wish to have a decent house even if the government would give us land and we'd build it we would make ends meet we don't know when or if the authorities will kick us out where i'm going to. despite election fever gripping the capital potential voters are not

convinced politicians a serious about tackling issues such as poverty. i'm pessimistic there's a lot of wrong doing journalism in campaign there are many corrupt candidates compare with decent ones i'm not accusing all of them of being bad but the majority are. however those running for election say they can and will make a difference. according to many of our friends and other segments from the society including us who are running for the elections campaign everyone is optimistic and we all hope that new faces will emerge and that we are progressing towards a brighter future. those words will be met with caution from iraq's poorest who feel that they've been forgotten left to fend for themselves and don't have any representation in iraq's political system whoever wins the election on may twelfth reaching out to iraq's poorest will be a challenge in. baghdad officials in hawaii and warning more residents to

evacuate after a new fish from man can away a volcano opened up on sunday night officials spewed lava seventy meters into the air a new cracks opened on a highway in a nanny state joins us live from in hawaii so rob scary isn't it. certainly is lauren very much so especially for the people who live here i mean it's not far from the active lava so we're on the grounds of a church where. civil defense and other social agencies of the government have set up in order to provide information and help to people who have been displaced and people who need more information at the moment the latest count of buildings destroyed is thirty five most of those those are homes some of them are not but thirty five buildings destroyed and ten active lava vents and i'd like to bring in

now our guest major jeff hit been major thanks very much for speaking with us so you're with the whole why the national guard what's the latest on the situation major who are thankful that all the public has been helping and listening to the rules and regulations that are out there right now the lava has slowed down it's not creeping as much as it was two days ago went from mine structures to over twenty so it's a lot slower the riff song has has subsided it's not increasing very much and as far as what the public can do is still monitor the internet and newscasts to see what the latest information is and what is being done for people who've been displaced by the government agencies well the number one thing is you saw right behind you is the resource center for residents of the lonny estates we've also had a town hall meeting where one of the overwhelming points was they want to be able to get back in to their homes because their neighborhood is blocked and they wanted to pull out more belongings so they've been asking for that and that was one of the

big things we've been doing is allowing the residents back inside and neighborhood under strict watch a strict timeline and under police supervision to grab their items and they get back out maybe you could to tell us a little bit about the volunteerism of the community members and others that you've seen the big island of hawaii is is full of great people and they have had their share tsunamis hurricanes earthquakes and now lava flows. in two thousand and fourteen and today what the public is doing to help their neighbors is they're bringing shocks and larger vehicles to assist those who live in the lonny estates to have small vehicles and they're not able to take out as many personal items as they need and these trucks are volunteering in so they can take out more of their personal items to keep great things thank you very much major vick minute reprieve sheet that update so that is the latest on the situation here the eruption of mt killer way at thirty five homes destroyed and about two thousand people displaced made refugees in hawaii and we will of course have further updates on

this situation as things develop for now laurent back to you over those thank you very much indeed. for having me pushing has been sworn in for another six year term as russia's president has now been in power for eighteen years including a four yes palace prime minister to bypass the limits on consecutive presidential terms or a challenge of course moscow. it was a long walk so bloody near putin's inauguration broadcast live and step by step on russian state t.v. through endless kremlin corridors he's walked for eighteen years admiring the pictures along the way downstairs across hallways finally him to the brights moscow may sunshine and a drive in a brand the russian made limousine. at last he entered the kremlin's ornate alexander roski hall where dignitaries were waiting but still the american wasn't over finally on to the podium to deliver the type of oratory the presidents the

world over to live or on inauguration day when. taking office as president of russia i'm acutely aware of my colossal responsibility to each and every one of us a multinational population most sponsibility to russia a country of great victories and achievements to the fowls and year history of the russian state and our ancestors humility and the thanks expressed so then a pledge to all russians below obviously just as head of state i will do everything to increase the strength prosperity and glory of russia in order to meet to surtees demands and justify the hopes of our country's people following the biggest election win of his career but he may have putin is perhaps as secure in office as he's ever been he has no meaningful political opposition despite the arrest of thousands of anti-government protesters and his critics he's cultivated a father of the nation type persona but though the sun shines cloud still gather on

the horizon. once the carefully choreographed the out tricks of a glorious inauguration ceremony have faded from memory problem a person will have to address two key questions one is what happens next at the end of this six years when constitutionally he has to step aside from the presidency and also can he continue to use an assertive foreign policy to distract us from russia's persistent social and economic problems political analyst dmitri already has his doubts. but he's called native dissonance we've been raised from our knees therefore we should live better but instead we live worse that means putin will have to restore the economy but the economy has its own restrictions russia has lost its status as a reliable borrower investment is slowing and hampered by sanctions domestic business prefers to flee. and as for what happens in six years time no one yet knows in two thousand and eight putin temporarily swapped jobs with prime minister

dmitry medvedev to sidestep the constitutional limits theoretically he could repeat the trick in twenty twenty four he's just announced manipulative is staying on as prime minister whether putin does or doesn't if you believe putinism lens where his presidential term finishes allen's al-jazeera moscow. one of the top stories of nigeria u.s. president donald trump says he'll announce his decision on whether to extend the iran nuclear deal at eight hundred g.m.t. on tuesday just days before the current agreement expires iran's president says his country will remain committed to the agreement even if the u.s. pulls out. your own share more data about a john me call him regarding the nuclear agreements if our interests and objectives are protected by other parties to the agreement except america then we will be committed to it if america leaves the agreement it will not mean anything actually

it will mean that the agreement got rid of evil that used to live inside it however if our objectives and interests are not protected we will choose our way if america's goal is to weaken iran we confirm that we will face that forcefully and with no hesitation or going back any american mistake or miscalculation will be met with a strong response that will make it regret it and feel like he is committed a strategic mistake. said harry reid is to continue as lebanon's prime minister under the sectarian power sharing system despite his party's poor performance in sunday's polls harry says his future movement as lost a third of its seats preliminary results show hizbollah and his allies winning more than half the seats in parliament. we wish to have a better result we wish to have a better representation with morse. christian representatives but we have all seen that the future movement was fighting for the last minute to defend our legitimacy being one of the main components of national unity in the country today we have

a new era a new phase today we have challenges i will stay on top of the future bloc and i will work on all levels the national political and economic levels being supported by the voters and everyone has seen that in all parts of the country the nigerian army has confirmed it's rescued more than a thousand book captives the hostages were safe from several villages in borno state thank you to young men who've been forced to become fighters for the group that's it for me up next it's talk to al-jazeera after that. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places to get. you. will. see. the for more than four and a half years iranian refugee. has been living in limbo on a remote specific island he was sent there by australia he tried to reach its shores by boat. it was

a prison. because. the. in the war. you really see it as torture. was a journalist in iran publishing stories promoting the kurdish language and culture to colleagues were arrested and accused of undermining the iranian state. he'd be next he fled for australia. tens of thousands of others have gone before him thanks smugglers to take them across the sea from in the knees ear to the australian territory of christmas island between two thousand and nine and twenty thirteen more than fifty thousand people have made similar journeys most of them ultimately were allowed to settle as refugees in australia but in australia people were alarmed at the growing number of refugees coming by boat they watched horrified as

some boat sank or were smashed against rocks on trying to land in the midst of an election campaign in july twenty thirty australia's government announced a radical policy. people who come by boat now have no prospect of being resettled in australia the rules have changed if you come here by boat you'll be sent to papa new guinea australia's government had done a deal with papua new guinea once it's colony but now an independent country in exchange for billions of dollars p.m.g. would accommodate refugees who try to reach australia until at the very least their claims to be refugees were decided combined with australia's navy turning back boats at sea the deportation policy was about to terence if settlement in australia was denied to anyone arriving as australia's government saw it illegally by boat who in future would try the chinese boat was see when the new policy was announced

it arrived on christmas island four days later on the chinese thirtieth birthday four weeks later he was deported to mount a silent in papua new guinea he's been there ever since the nearly five years and it's from a man of silent that he talks to al-jazeera. for johnny thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera can we start with why you left iran back in twenty thirteen you know i fell in trouble with the government so. i were i hide myself or both more than amongst. you know friend. after that. i received some information. that's they are going through i just need. some action so i decided to leave iran so. i. came

forth. australia's government says its policy was and is necessary to deter what it's called illegal immigration it is question the motives of those arriving by boat asking why they didn't claim asylum in countries they travel through before getting on boats to australia it is suggested that those who come by boat are economic migrants rather than refugees genuinely fleeing persecution that their refusal to accept a permanent life in papua new guinea or on the tiny island nation of the route shows that their real aim is and always was life in a wealthy developed country not just a safe one it says the refugees life or exaggerate with stories of poor conditions in australian run the tension centers on malice and the root ultimately australia's government says tough policies against uncontrolled migration unnecessary to allow generosity towards refugees through a managed process bestrode in support record numbers of people coming through the

migration program and humanitarian program when governments have proper control of the process i don't want to give up their process and the right to decide who comes to our country to people smugglers so you left iran and you decided to go to australia yeah i actually want to do you do that journey you know i float in the news your i phone the smuggler that he told me that i am going to send you straight why did you not stay in indonesia you were out of iran yet you were not going to be perceived by authorities there why not stay in indonesia. at that point the first place you got to apply for asylum through the u.n.h.c.r. some of the refugees they were i guess the police in the news you know produced and they deported them and they didn't ask them question just be honest with them and deported them because so many refugees learn nothing where in new york so the

government wanted you know and deported them went back to iran yeah and they send them back to iran so you decided it wasn't safe to be an internet you're working on three air really was not safe for me and i decided to come to australia it took about how much did you pay for that journey i parried about five thousand dollars here and the first words in the boat after. forty eight hours song and i found myself on the ocean. that was very scary and a slump for a vote there that the matter could. would that was on the ocean on the water after that. ship came there. fishman and they took me from the water. after that i was on the

ship for about two days and they called the police and police came you know they put me in the jail i was in the jail for and i after that i use a cape and they went to jack carter. after two weeks i started to come to australia again so that was a very big decision. because the journey on the ocean is very tenuous and so many people die so i experience said i want to experience that then yeah some of the refugees they don't know that then yet but i want to experience so in second time when i started to come through this trail you know it's meaning that i didn't feel. safe in indonesia and i thought that i must go to a strange one i must you know leave this country because it was not safe for me and

you landed on christmas island on the twenty third of july twenty third saying that was four days after australia's government changed their policy the rules have changed how did they tell you that news would be coming to us you know i didn't know that was really a make believe i was on the ocean because i. i were both last week and we came to australia on sixteen july. was supposed to arrive to christmas island after two days what our boat get lost and we were lost for a week and when we arrived to a train. was twenty three july exactly my best thing. when we arrived there they put us in a place like some crazy place and they didn't allow us to call our family we were there for about twenty day. after twenty. they.

told us they just told us that you must go to. uni so for twenty days i thought that i arrived in australia as a. free country so i didn't know that after twenty days they say. we are going to examine your two month sign and you must leave there. or you will back to your country do you understand why australia's government felt stain the no i have been thinking of these for more than forty years and they cannot understand why they are torturing people. they say australia's government more than fifty thousand people came just before you more boats were coming all the time as you say and you almost experienced more than a thousand people drowned at sea that had to stop and this policy has stopped that

people no longer come by boat so while. every sympathy for you in your situation can you understand the need for the broader policy now i can understand because i think that sending people to the island like not on montana you know even prevalent about complex radio but it's a main lobby and then thought yet the main reason was that they then backed the boats to indonesia a slightly summit say and i pushed them away so the people in indonesia or the refugees in malaysia or in middle east or their countries they are not watching us that when we get freedom. they come to australia the main reason is that they then bank the boat. then bang the boat down the people. they the refugees they think if we go to australia we will lose our money and we will

you know have a very risky journey and maybe we arrive there. and they send us back so the main reason is that the main reason is not them they send people to. a monastery on do you understand why australia feels it needs to control its borders a former prime minister of australia famously said that we will decide who comes to our country and the manner in which they come that was john howard back in two thousand and one that is a very reasonable thing to say isn't it in order to be an open country in order to have high levels of immigration as australia does it needs to know that it is controlling its borders that's fair isn't it you know i am not in a position to make this isn't always true in your home or give advice to them you know i am a refugee so i don't think about. this that was three years trying to protect

its borders the main important thing is i myself and these people that we have been in prison camp. for more than forty years for their first three years on manis the refugees were kept in what australia's government called a processing center half an hour away from the island's main town with high fences and god's refugees weren't allowed out nor visitors in those inside considered it a prison in twenty sixteen happy new guinea's opposition leader took a case to the country supremes court arguing that the refugees detention was illegal under the constitution the court agreed and to comply with the ruling the government made the center an open facility refugees still live there who could come and go freely in october twenty seventh seen the sense it was completely shut down guard medical and support staff left power and water supplies were

disconnected but most refugees refused to leave for three weeks they lived in the former prison surviving on rain water and food. smuggled in by sympathetic locals. no money for. they are ready for the refugees the siege was a protest a chance to make a stand but in late november papua new guinea and police a victim by force some refugees were hit with sticks and dragged on to buses and there are those barriers that was your home for for not years since and has to know it is very a strange feeling when i. was recently australia's government always said it was never a person it was a regional processing center what was it to you for. it is a prison it was a prison you know their policy was to create hate you know they were happy that people in man's free zone helped

australia to forget those ten years so the established this policy and they were running the prison camp late these are interesting thing i would like to say one. request and i asked them to give me and amassed a strange young enough i want to put me in the war because of my worth i understand no. you cannot have with radium i can't go to australia because yeah that's the i don't want to go through you're just saying one four hundred they would like you. in the wrong me what was life like in the three weeks off with when you were refusing to leave really as a protest moment i think yes you know that was one of their own and you know i myself i experienced that because i was born in war. and was in loco war zone but in some ways we were happy. because we were all thought.

systematic torture we were you know there are officers who are not. you know there were there was a little tonally you were in charge of your own lives and yeah yeah we were trying our of our life during the siege and the of action he tweeted in fact ever since being sent to mount a speech on his campaign relentlessly against the policy that sent him there and has kept him there he's kept up his journalism using mobile phone credit paid for by sympathetic or straightly and he tweets prolifically he writes an online newspaper column in the guardian which in november one him and amnesty international media awards but jani has even shot a film on his phone edited by a dutch director the resulting movie about life a man of silent has been shown at film festivals around the world he's now working on writing a play and a book he was very successful you have become prolific you have

a column in the guardian newspaper your tweets are read by many thousands of people viewed a regular interviews in the australian and global media including many times on al-jazeera do you feel more a journalist or a refugee i don't think about myself you know as a german news or refugee i feel that i am human i am human and them fighting for humanity i am fighting for these people you know the people that i feel they've suffering and they know them for a long time i know them you know i am living with the refugees and they hear their stories i know their stories so it is very important for me but on the first day i know that i understand i am thinking like this that it is my duty as a journalist it is my mission. it is my duty to work on this

issue. it is my duty to tell through to people and all saw important thing is that i am working to record history of this. recorded history of this prison camp for history for the next generation the deals australia reached with papua new guinea and the room where the refugees would stay in those countries permanently after the stories of persecution were confirmed australia's government says if refugees were genuine they'd happily accept life in any country why not take the option on the table which is resettlement in part when you get you know first is that we didn't come to peace and second is that. doesn't. fit to protect the refugees and accept the refugees and the refugees. and they are sure that if they accept to leave. they will lose everything they

won't have any clear future in peace but millions of papua new guinea and have clear futures they live here yes country is not at war why not stay here you're not going to be persecuted here in our. country. tribal culture we. poor economy and our store is not safe for the refugees so they're refugees cannot accept to live in our saw they are saying if you accept. after eight years we will give you a passport so. how can we accept that some people may have families but people wanting this will think this is a man who was fleeing for his life yet if fled to iran because his life was in danger your life is not in imminent danger here why not accept that and stay

a lot of people. were attacked by the. people. why because you know the. people are very kind people but they cannot accept they cannot accept that they are living in a poor condition the government accept some people on try to protect them they cannot accept that. believe that the refugees cannot live in peace. you know some of the refugees. are really try to live in peace and where they couldn't so because of you know cultural reasons because our economy can reason it's because of you know so many reasons because it is not safe country for the refugees because their government

cannot protect them they cannot start. simple life in peace and it is under you know of that but you haven't tried have you you haven't tried it you saying you could you say you couldn't get out early in time when you get it you haven't tried it you know you're asking a question from me that. if you ask the. government. they answer you you know in my way. they are i agree that. they come up arcs of the refugees and they are not saying that they we want to accept refugees neither papua new guinea's prime minister nor is immigration minister responded to requests for an interview but another government minister speaking in a personal capacity did talk he says life in p. and g. is possible for refugees who try to make it work but if they won't it's not his country to force them what they do want is resettlement in

a country that they feel that they will have a proper chance of integrating into and i don't believe that's possible that's for a stranger to sort out that's that's a strange problem the stray needs to resolve it quickly it's not a pup a new problem a stray is created an issue to solve it do you want them not really we really don't need them simple or man aside into most locals think it's time the refugees moved on which he now is for an obvious almost five years. i would have thought or they should've won by now. so that's that's that's my view i question is did he make hang loose you know if they make freeform the suicide bombing and so like that it's where they had industry. they may do something west like we used to hear t.v. and radio suicide bombing or foreseeable so that they considered terrorists.

much attention in. the issue over there but that's what is seeing on the street. and then make this ng be careful just be careful. australia has done deals with other countries to take refugees during his final days in office president obama agreed to settle as many as twelve hundred fifty of australia's refugees in the united states president trump has called that a dumb deal but has said reluctantly. but an offer from new zealand to resettle others has been rejected by australia's government which says as new zealanders have the right to settle in australia refugees would use new zealand as a back door into australia going back to the broader policy australia's government says rightly that there are millions of refugees around the world needing resettlement a year when the other men here any more deserving than any of them of resettlement in a rich country like australia what makes you any more deserving than someone stuck

in a refugee camp in lebanon for example i know nothing to remember the crisis in the war but when we arrived two or three was not known when we arrived to australia there was not i.c.'s when we arrived to australia. there were still many millions of us are is not even that you know it's not mean that. he was through no government has this right to porch or ours is the way you see it as tojo's people a very strong word you feel tortured yeah it is a port sure you know we have been on the torture scene they are torturing us you know we have been on the porch we have been under a systematic torture you've been fed you've been housed know it how is that for you know six people already night. six people are reading this policy in this prison camp six people six young people one of them killed by the.

staff for up them they because of medical next leg at least to kill themselves you how that was. tortured them for a long time. after that they left them in there with protection. with a protection and they and i was so. suspicious way. still we don't know that they killed them or they killed. but you know. they those guys you know they were with psychological illness for a long time and his phone call with the american president australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull described most of the refugees here as economic migrants you obviously now know them all quite well is he right are you and some of the

others economic migrants rather than genuinely genuinely fleeing persecute you know . that was stolen government and in the process people. you know by international. more than ninety per son off the people. of a few gene but you've got money all of you you pay five thousand dollars to get on a boat to christmas island in london live a few days not mean that you know the morris to the pole or you just desperately not to meet yeah it's not mean that you are a poor you know there are a few through the poor what are your hopes feel future you know i hope that the knowing the so many people in australia are fighting for. me. i hold the will soon and go among.

make solutions real solutions. let us go the response johnny thank you very much thank you for talking to us just see.