the wild boars will all become novice monks for a period of nine days to pay tribute to the former tiny baby diver someone who lost his life during their rescue di artists have made this mural in chang right to honor the extreme bravery and international teamwork of everyone who participated in the rescue operation after sharing their stories with the world the boys can finally go back home step fasten al-jazeera. let's also come here at al-jazeera including the human cost of australia's hardline refugee policy five years after it was imposed. on dawn again in the bavarian town letter when the mystery of life has suddenly taken on a very different meaning. i . mean the weather sponsored by cattle always

have their hot sunny dusty and breezy those words apply quite happily for most of iran backs or iraq beyond there is some cloud just run the periphery the edges of your screen which won't produce a shower to as far west as karate i think nothing much else temperature wise around about the thirty mark or more from the lebanese coast inland easily middle forty's and by dan highs still when you run to the southern part of iraq and certainly southwestern iran where we see the highest temperatures in the world fairly typically at this time of year that the breeze a steady steady north west leads picking up some trees it comes down the gulf so it's bringing with it dust which affects q. way east inside the. but maybe more obviously is the amount of cloud that's just to the site and that's the edge of the monsoon and it gives this beautiful view in salalah on the arm on the coast three month's worth of cloud drizzle and of course

rain flowing has water on the ground it's an annual thing but it's there in the forecast is there on thirty very obvious that cloud extend a long way down through the yemeni coast as well but otherwise there's nothing to accompany you come but further inland it's halts dry and dusty forty five ish in doha. so whether. they think. it's under. discover if those changes are reflected. this is a day to. rush i don't know i'm trying. to leave me.

israel has passed a law that for the first time declares it to be the nation state of the jewish people arab members of the palm and shouted a ripped up papers after the vote the bill downgrades the status of the arabic language and encourages the building of communities exclusively for jews. now says he holds russian president vladimir putin personally responsible for moscow's meddling in the twenty sixth presidential election this is the latest shift in language from the us president has been criticized for failing to confront putin at their summit in finland. members of the football team who were trapped in

a flooded case for more than two weeks have been blessed in a buddhist ceremony to protect them from danger. they described their rescue as a miracle and paid tribute to the former navy seal who died. it's been five years since australia toughened it's already hard line immigration policy sending refugees and migrants to remote prison camps on pacific islands it successfully deterred people from trying to reach the mainland by boat but refugee advocates say the human cost is far too great andrew thomas reports from sydney. the boats carrying refugee holiday mansell and her son arrived in australia insurer's in march twenty thirty mm they spent months in detention but are now one of the path to a permanent life in australia how the second son app team was born in australia just four months after how many arrived her sister and her two sons made the same journey in between australia's government announced a new policy towards refugees arriving by boat people who come by boat now have no

prospect of being resettled in australia the rules have changed for the man saw and her sons were sent to the tiny pacific island of nuru and were told they'd never leave some people was lucky on sunday for him. just for a few miles last month variables how many days nephew killed himself he was twenty six five years in heart. and independent without condit have done nothing. as it were mine if you say i lost a lot how can i i said no you can't start again you are young now but. you know i lost you now and i can't believe it. i can believe that. australia's policy change in twenty thirteen was in response to

almost daily budgets of about fifty thousand people described as an authorised arriving from the nineteenth of july all refugees and migrants were sent to either the tiny island state of nuru or mouse island in papua new guinea as a deterrent it worked the boats had stopped arriving by the middle of twenty fourteen by which time a new australian government that it turning back boats it seemed to the policy since the commencement of operation sovereign borders we've been able to provide the human environment to the people to settle in regional processing centers obviously conducted boy in the now room carson our own government employee injury or by the pay injury government we provide assistance to those processes but at the same time the dividend of the success of stopping bites and most importantly stopping drownings at sea is that we've been able to offer a record number of places under the humanitarian refugee program was an estimated two and a half thousand people were sent to mount a silent on a route around six hundred well later paid to return to the countries they've fled three hundred have been resettled in the united states and about four hundred have

been brought to australia the australian government will not say so publicly twelve people have died or been killed or man a solar roof about a fountain people remain on the island if the policy is only successful because it demands the sacrifice of human lives of people offshore then it's not an effective policy but neither big political party in australia proposes changing the policy so its fifth anniversary is unlikely to be its last after thomas al-jazeera said. well we've been speaking to peter hartcher who's the political and international editor at the sydney morning herald he says the australian public's perception of government policy has changed well it was terrible for australia's global image it was in the words of one of strollers. more famous sons russell crowe australia's shame and it has been troubling the national conscience and it has been a stain on a straight international reputation no question about it. however in the last year

or so with the increasingly difficult and controversial state of refugee policy not only in the middle east but obviously it's ripping europe and european governments apart. the policy seems to have been at least partially vindicated and is no longer universally vilified internationally and in fact has been discussed as a possible model to countries in europe that find themselves dealing with an uncontrollable border problem. here's the rebels in yemen say they've attacked an oil refinery in the saudi capital using a drone they targeted the state run around co refinery in riyadh your company said it contained a small fire which was due to what it called an operational incident the rebels say the drone attack marks the start of a new stage in deterring saudi aggression in yemen we say in yemen and syria has obtained video from

a camp for those who've been who fled the fighting in who data about one hundred twenty one thousand people have escaped is the beginning of last month many of them have ended up in the neighboring province of. sarah hyra now reports. these are the young faces of those displaced in their own country the some of the thirty five thousand families who've been forced to leave their homes in the data. the heat is relentless electricity blackouts are common food water and medication ask us the risk of falling ill with cholera is extremely high. you know. there are about two hundred and fifty families living here and it's increasing by the day we're calling on the local authorities and international community to support and help us. salim hamilton became a refugee to reaks ago when he escaped the heavy fighting in her data between the saudi led coalition and her with the rebels. we have many burdens but this is bread

with beans dinner is bread with yogurt are suffering the food is not enough cost of transportation is so high we can't even afford to go to the nearby market. hammoud who says he witnessed his neighbor's children kidnapped adds that many more family members are also trying to leave her data but can't. i'm asking human rights organizations to help yemenis it's a miserable situation we asked the north of yemen. to also take care of us many of us don't have a place to sleep there are not enough camps so how can we receive more people here the world's largest humanitarian crisis just got worse in june when saudi led military action to take control of the data intensified its ports is the most important in yemen a lifeline to a country where almost eight point five million people are on the verge of starvation. thanks to the generosity of

a local in the province of latch hammoud and his family are safe in these makeshift camps for now but with no end in sight to the war it's not clear when they'll be able to return home if ever so i hired al jazeera. the turkish government has lifted its two year long state of emergency was imposed nationwide after the failed coup of twenty sixteen there was extended seven times since then tens of thousands of people have been arrested or dismissed from government and academic jobs as well as the military the government has proposed an antiterrorism bill to replace some of the emergency powers google says it will appeal against a record five billion dollars fine handed to it by the european union the e.u. says the tech giant used its android operating system to cement the dominance of its search engine so you're gay go explains. a three year investigation and direct

quote five billion dollars fine a steep penalty for google accused by the european union of abusing its power as they call it an entire sector in the phone market who has engaged in illegal practices to cement its time and market decision internet search it must put an effective end to this contract within ninety days or face penalties payments at the heart of the issue is android the tech giants operating system for mobile phones used to more than eighty percent of the world's smartphones it is essential to google's future revenues it's easy to make me a cause for the european commission found google have blocked competition by forcing phone makers to pre-install services such as search engine and map software as a condition of using its operation system it also paid phone manufacturers incentives if they installed google search without rival services the case would seem to prove

the point that there's no such thing as a free lunch when tech giants come bearing gifts and google is finding out to its cost it's having to concede this is already the case in countries such as china and russia the french government has welcomed the decision to stop it from squeezing out any rivals. google will have to change their practices in terms of licensing of the virus and road software applications that in turn would have a considerable impact on their commercial policy google has said it will appeal against the decision it may only be a fraction of its revenue but the real challenge will be if the e.u. forces it to change its future behavior. or paris well david mccabe is a technology reporter at x. the office an online news site and he says regulators are focusing ever more closely on the behavior of tech giants. well they have ninety days of course to

review this decision and certainly it could the most in your report was exactly right that the most significant aspect of this is the threat that they may have to abandon this conduct that has been ruled anti competitive you know the fine is significant and it. indicates the gravity of the situation but the real ball game comes to those behavioral changes here in washington i think we see a lot that the regulator matters regulators here are not particularly interested in aggressively taking on these tech companies that may be shifting a little bit but they're finding an uphill battle even if they do because the law here doesn't really make it easy to go after some of these companies but in commissioner a vast europeans have found a champion for this sort of aggressive competition enforcement and this is in many ways you know a high point for her agenda britain's former foreign secretary has accused the prime minister of planning what he called a phony breck's it boris johnson quit terry's amaze government in protest over her

strategy last week during his resignation address to parliament on wednesday he said the government's plan only in a permanent miserable state of limbo but he failed to outline how he would achieve a better departure from the european union. it is not too late to send the brits we have time in these negotiations we have changed once and we can change again the problem is not that we failed to make the case for free trade agreements of the current spill target like us to house we haven't even tried. we was trying not because we will not get another chance to get it right. in germany better varian state police has started patrols at the border with austria until now only federal

police have been carrying out the checks the state police will now be looking for people trying to get in illegally of areas governing c.s.u. party says the patrols will be a clear signal to illegal migrants and people smugglers. they're finding somewhere to rest in peace is an increasingly difficult task in many parts of the world as graveyards fill up the competition for space is growing fast as dominic cane reports a german town in bavaria thinks it may have an answer. nestling in the alps best discard seems like a picture postcard here the pace of life from cradle to grave is slow and after a long life many locals want this to be their final resting place but the years demand for new grave plots has outstripped supply now the council thinks it's found a solution a lottery for burial plots the town's mayor says he thinks it's the fairest for his

community. we tried to figure out how many places we could give how many graves we could give to the people of yes this garden and it's about two hundred and so we decided to do a lottery to make it the best way. possible the fairest way for everybody to get one of these bridges and disgrace and so two hundred eighty people put their names forward for those two hundred burial plots all hoping there's would be the first name to be drawn. that privilege failed to see linda sql yvonne meaning she gets first choice of all the available plots and there she knows where she and her husband will one day be laid to rest. when money. here i'm a husband grew up here not me but we live here and this place in particular his

grandmothers here and his uncle lives right next to us and we simply want to be here so we know where we will come to. some people say that to be born in bavaria is to win the lottery of life and here at least wednesday's winners have gained a prize of a very different kind don't it came al-jazeera about as garden. time for us to take a look at the headlines here at al-jazeera israel has passed a law that for the first time declares it to be the nation state to the jewish people arab members of parliament shouted a ripped up papers after the vote the bill downgrades the sages of the arabic language and encourages the building of communities exclusively for jews donald trump says he holds russian president vladimir putin personally responsible for

most says meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election it's the latest shift in language from the us president has been criticized for failing to confront putin at the summit in finland he said he would agree with u.s. intelligence that. russia meddled in the election twenty sixteen and i've said that before yes i have said that numerous times before and i would say that that is true but you haven't condemned putin specifically do you hold him personally responsible. well i would because he's in charge of the country just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country so certainly as the leader of a country you would have to hold him responsible yes members of the time football team who were trapped in a flooded cave for more than two weeks of being blessed in a buddhist ceremony to protect him from danger earlier they described their rescue as a miracle and paid tribute to the form of thai navy seal who died the organization

of american states has condemned recent violence in nicaragua accusing the police and the pro-government militias of human rights abuses at least two hundred seventy people have been killed since protests against president danielle ortega broke out in april the turkish government has lifted its two year long state of emergency it was imposed nationwide after the failed coup of twenty sixteen and extended seven times since then tens of thousands of people have been arrested or dismissed from government and academic jobs as well as in the military the government has proposed an anti-terrorism bill to replace some of the emergency powers google says it will appeal against a record five billion dollars fine handed to it by the european union the e.u. says the tech giant used its android operating system illegally to cement the dominance of its search engine roger today those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's the stream. we here did use computer covered

israeli palestinian affairs we covered this story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with we don't dip in and out of this story we have presence here all the time. but it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the field covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks and what happens there matters. how are australia's hardline immigration policies impacting border security and how are they affecting the lives of breath he will hear more about the country's system of offshore prisons and today's show remember to send us your comments and questions live via twitter or you tube i'm willing to be much of a dean and you're in the stream.

zero chance of resettlement that's the message the australian government has been sending to asylum seekers desperate to migrate into the country by boat it's been five years since australia began refusing mainland resettlement for asylum seekers sometimes described as boat people who are refugees who do take the chance they face the prospect of indefinite detention while they wait for their asylum claims to be processed in offshore refugee camps the government says its hard line stance against illegal immigration has deterred people smugglers and illegal boat arrivals but at what cost. here to discuss this. detention advocacy manager with the asylum seeker resource center she's joining us via skype from melbourne and london al jazeera sydney correspondent andrew thomas who covers asylum seeker policies in australia and joining us on the phone is. he's been living at mannus island for

nearly five years he is an asylum seeker who received his. refugee status three years ago welcome to you all should start by mentioning we did reach out to australia's government to take part in this conversation but they declined our request. with fact i will start on my laptop with this quote from the government from peter dutton to be exact is a minister for home affairs in an interview june twenty third this is how he describes the policy thus far we are in danger of days because only a month ago we stopped a still hold vessel with one hundred thirty one people coming out of sri lanka there are fourteen thousand people still in indonesia and there is excited chatter among people smuggling syndicates about the prospect of australia be available again he goes on to say it's essential that people realise that the hard won success of the last few years could be undone overnight by a single act of compassion and bringing twenty people from menace to australia and

through with those words does the government see these past five years in this never australia policy as successful. has the government seen these past five years as being a success in terms of their immigration policy. and i absolutely hate success yet the government is very proud that it's in the law obviously if this is seen by the other party you know started the labor party back in twenty the same when kevin rudd was prime minister then surely off the back kevin rudd last election and the conservative brought a sense of government that came in to tell yeah but now in the mountain top of his run with it expanded its and really made it very profit and those comments from that integration minister a rule about domestic politics because like you don't know the international

picture is over the place looks a little straighter and show you the study crew on necessarily true in many people's eyes policies but the message. with the policy australians do not like the idea that bore out the troll that's been proved an opinion poll offer opinion poll of all the research that stands for a minority of australians disagree with that position the government takes the votes is going to keep them in power the ones you like but it's rather a sight to get back in on the stump what you had that was all about them and then through you know hearing you say that it raises a question that we put out to our audience our community we asked if you know the system is actually deterring illegal immigration and if it's working and interestingly enough we got one comment from joe diddley here saying it's illegal to deter refugees and it is immoral regardless of whether it's quote unquote works what an appalling promise natasha what do you see success as an immigration policy is this the right measure. firstly i think that it's very interesting that the

government stopped talking about it but the moment it comes to mystically on the council and he said this is all about domestic politics and the moment the liberal government becomes i'm comfortable in the next six politics literally on another issue or that something embarrassing that's occurred for them then i'll start talking about votes again so they can switch from themselves all the time constantly side note of iraq which stops the boats in the last lap all watch out there was another bike in iraq last month so it doesn't really make much sense except for the fact that it's very evident that it's government frank political football with people's lives so i think this comment that you just brought up it's very very accurate in that even if it were successful say for a moment that it was unsuccessful and that we call this kind of behavior success which we of course don't but if we did so i can say. i want. anything said at the expense of somebody. natasha of course

a valid question there and one that our community members are pondering before we move on to much further i want to show a map her audience just so they get a perspective on what it is we're talking about here and what you're seeing on your screens are australia's offshore prisons for immigrants arriving by boat and the man asylum facility closed on october thirty first twenty seventeen but many detainees still remain in transitional hands on the island and we've got a comment actually from someone who is among those this is a to love someone who's tweets we read in our very last show when we talked about the closing of the prison there on man asylum he says i really don't have hope for resettlement i already rejected p. and g. papa new guinea and australia i won't those countries don't have respect for human beings so i hope the us will give me an appointment asylum i hope that's just one hope of one person but as these you are there talking to us on the phone and then

asylum and talk to us about what it is your facing and your time there on manner. and. all the. above the government. laws. with you. in all because then the message for the

other people around the world and we. government. when you say situation. i want to pause you there when you say killed by the system what do you mean what i mean by q. . and a hard. to believe. maybe. in the. life or way. to. you know answer as you're listening to the to put up this headline here critics warn of a humanitarian crisis for six hundred asylum seekers and offshore australian detention camp this is twenty seventeen when you were last on our show and we were discussing refugees refusing to leave them an asylum detention center what's happened since

and where are we now. well i was lost in the back but in fact as the p.m.g. the top and you get in place when team to that formal same time and forcibly removed the asylum seekers and refugees who didn't want to go i'll go say i think if these would cite a cite they also in a moment but that wasn't much about protest as it was about anything else they realized that amount of silence was in the spotlight of media attention like frankly it rarely is that anymore because your study in the media is bored of the story they hardly touch it but that moment as camp the formal prison like the city are now saddam's clogged and the refugees are being moved into more transit camps elsewhere on the side and they knew that if they made a stand refused to go the media would cover it and to some extent they did but that was about it getting attention but it really was one of the few times that the story has broken through the australian media because even the both sides of

politics doubt it will strike the adult the same policy that old saying those refugees the mouse on the roof and that's going to come to a strike it was a much political the bike to follow the a.b.c. the national pro cost or no strike it is taxpayer funded the government to continue in the morning the a.b.c. that it's probably yours at risk and many think i would want to comment but many think the a.b.c. . to some extent and then there's a quite a big coat hole at the media that it's quite cheap refugee and pro policy side that was all about getting attention and who can buy the refugees for the government website is that yes it is tough for those refugees amounts on the roof but that they get paid is that people are no longer coming to studies or putting their lives at risk despite more than a thousand people who drowned by the right bank on the right so right here in the few years before they brought in if they were more about that one uncontrolled immigration by refugees that two thousand people cave in the few years before

twenty third saying that i want to see that start up again because they want to be seen in control. they. study yeah yeah yeah there's a lot of great because they won the toss i see you saying yeah yeah yeah zander was speaking of course we know that you know from two thousand and thirteen to two thousand and fourteen of course the numbers plummeted from twenty thousand to one hundred sixty but we have a lot of comments coming on the bigger picture andrew you teed up you know that idea of what is the geo political aspect of some of this why is this even you know happening even with the neglect for media coverage you know we have the street let me actually came in from sarah ruby smith she's the director of project humanity a group that advocates for refugees she said australia continues these human rights abuses knowing that the aid money australia supplies to countries like papa new guinea and nauru will guarantee they can continue natasha you know andrew's knotting i know that we know that there is more of play here but what do you make of what sarah says here you know that australia deliberately picked vulnerable

countries with vulnerable populations like true colonialists nation that they are their government does whatever they see fit there. that's one hundred percent i have worked on and it's a good match but i probably know the ins and outs of not rule out that up and what i would say is that a strike there is one hundred percent in control of the sentence so that day to day operations the movement of people the provision of staff every single aspect of these camps is an innocent bystander and yes they go on their responsibility to any end not true and they do that and it was old enough to make the point that they were probably government. control. but you can make people like you and people like me in the media it's not a question you know now about you getting government questions i never lied to you nor up like never on with you or government practice it happened to me like that

but no responsibility and because these are at least open country. that's right and i mean the kind of thing that i would go back to is something that is you said earlier he commented that seven people had died a menace and that those seven peoples this was the responsibility of the israeli government so i just want to add in total twelve people have died under this policy so seven on man has five hundred twelve in total. and a lot of those people have seen the medical records that have outlined that the client outlined their mental health. disintegration to the point where. you know one man has two people in fact have set themselves on fire. so that so elated. a man threw himself out of a bus a number of people have overdosed and number of people have hung themselves and you can see in the in straddling government's own records their mental deterioration in

great detail so we obtained the medical reports that are written about people by international medical services which is the medical contractor that the australian government is to provide health care and they are the ones who have not provided sufficient care or not responded sufficiently or in some instances you can see where they recommended again and again and again that a person risks to certain type of treatment and the extra early in government so strongly in order to force which is a government department have declined that request for medical care and as a result the person has eventually died so that line of responsibility is extremely clear and that as you mention what you're describing is it's conditions of nairo i want to share with our audience a couple of pictures that as these sent us moving through on my computer here. you've told us that these are the transition centers on menace island and move over

to the next one here talk to us about what it is that we're seeing these pictures that you sent of what looks like perhaps newly refurbished or newly built transition centers what are the conditions like there. well basically did. two or three. runs a center they had been real block then one. block then in two thousand and fifteen and the other two they had been built recently when we. moved out of the formal detention center. and also let me just thank you. both and to a point that he say about forty woo we have been deployed we have been denied medical access food and water for twenty four days and they want us to come home site here in property. and they want us to settle in properly again any nation to

the floor it is so clear that we prefer to stay inside and we will look after ourselves and we no longer need your services twenty four days we feel we had a family over freedoms and we knew. that things that it was for the last four years we haven't had any oxygen even to take one single step without asking their permission or without scalding one of their security guards we have been. we have been our views and we have been disrespected where to that point. they want to force us to lose a little dignity. you know what has been right to abuse. innocent people be are not respecting be international law which is here right to get war and struggle you. will. want to.

research and find money. well. forgive me for interrupting i just wanted to stop people stop here and there for a second because i want to bring in some other voices to this conversation people were at going this idea of who really is controlling the situation you're saying australia is control based on your experience against our will be smith pointing out that the australian government has been very clear for example when new zealand wanted to deal directly with papa new guinea to take some refugees from peter dutton again suggested this would jeopardize proper new guinea's relations with australia so you know that's maybe an indication that they are very much in control but i wanted to also put this towards you. on twitter saying the question isn't about what we had asked which is you know are there human rights violations happening but how is australia getting away with it for the last five years you know what are the un international human rights mechanisms to solve this are other

governments saying to australia based on your experience there for now almost five years what would your answer be. to how are they getting away with this. well i don't think they're going to get away with it but we can see in the front picture that it's running in government work the table to get away with it because no one will judge you as long as one of the american allies no one is going to judge. how many more than. ten different organizations humanitarian organizations on top of that organization. they have visited us for more than ten times and every single time they come to the island with children and we keep reporting every single incident that happening here modifies we don't see any we don't see any movement from the international community and in fact like we know it's rather nice to be country but they know

that they did aloha like each and every country on the wall not just only going. to wall country like a week or immediately no one is above the law but in soccer let me take you back on two thousand and one is truly a detain people on monday six in how to use. sixteen hockey is and i did it the day they get shut the compound dong and the people back to strike. i don't want even raise it was the was on the media but the international community the brain and all we've been hearing this is a a and not sure security model and he's actually there i can see answer trying to get in there andrew well i want to and i think it's very unfortunate as a starting government doesn't come apart about this because what it does get is the other side of the coin so i'm going to play that role for my grave with that but because i want those authors to be you know rebuffed if necessary by natasha what

they would say is a press release on a prison they staple on modest like is a and then the real afraid to walk around to find that grateful qur'an the right thing to modify the people can walk around freely obey your own and all and it's a by room i can't get to that point one second is i can leave as well in theory i can go back to the countries i came from i mean is that a practical thing for somebody who's playing persecution again that's just running government and they would say that they all resettling refugees but they're still with the united states for missed three hundred refugees have now been resettled in the u.s. and the number that full on the amount of is dwindling what it was cited is that we're making the wrong comparisons and we have to be comparing. what happens for refugees in australia and about twenty thousand refugees get resettled in australia every year through the united nations came a stright it says it's very generous that we shouldn't be comparing a minus in the room with them we should be comparing them with those didn't have

the money or the means to get on boats and come to australia and why should the queue jumpers assisting government would call them be treated differently from a refugee stuck in a. tempo is it on for example and then tosser. so i said i want to politely interrupt you andrew and i want to ask you that question . because i think that this will paint the picture of something that he said earlier about the loss of dignity and the loss of humanity in the sentence over the last five years as the how many times do you think so it's provided some people in the detention camps the transit center had referred to you by name and how many times do you think they referred to you by you a number. well in fact i'm glad that i believe you know people call them i don't. know this that or the government or the white on on on monitor all of these are the

numbers not it and not only me but one hundred men and two hundred every be places. where there are numbers and on top of the people i can see in mind that help but they never called my dad i had a separate argument if you could why you don't call why did they say look we could be the you why do you only have numbers you are not. well you know it's always easier to i mean do you and i was asian i want to bring up that argument but actually if i can with the time we have andrew i want to quickly go back to something you referred to in terms of referring to these things as prison camps or detention centers we have it's a florist saying i have two responses to a question we have put on social media one i find your use of the word prison to be interesting it implies criminalization and pre-determined length of time to serve a sentence he questions australia's policy makers if they also view them as criminals within a prison system of course andrew appreciate you bringing the other side what do you

think they would say how much does terminology factor in terms of you know keeping the australian public in support of this policy. person. about a year ago and that was. the question and they got quite angry when i pressed him but i suspect. countries. and. the states in their eyes. through the process of. government under saddam who have claimed asylum. down and. the questionable frankly if we're going to have. mentioned earlier as well. hundred men women and children now it may get. more. rain in

refugees some of the refugees numbers on those two places because of the countries coming from muslim travel by. the question. right and i will add one more thing they would say and have said this being the prime minister malcolm turnbull june twenty second interview here in australia we have one of the most generous refugee and humanitarian programs in the world the reason we can do that is because we decide the australian government representing australian people who come to australia not people smugglers our thanks to our gas that's all the time we have thank you natasha bluecher thank you to enter thomas an absolute as he's out of the final word though to larry forbes who wrote to us on facebook saying for the past twenty two years successive australian governments have worked hard to groom their electorates to make them fear and hate asylum seekers their justification is supposedly that such cruelty will keep australia's

border safe he doesn't think that's the way to go about it. i had a briefing today from a man named steele who has been out there working with the security forces a veteran of el salvador's dati war sent to iraq you seem to be without portfolio doing whatever it is that he wanted to take interest and next about in counterinsurgency while this interview was going on with jim steele there were these terrible screams about pain and terror but what was his mission and what legacy did he leave setting for a studio announces iraq. a remarkable portrait of a remove japanese villagers in the aftermath of the two thousand and eleven

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again on russian election meddling now he declares that to me is personally responsible. for. my prayers for a long and happy life the thai football team is blessed by monks after their extraordinary rescue from the flood it came. to nicaragua as neighbors a queue. as the government and its supporters of committing human rights abuses. israel has passed a law that for the first time declares the country to be the nation state of the jewish people the legislation also downgrades the sages of the arabic language and encourages the construction of jewish only communities silva reports. it's official israel is a state exclusively for jews that's the essence of the controversial nation state

bill passed by the knesset on thursday after hours of heated debate the measure became law by a vote of sixty two to fifty five with two abstentions three years the language of the bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition arab members of the knesset say the law legalizes discrimination. this is a bill from a government that has an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime it turns israel into a fascist state. i have the most controversial clause in the bill a provision calling for jewish only communities was replaced at the last minute the original legislation would have allowed the state to establish separate communities on the basis of religion and nationality the replacement provision says the state sees developing jewish settlements as

a national interest and will take steps to encourage advance and implement this interest illegal settlements for jews are already being built in breach of international law and u.n. demands and other controversies the status of the arabic language a new law says hebrew will be israel's only official language demoting arabic to seconds. the deputy attorney general says the law also allows the construction of synagogues and ritual baths but not mosques they israeli president says the legislation could harm jewish people and he's rails enemies could use it as a weapon protest as against the new law march through tel aviv on saturday. oh my god oh i love him very slowly and thousands of israelis came today to protest against the nation state law which is a racist and fascist law that is trying to turn israel from a democracy into something else therefore we are here to block this drift towards dictatorship and fascism. they are your grid i came to do to say that the arab citizens of israel are not inferior the nation state law will discriminate against

them as the israeli government has been doing for many years arabic is an official language and they deserve equal rights. and the government led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists that it's important to establish that israel is the historical homeland of the jewish people who have the sole right to national self-determination palestinian see the law as legitimizing apartheid on the silver al-jazeera where the palestinian chief negotiator cyber other cat has responded he's called the legislation a dangerous and racist law which denies arab citizens their right to self-determination to instead be determined by the jewish population he went on to say the law legally defines israel as an apartheid system as in even more confusion about what donald trump believes or doesn't believe about russian interference in the twenty sixteen us presidential election the latest twists are

seen him at cross purposes with his aides and at one point even with himself was in jordan reports now from washington. u.s. president donald trump ended wednesday the way he started it leaving us country and the world very confused about whether he thinks russia interfered in the twenty sixteen presidential election trump told us television he did bling russian president vladimir putin well i would because he's in charge of the country just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country so certainly as the leader of a country you would have to hold him responsible but also on wednesday trump told other reporters this is russia does targeting u.s. president. that's sent the white house press secretary into damage control mode he was saying no he's not taking questions for trump's aides this was day three of cleaning up after the president during his joint press conference with putin on

monday trump said he had raised the interference question during their meeting he just said it's not russia then after republican and democratic outrage over trump statement the president spent tuesday trying to walk back his words and he sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of pointing. to said should have been i don't see any reason why i went for why he didn't want to play russia as far as the u.s. intelligence community is concerned there is no question about the russians behavior he's got his view he's expressed his view i can tell you what my view is. the intelligence community's assessment has not changed my view has not changed which is that russia attempted to interfere with the last election and that it continues to engage in line influence operations to this day but only a few people are paying attention to a policy conference in the american what's what is getting most people's attention

is the stream of mixed messages some would say alarming messages from the white house about russia and the american political process was all in jordan al-jazeera washington. but we've been speaking to jeff stacey's a former u.s. state department official under the obama administration and he says there should be more transparency as to what exactly was said between trump and putin what we have is an unexpected full blown national security crisis based on what was supposed to be a fairly routine summit that had no official agenda going in you've got both sides of the aisle completely up in arms about this and they're probably going to see some legislation in the senate also in the house from republicans and democrats because this situation is getting more serious by the hour well we're going to find out whether we have patriots on the republican side we've heard from some like

senator graham and senator mccain in a few others but we need to hear from some more of the entire d.c. political establishment needs to join together and basically combat a very serious threat to our national security we need to know for example what happened in the media between president putin and president trump there was a release of a statement in moscow saying that the russians were about to move out on the agreements that were made and then sarah sanders basically issued a list that doesn't have any action items on it not in the way that it was spoken of in moscow so we need to know what was said in that meeting what minutes were made and whether or not these are themselves harmful to us core national security interests and in another development to u.s. jobs as old as a russian woman charged with acting as a foreign agent to be jailed pending trial prosecutors will and maria platina has ties to russian intelligence and was

a flight risk she's accused of conspiring against the u.s. government and is alleged to have infiltrated the national rifle association gun lobby how did you question has more. at wednesday's court hearing the u.s. justice department successfully argued that maria booty know would be an extreme flight risk if released pending trial the judge agreed and ordered the twenty nine year old woman to be held without bond in court filings prosecutors allege who posed as a gun rights activists and gain access to the top tiers of u.s. conservative groups the powerful national rifle association was her primary target photo show with the n.r.a. is former president and other notables on the american right prosecutors say she gained access to conservative v.i.p.'s.