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this is bbc world news. the headlines: saudi arabia's foreign minister has for the first time described the death of the journalist jamal khashoggi as a murder. adel al—jubeir said it was a terrible mistake, and none of the people under investigation were acting on orders from senior officials. will be seeking an explanation from the us, over president trump's the kremlin says russia's president vladimir putin will be seeking an explanation from the us, over president trump's plan to withdraw from a key cold war nuclear—weapons treaty. russia says scrapping the inf agreement would be "very dangerous". at least 18 people have died and around 170 have been injured after a train derailment in taiwan. taiwan's leader, tsai ing—wen, described the incident as a "major tragedy". thousands of migrants are making their way north through mexico towards the us, after evading mexican attempts to stop them at the border with guatemala. at 10.00, ben brown will be here with a full round—up of the days news. first it's time for our world. last post plays.
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after a century of brotherhood, the special bond between australia and new zealand is fracturing. a growing problem with gang violence has led to a law and order crackdown. well over 1,000 new zealanders deported from australia. australia, which has always been deemed our big brother, now actually bullies us. if they cherish the life they lead here in australia, they need to start respecting australians, they need to abide by the law. some new zealanders have been locked up in australia for years without charge, trial or conviction, before being thrown out. the easiest way to put it is like you've died, you're a ghost, but you can still see your old life, you know what i mean? a lot of people say don't judge a book by its cover.
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you put me in the detention, and it makes me injail for nothing. what have i done wrong? i do not think as a government we should be standing aside while these kind of threats to human rights are taking place. i have travelled from australia to new zealand to assess the damage this row is doing to what has, for more than 100 years, been one of the closest relationships between neighbouring countries anywhere in the world. you get an emailfrom the probation or airport police, to say that a deportee is arriving on such and such a flight at such and such a time. they are refugees, because in a way
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they have to leave a country they don't want to leave, and arrive somewhere they don't know and have to reinvent their lives again. you just have to do what i tell you. all right? next few days. i will become like your mum, auntie. you get $251.50 for that. deported in handcuffs onto a flight from australia, ao—year—old tyronejones is now back in new zealand. with a new phone, courtesy of the city of christchurch. there is your number. thank you very much. i have your number on my phone so i will text you from my phone and then you will have my number. the christchurch city council have been absolutely wonderful because theyjust know if you can get people to feel welcome in a place, it is less likely they will not feel part of society. what's that feel like?
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feels like home. the relief when they get in the car and i say, i'm going to take you to a motel and get you some food... they're men who have left their children behind. what they have left behind is just too much for a lot of them to actually grasp at the time. they haven't grasped the enormity of it. the kids are acting a bit differently, as you are in handcuffs in plain sight. your children have lost their home and they have lost their dad. wow. that's going to create a lot of problems later on, isn't it? definitely, definitely. although tyrone had sole custody of his three children, he was deported after breaching a domestic violence order placed on him by his ex—wife. one hot and spicy, two regular.
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he claims there was never any violence. she sent me text messages, i sent her two back, and police breached me on it, and gave me jail. i had a nine—month sentence at the top and three months i served. and then instead of going out to my family and my kids, i ended up going to detention and spending another three months there. i don't understand why i have been labelled as a bad character, when all i was doing was being a father of three kids, on my own, with only my father's support. wow, this is so much better than detention! now his children are living in australia with grandparents, and he has been banished to a country he hasn't known for almost two decades. welcome home.
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excellent. want a hug? thank you so much. that is shocking. earthquake ravaged christchurch is a city with a big heart for those deported from australia. it has been years since i've been here. so, yeah. just trying to get a feel for the place. for now, tyrone isjust trying to adjust to a life away from his children. it is like i have been labelled a monster. i'm not looking for vengeance or a life of crime, ijust hope to see my kids one day. many in new zealand, including members of the government here in the country's capital wellington, believe australia's deportation policy, separating families and exiling people is draconian and inhumane. the country's minister
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of justice, andrew little, is an outspoken critic. new zealanders, they don't like what they are seeing, they don't think it is right, they don't think it is fair. and they certainly want the government to be letting australia know what we think is right and wrong about this, and we are doing that. are you concerned that australia is breaching human rights? i think if you look at the international agreements, the un conventions that cover this sort of thing, i don't think that is consistent, and what is happening is consistent with those un conventions. new zealanders on average contribute a huge amount to australia, new zealanders go there to work hard and sometimes they play hard, and they expect their aussie cousins to give them a fair go. many are seeing that at the moment they are not getting a fair go. for decades australians and new zealanders have had the reciprocal right to live and work in each other‘s country. but australia has unilaterally curtailed those rights, with changes to the law making it
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easier to cancel visas and deport non—citizens. for those sentenced to 12 months jail or more, mandatory deportation. authorities have cancelled the visas of four violent criminals with links to the apex... police: police, open the door! in australia, media coverage of deportations is focused on gang violence. but many of the more than 1,000 new zealanders deported have only minor criminal convictions, or none at all. speaker: the minister for home affairs has the call. thank you very much, mr speaker, i thank the honourable member... as australia's home affairs minister, peter dutton 0versees a portfolio including australia's federal police and border force, and its immigration detention facilities. i tell you what i have done, mr speaker, i have cancelled 3,700 visas of criminals in this country.
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people who would have gone to commit offences again australians... under recently changed laws, the home affairs minister holds extraordinary powers to deport people on "character grounds" alone. so even when no crime has been committed. he is also the sole arbiter. if a deportation decision is overturned by an australian court, the minister can ignore the judgement and simply amend the order and deport them anyway. if they have been involved in violence, gang violence, terrorist—related activity, whatever it might be, then they will not be getting australian citizenship. often it is portrayed in the context of the wider debate around immigration, and remains a hot political issue. with mr dutton making regular appearances in the australian media espousing his government's tough stance. we are closing detention centres...
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back in new zealand thejustice minister there has grave misgivings about australian law and how it is being implemented. you have done your growing up in australia, you are a product of australia. i do not think it is right that if that person starts behaving criminally they should be sent back to new zealand, a country they do not know because they left in their infancy. i accept they are a sovereign country, they can make whatever laws they like, but a lot of new zealanders are now being drawn into this, 1,200 deportations in the last three years, three and a bit years, a lot more are going to happen. what i have said to ministers in the australia government, is that while that is the case and while they are new zealand citizens, they are entitled to have the new zealand government speak up for them, and we will speak up for them. in the largest city on new zealand's south island, christchurch, the bridge of remembrance stands as a monument to a close alliance
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forged in times of war, when australians and new zealanders fought side by side as part of the australian and new zealand army corps, known as the anzacs. my father served two tours in vietnam and i am very proud and i am very proud of the history my family has contributed to anzacs. like any other families in new zealand. a century after the birth of the anzac legend, philippa payne despairs of where it has all gone. australia, which has always been deemed our big brother, now actually bullies us. philippa is now a campaigner for deportees because she believes australia has trashed its closest friendship and sullied its human rights record. there has been 1,300 new zealand citizens deported already, the detention centres in australia are full of new zealand citizens, and let's not forget
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that we are the number one nationality in australian detention centres. new zealand citizens fill australian detention centres. how are your children coping at the moment? this week has been pretty difficult. i have been ringing my kids every day, and just recently they have started to cry on the phone... from her home in suburban christchurch, phillippa keeps in touch with some of the hundreds of new zealanders who have been detained while awaiting orfighting deportation. i don't think they are doing very well outside without me. 32—year—old aidan brown is being held in immigration detention centre in western australia. in my heart i believe i am australian. i learnt everything here, i have done all my school here, all my work ethic is from australia. aidan has lived in australia since he was four years old,
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but has been held in immigration detention after being arrested over a driving offence. that charge was dropped — but because of a previous conviction as a juvenile, he was deemed of "bad character" and ordered out of australia. my situation and a lot of the boys here's situation, a lot of us haven't even done crimes. we have done minor crimes, mine was a driving offence. australia's law has classed us as bad character. so i reckon it has been a bit judgemental. personally it tears me down, knowing that i cannot do anything, especially for my family. deep down in my heart i know i am not coping. i do it because i'm very passionate about what is going on between our tra ns—tasman travel agreement.
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i believe that australia's government legislatively discriminates against new zealand citizens in australia. fighting a deportation can mean months or years in custody awaiting the outcome of the legal process. i think it's time for us to stand up and actually make sure that our people are ok. many, like the man we have come to see today, choose to accept being deported rather than risk spending longer in detention in australia. there we go. we're here. and there he is. hey, justin! how are you? good. that's good. justin miller also moved to australia with his parents as a small child in 1988. smells nice and clean! yeah, i know! earlier this year, he was deported to new zealand — to a country he could barely remember. i'm pretty sure a lot of the australian public doesn't really understand the full extent of what's happening.
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i love australia and its society, and i still do. it'sjust politics that i don't like at the moment. australia's got a problem with crime and sending people away isn't the way to deal with it. justin miller says his happy childhood in western australia took a downward spiral after he was molested by a priest. i turned to alcohol and drugs to get away from what happened to me at boarding school. i grew up in a high...in a suburb with a very high crime rate at the time. and, yeah, ijust... like a lot of other people around me in that area, we ended up in trouble. like many of the hundreds of thousands of new zealanders living in australia as permanent residents, justin says he had never felt the need to seek australian citizenship. i've got an aussie partner, i've got an aussie child, and, yeah, just never even thought of it.
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yes, i had stuffed up in life and committed crimes but i'd paid for those crimes, i've learned from my mistakes, and i was making a general go of life. that's finished for today. awesome. all i can do is now is prove the australian government wrong with saying that i'm a totally bad person that's not worth nothing, you know? but i am worth something. and so's my family and friends. yelling five years ago on australia's gold coast, a brawl between members of a motorcycle club captured the headlines. stay back where you are! yelling within weeks, some states had enacted laws banning motorcycle club membership and turning
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members into outlaws. a lot of people say don'tjudge a book by its cover. for years, lee tepuia lived the australian dream. with a thriving carpet business, lee and his young family lived a comfortable life in suburban australia. until one day in 2015 when he was arrested a gang crime squad. he was told his visa was cancelled and he was thrown into a maximum security prison without any charges. so i went through the system and finally got processed, as they say. and, yeah, ended up in a back unit in lockdown. you know, it's pretty hard to take in, you know? lee's visa had been cancelled because he was a member of the rebels motorcycle club, which the western australian state government had declared a criminal gang.
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0utraged at his incarceration on no charges, lee took his case to australia's highest court. and that's the full high court — seven high court judges. and we proved to the government and australia that what he'd done was invalid and unconstitutional and we won oui’ court case. but lee's freedom was short—lived. even though the deportation order was ruled invalid, the home affairs minister peter dutton used his extraordinary powers to cancel lee's visa again. and afterjust one night of freedom, he was arrested and put back into detention. his family was crushed. you know, just to see their faces, you know? they haven't seen me for 22 months
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and then tell them that dad's visa has been cancelled again, itjust broke them, yeah. how did they react? ah, theyjust... they were shattered. theyjust, um... yeah, theyjust broke down. yeah, so i was, um, yeah, it was pretty heartbreaking. yeah, so over here's another spot for yearling, usually see them coming through here. lee's entire extended family in australia made the decision to pack up and leave and return to new zealand to restart their life together in the town where he was born, blenheim. it's more fun catching them with your hands, really. lee is unrepentant about his membership of the motorcycle club, which australia has outlawed and which cost him his visa. at the end of the day, they look past the club thing. theyjust still see me as a normal little kiwi boy who left this town. they just look
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straight through that. they always ask me, "are you still with the club?" and i tell them, yep, "i'm still with the club." i am not going to hide it. but, you know, end of the day, my friends, my family, my brothers are the ones i am worried about. i'm not worried about those judgemental people. that doesn't bother me. with more than 500,000 new zealanders living in australia, cases like lee's have caused deep concerns in new zealand's capital where thejustice minister is determined to take the fight back to the australian government. what i have said to the australian authorities, we will continue to talk about this, call things out, take up individual cases where we think there's been an egregious level of unfairness, and see if we can effect change through that way. does it concern you that a higher proportion of the deportees that have been sent back are maori? that is concerning. i mean, i don't know what...
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i don't know of the 600,000 new zealanders what proportion are maori. i do know that of all deportees out of australia, roughly half are new zealanders. we are a big chunk of those being deported. and i do wonder whether there might be some systemic bias there. after a century of cherished friendship, the diplomatic relationship between australia and new zealand is at its lowest point in living memory. as the chill in relations sets in, at christchurch airport, the stream of deportees from australia continues unabated. the latest to arrive — 34—year—old matt shaw, deported after serving a shortjail sentence for stealing copper wire. i've got nothing. all my kids, family, mum, dad, all back in australia. i've got nothing here at all. been ten years since i've been here and, yeah, i've got nothing. for matt, the time served in prison
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was just part of his sentence. it's been a long time since i've been in the open, with no cages around me. he faces the bitter reality that he's been banished from australia, uncertain if he'll ever be allowed to return. look at that! oh, wow. for now, this hostel is home. i'd give you a second chance, you know what i mean? then if you blow it... i thought we were like brothers and sisters, you know what i mean? we're supposed to be all in one type thing, you know? and then just now, it's just crap. like, they're just deporting kiwis like no tomorrow. cool, thank you! last post plays in australia's capital, canberra, symbols of the special relationship with new zealand in both peace and war are to be found everywhere. but as the australian government continues to insist that living in australia is a privilege and not
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a right for their new zealand neighbours, and the new zealand government protests the human rights violations of its citizens, the treasured friendship between these pacific ocean neighbours could well be tested to breaking point. hello there. autumn can be a pretty fickle season. if we look at what we've seen this weekend, across northern scotland we've seen temperatures as high as 20 celsius. that's eight celsius above average for the time of year.
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however, look forward to next weekend, and across the hills of northern scotland, it could be cold enough to see some snow over the high ground. now, looking at the weather picture we have seen over the weekend, we have seen some cooler air arrive across scotland and northern ireland during sunday. that colder air continues to push southwards. so we are looking at a cold and locally frosty start to the day on monday, but for many of us clear blue skies to start the day, with not a cloud in sight. the obvious exception will be across scotland, where in the 0rkney and shetland isles we will see outbreaks of rain, which will be quite heavy at times, the rain accompanied by brisk westerly winds. otherwise it's a mainly dry picture with some spells of sunshine coming through. cooler air for england and wales, so temperatures not as high as they were on sunday. typically 12 to 1a celsius. now, in the week ahead, we will see high pressure close to the west of the british isles. these weather fronts coming around the top side of the high, they will be bringing outbreaks of rain at times into scotland, particularly the north—west.
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but away from that it's a dry—looking week for the most part. tuesday, outbreaks of rain for the north and west of scotland. it could be quite heavy at times. perhaps some of that slowly pushing eastwards. further south it's a largely dry picture, mostly, for northern ireland, england and wales. temperatures typically 12 to 16 celsius, although we could see some brighter weather in aberdeenshire and could also become quite warm here for a time. for wednesday the rain tends to ease. just a few showers around northern scotland. otherwise it's a dry picture. again, after a cloudy start we should see some spells of sunshine. highs between 12 and 16 celsius. for thursday, it looks like we will have the winds turning more to a westerly direction. that means the best of any cloud breaks will tend to be to the east of high ground. the midlands and eastern england not doing too badly, along with eastern scotland and coastal strip of antrim and down should see some as well. temperatures coming down a little bit, 12 to 1a celsius, but the real change takes place towards the end of the week. now, what's going on at the moment in thejet stream, warm air is pushing northwards in alaska and the jet stream is acting
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like twanging an elastic band. the warm air working into alaska means we will get a shelf of cold air moving down into the north—east of the united states over the next few days. to the east of this in the west atlantic we get a surge of warm air pushing back northwards. what this warm air in the west atlantic does is it builds this area of high pressure that would block the normal mild atlantic winds from reaching us, and instead we get the contents of the arctic emptying out over the top of the uk. if this was midwinter, it would be a super—cold scenario. as it is, in late october, it is going to be chilly enough. a big change takes place on friday. here is our cold front pushing southwards. it brings a band of rain with it across england and wales. clearer skies follow with some showers. look at the temperatures. 11 celsius on friday in london. just six celsius in stornoway and lerwick as well. this will be the coldest weather we have seen so far this autumn, and it is going to get cold into the weekend ahead as well.
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so a cold snap on the way, with strong northerly winds. cold enough for some snow on these hills. there will be some sunshine elsewhere, but temperatures staying in single figures. the big question is, just how long will this cold weather hang around ?
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