of climate action and increased taxes on the rich polls open on saturday and the question on many people's minds is how long will the new leader last. the last 4 times australians have voted in federal elections that ended up with a different prime minister than the one they expected voters faith in their democracy is wavering surveys show trust in politicians is at a historic low is that essentially. people in government in fighting amongst themselves and acting on. behalf. of the nation australia's political chaos started when labor leader kevin rudd was dumped in a coup led by his deputy julia guillard but rudd had his revenge just months before an election which the party lost then it was the liberals turn the conservative tony abbott arrived promising stability but he lost it just 2 years before being rolled by the moderate malcolm turnbull who himself was replaced made last year.

the current prime minister scott morrison knows australians have had enough. you know it's been a pretty tumultuous time and i think the strides would welcome the fact that that period of time is out and it should be either a strange expect it of the parliament and i'm pleased that that's the case the yeah i did get in this has come to a close and they are just working together and if i could see on the futures come this election both main parties have introduced rules to make internal coups more difficult now instead of a simple majority over a 50 percent or a super majority of caucus members will be required to vote out a sitting prime minister 75 percent for labor and for the liberals 2 thirds of their parliamentarians under such rules most of the recent leadership challenges would have failed but it might not be enough to satisfy voters so we can expect to see just how dangerous the current government because that instability what we've seen over time in a strangely a grant you trace to

a. manger hannity's and the right way to rise and look what might have had the needs and independents the independents who could control the balance of power in the new parliament and decide who becomes the next prime minister this time perhaps for a full term. order jared reed joins me now in the studio he's been tracking the lead up to this luncheon very closely look jeremy will be i've lost count of how many multiple prime ministers in just a decade trust in politicians an all time well i mean how would you describe the state of australian politics look i think astray in politics is at the end of a really turbulent period but obviously as we've heard australians are really fed up with this revolving door in politics now hasn't contributed to you a sense of you know well being towards politicians there is a feeling that politicians are really only out for themselves and people feel the.

because in this. lack of vision that camera is and a shambles and speaking of vision 2 days ago a former prime minister died his name was bob hawke and he led astray or in the eighty's and put into place some really important political and social and economic reforms and regardless of people's political stripes i think over the last 2 days astray and have been sort of looking back and thinking well wouldn't it be great if we had someone with such big ideas and someone who sort of laid yeah but someone who lived with purpose who had these ideas and because what this instability has done it's overshadow the really important issues like the gaps between non-indigenous and indigenous australians and all sorts of indicators climate change just starting to wake up to and realise is a big problem this is what the instability has overshadowed how about these 2 main candidates themselves you've got

a bill shorten no one's really calling them inspiring. in their careers mr scott morrison is now the prime minister he's been in the job for 9 months but he's my snoring as the immigration minister who was a key figure in this very controversial border protection policy whereby migrants who were distressed arrive in australia by boat were not resettled in australia but put in camps in islands like not ruin papa new guinea and this policy logically works because the boats really stopped coming but of course the flip side to that was stories of just utter devastation out of these out of these camps rich things that were condemned around the world by human rights groups he's an evangelical christian and a social conservative to bill shorten is a former unions boss he entered parliament in 2007 but he's most non really to australians for his role. in bringing down 2 prime minister kevin rudd and then

julia gill odd so he's had a bit of a struggle sort of a getting trust from verges people are suspicious of him and he's had a bit of an uphill battle to win them over you know everyone talking about all this political instability but australians are actually calling this the climate change alexion jared hang on we just want to have a look at what some of the voters are saying in australia about the climate. pretty hard about the water out of. each other for the. reason while i think greens of them i have an odd just because climate china is so concerning and i feel like no one's really taking any serious action or making any serious moves to be very bold way with the greens mostly because where this is a time a changing environment these racial problems arise a really big one as well there really are doing what the government parties are

diving off to do because it's our nose so clearly climate a big issue there in australia why now though why is this coming to the forefront now well i think because the strategy and seeing the effects of climate change for example last year was the hottest year on record they've been fi isn't floods and droughts a drought that contributed scientists believe to the deaths of a 1000000 fish in this really critical agricultural river system there is a frustration among virtues too that. successive governments have sort of tried and failed to put in place lasting climate policy climate and energy policy is really contentious and just rather it's been behind the downfall of 3 of these prime ministers and at the moment we have a prime minister who is really behind traditional energy sources he once filled a lump of coal off and i remember that in. paloma and and basically his government

is sort of being taking business as usual approach to climate change it doesn't look like they're going to match their. obligations under the paris accord the labor opposition has had 6 years in opposition to sort of work out once what it wants to do and it's it's approaching climate change in a bit more of an ambitious in a business way and we talked about this earlier in australia voting is mandatory you have to vote i mean how does that work in the how do you just say hey you have to vote what was a system worked right so when your 18 you if you want to vote you can roll to vote and then basically after that time the electoral commission has you on record and then you go to vote compulsorily every time after that and if you don't you get fined $20.00 this is for federal elections and that figure can go up to i think around $79.00 in state elections but you know it's kind of it's a kind of

a fun day you know you go down to your local school inversion that's where the polling station is fun is always said yeah it's kind of it's turned into this sort of like fun festival atmosphere they have you know there's usually always a barbecue going at the polling station you can have what's called a democracy sausage and yeah something like 96 percent of eligible voters are registered to virgin 90 percent of them do so this is a pretty high numbers i know you're in berlin but did you vote you got to vote that's right i went to the embassy here in berlin and voted yes quickly if a new prime minister is chosen what are the chances that they will actually stick around for a while the look i think pretty well that report outlined some of the measures that the major parties have taken to make sure these internal coups. start happening for example now labor will have to have 75 percent of its caucus members to vote on a change of leadership and i think the liberals is 70 percent so it. it doesn't

require a simple majority anymore which means it will be harder to get rid of a leader and probably. things like we've seen over the last 10 years we'll you know stop being so regular ok maybe a calmer situation in australia read thanks very much. well there is now less than a week to go and so parliamentary elections here in the e.u. and just like in australia many voters say environmental concerns will decide how they vote in one recent study more than 3 quarters of people listed global warming as a key factor in policy makers are starting to pay attention but activists say there's still a long way to go i want you to panic a blunt message to the european parliament from swedish activist gratitude barrack the teenager has given the world a wake up call with her urgent appeal for climate action. the global youth movement she inspired has shifted the climate change debate forcing it both to the top of

the use agenda and party campaigning ahead of the blocks parliamentary elections next week so what is the e.u. done so far to tackle the climate crisis. in march the european parliament voted to ban single use plastics starting in 2021 as part of sweeping legislation against plastic waste that pollutes beaches and oceans. it's agreed a near total ban on insecticides that have been linked to a dramatic drop in the numbers of wild bees honeybees and other color. the e.u. parliament is pushing to put cleaner cars on europe's roads by 2030. and it wants to slash its greenhouse gases by 40 percent in the next 11 years some experts say that's not enough but right now it doesn't look like any single member state will be able to meet that target. reason enough for protestors across

europe to keep pushing for a faster climate action in brussels. arrival joining me now in studio tom he's a climate activist you're also an undergraduate students here in berlin right studying technical environmental protection. first of all thanks for joining us you're 20 years old right so this will be the 1st time you're actually eligible to vote and you elections you're taking a look at the field you're looking at these candidates and these are these i mean what do you see out there in terms of climb yeah as you can see in that record is that 40 percent is not enough so i can see no one is really taking action as it would be necessary for insight into say a greater turn back in the european parliament listen to the scientists they are not so climate is a big theme but specific action. i don't see them so you're not impressed with what the e.u. is done he was on a report there has been some some progress some measures passed right yeah but i

guess they really needed rebranding of that debate re talking about plastic and stuff but we have to talk about much more than that we have to do big change so cut down emissions and close that emission gap to 0 because we have like they said that is to go and they don't do that action. yet. what would you like to see the e.u. do to to meet these goals to cut down on c o 2 any specific action you want to see this parliament take this new parliament you have for example like they say. that emissions to 20 foot 50 that's not enough like we need to reset. $3335.00 so we need that net emissions less than that and so the e.u. is saying we will reduce these emissions by 2050 yet that's not enough or you know

it's not what you would you like to see want to see like specific actions which are comfortable to the $1.00. so just agreed growth so that would be much more than that 2050 is not enough. let's talk about the role of of students i mean you're part of of this friday's for future movement. what do you guys do every friday agree striking schools and university for example. yeah that's a real role of the world and specially in jewelry pretty bit next friday is the big next trike so yes you can see we were not strike if they were built during enough what role do you think young people playing in this is a protest movement how many weeks now of students been walking out of class in germany over like i mean it got big in january but it started in december so.

you know the climate conference researcher backed off of that we start strike him and then it got big and 15th of march was a really big day for us so it's got a bigger them what role do these kind of student protest play means you think that you had a role in in bringing climate change maybe more into the political arena here in europe yeah i guess it is that case if they say climate is the most important theme for germans right now so i guess guess life as for future as a big. they're ruling that. what is really sad they don't talk about specific actions they just talk about like should we go to school and not so i guess we just we're on the way to go to the red may 24th there's another protest being planned and this will be on the day that the

e.u. elections start right so what's going on there with the protest what are you planning there we want to be thousands futures we need to. make the. election about climate and it's not about climate because there are no specific actions so just like keep the pressure high on the political through from parties and stuff so the next 5 years a really important force so that as the start to get the european union to do specific action in the nights 5 years yet we just stopped how much confidence you have in the european parliament in the e.u. itself to do what needs to be done to take the drastic steps to cut back on see it go to emissions and to reach at the very minimum the limits that are prescribed and that these countries signed onto in the paris climate accord. how. can these

politicians get it done. yeah i guess they do otherwise we would just like get home and just enjoy the party or something but really have like a small winder of doing something and the next 5 years a really important for us so if they take action if they go out of coal for example if they just keep the gold's really strict if they force their member states then it would be possible but we need petitions who want to act now you have a specific message board the politicians what would you tell them i would listen to the scientist they're the experts and. stop talking about what we should do in 50 years talk stop talking about what we want to do to more right climate a big issue in the upcoming elections tom ponselle to climate activist and environmental protection thank you so much you're welcome.

well the u.s. state of missouri has approved a sweeping bill to ban abortions at 8 weeks of pregnancy and falls alabama which earlier this week passed for strict if anti-abortion legislation pro-choice supporters say these laws violate roe v wade that's the landmark supreme court decision in 1973 that up held a woman's right to an abortion in the u.s. they're trying to safeguard access to the procedure our correspondent helen humphrey traveled to alabama to talk with people on both sides of the divide. the out of our mistake capitol has become the latest front line in a fight for reproductive rights that most pro-choice activists thought that won in the 1970 s. inside this building republican governor kay ivy signed the bill into law and now she has a battle on her hands she has the support of proponents like the lori mullins who runs the co pregnancy center in montgomery alabama offering baby items and

parenting classes in an effort to dissuade women from seeking abortion.