that camera is and a shambles and speaking of vision 2 days ago a former prime minister died his name was bob hawke and. you're in the eighties and putting into place some really important political and social and economic reforms and regardless of people's political stripes i think over the last few days the strains 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 lead yeah but someone who lived with purpose who had these ideas and because what this instability has done it's. really important issues like the gaps between non-indigenous and indigenous australians and all sorts of indicators climate change which is 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 not that high in their

careers mistakes 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 would arrive in australia by boat were not resettled in australia. put in camps in islands like nauru and papa new guinea and this policy largely worked 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 too 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 at getting trust from verges he's be 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 worried about the. future for the. us a reason while i think brings up the i.m.f. odd just because climate china she's so concerning and i feel like no one's really taking any serious action or making any serious moves to be very bold labor with the greens mostly because where this is a climate change and i'm going to these racial problems as a really big one as well there really are you know about doing what the government praties on 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 all of climate change for example last year was the hottest year on record there have been fires and 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 versions 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 held a lump of coal off and i remember that in palm and and basically he's government is sort of. 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 vicious 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 has 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 astray in dollars 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 and versions 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 and you're in berlin but did you vote you got your 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 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 reed thanks very much. well there is now less than a week to go until 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 e.u. policymakers 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 and 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 e.u.'s 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 protesters across europe to keep pushing for 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 he's already has i mean what do you see out there in terms of climb yeah as you can see in that record it's like 40 percent so i can see no one is really taking action as there would be necessary. insight into say a grifter turn back in the european parliament listen to the scientists they are not so climate is a big theme specific action. i don't see them. with what the e.u. is done he was on report there has been some some progress some measures passed right yeah but i guess i really need to 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 say that it's a 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 through 20 foot 50 that's not enough like we need to reset $3335.00 so we need that net emissions less than that and the e.u. is saying we will reduce these emissions by 2050 yet that's not enough or you know it's not good you like to see want to see like specific actions which are

comfortable to the 1.5. this degree go with so that would be much more than that 2050 is not enough. let's talk about the role of of students in your part of of this friday's for future movement tell me about that what do you guys do every friday agree striking schools and university for example is there a yeah that's a we're all over the world and specially in europe reproduce it 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 with cruiser to back off of that we started writing

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 protests play means you think that you had a role in in bringing climate change maybe more into the political arena here in in in europe yeah i guess it is that case. they say climate is the most important theme for germans right now so i guess guess life for us for future as a big. their rule in that. what is really sad they don't talk about specific actions they just talk about like should we go to school or 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 protest what are you planning.

we want to be thousands because we need to. make the. election about climate and it's not about climate because there's no specific actions so just like keep the pressure high on the politico through from parties and so the next 5 years a really important force so that as the studs to get the european union to do specific action in the night 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. so how much how confident are you can can these politicians get it done. yeah i guess they do

otherwise we would just like thet home and just enjoy the party or something but we 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 golds really strict if they forced their member states then it would be possible but we need politicians who want to act now you have a specific message for the politicians what would you tell them i would so listen to the scientist they are the experts and. stop talking about what we should do in 50 years talk stop talking about what we want to do tomorrow all right climate a big issue in the upcoming elections tom climate activists and environmental protections to hear thanks very much you're welcome.

well the u.s. state of missouri has approved a sweeping bill to ban abortions at 8 weeks of pregnancy it follows 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 upheld 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 capital has become the latest front line in a fight for reproductive rights that most pro-choice activists thought they had 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 lightly 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 abortions like the

bill itself she sees no exceptions even in the case of rape or incest if you believe that at conception it is a person then you have to believe that all life is sacred how i was conceived has no should have no impact on the value of my life why would you protect lives. and say except yours yours is not now in the case of incest that is a really really difficult discussion to have it's never right there is no good answer but at the same time the way the law is now and we see it all the time if a child is being molested and she becomes pregnant at 13 or 14 or 15 the family takes her to have an abortion the only person who wins in that scenario is the person who was abusing her while proponents of the text want it to include few exceptions to see it potentially go all the way up to the supreme court and

maybe even overturn roe v wade itself opponents of the bill accuse state will make his of playing politics with women's bodies one of them is margo hotline dressed as a handmade the pro-choice activists protested on the steps of the state government as the bill was passed and my. personal stake in this is that i was for 3 years a victim of continuous sexual assaults and i did think that i was pregnant when i think about someone who might be in the situation that i was and isn't able to. escape from that her stuck you're stuck with your rapists baby and currently with her new 3 abortion clinics in the entire state choices already seem limited.