at a press conference after meeting with new zealand prime minister jacinda ardern, mr turnbull said considered in future. let's speak now to our correspondent phil mercer, who's in sydney. phil, first of all, explained the background to this detention centre. —— explain. it was first opened in 2001 and a few years later it was closed, it was reopened in 2012 to house asylum seekers who were intercepted by australia trying to reach this country by c. last year the supreme court in papua new guinea said that the detention facility on manus island was unconstitutional. —— country by c. 0n unconstitutional. —— country by c. on tuesday australia effectively walked away, turning out the lights, but around 600 men still inside are refusing to leave, they're refusing to go to auldana did community accommodation because they believe it will be too dangerous. —— alternative. they say they have been attacked by locals in recent months and that's why they are refusing to walk out of the gates a few days after it officially closed. the detention centre is rather controversial within australia an

mr turnbull has long resisted labour opposition calls for a royal commission into misconduct and thating political pressure. the big banks previously we re pressure. the big banks previously were also against any enquiry but in a letter to the treasurer shortly before mr turnbull‘s announcement, the big format, anz, commonwealth, national australia bank and westpac, admitted it was now in the national interest. —— let the big four. asked if the year—long enquiry on the banks could undermine the australian economy. confidence in the banks have an undermined by their actions and the scandals in the last couple of years. i think the ceos of the big four banks and mcquarrie would hope that this would draw line under that lack of confidence that were starting to build. —— macquarie. our economy is doing well so on balance, i don't think it will. and after the news broke, the share price dropped roughly 1.5%. currently, national australia bank and westpac shares are trading in positive territory. bumpy ride. good to see you. let's go to india now — it releases gdp figures in a few hours tim

it is not a done deal yet but mr turnbull is promising legislation will go before parliament in the notsome of the other stories making the news.... thousands of iranians made homeless by sunday's earthquake have spent a third night without shelter. president hasan rouhani visited some of the worst affected areas in the remote, mountainous region on tuesday, promising more aid. at least 460 people died in the quake. at least five people, including a gunman, have been killed in a shooting at an elementary school in northern california. several people including three children were injured in the shooting at the rancho tehama school. the gunman is said to have fired randomly until two police officers killed him. a us airline says it is stopping flights to cuba because of new restrictions on travel to the island introduced by the trump administration. alaska airlines began operating direct flights between los angeles and havana injanuary. world leaders meet in bonn today for the first big international environmental meeting since donald trump pledged to pull the us out of the paris climate

the australian government is barreling to pressure to crack down on banks behaving badly by mr malcolm turnbull's says an independent inquiry will help restore confidence to the sector following a string of scandals australia's banks stand accused of providing misleading financial advice avoiding life insurance payouts by using outdated medical definitions as well as rate rigging and failing to follow anti money laundering rules now australian prime minister malcolm turnbull is heeding calls by other parties as well as members of his own government to start an official inquiry. this trial ins deserve and expect the highest levels of service and accountability and for the vast majority that's exactly what they receive. since the financial crisis however there have been examples of misconduct by financial institutions some of them extremely serious and that's demanded a response from the institutions themselves and from government australian treasurer scott morrison wanted to dissipate any fears about an inquiry by sending investors a positive message. astride his banks are unquestionably strong no

let's get more on that story for you let's see the comments from the australian prime minister mr turnbull. staying there is obviously designed they think this is somewhere they can pressure the australian government to let them come to australia well we will not be pressured i want to be very clear about this our border security the integrity of our borders is maintained by my government it is maintained by my government and we will not outsource our migration policy to people smugglers the people on menace should go to the places alternative places of safety with all of the facilities they need they should do so peacefully and they should do so you know accordance with the lawful directions of poppy new guinea weeks is the country in which the center is like a good. well patrick mcgorry is a professor of us mental health of the university of melbourne he says them and aren't getting access to the psychological treatment they need. these men are chronically suicidal they are extremely demoralized after four years of incarceration with no real hope about their future and even though they j

same sex marriage results of a postal survey found more than sixty percent support the measure mr malcolm turnbull promised to make same sex marriage legal if a majority backed the idea. now russia's defense ministry has been accused of lying after releasing what it calls evidence of the us working alongside eisel it turns out the footage was taken from a video game or a challenge reports from moscow. when russia's ministry of defense accused the united states on tuesday of affectively collaborating with i still in syria it wasn't the first time that it had made such accusations but this time it said it had irrefutable proof photos which were put out on the ministry of defense as facebook and twitter accounts grainy drone images apparently of a convoy being left alone by u.s. forces but it didn't take too long for eagle eyed observers on social media organizations like the citizen journalists belling katz and conflicts intelligence team to see that they had noticed these images before and actually they weren't what they were training they had come from what he was one of them from a mobile phone c

prime minister malcolm turnbull as well as the japanese. they told north korea and trade mr tramples i spake to the nations present. where the white house says they discussed human rights and the philippine on drugs . ok let's go live to our correspondent who's at that summit rob bride what ship least specifically be looking out for then clearly to president trump is going to have a very sympathetic ear when he mentions his thoughts on north korea. well that's right this is a very receptive audience asked as he and talking about the north korean missile program the asean nations have expressed their alarm of that program and it has to be remembered martin that this week we see a significant milestone if you like it's going to be sixty days tomorrow that we have not had a missile launch a missile test by north korea now this is led to all kinds of speculation at the moment that possibly north korea might be creating the kind of conciliatory atmosphere that might just lead to some sort of dialogue and what's a way to this is recent statements by north korea about trump's visit

the sidelines of the summit he met prime minister malcolm turnbull of australia as well as japan's leadership they talk north korea and trade mr trump also explained to the essay on host president ronald reagan to turn tail and they talked about human rights and the philippine war on drugs saudi arabia's mission to the united nations has announced that the saudi led coalition will begin reopening airports and seaports in yemen this comes as the u.s. joined international calls to end the blockade that's worsening a severe food shortage saudi tightened the measures on saturday after a missile was fired from yemen to hit his say it was homemade all right here today those are the latest headlines for us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's inside story. with documentaries and bring your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. what does donald trump and really think about russian links to his election u.s. president says he believes vladimir putin's denials but also except cia confirmation of meddling is he trying to influence the criminal investigations that could lead to impeachment and paying lip service to moscow this is inside stor

mr. speaker, i thank the honorable member for the question sincerely. i appreciate the opportunity to provide an update today in relation to the situation. prime minister's own aon turbo inet -- prime minister's o'neill and turnbull announced earlier this year that the compound would be closed in october. dwindlede population quite dramatically, not as quick we haveuld want, but been given this difficult situation and we are in the process of reading it up -- cleaning it up. we have the ability to transfer some people to the [indiscernible] in the original processing center. the population is 606. , 141.n-refugees we have the ability in the new facility at hillside house to accommodate 198 people who have been found to be refugees. at the moment, in the regional processing center, there's 141. those people will move into hillside house. there is the ability for refugees, the balance of the 606, to move from the regional processing center into another facility. -- we want to do it as quickly as possible. underage it with the united states was achieved to process 1200 people to move off naru. noting there are no women and children on menace, we have already had an uptick of 53 people between menace and our room --