the headlines: papua's starving children. as the indonesian authorities say an outbreak of measles is now under control, malnutrition is killing some of the most vulnerable. rescuers search through the snow for bodies after a russian airliner crashes near moscow, killing all 71 people on board. also in the programme. the sister of the north korean leader, kim jong—un, leaves south korea — but was her visit a propaganda coup for pyongyang? and one of india's most expensive films ever made and one of the most controversial. we speak to the star of the bollywood movie padmaavat about why the cast are getting death threats. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 9am in singapore and 1am in london. we begin the programme with an update on the shocking measles outbreak in indonesia which has killed at least 72 people — many of them children. the indonesia government says the outbreak in the remote province of papua, is now under control. but hundreds of other children

days later on the chinese thirtieth birthday four weeks later he was deported to mount a silent in papua new guinea he's been there ever since for nearly five years and it's from a man of silent that he talks to al-jazeera. for johnny thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera can we start with why you left iran back in twenty thirteen you know i fell in trouble with the government so. i were i hide myself or both more than amongst. case on friend. after that. i have a fifth some information that they are going to meet and they have some plans to do some action on me so i decided to leave it on so. i. came to a trachea. australia's government says its policy was and is necessary to deter what it's called illegal immigration it is question the motives of those arriving by boat asking why they didn't claim asylum in countries they travel through before getting on boats to australia it is suggested that those who come by boat are economic migrants rather than refugees genuinely fleeing persecution that their refusal to accept a permanent life in papua new guinea or on the tiny island nat

them to finance i'm not so i have my doubts but papua new guinea's government insists it will host asuccessful event it expects us president donald trump and chinese leader xi jinping to be among the thousands of delegates and says the nearly two hundred million dollars it's paying to host the event will be earned back in subsequent investment many times over the government's confidence is in part because the country is getting lots of assistance papua new guinea isn't having to pay the full apec costs on its own other countries are in effect subsidizing the event particularly australia and china through assistance in time into providing people security and training australia is paying between a quarter and a third of the total a pack costs it's a real struggle is having a break in poverty and that's how i would see it. but new zealand who is sending hundreds of people to help with protocol training and the chinese government built and is now renovating this second apec venue apec has become an opportunity for rival powers to get close to papua new guinea an example of the way the re

a7.5 magnitude earthquake took place on monday in papua new guinea. day. this follows a 5.5 earthquake off japan on sunday. earlier this month, taiwan was hit by a quake in the town of hualien where the bodies of last two victims of the disaster have finally been removed. and just last week, we also also saw a couple of earthquakes close to new zealand. so are earthquakes happening more frequently, especially in the asia pacific region? and if so, why? well, earlier i spoke to gary gibson, founder of the seismology research centre. who is also the principal research fellow for seismology at the university of melbourne. first, iasked him if all this seismic activity is somehow related. one of the things about earthquakes is that they cluster. we have periods where were they aren't active and periods where they are active. we had 14 years from 1977 with only one magnitude eight earthquake in the world and the last 14 years, we had one a year. they vary. overall, though, i don't think there's any... increase in the actual rate. we're just hearing about t

new guinea as well west papua and that's just the same for the next two days we still have the remains of what is now tropical depression was briefly a tropical storm in central philippines it's somewhere in this mass here that is most likely it so that's increased share activity for southern vietnam maybe it's a thailand it's the wrong time of the year and mostly it's a dry pictures you can see the forecast for thirty three in bangkok active weather once again in the northwest of australia that is yet an unnamed and undeveloped tropical storm but it's there's a tropical depression is already increased the amount of rain and that's where the focus of really wet weather will be australia for the next day or two there are still big showers on the coast of queensland you'll notice and it's still not as warm as you might like in melbourne or adelaide but at least for the most part it is sunny. in india five million children have genius level i.q. but most live in poverty and go undiscovered when one use means two child geniuses fighting for their chance to shine at this time when al-jazeer

most refugees held a man a silent in papua new guinea was sent in twenty thirteen so this year most will mark five years in what they call australia's remote island prison that particular word isn't used in a report by a regional protection officer for the united nations high commissioner for refugees but after a visit to mannus his language is just as strong he found a pervasive and worsening sense of despair among refugees and asylum seekers a sense of desolation people would be walking around their faces will be downcast they're looking at the ground and not many people are going out of rico's cell sado says the need for medical care mental health support and trauma counseling is critical and unmet but really the refugees shouldn't be on man as a tool it's up to the country which sent them to papua new guinea to find them safe long term homes elsewhere australia ultimately has responsibility for the welfare and for dissolutions poor people outside of. some refugees have flown to the united states under a resettlement deal australia reached while barack obama was in office but most hav

usually it is only a usually a local phenomenon and a large earthquakes in papua new guinea will thaty and earthquake reporting, part of which you do, is becoming far more sophisticated, so is there a sense that perhaps there is a perception that perhaps there is a perception that earthquakes are happening more frequently because the technology has gotten so good? desk. nowadays, we have a lots of data sharing. —— yes. technology has enhanced. we sure that's online. normally, we can get preliminary locations of the earthquakes within about 20 minutes of them occurring. basically, you are saying you cannot predict when the next big one will take place? no. i'm sorry we can't do that yet. i don't think we ever will, really. most earthquakes happen under the blue and with no indication that anything is to happen. some of them have four shocks and a few of them in continental region seem to have unusual activity for a better year beforehand were a few years. most of them come out of the blue. what would you suggest as a seismologist, what kind of safeguards can be put in place to potentia

monisha says there are more species of flora and fauna in the rainforest of papua new guinea than in all of europe. the forest covers seventy percent of the land and it's home to more than twenty thousand species of plants fifteen hundred species of trees three thousand species of insects and more than seven hundred fifty species of birds that makes it a vital part of the world's natural heritage. as this is a magic plant to seduce women. in france i'm underage is interpreted in his homeland he teaches me about the secrets of the forest. me one of the amount of the forest and to be honest i have no clue about filming one to much that's why we are accompanied by a film crew. here in françois are using all kinds of unusual cameras to help me tell my story. to us the forest is like a supermarket with everything we need to live. through it seeds leaves mushrooms he comes in all kinds of edible and otherwise useful plants . need he like the nickie leaves that stimulate the circulation and relax the muscles after a long hike through the forest. or rot on bombs. which we call. stripped of i

the headlines: papua's starving children.f measles is now under control, malnutrition is killing some of the most vulnerable. rescuers search through the snow for bodies after a russian airliner crashes near moscow killing all 71 people on board. i'm sharanjit leyl in london. also in the programme: the sister of the north korean leader, kim jong—un, leaves south korea, but was her visit a propaganda coup for pyongyang? and one of india's most expensive films ever made and one of the most controversial. we speak to the star of the bollywood movie, padmaavat, about why the cast are getting death threats.

most refugees held on man a silent in papua new guinea were sent there in twenty thirteen so this year most will mark five years in what they call australia's remote island prison that particular word isn't used in a report by a regional protection officer for the united nations commission on human rights but after a visit to minus his language is just the strong he found a pervasive and worsening sense of despair among refugees and asylum seekers a sense of desolation people would be walking around their faces will be downcast they're looking at the ground not many people are going out of. rico cell sado says the need for medical care mental health support and trauma counseling is critical and unmet but really the refugees shouldn't be on man as a tool it's up to the country which sent them to papua new guinea to find them safe long term homes elsewhere australia ultimately has responsibility for the welfare and for dissolutions for people outside of. some refugees have flowed into the united states under a resettlement deal australia reached while barack obama was in office but most

aiming to more than double exports from papua new guinea. sydney. set the stageat for what you can do for the remaining three quarters of this year. obviously, 2017 results were driven by our record fields,on in our oil a good start.s high-cost cost control, obviously driven by a significant increase is in both gas and oil prices. 21% to 24% up on the previous year. that gives us a very strong position financially and operationally, and a great platform to further expand their business, concentrating in papua bringinea, but also to out our new alaskan oil assets into development. yousef: i'm looking here at some of the details of recent cooperation. you are looking at cooperation with exxon mobil and total. this cooperation -- how is that coming along and when we going to see some of the gas come to market? we have got their strong relationships built over many years with exxon mobil. exxon mobil has done and extending -- an outstanding job bringing that to market in an operational sense. in recent times, sitting with weh total and exxon mob

newcrest have gone to papua new guinea. the largest mine is in new guinea.imes, companies have to look to different parts of the world. one thing newcrest has done is invested in a junior mining gold, whiched soul is seeking to prove up which could be a very big new copper and gold project in ecuador. you find some of these gold companies going to what you might say our frontier markets in the hope they can find some decent growth. ecuador is going to be -- could be a big place for newcrest in the next couple of years. haslinda: brett foley, thank you so much for joining us today. well, india is coming online shortly. futures pointing to a higher open after a close -- closing lower. banks pretty much in focus. now, the r.b.i. has entered a stricter timeline for banks to recall bad loans. nse futures pretty much in line with the rest of asia, which is pretty much a shrugging off the insulation data out of the u.s. overnight. taking a look at asian stocks, green across the board. set to join us. this is bloomberg. ♪ haslinda: and he has markets are just gettin

in papua new guinea sound line or arrested at the airport shuttle spicer is facing firearms charges linked to his visit to provide south african trade routes reason to put down local report. sign. the line eventually collapsed on the way to bet of just the ones that say you know in the short term you can say that was the most successful company in terms of delivering an enormous amount of money to his shuttles and civils to invest. in a career where he was able to find what would then become one of the most significant for them if you took me in the world. he just. went on a level occurred everything. the contractor content of the armed forces went up astronomically at this hour american and coalition forces were in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq . ideologically republicans my party wanted every single public function to be scrutinized analyzed evaluated and if possible privatized general shinseki the head of the us army at the time testified to congress and said if we're going to do iraq it's going to take several hundred thousand u.s. troops and very quickly the r

the headlines: papua's starving children.ak of measles is now under control, malnutrition is killing some of the most vulnerable. rescuers search through the snow for bodies after a russian airliner crashes near moscow, killing all 71 people on board. also in the programme. the sister of the north korean leader, kim jong—un, leaves south korea — but was her visit a propaganda coup for pyongyang? and one of india's most expensive films ever made and one of the most controversial. we speak to the star of the bollywood movie padmaavat about why the cast are getting death threats. live from our

through towards east timor and as far as west papua we're seeing some big storms at the moment but up through the all the way from singapore towards bangkok it is looking draw and fine with plenty of sunshine and it's expected to stay that way as a head through into saturday with thirty four somites from in bangkok now as you head down into a stray you see this massive cloud across the top end and this is got a potential to develop into a tropical cycle which we call kevin when it forms can use some very wet weather across parts of northern territory into the kimberley elsewhere then we've got to find conditions for sydney in the forecast with temperatures expect to reach twenty eight there on friday we're going to see some rain developing across parts of western australia person looking fine conditions on friday but there will be some rain developing later on saturday heading across into new see them awaiting for the arrival of what will be former cycling peter and i'll bring some heavy rain on monday. while the world's rich take what they want the world's poor must beg to survive fr

generally weather conditions not looking too bad once you get further towards the east towards west papua then the showers show that once again now as we move through the malay pincher we've got a scattering of showers here but generally fine conditions for kuala lumpur want to see showers in the gulf of thailand but i think for bangkok for much of the time it should be dry and fine and fine conditions across southern parts of both cambodia and through into central and southern vietnam let's head down into a strait where we have trough of low pressure given the threat of showers or the cross western areas through up across northern territory and into queens there was still risk of some severe storms so there's the forecast heavy showers along the coast of queensland for the south it should be fine in sydney on an outlay with temperatures of thirty two degrees but we get a change of wind direction more from the south westerly as we head through wednesday so certainly will be turned will be cooler but still funniness to melbourne with temperatures thirty one and then for new zealand general

portion the indonesian archipelago looking pretty wet all the way from java through towards the west papua some big storms are likely here thirty year high and carter but moving northwards through them in a plane sure through so much up into thailand it's all looking draw and fire and it should stay that way through to least the end of saturday but then you might just see this area of rain pushing into southern parts of vietnam later on certainly through toward sunday south asia largely fine picture here to do a bit of mist across northern areas but no significant fork at the moment so looking draw and fine it should be fine in sri lanka don't think we'll see any sherratt to vittie here so we're looking at plenty of sunshine for new delhi with the might soon temperature here of twenty six. the weather sponsored by cats are always. a life time of emulation struck by stroud copying the master selling reproductions can pay the bills but frustrate the artist . a pilgrimage to discover his hero inspires an awakening that it's more a boarding to create them to imitate. dreaming of vincent a witn

aftershocks continue to rattle papua new guinea after a powerful earthquake list at least fourteen people dead monday's seven point five magnitude quake caused landslides and several buildings to collapse in the country's remote highlands a five point seven magnitude quake hit on chews day local media reporting as many as thirty people were killed. and censor chief faces a new warning from three woman who like her are nobel peace prize winners they. had to condemn the violence against raising the refugees or possibly face prosecution for genocide this comes of the un's human rights council in geneva said to hear from him as minister of international cooperation in the coming hours catching appears already on the latest. accounts of violence and bloodshed now victims share their stories with three nobel peace laureates irish peace activists wire is one of the peace prize winners visiting intervention camps she is urging lawnmowers leader aung san suu kyi to visit some of the country's most affected areas i would like to go went to burma to visit our sister laura to ask her sister laureate

telecommunications cable which will ensure connectivity and bring new opportunities for our neighbours in papua new guinea and the solomon islands. our vision is for a singlen inclusive free trade zone of the indo-pacific. a region integrated under a common set of rules and norms that connect us all to one another and which will drive growth and job creation. it's vital that strategic competition does not createio rival economic blocs. we look forward to partneringic with all countries including the united states, japan and china on those infrastructure projects that meet the criteria of transparency, fairness, accountability and market need. that's also how we constrain large states from imposing arbitrary barriers and engaging in economic coercion against the small.y security and prosperity, they go hand in hand, but we need to shape the rules that are necessary to make this happen. we need to level the playing field for private sector companies, update the rules of the digital world and ensure greater transparency andct stronger rule of law in a world which is often short of both.an and that

and operationally, and a great platform to further expand our business concentrated in public -- in papuall also deal to bring our alaskan oil assets into development. yousef: i am looking at some of the details on the recent corporation. how is this coming along, which -- along, and when are we going to see some of the gas come to market? >> look, we have a very strong relationships built over many years with exxon mobil, exxon mobil has done an outstanding job bringing that to market. in recent times, sitting with the companies, we have been discussing the concepts for a -- for further lng expansion. we announced today that concept involves the development of two trains on behalf of the companies. there will also be a volume that is going to have a third train totaling three trains and 8 million tons. that concept will be taken to our respective joint venture partners in the next few weeks. then to the png government were -- government where we anticipate sitting down with them and finalized agreements, the fiscal issues, etc. that can lead to a potential decision at the end of this yea

al-jazeera follows one man's fight to stop the eviction of three thousand people from contested land in papua new guinea witness is up next more news for you after that to stay with us. i don't know. if you want. to give me any. point joe. to know that if you're getting your voicemail messages but i was going to let you know that the police to have put out a press release calling for your arrest and claiming you discharged a firearm. of course through a lorry just so you know keep safe and talk to used to choose to fight. at the moment straight up on this interview i would not be saved i would still be hiding on my name is. still there was in the following and then only looking for opportunity struck me. origin. so it's really scary yes if i get into the cells so i don't think my safety would be good. so that's i think entry to me then they go off as though. my did was a chink in the. enormous dulce mae that. as long as one by you must all of us. that is going to. see one. of us. we look at the story and it is a little bit. i don't know or or of. course that's the. best that they want to buy

that guy from papua new guinea, the power he had, he rocked me to my boots. what a powerful guy.t's pretty... it's pretty devastating. it can shake you to your boots, literally. it's a tough business. i was embarrassed last night, i was beaten in the wrestling. she won! thank you for coming on and talking to us. i think george will win tonight. mike, thank you as well. let's have a look at the weather now. we have got a bit of cloud, a few spots of rain but for many people, seems a bit like this. we've got some blue skies around, we have a weather front reducing some outbreaks of rain, so sunny spells. by outbreaks of rain, so sunny spells. by tomorrow more cloud moving in from the west and the arrival of some rain heading into the west later tomorrow. but let's look at today's weather in more detail. the satellite image shows the cloud that's been streaming in overnight. behind that, clearer skies moving in. we have a weather front draped across central parts of the country, bringing back cloud, a few spots of rain. but either side of that, drier and brighter weather. it was a c

modern life is threatening the existence of a tribe in a remote jungle region of indonesia people in papua are blaming the government for not doing enough to help them not a serious step faster report stuff from our guts on the plight of the asthma people . children in this remote part of eastern indonesia are dying of disease and hunger. outbreak is claiming lives infecting children's bodies week from malnutrition decades ago people were proud and feared worriers well known for head hunting and cannibalism those traditions have now gone and only on this play in museums but the rest of the tribes unique culture is also in danger of being lost with. our culture must not disappear we have abolished bad traditions and are focused on the good parts of our culture we still like killing and eating people that was clearly not a good sign of our culture but our sculptures our cultural festivals we need to protect them they can't disappear the bad things have been taken by the winners of . modern day good stuff replace what nature used to provide in the jungle instant noodles and ice cream are on t