we believe there may be 90 people having been abducted. >> alan johnson there.o to the rest of the news. the australian prime minister tony abbott launched an attack on the human rights commission following the publication of why sexual assault harms child detainees. he says the inquiry has been a political stitch up. >>> the british house of law allows -- the first country in the world to practice this method of conception. they voted to legalize the practice earlier this month. >>> black rats have always been blamed for spreading the plague. now scientists say gerbils may have been responsible. those are conditions in which the population of gerbils and the fleas living in them. >>> let's go to greece now. the country submitted a list of reforms to the international to try to secure a four-month loan extension. the greek government wants to get rid of austerity measures under the bailout program. it can raise billions of euros. earlier, our correspondent gave us a look. >> reporter: it's meant to tackle hughtarian crisis. for example, they said they will provi

the bbc alan johnson is in the city where the trial is being held. how's it going? >> reporter: david in the last hour, we had the man at the very center of this affair address the court for one last time. he was speaking in the moment before the judges were to leave and go and consider their verdict. in the aftermath of the disaster after it became apparent he had abandoned his ship when so many passengers were still in danger the captain became something of a hate figure here in italy. speaking in court he complained of his treatment at the hands of the media. he said it had put him through what he described as a meat grinder. the captain is by nature a rather confident swaggering figure, you might say and there was an element of his personality on show in court today when he said there had been improvements in security arrangements for cruise ships as a result of his disaster and he seemed to seemed to suggest he almost deserved credit for that but he struck a different much more remorseful contrite tone when he said on the night of the disaster parts of him had

the bbc's alan johnson has been following the trial. i spoke to him about how the proceedings are moving along. >> reporter: well this trial has gone on now for well over a year and a half. as i speak, it is at last in its final session. at the start of the day, the man at the center of it all, the captain, walked into court to follow events. we're expecting his lawyer to speak and then we're expecting the captain himself to take the stand one final time and make an appeal to the judges. everything, really is at stake for this man. the prosecution has accused him of multiple manslaughter and demanded he be given 26 years in jail. but the captain has always argued that he's been unfairly singled out for blame here. he says others must share the responsibility. for example, he says the helmsman, the sailor actually steering the ship as she approached the rocks was slow to carry out a crucial command. the captain says other senior officers around him on the bridge should have alerted him and should have spoken up about the coming danger bu

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johnson. >> on the next "washington journal," alan gomez of "usa today" discusses the decision of a federaludge temporarily block president obama's executive action on immigration and the president's reaction. more about the blocking of the executive action and the possibility of a dhs shutdown and a look ahead to the 2016 election. our guest is rebecca berg. a bus tour of historically black colleges and universities continues with brian johnson president of tuskegee university. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. former defense secretary william cohan sits down to discuss the future of defense wednesday looking at issues like the situation ukraine, the civil wars in yemen and libya, and pandemic diseases. we will have live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern from the center for american progress here on c-span. >> c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. this weekend we have partnered with time warner cable for a visit to greensboro, north carolina. >> after months

alan aldridge chancellor of the philadelphia bar association, and a decorated marine who served in the vietnam war. and nikki johnsono was once homeless herself and is now a national leader and role model in solving homelessness across america. she also serves ton board of project home a nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness in philadelphia. thanks so much for all three of you joining me here today. professor simcox tell us what your advocacy clinic does and what are the challenges that you're hearing from veterans that you're working with? >> well pat, first, thanks for having me on. a decade ago, when my husband and i got off active duties we filed for his benefits and we messed it up entirely. and he hates us when we tell that story, because he says it makes it sounds like we're really bad lawyers, but in fact we're not. so the reason i tell that story is to let people know how difficult it is to do this. if two jag attorneys can't figure oit out, how is a veteran with posttraumatic stress or brain injury going to do that? so we decided to figure oit out. and today i run the clinic at stetson university's cl