access to the event and the detention by police of one of the few journalists who was allowed in andrew thomas reports from sydney. the leaders of pacific island countries have a lot of issues to discuss climate change and rising sea levels disaster preparedness the vulnerable fish stocks and the growing influence of china all those issues are on the pacific island forums agenda but all that being overshadowed by where the forum is happening tiny no room is one of the two places australia's government to send and held for years refugees who've tried to get its shores man aside and in papua new guinea is the other unless the international human rights watch and united nations agencies have all condemned conditions on the island australia's refugee council and its asylum seeker resource center has just published a joint report it says poor living conditions on the roof and the lack of a long term plan for the families being held has left refugees including children broken nauru's government and some think australia is too sensitive to the criticism most refugees support organizations aren't allo

event and indeed the detention by police of one of the few journalists who've been allowed in andrew thomasreports from sydney. the leaders of pacific island countries have a lot of issues to discuss climate change and rising sea levels disaster preparedness vulnerable fish stocks and the growing influence of china all those issues are on the pacific island forums agenda but all that being overshadowed by where the forum is happening tiny no room is one of the two places australia's government to send and held for years refugees who've tried to get its shores man aside and in papua new guinea is the other i missed the international human rights watch and united nations agencies have all condemned conditions on the islands australia's refugee council and its asylum seeker resource center has just published a joint report it says poor living conditions on the roof and the lack of a long term plan for the families being held has left refugees including children broken nauru's government and some think australia is too sensitive to the criticism most refugees support organizations aren't allowe

media access to the event and the detention by police of one of the few journalists allowed in andrew thomas report from sydney. the leaders of pacific island countries have a lot of issues to discuss climate change and rising sea levels disaster preparedness vulnerable fish stocks and the growing influence of china all those issues are on the pacific island forums agenda but all are being overshadowed by where the forum is happening tiny know ruis one of the two places australia's government to send and held for years refugees who've tried to get its shores man aside and in papua new guinea is the other and this the international human rights watch and united nations agencies have all condemned conditions on the island australia's refugee council and its asylum seeker resource center has just published a joint report it says poor living conditions on the roof and the lack of a long term plan for the families being held has left refugees including children broken naruse government and some think australia is too sensitive to the criticism most refugees support organizations aren't allowed to

someone of being a witch murders of so-called which is our problem across parts of the country andrew thomas has been to done more to meet the woman who's led the campaign for change today she runs a shop but ten years ago and jolly has young's husband supported as a young mother and her child but when he got cancer and died and she rebuffed those who wanted to take his place she was accused of being a cannibalistic which a group of people beat her she nearly died one of those that the men shouted she's been eating humans hold her down beat out for the beat to be mercilessly i keep thinking about that dee it was the worst of my late and. no one has ever been punished for the attack and she had wasn't the first twenty years ago drunk men accused daily rubber of poisoning her husband one swung an axe others stripped her naked and chased her down the street. it's a two thousand and six people said put domi rubber and put a spell on her sick neighbor she says dozens of villages attacked her with sticks screaming today you will die bloodied she was forced onto a bus to another state she had to pa

been dumped millions of dollars worth of orders have been cancelled and exports are now on hold andrew thomas has more from sydney. this is again a way to go when a customer bought upon it like this one and found needles inside two of the strawberries that was traced back to a packing shed a particular farm where it looks as though at the scrum through employee that put needles inside the strawberries it looked as though that was a one off but since then they have been reports of eight other incidents in places runs across australia now one or two of those may be customers making things up but it certainly looks as though they've also been incidents whether at the packing stage on the farms or whether it's people putting needles into strawberries as they are sitting on shelves it's not clear but regardless of the cools the consequences for the strawberry industry in australia a huge it's a hundred million dollars a year industry and it's already suffering from a glass of stall breeze this is the high production time of year it's been a particularly strong year for production but that means pr

australian outlets boycotted the summit after the national broadcaster was banned from attending andrew thomas has more from sydney. it was a big garden for is the big annual meeting for leaders from across the pacific to discuss the big issues that face the more things like climate change the existential threats that rising sea levels pose fisheries fish stocks across the pacific very low they need to be managed carefully improving health outcomes across the pacific and balancing regional stability the balance between the united states and its allies on the one hand and the increasing interests of china across the pacific on the other those are all things that will be on the formal agenda but of course all this is being overshadowed by the destination for this year's forum no room famous for the place that australia same's many of the refugees that have tried to come to its shores by boat and now held there in many cases for over five years journalists allowed to go to the route to report on the refugee issues and most journalists including me have been banned from attending this year specifi

know i'm starting to be an almost ten thousand fans went to the game and as our correspondent andrew thomas discovered many believe the jamaican can succeed in his new sports. a minor pre-season friendly against a team of amateurs this was not the sort of match that would normally attract much attention or much of a crowd but this was different for one reason alone i. say this is around. the same belt is a sports megastar just not seen this sport as an athlete he won gold medals and broke a limb pick records in beijing london and rio as a footballer his debut was here at the central coast stadium in gosford an australian city a fewer than two hundred thousand about eighty kilometers north of sydney i think he actually has a lot to live but i really want that. the average guy put itself in every orifice. bolt has done previous trial periods with the dortmund in germany and at clubs in norway and south africa he's also played in charity game. with television shifts but this was his first match for a professional club even though he wasn't playing in a professional capacity the match was again

australia that's turned a growing health scare into a major crisis for the country's fruit industry as andrew thomas has the story from sydney. this is again a way to go when a customer bought a planet like this one and found needles inside two of the strawberries that was traced back to a packing shed a particular farm where it looks as though at the scrum through employee that put needles inside the strawberries it looked as though that was a one off but since then they have been reports of eight other incidents in places runs across australia now one or two of those may be customers making things up but it certainly looks as though they've also been coping incidents whether at the packing stage on the farms or whether it's people putting needles into strawberries as they are sitting on food market shelves it's not clear that regardless of the cools the consequences for the strawberry industry in australia a huge it's a hundred million dollars a year industry and it's already suffering from a glass of strawberries this is the high production time of year it's been a particularly strong year for pr

presentations continue people in the to be persuaded that believing in witchcraft only spells trouble andrew thomas al-jazeera more state india. myanmar's government leader aung sang suu kyi has been stripped of another award for failing to act of violence committed by her military m.p.'s in canada decided unanimously to strip her of the citizenship a un report accused me and miles military of committing genocide and war crimes against range of muslims forcing hundreds of thousands of them to flee across the border to bangladesh last year. a liberian court has issued arrest warrants for dozens of former officials of the central bank and the son of former president ellen johnson sirleaf shipments of new notes worth more than one hundred million dollars went missing after passing through the country's main ports missing cash is roughly equivalent to five percent of the country's g.d.p. antigovernment protesters had marched in the capital chanting bring back our money . i want to the world's biggest budget airlines ryanair has canceled around two hundred fifty flights it's disrupted travel plans for f

an andrew thomas in assam state india across rural parts of this country many people still believe in witchcraft now a new level of pain passed to stop the murders and some asides but all too often one of the accusations. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. how all the big weather in europe is happening top and tail north and south of iraq there's clearly a lot of cloud going through here and the circulation in the mediterranean two different effects so first of all this is although fairly windy mainly a wet features when estonia sixty four the. he says rain but in the last twenty four hours we've had a severe go blowing of the black sea in particular answer the gene giving seventy to ninety kilometers per hour winds has caused a certain amount of damage and that's all because of what developing in the mediterranean will come to in just a second now for mainland europe you still got this rather cold bit of it pushing down the rain's going to go eastwards and moscow's fourteen drops to rather lower temps the day after down to nine the same tim

immigration from bangladesh and the state government says the exercise is to identify eagle residents andrew thomas says this from longer gown in. now india supreme courts has. held people go about appealing not being on the list the idea is that people across the states will go regional offices to prove their citizenship but that is easy. said than done in some remote villages like this one nine out of ten people are not on the list and next simply don't have the financial means to go about proving less of this and yet in fact this even bigger than that they might not have the paperwork that proves that not all these people have birth certificates and lawyers if they need them are expensive so people here are concerned that even with the formal appeals process now in place at the end of this process they may remain off the list and that may render them stateless surreal and divorced from reality that's how the chairman of a united nations fact finding mission has characterized me and miles for you more than a year of turmoil and violence at home more than six hundred thousand refugees fled to me a

crisis for the industry more and more contaminated fruit have been found since across the country andrew thomas reports. this strawberry scare began a way to go when a customer bought a punnet like this one and found needles inside two of the strawberries that was traced back to a packing shed a particular farm where it looks as though at the scrum through employee that put needles inside the strawberries it looked as though that was a one off but since then been reports of eight other incidents in places runs across australia now one of two of those may be customers making things up but it certainly looks as though they've also been coping incidents whether at the packing stage on the farms or whether it's people putting needles into strawberries as they are sitting on supermarket shelves it's not clear but regardless of the cools the consequences for the strawberry industry in australia a huge it's a hundred million dollars a year industry and it's already suffering from a glass of stall breeze this is the high production time of year it's been a particularly strong year for production but th

turned a growing health scare into a major crisis for the country's first industry out there is andrew thomashas the story now from sydney this. again a way to go when a customer bought a planet like this one and found needles inside two of the strawberries that was traced back to a packing shed a particular farm where it looks as though at the scrum through employee that put needles inside the strawberries it looked as though that was a one off but since then been reports of eight other incidents in places right across australia now one or two of those may be customers making things up but it certainly looks as though they've also been coping incidents whether at the packing stage on the farms or whether it's people putting needles into strawberries as they are sitting on supermarket shelves it's not clear but regardless of the cause the consequences for the strawberry industry in australia a huge it's a hundred million dollars a year industry and it's already suffering from a glass of strawberries this is the high production time of year it's been a particularly strong year for production b

stay with them indefinitely but does not mean the two necessarily contrite cool graduate from andrew thomas counters their goals for a strike. or a time for a quick check of the headlines here in al-jazeera the united nations is all countries to donate more money to the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees the biggest contributor the u.s. has decided to stop all funding it will end decades of financial support for health education and food palestinian president mahmoud abbas says it's a flagrant assault on the people brazil's electoral court has bought a former president lula da silva from october's election the setting told he is in jail for corruption people convicted of a crime can't run for the presidency but louis party registered him anyway says it will fight with all means to make sure he remains a candidate. u.s. and canada have missed a deadline to revamp the north american free trade agreement talks ended on friday without a deal donald trump told congress he will press ahead with a new agreement with mexico canada's foreign minister is still optimistic a deal can be reache

are being held in two camps one in our route they are they in papua new guinea's mannus island andrew thomas has more from sydney. well the leaders of most of the golan countries are attending including new zealand's prime minister one notable absence the new prime minister of australia scott morris and he has not gone he sent his foreign minister instead in part i imagine because scott morrison was australia's immigration minister for some time overseeing its off shore presence including the one in the room the picture of community as they're called here why not go down too well if he were there and not really visiting the refugees that he sent to the route but the big issues formally being discussed will climate change that is an existential threat to many countries in the pacific region rising sea levels may see some of those countries cease to exist in coming decades regional security as well and this balance between balancing china's interests in the pacific and the us and allies of the us in that region and fisheries fish stocks in the pacific are threatened they're vulnerable they're

people are being held in two camps one a narrow the other in papua new guinea's man assad and andrew thomas has more from sydney. the pacific garden for me is the big annual meeting for leaders from across the pacific to discuss the big issues that face the more things like climate change the existential threats that rising sea levels pose to know fisheries stocks across the pacific very low they need to be managed carefully improving health outcomes across the pacific and balancing regional stability the balance between the united states and its allies on the one hand and the increasing interests of china across the pacific on the other those are all things that will be on the formal agenda but of course all this is being overshadowed by the destination for this year's forum no room famous for the place that australia same's many of the refugees that have tried to come to its shores by boat and now held there in many cases for over five years journalists allowed to go to the route to report on the refugee issues and most journalists including me have been banned from attending this year sp

have been dumped millions of dollars worth of orders have been cancelled and exports are on hold andrew thomas has more from sydney. this strawberry scare began a week ago when a customer bought a planet like this one and found needles inside two of the strawberries that was traced back to the packing shed a particular farm where it looks as though at the scrum through employee that put needles inside the strawberries it looked as though that was a one off but since then they have been reports of eight other incidents in places right across australia now one or two of those may be customers making things up but it certainly looks as though they've also been coping incidents whether at the packing stage on the farms or whether it's people putting needles into strawberries as they are sitting on supermarket shelves it's not clear but regardless of the cause the consequences for the strawberry industry in australia are huge it's one hundred million dollars a year industry and it's already suffering from a glass of strawberries this is the high production time of year it's been a particularly stro

presentations continue people in the to be persuaded that believing witchcraft only spell trouble andrew thomas al-jazeera a more assertive state india. a twenty two year old iraqi model and social media star has been shot dead in baghdad tara far as was shot three times at the whale of a porsche convertible on thursday far as had two point seven million followers on instagram with many fans suggesting she was targeted because of her lifestyle. pope francis is defrocked to chill a in priest who has been at the center of a sex abuse scandal it ensures eighty eight year old fernando conte use his authority to quash a twenty eleven vatican sanction against him the penance and prayer punishment is given by the vatican to elderly priests convicted of raping and molesting children it's often been criticised for being too lenient for people or in hospital in serious condition after a passenger plane crashed into a good in the small pacific island nation of micronesia local fishermen scrambled and rescued all forty seven passengers and crew it's not yet known what caused the plane to crash. now to a pl

and andrew thomas in assam state india across rural parts of this country many people still believe in witchcraft now a new law will be passed to stop the murders and suicides but all too often one of the accusations. of a rare meeting is underway in new york involving all the nations caught up in the gulf crisis that has seen qatar under blockade the foreign ministers of countries from the gulf cooperation council came together in the same room a little over an hour ago cameras allowed in for the first few moments the gathering is taking place on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly organized by u.s. secretary of state might pompei oh it is the first time a meeting like this has been held since the blockade of cutter the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and bahrain diplomatic and economic ties with doha in june of last year is live for us there so how sure how significant is this. has it is quite significant this is the first time that you see carter on one hand and the other countries that were posing the imposing a sea land in bargirl and qatar sitting togethe

i'm andrew thomas in some states india across rural parts of this country many people still believe in witchcraft now a new laws being passed to stop the murders and suicides but all too often the accusations. yemen's main international airport back by the civil war has been closed for two years now there are all hopes it could be about to reopen to commercial access that and a renewed push for peace talks between warring parties have been some of the many concerns of the u.n. special envoy his boss and graphics and exclusive interview to al jazeera is going to be within weeks i don't think we can allow it to be delayed until kind of over the horizon because the problem with that is and i've been reassured this week reaching people here in new york that people lose the narrative of peace and once you lose the opportunity to talk about a settlement the narrative of war becomes dominant and that's what we must try to get away from. i want to make an announcement about the opening of sana airport if i can finalize that i want to make announcements about how we can get prisoners released b

despite the fact that way and others are talking about that more than any other single issue ok andrew thomas thank you david manne he's the executive director of refugee in the goal that's a group that provides free and legal assistance to assign. and seekers and refugees is joining us from melbourne you've covered the issue of for fiji's quite extensively in now ru just looking at what's happening there do you expect any sort of breakthrough or do a leader is there have very little appetite to address the refugee issue look it's very difficult to see what breakthrough could occur at the moment but any breakthrough would require a fundamental shift by straley or by the australian government because those that have been forced against their will who sort of solemn in australia those who have been sent to a room and to man a silent who is now they marooned in inhumane conditions for more than five years their face alternately is in the hands of the is trying government because the australian government has funded and controlled those arrangements ever since and and that's why any breakthrough

on andrew thomas in assam states india across rural parts of this country many people still believe in witchcraft now a new laws being passed to stop the murders and suicides but all too often the accusations. how they were having had some pretty big downpours in the last day or so they're still well scattered largely i think over sumatra and northern borneo is where the satellite would suggest heavy showers have been put in there in the forecast as well so if you're in sumatra possibly kuala lumpur or maybe coaching the chances are you'll be wet but if you're further south and again jakarta stands out most of java and bali it's still warm and largely dr that is even true in the philippines not in the show a lot of clout still humid but not particularly wet at the moment to the south still active weather in australia the temp has been going up and down they're about to go down in sydney this frontal system is edging in and as it does so of course it shifts the wind direction so we're left with thirteen degrees even brighter skies in melbourne and eighteen in sydney which is a descent f

immigration minister he oversaw the island's refugee prison but as prime minister he's doing a revisit andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney. these are our top stories the kremlin says it doesn't know the two russian intelligence agents bush prosecutors say attempted to murder former spy. his daughter and a policeman police say alexander petroff and. probably his false passports a flight to london the falling of a child nerve agent attack in march will play seven other top poisoning of two other people three months later is connected to the script attack is now linked the attack on the scribbles and the events in amesbury which affected in chile and now forms one investigation. you know believed he would deliberately targeted became victims as a result of the recklessness in which such a toxic move agent was disposed of we know that it was applied to the scriptures from door and an area that is accessible to the public which then endangered the lives of members of the public and emergency services response high court judges in israel have approved the demolition of almost an entire village under school in

immigration from bangladesh the state government says the exercise is to identify illegal residents andrew thomas reports from a line gaggle on an awsome. now india's supreme court has polarized how people can go about appealing not being on the list the idea is that people across the state were going to regional offices to prove their citizenship but that is easier said than done in some remote villages like this one nine out of ten people are not on the list and next simply don't have the financial means to go about proving less of this and yet in fact it's even bigger than that they might not have the paperwork that proves that not all these people have birth certificates and lawyers if they need them are expensive so people here are concerned that even with the formal appeals process now in place at the end of this process they may remain off the list and that may render them stateless and sorry you've been looking at another story out of india this time it involves a divorce practice known as triple talaq yes it is practiced that and when under which a muslim man can divorce his wife by simp

immigration from bangladesh the state government says the exercise is to identify legal residence andrew thomas as this from. now india's supreme court has told the lies how people can go about appealing not being on the list the idea is that people across the state we're going to regional offices to prove their citizenship but that is easier said than done in some remote villages like this one eight nine out of ten people are not on the list and next simply don't have the financial means to go about proving less of this i'm sure in fact it's even bigger than that they might not have the paperwork that proves that not all these people have birth certificates and lawyers if they need them are expensive so people here are concerned that even with the formal appeals process now in place at the end of this process they may remain off the list and that may render them stateless. rescue workers in northern philippines are continuing search efforts despite saying there's a little chance of finding any more survivors under a massive landslide family members in the mining town of it are gone of being qu

these names are thomas hannibal, which is still out there, doing his thing. he's a comedian on facebook. and paris, and andrew, and jason thomas, and marcus quarter, one of them is deceased. paris moffett. released from jail or prison, is going about his life as if he didn't do anything. and me, i'm still out here looking for justice for my son. and these people get a second chance and my son doesn't have a second chance. i always say that these are the things that we had happened when my son was murdered. i have to carry these pictures all the time to say what happened to my son. when we should have a venue. there is my son laying in the casket. this is what i have to remember. i know that people don't like looking at it but this was my reality. no one else's. this is my son. this is my son with his mother standing over his casket. my son had a father and a moth mother. thank you. >> thank you, miss brown. as we do each week miss brown comes forward to talk about the motor of her son, aubrey. and if anybody in the public has any information the san francisco tipline is 415-575 415-575-4444. and hopefully som

thomas hannah bill, which is still here. paris moffett, andrew rodu. jason thomas, anthony hunter, and marcus carter. one of them is deceased. i always bring this because i wanted to say here it's crazy how death can bring families together and life can keep families apart. i want to remember my son like this. graduating from school. with a big smile on his face. that is the smile i will always remember. i don't have that anymore. it's been 12 years and i still have not any justice for my child. he had a mother and a father. even though his father isn't here i'm speaking for him. no mother or father should have to stand ove over over their chn death. our children should be burying us, not us burying them this is all i have left of my son -- to remember. this is my son laying in a casket. no mother should have to go through this. i still hurt y'all. after 12 years i still hurt. i'm still looking for justice for my child. they know who killed my child. >> thank you ms. brown. anybody has any information regarding the murder, please call the san francisco

written about a number of american presidents over the span of our extraordinary history, thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, frank roosevelt and his relationship with winston churchill, and then most recently george h.w. bush. you also wrote a book about the civil war, so of course you've written about the presidents of that period, too. >> i must say being called a presidential historian is like being called the best restaurant in a hospital. you want to win, but it's not that hard. thank you. >> so the last panel -- you're going to do this the whole time. >> that's all right. that was for the benjamin harris home people. love those guys. >> the last panel did a wonderful job touching on the history but i want to touch on the history of this country and the relationship between the presidents and the press, and what this country was founded on. what the press was supposed to mean. talk for a little bit about the first amendment, what the founding fathers had in mind when they envisioned the role of the press. >> they weren't thinking about the "new york times" or the news hour. the press in the la

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i'd like to remind democrats, andrew breitbart was a liberal and told clarence thomas hearings when he with the democrats it did back then. he became a conservative and created breitbart. they are waking up to lack of moral fiber. if they can do this to judge kavanaugh with his record, that shows you who they are. >> sean: i don't think i could get as many people as him from the last four decades to say that many nice things about me. over 220, that's a lot of people from high school, college, law school. his time serving in the bush administration. >> his work at church. >> that's 40 years of his life. you look at the lack of corroboration. >> it's frustrating because it didn't have to be this way. they are our procedures, and there are procedures that joe biden followed. he didn't say, they did investigate it. they didn't stay online, but what is going on here that you wouldn't share with your colleagues will bring up in private meetings? you wouldn't bring it up during the hearings and now you do it at minute? >> if you are holding evidence in usa after the hearing, as in, sorry you

i would like to remind democrats, andrew breitbart was a liberal until the clarence thomas hearings whenat the democrats did back then, he became a conservative and created breitbart. the american people are waking up to the lack of moral fiber in the whole dnc. but you could do this to judge kavanaugh with his record, that it shows you who they are they are. >> sean: i honestly don't shthink i could get as many peoe as him from thet last four decades to say that many nice things about me. over 220. that's a lot of people, from high school, college, law schoo school. from his time serving in the bush administration. his time serving with the court courts. >> his work atus church. volunteer work, everything. >> sean: that's 40 years of hish. life. you look at these charges, and then you look at the lack of corroboration. >> it's so frustrating because i didn't have to be this way. partly because of what we saw with the thomas and hill hearings, there are procedures. they are procedures that joe biden followed. when he heard this allegation, he did not say that is great, let's save it for

thomas jefferson, james madison, andrew jackson. so, this is something in our day and age. be so twisted and recallized behavior. i know they have done enough great to deserve the statues they have. but you should talk but a the wholeman and that's why andruw jackson was controversial in his day but what i try to say in the paperback is say take trump out and i'll put in ronald reagan, i abraham lincoln, franklin delano roosevelt and teddy roosevelt. they knew about his -- teddy roosevelt did a bioon him and said, in times of trouble, what i am looking for leadership, i read jackson. starting with lincoln. how die stop the division of our country? how did andrew jackson -- how did -- get his country ready for war? he went to hermitage, crippled, insisted on walking up the steps. wanted to feel jackson. so, he is a great american and i hope you'll read "a great american." >> host: elizabeth in littleton, colorado. go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: hey. i love you, c-span. brian, you talk much about the pirate in your book. >> guest: yes. one of the key momen