to asia or in two thousand and eleven in fact barack obama came and announced it before the australian parliament in two thousand and eleven and that was hillary clinton's policy and you now have bases that go all the way from one of the most important u.s. spy bases set up designed and set up by the cia at pine gap right next in iraq springs all the way now darwin there's a marine base in darwin there are other u.s. bases around the country a straight a has no. quarrel with china and in fact the strait has no enemies. no one once we invade a stranger a stranger is probably one of the most secure places in the world and yet. the present government of malcolm turnbull is building one of the biggest war machines and creating a new strain in weapons industry. spending billions on it all of it unnecessary. and that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are not told that we are loved enough so i tell you all i love you i am i robin tara and i. keep on watching those hawks and have a great day and night everybody. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i n

congress which takes months and months or more likely years to pass anything the australian parliament managed to wrap up its consideration of the bill in a matter four months following a public comment period on the exposure draft a slightly modified version of the bill was introduced in parliament and referred to the parliament rejoined committee on intelligence and security or pj cis which opened a new public comment period. the technology institute organized an international coalition of organizations, tech companies and trade associations and filed 3 rounds of public comments on the bill outlining concerns i will describe in a moment, held a series of hearings and at the beginning of last week the pj cis issued a report recommending passage of the bill with certain amendments inc.. early in the morning just last thursday, december 5th, the parliament released an updated version of the bill including 173 amendments no one had ever seen before but by the end of the day the australian parliament passed the bill into law. so what does the australian law actually do? as one commentator

the australian federal parliament has been on holiday this week and it would be back until the middlerliament, has anyone told theresa may? dateline london is here every week. next time i'll look back at the events of 2018. until then, from all ofa events of 2018. until then, from all of a sudden the programme, thanks for joining of a sudden the programme, thanks forjoining us. of a sudden the programme, thanks for joining us. goodbye. of a sudden the programme, thanks forjoining us. goodbye. —— from all of us on the programme. hello there. we're seeing a significant change in weather type as we're heading towards christmas. the weather this week looks very different to last week. the weather didn't move an awful lot last week, a big blocking area of high pressure and we were drawing in some cold air from continental europe. but earlier in the weekend, storm deirdre blew away that really cold air and since then we have seen our weather coming in from the atlantic. that cloud will bring some rain, that cloud has already brought some rain. that's moving away and with clearing skies and

congress, which takes months and months or more likely years before it passes anything, the australian parliament managed to wrap up its consideration in a mere four months. following a public comment period, slightly modified version of the bill was introduced in parliament and referred to the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security, or pkc i asked with open a new public comment period. my conversation in the technology institute organize an international coalition of civil society organizations, companies and trade associations and final three rounds of public comments on the bill outlining our concern . the committee held a series of hearings and then just at the beginning of last week the pkc i asked issued a report recommending passage of the bill with certain amendments incorporated. early in the morning, just last thursday, december 6, a parliament released an updated version of the bill including 173 amendments but that no one had ever seen before but by the end of the day, the australian parliament passed the bill into law. so what does the australian law do? as one au

congress, which takes months and months or more likely use before passing anything, the australian parliament managed to wrap up its consideration of the bill in a four months. following a public comment on the exposure draft, a slightly modified version of the bill was introduced to parliament and refer to the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security, or pjcis. which open a new public comment. my organization organize an international coalition of society organizations, tech companies and trade associations and we filed three rounds of public comments on the bill outlining our concern which i'll describe in a moment. the committee held a series of hearings and then just at the beginning of just last week the pjcis issued a report recommending passage of the bill with certain amendments incorporated. early in the morning just last thursday december 6, the parliament released an updated version of the bill including 173 amendments that no one had ever seen before. but by the end of the day yesterday and in parliament had passed the bill into law. so what does this trillion la

the west australian i'll not issue in future we may be able to inspect prisons with the same rigor and dept we may not have the capacity to bring forward inspections and reviews to meet parliament and government expectation and if you think this is just an australian problem this year just this week the us congress introduced the first step act which would make it illegal for presidents to shackle pregnant women yeah we had to make a law so how is the problem with the prisons or is this just more proof that women's pain is simply more likely to be ignored no matter where you are you know i gotta say i there's all those moments to think of so it's both you know there's major problems with our prisons there's major problems with how we treat women and women and women in their even society at large how we view it we respond to it so i think honestly this is we could debate the percentages of which is more but rather gives both their goods truly both right now will we have a fundamental problem with understanding women's pain understanding how much we pay in movement with women can take on a lot of that is because of sexist medical knowledge i mean we've heard about it in terms of

superannuation funds according to the australian newspaper sagging the asset commissioner -- citing the asset commissioner. the are prepared to ramp up super sector. italy's parliament approved as 2019 budget law, meeting a deadline after a standoff with the european commission. -- thet lead anti-migrant league agreed to 2.04%. the initial 2.4% target was rejected by brussels as breaching eu rules. global news 24 hours a day on air and on tic toc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm kathleen hays. this is bloomberg. ramy: thank you very much. both the u.s. and china are reporting movement on the trade front. president trump tweeted this progress following a lengthy phone call with xi jinping, who also reported progress. let's get the latest with stephen engle in hong kong and roz crosby in washington dc. what do we know about this call? roz: we know a little about the call. we do not know who initiated the call for exactly how long it was. according to president trump it was a long and very good call. the u.s. president had quite enough use of readout on the call as you mentioned at the top of the segment. be

critically ill refugees detained by australian pop or new guinea will have to wait until next year for any chance of getting medical treatment last week's australia's parliament failed to pass legislation to fly them out of one asylum detention center meanwhile one detainee has been nominated for a prize recognizing she would writes defendants my name is abdul aziz i'm an advocate for refugee on matters island property guinea when i came here i was a twenty years old and now twenty five i'm from therefore they killed many people from our tribes i came to indian easier and i thought that indonesia was a signature to a convention one nine hundred fifty one convention that they can resettle people from everywhere but i was wrong the first time when i feel it in the knees year our borders sunk i've lost five of my friends i still see their faces every day but i just trying to picture out what happened to those people arrested by in the police and they were trying to deport me back to sudan i made it to christmas island the day when we have been removed from stralia from christmas island to darwin from darwin to falcon to guinea i was not even sure that i was terr

thursday december 6 parliament released an updated version with 173 amendments nobody had ever seen before but by the end of the day it was passed into law. so what does the australian law actually do cracks as one commentor put it it combines stupidity of the waiver that now means any it product hardware or software made in australia will be automatically too risky to use for anyone concerned about cybersecurity. so we are focusing on schedule one of the law that was designed for encryption there are also other section to create like increase powers of government height hacking that we are focusing on encryption and schedule one so it appears to be an encouraging statement to prohibit the government from demanding encryption backdoor and i have it appear on the slide. it says that government may not request or require communications providers to implement or build a systemic vulnerability but also it must not prevent them from systemic vulnerabilities. however it grants unprecedented new authorities to the government to undermine the promise specifically the law creates three new and powerful tools for the australian government technical assistance request or notic