well what this constitutes is that nothing nothing has been settled within the liberal party this began this instability and this challenge to the prominent they are going for the former prime minister is not going to move again as an uprising by the conservative faction of the party to remove turnbull who was considered to be a moderate not a genuine part of the party and had to be expelled but in his place the liberal party has now elected by a reasonably now imagine. a man who is not considered to be part of the conservative core is a man who has been threatened with dire repercussions from the conservative faction and his followers who collected him have also been confronted with dire. threats of a tradition from the conservative group which as we saw today had forty. out of eighty five sides so not a majority but enough to continue the eternal insurrection that has plagued this government brought down this prime minister stabilize the national government has made the public unsettled the business community this doesn't settle that factional dispute and the conservatives are not goi

in the last hour, the ruling liberal party selected scott morrison to lead the country after malcolm morrison is the treasurer. president trump comes out fighting following the conviction of his former lawyer michael cohen warning his rivals not to try and impeach him. or it will crash the markets. any time now, hurricane lane is expected to hit the main island of oahu in hawaii. emergency shelters have opened, in response to nationwide mobile phone alerts. schools, government offices and business are closed and people have been boarding up their homes and stocking up on supplies. lebo diseko has more. hurricane lane is yet to hit these islands but the rain and winds already have. one section of the big island had nearly half a metre of rain in 24 hours, as the category 3 cyclone gets nearer. even if it doesn't make landfall, it still brings a storm that authorities say could be life—threatening. we're extremely concerned about the potentials for hillend flooding, landslides occurring and damage to the transportion, communications infrastructure. the other issue that we're going to se

it is also a battle for the heart of the liberal party itself in australia. haidi: yeah. the point that that vote was very close, as it turned out. the chaos and drama in the party room, 40 liberal lawmakers did not want a change of leadership. the others -- a race between scott morrison and the treasurer, and peter dutton, two very different candidates if you look at the factions within the party. look.get a your initial thoughts on how this has played out so far. i'm assuming you've had the latest news fed through to you. >> thanks for having me on the show. it's a moving feast at the moment, and we still don't know what the situation is. we will find out with bated breath. it has been shambles, really. we have not had a prime minister since 2004 in australia who has sat a full term of office. 2004, thetion since incumbent prime minister has not seen a full term. malcolm turnbull clearly is not going to be -- is going to be added to those ranks. there is something going with australian democracy. thing, and is the julie bishop was seen as by far the most popular candidat

s from the ruling liberal party. turnbull who'd been the job for less than three years survived a leadership challenge on tuesday. there was a ballot conducted in the party room for the leadership of the liberal party the successful candidate was scott morrison. and he won this quote by forty five votes to forty. two kathy novak in sydney cathy so scott morrison has now been chosen as australia's new prime minister he's won the leadership race talk us through what happened and what we know about scott morrison. well this was quite a surprising result we've seen leadership challenges for the position of prime minister here in australia in the past but what usually happens is that there is a challenge from one person there's a meeting and a vote held and of the prime minister in the past has been toppled by the person who challenged him or her well in this case this started earlier in the week with another man peter dutton who had challenge malcolm turnbull for a leadership vote and in that case on tuesday lost but beca

we have been seeing liberal party mps for the crucial vote.n parliament and it is expected to trigger leadership contests. expected to trigger leadership co ntests. h e expected to trigger leadership contests. he said he will not take pa rt contests. he said he will not take part in that. he survived one leadership contest but this seems a step too far from him. leadership contest but this seems a step too farfrom him. we did receive malcom turnbull go when. other members of parliament going in now. more on that as soon as we know results. the british government has released a raft of information on what it thinks will happen if the uk leaves the european union next year without a deal. the documents set out how people might prepare for no deal, in sectors including farming, finance and medicines. here's brexit secretary dominic raab. naturally, we've got to consider the alternative possibility that the eu doesn't match our pragmatism and that we don't reach a deal. let me be clear about this, it is not what we not and it is not what we expect

the party were organization to stop easy leadership coups and i think that's something that the liberal party will have to contemplate for the future as well to try and build confidence and hence we haven't seen that like a party bill shorten being deposed by educated panicky backbenchers and so we watch and wait mark roth joining us from sydney thank you so much for that do appreciate it. so other news in a saudi led coalition air strike in yemen has had a the provinces killed at least twenty six civilians including women and children who at the media says they were killed while escaping an internally displaced camp which the u.a.e. claims was where rebels were actually launching the self from culture dodginess more. civilians once again have been the targets of saudi led coalition jets in yemen. iranian backed rebels say at least thirty one people including women and children were killed in an attack on their convoy in the western province of what data dead children and women disgusting crime. the victims were trying to escape a camp in al couey which the coalition says was being used to la

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i do not think the liberal party will be in government for much longer.ood chance that they will lose the next election, irrespective of who the leader is. i am a bit worried we might go down the path of the states, closing the border down and that type of thing. i think we've come a long way and i think we're actually going to take a few steps backwards. our correspondent, hywel griffith joins us now live from canberra. a crucial day for prime minister malcom turnbull. will he survive or will he stepped down?|j malcom turnbull. will he survive or will he stepped down? i think the clock is ticking for malcolm turnbull. it is about 10am local time and we are heading for a showdown at noon. that is when we expect this party meeting to take place the liberal party and what we expect to happen is for malcolm turnbull to accept that there are enough people who want a change of leader, the him to stand aside, and for those three contenders mentioned earlier to fight for the vote. if the dutton, who caused this instability, is at the frontrunner but he will have

things from happening recognising that we've been astray out disunity is dead as we say but the liberal party and national parties haven't got around to that and so we're staying at a concerted effort from the previous prime minister today stabilised malcolm turnbull's prime ministership and today i think he succeeded now if he does go through thermal does go through as expected to resigning from parliament that leads us to a by election right where does that leave the country. so at the moment the terms of the previous temple government had a very slim majority are one wentworth which is our former prime minister malcolm turnbull's state in new south wales fairly well to do. how that very comfortably for very many years. if he does resign and go to a byelection as he's indicating it then that really does put that threat. new prime minister scott morrison ability to form a government it is a safe state byelection senatorial sleep difficult for sitting governments. here in australia and it would not be unheard of if a very good independent candidate where to raise their hand could state what w

talk of the leadership from dillard in june twenty third scene but his party was then beaten in that year's election by the liberals who led by tony abbott and then he lost the leadership of his party to knock him turnbull in september of twenty fifteen let's try to wade through all of this with peter hartcher the political editor of the sydney morning herald he's on the line now from the strain in capital camera first of all is there a timeline at the moment do we know if there's going to be a party vote today thursday. there is no specific trial yet amounts but it will be today and the government has your characteristics suspended or adjourned the parliament will be afternoon in which going to pop normal parliamentary business was suspended and going to be normal that question time also has been cancelled while the government the governing party the liberal national coalition so who is going to be its leader what's gone wrong for malcolm turnbull just explain for our international audience as a say what's happened to him. well in the specific circumstance. really i'd put it this way he was on the if a governing c

. >> that is why it is important that the liberal party has confirmed my leadership of the liberaler of the need for political parties and for governments to be united and determined to keep delivering for the people for whom they work, 25 million australians. this unity undermines -- this sunityundermines -- di undermines any government. unity is critical. issuesot allow internal to undermine our work to create a real risk. the other party would have higher taxes, higher prices, a slower economy, fewer jobs, and the lower wages. that is the choice. united, we will maintain the strong momentum and great achievements our government has seatin the face of a one majority in the house, and a minority in the senate. we have got an enormous amount done. we have had records jobs growth, strong economic growth, we have reduced business taxes and personal taxes, and spending on essential services is higher than bank ever. that is what we must deliver, and delivery united. you guaranteesh -- need toi say is that we be united, we are able as a team to deliver the great results, continue to de

i do not think the liberal party will be in government for much longer.ey will lose the next election, irrespective of who the leader is. i'm a bit worried we might go down the path of the states, closing the border down and that type of thing. i think we've come a long way and i think we're actually going to take a few steps backwards. voices from the streets of canberra there. our correspondent hywel griffith is in the capital, canberra. there are several memes circulating saying classically robust australian terms that australian politicians should get on with the job and. what is happening and what is likely to happen —— the job. is happening and what is likely to happen -- the job. one thing is certain, no one really absolutely knows what's going to unfold in the next few hours. we still expect, it's around 11:10am here, at high noon, dramatically, some people expect a second leadership contest without malcolm turnbull in it. that said, that only gives them about 49 minutes to call that meeting if they're to be on schedule. i guess they could delay a

estradiol has a new prime minister after the ruling liberal party replaced its leader scott morrison defeated malcolm turnbull in an internal party vote it is the fourth time since twenty ten that a prime minister has been voted out of the job by his or her own party kathy novak reports from said artist from john morris of. australia is introduced to another new prime minister to power not in a popular vote but rather installed by colleagues in the party ballot facing a tough job to ensure that we not only bring now back together which has been bruised and battered this week traditional grandson jack malcolm turnbull became prime minister when he pushed out his predecessor tony abbott in twenty fifteen now turnbull is the latest australian leader to leave before the end of his term a strike will be just dumbstruck. and so appalled by the conduct of the last week he blames

malcolm turnbull has been ousted as australian prime minister after a vote by liberal party m.p.'s the country's treasurer scott morrison has been chosen as his successor comes after a tumultuous few days in australian politics turnbull survived a vote on his leadership as recently as tuesday he's the fourth prime minister to be pushed out of office since twenty ten it was a ballot conducted in the party room for the leadership of the liberal party the successful candidate was scott morrison. and he won this fight by forty five votes to forty four peter dutton. welcome on this let's cross live to kathy novak in sydney kathy says scott morrison is now australia's new prime minister how much of a surprise was it that he won the leadership race somewhat more do we know about him . well on one hand it has become not on common to see changes of leadership and prime ministers losing their jobs after votes by their own party but on the other hand it was a surprise in so far as the treasurer scott morrison was not the man who initially challenge malcolm turnbull for the job of prime minis

at which i would challenge for the leadership of the parliamentary liberal party thank you very much in zimbabwe the top court will decide on friday whether to overturn or up hold president emerson was narrow election victory from july the opposition leader nelson chamisa says the vote was rigged in favor of the president who did win with just over fifty percent of the vote how can you tell us a bit more now from harare yes there. are some political analysts are calling it the most important court battle in zimbabwe since morgan tsvangirai is treason trial more than ten years ago the main opposition leader nelson chamisa is challenging president in a synagogue was election when at the constitutional court people who went inside court watched the proceedings from home and restaurants. well the results show that when a goggle won by a narrow margin opposition supporters are hoping the judges will declare chamisa the winner i'm hoping very will go through the evidence as a necessity and given what's just all come from all over and families are missing me the case is seen as a test

end with the election of scott morrison remains to be seen he faces a big struggle to unite the liberal party which has been riven you know by concerns that energy prices and countless other issues in recent months and indeed the opinion polls were really done for of the liberal party coalition government earlier this week and that's what in many ways prompted this leadership spill earlier on today. scott morrison tried to do his best to. inspire the of the nation and his press conference earlier on today he delivered a rallying call to the middle australia asking for people to have a good one of the dignity of work and to build a stronger australia although exactly how he intends to i'm not quite sure and i'm sure what a mad can turn will have to say about these developments this week it's been of a difficult political week for him. or it's been a terrible week that he lost his job was to hard and things went from bad to worse from monday almost he'd try to hang on but in the end today he had to give in to a leadership ballot and he said it wouldn't take part of the ballot leaving the contes

the australian dollarjumping of the liberal party.n dollar jumping off the of the liberal party. the australian dollarjumping off the back of that news, but in general you can see a mixed day for markets, so much going on in the minds of investors, not least the fact that meetings between child delegates did not bear much fruit at all, they came to an end. —— trade delegates. low expectations, and they met them. final trading day of the week, friday, mixed picture emerging, looking ahead to the central bank powwow at jackson hole, looking ahead to the central bank powwow atjackson hole, that looking ahead to the central bank powwow at jackson hole, that is on the mind of traders around the world. we will hand back to you. richard hunter is head of markets at interactive investor. the king at the markets, things have been looking flat but with all the geopolitical turmoil around the world, look at australia, venezuela, brexit, what is happening in the us, on top of that, the fact we have lowered trade volumes, you would think there wou

hearing the australian government has moved to adjourn parliament on thursday, allowing the ruling liberal partyprime minister. as we were saying, it looks like malcolm turnbull is manoeuvring within the party to arrange treasurer scott morrison to be his anointed successor to compete with peter dutton for the leadership and for the prime ministership. we're hearing several senior ministers have now tended their resignations and called for a second ballot. that story moving pretty fast now. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the second separation for korean families, briefly reunited after decades apart. washington, the world's most political city, is today assessing the political health of the world's most powerful man. indeed i did have a relationship with miss lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. in south africa, 97 people have been killed today, in one of the worst days of violence between rival black groups. over the last ten days, 500 have died. chanting: czechoslovakia must be free! russia is observing a national day of mourning for the 118 submariners who died

malcolm turnbull, on the progressive side of the ruling liberal party, he wanted to introduce tariffsg in big changes to the tax system. however, people on the right of the party, including the man who has challenged him, peter dutton, they don't want to see tariffs on carbon emissions, they don't want the same tax reform as malcolm turnbull. they wa nt tax reform as malcolm turnbull. they want hard lines on issues such as immigration. peter dutton was the immigration minister who was very clear about not wanting to accept people into australia unless they are invited. so those are the issues at play. arguably they are not the issues that govern day—to—day life in australia and that's where we see the disconnect. remember, australia, many parts of australia, are in the grip ofa many parts of australia, are in the grip of a terrible drought. farmers desperate for rain or for support and yet here we have a government effectively now in limbo because they can't decide who they want as prime minister. hywel, thank you very much indeed for that. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the

pull the liberal party further to the right. and that is a that's that's that's been stated by a number of the people that have been involved in this. look i think it's i won't get into the merits of that but i just say that. what began as a as a minority has by process of. intimidation. you know persuaded people that the only way to stop the insurgency is to give in to it i do not believe in that i've never done that i've never given in to bullies but you can imagine the pressure it's put it's put people. in my in moscow like pictures there coming from canberra australia the beleaguered prime minister malcolm turnbull setting out his stall for what he sees happening next in terms of the democratic process and as you know he's been facing a leadership challenge and says he now awaits a letter from the party confirming his leadership by a majority of members he said the party meeting will be at midday tomorrow that's friday on the eligibility of the main challenger peter dutton to sit in the parliament he said if he doesn't have

forty three liberal party politicians must sign a petition requesting a meeting on friday if that threshold is his term treat it as a vote of no confidence he says he will step aside to make his party hold a new leadership ballot where his replacement will be elected former cabinet minister peter dutton as the front runner earlier this morning i called other prime minister to advise him that it was my judgment that the majority of the party were no longer supported his leadership but doesn't challenge is also controversial the country's top lawyer is investigating his eligibility to hold office there are concerns of a government funding for his businesses taxpayers watched the state as the government ground to a halt the leadership chaos leading to the suspension of parliament the house stands adjourned until monday ten september two thousand and eight fifty nine. turnbull's grip on power has lost to three years now he faces an early exit from the strain in politics just like the three prime ministers before him shall have ballasts out his era. in the news ahead how donald trump's tweets on

he faces a big struggle to unite the liberal party which has been written by you know by concerns of the energy prices and countless other issues in recent months and indeed the opinion polls were really down far out the liberal party the coalition government earlier this week and that's what in many ways problems here this leadership spill earlier on today. scott morrison tried to do his best to. inspire the of the nation at his press conference earlier on today he delivered a rallying call to the middle australia asking for people to have their good one of the dignity of work and to build a stronger australia older music lee how he intends to i'm not quite sure right raja may not need thank you they might have a yes up to date. you're watching news do stay with us monica jones we'll be with you shortly and you have your business news for you thank you very much for your company. logo. alex. cohen. takes a personal leave. with a little wonderful people in stories that make the game so special. that all true friends fall for my place to go more than subtle online. subscription split

former finance minister he's promised a generational the other thirty a change in the warring liberal party are seeing him right there shaking hands after signing in as prime minister was a surprise winner when from for him in a three way challenge for the leadership of his party was brought on by a right wing rival inside the party this week. football now and we're about twelve hours from the kickoff of the bundesliga season germany's top division of football still one of the top leagues in the world chris harrington from the sports desk here to talk about that good morning crest morning lots of hype lots of excitement will this fall be better than the dismal summer we've seen for german football yeah that is will some years because of course is the premature exit there are many though is that if it's for the world cup yeah of course they're still suffering from that you know dismal performance you know put in terms of the but is the coming up some fans argue that it is lacking competitiveness you know but there's a big match coming up tonight by vs hoffenheim to. viable opponents i would

part fed up with labor's infighting they threw them out in favor of their liberal opponents the liberal party leader tony abbott assumed the prime ministership for a time anyway. this will prove the people of the right all is taking a page from labour's chaotic playbook not come turnbull made his move against abbott assuming leadership in two thousand and fifteen. now what he did to abbott well just got done to him turnbull bowed out after being pushed to call a leadership meeting which he considered a vote of no confidence scott morrison is top liberal dog for now but there's no telling how long he might last all that is certain is australian public opinion the persistent intra party take downs in both major parties has confidence in them at an all time low. it's to ireland now where pope francis begins a visit today it's the first papal visit nearly forty years his trip comes as the vatican faces growing pressure from catholics to cooperate with criminal investigators on allegations of current and past child sexual abuse damning new revelations in the us chilly in australia among other plac

at which i would challenge for the leadership of the parliamentary liberal party thank you very much. israel's approved plans to build more than a thousand new illegal settlement homes in the occupied west bank israeli settlements in occupied palestinian areas are deemed illegal under international law. a controversial plan to close polling stations in a predominately black part of the state of georgia is being considered by the local elections board voting rights activists say the proposed closures would suppress the turnout of black voters in november midterm elections these changes planned for georgia's randolph county news are coming up in just under twenty five minutes from now al-jazeera world continues now. in march nine hundred seventy eight lebanon was invaded by israel. souther charismatic leader of lebanon's shia muslim sect sought regional assistance . on august the twenty fifth nine hundred seventy eight southern traveled to libya to meet muammar gaddafi. six days later on august thirty first an official motorcade left tripoli's shouty hotel carrying him. and two co

past few months now he's pulling through magically in the opinion polls and so has his party the liberal party let's party because of the government's an energy policy prime minister turnbull is seen as a center left if you like and some people say he has more in common with the opposition labor party than he does with his own conservatives and he's very supportive of the climate change action of the mission targets and that has coincided with a dramatic increase in energy prices here in australia it doubled almost over the past year and a lot of people are rightly that and that's what the criticism and here's a slump in the opinion poll as of late ok well let's take a listen to how now to what prime minister turnbull had to say about what's going on. the reality is that a minority in the party room. supported by. others outside the parliament have sought to. bully intimidate others into. making this change of leadership that they're seeking. ok allegations there of bullying of intimidation why are australian part of politics so turbulent. well i suppose it's partly because of israeli and peop

australia has a new prime minister after scott morrison was chosen by the ruling liberal party morrison as the country's current treasurer and was picked after a leadership challenge to outgoing pm malcolm turnbull of. the u.k. government has published guidelines on how to prepare if britain crashes out of the european union without a deal this although britain's brags that minister dominic rob says he is still confident of reaching an agreement with the e.u. .

of the parliamentary liberal party.wtest fed meetings policy makers are ready to raise rates again. rther gradual increases will be consistent with the expanded activity of a strongly premarket." the fed has come under attack from the white house with president trump rejecting wham ore hikes. maduro set the new level at 60 to the dollar, but officials had it at 65 and as high as 100. currency controls were left in place, while many say the new bolivar is not credible. global news 24 hours a day and on tictoc on twitter. this is bloomberg. >> president trump has contradicted his former fixer and denied using campaign funds as harsh money. he told foxnews he only learned of the payments later on. michael cohen says there is a strong case against the president. list every the evidence is strong that donald trump knew michael cohen would be advancing money on his behalf to hush up the relationships between these two, and it had a political purpose to it. >> let's bring out our political senior entity -- senior editor. the q

the changes follow a tumultous week in australian politics, with liberal party infighting leading tocolm turnbull. our correspondent hywel griffith joins us live from sydney. these prime minister in five years, we have been reporting on all this through the week at the tumultuous week. scott morrison beginning his first official day in office and wasting no time in naming a new cabinet. some of those cabinet ministers have been sworn in. the interesting appointment is peter dutton, for anyone who has been following this, they would do it dutton has instigated this, challenging the leadership of former prime minister malcolm turnbull but not getting is the top job. instead of pushing him to the backbenchers and potentially given rise to more instability, he decided to keep in the cabinet. it does not mean that the cabinet. it does not mean that the turmoil is over. scott morrison thought he was going to have a bit ofa thought he was going to have a bit of a honeymoon but the latest newspoll suggests he has a huge task ahead. each is the coalition has fallen behind labour even further,

ousted and a new one sworn in formal finance minister scott morrison won a ballot amongst the liberal party lawmakers off to his predecessor malcolm turnbull decided not to contest a straight there has had half a dozen prime ministers in the last decade or so due to the leadership challenges within the two main political parties. off to just under three years in office malcolm turnbull took his leave ousted by his own party to imagine that a government would be rocked by this sort of dysmorphia and deliberate. insurgency is the best buy to describe it he was stabbed in the back full stout by an increasingly divided party grappling with poor polling results and desperate to extend its time in power however this latest political infighting is only likely to alienate voters further. very much like by the very frustrated i think it ought to get six party just as dour for eleven years i don't think this baby time to develop real policy and it's a bit of a shambles racially and it really shows that politicians for the. have to say you know distrustful people are proud. but new prime minister scot

senior ministers deserve him and contest his leadership but he says he will quit politics if his liberal party no longer supports him in a second leadership vote on friday the government has suspended parliament to try to resolve this crisis no australian prime minister has succeeded in serving a full three year term in over a decade. let's bring in australian journalist roger maynard for more on this good morning roger is australia on the verge of getting a new prime minister it certainly seems that way it's very likely that australia will have the new i mean but tomorrow let alone one hundred percent. depends on whether a lot illusion for a spill succeeds tomorrow if that does happen then nothing to the prime minister said he will resign and he will stand down and open the way flora here's a is near misses to stand along with also be two other candidates the treasurer scott morrison and possibly the foreign minister julie bishop so it's all up at the moment very very undecided about exactly what's going to happen but humans are likely to be an interesting day to say the least ok roger what p

rudd retake the leadership from dillard in june twenty third teen but his party was then beat in that year's election by the liberals led by tony abbott but he lost the leadership of his party to malcolm turnbull in september twenty fifth peter hartcher is political editor of the sydney morning herald he joins us on the phone from australia's capital canberra so what do you make of what malcolm turnbull is saying he's setting out what he sees as a democratic process what do you make of it. well he's surrendering really to what he has cold and colonel piece originally designed to try to bully the government. he said that in the event that the dissidents can get a majority of. signatures on a petition to hold a special party making it he would call that meeting and that would be tomorrow and at that meeting he would contest the leadership against challenges. he spoke about this significant issue of illegitimate pizza doesn't. to sit in parliament so he's questioning this whale do you think the solicitor general is going to rule on this then we've heard from constitutional scholars that the case is a borderline case th

that cannibalistic behavior of our government ageing itself alive some members of temples ruling liberal party don't believe he can lead them to victory in next year's elections and so the rebellion began forty three liberal party politicians must sign a petition requesting a meeting on friday if that threshold is his term treat it as a vote of no confidence he says he will step aside to make his posse hold a new leadership ballot with his replacement will be elected former cabinet minister peter dutton as the front runner earlier this morning i called the other prime minister to advise him that it was my judgment that the majority of the party were no longer supported his leadership but doesn't challenge is also controversial the country's top lawyer is investigating his eligibility to hold office there are concerns of a government funding for his businesses taxpayers watched the state as the government ground to a halt the leadership chaos leading to the suspension of parliament the house stands adjourned until monday ten september two thousand and eight tonight.

i do not think the liberal party will be in government are much longer.ood chance that they will lose the next election. i ama they will lose the next election. i am a bit worried we will go down the path of the states, closing the border in all that type of thing, taking a few steps backwards. for more on this i've been speaking to alex oliver, research director of the lowy institute. i began by asking for her thoughts on malcolm turnbull‘s chances of retaining the leadership. very slim it seems from all of the discussion here in sydney and in australia. it looks like there will bea australia. it looks like there will be a leadership vote at a party room meeting today at midday, provided that the opposition to the tri— minister can muster 43 signatures on a petition, which looks like they will. it looks like we will have a new leader at midday here, which would be the fifth prime minister in five years. we have had a decade of tamil in australian politics and todayis tamil in australian politics and today is no different. —— of turmoil. why is it so frac

of the parliamentary liberal party. global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. -- >> global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. the attorney for president trump's former lawyer trump's organization that initiated the idea of hush money for two women. >> strong evidence. i think it is conclusive. that michaelknew cohen would be advancing money on his behalf to hush up the relationships with these two women. it had a political purpose to it. yvonne: in an interview, the president said he only learned of this after the payments were made. trump: later on i knew. they were not taken out of campaign finance. that is a much bigger thing. did they come out of the campaign? no, they did not come out of the campaign. let's get to our editor from washington. it is difficult to figure out who to believe here. out, the law

s in the ruling liberal party he's replaced malcolm turnbull with in the job for less than three years turnbull had survived a leadership challenge as recently as tuesday. iranian backed the rebels in yemen say twenty six people including women and children have been killed in an air strike say saudi and erotic coalition jets struck a camp for internally displaced people in her data province the u.a.e. has accused rebels of knowledge of missiles from the area. and the us president says there would be an economic meltdown but he was removed from office trump was responding to speculation about his potential impeachment following the prosecution of two former top aides his longtime personal lawyer michael cohen has implicated a break in campaign finance rules. that the u.n. has called on latin american countries to ease travel restrictions on thousands of people fleeing venezuela's deepening economic and political crisis comes up the neighboring. in peru announced time to enter requirements with on its way and need to show a valid passport of border crossings marianna sanchez has more fr

a vote was held within the liberal party, which is part of the ruling coalition.led. peter dutton, the challenger then resigned and people thought well, that is that. no. peter dutton has returned for a second attempt. he claims he now has numbers behind him and has publicly, in the last hour or so, been on the steps of parliament saying he wants another vote to be held. however we understand that the prime minister's answer is no. "we had a vote and go away, get on with life". how tenable as that position? malcolm turnbull clearly wounded and pretty much just holding on by his fingernails to hisjob. i can imagine him saying that dutton had his chance. as you are just saying, a number of resignations within the last 2a hours or so. how likely is it that he will be able to ride this out? if he survives today it will be quite something. if he survives the next few months it will be incredible because the ruling party now have a situation where they have a wounded prime minister who has been publicly challenged by his own party. that challenger has lost a vote. if it

now a correspondent kathy novak is joining us live from sydney so what is going on in the ruling liberal party kathy did turnbull's energy policy cost him the job was he too moderate for the more right wing in the party. i think it's a bit of both of those the there had been some disputes over policy most recently energy turnbull had to appease some of those in the right wing of the party who wanted to scale back government action on climate change and pull out of some of the commitments for example around the paris agreement but more broadly it really was factional infighting within the government turnbull represents a more moderate wing of the party he came to power by pushing out the conservative prime minister tony abbott back in twenty fifteen and there are many conservatives who simply don't like malcolm turnbull who found him too moderate and wanted instead to install a more conservative leader they had hoped that would be peter dutton the former immigration minister who challenged tony abbott pardon me with malcolm turnbull earlier in the week initially lost that first vote on tuesday

being look very difficult for the new prime minister then the numbers are very precarious and the liberal party is not prepared for a federal election at this stage that we're doing everything that they can to try and hold that possibility of but they're got members that are it never will the national party we've been in they've got men in coalition threatening to me to be crossed so very difficult still very unstable and astroland will be asking themselves what if anything has changed or what are we gaining out of this change in the prime ministership. to uganda now a musician turned opposition politician bobby y. has been charged with treason he was re-arrested just minutes after being freed by a military court where he'd been accused of inciting his supporters to attack a convoy carrying president yarima seventy catherine sawyer reports from camp allah . this is the man many ugandans had been wanting to see you wind up popular musician and member of parliament appeared as a military court in the north and town of good looking weak and in pain he had been in military cassidy's since last wedn

liberal party whip because he says that it is become a force for anti—semitism. uents support to represent on a different basis. it's been called a "scourge on the environment" — but what can be done about the plastic waste that's making its way into britain's waterways? one environmental charity has come up with an idea — it's turning more than a tonne of plastic waste, collected a smooth launch for the boat this morning. a boat made, in part, from plastic picked up from the thames and recycled. these schoolchildren from canary wharf college have been a big part of getting the boat onto the water. they've been out on plastic fishing trips like this one, collecting litter. and there's always plenty for them to fish out. when we fish out plastic, it makes us satisfied that we're helping the environment. making the planet better. i think it's quite silly, plastic bottles, when they get thrown away, or plastic bags, they should be recycled and used again. rather than ending up being shipped abroad, the plastic collected by the children ends up here, at this reprocess

a vote was held within the liberal party, which is part of the ruling coalition.er dyson, the challenger then resigned and people thought well, thatis resigned and people thought well, that is that. , no. peter dutton has returned from a second straight. he claims he now has numbers behind him and has publicly, in the last hour we re and has publicly, in the last hour were also, then on the steps of parliament saying he wants another vote to be held. however we understand that the prime minister ‘s is no. we understand that the prime minister ‘sis no. we had a understand that the prime minister ‘s is no. we had a vote understand that the prime minister ‘sis no. we had a vote and go away, get on with life. how tenable as that position? malcolm turnbull clearly wounded and pretty much just holding on by his fingernails to his job. i can imagine him saying that production had his chance. as you arejust production had his chance. as you are just saying, production had his chance. as you arejust saying, a number of resignations within the last 24 hours or so. how likel

from dillard in june two thousand and thirteen but his party was beaten in that year's election by the liberals led by tony abbott well then lost the leadership challenge mark turmel in september two thousand and fifteen malcolm turnbull now plans to resign from parliament forcing a byelection ebony bennett is deputy director of the strainer institute a public policy think tank she says turnbull's resignation could force an early election. so at the moment the terms of the greatest temple government had a very slim majority are one. wentworth which he is our former prime minister malcolm turnbull's state in new south wales very well to do he's out at very comfortably for very many years but if he does resign and go to a byelection at these indicating it then that really does put at threat. new prime minister scott morrison and ability to form a government it is a safe state byelection senatorial sleep difficult for sitting governments here in australia and it would not be unheard of if a very good independent candidate way to raise their hand could say what was once a safe liberal state go to a

cannibalistic be idea of a government who is aging itself alive some members of temple's ruling liberal partyon't believe he can lead them to victory in next year's elections and so the rebellion began forty three liberal party politicians must sign a petition requesting a meeting on friday if that threshold is his term treat it as a vote of no confidence he says he will step aside to make his posse hold a new leadership ballot where his replacement will be elected former cabinet minister peter dutton as the front runner earlier this morning i called the other prime minister to advise him that it was my judgment that the majority of the party were no longer supported his leadership but doesn't challenge is also controversial the country's top lawyer is investigating his eligibility to hold office there are concerns of a government funding for his businesses taxpayers watched the state as the government ground to a halt the leadership chaos leading to the suspension of parliament the house stands adjourned until monday ten september two thousand and eight a chain of. terminals grip on power ha

room has confirmed my leadership and julies deputy leadership of the liberal party a reminder of the need for political parties and for governments to be united and determined to keep delivering for the people for whom they work twenty five million australians now we know that disunity undermines the ability of any government to get its job done and unity is absolutely critical we cannot allow as i said in the party room today internal issues to undermine our work a man suspected of being a former nazi camp guard has been deported from the us to germany the justice department says ninety five year old jack of paoli served at a death camp in nazi occupied poland during world war two he lied to immigration officers about his role when entering the us in one nine hundred forty nine protest as have been calling for his deportation since two thousand and three after he was trying down by federal officers survivors of sex abuse by catholic clergy say a letter of apology from pope francis doesn't go far enough the head of the roman catholic church has to spare no effort to root out s

room has confirmed my leadership and julies deputy leadership of the liberal party a reminder of the need for political parties and for governments to be united and determined to keep delivering for the people for whom they work twenty five million australians now we know that disunity undermines the ability of any government to get its job done and unity is absolutely critical we cannot allow as i said in the party room today internal issues to undermine our work survivors of sex abuse by catholic clergy say a letter of apology from pope francis doesn't go far enough the head of the roman catholic church has to spare no effort to root out sex abuse and attempts to cover it up paul to dirge and has more tim was just twelve when he says he was raped by his catholic parish priest he believes the pope's letter of apology is not enough words words words thoughts and prayers does not make a child safer. he could with the stroke of a pen demand that every diocese in the world release the records no more secret files to him another survivors also want the pope to punish bishops who h

room has confirmed my leadership and julie's deputy leadership of the liberal party a reminder of the need for political parties and for governments to be united and determined to keep delivering for the people for whom they would twenty five million astroids now we know that disunity undermines the ability of any government to get its job done and unity is absolutely critical we cannot allow as i said in the party room today. internal issues to undermine our would bahrain has announced that it will stop issuing new faces to kateri nationals escalating measures against its neighbor more than a year into a diplomatic dispute iran's interior ministry says students studying in the country and other kateri citizens with existing pieces will not be affected bahrain saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt cut a diplomatic transport and trade ties of qatar in june of last year the united nations is blaming the saudi m.r.i. coalition for most of the child casualties from yemen's war this year that's calling for an investigation into an airstrike that killed forty children earlier this month

top one is from malcolm out on the turnbull now he has promised to quit if enough members of his liberal party look for a fresh leadership challenge on friday turnbull has described the move against him as an internal insurgency to push his party further to the right a british aid worker has been temporarily released from jail in iran in the gallery radcliffe had been sentenced to five years in jail convicted of plotting against the iranian government she has been given a three day reprieve to visit her family british authorities and supporters are pushing for her permanent release spain has deported over one hundred migrants from its north african territory suit to the migrants were sent back to morocco after breaching the border fence earlier this week migrant shelters in so you are currently at double their capacity human rights groups have criticise spain for sending some migrants back before checking their asylum claims. in malta the trial of the captain of a german aid ship that rescued more than two hundred thirty migrants in the mediterranean resumed today only to be postponed for thre