mr. abbott. i get that if australia has the opportunity to send investigators to the crash site in that field in ukraine, it would almost certainly do so. >> yeah. is there any -- what is the relationship between australia and moscow at the moment? what are the links between if two countries? the dutch have really quite close ties to russia. >> australia/russian relations are bad at the moment. abbott hasn't had direct content with putin. both have been -- both governments have been talking face to face. it was asked what was russia's view of the plane coming down in ukraine. according to the prime minister, mr. abbott doesn't believe what the ambassador said. apparently the ambassador insisted it was ukraine's fault the plane came down in that field. mr. abbott said that's deeply unacceptable. later in the year australia is to host the g 20 sum mitt. vladimir putin would be invite odd to that event but whether he's welcome now is another matter. >> that will be interesting indeed. finally we hav

mr. abbott. there's a part of australia that believes mr. s behaving unfairly harshly. >>> let's take you to to south korea now. t -- to south africa now. mr. pistorius denies murder. he claims he shot his girlfriend reeva steenkamp when he mistook her for an intruder. we were in pretoria for what happens next. >> reporter: this was day 39 of the oscar pistorius murder trial here in pretoria. packing up has begun. the judge told the court they would reconvene here on the seventh of august to hear arguments from the prosecution and the defense. we don't know when she will deliver her judgment. it will be a few weeks after that. judging by the average of when judgments are delivered in south africa to probably be a month after that. that's when oscar pistorius will know his fate. he's been sitting here since the third of march listening to arguments. we will hear when the judge comes back with her offer to deliver the judgment. there's no juries in south africa so the judgment will only be given by the judge from will there with her two assesso

mr. abbott is taking australia backyards. phil mercer reports. >> the matter resolved in the affirmative. the clean energy legislation bill and seven related bills passed. >>> so australia's price on carbon is no more. the vote in the upper house of parliament came after the government finally won the support of micro party as and independent senators. the controversial tax saw the nation's biggest pollutants pay a fee for each ton of carbon dioxide they emitted. abbott, the prime minister who came to power 10 months ago said it was a break on the australian economy. >> you voted to scrap the tax in september last year. today the parliament finally listened. today the tax you voted to get rid of is finally gone. a useless destructive tax which damaged jobs, hurt families cost of living and didn't help the environment is finally gone. >> ministers contend because australia is responsible for less than one and a half % of global emissions, whatever they do is inconsequential. australia is among the world's highest per capita em

mr. abbott says he is not impressed with russia's response to the incident so far. >> i can inform you that the russian ambassador was called in by sidney by the foreign minister bishop and asked for a categoric assurance that russia would cooperate with this investigation. now, i have to tell you the initial response of the russian ambassador was to blame ukraine for this. and i have to say that is deeply, deeply, unsatisfactory. we all know there are problems in ukraine. but we also know who is very substantially to blame for those problems. and the idea that russia can somehow say that none of this has anything to do with them, because it happened in ukrainian air space, frankly does not stand up to any serious scrutiny. i want to say with the australian people that as far as i am concerned when you have a situation where russian-backed rebels appear to have killed australians using, it may well turn out to be a russian-supplied heavy weaponry, australia takes a very dim view indeed and we want the fullest possible investigation. >> the prime minister of australia, tony abbott there, wit

mr. abbott's the one who tipped off the d.a. about this bogus wedding and how it's just a sham so that you don't have to testify against your new supposed husband. >> jack: but -- but i thought -- >> harding: well, you thought we were gonna drag your daughter out of here. >> nick: what?! >> jack: i talked to christine on the phone. >> harding: it's all been taken care of. there will be no charges again

mr. abbott is angry and raising rhetoric in this case. >> indeed. many thanks for that. phil mercer live from sydney. some of the answers, maybe not all, some to why this plane fell out of the sky might lie in the wreckage itself spread over a wide area very close to the russian border in eastern ukraine. as we've been hearing, the finger of blame is pointed fairly and squarely at those rebels, russian backed separatists operating in the east. they've been fighting a bloody war with kiev. let's get the latest on the ground from ukraine. david stern is there now. first of all t black boxes, have they been found? apologies for that. we seem to be problems on the line. i spoke to david in the last hour or so. he made it clear there were rumors perhaps that one of the black boxes had been found and transported to moscow. the rocket launcher used to fire the missile apparently was over the border back to western russia overnight. all these are unconfirmed reports. at the moment it's unclear as to whether both, the two flight boxes on board, have been found. they may provide c

mr. abbott, what's your reaction to the speaker not bringing in any immigration issues, not mentioning theis proposed lawsuit? i would imagine that would be a bit disappointing? >> well, what's disappointing is the fact that just yesterday, the president was here in texas, here in austin, just a few hundred miles away from the border and he turned his back on the border. he called this place a crisis. just a week or two ago. and he could not respond to a crisis by himself showing up and trying to address this issue. this is a huge challenge for the state of texas, jake. we expect the president to live up to his responsibility and the federal government's responsibility to secure our border and to address this is unprecedented influx of immigrants everybody central america. >> that's my point. wouldn't you want that to be in the lawsuit that speaker boehner is bringing up then? >> here's the deal, jake. yeah, and that is i have no control over any litigation that the house leader may bring against the obama administration. what i do have control over, however, is litigation that i may bring