what are the conditions like for them that you're hearing on nauru island? trapped there for five years. they're trapped there without any sense of hope. they see no future. now, with young children, what sets young children apart is their sense of the future. children have dreams and hopes, they have curiosity, they ask questions, none of that happens on nauru. there's an indefinite detention. they don't see any way off the island, especially if they've been rejected... 0r their family have been rejected for the usa deal, which has only taken some 370 people of the promised 1250 from both nauru and manus island. they live in overcrowded, mouldy tents. now these tents have a toxic level of mould, so much so that even the staffers, who don't live in those tents, have experienced what's known as nauru lung. virtually all the children, and most of the adults, will have chronic respiratory conditions. the sexual abuse and sexual assault on the island is rife. we see children as young as three years old display inappropriate sexualised behaviour, and that's manif

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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 allowed to visit the country that's outrageous you never you don't have to hide anything that's good right it's trailing government is doing everything it can to try and prevent the reality of the impact of their policy from the straightly and people for years to journalists including those from al-jazeera have been banned from nuru for the pacific island for there is said that a very small number of journalists know more than thirty in total a nobleman three from any one country would be allowed to visit but they still said no to us and for the few who they did there were strict conditions on their visas they would report only on the pacific island forum and not engage in any activities that would cause or would encourage disruption that night in the being poor if there was any doubt on choose day it became clear that meant talking to refugees the police showed up and. the

lack of a long term plan for the families being held has left refugees including children broken nauru'sgovernment and some think australia is too sensitive to the criticism most refugees support organizations aren't allowed to visit the country that's outrageous you never you don't have to hide anything that's good right it's trailing government is doing everything it can to try and prevent the reality of the impact of their policy from the straightly and people for years to journalists including those from al-jazeera have been banned from the route for the pacific island for there is said that a very small number of journalists know more than thirty in total a nobleman three from any one country would be allowed to visit but they still said no to us and for the few who they did let in there was strict conditions on their visas they would report only on the pacific island forum and not engage in any activities that would cause or encourage disruption that night in the being poor if there was any doubt on choose day it became clear that meant talking to refugees the police showed up and.

thanks for that report but it's great you mean such a what you're saying is one you get inspired only nauru's while buffalo wild wings trying to expand to different restaurant areas at the same time you have stores like target that are trying to expand to the demographics so it really is you know there is seem to be sort of desperate in this competition right is increasing competition yes so increasingly competitive marketplace and there is a real fight for these revenues for example starbucks who started serving wine in several locations of there so we'll see what else this these markets start to do. the oca thank you as always here great reporting. and now we're going to take a quick global market trip all around the world let you know what stocks have been doing for this past week and in a few other cases longer than that we first start with in shanghai and china with the shanghai composite index up this week and in fact down though for the last year and down this year to first nine months of this year sort of the same story in a hong kong the hang seng up this week but down this year to b

also in the programme: a mental health crisis among refugee children on nauru island.

also in the programme: a mental health crisis among refugee children on nauru island, with reports ofhances of becoming japan's longest—serving prime minister. live from our studios in singapore and london,

political front there's way leaders from pacific island countries are meeting in the tiny island nation of nauru to discuss common issues but this forum began with a round over a lack of media access to the event and the detention by police of one of the few journalists 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 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 h

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