let me get a final thought from you peter hartcher i mean away from the political shenanigans in canberra in terms of a general election what do astray meehan's want what ordinary people want out of this well the big picture answer to this jamal is that the australian public doesn't want any of this stuff we know from polling and other evidence and she lived experience over the last decade. governments that carry on like this where there is an elected prime minister toned down turmel who. is punished by the by who's the people hated the people think we want to elect a government. we will elect a government with a prime minister choice and then we should leave that person. so unless there's some remarkable circumstantial countervailing events you have to expect that the government of this government will be punished pretty heavily at the next election for exactly that reason for this division all right to peter in town breath thank you very much for your time sir. all right time for a short break here now just about when we come back a desperate journey across the border but thousands of v

minister the incoming one the chap the other challenges what this was actually about all right peter hartcher that political editor of the sydney morning herald peter thank you very much indeed. all right some other news now a saudi emirate to coalition air strike in yemen has killed at least twenty six civilians including women and children who theme media says it happened in the province of her data the group was near a camp for internally displaced people the u.a.e. says rebels were launching missiles from the area but today reports. 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 are disgusting crime. the victims were trying to escape a count in al couey which the coalition says was being used to launch missiles. they hit us while we were on the road this little boy was spared unlike the forty four children killed two weeks ago in another strike that aerial bombing on august

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 coalition. of the sufferance of the conservative wing of his he's a moderate he didn't have one of the conservatives. the conservatives feel that they needed him to continue winnin

but he lost the leadership of his party to malcolm turnbull in september twenty fifteen where peter hartcher is political editor of the sydney morning herald he says malcolm turnbull's eager to highlight the legal problems that peter dutton may face before he could ever become prime minister. well he surrendering really to what he has called an internal peace a rickshaw in designed to try to bully the government further to the right he said that in the event that the dissidents can get a majority of. signatures on a petition to hold a special party meeting that he would call that meeting and that would be tomorrow and at that meeting he would contest the leadership against challenges we've heard from constitutional scholars that the case is a borderline case that it would need to be resolved by the high court which is the highest court in the land and in that case for that to happen it would need to be referred to the high court or the mechanism to doing that is it needs to be referred by the parliament effectively the government itself would have to refer to one of its own members peter dut

peter hartcher is the political editor of the sydney morning herald he says australians a fed up with constant political infighting i can't begin to tell you distressed most people are that what goes on in the federal government it's a new as you said it's a relatively new ten years it's a long standing tradition of practice something we've become for the rest isn't let's listen to the italian political system in changing leaders and one of the characteristics of this there is that. most people with most everybody you will still be wondering if it's the biggest right in the electorate what was this about this great principle was at stake what's the policy difference because not as being said there's probably no explanation from. from the outgoing prime minister the incoming one the other challenges what this was actually about. a saudi in iraq to coalition air strike in yemen has killed at least twenty six civilians including women and children who the media says it happened in the province of data the group was near a camp for internally displaced people the u.a.e. says rebels were l