tony abbott is under fire to his response to the south-east asian migrant crisis.ing herald," tony abbott advocates leadership with negative slogan when asked about providing refuge with displaced "rock newman show", he plied: "the peninsula" from qatar uses a cartoon to take a swipe at kim jong un depicting the dictator with cut outs of people behind him wearing targets. reports surfaced of kim ordering executions for failing to give soldiers the required amount of rice. >>> "the telegraph" a yes vote could force the church to change. beside attitudes changing all of which the catholic church opposed, priests have lost the right to moralize amid child sexual abuse in the church >>> after decades of mutual mistrust, americans and cubans are scaring off in the middle of the city. team u.s.a. is hosting team cuba in a wrestling match. morgan radford was there, and had the story. laying it on the mat. times square is the stage for historic wrestling match between team u.s.a. and cuba. >> it's the first time u.s. and cuban athletes competed in a sport since a change in

the shockwaves from that continued until tony abbott was challenged in february.asurer'sk the job may be at risk. the plan is to play it safe, to make themselves a small target politically. is with the deficit rising, unemployment, and the mining boom, is it safe? probably not. for us.paul allen here is david having a go at is moving the market. a lot of arrows. is important to take a step back. what i have for you, this graphic that we have shows you changes over the past month. what this shows you are standouts. --nghai composite training trending up. it has been reversing. it was on its, way down. this side, take a look, yields are on the rise. take a look at the chart. there we go. fairly clear. u.s. 10-year, i mentioned china, the benchmark, a fairly clear story. the same thing. changes over the past month. propertythe benchmark, index, so on and so forth. that has really brought down the cost of borrowing. down 26%. take a look how that is done. china, take a look of the stocks, just in case you may have missed the boat. bernstein coming out. if you want to

tony abbott, the prime mister, says there are claims without production.s important to get the facts and an inquiry may do that. this morning he appeared to be backing away from the sport of an inquiry, saying he did not want to turn it into a witchhunt. there has been a fair amount of lobbying going on because of this. the ideakenzie called of inquiry ridiculous and a waste of taxpayer money. he said it would increase red tape and even at these prices, it remains the most productive unit. however, an interesting bit of political theater right now. it may remain just that. chances of an inquiry into the price are seeming more remote this morning. angie: paul allen in sydney. thanks for that. coming up, our next guest has advised on nearly $30 billion worth of chinese tech deals. we ask if he has identified the next jack ma. ♪ angie: a u.s. judge has accelerated the timetable for the a look release of hillary clinton's e-mails. ,he state department had waited or wanted to wait until january to release that 30,000 documents at once but the ruling means they

tony abbott was nicknamed dr. no because he voted down anything the government tried to achieve.s is what the government has on its hand. business lacks stability and nothing particularly jarring will happen over the next 12 months. we still have the senate being urged to pass the budget because the economic picture in australia does seem to be getting linear. the debt is growing. the first budget for political reasons is not going to do a tremendous amount to try to remedy that. angie: paul allen watching the australian budget coming down today in canberra. malaysia's fundamental economic picture remains clouded despite the recent oil rally. the rating agency is preparing its second-quarter review and it has flag a 50% chance of a downgrade. let's go to as haslinda amin. : it all comes down to macro economic fundamentals and they are not looking good. fitch says the rally may help the overall picture. it does not alter the fact that my lay ship has a shrinking -- strugglings been with a fiscal shortfall for almost two decades. mounting debt after a stage one investment company.

. >> prim mine ster tony abbott announcing plans to pass the law that would give the government power to strip the citizenship of any one suspected of terrorism even without a conviction. there are more than 100 australians that are suspected to be fighting with isis. it law would help keep them out of australia. >> back at home the field of 2016 hopefuls growing larger this week. republicans rick santorum and george pataki and martino malley set to make their candidacies official. it is not santorum's first go at the gop nomination. in 2012 he came didn't second to eventual nom me mitt romney. santorum will make his announcement tomorrow in butler pennsylvania. george pataki will make it official in new hampshire. that's where the first primary takes place and martino malley will go back to his roots and launch a bid for the democratic nomination in baltimore where he served as mayor for 7 years. >> it is now 10 minutes after the top of the hour. am blown away. a day at the beach turning down right dangerous when that bounce house full of kids is thrown into the air. >> i was thinkin

prime minister tony abbott hopes to pass the law within weeks. it would allow the government to strip citizenship from dual nationals who are suspected terrorists even if they haven't been convicted of a crime. right now more man the 100 australians are expected to be fighting with isis and other terrorist groups in syria and iraq. as many as 50% of those have dual citizenships. >>> back in the u.s. the justice department and cleveland officials agreed to settal case alleging wide spread police misconduct. that agreement coming in the wake of several incidents of alleged police misconduct including the november shooting death of 12-year-old boy who was playing with a toy gun. under the settlement federal law enforcement officials are expected to monitor the cleveland police department. this marking the first settlement reached under new attorney general loretta lynch since she took office last month. >>> two daughters of the late blues legend b.b. king claim their father's death was not an accident. the daughters filed affidavits claiming king's

this morning prime minister tony abbott says he hopes to pass the law within weeks. it would allow the government to strip is it citizenship from dual nationals suspected terrorists even if not convicted of a crime. more than 100 australians are expected to be fighting with isis. other terrorist groups in syria and iraq. as many as 50% of those are dual citizens. >>> the fbi right now looking into a series of threats called in yesterday by someone who claimed that chemical weapons or within board airplanes. the threats turned out nobody to be credible but two fighter jaets escorted this air france plain to new york as a precaution. if pla the plane and passengers were later cleared. the threa investigators believe that the same person is behind all of those calls. >> congress is getting a bit frantic about extending the patriot act in one form or another. >> it's getting complicated, scott mcgrew. the senate rejected it which would have kept the nsa's telephone records program alive. >> as it stands nout thw, that be fine with some people. the senate, as you may reca

>> well, tony, you just heard governor abbott describe it as a tsunami and that's what it looked like. over the weekend a wall of water, 46 feet tall, hit this bridge behind me. miraculously the bridge survived but the wall of water took 72 homes with t just on the other side of the bridge 1 the small town of wimberley texas, and you can see a vacation home that was once on the river and there were two families staying in a similar home upstream, and they're plunge the missing. 13 people in all are still missing, and witnesses describe that home being torn off of its foundation by the wall of water before crashing on into the bridge and breaking into pieces of the. of the 13 people, several are unaccounted for three of them are young children, two bodies have been found in the county, but they're currently unidentified. and as you heard from governor abbott, he has declared the disaster conditions in 47 counties in texas. in houston which saw the brunt of rainfall overnight, more than 11 inches hitting in just a few hours. and there was massive flooding hitting every part of the city.

. >> reporter: and abbott is warning that it could get a lot worse before it gets better tony becauseow that everything is saturated, as more rain will fall any drop of rain will just more saturate the rivers and more of that will flow down river, so south of hayes county all the way to mexico they are on alert for more flash floods. >> kevin one of the things you are going to tell us is there are cells there. >> that's right. tony. like heidi said they are saturated across the region. this line of thunderstorms not only with severe weather but of course we're looking at 2 3, to 4 inches of rain coming out of these storms per hour. that's how destricttive this is. i want to show you what we're looking at down here. of course they are doing rescues in that area as we are speaking. here on google earth this is the blanco river that leads all the way down to san marco, flood stage is about 13 feet sunday it went to 43 feet and at one point the flow in the river was two and a half times that of the niagara falls, so right now we're talking about flash food warnings from oklahoma to the no