Hello and welcome to question time where we play the highlights of question time in australias parliament. Wildfires ravaged the east coast of australia over the summer have died down, the political fallout is just beginning. Question time and parliament began with a bipartisan day honoring those fire victims and thanking the volunteers who helped fight the fires. Before thetake long conversation quickly turned to politics. My question is to the Prime Minister why does the Prime Minister claim he always acted on the advice of fire commissioners when he ignored for two years their advice to provide determinate boost to australias aerial firefighting capabilities . Mr. Speaker, i think the , and ifor her question pass on again my sincere condolences and sympathies and support to all those members in her electorate. I have members in my family who lived in your electorate and i want to thank you for the work you have done, as all members have done over the course of this bushfire season i
Sympathies and support to all of those members in their electorate. I want to thank you for the work you have done. The member raise the matter recommendations regarding the assets, what the government has done to respond to that with two separate actions of funding which matched what they originally asked for i dealt with this during the bushfire season, in addition to those funding allocations of 11 million, on top of that we announce that further 20 million over and above the 15 million being provided each and every year as part of the arrangement we had. We are pleased to do that. Ongoing funding was addressed in this years budget. The house of representatives, the primacy was asked about preparedness and how they acted on this, and related to the catastrophic season. The leader of the opposition. My question is addressed to the primacy. Does the primacy regret saying volunteer firefighters dont need economic compensation for lost income because they want to be out there. Once agai
Microclimate forecast doing . Headed out the door here say quick check of your daytime highs, upper 50s, low 60s. Notice the bay area sky, coast, bay and inland a mix of sun and clouds. Ill have an exact breakdown of the temperatures headed into new years eve tonight for inland areas and the coastline with just a little bit, well send things over to mike. Breaking news in the traffic center, you might have caught that as it happened last report. We have more information northbound 880. We have good news. Two of your four lanes are open, but the other two lanes are still blocked, oxygen tanks reportedly fell out of one of the vehicles, involved in a crash north 880 at 29th. Coliseum toward 66th, so its starting at the overcrossing and building. It will continue back toward about 98th. That is a slow section just north of high street is where the lanes are blocked. We show you on the map, you have some options. Because traffic is so very light, west 580 an easy breezy drive over there. W
Now on bbc news, Hardtalks Stephen Sackur in conversation with behrouz boochani, iranian author, journalist and refugee. Welcome to hardtalk, i am stephen sackur. In 2013, the Australian Government adopted a draconian anti immigration policy which involved sending all seaborne, would be Asylum Seekers to de facto detention camps in remote Papua New Guinea and micronesia. My guest was one of them. Behrouz boochani is an uranium kurd who has written about his experience. He is now a prize winning author, but is his long term fate any clearer . Behrouz boochani, in auckland, new zealand, welcome to hardtalk. Yeah, thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the show, behrouz. I think we have to begin with an explanation of how youre in new zealand after this epic, very long journey, difficultjourney that youve been on. How come right now youre talking to me from auckland . I was invited by the world festival in christchurch in new zealand a few months ago, and then i applied to
Inhumane conditions in migrant camps in bosnia. And calls grow louder for the release of texas death row inmate rodney read as new evidence comes to light in the case. And sport n. F. L. Player miles guarantees hit with an indefinite but the Cleveland Brown star attacked some opponents with helmets during a game and searched. Hello welcome to the news hour we begin in the United States where mary the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine has testified in the pietschmann inquiry into President Donald Trump ivanovich says she was shocked and devastated when she was removed as ambassador and said there was a Smear Campaign against her while she was giving her testimony the president launched a twitter attack criticizing her reputation and korea the current phase of the inquiry is set to wrap up by the end of this month after that its likely articles of impeachment the charge sheet against the president will be worse and there would then be a vote on whether to impeach public hearings though