Political life as senior ministers deserve him and contest his leadership but he says he will quit politics if his Liberal Party no longer supports him in a second leadership vote on friday the government has suspended parliament to try to resolve this crisis no australian Prime Minister has succeeded in serving a full three year term in over a decade. Lets bring in australian journalist Roger Maynard for more on this good Morning Roger is australia on the verge of getting a new Prime Minister it certainly seems that way its very likely that australia will have the new i mean but tomorrow let alone one hundred percent. Depends on whether a lot illusion for a spill succeeds tomorrow if that does happen then nothing to the Prime Minister said he will resign and he will stand down and open the way flora heres
a is near misses to stand along with also be two other candidates the treasurer Scott Morrison and possibly the foreign minister julie bishop so its all up at the moment very very un
charges and stems from an investigation led by u.s. authorities which started almost three years ago but we have a report to give us a bit more background information on this particular case. just say maria marine until his conviction and u.s. court in december spent a lot of time moving between his temporary digs at new york s trump tower and a federal courthouse that ended with guilty verdicts on six counts related to taking over six million dollars in bribes while handing out broadcast and marketing rights for major soccer tournaments. the former head of brazilian soccer marine was one of the qadri of men at the top of the sport s governing body. on a cold december morning near feed his headquarters in zurich in two thousand and fifteen swiss and u.s. investigators coordinated a raid on a luxury hotel. marine and a handful of other futile power brokers were arrested some extradited to the u.s.