WEBVTT - Albanese rejects plan to cut refugee intake

0:00:03.410 --> 0:00:06.309
<v Speaker 1>Well, the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his senior minister,

0:00:06.350 --> 0:00:08.690
<v Speaker 1>Tony Burke, appear to be at odds on Labor's own

0:00:08.730 --> 0:00:12.850
<v Speaker 1>migration policy. The Prime Minister decided against a plan to

0:00:12.930 --> 0:00:17.160
<v Speaker 1>reduce the annual refugee intake. The federal government had decided

0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.560
<v Speaker 1>to reduce the humanitarian intake from 20,000 people to just

0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:25.290
<v Speaker 1>under 14,000 next financial year. Last night, Anthony Albanese intervened

0:00:25.660 --> 0:00:29.710
<v Speaker 1>to confirm his plan to keep that annual quota at 20,000.

0:00:29.710 --> 0:00:32.339
<v Speaker 1>The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, He had this to say

0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.460
<v Speaker 1>about it when I asked him about that refugee intake

0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:36.040
<v Speaker 1>a moment ago.

0:00:36.060 --> 0:00:39.620
<v Speaker 2>They're all over the shop. I mean, our political opponents

0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.919
<v Speaker 2>were all over the shop in immigration yesterday. Labor announced

0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:48.550
<v Speaker 2>a policy that was gone by mid-afternoon, was gone. And meanwhile,

0:00:48.610 --> 0:00:51.629
<v Speaker 2>we saw at the Bush summit, I don't know what

0:00:51.670 --> 0:00:55.910
<v Speaker 2>their policy, it keeps changing. It changed about three times

0:00:55.970 --> 0:00:56.690
<v Speaker 2>in three minutes.

0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.860
<v Speaker 1>The Prime Minister's decision overrides Tony Burke and the targets

0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.280
<v Speaker 1>set in the May budget to reduce net overseas migration

0:01:04.300 --> 0:01:09.319
<v Speaker 1>at 225,000 people. So the number of Australians missing following

0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.959
<v Speaker 1>the flash flooding in the Himalayas has now risen to

0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:16.220
<v Speaker 1>at least 39. Foreign Minister Penny Wong has just released

0:01:16.260 --> 0:01:20.970
<v Speaker 1>a statement confirming the government is attempting to confirm their welfare.

0:01:21.530 --> 0:01:25.449
<v Speaker 1>Australia will also send $ 5 million in assistance as part

0:01:25.490 --> 0:01:30.209
<v Speaker 1>of its response to the disaster. Three humanitarian response specialists

0:01:30.670 --> 0:01:34.050
<v Speaker 1>will also be sent to assist within the next 48 hours.

0:01:34.630 --> 0:01:37.630
<v Speaker 1>Rescue teams are racing against time to retrieve any survivors

0:01:38.230 --> 0:01:42.310
<v Speaker 1>after the natural disaster destroyed homes and swamped roads. On

0:01:42.330 --> 0:01:46.330
<v Speaker 1>the ground, the landslide has torn apart entire villages. One

0:01:46.390 --> 0:01:48.730
<v Speaker 1>Nation is set to unveil the former New South Wales

0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:53.130
<v Speaker 1>Trade and Investment Commissioner He's also an ex-banker. Mike Newman

0:01:53.390 --> 0:01:56.510
<v Speaker 1>as the party's state leader. Mr Newman will run in

0:01:56.530 --> 0:01:59.590
<v Speaker 1>the seat of Cessnock, targeting a Labor-held seat in the

0:01:59.630 --> 0:02:03.250
<v Speaker 1>Hunter region. The party is obviously confident of winning. He

0:02:03.290 --> 0:02:06.940
<v Speaker 1>says One Nation has a plan for the state. High-profile

0:02:06.980 --> 0:02:09.660
<v Speaker 1>party member Stuart Bonds is expected to lead the Upper

0:02:09.700 --> 0:02:12.320
<v Speaker 1>House ticket. However, he could also make a run for

0:02:12.340 --> 0:02:16.320
<v Speaker 1>the Nationals' held Upper Hunter seat as well. US President

0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:21.150
<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump confirmed Russia will not attack NATO territory. Earlier

0:02:21.169 --> 0:02:23.510
<v Speaker 1>in the week, Donald Trump hinted something may come out

0:02:23.550 --> 0:02:28.060
<v Speaker 1>of Tuesday's unannounced meeting between America's CIA and figures from

0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:32.360
<v Speaker 1>Russian intelligence services. It comes after speculation over why CIA

0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.040
<v Speaker 1>Director John Ratcliffe went to Moscow days ago, arriving on

0:02:36.060 --> 0:02:38.820
<v Speaker 1>board a military aircraft and then leaving just hours later.

0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.860
<v Speaker 1>The president today reassured NATO that Russia is not planning

0:02:42.900 --> 0:02:47.460
<v Speaker 1>to attack its territory. European and US intelligence officials are

0:02:47.500 --> 0:02:51.370
<v Speaker 1>monitoring Russia's attacks in the war against Ukraine. The CIA

0:02:51.410 --> 0:02:54.329
<v Speaker 1>has reportedly declined a comment and there has been no

0:02:54.389 --> 0:02:57.010
<v Speaker 1>word from the Kremlin. But Donald Trump reaffirmed his stance

0:02:57.070 --> 0:02:57.950
<v Speaker 1>on NATO's safety.

0:02:57.970 --> 0:03:03.590
<v Speaker 2>Well, war criminal Ratko Mladic, who was nicknamed the butcher

0:03:03.710 --> 0:03:08.389
<v Speaker 2>of Bosnia, has died in jail at The Hague, aged 84.

0:03:16.020 --> 0:03:20.340
<v Speaker 1>The Bosnian Serb military commander was serving a life sentence

0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:24.910
<v Speaker 1>for genocide and crimes against humanity. He oversaw a campaign

0:03:24.930 --> 0:03:28.230
<v Speaker 1>of ethnic cleansing as Yugoslavia was broken up in the 1990s.

0:03:28.810 --> 0:03:31.850
<v Speaker 1>An international court found him responsible for the massacre of

0:03:31.889 --> 0:03:36.910
<v Speaker 1>about 8,000 Muslims in a UN designated safe area of Bosnia.

0:03:37.350 --> 0:03:40.810
<v Speaker 1>Ratko Mladic was arrested in 2011 and lived the rest

0:03:40.990 --> 0:03:42.290
<v Speaker 1>of his life in custody.