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They named that koala lewis. he was taken to an animal hospital. sadly he has now had to be put down by vets. he really became a symbol of their plight and as many as a thousand koalas are thought to have died as a result of these fires. some zoologist now saying that koalas are functionally extinct as a species. this means they no longer have enough members to produce future generations. thats because the bushfires have had a massive impact on their generation. there is so little habitat left f...

Personal debt national amendment bill is meant to ease their plight but offering writeoffs the banks are against the bill saying it will make it harder for low income workers to find credit in the future. private lending in soweto is dominated by a network of illegal known shocks known as smash and he says they challenge interest rates as high as 50 percent. mountain mcgeady suffers from a chronic lung disease and urgently needs money to see a doctor. the 42 year old racked up substantial credit...

Definitely do. it out of some of the other global business stories making news. the u.s. state of texas has dropped its opposition to the merger of mobile phone companies sprint and t. mobile usa announcing a settlement that would stop them from raising prices for 5 years 14 states and the district of columbia are still planning actions to block the $26000000000.00 merger . new figures show mexico fell into recession during the 1st half of the year vies data showed the economy shrank before flat...

Kamala harris and cory booker talked about how they could recreate obama coalition a bit of a digs at joe biden if they think he cant make it across the finish line or pete buttigieg but playing up the fact that as black americans they could speak to voters in a way that obama did and the other candidates cant. so it is interesting to see how campaigns progress closer to iowa how much they continue to hammer that point. >> campaigns getting lost in the impeachment conversation. ill close with th...

Agonizing wait list. one of those living donors, you see the couple there, lisa em met wrote about the program in a time magazine op-ed and joins me with her husband neil who is actually the recipient of a kidney from a donor in los angeles as part of whats known as the paired exchange program. good to have you both here today. >> thank you for having us. ed: lisa, why dont we start with how you first got involved in this, and well talk about neils story after that. >> so i first became involved...

Ukrainians who really, thats the center of the thing. ukrainian freedom fighters who are up against the biggest threat in the world, who were relying on americans for help. their plight got turned into a political football. thats a tragedy and the fact we cant even agree on that is, i think, a very bad sign. >> charlie, theres so much evidence of what the president did and why he did it. do you think house republicans would ever vote to impeach the president no matter how convincing the case aga...

>> one cup of rice for five of them. >> reporter: for nearly a year, nbc news investigated the plight of these children tracking the mica they dig to china and then to some of the worlds biggest companies. panasonic and insulation for batteries to the military and crrc owned by the chinese government, they are boston, philadelphia, chicago and los angeles. loaded with madagascar mica we take our findings to washington. >> it has to be stopped. >> reporter: where democratic senators have been wor...

An urgent manhunt underway after four people are shot and killed at a backyard party in california. police in fresno say the shooter or shooters snuck up to the home and opened fire. they believe the attack was targeted. a hero massachusetts firefighter will be laid to rest today. lieutenant jason maynard died saving two of his fellow firefighters. hundreds of his brothers and sisters in uniform paying their respects at his wake. he leaves behind a wife and three children. and nancy pelosi and c...

Bakr al-baghdadi, and then just four minutes and six seconds of the presidents handling of the economy. whats going on? >> well, the president has a very strong economy to run on. the economists, most of the profession are progressives, liberals and so forth and their estimates and criticisms are terribly biased. i could give you very specific examples. in reality, we beat all those expectations. the economy is simply doing better than the forecasters said. and the stock market shows it. the sto...

Was nothing i could do used a lot of force to overpower me. i didnt understand what was going on i was in a lot of pain and i was crying a lot. when kenya became independent in the 1960 s. dia was left to fend for herself as an outcast with 3 biracial children and no money or land to live on to date she is one of more than 100000 victims who are demanding that a united nations special investigator open the inquiry into the plight of. british soldiers expelled families from their homes stole land...