Offers an opportunity to get some direction as to what the leadership of this very secretive state of north korea could be thinking because what the world is most concerned about is north Koreas Nuclear ambitions and on their skin john reiterated some claim that hes already made in november that north korea has completed its final cush to become a Nuclear Force and when he made this claim first in november it was when north korea had fired its most advanced Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and kim jong un also said in his speech on monday that north korea will call for the deployment and mass production of Nuclear Warheads and miss else. Is from the u. S. Mainland is within the range of our Nuclear Strike and the Nuclear Button is put on the desk in my office at all times they should clearly understand that this is never a trash would a reality but what weapons experts say is north korea may not yet have the technology to miniaturize a Nuclear Warhead attach it to a weapon that can really enter the earths atmosphere and the only way to know this for sure is if north korea were to conduct an Atmospheric Nuclear test now kim jong un did not make any specific mention of such tests but the key message here is that that north korea is a Nuclear State even though the outside world may not have any way of knowing that at this stage the u. S. Should think twice about starting a war with north korea but despite the very belligerent tone he struck with the u. S. He did offer an olive branch to south korea now analysts say this could be a tactic to buy itself more time while it thoughts its Nuclear Weapons technology and its also perhaps a ploy to drive a wedge between the u. S. And south korea who are traditional allies. The iranian president Hassan Rouhani has made his first speech following days of protests against Economic Hardship and corruption he said the government must provide space for criticism but also one protest as that violence was unacceptable israels governing the could party has passed a resolution urging its leaders to establish israeli sovereignty and form of the comics parts of the occupied west bank the vote was nonbinding but could streamline procedures for the construction expansion of settlements. At least seven people are reported to have been killed by Security Forces at protests in the democratic republic of congo demonstrators in the capital kinshasa and calling for president Joseph Kabila to step down theyre angry at his refusal to leave when his term ended a year ago he then promised elections by the end of twenty seventeen theyve been delayed until december. Time weve never had peace in this country nothing works we dont eat well president kabila is still young and he can leave his place to someone else and come back later if he wants hes worked it out already its enough we dont want him he should go and rest. Even the president the boo to a dictator you could much peacefully today we just dont understand anymore we are really tired of could be there. At least thirty six people have been killed in a Road Accident in kenya a bus collided with a truck near the town of the car roof thats about one hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital nairobi brake failure is suspected more than one hundred people have died on the same stretch of road this month. Twelve people have died in a plane crash in northwest costa rica the aircraft was carrying ten foreigners and two local crew it took off in the going to custer province and crashed into mountains the cause of the accident is unclear thank you and the world has been ringing in twenty eighteen with spectacular fireworks displays across the globe new york is the latest city to welcome in the new year people braved cold weather to join in the celebrations in times square. And in london big bens famous chimes rang out to usher in the new year followed by a fireworks display over the river thames. Those are the headlines the news continues. After once upon a time on imponderables that you can sort of. Crime to us right in front of in order to get away from the war that was happening at the top. And they came here to restart their lives. As a margaret when i first arrived at this rally i like it i i struggled. It was very difficult. I wanted to give us the data that. There was a plan for the beginning very sick for the last. Few decades lebanese families come to a strain to build a better life and escape the destruction of. That many and demonized in a new land. To. Get rid of this multiculturalism because that is the bottom of the list. Then after fifteen years of immigration from lebanon anglo and arab a strongly a is divided by the first gulf war theyre being confronted with a choice between doing either our own restraint because up to now the multicultural story is both. You know arab first. I already answered this question im going to start to see those are not all the stores trailer and i shouldnt be asked about this. On modesty tweets if theres a study i can hear the debate on the blog about this so well. In one thousand nine hundred a tiny criminal minority become drug dealing gangsters define the blues game we believe what. In two thousand and one terrorism raises fears that arab australians are an enemy within the party that terrorism political rivals in all but five years later and our attention explodes into one of the most infamous race riots in a strange industry dont go to the middle east who bought into the weekend is now that we have been in a Pressure Cooker effect for say tea leaves for people converged on chronology they choose to know. What happened on that sunday in court all of it is a black or for a country. And i live in a. Z. One stone is what im on it none i am a strong and i am lebanese i am muslim im up a majority hama child im told anyone this is a story of what its like to be live in a nice and cool astray. We are striving and this is our homeland and says where we belong in this is what we have. It was built is the dyker know the residents were tight back the beaches. But it shouldnt turn told by. The sunday that the riot occurred all i remember seeing is so many people pushing and shoving so many and faces. I felt very hurt and i thought you know what we dont like. What is it about us that you hate so much in two thousand and five. In high school but like the rest of the lebanese a straining Community Feels under attack. By afghans the more turned on any one of the least of the period. By members up stairs in my parents bedroom watching t. V. And all i remember is the night going from just a normal i pace watching to be to just panic and chaos and i remember feeling terrified and i felt very very scared as it were my dad to go anyway. As the horror of the days events unfold. Me mats Father Community leader jamal rifi is frantically on the phone. I spoke with Many Community leaders at the time that we needed cooler heads to prevail brothers in the tickets. And we needed to act and act quickly because if we didnt then we would lose control. It was a very very touchy touchy tone there was a lot of angry people the things that were said about their religion and the things it was a community i want to be. Disrespected the more disrespect him hard. Sam al qaeda grows up in punchbowl hes been going to cronulla since he was a child. And is married to an anglo astray in. My inlaws were living at can all or some or called up bought my wife and said the bed chore or you and your sisters and your father isnt as close as i want to know when that happens. Because no one no one wants to say stuff like that in this country we dont need people to come here and inspire hatred or very frustration in packs or or groups theres no need for i am. I. As night falls on this day of shame hundreds of angry lebanese as train men a gathering in Punchbowl Park i looked outside the window on my own health i saw one car to come three or four cars unto us or the whole field of boys just ready to retaliate revenge was the only thing when there much. On the night of the riots kemal sol a is a High School Student living with his parents across the road from the park. I was angry i guess they were angry too youre talking about a hundred times the boys guarantee theyll saw in my house in front of poncho park something ive never seen before. Little brother harry is just ten years old at the time of the riots that in chewers of lee understands the crisis that police are about to face. For like say ten fifteen minutes two was very calm very good no no swearing no music no nothing it was very calm but you could say the boys were angry they came up to go. You had one place car that was coming up the street from the back of punch road. But once the place of the came thats when everyone jumped back may cause and started to leave one by one. And pulls over in a few minutes they all go on to. Always in the car with. A young boy who had a very serious weapon on him and to actually be in the car with somebody who was ready to use. You know a powerful weapon was scary. At the time of the riots muhammad is in hes a conditioning apprenticeship and hes quickly swept up in the call for revenge. And there were guys there who were. There ready to kill. And once we left we went from from suburb to suburb around the corner area looking for trouble. Even the most the most articulate and the most intellectual people in our community with filled with outrage because how much can someone take before they crack. Seen up to eight pm dozens of cars a straining towards cronulla seeking revenge. And its probably the revenge attacks that were most shocking. To people because almost like the wider public could understand young your drunken australian right. What i couldnt in visit which was this forwarded cavalcade of dozens of cars bicycling much on the east nothing like that ever happened in australian history. Gangs of them in the middle eastern origin. Bank for ripping. It was all for the first song i saw a figure about a man walking down district and people of lebanese backgrounds they come in and attack him i cried. I just could not believe my eyes. Could have been me in a coronata or someone else working down the street in punchbowl. By nine pm the police have set up roadblocks all around. And the convoys of cars still pouring in change routes. By decides tactically to simply avoid going on columbus on the place to get into whereas the eastern bunches much more open and much more available to a sort of widespread scatter gun attack and people peel off theyre angry and they feel empowered to what the hell my life once they have been attacked in such a scarlets. Remorseless why they feel that bits are off i can do what i want. By ten pm the beachside suburbs of brighton the sands and the rubra are under attack of. The shocking vial. Continues into the early hours of monday morning. Full of lebanese they all just jumped out my husbands truck a large. Crash every single car in the street from the shovel of his truck through the straits rampaging window it was absolutely love its no big surprise you know what i really thinking thats really stupid what you know what good does that to how it. How does the car being damaged solve anything. Weve got some river and got pulled over by the place. They were. Propagating a bus stop and searched and then. They started searching the car and the cops just said. In a noise way and i get the f. Out of here in the car to luck you know. Its a relief from the homage and phonemic his future wife i was really shocked that i was one of the guys that went down only because its really out of character for him like hes really much more logical than that but at the same time i can really understand i can put myself in that position i can understand being an eighteen year old guy whose whole world is falling apart because people will not stop picking at every bit of you. When i go home i thought about how stupid i was and how stupid we were. Something serious could have happened to myself or to somebody else. And it could have been. Incredibly bad thing for me growing up it couldve destroyed me the. Sunrise the next morning a nation awakes in shock. Therapy easier to write or draw in a drunken rant they have that believing that i have the terrorism to play investigators are seeking several miles of middle eastern appearance from my race but my time its like a although they really dont think. The next day would threaten that its like any other day kids went to school i went to work but we knew deep down that the emotions is board like. Then we started to get a lot of hate mail. So early monday morning straight after the come over or its some time i should start coming to the police that there was going to be some retaliation. And some violence towards look in the mosque. Denny mccarty is a lebanese a strain senior constable in the New South Wales police and is still reeling from the nights events. I was quite disappointed to being devastated at the retaliation because i was hoping would be better than that i was hoping that. Members of our community wouldnt get sucked in to. Putting the shoe on the other foot. It reside with me that we need to keep it close eye on the tensions so i attended the very early. The mosque staff knew me very well ive been working the fees and initially there was absolutely no problems but as the i was went on the crowds began to swell and very quickly there were thousands of people down there. And what was interesting was that the people that were starting to come down there definitely one of an islamic background a myriad of cultures of those greeks italians different types of europeans as darkness falls the atmosphere is increasingly volatile. I was at the corner of punchbowl road and i was talking with the Police Officers and you could feel the tension. You could taste the anger. And you could anticipate support. I remember that evening sitting at my parents place and i you know they live on the whites are like a mosque. And sort of like its a people zooming past young people running out of and all that sort of think these are young people you know not only middle east and but also so muslim. Law muslim. Non arabic. Whatever you whatever you want to say it was probably actually the most multicultural like a mad thing. And i asked somebody said whats going on he said i havent heard you know the gangs are coming down here they apparently want to come and burn the most you know i want to live there. Then High School Teacher jihad did learns that two of his brothers are in the crowd outside the mosque i thought my brothers. My brothers are there and before anything else my familys the most important thing to me. And im going to go for my brothers im going to get from the rear bring them out as i would i need to shit. God damn it. And they would have been thousands and thousands of people at the. If i were a public about moscow and we have to buy them on a belgium label id get it that is obviously it stopped the police. At the corner of my on notice freelance photographer and within an instant you could see. Members of the credit spotting. And like a mob i just steal towards and. Just sprinted ahead of the crowd and gone straight to him. Just asking him telling him get in the car and get out of here so hes got in the car and driven off and im feeling pretty good about myself ive got rid of that situation but ive looked over my shoulder enough noticed thousands of very angry people now who had someone else to base the frustrations at and ive just run towards me. So ive said to myself ok this will be the last day for me on earth. So i quit praying just brace for impact. And as im watching these thousands of people run towards me. All of a sudden look like a black why did i just this stopped. Members of the mosque had formed a human china all the way around me and they shoot at me from the bulk of this writing force of a crowd. Within about a few seconds i started to hear the most beautiful sound in the world which was placed orange coming in from everywhere and i remember turning to a colleague and i said. Thats how thank you for the years of hard work at this mosque and thats a day that i remember that thats the day that the community saved my life. The bright light in the door was that it was people who were muslim remember talking to i priest there were people who were fights of all communities and just what are you doing i would have been in a mosque but most of my bad weapons a big one to fit into. Your mind of the call for them to get even raise your hand in anger. But it was like these. Holy places off limits. Remember it came time for prayer and it was like this thank goodness ok everybody plays his prank. And there were actually coming down. And it to be surely people dispersed. But as they struggled to contain the rage of the dispersing crowd Community Leaders fear the worst. I know from people was i should have. And i was quite a lot to have pulled old baseball bats that was a lot of guns out there. And i was very affected. By eight pm the crowd is still fuming and large groups gather at a nearby service station. I know its clear that the horror of the night before is about to be repeated. The middle east was on the move with the second strike. The next morning Community Leaders make calls to the place and New South Wales premier. I knew we needed to act but we need to act to quick otherwise we will not be able to contain the situations supreme swells was contacted and we told them what we should be done on the fifteenth of december. Newsource was parliament was an equal for one solution to actually posit you just lay should down. In lockdown hundreds of palais stopping vehicles coming out the british interests doubling child care report to you that the police will step up their efforts to bring in the fives and drops your response of all for those not time attacks to justice. The tough new laws result in the Biggest Police operation since the sydney olympics with two thousand Police Setting up roadblocks on major roads going into for an hour and all the major beachside suburbs unfortunately some of the televisions took place but. I must tell you that could have been taos. Some peo