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Call to resettle Rohingya

A Rohingya refugee carries an elderly woman toward a makeshift shelter at Kutupalong refugee camp in the Bangladeshi district of Ukhia on October 26, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Tauseef MUSTAFA

0:00 AMAmanda HodgeIs it time to consider international resettlement options for Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees?

Sharia in Aceh to face test

An Indonesian man (C), one of two to be publicly caned for having sex, is caned in Banda Aceh on May 23, 2017. The pair, aged 20 and 23, were found guilty of having broken sharia rules in conservative Aceh province -- the only part of Indonesia that implements Islamic law -- and sentenced to 85 strokes of the cane each. / AFP PHOTO / CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN

0:00 AMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaAceh’s decision to impose sharia law and Islamic criminal punishments faces a legal challenge next month.

US cuts military aid to Myanmar

Rohingya Muslim woman, Rukaya Begum, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds her son Mahbubur Rehman, left and her daughter Rehana Bibi, after the government moved them to newly allocated refugee camp areas, near Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017. More than 580,000 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when Myanmar security forces began a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages. Myanmar's government has said it was responding to attacks by Muslim insurgents, but the United Nations and others have said the response was disproportionate. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

0:00 AMAmanda HodgeThe US has cut military ties with Myanmar and is considering a formal condemnation of ‘ethnic cleansing’.

ADF to train Philippines forces

0:00 AMAmanda HodgeAustralia will deploy 80 military trainers to The Philippines to help the country combat and contain terrorism.

US warned general over delays

(FILES) This file photo taken on July 8, 2015 shows Indonesia's Military Chief General Gatot Nurmantyo posing for photographers prior to the swearing-in ceremony at the presidential palace in Jakarta. Indonesia said on October 22, 2017 its military chief had been refused entry to the United States and asked Washington for an explanation. General Gatot Nurmantyo was due to attend a conference in Washington at the request of General Joseph F. Dunford, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, but the military said he was unable to board his Emirates flight in Jakarta on Saturday. / AFP PHOTO / Adek BERRY

0:00 AMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaIndonesia’s military chief was warned ‘US security protocols’ could delay his boarding a flight to Washington.

Australia lifts anti-terror role

12:08 PMAmanda Hodge, Rory CallinanAustralia will provide ‘expanded assistance’ to the Philippines within days, Defence Minister Marise Payne has announced.

‘No jihadis left alive in Marawi’

0:00 AMAmanda HodgeThe Philippines government yesterday declared the five-month ISIS siege of Marawi over.

US lifts ban on Indon general

0:00 AMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaJakarta has demanded an ‘urgent’ explanation over the US barring the country’s military chief.

US denies top Indonesia general

2:02 AMAmanda HodgeThe same commander who temporarily suspended defence ties with Australia has been refused entry to the US, in a surprise move.

UN holds Myanmar to account

A Rohingya refugee woman, who crossed the border from Myanmar two days before, jumps during her walk to the Kotupalang refugee camp near Cox's Bazar

0:00 AMAmanda HodgeMyanmar is staring down the barrel of its first ever UN ‘accountability phase’.

Terrorist chief killed in Marawi

This photo taken on October 17, 2017 shows a Philippine flag (top C) hung from a bombed-out building in Marawi on the southern island of Mindanao. At first glance, the endless rows of devastated buildings could be the aftermath of a great earthquake. But the punctured, bullet-riddled walls tell the true story of the Philippines' longest urban war. / AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBE / TO GO WITH AFP STORY PHILIPPINES-UNREST-CONFLICT,FOCUS BY CECIL MORELLA

0:00 AMAmanda HodgeMalaysian terrorist Mahmoud Ahmad, the last surviving commander of the Marawi siege, has been killed.

US knew communists framed

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Indonesian President Suharto (C) in 1965. Pic Handout.
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0:00 AMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaWashington was well-informed of the 1965-66 slaughter of Indonesian communists and sympathisers.

New chief stirs ethnic tensions

Academic and former education minister Anies Baswedan (L) shakes hands with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential palace after his inauguration in Jakarta on October 16, 2017, nearly six months after decisively beating the capital's incumbent governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. Jakarta swore in a new Muslim governor after a divisive election campaign marked by mass protests against his Christian opponent which raised fears for pluralism in Indonesia. / AFP PHOTO / GAGAH ADHAPUTRA

12:35 PMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaJakarta’s governor uses his first speech in office to urge ‘native’ Jakartans to take back the Indonesian capital.

Duterte calls end of ISIS siege

Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte (front L) applauds as he declares Marawi city "liberated" during a ceremony inside the battle area in Marawi on October 17, 2017, as Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (in blue) raises a clenched fist. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on October 17 symbolically declared a southern city "liberated from terrorists' influence" but the military said the five-month battle against militants loyal to the Islamic State group was not yet over. / AFP PHOTO / Ted ALJIBE

0:00 AMAmanda HodgePhilippines President Rodrigo Duterte declares Marawi City liberated from ISIS militants.

Jakarta governor sworn in

9:47 AMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaNew governor, Anies Baswedan, promises to block all new reclamation projects in the city and end the disastrous privatisation of Jakarta water.

Filipino army kills terror chiefs

(FILES) This undated file image grab taken from handout video released by the Philippine Army on June 18, 2017 shows Isnilon Hapilon (2nd L), leader of the hardline Abu Sayyaf group, looking on at an improvised map of Marawi with Abdullah Maute (front R), the brother of Omar Maute and who are both founders of the Maute group, as they plan an attack at an undisclosed location on Mindanao island. A top leader of an Islamic militant group who is on the United States' list of "Most Wanted Terrorists", Isnilon Hapilon, has been killed in the battle to reclaim a southern Philippine city, the defence minister said on October 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Philippine Army / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPINE ARMY" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

0:00 AMAmanda HodgeThe ISIS siege of Marawi could be over within days after Philippines forces killed two of the last militant commanders.

IS leaders killed in Marawi

16:13 PMAmanda HodgeThe five-month long Islamic State siege of Marawi city could be over within the week, the Philippines government says.

‘Ill Aussie should be deported’

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0:00 AMAmanda Hodge Nivell RaydaThe Balinese lawyer of an Australian held on drug charges says her client is mentally ill and should be deported.

Caught in Bali, Aussie flees

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14:24 PMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaQueensland man caught with marijuana at Bali airport tries to escape detention by climbing through toilet air shaft.

Water fears over Jakarta rulers

TOPSHOT - This picture taken on December 29, 2016 shows residents living along a narrow duct that typically runs through slums with tin shacks crowding around the water's edge, where residents have been dumping trash for decades due to the lack of a proper rubbish disposal system, in the Indonesian capital Jakarta. A group of children gathered on the banks of the Ciliwung river in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, staring into the water and casting nets to try to catch fish. Such a scene would have been unthinkable several years ago on the major river, which used to be heavily polluted with stinking rubbish that blanketed the water's surface. / AFP PHOTO / GOH CHAI HIN

0:00 AMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaJakarta’s water supply looms as a test for the new governor and his deputy when they take office on Monday.

‘They shot my 7yo sister’

This picture taken on October 10, 2017 shows the remains of burnt villages near Maungdaw in Northern Rakhine State. Ahead is a river they can't afford to cross, behind is hunger and hostility. So hundreds of Rohingya encamped on a black sand beach in Myanmar's Maungdaw cling to thinning hopes of safe passage to Bangladesh -- before their food runs out. / AFP PHOTO / Marion THIBAUT / TO GO WITH Myanmar-Bangladesh-unrest-religion, SCENE by Marion THIBAUT with Alexandre MARCHAND

13:26 PMAmanda HodgeShootings, mines, rape - a new UN report contains 65 gut-wrenching accounts of recent attacks on Rohingya people.

Sultans warn Najib over Islam

0:00 AMAmanda HodgeMalaysia’s sultans have warned the country’s stability is at risk from political Islam.

No TV at home of Kim patsy

0:00 AMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaThere’s been tears but no TV at the Indonesian home of one of the women accused of the murder of Kim Jong-nam.

Bali volcano alarm hits tourism

A fisherman repairs his sail with Mount Agung volcano in the background in Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. More than 140,000 people have fled from the surrounds of Mount Agung since authorities raised the volcano's alert status to the highest level on Sept. 22 after a sudden increase in tremors. It last erupted in 1963, killing more than 1,000 people. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

2:08 AMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaIndonesia has ferries on standby to evacuate up to 60,000 tourists from Bali if Mount Agung erupts and the airport closes.

Toxin traced to Kim ‘fall guys’

0:00 AMAmanda HodgeThe deadly nerve agent VX was found on the clothes of women accused of murdering Kim Jong-nam.

Gunman wired $127K to girlfriend

0:00 AMMark Schliebs, Amanda HodgeThe Australian girlfriend of the Las Vegas shooter flew to The Philippines at least 10 days before the mass killing.

Suffering continues for Rohingyas

Foriza Begum, back ground, a newly arrived Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar, reacts to her daughter Nosmin Fatima's scream as she receives a vaccination to prevent measles and rubella at a makeshift medical center in Teknaf, Bangladesh, Monday, Oct. 02, 2017. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

0:00 AMAmanda HodgeAid agencies are fanning out in Rohingya refugee camps in a bid to contain malnutrition and diarrhoea.

Envoys apply heat to Suu Kyi

0:00 AMAmanda HodgeDiplomats in Myanmar have urged the government to allow urgent humanitarian access to Rakhine.

Bali battles tourism meltdown

Foreign tourists carry surfboard past infront at the site where a policeman was killed several days ago near Kuta beach on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on August 19, 2016. Indonesian authorities are hunting for an Australian woman and a British man in connection with the murder of a policeman on the resort island of Bali, officials said. / AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

0:00 AMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaAs Mount Agung volcano threatens to blow, officials fear holiday-makers will abandon the tourist mecca en masse.

Lives on hold over volcano

0:00 AMAmanda Hodge, Nivell RaydaIt is not just the prospect of an eruption of Mt Agung that terrifies people, but the intensifying quakes.