Janet Jalil

So we know that there were 34 Australians in the Roj camp in northeast Syria, and they all left that camp in February with the intention of coming back to Australia, but they were quickly turned around. But at the end of last month, 13 of them did leave, and they got to Damascus, and as we hear, are expected to be getting on planes from Syria into Australia, coming through Qatar, we believe.

We know that some of the children were born in those refugee camps, born to mothers who'd gone out there during the war in Syria at a time when it was illegal to travel from Australia to there because it was a war zone, and they did go out there, it's understood, to marry IS fighters. So they are all Australian citizens, as we heard from Tony Burke. The government doesn't want them here, but the reality is they all have Australian passports, and they're all Australian citizens, and there's actually not a whole lot that the Australian government can do

to stop them coming back. And they've spent a long time in this camp, which also hosts many citizens from other parts of the world. They've spoken kind of quite openly over the past sort of seven or eight years to various media organizations who visited the camps, and we sort of know a fair bit about some of their stories. But it's true, it's sort of quite difficult conditions. The discussion here on Australia at the moment is particularly the situation around the children. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has been quite outspoken. He doesn't seem to have a whole lot of sympathy

for these young people. He effectively says their parents got them into this situation. And there's a lot of political pushback as well. I think because the attack at Bondi Beach, which happened at the end of last year, was allegedly IS-inspired, that has kind of hardened the rhetoric against this group. And so although they just look like they are going to be coming back to Australian shores, the overwhelming message from all sides of the political spectrum and certainly large chunks of the community is that they're not welcome.

Kyseessä on juutalaiset, joilla on paljon anti-semitismiä. Se näyttää, että heidät saattavat palata takaisin, kun he tulevat takaisin. Kuinka vaikeaa se voi olla, että heidät reintegreerataan? Seuraavasti. Jotkut, jotka eivät ole olemassa, eivät ole olemassa. Heidät eivät ole olemassa, eivät ole olemassa.

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This is the Global News Podcast. In parts of Somalia, families are once again facing the prospect of going without food after years of drought, shrinking aid donations and rising costs that are making it harder and harder to get help to those who need it most.

Matthew Hollingworth is assistant executive director for program operations at the World Food Program. He's been visiting some of these communities this week, and he's been speaking to James Kopnell about what he saw.

You mentioned those droughts. How do they factor in with the conflicts in the Middle East and some of the pressures that is bringing with cuts in foreign aid from the US and other Western countries? Take us through those different strands, if you could. I mean, clearly, all of these aspects are a recipe for disaster. You know, reduced resources are...

Matthew Hollingworth of the World Food Program. Ukraine's human rights commissioner says a town in the south of a country that's under Russian occupation is facing a humanitarian crisis. People still living in the frontline town of Oleshki are said to have been largely cut off from fresh supplies for months.

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Is Pluto a planet? It's a scientific debate that's been raging for years. Pluto was a planet until 2006, but then scientists reclassified it, saying it didn't meet their criteria for being one. So it was called a dwarf planet. Now NASA's chief, Jared Isaacson, has said it's time to welcome Pluto back into the planetary fold. He was speaking to the US Senate Committee on Appropriations.

The man he's talking about there, Clyde Tombaugh, discovered Pluto in 1930. Paul Byrne, associate professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University, has been speaking to my colleague Nick Robinson.

No, you can imagine for teaching young children in particular, well, maybe me as well, actually, dealing with hundreds of planets would have been a bit of a struggle, much easier to do with eight or nine. But technically, what is the measurement that's being made to decide that Pluto is or isn't a planet? What's the test?

So there were three criteria that the International Astronomical Union settled on in this very contentious vote 20 years ago. One, it has to orbit the sun. The second requirement is that they have to have been big enough for gravity to pull themselves into a round ball. So that way we don't count things like asteroids, which are often shaped like...

Bananas and peanuts. And the third criterion is that they must have cleared their orbit. That means that they must be the dominant object in terms of mass in the part of space where they orbit. Now, it was this third criterion that got people particularly upset, because per that rule, a lot of places that we consider planets don't technically clear their orbit. And to be clear, we only know a few dozen of these worlds out where Pluto is, but we suspect there are likely many hundreds more. We just haven't found them with telescopes yet.

Paul, forgive me, we can't reinvent the boundaries of space all time, so we're out of time, but in a word, what's your vote? Pluto a planet, yes or no? It's always been a planet, and in my opinion, should continue to be so. And I will say this, there's more than a thousand kinds of Pokemon. That has not stopped kids learning them. Why should we not have a thousand planets? Why not indeed, Professor Paul Byrne?