Katie Watson

Campari was invented in 1860 and it's grown in popularity the world over ever since. Its use in a variety of cocktails has made one of the key ingredients, cascarilla oil, extremely popular. Harvesting cascarilla has also provided a vital source of income for residents of Aklins Island in the Bahamas.

It's hoped that by prioritizing sustainable harvesting practices, such as cutting the bark without damaging the plant, finding new ways to cultivate cascarilla in greenhouses and bringing in new modern equipment to extract the oil, the Bahamas will be able to plant more trees. Because the fact is, right now...

Stock is extremely limited, and Kirk Cunningham from the Bahamas Forestry Unit is worried, because that's driving up the price, which means more people want to get their hands on it. A lot more persons are now getting Cascarilla, and a lot more persons are now going out to harvest Cascarilla. And that being the case, sooner or later we're going to run out of the local stock.

The Bahama Pine Islands Project, which is funded by the Global Environment Facility and the UN, is also aiming to boost Cascarilla profits by producing perfume and soap from the oil, which will not only bring more money to Acklands Island, it will boost exports, and that means more work for local people. Cheers to Wendy Eckert for that report. And still to come in this podcast...

Our Australia correspondent Katie Watson reports. I've come to Western Sydney, a neighbourhood called Lakemba, which has a really big Muslim population. They've shut off the main road in front of the mosque. There are hundreds of trestle tables, and every so often there are buffet stations. On one side are the women's tables, on the other the men's, and there are families, young, old, everybody here. They're waiting patiently for sunset. I love you!

Vaikka täällä on henkilökohtainen viibi, poliisiturvallisuuden traila paikallaan, jossa on 360-kameraa, puhutaan myös yleisöstä. Koska on saapunut monia vaikeuksia, Moskva pyysi lisää poliisipäästöjä Ramadanin jälkeen. He ovat käyttäneet myös yksityisen turvallisuuden.

Anti-islamin haittaa on tullut enemmän kuin 600 prosenttia vuoden 7.2.2023, kun Hamas haittoi Israelin. Bondaiin decemberin haittaminen, jossa poliitikot olivat islamilaisen valtion ideologian ympärillä, on myös haittanut enemmän haittaa.

Poliittinen retorikki tällä hetkellä on myös vaikeaa yhteiskunnalle. Aiemmin Pauliina Hansson, australialainen senaattori ja puolustus- ja anti-immigraatio-paikkojen puolustusjärjestäjä, teki kommentteja kysymään, onko siellä hyviä muslimia. Miten voit kertoa, että siellä on hyviä muslimia? Jos jihad on koskaan kutsuttu, ja ihmiset pitää ymmärtää tätä, katsotaan ja ymmärtää tätä,

Bondi's antisemitic attack in December laid bare the cracks in Australia's ideal of diversity. Rising Islamophobia also a symptom of hostile divisions in a country that saw itself as different, indeed more fortunate, than the rest of the world.

That's the moment Israeli police fired tear gas at ultra-orthodox Jewish men who were throwing stones, burning rubbish bins and attacking officers and their vehicles. Security forces were deployed to the area after large crowds chased two female soldiers through the city streets. Footage showed police escorting the pair away as men yelled and ran after them. Reports suggest they were wrongly suspected of attempting to deliver army conscription orders during an official home visit to one of their colleagues.

Ultra-orthodox men have historically been exempt from military service, but many are now furious over a law that may force them to serve. A hardline movement has established what it calls a national alert system to mobilize the community when the IDF engages in enforcement activities against draft dodgers.

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly condemned the attack on the soldiers, but blamed an extremist minority for the violence. Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up about 13% of Israel's population and oppose military service because they believe studying full-time in religious seminaries is their most important duty. But that claim has been criticized by many Israelis, especially during the two-year war in Gaza, with tensions often spilling onto the streets.

I mean this is a story that is obviously a hugely important story, a shocking story. I mean the one conversation I had repeatedly was this doesn't happen here in Australia. I think people were reeling from the violence but reeling from this, the antisemitic attack in particular in a community that had long called for more protection and more notice to be taken.

I respect the king and the queen, and I think our crown prince is pretty good, but I don't like his wife.

he decided to swim back and raise the alarm.

Now he started off in his kayak, but that started taking in water.

So he ditched that and swam about four kilometres before reaching land.

And according to ABC, he did it for two hours in his life jacket, but then decided to ditch that and swim for another couple of hours before reaching land where he was able to raise the alarm.

Yeah, so he got back onto land about six o'clock in the evening.

Then that sparked a massive search.