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Australia to re-open controversial detention centre

News and issues making the headlines each day.

Australian PM Scott Morrison says he will re-open a controversial detention centre on Christmas Island, after a historic defeat in parliament.

Non-government MPs have secured enough votes to pass a bill making it easier for sick refugees held offshore to be treated in the country.

Also on the programme: Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is found guilty at his drug-trafficking trial, and we learn more about the plight of the pangolian, the world's most trafficked animal.

(Photo: Christmas Island detention centre, Credit: Getty Images)

53 minutes

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  • Wed 13 Feb 201910:06GMT

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