In this episode of the The Trews, Russell Brand looks at the housing crisis in Australia and also looks at mass incarceration. Is the U.S. facing similar problems?
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Counter-terrorism police in Australia arrested a teen because they feared he might be carrying a bomb.
According to the Herald Sun, heavily armed police who overwhelmed the recently-turned 17-year-old as he was being driven by his mother to a mosque. They searched a bag he had with him before finding improvised explosive devices inside the family home.
Only an asthma pump was in the bag, but the police force’s bomb squad found three pipe bombs believed to have been hidden in the boy’s bedroom of the northern Melbourne suburb house, writes the Herald Sun.
Police have spent days scouring the house for more homemade explosive devices and yesterday widened the search to a nearby park and creek.
Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste has returned to Brisbane, Australia, following his release from an Egyptian prison and has been reunited with his family following his release from an Egyptian prison. At a news conference he praised the long campaign to free him and his colleagues and expressed relief.
Mr. Greste and two colleagues were arrested in 2013. They were convicted of spreading false news and aiding the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
The jailing of the journalists sparked an international outcry.
The three al-Jazeera journalists were arrested in 2013, after the military toppled the Muslim Brotherhood government, led by President Mohammed Morsi.
The men were convicted in 2014 of aiding the Brotherhood, which had been banned by Mr Morsi’s successor, President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.
Mr. Fahmy and Mr. Greste were sentenced to seven years in prison and Mr Mohamed to 10. Their convictions were overturned on January 1st, but the men remained in custody pending a retrial. All the defendants denied the charges against them and said their trial was a sham.
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