Ebonyi Election Ruling: State Govt. Calls For Support From All Parties

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The Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Senator Emmanuel Onwe has said the Supreme Court’s verdict has given the people of Ebonyi State hope, unity and peace for the development of the state.

This is following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Abuja affirming the election of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State as the duly elected governor.

In a unanimous judgment read by Justice Centus Nweze, the court held that the appeal filed by the candidate of the Labour Party, Edward Nkwegu, challenging the election lacked merit.

The Apex Court, however, fixed February 5, 2016 to enable it give reasons for dismissing the appeal.

Sen. Onwe mentioned that the State government is willing and determined to ensure rapid human, capital and infrastructural development in the state.

He therefore called on all stakeholders, politicians, party leaders and opposition parties to support the Dave Umahi led administration in the state to move Ebonyi State forward.

Mr Umahi polled a total of 289, 867 votes to emerge winner, defeating his closest rival, the Labour Party candidate, Edward Nkwegu, who polled a total of 124, 817 votes.

Millions of Naira Lost In Sawmill Inferno

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Tragedy struck in the early hours of Thursday morning as fire gutted parts of the Ketu Sawmill in Lagos South West Nigeria.

Although no life was lost in the inferno, but machinery worth millions of naira were destroyed in the fire.

It is believed that excessive current from the circuit breakers may be the cause of the fire, which has been put under control by men of the Lagos State Fire Servic

he winner of Miss Universe is... Memphis Depay!

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The young Manchester United winger posted a picture of himself and Lori Harvey, the daughter of the infamous TV presenter who announced the incorrect winner of the pageant.
Memphis Depay has had an eventful week. After sitting on the substitutes bench as Manchester United lost to Southampton, he returned to a hero's welcome at PSV before heading to Paris with his new girlfriend.

Lori Harvey is the new woman on his arm, whose father is popular American TV presenter Steve Harvey who recently rose to prominence after announcing the incorrect winner at the Miss Universe pagent.

Memphis posted a picture of the pair in Paris on his Instagram page, with Lori's own page revealing she was in the stands as the 21-year-old returned to the Philips Stadion at the weekend.
Memphis has struggled for consistency since completing a highly anticipated move to Old Trafford last summer with just two goals in the Premier League and has not played a full game in over a month.

Louis van Gaal kept the winger on the bench during the 1-0 loss to Southampton at Old Trafford, with Adnan Januzaj, who has just returned from a disappointing loan spell with Borussia Dortmund, preferred.

Arsenal’s Arteta hails ‘technically brilliant’ Iwobi

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The Gunners’ midfielder feels the Nigerian needs to fine-tune his talents to guarantee a career at the highest level

Mikel Arteta has hailed the rise of Arsenal rookie Alex Iwobi but counseled he must focus on developing his talents in one position.

The 19-year-old Nigeria has become a permanent fixture on the Gunners’ first-team making seven appearances out of ten games for Arsene Wenger’s team.

Iwobi who can play as a centre-forward, in central midfield or either flank is in line for a starter’ shirt against Burnley on Saturday and the Spaniard feels the Super Eagles must focus on perfecting his abilities in one position.

“Iwobi has been doing really well for us lately,” Arteta told Standard.co.uk.

 “I played with him in the Under-21s recently and I was surprised he could play in central midfield as well.

“He is versatile and that is a massive attribute because forwards don’t normally have that 360 degree vision you need in midfield.

“Alex is capable of reading the game well, understanding his positioning and his body shape when he plays.

“That’s fairly unusual for a player who plays on the wing or up front. That will be important for his development.

Technically he is a brilliant player; he works hard, though sometimes being versatile can also work against you in the future because you want consistency in one position. At the moment though, he is a very good team player,” he concluded.

Schalke deny Matip set for January exit to Liverpool

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The Bundesliga club have denied reports the Cameroon international, whose contract runs out in June, is on the verge of leaving for Jurgen Klopp's side this month

Schalke chairman Clemens Tonnies has dismissed rumours Joel Matip is set to leave the Bundesliga outfit for Liverpool in the January transfer window.

As reported by Goal on Wednesday, the Reds have not yet concluded a pre-agreement with Matip - whose contract expires in June - but are confident he will join them in the summer.

Liverpool had initially attempted to prise the 24-year-old centre-back away from Veltins-Arena in January yet Tonnies has laughed off suggestions the player will leave midway through the season.

"Matip to Liverpool this month? That's a hoax," the Schalke supremo told Sport1.

The defender is a product of the Schalke youth academy and has developed into an important first-team member in Gelsenkirchen since making his official debut in November 2009.

Wenger doesn't want to sell Debuchy, fears Allardyce

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The France international has not featured for the Gunners since November and has emerged as a target for a number of struggling Premier League teams.

Sam Allardyce fears his transfer plans will be ruined by Arsene Wenger’s refusal to letMathieu Debuchy leave Arsenal.

The Sunderland manager is looking to bolster his relegation threatened side with several new additions before Monday’s deadline and confirmed he had made an enquiry for the France international.

Debuchy has not featured for Arsenal since November but with Hector Bellerin the club’s only other recognised right-back, Allardyce believes his old foe Wenger will be reluctant to do business.

He said: “I am not sure he wants to leave Arsenal or that Arsene Wenger would sell him.”

Sunderland are currently in 19th place in the Premier League - they sit four points from safety - and Allardyce’s hopes of snapping up Andre Ayew from relegation rivals Swansea have also been dashed. 

He said: “Have we given up? Yes. I can’t see Swansea selling. I never thought they would. “We never put a bid in. It was a bit more speculation whether Swansea would let him go or not.”

Liverpool to pursue Poland talent Zielinski in the summer

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Udinese’s Piotr Zielinski has emerged as a transfer target for Liverpool, who are keen on recruiting the Poland international in the summer, Goal can reveal.

The 21-year-old is on loan at Empoli, where he has two goals and five assists in 20 Serie A appearances. He has operated across midfield as well as being deployed behind two strikers, adopting an attacking role but also being very disciplined defensively.

Zielinski, who has reportedly been monitored by both Manchester City and Manchester United previously, has impressed the Reds with his intelligent distribution and chance creation ability. He also excels with his dead-ball delivery.

Zielinski is technically gifted and Liverpool feel his development would be accelerated at Melwood under Jurgen Klopp. The Merseysiders looked into the possibility of signing him in January, but their preference is to bring him in during the summer window.

The player, who has represented Poland at every level, was also unsure of moving mid-season while he is starting regularly at Empoli as he targets a squad place for Euro 2016.

He has been unsuccessfully pursued by Napoli, Juventus and AS Roma this month. Udinese, like Watford, are owned by the Pozzo family and they are uninterested in selling him now unless a huge offer is received.

Udinese's policy is usually not to let a player like Zielinski leave for less than €15m. In mid-season, that figure would be closer to €20m. If he performs well at Euro 2016, however, the fee could escalate.

Ex-TV personality 'Mr. Wonder' arrested

(CNN)  A former Louisiana children's TV show personality known as "Mr. Wonder" was arrested in California on charges that he sexually abused children at a camping retreat in 1979, police in central Louisiana said.

U.S. Marshals and San Diego County authorities arrested 76-year-old Frank John Selas III on Monday at his home in Bonita, near San Diego, after he had been on the run for nearly four decades, Rapides Parish Sheriff's Lt. Tommy Carnline said.

The sexual abuse accusations date from a camping retreat in Kisatchie National Forest in Gardener, Louisana, in June 1979. Some children who had attended the event told their parents when they got home that Selas had sexually abused them.

The parents called police, and arrest warrants were issued, but Rapides Parish deputies could not find Selas at home or work. His wife said he left in the family car, which was found a day later in Dallas.

Selas had left the country for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and two detectives continued to hunt for him over the years, Carnline said.

Selas' whereabouts were unknown until two weeks ago, when police received information that led U.S. Marshals to set up surveillance that led to Selas' arrest in California on two counts of obscene behavior with a juvenile.

Because the investigation is still ongoing, police are not at liberty to discuss the information they received, Carnline told CNN.

After Selas' arrest, investigators learned that he had returned to the United States in the 1980s and lived in multiple places, including Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts, as well as Chicago and the San Diego area.

Selas and his wife were living together, Carnline said.

He used aliases, including "Frank John Szeles," after his return to the U.S., police said. Carnline said Selas legally changed his last name to Szeles in San Diego County around 1992.

Selas has a court appearance Wednesday afternoon in San Diego, and is awaiting extradition to Louisiana.

Yahoo Japan accused of profiting from illegal ivory

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Yahoo Japan has pledged to strengthen its policies to prevent the sale of ivory after activists accused the company of allowing the "bloody trade" to flourish on its auction site.

"We call on you to urgently stop all ivory sales from sites/platforms in Japan and all other markets," the activist network Avaaz said in an online petition. Launched last week, it's already garnered 1.1 million signatures.

Ivory has long been prized in Asia, particularly in China and Japan, where its rarity and beauty makes it a coveted status symbol. And while a global UN ban on ivory trade took effect in 1989, advocacy groups say black market activity continues to proliferate and thatdemand in Asia is to blame for an elephant slaughter crisis in Africa.

The Avaaz petition claims that 100 elephants are killed each day.

Related: China ivory craze kills 100,000 elephants

Yahoo Japan (YAHOY) pushed back on Thursday, saying that it only allows the sale of ivory products that were traded before the UN ban took effect.

"We are strengthening our policies, since there is a chance some sales may be illegal," said spokesman Takako Tominaga. "We have an alert system ... when we find a sale was illegal, we cancel it right away."

U.K. campaign group Environmental Investigation Agency claims that Yahoo Japan generates significant revenue from the sale of ivory. "Yet, internet ivory dealers consistently fail to meet even the most basic legal requirements and new evidence suggests that ivory sold via the internet in Japan has been making its way to China," the group said in a 2015 report.

Yahoo (YHOO, Tech30) owns roughly one-third of Yahoo Japan. The majority shareholder is Japanese telecom firm Softbank (SFTBF).

Yahoo Japan, traded in Tokyo, closed down 0.2% on Thursday, while Yahoo closed down 1% on Wednesday.

Avaaz has previously targeted the Hong Kong government, the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and Craigslist as part of its anti-ivory campaigns.

Is North Korea planning rocket launch? Activity sparks concern, officials say

(CNN)  It's a site so secretive that an underground railroad line delivers parts into a movable building, hiding activity from view.

North Korea describes it as a place where the country launches satellites into space. But U.S. spy satellites are keeping a sharp eye on North Korea's Sohae Satellite Launching Station at Tongchang-ri. And increased movement of equipment and personnel into the facility is raising renewed concerns in the U.S. military and intelligence community that something imminent could be in the offing.

Overhead satellite imagery in recent days has shown the movement of personnel, rocket-related equipment and fuel into the facility in the north of the country, according to a U.S. official.

North Korea will likely say it's launching a satellite from the site, but U.S. officials say the rocket involved could be used as an intercontinental ballistic missile.

An unnamed Japanese government source said an analysis of satellite imagery indicates North Korea may be preparing for a missile launch, Japan's Kyodo news agency said Thursday.

'Provocation'

"Our military is prepared for various types of North Korea's provocation and is ... closely and continuously observing any signs of North Korea's long-range missile launch," Kim Min-seok, South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman, told reporters at a regularly-scheduled press conference.

If the launch does indeed transpire to be a missile launch, "It will be a direct violation of (a U.N. Security Council resolution) and ... will be a severe provocation and threat against peace and stability of South Korea, northeast Asia and the world. It is our government's official position that North Korea should not proceed with such provocative acts."

Kim added that international law would oblige the North Koreans to declare a long-range rocket test.

"North Korea in the past had launched short-range missile without internationally declaring (a) navigation zone, but as for long-range missile they will have to internationally declare a no fly-zone."

The suspected test buildup comes a day after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited China, pressing the reclusive state's closest ally to step up pressure on North Korea after a recent nuclear test.

Meanwhile, Japan's Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, Koichi Hagiuda, said that his government would refrain from commenting on this specific case. He did say, however, that Japan would work with partners and keep pressure on North Korea to abide by the multilateral, "six-party" talks that aim to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.

"The government will closely cooperate with the U.S. and Korea and demand North Korea to restrain from provocative actions and to comply United Nations Security Council Resolution and the joint statement of six-party talks."

A similar scenario unfolded in 2012, when North Korea announced it was launching a rocket carrying a satellite from the site.

North Korea said that operation was for peaceful purposes, but Japan, the United States and South Korea decried it as a cover for a long-range ballistic missile test.

Earlier this month, North Korea bragged about what it said was the "spectacular success" of its first hydrogen bomb test.

Experts have cast doubt on North Korea's claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb. Among other things, the blast detected by seismic monitors was much smaller than would have been expected with a powerful hydrogen bomb, they say. But the move drew swift condemnation and calls for additional sanctions.

Oregon standoff: Ammon Bundy asks colleagues to go home

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon (CNN)  Protest leader Ammon Bundy has asked, through his attorney, that the remaining occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon go home.

Bundy was arrested Tuesday night during a traffic stop. Another protester was shot and killed during the same stop.

"To those remaining at the refuge, I love you. Let us take this fight from here. Please stand down. Go home and hug your families," Bundy said in a statement. "This fight is ours for now in the courts. Please go home."

"We need to step back. Somebody died yesterday," attorney Mike Arnold told reporters. "Mr. Bundy wants everybody to remember that somebody died, and this is not just about him right now."

Arnold spoke after Harney County Sheriff David Ward blamed the occupiers for the death of the outspoken protester. Although authorities have not named the person who was shot and killed, others have identified him as LaVoy Finicum.

"Multiple agencies put a lot of work into this to put the best tactical plan that they could to arrest them peacefully," said Ward. "(The death) didn't have to happen. We all make choices in life. Sometimes our choices go bad."

A law enforcement official told CNN that officers opened fire when Finicum reached toward his waistband, where he had a gun.

With their leader arrested and a fellow protester killed, an unknown number of demonstrators have indicated they'll continue their weekslong armed occupation. The FBI tried to assert more control Wednesday, setting up checkpoints on roads heading to and from Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

"We don't arm up and rebel," said Ward, urging everyone involved in the occupation to "move on."

"We work through the appropriate channels. This can't happen anymore. This can't happen in America, and it can't happen in Harney County," the sheriff said.

Occupation continues

Occupiers who remained told a CNN crew near the headquarters building that they intended to stay there. It wasn't immediately clear how many remained.

The checkpoint into the refuge had high security Wednesday. A CNN crew was instructed to stop. A sniper aimed at vehicles as a reporter was told to get out, and asked for ID and whether she had any weapons on her. FBI agents got into the cars by themselves and drove the vehicles through the checkpoint to the other side.

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) radio's John Sepulvado, reporting on refuge grounds outside the occupied building, said that occupiers told him they were prepared to die.

"I just spoke to the new leaders -- including Jason Patrick -- They say that 5-6 (people) had a meeting, and by consensus they decided to stay," Sepulvado wrote Wednesday morning on Twitter.

The decision to stay came on the 26th day of the occupation of the refuge building in eastern Oregon, which armed demonstrators took over January 2, in part to protest the sentencing of two ranchers and what they call government overreach when it comes to federal lands.

It came the day after Finicum's death -- a killing that his fellow demonstrators called murder.

Protest leaders were on their way to a community meeting set up by local residents when authorities attempted to pull them over, according to a law enforcement official who described the dramatic showdown.

One vehicle stopped, but the other, driven by Finicum, took off at high speed, the source said. With police in hot pursuit, Finicum tried to leave the main road and drove into a snowbank.

He emerged from the vehicle and was ordered to surrender, said the source. That's when, according to the source, Finicum reached toward his waistband, where he had a gun.

Officers opened fire and Finicum was killed. Bundy's brother, Ryan Bundy, suffered a light wound on his arm.

The decision to stay came on the 26th day of the occupation of the refuge building in eastern Oregon, which armed demonstrators took over January 2, in part to protest the sentencing of two ranchers and what they call government overreach when it comes to federal lands.

It came the day after Finicum's death -- a killing that his fellow demonstrators called murder.

Protest leaders were on their way to a community meeting set up by local residents when authorities attempted to pull them over, according to a law enforcement official who described the dramatic showdown.

One vehicle stopped, but the other, driven by Finicum, took off at high speed, the source said. With police in hot pursuit, Finicum tried to leave the main road and drove into a snowbank.

He emerged from the vehicle and was ordered to surrender, said the source. That's when, according to the source, Finicum reached toward his waistband, where he had a gun.

Officers opened fire and Finicum was killed. Bundy's brother, Ryan Bundy, suffered a light wound on his arm.

The five arrested at the traffic stop were Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Brian Cavalier, Shawna Cox and Ryan Waylen Payne.

The two arrested in Burns were Joseph Donald O'Shaughnessy and Peter Santilli.

Protester Jon Ritzheimer, who previously made headlinesfor leading an anti-Islam protest in Arizona, turned himself in to police in Peoria, Arizona, FBI spokesman Kurt Remus said.

All eight face a federal felony charge of conspiracy to impede officers of the United States from discharging their official duties through the use of force, intimidation or threats, authorities said.

According to charging documents, a source told a Harney County officer that the group had explosives and night vision goggles, and weapons, and that "if they didn't get the fight they wanted out there they would bring the fight to town."

The standoff

Ammon Bundy and others started out protesting the sentencing of Dwight Hammond and his son Steven, ranchers who were convicted of arson on federal lands in Oregon.

But a January 2 march supporting the Hammonds led to the armed occupation of the refuge, with protesters decrying what they call government overreach when it comes to federal lands.

Since then, the occupiers have turned the refuge into their own -- changing the sign in the front and tearing down a fence they claimed harmed the livelihood of a rancher. But that rancher told The Oregonian he didn't ask the occupiers to tear down the public fence -- in fact, he was upset by it.

Ammon Bundy has said that while the armed protesters don't want violence, they would be ready to defend themselves if necessary.

But with the leader arrested, it's not clear what will happen next.

On Twitter, Gov. Kate Brown stressed that she was doing everything in her power to end the occupation.

Children urge Australia to free them from Nauru island 'prison'

(CNN)  At just 10 years old, Mizba Ahmed and her family fled persecution in Myanmar.

Boarding a smuggler's boat bound for Australia, she never imagined that instead of finding a better life, she'd end up spending 18 months in detention on the isolated Pacific island of Nauru. "Nauru is the worst place I've ever seen for children," the 12-year old said.

Dozens of children like Mizba have been held for months, or even years, at an Australian-backed refugee processing center on Nauru, a tiny island measuring just 21 square kilometers or eight square miles.

CNN spoke to multiple current and former child detainees who describe the Nauru camp as a prison. Children live behind fences. They are searched when leaving or entering the camp, including when they go to school. They feel intimidated or harassed by the omnipresent security guards. But mostly these refugees describe the hopelessness of their lives and the vanishing dreams of an education and a future beyond the confines of this tiny island.

"It's not a crime to want to have a better life and future," said one 18-year-old girl who asked CNN not to reveal her name because she fears for her safety. "We are treated as prisoners."

Stopping the Boats

flood of migrants and refugees arriving by boat, Australia has for years embarked on a controversial and unusual policy. It intercepts boatloads of migrants and refugees and then places them in detention on small, relatively poor Pacific island nations.

Between 2007 and 2013, the Australian government says at least 1,200 people lost their lives trying to make the journey over water, and thousands more ended up in Australia's immigration system. The government says it is trying to send a clear message to potential asylum seekers that if they board a boat there is no hope of settling in Australia.

Since 2012, refugees who arrive by boat are sent for processing to either the Nauru camp or one on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea. If their asylum claims are granted, they are settled in those countries or some have the option of moving to another country: Cambodia.

It's a deterrent the government argues has worked.

"The Coalition Government has stopped the perilous flow of people smuggling ventures. There has not been a successful people smuggling venture to Australia in the last year," an Australian government spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. The Australian immigration minister declined CNN's request for an interview.

The statement continued, "Stopping the boats has enabled this Government to return integrity to Australia's humanitarian and refugee programme."

Cockroaches and Forgotten Dreams

As of the end of December, Australia government records say that 537 people were in detention on Nauru, including 68 children. Their nationalities read like a list of the world's major conflicts zones, including Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. The Nauru government operates the detention center with support from Australia and private contractors.

Families in Nauru live in tents without air conditioning in a country known for year round sweltering heat. Photos provided by refugees show moldy tent roofs and rusty fans. Three refugees complained to CNN of rats in their tents.

"We can't sleep at night because of the cockroaches," Mizba said.

Another former detainee said he felt the guards disrespected the asylum seekers and treated them like criminals. "We are always being watched," said the teenager, who also asked that CNN not reveal his name for fear of retribution.

He and other refugees said the boredom and lack of educational opportunities led to widespread depression among the teenagers, even suicidal behavior. "My life doesn't mean anything inside detention," he said.

Security at the camp has been a constant problem. A 2015 Australian government report documented accusations of sexual and physical assault at the processing center, including cases involving children. The accusations were directed both at other detainees and at center staff members. The Australian government says it is implementing the recommendations made in the report.

CNN reached out by phone and email to the Nauru Government Information Office to ask them about conditions at the refugee center. They did not respond. The Australian government said the management of the center is the responsibility of the Nauru government.

An inquiry by the Australia government's own human rights commission in 2014concluded that "children on Nauru are suffering from extreme levels of physical, emotional, psychological and developmental distress." The inquiry recommended all children and their families be removed from Nauru and settled in Australia within four weeks of the report.

Many of the children in Nauru are already trying to overcome the trauma of being persecuted in their home countries and making the treacherous sea journey to Australia. One of the girls CNN spoke with spent hours in the open water after her boat sank en route to Australia.

"I gave up. I was thinking that we were all going to die, it's just a matter of time," she said. The Australian Navy rescued her family and many others on board, but five of the other passengers drowned, she said.

Australian Senator Sarah Hanson Young is a vocal advocate of shutting down the Nauru facility. "There's absolutely no way the Australian government can justify keeping, particularly families, women and children in these camps," she said. "They can't guarantee their safety."

The Australian and Nauru governments make it very difficult for journalists to see the detention center firsthand. The Nauru government charges media an A$8,000 dollar (around US$5,800) nonrefundable visa fee per application. The Australian Immigration department requires journalists who wish to apply to visit Australian detention centers to first sign a form saying they will not interview any detainees, and that they will submit all their content to the government for screening. They forbid pictures, video and audio records of detainees. The government says this is in order to protect their privacy.

CNN is unwilling to accept these conditions, so we've interviewed seven current and former camp residents remotely about what it's like for children to live in this detention center.

Senator Hanson Young believes there is a culture of secrecy and coverups within the operation. "No journalists are allowed in. There is very, very little information let out of the camp and staff who work at the center are essentially gagged," she said.

The Australian government has repeatedly said access to the Nauru center is up to the Nauru government.

The Nauru government has gone on record defending its restrictions on allowing foreign journalists to visit the island.

In a press release posted on the government's website last October, Justice Minister David Adeang argued, "if the country allowed journalists to wander the small island, refugees who are now living peacefully would... start to protest and riot for the cameras and there would be chaos that the nation's police force would struggle to maintain."

Opening the Camps

In October, the Nauru government, which operates the refugee center, announced it was ending the forced detention and creating an open center. "All asylum seekers are now free to move around the island at their will," the government wrote in its initial release.

The refugees still inside the camp say this change has made little difference to their lives. Many living in the camps have been waiting years for a decision on their asylum seeker status. While they wait, they are not allowed to take money or food out of the detention center. They also don't feel comfortable leaving the camp at night because of safety concerns.

Prior to this year, the Australian government operated a school specifically for the asylum seeker children. Now that school has been shut and students have been urged to enroll at the public school in Nauru. The children say they feel like they lost the one place within the camp where they felt happy and secure.

Several have stopped attending the local school because they say they were harassed by the other students. With nowhere to go all day, they say they suffer from boredom and depression. One 15-year-old girl says she locked herself in a bathroom to escape the advances of a male student. Ever since then she stopped going to school. Now she says she cries all the time in her room. And she watches her mother cry.

"I want to become something and here I am doing nothing," she said. She desperately wants to go to school and become a doctor. But that dream feels very far away after years spent in a detention camp in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Prior to her departure from Myanmar, 12-year-old Mizba Ahmed said she also dreamed of one day becoming a doctor. After more than a year in detention on Nauru, and after abandoning the island's public school system, she says she has given up her hope of one day practicing medicine.

"Living here, no school, I don't think I can become anything else. There's no education here," she said.

And yet, Mizba says she still clings to the hope that prompted her family to board a smuggler's boat two years ago.

"We just want to go to Australia," she said.

The scars of her time on Nauru have not been enough to destroy her faith in what Australia has to offer.

Why Trump is beating Fox News -- and GOP rivals

(CNN)  If you understand nothing else about Donald Trump, understand this:

He has a particular mindset we see all the time in business -- he's "the disrupter."

The disrupter is someone whose entire "brand" is to break the mold, to turn the way we do things on its head. Amazon did this with retail, Uber did it with taxi services, Airbnb did it with travel, Tinder did it with dating, Slack is doing it with email, Spotify is doing it with music, peer-to-peer lending is changing banking.

And Trump is disrupting politics.

Disrupters don't fix what's broken because they don't innovate from inside the system. They break the mold, change our thinking about the mold and then hand us the new rules for how things work.

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Just look at the Big Five companies that drive the Internet economy -- all disrupters -- Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook. They were early movers, they played by their own rules. First they disrupted how we do business online, and now they define it. And they control it. Apple just reported its highest earnings ever. Looks like disruption is working.

Today every taxi company in America could band together, and they still would not stop the power of Uber. That is because when you gain enough momentum, you dominate the market and the conversation.

In his effect on everything from Fox News to the Koch Brothers to the newspapers that endorse candidates, Trump has disrupted every single aspect of the game of politics and created new rules -- and based on the polls, what he's done is working.

And so far, most of the political establishment has been wrong about what this all means. They said he wouldn't last and now he's leading in the polls. They said he wouldn't disclose his financial information or quit reality TV and he did both. They said that every insulting, ridiculous, inaccurate and offensive thing that Trump has said would hurt him. No sign of this. They said no network would bow to his demands for shorter debates -- but they did.

Who knows what will happen when the Republican National Committee has to officially pick its candidate for president, but -- holy cow -- it sure will be interesting to watch. And who will we be watching? Trump.

We can call Trump the carnival barker or the political side show, but discrediting the one who is wielding new power is what we do when we lose control of the negotiation. It's not politics, it's business -- as usual. This is why Trump understands that he can ignore it.

He also understands something powerful: leverage. He is above Fox News, because he IS the news. And he knows that what he says AND where he goes is the story and therefore it is the business asset. So he is keeping control of that asset.

The psychological term for the way he plays the game is psychological reactance. The more he denies Fox access, the more they will talk about him. Fox took the bait and released a snarky, juvenile response to Trump's decision to skip the debate. The establishment can't play by the disrupter's rules, because the rules are designed to destroy it.

The Republican establishment has already lost. Trump will be the party's next nominee no matter how many times he says he won't call Megyn Kelly a bimbo. It doesn't matter how many backroom meetings the Koch brothers organize or what Reince Priebus does to rally RNC delegates to. It's over.

The newspaper endorsements are also irrelevant, as are the fringe politicians and reality stars who are lining up to endorse Trump. They are all too late.

The only thing that can beat Donald Trump now is the one thing he doesn't control: Americans who don't want his services as president of the United States.

And the only way they will make a difference if there are enough of them -- enough liberals, Democrats, independents, and yes, even some Republicans and conservatives -- who can appreciate the appeal of a disrupter, but don't want one to lead the country.