And we are talking about a broad swath across the Middle East which as I said it is drawing foreign fighters from all around the world and that presents a threat whether it is Australia, the United Kingdom, or many other places. 

 

Scott Morrison there. 

 

Now US president Barack Obama will outline his plan to fight Islamic State militants in an address to his own nation later this morning. His Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Baghdad on the first leg of a Middle East tour to drive up support for international action. 

 

And ultimately our global coalition will succeed in eliminating the threat from Iraq, from the region, and from the world. 

 

Mr. John Kerry there. 

 

Now a search is resuming this morning for a three-year-old boy feared drowned in a creek in Melbourne's southeast. The boy was playing with his family on the riverbank when he fell into the creek at Dandenong yesterday afternoon. 

 

And the man dubbed the Blade Runner will learn his fate later today. The judge in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial is due to hand down her verdict. The South African athlete is accused of deliberately shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on St. Valentine's Day last year.