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The remains of renowned explorer Captain Matthew Flinders – credited with mapping and naming Australia – will be reburied in the English village of his birth this weekend.

Guests from across the world, including the Governor of South Australia, Frances Adamson, are travelling to Donington, in eastern England, where Flinders was born in 1774, for the event on Saturday.

Flinders was the first person to successfully circumnavigate Australia while commander of the HMS Investigator between 1801 and 1803, and is credited by historians with mapping and naming the continent "Australia".

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A lesser-known part of the landmark voyage was the role played by an Indigenous man who acted as guide and interpreter.

Bungaree, who came from what is now the Broken Bay area, just north of Sydney, accompanied Flinders all the way, becoming the first Australian to circumnavigate the continent he was born on.

Bungaree proved a valuable crew member, with his language skills and diplomacy enabling the expedition to peacefully interact with wary Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples.

When HMS Investigator dropped anchor, he would go ashore and reassure them the explorers were not about to attack them.

Flinders expressed his respect for him after the voyage when he wrote about Bungaree was "of good disposition and open and manly conduct had attracted my esteem".

Some critics also point to explorers such as Flinders being a precursor to the violent suppression of Indigenous peoples inflicted by British colonists.

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Flinders died in London on July 23, 1814, and was laid to rest at St James' burial ground, along with 60,000 other people.

But his headstone was lost during the expansion of Euston Station in the 1840s, and it was thought his remains had been lost.

His headstone was discovered during the digging under London for the High Speed 2 rail network in 2019.

Plans for Flinders' reburial became stalled due to pandemic restrictions in Britain, but a group of campaigners from Donington pushed for him to be reburied there.

Eleanor Stevenson, a volunteer involved in organising the reburial ceremony, told 9news.com.au his reinterment on Saturday was "the biggest thing to ever happen" for the village of about 3000 residents.

In Australia, many landmarks and streets are named after him, such as Flinders Bay, Flinders Ranges in South Australia, Flinders Street railway station in Melbourne and Flinders University in Adelaide.

But in Britain, the country of his birth, Flinders is less known than other explorers such as Captain James Cook.

Now 250 years after the birth of Flinders, Donington residents hope there will be a reawakening in public interest.

"The local schools have been including his story in their curriculums and we've noticed an increase in tourism at St Mary and the Holy Rood Church where his remains are to be interred," Stevenson said.

"We are hoping that having Donington as Captain Flinders' final resting place will increase tourists, historians and maritime enthusiasts visiting here."

Organisers say about 60 guests from Australia will be attending, along with visitors from Mauritius, Belgium and Germany.

"The finding of his remains and his return to Donington seems to have instilled a new sense of pride to the residents of the village," Stevenson said.

"A huge amount of work from local volunteers has gone into the organising of the weekend, for some it's almost been a full-time job."

Flinders' coffin – a replica of the 18th-century one he would have been originally buried in – will be carried through the village streets, with hundreds of people expected to watch.

His coffin will be escorted by a party from the Royal Navy demonstration team.

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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and President Joe Biden met on Thursday night after the president's closely watched solo news conference as defections in Biden's Democratic coalition in Congress continue.

In the meeting, Jeffries "directly expressed the full breadth of insight, heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path forward that the Caucus has shared in our recent time together," the New York Democrat wrote in a letter to his colleagues on Friday.

But Jeffries did not offer Biden one key thing: His endorsement.

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A person familiar with the meeting said Jeffries "bluntly" shared the views of the caucus – as he stated in his letter – but intentionally did not offer an endorsement or say publicly that the decision is Biden's to make.

While it is uncertain if Biden directly asked Jeffries for his tacit endorsement, a person familiar with the matter said, Jeffries did not extend it at the meeting or in the public letter released on Friday morning.

Although Biden's performance during his news conference, which lasted just under an hour and during which he fielded 19 questions from reporters on topics ranging from his mental capabilities to foreign policy, was much stronger than his appearance during the CNN presidential debate, it has not stemmed the steady stream of House Democrats coming out against Biden's efforts to seek a second term.

More than a dozen Democratic House members and at least one Democratic senator have publicly called on Biden to withdraw from his reelection campaign. That list includes multiple House members in the nation's most competitive congressional districts, but also senior Democrats on influential committees and members in safely Democratic seats.

Dozens of other Democrats have stopped short of calling for Biden to end his campaign, but have either expressed concerns about Biden's chances, said he'll lose out right or remain publicly undecided. Still, more than 70 members of the House and Senate have publicly reaffirmed their support for Biden as the party's presidential nominee following his disastrous debate performance late last month.

The top Democrats in Congress – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Jeffries – have made a series of public statement supporting Biden's bid this week. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi – who remains in Congress and is among the most influential members of the party – has privately expressed her concerns, CNN reported on Thursday night.

Biden last night was able to provide incisive remarks on everything from Israel to Russia to China to gun control in the United States. But he also had two notable flubs: During a NATO event before the presser, Biden introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as "President Putin," and repeated a similar mistake during the presser, using Donald Trump's name to refer to Vice President Kamala Harris.

The evening served as a sort of Rorschach test for Democrats' feelings on Biden. Those who remain firmly in his corner seized on his extended answers on wonky foreign policy issues to prove he still has what it takes to lead the country effectively, while his Democratic doubters used his verbal miscues to reinforce their calls for someone to replace the president on the top of the ticket.

Biden, for his part, came off as chastened during the news conference and was less defiant than in previous appearances. While he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos last week that only the "Lord Almighty" could convince him to remove himself from the race, Biden on Thursday night opened the door for other scenarios in which he would drop out of the contest. Pressed on whether he might reconsider his stance if he was shown data that had Harris performing better against Trump, he offered some openness to that possibility.

"No, unless they came back and said there's no way you can win," Biden said.

Biden's campaign, meanwhile, has bluntly acknowledged the challenges it has faced since his debate performance two weeks ago.

Biden campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon acknowledged to staff in a call Thursday that the period after Biden's disastrous debate performance have been "hard," "very bad" and "bad f***ing weeks," a source who was on the call said. Some of the details of what O'Malley Dillon said were first reported by Axios.

O'Malley Dillon acknowledged when she fumbled words that she had not slept much recently. She tried to rally the troops on this call after first bluntly accepting that the most recent stretch has been deeply challenging, the source said.

Her case, as this source described it, was: "It's not just that we feel like we can win. We have a plan to get there."

She laid out both external and internal polling numbers, and made the case that the data still backs up that Biden can defeat Trump.

O'Malley Dillon argued to her team that the Biden reelection campaign is going through a moment that they are "built for," and that it is because of the team that the president would ultimately win.

A major manhunt is under way for two groups of teenagers accused of terrorising homes across Brisbane.

A young family was confronted by armed teens in the southern suburb of Holland Park.

Catherine Taylor woke up at 4.30am on Tuesday and saw three teenagers downstairs in her home – two of them were armed with knives, while she says another three were outside waiting at a getaway car.

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Taylor told 9News it was the most frightening thing to happen to her because her three young children were upstairs sleeping at the time.

But the brave mother looked one of the intruders dead in the eyes and screamed at them from where she was standing, forcing them to flee empty handed.

"There was no doubt in my mind that their body language and how they were acting in our house, that if anyone had tried to intervene there would have been an incident," Taylor told 9News.

"I cannot sleep. I haven't been to sleep since this has happened, I'm lying awake at night.

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"I don't think that these youths understand the impact they're having on families and what they leave behind in the wake of what they've done."

The family has installed security cameras, while the group responsible for the incident remains on the run.

In a separate incident, shocking video shows masked teens in action targeting homes in the middle of the day.

One brazen act in broad daylight shows three teenagers viciously trying to kick down the front door of a Pallara home.

They arrived in a Rav4, which was stolen almost a month ago.

The home is one of many targeted by the group this week alone, police say.

They were captured on camera in the same car, pulling up at a Sunnybank Hills home on Thursday about 2.30pm.

After reversing into the driveway, teens were seen getting out, holding bags and ready to fill them.

They were seen sneaking around the side of the property before breaking in through the back door. The homeowner had left the house just two minutes before.

They spent 10 minutes ransacking Carolyn Loy's home, ultimately getting away with cash and jewellery.

"Really not safe in this community," Loy told 9News.

"I'm worried that they come back. That is my greatest worries."

One of the teens barely made an effort to cover his face.

"They didn't care. They knew we had cameras but they were looking into the cameras," Loy said.

Forensic crews arrived at Loy's home on Friday morning in search of any clues.

"They had taken [out] all the drawers, everything. Everywhere was a mess," Loy said.

Just 20 minutes earlier the same group forced their way inside another home just a few kilometres away.

The place was locked and secure but that didn't matter, they still found a way in.

"Denials, scared and distress definitely," resident Michelle Tan said of the incident.

"It should be a safe place for myself as single mother and two young children," one local told 9News.

"As far as my children are concerned, they can't even go inside the house."

The car was spotted on CCTV footage driving away and tonight, they all remain on the run.