Speaker 1: Hi am Atsulo with your news. Twenty four update. FIFA
Speaker 1: has confirmed it's scrapping its plan to sell a stake
Speaker 1: of its business to private investors after international pressure from
Speaker 1: football powerbrokers. World football's governing body was lobbying for support
Speaker 1: from members to sell a twenty percent stake in the
Speaker 1: World Cup, but in a stunning backflip, the FIFA president
Speaker 1: confirmed the plans would no longer be going ahead. In
Speaker 1: a statement Saturule to Gianni Infantino, he says, we said
Speaker 1: from the outset to do this, we'd only do it
Speaker 1: if a majority of the FIFA member associations were in
Speaker 1: support and always subject to a consultation process with them.
Speaker 1: Having listened carefully to all the views, it has become
Speaker 1: clear the project has created divisions of nature that, regardless
Speaker 1: of the level of support, are no longer in the
Speaker 1: interest of the objectives set out in the first place.
Speaker 1: Our purpose has always been and will always be, to
Speaker 1: unite and improve. As a result, this proposal will not proceed.
Speaker 1: The government seven point five billion dollar scheme to increase
Speaker 1: fuel and fertilizer supplies is facing star criticism from the industry.
Speaker 1: The Australian reports most fertilizer importers have been locked out
Speaker 1: of the funds used to underwrite companies to protect them
Speaker 1: against losses on shipments. Of the many bulk importers and
Speaker 1: dozens of resellers seeking access, only three major businesses have
Speaker 1: been granted support under the scheme. Companies are demanding transparency,
Speaker 1: claiming they have lost millions of dollars because of the program.
Speaker 1: Energy Minister Chris Bowen has defended the scheme, arguing that
Speaker 1: participants were selected based on a national interest test. Wildlife
Speaker 1: experts are warning of a tsunami of devastation for Australia's
Speaker 1: wildlife as H five N one bird flu begins to spread.
Speaker 1: A seagull in South Australia has returned a positive result,
Speaker 1: taking the national bird flu tallia to fifty two. Seagulls
Speaker 1: move between coastal areas, wetlands, farmlands and urban areas. Wildlife
Speaker 1: experts argue the government needs to act swiftly.
Speaker 2: Very concerning and we've been saying to government we could
Speaker 2: expect probably a wildlife disaster on the scale of the
Speaker 2: Black Summer bush fires, and that's why we need the
Speaker 2: Albanzi government to step up really quickly with the funding
Speaker 2: for that wildlife resilience. We've been saying anything less than
Speaker 2: a two hundred million dollar urgent commitment there isn't taking
Speaker 2: seriously what's going to happen to Ossie wildlife across this country.
Speaker 1: Rail operator air Train has launched legal action against the
Speaker 1: Queensland government over its fifty cent fair scheme. The company
Speaker 1: says it's losing three hundred and sixty thousand dollars a
Speaker 1: month since the program was made permanent in February last year.
Speaker 1: The loss is due to the state not paying revenue
Speaker 1: adjustments for passengers coming or going from the Gold Coast
Speaker 1: and suburban stations. Core documents obtained by The Courier Mail
Speaker 1: show air Train claiming six point one six million dollars
Speaker 1: in lost fair revenue between February twenty five and June
Speaker 1: twenty six. Donald Trump has denied reports the US has
Speaker 1: agreed to allow Ukraine to build a treat missiles. His
Speaker 1: comments come after a conversation between the vp JD Vance
Speaker 1: and Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelenski about his nation's need for
Speaker 1: the air defense missiles. Ukraine's Justice minister told reporters discussions
Speaker 1: were being held with a Pentagon about a license to
Speaker 1: produce Patriot missiles. The US President is doubtful and agreement
Speaker 1: will be reached.
Speaker 2: These weapons are incredible.
Speaker 1: We have to be very careful about letting somebody build them.
Speaker 2: So hard thing to give away that kind of technology,
Speaker 2: and I don't think this would ever happen. But you
Speaker 2: know those people that you give that technology, they can
Speaker 2: sub they turn on you.
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