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Speaker 1: The supreme leader of Iran is dead after US and

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Speaker 1: Israeli air strikes targeted the longtime leader and members of

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Speaker 1: his inner circle.

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Speaker 2: Australians in the region are urged to leave immediately and

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Speaker 2: seek consular assistance. He's very dangerous, very delicate in the

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Speaker 2: Middle East right now. We know that airports are closed,

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Speaker 2: there've been fatalities, there's been air strikes. All sorts of

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Speaker 2: things are happening in Iran as well. The Aetola has

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Speaker 2: been now has been killed. As I say, a very

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Speaker 2: precarious situation. For the latest, Let's get to Mimi Becka,

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Speaker 2: who is Channel nine's correspondent in Europe. She's currently in

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Speaker 2: southern Israel. Mims, good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: What's the state of play right now, especially where you are.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: It is a very volatile situation and it is changing

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Speaker 3: all the time. We've just heard from the Israeli government

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Speaker 3: and they've said that they've declared this is state of

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Speaker 3: emergency until at least the twelfth of March, so that

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Speaker 3: is effectively saying that this will no doubt continue for

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Speaker 3: at least twelve days. And there has been repeated waves

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Speaker 3: of strikes from Iran Israel and the US all day

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Speaker 3: and will no doubt now continue overnight as well. We've

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Speaker 3: had confirmation that the first three casualties from the United

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Speaker 3: States as well as part of this, as well as

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Speaker 3: casualties across Israel and Iran. The deathholder keeps rising and

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Speaker 3: it is day two of what could stretch on for

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Speaker 3: a very long time might be.

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Speaker 4: So the question but was there any warning, Like I

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Speaker 4: felt like this just came out of nowhere over the

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Speaker 4: world hasn't been speaking about it for a long time,

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Speaker 4: but let's be honest, it speaks about a lot well exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely sort of been building up for months.

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Speaker 3: There was a building up to tensions, but then it

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Speaker 3: really did explode quite quickly once once. Yeah, Mimi, I

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Speaker 3: know you're really ignited.

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Speaker 1: In southern Israel, we're seeing horrible vision as well out

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Speaker 1: of and places where there's people stuck in airports. What's

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Speaker 1: the safe play in terms of what you're being told

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Speaker 1: about other parts of the world, because there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people stranded. What should people be doing if they're

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Speaker 1: stuck somewhere, Well.

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Speaker 3: It is very difficult, I think from what I'm hearing

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Speaker 3: of people on the ground, and also through the airlines.

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Speaker 3: Is that people are being told that it's best not

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Speaker 3: to cancel your own flight, it's best to wait for

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Speaker 3: the airlines to cancel the flights so that then you

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Speaker 3: can get the refunds because then you will be entitled

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Speaker 3: to that, whereas if you cancel it you might not

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Speaker 3: have the same entitlements there. But of course, right across

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Speaker 3: Australia right now, I think there's six flights out of

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Speaker 3: Sydney or Melbourne alone of people who are canceled today

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Speaker 3: and that is just Qatar only they operate with Virgin

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Speaker 3: So that's just you know, those two capitals, let alone

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Speaker 3: across the country, and then in people who are in

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Speaker 3: trance that and are stuck indefinitely at the moment with

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Speaker 3: that huge backlog that just is going to keep building

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Speaker 3: now over the next few days too.

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Speaker 2: Well you talk about all things impacted oil prices potentially

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Speaker 2: in the next couple of weeks. But Mims, where you are.

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Speaker 2: I saw some very scary footage on the Today Show.

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Speaker 2: You were doing a live cross when what was it

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Speaker 2: an artillery strike?

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Speaker 4: Use something rocker went off in the background.

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Speaker 3: Yes, well, we've just arrived here in Israel. I've been

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Speaker 3: traveling sort of for twenty four hours to get here,

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Speaker 3: of course, given the airspace and everything that's going on.

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Speaker 3: So we're in a place called a Lap, which is

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Speaker 3: about ten minutes from the border of Jordan, so it's

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Speaker 3: acrossing as most reporters do, and just from behind me

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Speaker 3: you could see what looked like a missile stripe. Now

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Speaker 3: I don't know whether it could actually have been a

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Speaker 3: possible intercept through the Iron Dome here as well in

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Speaker 3: Israel that operates to you know, it's obviously been put

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Speaker 3: to the test at the moment, but it does sort

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Speaker 3: of fire back too, so it could have been either

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Speaker 3: a missile stripe from here or an intercept. But it

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Speaker 3: certainly came out of the blue with incredibly loud the

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Speaker 3: first one I've experienced, so I didn't know what to expect,

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Speaker 3: and I wasn't looking in the direction, so you just

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Speaker 3: hear the noise and you don't know whether it's incoming

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Speaker 3: or outgoing. Effectively, you could, but that's what people. Yeah, sorry,

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Speaker 3: you go.

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Speaker 4: I was just going to say, you could tell watching

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Speaker 4: were ducking forel it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, you've got to think quickly. So I suppose

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Speaker 3: that's it. But it's just a moving situation and.

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Speaker 1: That's what so many people over there are dealing with.

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Speaker 1: So you stay safe over there. Thank you for joining

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Speaker 1: us this morning.

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Speaker 2: No worry.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know a lot of people go the reporters

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Speaker 4: run in there doing but it's like, you know, we

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Speaker 4: need people, you know.

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Speaker 2: But it is, as I said before, precarious situation, very

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Speaker 2: volatile and do you know want volatile when you've got

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump at the helm in the States, Like it's.

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Speaker 4: Just always when I said, like you come out and

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Speaker 4: I know there's been talk, but I mean he says

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Speaker 4: a lot and you just don't know what he's actually.

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Speaker 2: Going to do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think what's been happening in around for a

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Speaker 1: long time is frightening as well. And I mean there

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Speaker 1: are amazing scenes even here in Melbourne yesterday. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure if you saw people on.

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Speaker 2: The streets they see it as liberation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's was.

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Speaker 4: There partying in the streets in the city.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, in Tehran, yeah, you know, here in Australia, all.

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Speaker 1: Over the world, really it's extraordinary. Yeah, it's yeah. So

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Speaker 1: we will keep you up to date with because it

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Speaker 1: is an evolving situation. It's but we are thinking of

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Speaker 1: everyone who is stuck over there and everyone who has

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Speaker 1: families and loved ones affected by this.

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