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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Donald Trump is offering to sell

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Speaker 1: American F thirty five fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. The

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Speaker 1: Lockheed Martin F thirty five is a supersonic stealth strike

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Speaker 1: fighter that can land vertically on an aircraft carrier and

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Speaker 1: is known as the Apex Predator of air defense. It's

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Speaker 1: all part of one trillion dollars in US Saudi deals

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Speaker 1: announced when Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Sulman visited the

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Speaker 1: White House. Riad wants defense guarantees, including joint training and

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Speaker 1: a deal similar to the one America already has with

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Speaker 1: neighboring Katar, where the US has offered to step in

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Speaker 1: to the Qatari's defense if they're attacked. That's prompted deep

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Speaker 1: concern from Israel, which wants to be America's closest partner

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Speaker 1: in the region and formerly objects to Saudi Arabia obtaining

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Speaker 1: the jets. Israel has previously blocked those jets reaching Turkey

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Speaker 1: and the United Arab Emirates. Trump and Ben Sulman held

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Speaker 1: a joint press call at the White House.

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Speaker 2: This is a great Ala and Israel is a great Alay,

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Speaker 2: and I know they'd like you to get planes of

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Speaker 2: reduced caliber. I don't think that makes you too happy.

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Speaker 1: In return, Trump wants Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords,

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Speaker 1: where Middle Eastern states normalized diplomatic relations with Israel, but

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Speaker 1: that seems a bridge too far for Ben Sulman at

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Speaker 1: this stage. He said he wants more progress on Palestinian statehood.

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Speaker 2: I think you have a very good feeling toward the

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Speaker 2: Abraham acrds, just the vidic IM's the president.

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Speaker 3: We want peaceful these readings.

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Speaker 4: We want peace for the Pedestinians.

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Speaker 3: We want them to co exist peaceful in the region.

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Speaker 3: We will do our best to reach that.

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Speaker 1: Day at the White House, a journalist asked about the

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Speaker 1: nine eleven attacks orchestrated by Saudi Arabian terrorist Oslaoma bin

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Speaker 1: Laden and acted out by hijackers who were also mainly Saudi.

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Speaker 1: She also wanted to know about the murder in a

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Speaker 1: Saudi consulate of journalist Jamal Kashoji, who was brutally slaughtered

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Speaker 1: and dismembered allegedly by Saudi and Turkish operatives. Trump reacted

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Speaker 1: with anger, but Ben Sulman was more measured and your

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Speaker 1: Royal Highness.

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Speaker 2: The US Intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder

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Speaker 2: of a journalist. Nine eleven families are furious that you

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Speaker 2: are here in the.

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Speaker 4: Overlogist who you were with?

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Speaker 2: Who Fakeness ABC Fakeness one of the worst, one of

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Speaker 2: the worst in the business. As far as this gentleman

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Speaker 2: is concerned, he's done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning somebody

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Speaker 2: that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like

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Speaker 2: that gentleman that you're talking about, whether you like him

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Speaker 2: or didn't like him. Things happened, but he knew nothing

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Speaker 2: about it, and we can leave it at that. You

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Speaker 2: don't have to embarrass our guests by asking a question

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Speaker 2: like that.

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Speaker 3: You'd love to answer.

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Speaker 4: You know a few people about you know, the families of.

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Speaker 3: Ninety eleven in America. But you know, we have to

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Speaker 3: focus on reality.

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Speaker 4: Reality based in SI documents and based on a lot

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Speaker 4: of documents that Sambladin. He used Saudi people and that

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Speaker 4: event for one main purpose is to destroy this relation,

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Speaker 4: to destroy the American Saudi relation. That's the purpose of

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Speaker 4: ninety even.

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Speaker 3: About the generals, it's really painful to hear, you know,

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Speaker 3: anyone that's been losing his life for you know, no

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Speaker 3: real purpose or not in a legal way, and it's

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Speaker 3: been painful for us in Saudi Arabia.

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Speaker 5: We've did all the right steps of investigation, et cetera

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Speaker 5: in Saudi Arabia, and we've improved our system to be

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Speaker 5: sure that nothing happened like that. And it's painful and

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Speaker 5: it's a huge mistake and we are doing our best

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Speaker 5: that this doesn't happen again.

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Speaker 1: Our chief International correspondent, Cameron Stewart has published a great

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Speaker 1: analysis of the US Saudi deal that's live now at

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Speaker 1: the Australian dot Com. Tomorrow on the front we'll be

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Speaker 1: talking to our Indigenous Affairs editor Page Taylor about a

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Speaker 1: quality education a legal right, as well as holding families

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Speaker 1: responsible for getting their kids to school and getting off welfare.

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