Speaker 1: This is Gabriella Powell with your News twenty four update.
Speaker 1: Police have released new footage this morning of two males
Speaker 1: who they believe stabbed a teenage boy in Melbourne after
Speaker 1: stealing his e bike. The pair is seen racing down
Speaker 1: streets in Wanturna in the same area where they pushed
Speaker 1: the eighteen year old off his bike. He tried to
Speaker 1: run away, but not before one of the offenders struck
Speaker 1: him from behind with a machete. The attack happened in June.
Speaker 1: The boy, who was seventeen years old at the time,
Speaker 1: suffered at least three stab wounds. Pressure is mounting on
Speaker 1: the AFL after the DeLong Cats broke it a secret
Speaker 1: deal with one of its players. The deal would have
Speaker 1: avoided the club of liability if the player suffered more
Speaker 1: on field concussions. The Cats have since responded saying the
Speaker 1: club will remove the waiver outlined in the letter, noting
Speaker 1: that the player continues to acknowledge potential risks. In a
Speaker 1: joint statement between the AFL and the Players Association, they
Speaker 1: said no arrangements will be approved that seek to solely
Speaker 1: place the risk on players. Hundreds of officers at Queensland
Speaker 1: Youth detention facilities walked off the job yesterday. The eight
Speaker 1: hour strike saw offenders locked in their rooms at facilities
Speaker 1: at Wackole and Townsville. Staff say their wages don't reflect
Speaker 1: the risk to their safety. Workers are calling for six
Speaker 1: percent pay increases a year. Australia has retained its triple
Speaker 1: A rating from SMP Global, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers claiming
Speaker 1: it as a powerful endorsement of the government's fiscal management.
Speaker 1: In affirming Australia's rating, SMP Global says Australia's fiscal performance
Speaker 1: is sound and Australia has modest public debt by international standards.
Speaker 1: Treasurer Jim Chalmers has claimed credit for the Labour government,
Speaker 1: saying fiscal discipline is even more important at a time
Speaker 1: of heightened global uncertainty, and that's exactly what we're delivering.
Speaker 1: Australia is only one of No. Nine countries with a
Speaker 1: triple A credit rating from all three major rating agencies.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has responded to reports that suggested he is
Speaker 1: going to back his Vice President j. D. Vance for
Speaker 1: the presidency in twenty twenty eight. The report claims the
Speaker 1: current president told some donors he's open to backing JD
Speaker 1: Evans publicly. Over the past year, Donald Trump has often
Speaker 1: floated his Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a potential
Speaker 1: candidate in twenty twenty eight, going as far as proposing
Speaker 1: a joint ticket between Vance and Rubio. Earlier this morning,
Speaker 1: the President responded to the reports, there's report that you
Speaker 1: told donors that they need to get gd Van selected
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight. Is that your official indoors? It's
Speaker 1: id about it a little while ago. I think he's great,
Speaker 1: but we're way too early to even be thinking about that.
Speaker 1: The mayor of Spanish City Suitor says the death toll
Speaker 1: from the recent influx of illegal migrants has risen to
Speaker 1: at least one hundred. Roughly seventy two thousand migrants entered
Speaker 1: the Spanish enclave last week on mass and between three
Speaker 1: and five thousand are still there. More than one thousand
Speaker 1: are unaccompanied miners who cannot be deported. The Suitor mayor
Speaker 1: says the mass migration arrival has caused a humanitarian emergency.
Speaker 1: Social media giant Meta has been ordered by a US
Speaker 1: court to pay more than eight hundred million dollars. A
Speaker 1: New Mexico state court found its platforms are negatively affecting
Speaker 1: the mental health of children. The money will go towards
Speaker 1: a fund to help improve the mental health of youth.
Speaker 1: Meta will also be required to make changes to its
Speaker 1: platforms aimed at protecting its younger users. You can now
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