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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. Protesters have heckled the King as

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Speaker 1: he and most of the Royal family showed up at

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Speaker 1: a Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London. Andrew

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Speaker 1: Mountbatten Windsor was notably absent from the service, which is

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Speaker 1: a fixture on the Royal calendar, previously most famous for

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Speaker 1: being Meghan and Harry's last outing as working royals back

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Andrew is free and living on the

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Speaker 1: Windsor estate after being arrested and questioned by British police

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Speaker 1: last month. No charges were laid, but police said they

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Speaker 1: were investigating a possible offense of misconduct in public office

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Speaker 1: that's related to documents in the so called Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: showing mount Batton Windsor communicated with Jeffrey Epstein and his

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Speaker 1: partner GILLN Maxwell during his time as a UK trade ambassador.

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Speaker 1: Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing, but the King has

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Speaker 1: indicated he supports the police invsentstigation and says his main

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Speaker 1: concern is for the victims of Epstein's crimes. Protesters apparently

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Speaker 1: organized by the Lobby Group. Republic held signs saying down

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Speaker 1: with the Crown, not my King, and Charles, what are

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Speaker 1: you hiding? Including pictures of Mountbatten windsor with the Late

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Speaker 1: Virginia Gufray. Some demonstrators could be heard shouting Charles, what

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Speaker 1: did you know? King Charles and Queen Kimilla, along with

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Speaker 1: the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Princess Royal,

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Speaker 1: smiled as they breezed past the demo with the assistance

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Speaker 1: of a steel drum band to drown out the noise.

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Speaker 1: Australia's sending missiles to the Middle East, Anthony Alberonizi says

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Speaker 1: we're donating advanced medium range edwear missiles to the United

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Speaker 1: Arab Emirates, where an estimated did twenty four thousand Australians live.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, missiles Australia had ordered from the

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Speaker 1: United States will be diverted to Operation Epic Fury, Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's assault on the regime now run by Ayatola Moshteba Khamene.

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Speaker 1: Each of the AMRAM missiles is worth nearly one point

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Speaker 1: five million dollars, and Australia ordered a billion dollars worth

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Speaker 1: last year to bolster our own air defenses. Albanizi said,

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Speaker 1: we're also sending a Royal Australian Air Force Wedgetail surveillance

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Speaker 1: aircraft and crew on an initial four week deployment. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump says the war is nearing an end, but also

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Speaker 1: says he'll rain down twenty times the fury expressed so

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Speaker 1: far if Iran attacks shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,

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Speaker 1: a narrow stretch of the Persian Gulf which enables Mid

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Speaker 1: East oil and gas to be exported to the rest

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Speaker 1: of the world. The President indicated on Tuesday morning, the

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Speaker 1: reason for launching Operation Epic Fury was intelligence that Iran

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Speaker 1: was about to attack the US.

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Speaker 2: The situation was very quickly approaching the point of no

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Speaker 2: return in the United States found it intolerable in my opinion,

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Speaker 2: based on what Steve and Jared and Pete and others

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Speaker 2: were telling me. Marco so involved that I thought that

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Speaker 2: they were going to attack US. I thought they would

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Speaker 2: if we didn't do this. At the time we did it,

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Speaker 2: I think they had in mind to attack US. And

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Speaker 2: if you notice they did something which was very foolish,

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Speaker 2: very stupid, I would say they attacked their neighbors, and

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Speaker 2: their neighbors were largely neutral or at least weren't going

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Speaker 2: to be involved, and they got attacked, and it had

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Speaker 2: the reverse effect. The neighbors came onto our side and

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Speaker 2: started attacking them, and actually quite successfully. If you look

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Speaker 2: at Saudi Arabia, you look at Uae Guitar and others.

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Speaker 2: But they were strong and they were smart, but they

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Speaker 2: got to attacked.

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Speaker 1: Trump said he was disappointed in Iran's elevation of Iatola

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Speaker 1: Mousheva km and A the sign of assassinated Supreme Leader

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Speaker 1: Ali Kamena, but despite previously saying it was up to

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Speaker 1: Iranians to decide, the president said he was keen to

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Speaker 1: find someone weaving Iran to lead. What are you looking

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Speaker 1: for in that person? Are you looking at someone internal?

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Speaker 1: Given that you just said that their leadership has been done.

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Speaker 2: I like the idea of the you know, internal and eternal,

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Speaker 2: come to think of it. But I like the idea

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Speaker 2: of internal because it works well. I mean, I think

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Speaker 2: we've proven that so far. In Venezuela. We have a woman, Delsey,

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Speaker 2: who has been president of the country, very respected, very

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Speaker 2: doing a great job, and it's you know, no disruption.

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Speaker 2: We had as you remember Iraq where everybody got fired,

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Speaker 2: the military got fired, the police got fired, the politicians

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Speaker 2: got fired. There was nobody and you know what the

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Speaker 2: they turned into isis and we don't want that. We

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Speaker 2: don't want that. So I would like to see people

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Speaker 2: that are inside go now. They talk about the sun

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Speaker 2: of the Shah, they talk about other people, but you

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Speaker 2: know hasn't been there in many, many years.

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Speaker 1: The story captivating Australians right now is the fate of

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Speaker 1: the Iranian women's soccer team, five of whom have been

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Speaker 1: granted asylum here after pleading for help. You can check

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Speaker 1: out all our breaking angles right now at the Australian

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Speaker 1: dot com dot au and come back to the front

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Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for our correspondent Amanda Hodge,

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Speaker 1: who's deep in the reporting of this remarkable young and

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Speaker 1: will take us inside the women's bid for freedom that's

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Speaker 1: right here Wednesday morning.