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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 says he's achieved America's

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Speaker 1: goal of denying Iran a nuclear weapon, and US forces

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Speaker 1: will quote finish the job in the next two weeks

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Speaker 1: or so. That's despite a huge influx of US ground

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Speaker 1: troops to the Middle East, bringing America's presence in the

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Speaker 1: region to over fifty thousand soldiers, sailors, aircrew and marines

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Speaker 1: that had prompted speculation Trump was about to launch a

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Speaker 1: ground invasion of Iran. But the President has, as is

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Speaker 1: his way, knocked everyone's expectations off kilter.

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Speaker 2: We're finishing the job, and I think we're then maybe

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Speaker 2: two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer to do

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Speaker 2: the job. But we want to knock out every single

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Speaker 2: thing there. Now it's possible that will make a.

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Speaker 1: Deal with Trump also said he'd leave to others the

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Speaker 1: reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow stretch of

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Speaker 1: the Persian Gulf where twenty percent of the world's oil

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Speaker 1: and gas flows.

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Speaker 2: And if France or some other country wants to get

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Speaker 2: oil or gas, they'll go up through the Street and

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Speaker 2: Hormo Street. They'll go right up there and they'll be

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Speaker 2: able to fend for themselves. I think it'll be very safe, actually,

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Speaker 2: But we have nothing to do with that. What happens

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Speaker 2: of the street, we're not going to have anything to

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Speaker 2: do with because these countries, China, China will go up

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Speaker 2: and they'll fuel up their beautiful ships and they'll leave

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Speaker 2: and they'll take care of themselves. There's no reason for

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Speaker 2: us to do it.

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Speaker 1: Artificials from the United Arab Emirates said they're prepared to

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Speaker 1: help the United States and its allies reopen the vital

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Speaker 1: shipping route by force. If the United Nations Security Council

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Speaker 1: gives that plan the green light, the UAE would be

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Speaker 1: the first Gulf state to enter the conflict as a combatant.

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Speaker 1: Trump said America's diplomatic task has been made easier by

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Speaker 1: what he called regime change.

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Speaker 2: We had to take a little due to it because

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Speaker 2: we had a madman named COMMANDI, who sadly is no

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Speaker 2: longer with us, and we had regime change already. We've

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Speaker 2: knocked out one regime, then we knocked out the second regime.

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Speaker 2: Now we have a group of people that's very that

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Speaker 2: are very different. They're much more reasonable, I think, much more,

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Speaker 2: much less radicalized. A we've had regime change.

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Speaker 1: White House per Secretary Caroline leave It said in a

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Speaker 1: social media post. President Trump will give a national address

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Speaker 1: about the war on Thursday morning. Australian Time Secretary of

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Speaker 1: State Marco Rubio said the United States will re examine

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Speaker 1: its relationship with NATO Alliance countries Europe and Canada when

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Speaker 1: the conflict ends.

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Speaker 3: If now we have reached a point where the NATO

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Speaker 3: Alliance means that we can't use those bases, that in fact,

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Speaker 3: that we can no longer use those bases to defend

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Speaker 3: America's interests. The NATO is a one way street, then

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Speaker 3: why are we in NATO. You have to ask that question.

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Speaker 3: Why do we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds

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Speaker 3: of billions of dollars over the years, trillions of dollars

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Speaker 3: and all these American forces stationed in the region we

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Speaker 3: can only use we can in our time of need.

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Speaker 3: We're not going to be allowed to use those bases,

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Speaker 3: So I think there's no doubt. Unfortunately, after this conflict

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Speaker 3: is concluded, we're going to have to re examine that relationship.

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Speaker 3: We're going to have to re examine the value of

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Speaker 3: NATO and that alliance for our country. Ultimately, that's a

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Speaker 3: decision for the President to make.

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Speaker 1: Slain fugitive Desi Freeman was shot more than twenty times

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Speaker 1: in a shootout with Elite police at the remote Victorian

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Speaker 1: hiding place where he was found on Monday. Freeman had

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Speaker 1: been on the run for more than two hundred days

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Speaker 1: after he shot and killed two police officers who were

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Speaker 1: serving a warrant for suspected child sex offenses at his

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Speaker 1: home near Poora Punka in Victoria's High Country. Victoria Police

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Speaker 1: said he refused to surrender peacefully and fired at offices

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Speaker 1: during the confrontation earlier this week. In a statement on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: Victoria Police said Freeman's body had been formally identified. It's

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Speaker 1: believed police located a mobile phone at the hideout, which

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Speaker 1: will be examined now as officers try to work out

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Speaker 1: if anyone helped Freeman hide, for example, by providing electricity

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Speaker 1: and food. Check out those stories live right now at

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Speaker 1: the Australian dot Com dot a you and come back

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Speaker 1: to the front first thing in the morning for our

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Speaker 1: close look at a giant fight looming for Australia's musicians,

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Speaker 1: writers and artists stopping AI from stealing their work. That's

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Speaker 1: right here, Thursday morning,