Speaker 1: This is Gabriella Power with your News twenty four update.
Speaker 1: The Albanese government is close to locking in a deal
Speaker 1: with the coalition to pass its gambling reforms. Senior government
Speaker 1: sources have told News twenty four an agreement is likely
Speaker 1: through which proposed changes will be made in the Senate.
Speaker 1: It may involve a ban on inducements from betting companies
Speaker 1: aimed at encouraging people to gamble. Deputy Opposition leader Jane
Speaker 1: Hume says the reforms need to go further. The Greens
Speaker 1: and Independent MP Kate Cheney are also seeking stronger gambling laws.
Speaker 1: Tokyo's former ambassador to Australia has criticized Anthony Albanesi over
Speaker 1: his remarks about Sanai a tucker Itchi's diplomatic gift. Mister
Speaker 1: Albanzi made the comments during his infamous appearance on the
Speaker 1: Bush Deep podcast in July. The Japanese Prime Minister brought
Speaker 1: a melon? Did you smuggle it? I don't know. Oh
Speaker 1: got a couple of melons. Two she brought to as
Speaker 1: you do. Shingo Yamagami notes the Prime Minister's comments on
Speaker 1: receiving crown melons was insulting and derogatory. To Japan's PM.
Speaker 1: Writing in The Australian, he says, however lighthearted it was
Speaker 1: intended to be the recent joke by PM Anthony Albanezi
Speaker 1: at the expense of Japanese PM Tona Takechi is how
Speaker 1: he might be remembered by Japanese who most value the
Speaker 1: friendship with Australia. The PM has defended his comments, his
Speaker 1: spokesperson telling The Australian the assertions being made are wrong.
Speaker 1: Earlier this morning, the Coalition criticized the comments, calling on
Speaker 1: the PM to make a personal apology to his Japanese counterpart.
Speaker 1: A baby monitor has led the police to bring down
Speaker 1: an alleged drug syndicate involving in importing two point seven
Speaker 1: tons of cocaine into Australia. The baby Monitor who was
Speaker 1: situated in the lounge room of a Sydney home and
Speaker 1: it recorded chats and captured a video of the offenders
Speaker 1: allegedly unloading the drugs from a truck. Police allege it's
Speaker 1: part of a series of simple mistakes made by the
Speaker 1: accused leading to their arrest at a rural property in Londonderry.
Speaker 1: The Daily Telegraph reports the mistakes include using a real
Speaker 1: name when buying a truck on Facebook, keeping screenshots of chats,
Speaker 1: and leaving forty kilos of cocaine at the alleged imports site.
Speaker 1: Questions are being raised over security at Australia's premier tactical
Speaker 1: fighter jet base. According to the Daily Telegraph, multiple unmanned
Speaker 1: drones breached restricted airspace over rap Billiamtown Base near Newcastle
Speaker 1: between July eleven and July thirteen. The ADF is unaware
Speaker 1: of who was operating the drones or why they were there,
Speaker 1: but say they weren't intercepted using anti drone weaponry. The
Speaker 1: incident is now under investigation. The Israeli content creator behind
Speaker 1: the video that landed two Bankstown nurses in court has
Speaker 1: told his followers he's flying to Australia to testify in
Speaker 1: their court case. Sarah Libda and Ahmed Nadir are accused
Speaker 1: of making menacing comments about Israeli people while in an
Speaker 1: online chat room with Max Weifer. Both nurses have pleaded
Speaker 1: not guilty and are due to go to trial in
Speaker 1: late August. The United Arab Emirates has handed over a
Speaker 1: man to Irish authorities who is regarded as the leader
Speaker 1: of one of the most feared cartels in the world.
Speaker 1: Alleged Irish crime boss Daniel Kinahan has been extradited to
Speaker 1: Dublin changed with directing a criminal organization. Irish prosecutors say
Speaker 1: that the forty nine year old is one of the
Speaker 1: leaders of the Kinahan organized crime group. He was arrested
Speaker 1: at Dubai in April. In twenty twenty two, the United
Speaker 1: States offered a five million dollar reward for the arrest
Speaker 1: of any of the three alleged leaders. The group has
Speaker 1: been linked by US and European authorities to a criminal
Speaker 1: network dealing in drug smuggling and money laundering. You can
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