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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. Tensions in Europe a sky high

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Speaker 1: after the powerful NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter warned Russian

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Speaker 1: President Vladimir Putin that his pilots could shoot down Russian

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Speaker 1: warplanes if they stray over European territory.

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Speaker 2: Our pilots know what to do, and if necessary, they

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Speaker 2: can do the ultimate.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has backed the call.

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Speaker 3: I'm very dissatisfied with what Russia is doing and what

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Speaker 3: President Putin is doing.

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Speaker 2: I haven't liked it at all. Let's face it. We

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Speaker 2: have trained and prepared for these situations and our fighter

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Speaker 2: jet pilots know exactly what to do. For fifty years

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Speaker 2: now from the Soviet days. Now is Russia. We have

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Speaker 2: had these incursions before. They will assess the danger and

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Speaker 2: if the danger is such that they feel they really

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Speaker 2: have to take down the plane, then they can. But

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Speaker 2: they also decided that there's no imminent threat, and then

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Speaker 2: they will escort them. Signed off t airspace.

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Speaker 1: Russia has in recent weeks sent drones over countries that

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Speaker 1: are part of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which

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Speaker 1: was formed after World War II by the US, Canada,

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Speaker 1: and European partners. NATO was the catalyst for Russia's invasion

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Speaker 1: of Ukraine after Ukraine's campaign to join NATO in order

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Speaker 1: to gain the protection of its famous Article five, which

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Speaker 1: obliges all partners to protect one another if attacked. Russia

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Speaker 1: says the shooting down of one of its military aircraft

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Speaker 1: would be an act of war. Donald Trump has slapped

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Speaker 1: a one hundred percent tariff on foreign made pharmaceutical products,

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Speaker 1: meaning American consumers will have to pay double the cost

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Speaker 1: for their drugs. Australia sends two billion dollars worth of

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Speaker 1: pharmaceuticals to America perannum, mainly blood products like plasma and vaccines.

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Speaker 1: On social media, Trump said from October one, the tax

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Speaker 1: would be slapped on any branded or patented pharmaceutical product

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Speaker 1: unless the manufacturer has already begun building a factory in America.

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Speaker 1: The White House says the tariffs could rise to two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty percent. The presidents also slapping new taxes

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Speaker 1: on heavy trucks, kitchen cabinets, and bathroom vanities imported into

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Speaker 1: the US. It's all part of Trump's bid to bring

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Speaker 1: manufacturing home. The Federal Opposition says it's a catastrophe for

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Speaker 1: exporters and is blaming Anthony Albanesi for not being able

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Speaker 1: to secure an exemption for Australia. Bart Australia's biggest farmer company, CSL,

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Speaker 1: says it's not worried as it already manufactures in the

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Speaker 1: US and is building more capacity in its American laboratories.

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Speaker 1: The Trump administration wants better access for American made drugs

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Speaker 1: to Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which makes prescription medications much

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Speaker 1: cheaper to Australian patients through a combination of taxpayer subsidies

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Speaker 1: and negotiations with manufacturers. Drugs have to be approved before

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Speaker 1: being allowed for sale here, and that means some American

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Speaker 1: farmer companies believe they're being unfairly locked out. Here's Health

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Speaker 1: Minister Mark Butler.

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Speaker 3: None of these latest announcements for the US administration make

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Speaker 3: a jot of difference to our determination to protect the PBS.

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Speaker 3: We are determined to do everything to protect that PBS.

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Speaker 3: I guess our job now is to protect the interests

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Speaker 3: of Australians and also to do what we can to

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Speaker 3: support Australian companies who might be hit by what we

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Speaker 3: regard as unfair, unjustified tariffs after twenty years of free trade.

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Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at Beaustralian dot

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

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