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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. A big new development in Europe.

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Speaker 1: It's being revealed senior German military officials have been actively

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Speaker 1: planning for another land war in Europe based on the

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Speaker 1: assumption Russia will attack NATO in this decade. Vladimir Putin

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Speaker 1: invaded Ukraine in twenty twenty two in part to stop

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Speaker 1: Volodimi Zelenski, the President of Ukraine, from joining NATO, the

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Speaker 1: North American Treaty organization, which governs an alliance between European states,

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Speaker 1: the UK and the US. It underpins the post World

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Speaker 1: War II peace on the continent. Putin's move certainly worked,

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Speaker 1: but it made the rest of NATO states very nervous

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Speaker 1: about the possibility that Russia could once again seek to

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Speaker 1: expand its territory. Today, the Australians reporting the details of

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Speaker 1: Operation Plan Germany, a secret twelve hundred page long classified document,

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Speaker 1: would be a blueprint for a NATO response to such

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Speaker 1: an attack. The plan details how up to eight hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand German, US and other NATO ground troops would be

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Speaker 1: moved towards Russia's borders, including details of exactly how they'd

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Speaker 1: be transported via river, rail and road. The plan also

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Speaker 1: maps a so called all of society war, where civilian

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Speaker 1: infrastructure and people were drawn into the conflict. An American

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Speaker 1: National Guard soldier has died after being shot allegedly by

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Speaker 1: an Afghan refugee after an ambush near the White House.

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Speaker 1: Sarah Beckstrom, twenty died from wounds suffered in the attack.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has confirmed another National Guard member, twenty four

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Speaker 1: year old Andrew Wolf, is in a critical condition. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: the CIA has revealed it previously worked in Afghanistan with

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Speaker 1: the suspect who's now under arrest. Afghan national Rachmano La Lachanwal,

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Speaker 1: who's twenty nine, will face charges including three counts of

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Speaker 1: assault with intent to kill. That charge could be upgraded

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Speaker 1: to murder. The CIA said he was one of many

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Speaker 1: Afghan nationals brought to America in gratitude for helping US

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Speaker 1: troops during the Afghan War. Check out those stories live

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Speaker 1: right now at the Australian dot com dot au and

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Speaker 1: come back to the front first thing in the morning

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Speaker 1: for our weekend culture episode, a close look at Wicked

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Speaker 1: young women around the world. Nicki Gammel will be here