1 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: From the Newsroom and years to company. Another shocking attack 2 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: on HEZBLA members in Lebanon, a comedian accuses Ricky jervasive 3 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: bullying and confirmation a new team will enter the NRL 4 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: later this decade. That's all coming up in this episode 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: of From the Newsroom. It's Thursday, in the nineteenth of September. 6 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,319 Speaker 1: We'll start in Lebanon. Fourteen people are dead after a 7 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 1: second wave of attacks on hesbla's communication devices. This is 8 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: absolutely whild this story. So yesterday it was hundreds of 9 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:38,279 Speaker 1: booby trapped pages that exploded. Overnight it was hundreds of 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: walkie talkies. Thousands of people have been injured, with Israel 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: being blamed for the attacks. Back home. Now, New South 12 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: Wales police have smashed Sydney's biggest cocaine gang after they 13 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: allegedly sold almost two billion dollars worth of coke in 14 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: just four months. He's The Daily Telegraph's crime reporter, Mark Murray. 15 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 2: They called themselves the Commission, which is around for a 16 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 2: couple of years and started when the common Tiro bosses 17 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 2: and a couple of other groups got together to try 18 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 2: and control the falling prices of cocaine during COVID one 19 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 2: raid this morning which I was hat the a duffel 20 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 2: bag was thrown over the back fence. In that duffel 21 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 2: bag was twenty kilos of cocaine valued at thirty million dollars. 22 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 2: And this is in a suburban house in southwest Sydney. 23 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: In other years, nearly half of all ossies are unhappy 24 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: at work. That's according to new data released by seek Now. 25 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: The biggest issues weighing us down our senior leadership and salary. 26 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 1: Not the case for me. I love my boss. Hi, Kerry, 27 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: if you're listening, please don't sack me. I need this job. 28 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: Two celebrity years now, Ricky Gervais has been labeled a 29 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: bully by a comedian who used to tour with him. He 30 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: is Robin Ince talking about the Office star on the 31 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: Starting Line podcast. 32 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 3: I mean, the thing is he's very easily bored. And 33 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 3: I do think if you look a lot of his stuff, 34 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 3: I think is I look back now and I think 35 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 3: it is bullying, really is? I mean? I remember night 36 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 3: where we were there was it was a Christmas party, 37 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 3: and Rick used to make up this diary about me 38 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 3: and uh, and he decided to read it to everyone 39 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 3: and I forget how weird it is. So I'm very 40 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 3: good at sometimes just acclimatizing things which to go. Actually, 41 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 3: this is really weird. But the time did you feel 42 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 3: like it was weird? I realized that everyone else was 43 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 3: really Mackenzie Crook eventually went, Rick, can you stop doing it? 44 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: Please? 45 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 3: It really you know? He found it very and people 46 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 3: who knew me did not. You know, I would go 47 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 3: through it, but people who knew me did not like 48 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 3: the way that relationship would. 49 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: Moving on, Sean did he Combs will be back in 50 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: court in New York today. His lawyers are doing all 51 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: they can to get the rapper released on bail ahead 52 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: of his sex trafficking trial. They've offered to put up 53 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 1: a seventy five million dollar bond, as well as electronic 54 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: monitoring and a promise that did he won't have any 55 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: women visit him besides his family or the mothers of 56 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: his children. Are judge denied bail yesterday as prosecutors argued 57 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: he was a flight risk to sport. A team from 58 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: Papua New Guinea is set to join the NRL in 59 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. The team will be funded by the 60 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: Australian government for a decade as part of its soft 61 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: diplomacy strategy in the Pacific. P ANDNG will be the 62 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: league's nineteenth team, with the Western Bears from WA to 63 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 1: join the NRL in twenty twenty seven. All Right, you 64 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,959 Speaker 1: are now up to date with the latest from the newsroom. 65 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: Follow us, subscribe to from the newsroom wherever you get 66 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 1: your podcasts.