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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. Arrests and anti Israel chanting have

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Speaker 1: marred a Europa League football clash in the British city

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Speaker 1: of Birmingham featuring Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv and Aston Villa,

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Speaker 1: the favorite team of William, the Prince of Wales. That's

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Speaker 1: after fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv were excluded by local

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Speaker 1: councilors from the stadium on the advice of police. The

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Speaker 1: Mccabi club said it wouldn't sell tickets to its own

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Speaker 1: fans for the match. Entire stands in Villa Park stadium

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Speaker 1: were empty because of the ban, and outside the ground,

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Speaker 1: rival groups of protesters clashed as seven hundred police stood guard.

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Speaker 1: Protesters waived Palestinian flags and chanted slogans including death to

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Speaker 1: the idf facing off with demonstrators waiving Israeli flags. Police

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Speaker 1: used the dog Squad, mounted officers and drones to keep

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Speaker 1: the rival protesters apart, but officers still had to make

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Speaker 1: eleven arrests on charges ranging from racially aggravated public order

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Speaker 1: offenses to breach of the peace. West Midlands Police later

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Speaker 1: claimed they advised excluding the Tel Aviv fans because of

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Speaker 1: what they called significant levels of hooliganism in the fan

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Speaker 1: base of mccarby Tel Aviv. Birmingham's Safety Advisory Group issued

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Speaker 1: the ban, prompting both the Labour Prime Minister Kirs Starma

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Speaker 1: and Opposition leader Kemi Badanock to object. Israeli teams, including

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Speaker 1: Maccabi tel Aviv, play in European leagues since being excluded

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Speaker 1: from the Asian Football Confederation, where other Middle Eastern teams play.

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Speaker 1: In November twenty twenty four, Macabi tel Aviv fans were

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Speaker 1: accused of writing at a UEFA Champions League match against

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Speaker 1: Ajax in Amsterdam, and in October this year, Israeli officials

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Speaker 1: canceled a local game in Tel Aviv between mccaby and

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Speaker 1: another club after violent clashes. Maccabi tel Aviv says its

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Speaker 1: first team scored includes Muslims, Christians and Jews and it

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Speaker 1: has been working to stamp out racism within its fan base.

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Speaker 1: Will they could be called up here the boss come

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Speaker 1: in sir Aston Villa won the Birmingham match to nil.

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Speaker 1: One of the most important jobs for Australia's future defense

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Speaker 1: is up for grabs brs of the Orchest submarine program.

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Speaker 1: Vice Admiral Jonathan Meade has announced his retirement as the

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Speaker 1: Australian Submarine Agency scrambles to prepare for the arrival of

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Speaker 1: US Navy's Virginia class submarines in twenty twenty seven. Gang

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Speaker 1: warfare over illicit tobacco has escalated, with Victoria Police saying

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Speaker 1: they believe the execution of a twenty one year old

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Speaker 1: man was related to a turf battle with the New

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Speaker 1: South Wales criminal syndicate. The government has lost control of

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Speaker 1: the cigarette market, with regular fire bombings and violent assaults

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Speaker 1: stemming from a boom in black market smokes. Check out

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