Speaker 1: I'm Christy Lloyd with your News 24 update. It's believed
Speaker 1: 34 Australians are among the hundreds missing following a fatal
Speaker 1: flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border. And a warning, the
Speaker 1: videos you are about to see may be distressing. Surveillance
Speaker 1: footage shows people attempting to escape thunderous mudslides which swallowed
Speaker 1: large areas of land. Avalanches of water, ice and rock
Speaker 1: can be seen crashing over homes and buildings. Police in
Speaker 1: Nepal say they have recovered 157 bodies as the search
Speaker 1: for survivors continues. The cause of the disaster is still unknown,
Speaker 1: but a 4.4 magnitude quake had been reported approximately seven
Speaker 1: minutes before the flash flooding occurred. Qantas has posted its
Speaker 1: yearly results and profit is down by 13% to $ 2. 06
Speaker 1: billion this Flying Kangaroo has blamed the ongoing conflict in
Speaker 1: the Middle East between the United States and Iran. The
Speaker 1: airline claims the crisis in Iran has affected earnings by
Speaker 1: around $ 420 million.
Speaker 2: Fares have had to increase because the cost input from
Speaker 2: the higher fuel price has been significant and particularly significant
Speaker 2: for Qantas International. What we're just really focused on is
Speaker 2: making sure that we're continuing to deliver on-time performance right
Speaker 2: across the network.
Speaker 1: Farmers have addressed their energy concern to the chair of
Speaker 1: the Climate Change Authority during the Bush summit in Davao.
Speaker 1: One farmer believes the losers of wind power far outweigh
Speaker 1: the winners. She expressed her displeasure at the imbalance between
Speaker 1: farmers and those putting wind turbines on their property. Another
Speaker 1: farmer argues there is a more pressing issue.
Speaker 2: When you look at the whole energy situation in Victoria,
Speaker 2: we're coming to a cliff.
Speaker 3: Within 10 years, we're losing 70% of our production. So
Speaker 3: I don't care if you like renewables or nuclear or
Speaker 3: solar or whatever, we are heading for a cliff.
Speaker 4: When you're talking about benefit, it is definitely benefiting the
Speaker 4: few at the expense of the many. And there's this
Speaker 4: right to host that exists out there that, you know, David,
Speaker 4: you have the right to host, but you don't have
Speaker 4: the right to impose.
Speaker 1: The government's climate change authority, Matt Keane, says policy is
Speaker 1: needed in response to market changes.
Speaker 3: Australia needs to respond to the changes that our trading
Speaker 3: partners are making and that capital markets are making. We
Speaker 3: need to make sure that Australia is well positioned to
Speaker 3: take advantage of those opportunities. And that's what good policy
Speaker 3: looks like. And when it comes to climate policy, good
Speaker 3: climate policy should make Australian agriculture more profitable, more productive
Speaker 3: and more resilient.
Speaker 1: Police are investigating the death of a 16-year-old girl after
Speaker 1: what's understood to be a suspected sexual choking act during
Speaker 1: consensual sex. The teenager was found unconscious at a home
Speaker 1: on Sydney's northern beaches on Sunday, suffering asphyxiation followed by seizures.
Speaker 1: She was flown to Royal North Shore Hospital but died
Speaker 1: two days later. And if this story has raised any
Speaker 1: concerns for you, you can contact the Domestic Violence and
Speaker 1: Sexual Assault Helpline on 1800RESPECT. British actor Tim Curry has
Speaker 1: died at the age of 80. The Emmy Award winner's
Speaker 1: breakthrough came in 1975 with the releases of what would
Speaker 1: be his most well-known role, Frankenfurter, in the Rocky Horror
Speaker 1: Picture Show. The film, which followed on from the stage production,
Speaker 1: has grown to become a cult favourite. Curry's career largely
Speaker 1: centred around portraying over-the-top villains, His work including such titles
Speaker 1: as Charlie's Angels, Home Alone 2 and The Three Musketeers.
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