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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the update. I'm Susie Thompson. Hurrican Melissa

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Speaker 1: has made landfall in southwestern Jamaica. The category five system

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Speaker 1: packing catastrophic wins of up to two hundred and ninety

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Speaker 1: five kilometers per hour. It's the strongest storm of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five and the biggest ever in Jamaican history. The

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Speaker 1: BBC reports one third of the island is experiencing power cuts.

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Speaker 1: There are reports that Australian girls are being targeted by

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Speaker 1: young men from around the world who are hunting and

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Speaker 1: abusing them as if they're characters in a violent video game.

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Speaker 1: Nine Newspapers reports local arrests have been made, but the

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Speaker 1: men are alleged members of a decentralized online crime network

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Speaker 1: who are using gaming platforms like Roadblocks and messaging apps

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Speaker 1: such as Telegram and Discord to reach potential victims. Federal

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Speaker 1: Environment Minister Murray Watt has asked the Bureau of Meteorology

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Speaker 1: to address public concern about its website rows received thousands

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Speaker 1: of complaints following severe storms in Queensland. The Brisbane based

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Speaker 1: Senators as Australians should continue to provide feedback to the bureau.

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Speaker 1: Amazon has announced it will cut about fourteen thousand corporate jobs.

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Speaker 1: The online retail giant will ramp up spending on artificial

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Speaker 1: intelligence while making cuts elsewhere. Since the start of last year,

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Speaker 1: Amazon has committed about ten billion dollars each to four

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Speaker 1: data centers as it tries to keep up with other

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Speaker 1: tech giants. Sport and entertainment and next. In sport, the

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Speaker 1: Broncos captain is already eyeing off a second NRL Premiership trophy.

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Speaker 1: Adam Reynolds says twenty twenty five is just the start

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Speaker 1: and there's no reason Brisbane can't go back to back

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Speaker 1: turnover coaches, some new players come in and we're still

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Speaker 1: learning systems halfway through the year, so yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: see any reason Mary we can't get the same success

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Speaker 1: with other year. In netball, the Diamonds won't be making

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Speaker 1: any huge changes to their team ahead of the Constellation

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Speaker 1: Cup match against New Zealand this afternoon. It will be

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Speaker 1: held in christ Church and it is the deciding Fourth

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Speaker 1: Test and in Sheffield Shield cricket. Heading into Day two,

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Speaker 1: WA trails South Australia by one hundred and twenty eight

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Speaker 1: runs with ten wickets remaining. Tasmania trail's Victoria by two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two runs with nine wickets remaining, and

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Speaker 1: there was no plate for the Queensland Bulls and New

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Speaker 1: South Wales due to rain. In entertainment news and the

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Speaker 1: woman who played Sybil Faulty in Faulty Towers has died

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Speaker 1: in her sleep at the age of ninety three. Prunella

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Speaker 1: Scales was diagnosed with vascular dementia twelve years ago. In

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Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies comedy, she played Basil's long suffering wife.

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Speaker 1: I know you have I know, I know, Oh, I know.

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Speaker 1: What was that old? Oh? I know? And that is

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Speaker 1: the latest from the Nova Podcast team. Will see you

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Speaker 1: later on for another update. I'm Susie Thompson. Yeah,