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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Hi, I'm Tarlly Blackman

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Speaker 1: from Mumamea's twice daily news podcast, The Cookie with your

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Speaker 1: Headlines for Thursday, January eighth. Authorities are warning of potentially

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Speaker 1: uncontrollable bushfires as parts of Australia face catastrophic fire conditions

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Speaker 1: during the biggest heat wave in six years. Southeastern Australia

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Speaker 1: is bearing the brunt of the heat, with temperatures again

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Speaker 1: pushing into the forties. Yesterday was its hottest day in

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Speaker 1: six years, with towns like Port Augusta hitting forty six

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Speaker 1: point three degrees celsius. South Australia is expected to peak

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Speaker 1: in the high forties today, with severe heat wave conditions

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Speaker 1: across most of the state and a total fireban in

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Speaker 1: the mid North. In Victoria, a bushfire has burned more

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Speaker 1: than one thousand hectares at Mount Lawson near the New

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Speaker 1: South Wales border, while two out of control fires began

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Speaker 1: near Longwood and south of Ruffy. Total fireband's own place

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Speaker 1: for several northern districts. In Perth's eastern suburbs, an emergency

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Speaker 1: level bush fire in made Vale and high Wickham forced

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Speaker 1: the closure of Rowe Highway and brought traffic to a standstill.

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Speaker 1: The fire was later extinguished, with warnings downgraded to advice

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Speaker 1: and no homes lost. Fire authorities say Friday could bring

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Speaker 1: catastrophic conditions, warning that if fires take hold, lives and

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Speaker 1: homes are likely to be lost. The heat is forecast

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Speaker 1: to spread into New South Wales and the Act with

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Speaker 1: Sydney expected to exceed forty degrees this weekend. The United

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Speaker 1: States has seized two oil tankers linked to Venezuela in

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Speaker 1: back to back actions in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean.

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Speaker 1: US European Command said the merchant vessel Bela I was

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Speaker 1: seized for violating sanctions after weeks of monitoring. The tanker

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Speaker 1: had tried to evade a US blockade on sanctioned oil

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Speaker 1: shipments around Venezuela. Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nomes said US

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Speaker 1: forces also took control of a second tanker, Sofia, in

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Speaker 1: the Caribbean. She said both ships had recently docked in

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Speaker 1: Venezuela or were en route there, and were part of

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Speaker 1: a ghost fleet moving oil from Venezuela, Russia and Iran

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Speaker 1: despite sanctions. The seizures come as the US administration outlines

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Speaker 1: plans to selectively ease sanctions to allow Venezuelan oil sales

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Speaker 1: to global markets. The Energy Department said sales of thirty

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Speaker 1: to fifty million barrels could begin immediately, with proceeds held

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Speaker 1: in US controlled accounts. US officials say more siezures of

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Speaker 1: sanctioned vessels are likely ahead soon. More than two thousand,

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Speaker 1: five hundred Australians have started the year infected with a

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Speaker 1: highly transmissible new strain of influenza, prompting health authorities to

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Speaker 1: warn twenty twenty six could be the worst flu year

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Speaker 1: on record. The strain, a mutation of influenza AID known

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Speaker 1: as subclade K or super K, was first identified in

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Speaker 1: September and has spread rapidly despite not appearing more severe.

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Speaker 1: Official sage genetic changes have made it easier to transmit,

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Speaker 1: even as vaccines continue to protect against serious illness. Cases

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Speaker 1: are unusually high for January, with more than one third

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Speaker 1: reported in New South Wales in the past week, with

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Speaker 1: young children among the most affected. Health experts are concerned

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Speaker 1: as vaccination rates have fallen, particularly among children and older Australians.

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Speaker 1: Authorities warned the unseasonable surge could strain hospitals and are

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Speaker 1: urging people, especially vulnerable people, to get vaccinated and stay

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Speaker 1: alert to symptoms. Gwyneth Paltrow says the media storm around

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Speaker 1: her divorce from Coldplay's Chris Martin ended up costing her

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Speaker 1: a film role. Speaking on Amy Pops podcast Good Hang,

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Speaker 1: Paltrow said she was lined up for a movie shortly

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Speaker 1: after the couple announced their twenty fourteen split, which they

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Speaker 1: famously called conscious uncoupling at the time. She said the

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Speaker 1: headlines were intense and the studio decided the attention was

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Speaker 1: all too much. I think the distributor was like, this

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Speaker 1: might be too too hot to touch. Interesting. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: were like, we don't need the heat. Yeah. Interesting. So

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Speaker 1: that was great because I was getting a divorce and

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Speaker 1: then I got fired. Was so odd. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: sorry that my divorce is bothering. Yeah. Sorry. The phrase

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Speaker 1: conscious uncoupling was widely mocked, but Paltrow said it upset

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Speaker 1: people because it suggested divorce didn't have to be bitter

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Speaker 1: or hostile. Paltrow and Martin were married for eleven years

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Speaker 1: and shared two children. She is now returning to films

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Speaker 1: in Marty Supreme, her first major role in a decade.

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Speaker 1: That's your latest news headlines. Taylor Strano will be back

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Speaker 1: in your ears this afternoon with your evening news headlines.

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