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Speaker 1: You're listening to another near podcast. Hi. I'm Grace Roufrey

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Speaker 1: with the latest from the Quickie newsroom for Tuesday, March ten.

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Speaker 1: Fuel shortages are emerging in parts of regional areas across

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Speaker 1: Australia as the escalating Middle East conflict disrupts global oil shipping. Service.

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Speaker 1: Stations in western Australian towns of Coolan and Corrigan have

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Speaker 1: introduced temporary limits on fuel amid delivery uncertainty and panic

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Speaker 1: buying farmers worn the disruption could push up the cost

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Speaker 1: of fuel and fertilizer, potentially driving supermarket prices for goods

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Speaker 1: like dairy, fruit and vegetables up to as much as

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Speaker 1: forty to fifty percent. Energy Minister Chris Bowen says Australia

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Speaker 1: still has about thirty two days of diesel supply and

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Speaker 1: insists there is no need for panic despite the spike

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Speaker 1: in demand in regional areas. However, petrol prices have already

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Speaker 1: climbed to above two dollars a liter in most capital

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Speaker 1: cities as the conflict continues to rattle global end markets.

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Speaker 1: US President Donald Trump says Cuba is in deep trouble

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Speaker 1: amid a humanitarian crisis, and suggested the US could be

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Speaker 1: involved in what he called a possible friendly takeover. Speaking

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Speaker 1: in Florida, Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio was

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Speaker 1: handling the situation, but gave no details. The Cuban government

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Speaker 1: says it is not engaged in high level talks with

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Speaker 1: the US. Cuban exiles, who are largely concentrated in Miami,

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Speaker 1: have long dreamed of overthrowing the Cuban government or seeing

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Speaker 1: it fall, and have in the past plotted against the

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Speaker 1: government that was established by the late revolutionary leader for

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Speaker 1: del Castro. We caught up with the Channel seven senior

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Speaker 1: reporter Chris Reason, who is currently in Tel Aviv covering

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Speaker 1: the US Israeli attack on Iran. He says this shift

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Speaker 1: by Trump to another target could leave the Middle East fractured.

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Speaker 2: We just don't know where this is going to go

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Speaker 2: at the end of it all, and particularly when Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: when he loses interest and he says, OK, let's go,

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Speaker 2: when will he cut and run? When will you say

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Speaker 2: it's been a success. We've got rid of the tel

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Speaker 2: or we've got rid of most of the regime. We're

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Speaker 2: going to turn our attention now to something else. And

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Speaker 2: right now, as you're probably aware, he's been talking in

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Speaker 2: the last twenty four hours that regime change in Cuba.

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Speaker 2: He starts to pull out, the Americans start to withdraw,

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Speaker 2: and then the place is left in chaos.

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Speaker 1: Escalating conflict in the Middle East is continuing to disrupt

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Speaker 1: global travel, with more than twenty seven thousand flights canceled

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Speaker 1: and around four point four million airline seats removed from

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Speaker 1: schedules in the past week. Despite the turmoil, FIFA says

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Speaker 1: the World Cup, which is scheduled to begin in June

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Speaker 1: with forty eight nations competing, said that it will still

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Speaker 1: go ahead. The tournament's chief operating officer has said the

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Speaker 1: event is too big to postpone, even as the war

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Speaker 1: between Israel and the US and Iran continues to create

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Speaker 1: uncertainty around international travel. The disruption has also stranded thousands

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Speaker 1: of Australians, though the government says that more than twenty

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Speaker 1: six hundred have now returned home on eighteen flights from

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Speaker 1: the United Arab emas as travel warnings remain in place

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Speaker 1: across much of the Middle East. Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi

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Speaker 1: is urging Australians still in the region to take any

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Speaker 1: commercial flights available, while Foreign Minister Pennywong says further flights

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Speaker 1: are expected as airspace gradually reopens. British MPs have voted

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Speaker 1: down a proposal to ban social media for under sixteens,

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Speaker 1: rejecting the measure by three hundred and seven votes to

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy three. The plan, backed by campaign

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Speaker 1: as including actor Hugh Grant, aimed to mirror Australia's approach

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Speaker 1: to protecting children online. Critics, including the National Society for

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Speaker 1: the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, warned a blanket ban

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Speaker 1: could push teenagers into less regulated parts of the Internet. However,

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Speaker 1: the government has left the door open to future restrictions,

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Speaker 1: with new powers that could allow ministers to limit children's

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Speaker 1: access to social media addictive features like AutoPlay and VPN news.

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Speaker 1: Following a public consultation, a fund backed by former New

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Speaker 1: Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda r Dern will spend about four

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Speaker 1: point three million dollars boosting cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment

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Speaker 1: programs across the Pacific, where the disease remains a leading

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Speaker 1: cause of death among women. The funding, originally provided by

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Speaker 1: Melinda French Gates's Pivotal Foundation, will support regional collaboration led

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Speaker 1: by the University of Auckland. Cervical cancer rates in parts

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Speaker 1: of the Pacific are up to nine times higher than

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Speaker 1: in Australia and New Zealand, despite the disease being largely preventable.

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Speaker 1: The program aims to expand HPV vaccination, screening and treatment

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Speaker 1: in line with the World Health Organization targets to eliminate

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Speaker 1: the cancer. On Wednesday's episode of The Quikie, Louis Theroux's

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Speaker 1: new documentary is putting the Manisphere under the microscope, and

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Speaker 1: reality shows like Married at First Sight are putting some

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Speaker 1: of these attitudes right into primetime. Where is this coming

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