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Speaker 1: Right now though. Donna is our Australia correspondent, Donna, good

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Speaker 1: to have you on the program. This weapons expo in

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Speaker 1: Melbourne bracing for big protest. What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Yes, In fact, Victoria police have erected a ring of steel,

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Speaker 2: as they describe it, around this weapons expo. It's going

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Speaker 2: to have about eight hundred companies there and there's going

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Speaker 2: to be military tanks and semi automatic guns on display,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of people are expected to attend the

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Speaker 2: expo itself, but it's understood up to about twenty five

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Speaker 2: thousand people may take to the streets, These anti war

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Speaker 2: activists they're calling themselves, and they possibly plan to cause chaos.

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Speaker 2: So Victoria police are trying to be prepared for that.

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Speaker 2: Interstate police have been called in and it suggested it

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Speaker 2: maybe a repeat of similar scenes. Way back in two

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Speaker 2: thousand there was absolute mayhem and violence on the streets

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Speaker 2: when protesters targeted the World Economic Forum and about one

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Speaker 2: hundred people were arrested at that time. So this Land

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Speaker 2: Forces Expo does have the focus of police and activists.

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Speaker 2: In fact, already at the weekend some Melbourne hotels have

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Speaker 2: been painted red and vandalized and so we do believe

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Speaker 2: that hundreds of police are being brought in as I mentioned,

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Speaker 2: and there's already this fencing that's covered in tarps. So

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Speaker 2: it's not really clear now to the general public what's

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Speaker 2: happening behind those taps, but you might want to know

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Speaker 2: that police now do have these extra increased powers to

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Speaker 2: search any person and vehicle under heightened anti terrant legislation

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Speaker 2: in Victoria. The Lord Mary in the meantime, he's just saying,

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Speaker 2: please everybody stay calm.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Nia, it sounds like there might be some need

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Speaker 1: for calm there. Tell us this thirty two year old

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Speaker 1: who allegedly poured a flask of hot coffee on a

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Speaker 1: nine month old baby in Brisbane.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's been described as deliberate and unprovoked attack. This

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Speaker 2: baby suffered significant burdens to his face, arms and legs. Now,

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Speaker 2: thankfully he's on the men. Now. This happened on the

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Speaker 2: twenty seventh of August, but we have had an update

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Speaker 2: from Brisbane Police. We now know that the man who

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Speaker 2: allegedly did this pouring this scolding coffee on a nine

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Speaker 2: month old baby has escaped overseas and he escaped they

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Speaker 2: believe less than a day before he was identified by

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Speaker 2: detectives and I found this most interesting. Police have confirmed

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Speaker 2: that it became apparent that this person was aware of

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Speaker 2: police methodologies, was conducting countess of valence activities and that

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Speaker 2: made the investigation quite complex. Meantime, the family is saying

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Speaker 2: they do hope that one day justice will be served.

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Speaker 1: It's bizarre.

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Speaker 2: They Okay, the baby is on the mend. We heard

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Speaker 2: from the family as well. He's up and about and

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Speaker 2: walking again, and his mother is just really that he's

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Speaker 2: such a strong little boy.

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Speaker 1: As she put it, absolutely Donna. Thank you for that.

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