Speaker 1: This is the nine News podcast.
Speaker 2: Coming up. Will a ceasefire holds in the Middle East,
Speaker 2: durors to start deliberating in the Mushroom murder trial, and
Speaker 2: a new chapter begins for the Matildas. I'm Katie Fuller
Speaker 2: with your lunchtime nine News podcast. After twelve days of
Speaker 2: trading blows, hundreds of civilian casualties and American intervention with
Speaker 2: strikes of its own, the US President says the war
Speaker 2: between Israel and Iran will end within twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Nine's Washington correspondent Lauren Tomasi.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump has used his own social media platform to
Speaker 3: announce this ceasefire, with a caveat both countries will first
Speaker 3: complete any final missions that are currently underway. The US
Speaker 3: President made his ceasefie declaration before ride that country had confirmed,
Speaker 3: and hours later it was Iran's foreign minister saying there
Speaker 3: is no agreement, but going on to say if Israel
Speaker 3: stops his aggression by four am local time, then the
Speaker 3: country has no intention to continue its response. It is
Speaker 3: right now a delicate situation and one which has come
Speaker 3: just hours after Iran launched missiles that America's largest military
Speaker 3: base in the Middle East. There was a real concern
Speaker 3: that this was a dangerous escalation. Instead, it appears that
Speaker 3: diplomatic off ramp may have been taken in Washington, DC.
Speaker 3: Lauren Tomazi nine.
Speaker 2: News Flights through the Middle East are still delayed after
Speaker 2: Iran attacked an American base in Kata Katari airspace was
Speaker 2: shut in response to the missiles, causing some services to
Speaker 2: turn around and others to be canceled. It's now reopened,
Speaker 2: but flights through the major aviation hub of Doha are
Speaker 2: still backed up. Australian woman m Barnette was trying to
Speaker 2: get home from Europe when she was caught in the chaos.
Speaker 3: So as a point there where literally everything was just
Speaker 3: grounded and flights have been canceled. But I've asked about
Speaker 3: fifty times and they said my flat has it been canceled?
Speaker 3: But it has disappeared off the board.
Speaker 2: New South Wales is being promised it's on a path
Speaker 2: back to surplus, says the Men's government hands down its
Speaker 2: third budget at first of its kind. Pre sale guarantee
Speaker 2: to help developers get finance for housing projects is among
Speaker 2: the measures designed to tackle the housing crisis. While one
Speaker 2: point two billion dollars is being promised for child protection,
Speaker 2: including a twenty percent increase in the foster care allowance.
Speaker 2: There's no new direct cost of living relief, but Treasurer
Speaker 2: Daniel Mookie says they're looking to solve the root causes the.
Speaker 4: Public wants to see us then concentrate our resources on
Speaker 4: fixing the fundamentals of what makes life in New South
Speaker 4: Wales unaffordable, and that is housing and that is also
Speaker 4: people's wages.
Speaker 2: The Queensland Premier says his state budget will focus on
Speaker 2: addressing cost of living, health and housing. Among the big
Speaker 2: ticket items is a shared equity scheme for first home
Speaker 2: buys called Boost to Buy. The jury in the Mushroom
Speaker 2: murder trial has been given final directions by the judge
Speaker 2: before they're sent out to deliberate nine. Reporter Penelope Leash
Speaker 2: beginning in more Well this morning in what is now
Speaker 2: the ninth week of the trial.
Speaker 1: The judge's final instructions to the jury are expected to
Speaker 1: last for a number of days. Justice Christopher Beale began
Speaker 1: his charge setting out three topics he'll direct the jurors
Speaker 1: on principles of law, a summary of some of the evidence,
Speaker 1: and further directions around the requirement for any verdict to
Speaker 1: be unanimous. Justice Beale warned the jurors not to let
Speaker 1: any sympathies or prejudice influence them, telling the court the
Speaker 1: issue is not whether Aaron Patterson is in some sense
Speaker 1: responsible for what he called the tragic consequences of the lunch,
Speaker 1: but whether the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that
Speaker 1: she is criminally responsible. Miss Patterson has pleaded not guilty
Speaker 1: to three charges of murder and one charge of attempted
Speaker 1: murder after her in laws became gravely ill with death
Speaker 1: cap mushroom poisoning eyes ever deliberately poisoning anyone Penelope lys shnine.
Speaker 2: News severe weather warnings are in place across South Australia,
Speaker 2: with wild winds and thunderstorms threatening to cause damage. The
Speaker 2: number of homes without power is growing. Nearly two thousand
Speaker 2: properties are currently affected. Residents are being worn to stay
Speaker 2: away from coastal areas. The Corporate Regulator says a spike
Speaker 2: in investment frauds is having a devastating financial effect on victims.
Speaker 2: Analysis shows over the past four years there's been a
Speaker 2: sevenfold increase in scammers claiming to sell or transfer shares
Speaker 2: which don't belong to them as IT commissioners. Simone Constant
Speaker 2: says people need to be extra vigilant in a worst.
Speaker 4: Case scenario of share self frauard.
Speaker 5: They can lose their entireh portfolio.
Speaker 2: Large sums of money can be stolen.
Speaker 4: Look at your accounts, check your accounts for suspicious transactions.
Speaker 2: A medication used to treat the rarest kind of cystic
Speaker 2: fibrosis will soon be listed on the PBS. The incurable disease.
Speaker 2: These disproportionately affects children. Patients are expected to save up
Speaker 2: to a quarter of a million dollars each year once
Speaker 2: it's listed. Health Minister Mark Butler has told Today on
Speaker 2: nine it will allow these Australians to live longer and
Speaker 2: better quality lives.
Speaker 5: It's not cheap.
Speaker 4: It costs about quarter of a million dollars every year,
Speaker 4: so listing it on the PBS is just again another
Speaker 4: demonstration about the importance of our medicine systems.
Speaker 2: Researchers are working to determine why some sharks and stingrays
Speaker 2: have the ability to play dead. James Cook University believes
Speaker 2: the phenomena may be an evolutionary hangover from when they
Speaker 2: had to avoid larger predators, but professor Joel Gayford says
Speaker 2: the response doesn't affect all sharks.
Speaker 5: Many of the species we found that don't go into
Speaker 5: something that he lives in or around and core reefs
Speaker 5: or help forests or these kind of structurally complex marine environments.
Speaker 2: And the Gold Coast oldest resident has turned one hundred
Speaker 2: and nine. Southports May Baker's celebrate with family, enjoying her
Speaker 2: favorite meal, lamb cutlets and a sip of champagne. The
Speaker 2: great grandmother's son Keith, puts her longevity down to her
Speaker 2: calm demeanor. In finance, the Aussie dollar is buying sixty
Speaker 2: four usns. Sport. The Matilda's are planning to play a
Speaker 2: possession based brand of football under new coach Joe Montemuro.
Speaker 2: Players are in camp for the first time under the
Speaker 2: new mentor, preparing for two friendlies against Lavenia in Perth.
Speaker 2: Midfielder Claire Wheelers says she's looking forward to playing a
Speaker 2: role in the new system. I think as a midfielder
Speaker 2: you want to get on the ball, so it's great
Speaker 2: when a coach says that he wants you on the ball.
Speaker 2: I think that's music to varus and it's also a challenge.
Speaker 5: You know it's going to be challenging, especially against you know,
Speaker 5: opposition where you're under pressure a lot.
Speaker 2: Carlton players are taking responsibility for the team's poor form.
Speaker 2: Blues coach Michael Voss is coming under increasing pressure. AFL
Speaker 2: great Lance Franklin is tipping Ross to be out of
Speaker 2: the job by the season's end. The Knights have flown
Speaker 2: Fletchers Sharp's family to Perth to be by his bedside
Speaker 2: as he recovers in hospital from a ruptured spleen and
Speaker 2: lacerated kidney. It's hope the twenty one year old will
Speaker 2: be cleared to fly back to Newcastle by the end
Speaker 2: of the week. And England needs three hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: runs with ten wickets in hand to win the first
Speaker 2: men's cricket Test against India on day five. I'm Katie
Speaker 2: Fuller and that's the nine News podcast. For the latest
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