Speaker 1: This is the nine News podcast.
Speaker 2: Coming out Fury or the Weather, Iranian bunk has survived,
Speaker 2: a bomb blast, journalist wins battle with the national broadcaster,
Speaker 2: and a teenage sprint sensation sets a national record. I'm
Speaker 2: Katie Fuller with your lunchtime nine News podcast. The White
Speaker 2: House is blasting reports US strikes on Iran did not
Speaker 2: destroy its nuclear facilities. Nine US correspondent Jonathan Cursley.
Speaker 3: CNN and The New York Times have reported the details
Speaker 3: of what they say is an initial assessment by the
Speaker 3: Defense intelligence community following the strikes ordered by US President
Speaker 3: Donald Trump on three nuclear sites in Iran. The five
Speaker 3: page document reportedly says the entrances to two of the
Speaker 3: sites were closed off and that the strikes by B
Speaker 3: two bombers loaded with bunker busting bombs only set back
Speaker 3: Iran's nuclear program by a matter of months. White House
Speaker 3: Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt says the detail is flat out wrong,
Speaker 3: and said the leaking of the classified material was a
Speaker 3: clear attempt to demean President Trump. The commander in chief
Speaker 3: had previously said the strikes obliterated Iran's nuclear facilities in
Speaker 3: the United States. Jonathan Kurzley nine News.
Speaker 2: The federal government is keeping air Force planes stationed in
Speaker 2: the Middle East in case they're needed for further evacuations.
Speaker 2: One hundred and eighteen Australians have been flown out of
Speaker 2: Israel as a shaky sea spire with Iran appears to
Speaker 2: be holding. Thousands of citizens have asked for help leaving Iran,
Speaker 2: but the country's airspace remains closed. Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi
Speaker 2: says the government is doing what it can to help
Speaker 2: people escape the region.
Speaker 4: The situation is obviously very volatile there. Our hope is
Speaker 4: that Australians are kept safe. So at the moment there
Speaker 4: are of course not flight out of Iran. We will
Speaker 4: always prioritize the safety of Australians.
Speaker 2: Defense Minister is meeting his counterparts at the NATO summit
Speaker 2: in the Netherlands, but talks with the US president appear unlikely.
Speaker 2: Nine Federal Politics reporter zac De Silver.
Speaker 1: Military spending has been top of the agenda at the
Speaker 1: NATO summit, with the Alliance increasingly concerned about Russia's ongoing aggression.
Speaker 1: In a bid to deal with the threat, Secretary General
Speaker 1: Mark Rutter says almost all member nations will dramatically increase
Speaker 1: their defense budget.
Speaker 2: It's an ancient Roman seeing if you want fish be bareful.
Speaker 1: The Defense Minister is representing Australia, which has NATO partner status.
Speaker 1: There was speculation Richard Miles may meet the US President,
Speaker 1: who's also attending, but he says that's not on the
Speaker 1: cards right now.
Speaker 5: Not specifically on the gender, and I wouldn't want to
Speaker 5: overstate any of that.
Speaker 1: Mister Miles says. The schedule is still fluid though, and
Speaker 1: there's another full day of meetings coming up in canbrosac
Speaker 1: to Silver nine.
Speaker 2: News, latest start shows inflation is sitting at two point
Speaker 2: one percent for the year to may drop on the
Speaker 2: previous reading of two point four. The Reserve Bank will
Speaker 2: likely see the figures is another sign of weakness in
Speaker 2: the economy when it decides whether to cut interest rates
Speaker 2: next month, but economists generally see the Bureau of Statistics
Speaker 2: monthly inflation data as less reliable than quarterly figures, which
Speaker 2: aren't due until late July. Journalist Antoinette Latoufirs won her
Speaker 2: unfair dismissal battle with the ABC nine senior reporter Josh Bright.
Speaker 6: Supporters erupted in applause in court and rallied outside as
Speaker 6: Antoinette Leatouf welcomes the ruling in her favor. The journalists
Speaker 6: claim she'd been unfairly dismissed from a five day casual
Speaker 6: contract with the ABC after sharing a social media posed
Speaker 6: from the Human Rights Watch about the Israel Palestine conflict,
Speaker 6: noting that the broadcaster had faced a campaign from pro
Speaker 6: Israel lobbyists.
Speaker 1: A Federal Court.
Speaker 6: Justice rejected suggestions that Latouf's race or national extract and
Speaker 6: were a factor, but found the reasons for a termination
Speaker 6: did include that she held political opinions opposing the Israeli
Speaker 6: military campaign in Gaza. The ABC has been ordered to
Speaker 6: pay her seventy thousand dollars. Hearing on whether the broadcaster
Speaker 6: should pay penalties will be held at a later date
Speaker 6: at the Federal Court. Josh Bryant nine News.
Speaker 2: An application to holp Bruce Lehman's to Woomba rape case
Speaker 2: has been pushed to next month. Nine's Anna Rulings reports an.
Speaker 5: Urgent application by Bruce Luhreman's lawyer to have his to
Speaker 5: Womba rape case thrown out has been heard in court.
Speaker 5: The former political staffers lawyer lodged in application this week
Speaker 5: for a permanent stay in the case, also claiming that
Speaker 5: police illegally obtained phone calls with Lureman's former lawyers. Loreman
Speaker 5: was committed to stand a trial last year on two
Speaker 5: counts of rape that allegedly occurred after a night out
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty one. The matter was briefly mentioned in
Speaker 5: Ipswich District Court today. The application will be heard in
Speaker 5: full back into Womba on July twenty five in Ipswich
Speaker 5: and a rulings nine news.
Speaker 2: Ija is the most expensive place to shop in the CA,
Speaker 2: with the average basket costing close to seventy dollars. Consumer
Speaker 2: group Choice ranked Coal's second in its latest quarterly findings.
Speaker 2: Aldi is the most affordable, with a basket of fourteen
Speaker 2: items costing fifty five dollars. Joyce chief executive Ashley de
Speaker 2: Silver says it's clear consumers still need to shop around.
Speaker 7: Aldi's not always the cheapest, so even though it's cheapest overall,
Speaker 7: when we looked at the price of things without specials,
Speaker 7: Woolies actually had the best deal for chicken breasts and pumpkins,
Speaker 7: Coals came out on top for apples, and even Ida
Speaker 7: was actually best for carrots.
Speaker 2: Scientists have discovered twenty new viruses among bats in China's southwest.
Speaker 2: Two were related to the Hendra and NIPA viruses, which
Speaker 2: are fatal to humans. Infectious disease experts say these detections
Speaker 2: could highlight the potential opportunity for contact with humans and
Speaker 2: the NRL has launched the ninth annual Beanie for Brain
Speaker 2: Cats around raising awareness and funds for brain cancer research,
Speaker 2: which more than thirty five million dollars has been raised
Speaker 2: and a million beanies have been sold since The Mark
Speaker 2: Hughes Foundation partnered with the league. NRL Chief Executive Andrew
Speaker 2: Abdo says the occasion showcases the best aspects of the
Speaker 2: rugby league community.
Speaker 8: When you see them run out wearing beanies, know that
Speaker 8: they symbolize the rugby league family. They symbolize the fight
Speaker 8: against brain cancer and they symbolize what we can do
Speaker 8: when we all come together and unite against the common cause.
Speaker 2: In finance, the Aussie dollar is buying sixty five usn
Speaker 2: sport outguard who's flown past the competition in his European debut,
Speaker 2: taking out the two hundred meters that the Golden spike
Speaker 2: in the Czech Republic. The rising sprint star bested his
Speaker 2: own Australian record, winning the race in twenty point zero
Speaker 2: two seconds with no wind. Even drawing comparison to the
Speaker 2: great Usain Bolts, he owes its form so well.
Speaker 9: It's not conllusion. It looks like he's accelerating, but he's not.
Speaker 9: Nobody does. Maybe bolked him back then, but got wouldn't be.
Speaker 9: But he's holding his form and as the others flow,
Speaker 9: as they tire, so he is as past them.
Speaker 2: Peter Bowle came within a whisker of beating his own
Speaker 2: national record in the eight hundred. Sam Constace will partner
Speaker 2: Usmand Kwaja at the top of the Australian batting order
Speaker 2: in the first Test against the West Indies. Josh English
Speaker 2: will bat at four. Essendon free agent Sam Draper is
Speaker 2: being linked with a big money move into State to
Speaker 2: Brisbane or Adelaide. And Bernard Tommik has won his first
Speaker 2: tour level match in more than five years, beating fellow
Speaker 2: Ossie Rinky hit Jakarta at the MAJORCA Championship. I'm Katie
Speaker 2: Fuller and that's the nine News Podcast. For the latest
Speaker 2: in news, tune into nine News at six pm