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Speaker 1: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Monday,

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Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of April. My name is Zara Seidler,

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Speaker 1: and helping me make sense of today's news is Sam Kozlowski.

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Speaker 1: Making news today, Biden recognizes Armenian genocide.

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Speaker 2: News on the Indian submarine.

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Speaker 1: Some good news about Sacred Land Victoria.

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Speaker 2: And an update on the COVID nineteen storm currently hit

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Speaker 2: in India. Here's today's Daily Digest.

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden has become the first US president to formally

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Speaker 1: recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

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Speaker 1: The Turkish Foreign Minister reacted to Biden's statement, tweeting, we

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Speaker 1: are not going to be taking lessons about our history

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Speaker 1: from anyone. We completely reject this statement that is only

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Speaker 1: based on populism.

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Speaker 2: The Indonesian Navy has officially declared its missing submarine has

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Speaker 2: sunk after oil and debris were found over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Officials say oxygen supply for its fifty three crew ran

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Speaker 2: out early on Saturday and there was no hope of

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Speaker 2: finding any survivors. The submarine was first declared missing last

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Speaker 2: Wednesday after the Navy lost contact with the vessel while

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Speaker 2: doing torpedo drills.

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Speaker 1: At least twenty seven people have died and forty six

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Speaker 1: are injured after there was a fire in a hospital

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Speaker 1: and Bagdad that was housing COVID nineteen patients. The origin

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Speaker 1: of the fire is still under investigation, However, there were

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Speaker 1: early reports the fire was triggered by an exploding oxygen tank.

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Speaker 1: A spokesman free Iraq's Civil Defense Force announced that the

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Speaker 1: dead were mostly older people on ventilators.

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Speaker 2: And today's good news, a sacred grandmother tree and culturally

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Speaker 2: significant land to the Jajar Wrung people in Victoria will

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Speaker 2: be protected after crowdfunding raised one hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars to buy back the land. It's estimated that the

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Speaker 2: river edgum tree is four hundred years old. The land

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Speaker 2: will now be used to host the Cooley Business Young

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Speaker 2: Men's Group, Titter Business Group, and the First Nation's Youth Program.

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Speaker 2: So last night we got some really devastating numbers from

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen cases in India, and I thought it was

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Speaker 2: important to update everybody on what's going on in the

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Speaker 2: country because it is truly a storm of infections. So

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Speaker 2: in the last twenty four hours, there've been three hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty nine thousand, six hundred and ninety one COVID

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Speaker 2: nineteen cases, and hospitals in Delhi and across the country

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Speaker 2: have begun to turn away patients. This is a new

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Speaker 2: global daily record for the most number of COVID nineteen

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Speaker 2: infections in a single day, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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Speaker 2: has urged all citizens to be vaccinated and exercise caution,

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Speaker 2: but he says the storm of infections has truly shaken

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Speaker 2: the country. It's provoked an international response. In the US

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Speaker 2: are considering today whether to send aid straight to India.

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Speaker 2: It's actually the fourth straight day of record peaks and

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Speaker 2: hospitals are having some real trouble with supplies of medical

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Speaker 2: oxygen and beds. Prime Minister mode is under increasing criticism

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Speaker 2: for letting his guard down, essentially and allowing big religious

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Speaker 2: and political gatherings to take place when India's cases plummeted

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Speaker 2: blow ten thousand a day only a couple of months ago,

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Speaker 2: and did not plan on building up the healthcare systems

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Speaker 2: in case of an emergency like what we're seeing at

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Speaker 2: the moment. If we go back only a month ago,

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Speaker 2: daily cases have gone up eight times and deaths by

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Speaker 2: ten times. India's total tally of infections now stands sixteen

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Speaker 2: point nine to six million and one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 2: two thousand deaths, but experts do believe that the death

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Speaker 2: count is probably far higher. One of the leading newspapers

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Speaker 2: in India, called the Indian Express, has got their hands

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Speaker 2: on an internal government document that reveals that the Indian

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Speaker 2: Health Department is expecting the current surge to peak in

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks in mid May, with the daily

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Speaker 2: count of infections reaching five hundred thousand. It's worth noting

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Speaker 2: here that the Indian government hasn't responded to the leaking

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Speaker 2: of this report, so it's hard for experts to confirm

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Speaker 2: these numbers. So what's actually gone on here? Why are

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Speaker 2: we seeing such a dramatic spot in deaths in India?

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Speaker 2: We mentioned some of the government policy issues before that

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Speaker 2: there was huge religious gatherings that were allowed to be held,

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Speaker 2: and from some perspectives you can understand why the Indian

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Speaker 2: government made those decisions. While many other parts of the

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Speaker 2: world were struggling to contain COVID nineteen earlier this year,

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Speaker 2: in India, daily infections were under nine thousand a day

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Speaker 2: and fewer than eighty deaths, which considering the population of

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Speaker 2: over a billion, is relatively good statistics. But it's believed

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Speaker 2: a new variant across India has caused this huge spike

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Speaker 2: in deaths and infections and it's removed the perceived blanket

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Speaker 2: of herd immunity that the Indian Health Department believed that

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Speaker 2: many in the country had and that was why there

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Speaker 2: weren't huge numbers of infections up until in the last month.

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Speaker 2: Social distancing and masks have been almost non existent in

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Speaker 2: the country now for some time. There was a religious

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Speaker 2: gathering in the last month with a crowd of twenty

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Speaker 2: five million Hindu pilgrims and Prime Minister Modi himself addressed

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Speaker 2: a crowd of eight hundred thousand people in Kolkata. So

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Speaker 2: looking ahead to the next few weeks in India, it's

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Speaker 2: going to be a very dire state of affairs and

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Speaker 2: the big issue they're facing is this lack of medical oxygen.

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Speaker 2: We're reported last week on the decision from the Indian

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Speaker 2: High Court to divert all oxygen supplies used in industrial

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Speaker 2: processes to hospitals. But judging by the huge lines at

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Speaker 2: oxygen refilling centers by the signs outside hospitals saying oxygen

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Speaker 2: out of stock. This is a major issue. Experts believe

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Speaker 2: this is going to be the key to the severity

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Speaker 2: of India's wave of COVID infections. While it might feel

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Speaker 2: like an instance of too little, too late, the government

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Speaker 2: has ramped up efforts in the last few days to

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Speaker 2: get as much medical oxygen to hospitals as possible. They're

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Speaker 2: doing this with special oxygen express trains, mobilizing the entire

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Speaker 2: Air Force to distribute tanks, and recruiting a massive number

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Speaker 2: of trucks owned by the privates to transport tankers across

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Speaker 2: the country. We'll keep an eye on this story for

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Speaker 2: you and bring you up to speed with everything that's

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Speaker 2: happening in India and abroad with COVID nineteen. But in

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