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Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily Os. It's Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: the twenty fourth of July. I'm Zara, I'm emma, just

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Speaker 2: days out from the Olympics opening ceremony, thousands of athletes

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Speaker 3: Paris had the better part of a decade to prepare

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty four Olympics and Paralympics, but recent political instability,

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Speaker 3: asking is Paris ready. We'll explore that question in today's

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Speaker 3: deep Dive, but first, Zara. What's making headlines?

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Speaker 2: US Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough support within

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Speaker 2: means that Harris is almost certain to be confirmed as

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Speaker 2: Comes after President Joe Biden announced he was withdrawing from

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Speaker 2: Harris said she fully intends to unite her party nation

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Speaker 3: In November, animal welfare authorities have shut down Tasmania's biggest

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Speaker 2: The chief executive of CrowdStrike, which is the cybersecurity firm

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Speaker 3: And today's good news. A ninety eight year old physicist

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Speaker 3: a breakthrough discovery in particle physics. Rosemary Fowler was a

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Speaker 2: And it feels like we have been waiting a very

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Speaker 2: I know it's only been three years, but it's like

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Speaker 2: feels like a lifetime. But this week the Paris Olympics finally.

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Speaker 2: And so I think that you know, for a viewer

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Speaker 3: Well, like any country who wants to host the Olympics

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Speaker 3: Exactly, and there is a lot to prepare for from

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Speaker 2: Who decides who gets to host.

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Speaker 3: So the International Olympic Committee, before they say yeah, Paris,

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Speaker 2: It all sounds very expensive, you know, when you're talking

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Speaker 4: Six to seven billion dollars is well and truly too

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Speaker 3: Investigating the important matters here are the daily os so

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's been a lot of international attention on this factor.

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Speaker 3: So there's also an exclusion zone around the sin. Anyone

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Speaker 3: In terms of numbers, to give you a sense of

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