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

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Speaker 1: the sixth of April. We hope you had a wonderful weekend.

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Speaker 1: My name is Zara Seidler, and helping me make sense

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Speaker 1: of today's news is Sam Koslowski. Making news today, restrictions

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Speaker 1: left in New.

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Speaker 2: South Wales, Facebook's did league.

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Speaker 1: Some good news about a new MP, and a breakdown.

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Speaker 2: Of what we've learned in the Derek Shorten trials so far.

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Speaker 2: Here's today's daily digest.

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Speaker 1: COVID restrictions in Byron Ballinar, Lismore and Tweed Shires were

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Speaker 1: lifted at eleven fifty nine pm last night. The changed

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Speaker 1: measures mean that there's no longer a thirty person cap

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Speaker 1: on home gatherings and there's no mandatory indoor masks. Health

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Speaker 1: authorities said that they felt comfortable in the decision after

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Speaker 1: New South Wales recorded zero locally acquired COVID nineteen cases

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. This comes after Bluesfest was canceled last week.

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Speaker 2: Data from five hundred and thirty three million Facebook accounts

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Speaker 2: has been leaked online, according to security research along gull.

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Speaker 2: The exposed data includes things like phone numbers, Facebook IDAs,

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Speaker 2: full names, relationship statuses, and your bio experts warn that

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Speaker 2: bad actors will certainly use the information for social engineering, scamming,

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Speaker 2: hacking and marketing. There's a link in their instagram to

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Speaker 2: see if your email has been compromised.

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Speaker 1: Over fifty people have died in Eastern Indonesia and neighboring

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Speaker 1: East Temor following flash flooding and landslides. The areas are

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Speaker 1: experiencing severe destruction from torrential rain and overflowing dams. The

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Speaker 1: wild weather is left houses submerged and rescue workers struggling

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Speaker 1: to reach survivors. Authorities have issued warnings as the death

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Speaker 1: toll is expected to rise throughout the week.

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Speaker 2: And today's good news are your macor Truott thirty one

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Speaker 2: is set to become Western Australia's first MP of African descent.

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Speaker 2: She'll sit in the Upper House for the Labor Party

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Speaker 2: and will be sworn in next month. Shwat's family fled

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Speaker 2: South Sudan to a refugee camp in Kenya after her

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Speaker 2: father was killed during civil war, and she hopes to

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Speaker 2: use her new role to pave the way for other

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Speaker 2: refugees and migrants. So we're about to enter the second

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Speaker 2: week of Derek Chauvin's trial for the murder of George

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Speaker 2: Floyd almost ten months ago. Floyd's death was one of

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Speaker 2: the main catalysts for the expansion of the Black Lives

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Speaker 2: Matter movement in June last year. We've talked about Floyd's

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Speaker 2: death quite a lot on Instagram. But in case you

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Speaker 2: missed it, Derek Chauvin is being charged with a number

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Speaker 2: of murder offenses for kneeling on George Floyd's neck for

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Speaker 2: about nine and a half minutes when police were called

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Speaker 2: because Floyd was said to have used a fake twenty

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Speaker 2: dollars bill at a corner store.

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Speaker 1: So this was quite a significantly anticipated trial given the

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Speaker 1: very public nature of George Floyd's death. What have we

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Speaker 1: seen so far, what is the prosecution arguing, what is

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Speaker 1: the defense arguing, and what do we know about the

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Speaker 1: jury so far?

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Speaker 2: So let's start with the prosecution's case. The key argument

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Speaker 2: from the prosecution is that Derek Chauvin knew exactly what

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Speaker 2: he was doing when kneeling on George Floyd's neck and

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Speaker 2: knew that it was unnecessary force. They're using other examples

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Speaker 2: of Chauvin's misconduct throughout his police career to back up

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Speaker 2: the fact that he had knowledge of correct police protocols

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Speaker 2: and that George Floyd's death was a direct result of

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Speaker 2: Derek Chauvin's actions. So the defense, which is Derek Chauvin's team,

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Speaker 2: they've got a two pronged attack. On one hand, they're

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Speaker 2: going to argue that the force used by Derek Chauvin

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Speaker 2: was reasonable and he was responding to a risk while

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Speaker 2: on the job. But secondly, and this is where things

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Speaker 2: get a little bit complicated in the trial, they're actually

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Speaker 2: arguing that the cause of George Floyd's death was not

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Speaker 2: the force from Derek Chauvin, but rather drugs found in

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Speaker 2: George Floyd's system. So, after George Floyd's death, there was

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Speaker 2: an autopsy on his body and the official statement is

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Speaker 2: that his death was a homicide and the cause was

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Speaker 2: cardiopulmonary arrest, complicating law enforcement, subdual restraint and neck compros.

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Speaker 2: The defense are arguing that another detail contained in the autopsy,

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Speaker 2: which is that fentanyl was found in Floyd's system, and

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Speaker 2: fentanyl is an opioid traditionally is for pain medication, but

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Speaker 2: it also has recreational uses, that this was actually the

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Speaker 2: cause of Floyd's death. How exactly George Floyd died is

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Speaker 2: going to be a key question of this trial.

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Speaker 1: What do we know about the jury so far? Is

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Speaker 1: it significant in this case?

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Speaker 2: It's incredibly significant. The selection of the jury actually is

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Speaker 2: probably going to take longer than the trial itself. The

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Speaker 2: first thing to note about the jury is they are

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Speaker 2: under a really intense pressure. This is a high temperature

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Speaker 2: issue from America, so much so that the entire courthouse

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Speaker 2: in Minneapolis is surrounded by armed guards and barbed wire

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Speaker 2: to stop people entering the courthouse during the trial. You'd

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Speaker 2: have to think that would be a stressful situation for

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Speaker 2: any dura, let alone a jura deciding the fate of

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Speaker 2: a police officer. So here's what we know about the jury.

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Speaker 2: There's fifteen all up. There's nine women and six men.

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Speaker 2: Ten of them are under the age of fifty and

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Speaker 2: the youngest is in their twenties. Now, an interesting point

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Speaker 2: to note there is that the jury is actually younger

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Speaker 2: than the typical Minneapolis jury, and we understand that's because

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Speaker 2: it's harder for older people to get to court at

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Speaker 2: the moment because of COVID nineteen. In terms of the

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Speaker 2: racial profile of the jury, it's six white women, three

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Speaker 2: black men, two multi racial women, three white men, and

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Speaker 2: one black woman. Before they were even invited to the

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Speaker 2: courthouse for the selection process, they had to fill out

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Speaker 2: a sixteen page questionnaire that asked them about what they

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Speaker 2: thought on racial issues in America. The prosecution and the

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Speaker 2: defense both could then reject certain candidates, so out of

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Speaker 2: the pool of five hundred, they landed on these fifteen.

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Speaker 2: We're expecting the trial to go for another three or

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Speaker 2: so weeks and we'll make sure to keep you updated

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Speaker 2: on some big moments and how the jury eventually decides

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Speaker 2: the fate of Derek Shauvin.

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Speaker 1: To just ran out this conversation. If these issues are

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Speaker 1: something that you care about deeply, it's important to note

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Speaker 1: that it doesn't just occur in America and that we

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Speaker 1: have similar issues occurring in Australia. We uploaded a post

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Speaker 1: about Indigenous deaths in custody yesterday and there's some really

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Speaker 1: tragic figures there that we need to talk about. That

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Speaker 1: is all we have time for today, but in the meantime,

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