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Speaker 1: My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda

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Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily os It's Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: the twentieth of September.

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Speaker 3: I'm Zara, I'm Billy now.

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Speaker 2: Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis put fifty refugees on

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Speaker 2: a one way private flight to Martha's Vineyard, a tiny

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Speaker 2: they were going, and residents of Martha's Vineyard didn't know

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Speaker 4: We'll explain what you need to know in.

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Speaker 2: Today's deep Dive, But first, Billy, what's making headlines this morning?

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Speaker 5: The funeral of Queen Elizabeth was held at Westminster Abbey

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Speaker 5: last night. About two thousand people attended the service, which

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Speaker 5: included an Australian delegation led by Prime Minister Anthony Alberizi

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Speaker 5: and Governor General David Hurley. It was the first state

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Speaker 5: funeral in Britain since nineteen sixty five, which was held

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Speaker 5: for former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

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Speaker 2: The Bureau of Meteorology or BOMB, has issued a flood

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Speaker 2: warning for the Namoy River in northwest New South Wales

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Speaker 2: following river level rises in the area. Major flooding has

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Speaker 2: been occurring near the town of Weewa, with a river

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Speaker 2: The BOMB has worn the river level is likely to

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Speaker 5: Jeff Bezos's place as the second richest person in the

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Speaker 5: world has been taken by Indian business tycoon Goddam Adanni,

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Speaker 5: who became the richest man in Asia earlier this year.

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Speaker 5: According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Adani, who is the

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Speaker 5: head of the multinational conglomerate Adani Group, now has a

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Speaker 5: net worth of one hundred and forty seven billion US

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Speaker 5: title of the world's richest person.

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Speaker 2: And today's good news, cheetahs will be reintroduced into the

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Speaker 2: in the country. A group of eight cheeters arrived in

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Speaker 5: Last week, fifty refugees, most of whom were from Venezuela,

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Speaker 5: landed at Martha's Vineyard, which you might know of as

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Speaker 5: more of an upmarket holiday destination in North America.

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Speaker 3: Zara, can you give us some more context here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I actually think that we should start by

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Speaker 2: looking at Venezuela over the last few years, because it

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Speaker 2: Human Rights Watch is calling a humanitarian EMERGENCYS most recent

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Speaker 2: election in twenty nineteen was widely considered illegitimate by other

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Speaker 2: governments on the American continent. Now, millions of people across

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Speaker 2: the country don't have any access to safe water or healthcare,

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Speaker 2: and some of the refugees were talking about today told

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Speaker 2: news outlets that they'd hoped to find jobs in the

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Speaker 2: Because it is impossible for them to do so in Venezuela.

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Speaker 5: So that's the context for why there's a humanitarian emergency

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Speaker 5: in Venezuela. But how did these refugees make it from

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Speaker 2: We've learned a lot from some of the interviews that

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Speaker 2: is that these refugees traveled for months off and on

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Speaker 2: One man told The New York Times that he watched

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Speaker 2: members of this group have said that once they presented

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Speaker 2: themselves to border officials as asylum seekers, they were taken

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Speaker 4: Hence why we're talking about it today.

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Speaker 5: At the top, you said that Florida's Governor Ron de

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Speaker 5: Santis was the one who sent these referee to Martha's

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Speaker 2: Yes, so he's taken credit for chartering these private flights.

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Speaker 2: He said that his state had the money to send

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Speaker 4: But we'll talk about that a bit later.

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Speaker 5: Okay, But why were they sent to Martha's vineyard? That's

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Speaker 5: still well, I'm trying to figure out it is.

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Speaker 4: Really to just prove a point.

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Speaker 2: So this Republican governor is sending a planeload of refugees

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Speaker 2: Vineyard is in Massachusetts, and it's really famous for being

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Speaker 2: a getaway for the wealthy. Fox News has gone so

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Speaker 5: Over the weekend, I heard a story about a bus

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Speaker 3: Does this have any relation to what we're talking about.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, so over the last couple of months, Republican

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Speaker 2: Now this is a protest of sorts against the Biden

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Speaker 5: How did people in Martha's Vineyard respond when these refugees

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Speaker 2: Well, the community did what it could to help. Actually,

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Speaker 2: so high school students in high level Spanish classes were

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Speaker 5: What happens next for these refugees.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the refugees can stay at the military base temporarily,

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Speaker 3: So what is Biden's position on this?

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Speaker 2: President Biden has called out Republicans for staging what he

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Speaker 6: Doing is simply wrong. It's on American it's reckless, and

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Speaker 6: we have a process in place to manage migrants of

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Speaker 6: and orderly, in humane. Republican officials should not interfere with

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Speaker 5: This has been obviously a major political story in the US.

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Speaker 5: What are the political implications of this story.

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Speaker 2: Well, domestically, the US midterm elections are coming up in November,

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Speaker 2: and alongside the midterms, thirty six out of fifty states

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Speaker 2: So that means that Ron DeSantis is in the middle

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Speaker 2: Florida actually has the largest population of Venezuelan immigrants in

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Speaker 2: the US, so it could be a really interesting election

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Speaker 2: for DeSantis, whether or not this what's been labeled as

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Speaker 5: It's definitely one to watch and also stay tuned for

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Speaker 5: more of a deep dive on what the midterms actually are.

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Speaker 6: Yeah,