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

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Speaker 2: the twenty fifth of August. I'm Sam, I'm It's been

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Speaker 2: six months since Russia invaded Ukraine. It's the largest European

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Speaker 2: conflict in decades and has already claimed the lives of

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Speaker 2: thousands of civilians and displaced thirteen million Ukrainians from their home.

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Speaker 2: We'll cut you up on everything you need to know

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Speaker 2: in the Deep Dive, But first, Sarah, what's making headlines

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Speaker 2: this morning?

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Speaker 3: Uzzi independent news website cry Key has been sued for

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Speaker 3: defamation by Lachlan Murdoch, the son of Rupert Murdoch. The

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Speaker 3: Australian Federal Court received an application for defamation from Murdoch's lawyer,

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Speaker 3: and comes after Criike publicly challenged Murdoch to take legal

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Speaker 3: action against them.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this week, there's some new analysis from the Australian

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Speaker 2: Bureau of Statistics. They've found that three point six million

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Speaker 2: Australians have experienced emotional abuse by a partner. The ABS

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Speaker 2: used data from its Personal Safety survey in twenty sixteen

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Speaker 2: to conduct the analysis and found that over sixty percent

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Speaker 2: of these Australians were women.

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Speaker 3: A fan who attended the Wimbledon Men's final this year

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Speaker 3: has begun defamation proceedings against Nick Kyrios after the Ossie

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Speaker 3: tennis player described her as a woman who looked like

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Speaker 3: she had had about seven hundred drinks. During a break

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Speaker 3: in play, Kurios made a complaint to the umpire about

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Speaker 3: the fans behavior while he was playing, with a spectator

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Speaker 3: now saying that Kurios's claim was entirely baseless.

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Speaker 2: And today's good news. A seventeen year old Belgian British

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Speaker 2: man is set to finish his journey flying around the

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Speaker 2: world solo. Mac Rutherford's journey started on the twenty third

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Speaker 2: of March and has included traveling through fifty two countries

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Speaker 2: across five continents. In doing so, he'll become the youngest

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Speaker 2: man to complete the feat with his sister holding the

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Speaker 2: around the world. That is a talented family.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Sam, let's start with the basics today. Why did

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Speaker 3: Russia invade Ukraine six months ago?

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Speaker 2: Well, why don't we go back to the twenty fourth

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Speaker 2: of February. That's the day where Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Speaker 2: launched what he called a special military operation for the

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Speaker 2: quote demilitarization of Ukraine. Now, Putin referenced Ukraine's desire to

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Speaker 2: join NATO and NATO's a Western military alliance as a

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Speaker 2: reason for the invasion. And that's because Russia sees the

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Speaker 2: quote eastward expansion of NATO as a threat.

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Speaker 3: All right, So six months on, what are the consequences

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Speaker 2: Why don't we start with looking at the human impact.

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Speaker 2: About thirteen million Ukrainians are said to have been displaced

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Speaker 2: from their homes since the war began, which is just

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Speaker 2: under one third of the entire Ukrainian population. The chief

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Speaker 2: nine thousand military personnel have been killed. Now, according to

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Speaker 2: There have also been over five thousand, five hundred civilian

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Speaker 2: But it's important to remember here in the UN acknowledges

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Speaker 3: So that's the human toll. Where is actually this war

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Speaker 2: Western officials have said the war is out what they're

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Speaker 2: calling an operational deadlock, and that means neither side has

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Speaker 3: All right, so we know that that actually coincides with

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Speaker 3: Okay, so there's Independence Day. But there's also been another

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Speaker 2: Daria Dogna was the twenty nine year old daughter of

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Speaker 2: She was killed in a car bombing outside of Moscow

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Speaker 3: on top of the already hardened tensions over this death

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Speaker 2: This is all coming from the UN, and they've raised

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Speaker 2: that's a worthy job title, said potential damage to Zapparitzia

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Speaker 2: would be quote suicidal, and that it was imperative for

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Speaker 2: That's some scary stuff.

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Speaker 3: I feel like at the start of this conflict, there

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Speaker 2: Well, we're getting very used to Western leaders coming out

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Speaker 2: and condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine. It's popping up pretty

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Speaker 2: much when any countries have bilateral or multilateral chats. It's

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Speaker 2: a topic of conversation. They say that Russia's actions breach

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Speaker 2: international law and that Russia has carried out war crimes. Yesterday,

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Speaker 2: the US government announced a further three billion US dollars

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Speaker 3: I think that's a really difficult thing to come to

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Speaker 3: Are we any closer to peace?

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Speaker 2: Not particularly. I can't really say that with confidence we

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Speaker 2: we know that because it's not in the headlines every day,

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Speaker 2: both sides are said to be preparing for future large

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Speaker 3: There's something to be said for the conversation that we

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Speaker 3: So six months is a long time for a country

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Speaker 3: we continue to highlight the human cost and the personal

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