Speaker 1: From The Daily Os. I'm Zarasidelum, I'm Billy FitzSimons. It's Friday,
Speaker 1: the sixth of June. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
Speaker 2: A Tasmanian jumping castle operator has been cleared of criminal
Speaker 2: wrongdoing over a twenty twenty one incident that killed six children.
Speaker 2: Students at Hillcrest Primary School were celebrating the end of
Speaker 2: the school year when the jumping castle they were on
Speaker 2: was lifted into the air by a strong wind gust
Speaker 2: Rosemary Gamble, the owner of Tazor, was accused of failing
Speaker 2: to properly anchor the inflatable. However, she was found not
Speaker 2: guilty of a workplace safety charge in a Tasmanian court today.
Speaker 2: Magistrate Robert Webster found the tragedy was triggered by an
Speaker 2: unforseeeable weather event. However, he acknowledged Gamble could have done
Speaker 2: more or taken further steps, and that she failed to
Speaker 2: comply with safety standards in some respects.
Speaker 1: An Australian man has been released on bail after four
Speaker 1: years in Iraqi prison. Robert Pether was arrested in April
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one over alleged deception related to a
Speaker 1: bank construction contract. He denies any wrongdoing, but was sentenced
Speaker 1: to five years behind bars and find sixteen million dollars. Pether,
Speaker 1: who is an engineer, was living with his family in
Speaker 1: Ireland before his arrest. The country's Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Harris,
Speaker 1: said officials there remain concerned about the father of three's health.
Speaker 1: It follows un evidence suggesting Pether had been subjected to
Speaker 1: torture during his imprisonment. Harris welcome news of his release
Speaker 1: as efforts continue to secure the engineer's returned to his family.
Speaker 2: Israel has launched a series of air strikes on the
Speaker 2: Lebanese capital of Beirut. It claims it was targeting an
Speaker 2: Iranian backed Hesbila weapons production facility in the city south.
Speaker 2: The attack came on the eve of an Islamic festival.
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister and President of Lebanon have each conduct
Speaker 2: and the strikes, describing them as a violation of international agreements.
Speaker 2: The Israeli Defense Forces said it struck a hesbler facility
Speaker 2: that was manufacturing thousands of drones in southern bout Israel
Speaker 2: and Hesbela agreed to a cease fire in November last year.
Speaker 1: In today's good news. Australian scientists have developed a potential
Speaker 1: pathway to curing HIV using this same mRNA technology behind
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen vaccines. Led by researchers at the University of
Speaker 1: Melbourne's Dougherty Institute, the world first breakthrough targets immune cells
Speaker 1: to reach HIV where it lies in a type of
Speaker 1: white blood cells. Early lab testing shows this new technology
Speaker 1: can successfully coax the virus out of hiding in these cells,
Speaker 1: a key step towards eliminating it. The studies co author
Speaker 1: doctor Paula Saval said, it's the first time this strategy
Speaker 1: has been shown to work in HIV infected cells. It's
Speaker 1: hoped the research could be a new pathway to an
Speaker 1: HIV cure, although human trials are still some years away.
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Speaker 1: We're going to be back on Sunday with a special
Speaker 1: bonus episode, but until then, have a great weekend.
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