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Speaker 1: It's Friday, the twentieth of June. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: for the CP.
Speaker 2: The Federal government will send defense assets to the Middle
Speaker 2: East to assist in the evacuation of Australians. It comes
Speaker 2: as the conflict between Israel and Iran continues to escalate.
Speaker 2: In an update today, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Defense
Speaker 2: Force personnel and aircraft are being deployed to the Middle
Speaker 2: East to quote help Australians. They are not there for combat.
Speaker 2: She emphasized. Around thirty eight Australians were evacuated from Israel
Speaker 2: to Jordan on Thursday, in addition to a small group
Speaker 2: the day before. According to Wong, the Department of Foreign
Speaker 2: Affairs in Trade that's DEFAT, is expected to facilitate further
Speaker 2: evacuations of Australians and their families, with twelve hundred people
Speaker 2: in Israel and two thousand in Iran having registered for
Speaker 2: assistance so far. It comes after officials directed the evacuation
Speaker 2: of the Australia embassy in Iran based on quote advice
Speaker 2: about the deteriorating security environment. Australia's ambassador to Iran will
Speaker 2: stay in the region. DEFAT has confirmed.
Speaker 1: Australia is a step closer to rolling out age verification
Speaker 1: technology on social media platforms after the release of new findings.
Speaker 1: The government commissioned a study to analyze the feasibility of
Speaker 1: age verification as part of its world first under sixteen
Speaker 1: social media ban. Preliminary findings from the Age Assurance Technology
Speaker 1: trial show that age assurance can be done and QUOTE
Speaker 1: can be private, robust and effective. The report said. Its
Speaker 1: evaluation of age verification systems found they were QUOTE generally
Speaker 1: secure and did not reveal any substantial technological limitations. However,
Speaker 1: the findings note these systems cannot be considered infallible due
Speaker 1: to the rapidly evolving threat environment. An ABC investigation found
Speaker 1: recent trials of age checking technology QUOTE could only guess
Speaker 1: people's ages within an eighteen month range in eighty five
Speaker 1: percent of cases. It also claims children as young as
Speaker 1: fifteen were repeatedly misidentified as being in their twenties and
Speaker 1: thirties during government tests. The social media ban is expected
Speaker 1: to come into effect this December.
Speaker 2: US President Donald Trump has delayed banning TikTok for another
Speaker 2: three months byte edance. TikTok's parent company was ordered to
Speaker 2: sell its American TikTok operations by nine January or face
Speaker 2: a blanket ban in the US. However, the order has
Speaker 2: been delayed by Trump on multiple occasions since he took office.
Speaker 2: In a poster to Truth Social Today, Trump said he'd
Speaker 2: just signed an executive order extending the deadline for the
Speaker 2: TikTok closing for ninety days. The White House confirmed and
Speaker 2: executive order signed in January would be extended until the
Speaker 2: seventeenth of September. Mark Warner, a Democrat senator, released a
Speaker 2: statement criticizing the extension, saying the quote Trump administration is
Speaker 2: flouting the law and ignoring its own national security findings
Speaker 2: about the risks posed by a Chinese controlled TikTok. There
Speaker 2: are around one hundred and seventy million TikTok users in
Speaker 2: the US.
Speaker 1: And today's good news. A retiring explosive detection dog is
Speaker 1: being celebrated by the Australian Federal Police after six years
Speaker 1: of service, and Oh the Labrador will perform his final
Speaker 1: sniff and search at Cann's airport this week. The seven
Speaker 1: year old began his AFP career at Sydney Airport and
Speaker 1: relocated to Queensland in twenty twenty two. And Oh has
Speaker 1: conducted thousands of explosive sweeps since twenty nineteen thanks to
Speaker 1: his superstar smell processing capacity, which is forty times stronger
Speaker 1: than humans. Described by the AFP as a highly respected canine,
Speaker 1: and Oh provided security at last year's Asian Summit, and
Speaker 1: he was even entrusted with clearing cars and venues for
Speaker 1: explosives during King Charles and Queen Camilla's royal visit in October.
Speaker 1: Ando's handler, Constable Joel Preston, said the labrador will spend
Speaker 1: his retirement enjoying quote going to the beach and swimming
Speaker 1: and hiking through rainforests in cans. Enjoy that retirement. And Oh.
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