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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Tuesday,
Speaker 1: the third of September. I'm zara, i'm emma. Tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of people have marched through Israel's main cities calling
Speaker 1: for an immediate deal to release hostages who remain held
Speaker 1: captive by Hamas. It comes after Israeli forces recovered the
Speaker 1: bodies of six hostages in Gaza over the weekend. Major
Speaker 1: unions have now called to shut down the economy, setting
Speaker 1: off one of the largest protests in Israel since October seventh.
Speaker 1: We're going to explain this latest development in today's Deep Dive.
Speaker 1: But first, m what's making headlines.
Speaker 3: A former childcare worker has pleaded guilty to three hundred
Speaker 3: and seven child abuse offences in a Queensland court. Ashley
Speaker 3: Paul Griffith was arrested in twenty twenty two and charged
Speaker 3: with abusing multiple children in Brisbane, Sydney and Italy. The
Speaker 3: Australian Federal Police initially charged the man, who worked at
Speaker 3: a series of childcare centers, with over sixteen hundred child
Speaker 3: abuse offences against ninety one children, but Most of these
Speaker 3: were later dropped. The judge is yet to set a
Speaker 3: date for the sentencing of the three hundred and seven charges.
Speaker 3: Griffith pled guilty too, he did not apply for bail.
Speaker 1: A senior animal keeper at Dreamworld has been taken to
Speaker 1: hospital after being bidden by a tiger at the Gold
Speaker 1: Coast theme park. Queensland Ambulance Service that a forty seven
Speaker 1: year old woman is in a stable condition after sustaining
Speaker 1: serious lacerations and puncture wounds during an incident on Monday.
Speaker 1: QAS Acting district director Justin Payne said luckily there was
Speaker 1: really good first aid provided at the scene. Dreamworld described
Speaker 1: the incident as isolated and rare, and said the park
Speaker 1: will be conducting a thorough review accordingly.
Speaker 3: Alternative for Germany is on track to become the first
Speaker 3: far right party to win a regional German election since
Speaker 3: World War II. Exit polls from the country's state elections
Speaker 3: show the AfD picked up nearly thirty three percent of
Speaker 3: votes in the central German state of Turingia. The region's
Speaker 3: second most popular party, the Christian Democratic Union, received around
Speaker 3: twenty four percent of the vote. The far right party
Speaker 3: also received a high proportion of votes in Saxony in
Speaker 3: eastern Germany, where the AfD came in second place with
Speaker 3: over thirty percent of votes.
Speaker 1: And today's good news, Astronomers have spotted two galaxies merging
Speaker 1: together almost thirteen billion years ago. The two galaxies are
Speaker 1: forming what astronomers are calling a monster galaxy, one of
Speaker 1: the most illuminated objects in the universe. Because the galaxies
Speaker 1: are so far away, their light is taking a long
Speaker 1: time to reach Earth, which means scientists have spotted something
Speaker 1: that happened relatively soon after the Big Bang. Findings could
Speaker 1: support research and understanding into early evolution and black holes.
Speaker 3: Coming up today's deep dive, But first a quick break.
Speaker 1: Protests have erupted across Israel as hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: people take to the streets to demand a deal that
Speaker 1: would see hostages returned and an end to the war.
Speaker 1: Now it comes after Israel announced it had recovered the
Speaker 1: bodies of hostages in.
Speaker 3: Gaza so Zara, A big development over the weekend, But
Speaker 3: this has been a near year long conflict. Can you
Speaker 3: bring us up to speed with what those developments were
Speaker 3: over the weekend?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So, on Sunday morning our time Australian time, the
Speaker 1: world first learned that bodies had been found in Gaza.
Speaker 1: There was very little other information that was released at
Speaker 1: that time, and the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces said
Speaker 1: that it was taking that time to identify the bodies
Speaker 1: and to tell the families of those people. Hours later,
Speaker 1: it was confirmed by the IDF that it had recovered
Speaker 1: the bodies of six hostages. There were three men and
Speaker 1: three women, and their bodies were recovered in a tunnel
Speaker 1: underneath Rafa in Gaza. The hostages were named as Carmel
Speaker 1: gutt ed En, Jeroshalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Ori Denino,
Speaker 1: and Hirsh Goldberg Poland.
Speaker 3: There has of course been very public campaigning to bring
Speaker 3: all the hostages home. The hostage has taken on October seven,
Speaker 3: But arguably one of the more high profile hostage names
Speaker 3: that listeners might be familiar with is Hirsh Goldberg, Poland.
Speaker 3: And that's because of the campaign led by his parents.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, so. Hirsh was an American Israeli dual citizen
Speaker 1: and his parents were extremely active in both the US
Speaker 1: and Israeli media and political landscapes. Just recently, his parents
Speaker 1: spoke at the Democratic National Convention before Kamala Harris was confirmed.
Speaker 1: Here's what they said at the DNC.
Speaker 2: There is a surplus of agony on all sides of
Speaker 2: the tragic conflict in the Middle East. In a competition
Speaker 2: of pain, there are no winners.
Speaker 1: Throughout their speech, the parents of hersh called for an
Speaker 1: immediate deal that would see their son and the other
Speaker 1: hostages returned and an end to the war in Gaza.
Speaker 3: So the DNC was in the middle of last month.
Speaker 3: Do we know if the hostages were still alive.
Speaker 1: Then it understood that they were alive, and according to
Speaker 1: the Israeli Defense Forces, the hostages were killed shortly before
Speaker 1: they were found by the military. The Ministry of Health
Speaker 1: in Israel claimed that the hostages had been killed by
Speaker 1: multiple close range gunshots within the previous forty eight to
Speaker 1: seventy two hours, as the IDF was drawing closer to
Speaker 1: finding them. So the DNC, as you said, was a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and it's understood that they were
Speaker 1: killed far more recently than that.
Speaker 3: So that is the information that was made public on
Speaker 3: Sunday when we found out about these hostages. What was
Speaker 3: the response in the wake of that news?
Speaker 1: Almost immediately, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the
Speaker 1: streets to protest and to call for an immediate deal
Speaker 1: to be reached. And when we're talking there about a deal,
Speaker 1: they are asking for the hostages to be brought home
Speaker 1: and for an end to the war. In Gaza, Israel's
Speaker 1: most powerful labor union, the Hista Krut, called for sweeping
Speaker 1: strike action across the country. We had the head of
Speaker 1: the union, a non bar David, call on the whole
Speaker 1: country to come to a standstill and unite in a
Speaker 1: shared cry to bring the hostages back. He criticized the
Speaker 1: government for prioritizing quote narrow considerations and interests over rescuing
Speaker 1: the hostages. It wasn't just the labor union that was
Speaker 1: out there in force. The Hostages Families Forum joined those
Speaker 1: calls for a strike and said that it was in
Speaker 1: order to achieve the immediate implementation of a deal to
Speaker 1: release the hostages. So what we have seen now is
Speaker 1: that workers from a range of industries, both private and
Speaker 1: public sector jobs, really all took to the streets to strike.
Speaker 1: Many turned out in Tel Aviv, and protesters also gathered
Speaker 1: outside PM Netanyahu's office in Western Jerusalem. They could be
Speaker 1: heard chanting things like now now, and they were urging,
Speaker 1: as I said, the government to reach that deal to
Speaker 1: release the hostages immediately.
Speaker 3: So, this very broad and intense kind of protest action
Speaker 3: on the streets of Israel calling for a deal, which
Speaker 3: has been in the works for months. It has felt
Speaker 3: like we've been maybe close to a breakthrough every so
Speaker 3: often that there seems to be some momentum that things
Speaker 3: are aligning for a ceasefire deal, but of course that
Speaker 3: hasn't happened yet. What is the latest on a deal?
Speaker 1: You're right, it has felt like we've been on the
Speaker 1: kind of precipice of reaching a deal for a while,
Speaker 1: but it hasn't happened yet. For many, many months, countries
Speaker 1: including Qatar and the US have tried to mediate talks
Speaker 1: to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas. That deal
Speaker 1: would see the ceasefire in Gaza, where the Gazan Health
Speaker 1: Ministry says that forty thousand people have been killed, and
Speaker 1: that that ceasefire would be in exchange for the release
Speaker 1: of the remaining hostages. We believe that there are some
Speaker 1: one hundred and one remaining hostages still. In a statement
Speaker 1: over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Netanya, who blamed Tamas
Speaker 1: and said that it had refused to hold genuine negotiations.
Speaker 1: On the other side, Humas has repeatedly blamed Israel for
Speaker 1: not agreeing to a permanent ceasefire, and that seems to
Speaker 1: be this point that keeps coming up in negotiations.
Speaker 3: Okay, So these latest pushes internally in Israel from Israeli
Speaker 3: people themselves are for that deal to happen quicker, for
Speaker 3: this agreement to be expedited. What has the political response
Speaker 3: been to those strikes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there has been quite a significant political fallout. So
Speaker 1: Israel's opposition leader Yailapired joined protesters in the city of
Speaker 1: Tel Aviv, and those protesters were really coming out in
Speaker 1: force against the Natanya government. In a post about the protests,
Speaker 1: he said, the people of Israel came en mass to
Speaker 1: tell the Cabinet of death. That's what he's referring to
Speaker 1: the government, as we want the hostages alive at home.
Speaker 1: They can't keep dying there. That's a direct quote from Lapid.
Speaker 1: It's also interesting to note that a recent poll that
Speaker 1: was published by the Israeli broadcaster Channel twelve so that
Speaker 1: more than two thirds of Israeli voters don't want Netanyahu
Speaker 1: to run as Prime minister again. So that gives a
Speaker 1: bit of a sense as to the kind of political
Speaker 1: unrest that's brewing at the same time as the country
Speaker 1: continues it's nearly year long war against Humas in Gaza.
Speaker 3: So I mean, it's polling data, so I suppose, you know,
Speaker 3: we cannot be entirely certain in its accuracy, but two
Speaker 3: thirds of voters who don't want Netanyahu to run as
Speaker 3: PM again, that is a significant swing against the government
Speaker 3: of the day in terms of their protest action. The
Speaker 3: strikes that we've seen on the ground across Israel this weekend.
Speaker 3: Has the government respond to that?
Speaker 1: We heard from Finance Minister Betsalel Smotrich, who asked national
Speaker 1: authorities to stop the strike from taking place in the
Speaker 1: first place. He said, and I quote, these issues are
Speaker 1: not the subject of a strike by labor organizations, and
Speaker 1: there's no connection between them and labor relations in Israel.
Speaker 1: I think I should just clarify that he's there not
Speaker 1: talking about the Labor Party. Can be confusing when you're listening,
Speaker 1: but he is referring to the union movement there. He
Speaker 1: accused the Union movement of trying to advance a political opinion.
Speaker 1: The strikes, though, are scheduled to continue throughout the week,
Speaker 1: so we'll be interesting to see if the government can
Speaker 1: stop them or whether it continues to pick up in
Speaker 1: you know, momentum and significance as the week goes on
Speaker 1: and as more information about those hostages is released.
Speaker 3: Before we wrap up today 'sara, I just wanted to
Speaker 3: ask you, with such a ground swell against the government
Speaker 3: in Israel, and you know, a seemingly mounting kind of
Speaker 3: groundswell against Nemyahu, is there an election coming up? Is
Speaker 3: there a vote where that kind of sentiment is going
Speaker 3: to be put to the test?
Speaker 1: Another is early election is not set to happen for
Speaker 1: a couple of years still, And when he was asked
Speaker 1: earlier this year, Nettanno, who confirmed that he wouldn't go
Speaker 1: to an early election during the war, that said he
Speaker 1: could be ousted. But I don't know that that would
Speaker 1: be a likely scenario when there is so much upheaple
Speaker 1: and so much conflict in the region. So who knows.
Speaker 1: We'll have to wait and see, but there certainly seems
Speaker 1: to be this growing discontent domestically.
Speaker 3: We'll wait and see what happens. Thank you so much
Speaker 3: Zara for taking us through that today and if there
Speaker 3: are any steps towards deal made in the wake of
Speaker 3: these protests and strikes, we will continue covering this issue
Speaker 3: on the dally Os in here on the podcast. Thank
Speaker 3: you so much for listening to today's episode of the
Speaker 3: daly Os. We'll be back again with another episode tomorrow,
Speaker 3: but until then, have a great day.
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