Speaker 1: From The Daily Os. I'm Emma Gillespie.
Speaker 2: I'm Sam Kauseloski.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, the first of October. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: The New South Wales Police Commissioner has apologized for the
Speaker 2: unlawful strip search that led to a class action against police.
Speaker 2: Twenty seven year old Raya Meredith told the Supreme Court
Speaker 2: she was subjected to an invasive strip search at the
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen Splendid in the Grass festival. During the search,
Speaker 2: a female officer quote bent down and pulled on the
Speaker 2: string of Meredith's tampon. That's according to court records. A
Speaker 2: male officer also entered the cubicle unannounced while the search
Speaker 2: was still going. New South Wales Police Minister Yasmin Cutley
Speaker 2: said today I apologize what happened to miss Meredith. The
Speaker 2: police have already acknowledged was unlawful. It should not have happened.
Speaker 2: Newly appointed Police Commissioner mal Lanyon also apologized and said
Speaker 2: we've made significant strides forward in terms of policy, practice
Speaker 2: and education. It's the first public apology since Meredith led
Speaker 2: a class action against New South Wales Police. Earlier this week.
Speaker 2: She was awarded ninety three thousand dollars in damages.
Speaker 1: Up to sixty nine people have been killed and one
Speaker 1: hundreds injured after a six point nine magnitude earthquake struck
Speaker 1: off the coast of the Filipino province of Cebu last night.
Speaker 1: Sibu's government declared a state of emergency, with rescue efforts
Speaker 1: impacted by lost electricity and up to six hundred and
Speaker 1: eleven after shocks. The town of Bogo was the hardest
Speaker 1: hit civilian center, with almost all ninety thousand residents impacted there.
Speaker 1: Government and emergency services officials have released public calls for
Speaker 1: medical volunteers on social media, with local hospitals overwhelmed. The
Speaker 1: Philippines is one of the world's most disaster prone countries
Speaker 1: due to its unique location on the Pacific's Ring of Fire,
Speaker 1: the name given to an arched fault line off the
Speaker 1: country's coast.
Speaker 2: The US government has shut down after the Senate rejected
Speaker 2: a short term spending measure that would have funded the
Speaker 2: continuation of federal operations until November twenty one. The shutdown
Speaker 2: effects one point seven trillion US dollars in agency operations,
Speaker 2: forcing government departments to immediately cease operations and terminate all
Speaker 2: non essential employees. Negotiations broke down after President Donald Trump
Speaker 2: and his Republican colleagues refused to compromise on the inclusion
Speaker 2: of increased budget for health care benefits demanded by Democrats.
Speaker 2: It's the fifteenth government shutdown in the US since nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty one and the first shutdown since twenty nineteen, with
Speaker 2: analyst forecasting it could last longer than pass shutdowns, which
Speaker 2: could be resolved in a matter of hours or days,
Speaker 2: due to permanent cuts to federal programs included in this
Speaker 2: new budget by the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: And Today's Good News, researchers have developed a human egg
Speaker 1: using skin cells in what's been described as a landmark
Speaker 1: fertility breakthrough. The team behind the discovery at Oregon Health
Speaker 1: and Science University said they've achieved something that was thought
Speaker 1: to be impossible, According to findings published in the journal Nature.
Speaker 1: The technique mimics cloning technology pioneered in the nineties, which
Speaker 1: led to the world renowned birth of Dolly the sheep.
Speaker 1: This process involves transplanting a skin cell nucleus into a
Speaker 1: donor egg stripped of its nucleus. While several more years
Speaker 1: of research will be required to perfect the process. The
Speaker 1: study's co author, Paula Amat said it offers hope to
Speaker 1: millions of people with infertility due to lack of eggs
Speaker 1: or sperm, and allows for the possibility of same sex
Speaker 1: couples to have a child genetically related to both partners.
Speaker 2: That's all we've got for you from the Daily oos
Speaker 2: newsroom on this Wednesday afternoon. If you are looking for
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Speaker 1: I'll be back tomorrow with another deep dive, but until then,
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