Speaker 1: From The Daily Oz. I'm Sam Becauseloski, I'm Lucy Tassel.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, the seventh of October. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: The US government shutdown has entered its second week with
Speaker 2: no resolution in sight, as Republicans and Democrats remain deadlocked
Speaker 2: over a funding bill. Democrats are demanding health care protections
Speaker 2: and safeguards against presidential interference with government funding, while Republicans
Speaker 2: blame the opposing party for the impasse. President Donald Trump
Speaker 2: said job cuts during the shutdown are democrats fault, while democratically,
Speaker 2: it is claimed the White House has stopped all communication
Speaker 2: with them. Neither side has so far signaled a willingness
Speaker 2: to compromise. According to the National Economic Council, the shutdown
Speaker 2: is costing the country's economy around fifteen billion US dollars
Speaker 2: every week.
Speaker 1: Victorian Premier just Center Allen has announced the state's metro
Speaker 1: tunnel will be open in early December. The introduction of
Speaker 1: five new underground city stations will connect the Sunbury, Cranbourne
Speaker 1: and Pakenham lines, creating one new ends to end line.
Speaker 1: The thirteen point five billion dollar project was first announced
Speaker 1: way back in twenty fifteen. By former Premier Daniel Andrews,
Speaker 1: and has faced a number of delays and cost blowouts since,
Speaker 1: particularly during the COVID pandemic. It will begin with services
Speaker 1: every twenty minutes from ten am to three pm on weekdays,
Speaker 1: with more spread out services on weekends until a full
Speaker 1: timetable begins in February of next year.
Speaker 2: Nearly one thousand climbers were trapped on or near Mount
Speaker 2: Everest over the weekend following sudden heavy snowfall. At least
Speaker 2: one group was stuck at an elevation of more than
Speaker 2: four nine hundred meters. The bluzzard struck during a week
Speaker 2: long national holiday in China. At least one man died
Speaker 2: from hypothermia and altitude sickness while climbing in the mountains
Speaker 2: of the neighbouring Qinghai Province. On Monday, Chinese state media
Speaker 2: reported at least three hundred and fifty people had been
Speaker 2: rescued and search teams had made contact with a further
Speaker 2: two hundred.
Speaker 1: And Today's good news and undoubtedly one of the most
Speaker 1: important stories I will cover in my journalistic career. Australian
Speaker 1: food stylist Caroline Velick has won a prize at the
Speaker 1: World Porridge Making Championships. Yes, you hurt that right. The
Speaker 1: thirty second edition of the competition, which is held annually
Speaker 1: in Carbridge, Scotland, occurred over the weekend. Velick won the
Speaker 1: Best Specialty Dish category, which includes any recipe made with
Speaker 1: oatmeal very controversial. She made porridge jaffles, a yogurt flatbread
Speaker 1: filled with bananas cooked in bunderberg rum oatmeal and waffle
Speaker 1: seeds sprinkled with sugar which is flavored with Davidson plum.
Speaker 1: Velick said she incorporated wattle seed and Davidson plum to
Speaker 1: bring the flavors of the indigenous Aussie outback to Scotland.
Speaker 1: The Golden Spurtle World Champion title went to spen Celyi
Speaker 1: Yom from Norway, who us used Norwegian notes, salt and
Speaker 1: water he brought to the competition from home. The competition's
Speaker 1: main category is about traditional porridge making, meaning contestants can
Speaker 1: only use water, grains and salt. This year's competitions saw
Speaker 1: thirty competitors representing fourteen countries.
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