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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Welcome to the Daily ODS. Is Friday, the

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Speaker 1: twenty seventh of August and I'm joined by the co

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Speaker 1: founder of the Daily Ods, Zara Sideline Zara. For the

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Speaker 1: first time in an Instagram COVID update yesterday we had

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Speaker 1: to use a comma. It was picked up in the

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Speaker 1: comments how significant this was. Can you take us through

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Speaker 1: the numbers? And then I'm going to talk about the

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Speaker 1: latest threat in couple and why the US, the UK,

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Speaker 1: Australia and other allies and now giving advice that you

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Speaker 1: shouldn't go to the.

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Speaker 2: Airport, staying on the domestic front first. Yesterday was a

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Speaker 2: bittersweet day for those in New South Wales. We recorded

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Speaker 2: a new record one thy and twenty nine locally acquired cases.

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Speaker 2: Never thought we were going to be up that high

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Speaker 2: and at least sixty one of those cases were infectious

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Speaker 2: in the community. There were also three deaths reported by

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Speaker 2: New South Wales Health. Victoria similarly did not have a

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Speaker 2: great day yesterday with eighty locally acquired cases and forty

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Speaker 2: one of those cases infectious in the community. Better news

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Speaker 2: from the ACT who recorded four team locally acquired cases

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Speaker 2: and just one infectious in the community.

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Speaker 1: It was an odd morning of COVID news, because alongside

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Speaker 1: the terrible numbers in New South Wales were some really

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Speaker 1: good news for fully vaccinated individuals. From twelve oh one

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Speaker 1: on Monday the thirteenth of September, those that live in

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Speaker 1: the non LGAs of Concern will be able to gather

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Speaker 1: outdoors in groups of up to five people. This includes

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Speaker 1: children and all adults must be fully vaccinated. They must

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Speaker 1: also gather within five kilometers of home or within persons LGA.

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Speaker 1: For those inside the LGAs of concern, households with all

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Speaker 1: adults fully vaccinated will be able to gather outdoors for

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Speaker 1: recreation for one hour. Here's what Premier Bergicalian had to

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Speaker 1: say about why they took this step. Now we know and.

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Speaker 3: Doctor Wright, who was a chief psychiatristist here, we know

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Speaker 3: that people coming together is what people miss the most

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Speaker 3: and whilst there are various options we looked at, that

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Speaker 3: was the option that met the mental health needs and

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Speaker 3: well being of our community but also provided the lost

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Speaker 3: risk settings.

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Speaker 2: Sam, I'm looking forward to our picnic at twelve o

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Speaker 2: two am on Monday the thirteenth of September. It'll be

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Speaker 2: the first time we've seen each other and it'll be

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Speaker 2: a great bonding experience.

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Speaker 1: You're in my top five, Zara, you snuck in.

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Speaker 2: I'm honored going overseas now. And yesterday it was reported

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Speaker 2: that one hundred thousand people in the US are currently

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Speaker 2: in hospital with COVID nineteen, and that's the highest figure

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Speaker 2: we've seen since January this year. The rising cases has

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Speaker 2: been attributed simultaneously to the delta variant and also to

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Speaker 2: those who are unvaccinated, who of course can spread the

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Speaker 2: virus more freely. This is only the second time the

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Speaker 2: US has crossed the one hundred thousand threshold. The last

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Speaker 2: time it happened was on December two, leading to nearly

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Speaker 2: two months of sustained hospitalizations of more than one hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand people.

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Speaker 1: And for some much needed Friday good news, starting in September,

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Speaker 1: public school students in the US state of Oregon will

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Speaker 1: have access to free pads and tampons. The products must

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Speaker 1: be in at least two bathrooms in any building where

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Speaker 1: it education happens, and in all bathrooms by June twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. This time last week, Australians in Kabul, the

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Speaker 1: capital of Afghanistan, were told to get to the airport

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Speaker 1: as quick as possible to be evacuated. The same advice

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Speaker 1: was being given to Afghans with visas to exit the country. However,

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Speaker 1: a week later and the advice has totally changed. Now

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Speaker 1: the advice is to stay away from the airport, putting

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Speaker 1: the safety and also the escape plan for tens of

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Speaker 1: thousands of people still needing to be evacuated into doubt.

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Speaker 1: Have a listen to what President Biden had to say,

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Speaker 1: and then let's break it down a little further.

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Speaker 4: They're real and significant challenges that we also have to

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Speaker 4: take into consideration the longer we stay. Starting with the

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Speaker 4: acute and growing risk of an attack by a terrorist

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Speaker 4: group known as isis K an isis affiliate in Afghanistan,

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Speaker 4: which is the sworn enemy of the tally BHN as well,

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Speaker 4: every day we're on the ground, there's another day we

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Speaker 4: know that isis K seeking to target the airport, attack

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Speaker 4: both US and Allied forces and innocent civilians.

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Speaker 2: So when we hear about this imminent threat, who is

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Speaker 2: that threat from? Is it from the Taliban or another group?

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Speaker 1: So you would have heard President Biden and that clip

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Speaker 1: talk about isis K or isk. This is a different

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Speaker 1: group to the Taliban. This is a group that's a

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Speaker 1: splinter group of ISIS. They originally started as a Pakistani

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Speaker 1: version of the Taliban, but then they basically became more

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Speaker 1: extreme than the Taliban. Right now, isis K and the

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Speaker 1: Taliban are sworn enemies. It looks like what's happened since

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Speaker 1: Cable was taken over by the Taliban that isis K

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Speaker 1: has actually traveled to Kabul, which has now become kind

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Speaker 1: of a meeting ground for extremist groups. American military and

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Speaker 1: intelligence analysts say that there's really credible threats from this group,

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Speaker 1: including a truck full of bombs, suicide bombers, infiltrating crowds

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Speaker 1: at the airport, and even more to strikes against the

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Speaker 1: airfield and aeroplanes. It's this reason why they're telling people

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Speaker 1: to stay away from the airport immediately.

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Speaker 2: While people are being encouraged not to approach the airport,

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Speaker 2: there is still this evacuation process underway that's being led

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Speaker 2: by the US and the allies, including Australia. So what

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Speaker 1: So the big date on everybody's minds is thirty first

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Speaker 1: of August, and that's the date that President Biden and

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Speaker 1: the US have set for this evacuation process to finish now.

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Speaker 1: As we discuss on yesterday's podcast, other Allied countries, including Australia,

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Speaker 1: extend that deadline to give them more time to take

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Speaker 1: people out at a slower pace, which they hope decreases

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Speaker 1: the risk. That advice now has been thrown up in

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Speaker 1: the air a bit because of this ongoing threat from

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Speaker 1: isis K, and it seems to now be a matter

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Speaker 1: of getting people out as quickly as possible. For the Americans,

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Speaker 1: this means moving away from the airport and doing helicopter

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Speaker 1: operations throughout the city to evacuate Americans. The French have

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Speaker 1: said that they're going to stop their evacuations from tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: which means leaving quote a few dozen more friends citizens

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. In terms of Australia's advice, the Foreign Minister

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Speaker 1: Maurice Pain gave very clear advice to Australians still in

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Speaker 1: the country go home and await further instructions from Australia.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting to note that countries are being a little

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Speaker 1: cagey about what this threat actually is and what it

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Speaker 1: looks like, but they're all speaking with a very high

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Speaker 1: degree of confidence, and that tells us that there really

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Speaker 1: is no doubt that the airport is no longer a

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Speaker 1: safe place and that countries need to be looking at

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Speaker 1: alternative methods of getting their citizens out.

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Speaker 2: Right now, the BBC is sharing video and imagery from

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Speaker 2: the Pakistan Afghanistan border which shows hundreds and hundreds of

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Speaker 2: people lining up while the airport has all of our attention.

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Speaker 2: Because Australian forces are evacuating people via the airport, there

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Speaker 2: is a large portion of the Afghan community that is

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Speaker 2: trying to flee via foot across the border and this

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Speaker 2: will no doubt become the next frontier of this crisis.

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Speaker 1: If there's any part of the conflicts that you think

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Speaker 1: could do with more explaining, hit us up on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: I am at the Daily OS. We are passionate about

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Speaker 1: breaking down this issue for you. Until then, have a

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Speaker 1: great weekend, take some time to disconnect from the news

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Speaker 1: and switch off, look after yourselves and stay safe.