Speaker 1: From The Daily Oz. I'm beliefit Simons, I'm Emma Gillespie.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, the eighteenth of July. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: US President Donald Trump is threatening legal action against Australian
Speaker 2: media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a decade's old letter sent
Speaker 2: to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was a well
Speaker 2: known US financier who died in jail awaiting trial for
Speaker 2: sex trafficking charges in twenty nineteen. A report by the
Speaker 2: Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal claims it's reviewed a collection
Speaker 2: of letters compiled for Epstein's fiftieth birthday in two thousand
Speaker 2: and three, including letters from Trump and dozens of Epstein's
Speaker 2: other associates. The article describes a hand drawn picture of
Speaker 2: a naked woman included in Trump's letter. However, the US
Speaker 2: president says it's fake. In a post to his platform
Speaker 2: Truth Social, Trump wrote quote, I told Rupert Murdoch it
Speaker 2: was a scam, that he shouldn't print this fake story,
Speaker 2: but he did, and now I'm going to sue. Trump
Speaker 2: has also said he's directed the US Attorney General to
Speaker 2: release court materials related to Epstein's trial after mounting pressure
Speaker 2: from Trumps supporters. An Australian base jumper has become the
Speaker 2: second person killed in an extreme sports accident in Italy
Speaker 2: this week. Perthman James Nolan died after he leapt from
Speaker 2: a summer in the Italian Dollarmites on Wednesday. It's believed
Speaker 2: a technical issue with the forty two year old's wingsuit
Speaker 2: may have contributed to the accident. News of Nolan's death
Speaker 2: came hours after an Austrian skydiving pioneer was killed in
Speaker 2: a paragliding incident. Fifty six year old Felix Baumgartner made
Speaker 2: global headlines for a record breaking dive in twenty twelve
Speaker 2: when he jumped from a balloon thirty eight kilometers above
Speaker 2: Earth and became the first skydiver to break the sound barrier.
Speaker 2: According to local reports, Bamgartner lost control of a motorized
Speaker 2: paraglider while flying in central Italy and fell to the ground.
Speaker 2: The cause of the accident remains unclear. US authorities have
Speaker 2: recommended a one day prison sentence for a former officer
Speaker 2: convicted over the shooting of Briona Taylor. The twenty six
Speaker 2: year old died after being shot multiple times during a
Speaker 2: botched police raid of her Louisville home on the thirteenth
Speaker 2: of March twenty twenty. Police were investigating a suspected drug
Speaker 2: operation linked to Taylor's ex boyfriend, but no drugs were
Speaker 2: found in the apartment. Taylor's death and the police killing
Speaker 2: of George Floyd gained global attention, sparking the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: Black Lives Matter protests. Last year, former Kentucky police officer
Speaker 2: Brett Hankerson was convicted for using excessive force during the
Speaker 2: deadly raid. Hankerson is due to be sentenced next week
Speaker 2: and face's life imprisonment. However, the US Justice Department has
Speaker 2: now written to a federal judge asking he be sentenced
Speaker 2: to one day in prison over his involvement in Briona
Speaker 2: Taylor's death. Officials have suggested the previous Biden administration pursued
Speaker 2: unfit processes to convict Hankerson.
Speaker 1: And today's good news new scientific analysis shows the world
Speaker 1: is making significant progress in reducing deaths from cancer. Findings
Speaker 1: from the economists also attribute rising case numbers to population growth,
Speaker 1: not an actual spike in the prevalence of the disease.
Speaker 1: By stripping out the effects of population growth. Researchers said
Speaker 1: the rate of death from cancer has actually fallen markedly
Speaker 1: over the past thirty years or so, with scientists fast
Speaker 1: improving understanding of the disease expected to lead to further
Speaker 1: advances in the years to come, cancer quote will almost
Speaker 1: certainly be much less deadly than it is today in
Speaker 1: another thirty years time.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily oz newsroom for this week.
Speaker 2: But if you are looking for something else to listen to,
Speaker 2: check out today's deep dive on the young assis being underpaid,
Speaker 2: a really interesting one from Sam and Billy.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday with another deep dive, but
Speaker 1: until then, enjoy your weekend. My name is Lily Maddon
Speaker 1: and I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung Calkatin woman from Gadighl Country.
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