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Speaker 1: Good morning, Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the Daily Os.

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Speaker 1: I'm Zara, I'm joined by Sam and today we are

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Speaker 1: taking you through the day's news. It was a bit

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Speaker 1: of a slower pace yesterday, which was a really welcome

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Speaker 1: change after the weekend. In terms of COVID numbers, it

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Speaker 1: was good news in New South Wales, with the state

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Speaker 1: recording less than one thousand cases for the first time

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Speaker 1: in over three weeks. There there were nine hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty five cases. In Victoria there were five hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty seven new cases and in the Act there were

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Speaker 1: seven new cases.

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Speaker 2: Heading back to New South Wales for a second and

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Speaker 2: the Cowra Shia in central West New South Wales entered

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Speaker 2: a snap lockdown yesterday at five pm, and this happened

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Speaker 2: after a child tested positive to COVID nineteen. The source

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Speaker 2: of the child's infection remains unclear and the lockdown is

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Speaker 2: scheduled to last seven days. Anyone who's been to Karra

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Speaker 2: from the thirteenth of September, regardless of where they are now,

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Speaker 2: must adhere to the state at home requirements.

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Speaker 1: Over three thousand migrants have been moved off the Texas

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Speaker 1: and Mexican border by US authorities. Most of the migrants,

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Speaker 1: who we understand were seeking to escape poverty and hunger,

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Speaker 1: are originally from Haiti. Over the weekend, the US began

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Speaker 1: expulsion flights, where a daily schedule of flights to the

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Speaker 1: Haitian capital, Quart Prince are taking the migrants.

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Speaker 2: A volcano in the Spanish Canary island of La Palma

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Speaker 2: erupted over the weekend, causing between five thousand and ten

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Speaker 2: thousand people to evacuate. The eruption came after over twenty

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Speaker 2: thousand tremors had been detected in the past nine days

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Speaker 2: in the area. The volcano last erupted in nineteen seventy one,

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Speaker 2: and we saw huge plumes of black and white smoke

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Speaker 2: shoot out from a point in the volcanic ridge, while

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Speaker 2: lava could be seen moving towards local villages.

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Speaker 1: Today's good news is about killer whales. So three critically

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Speaker 1: endangered killer whales who regularly enter the British Columbian waters

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Speaker 1: are now pregnant. It's hoped that the pregnancies will assist

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Speaker 1: the species in becoming pulled from the brink of extinction.

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Speaker 1: One of the scientists who discovered the pregnancies, his name

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Speaker 1: is Lance Barrett, Leonard said, in most years there have

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Speaker 1: been no reproduction at all. So having three pregnancies is good,

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Speaker 1: it's exciting, It's what this pod needs.

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Speaker 2: A couple of days ago, France recalled its ambassadors from

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Speaker 2: Australia and the US all because of Orcus. To understand

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Speaker 2: this story, we want to spend a little bit of

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Speaker 2: time talking about what Orcus is and then exploring why

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Speaker 2: the French are so annoyed, so annoyed that they have

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Speaker 2: now canceled talks with their UK counterparts and a diplomatic

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Speaker 2: drama is unfolding. Zara start us off. Orcus was all

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Speaker 2: over the news towards the back end of last week.

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Speaker 2: What exactly is this about?

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Speaker 1: So Orcus is a new military alliance between US, Australia,

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Speaker 1: the UK and the US hence Orcus, and it's designed

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Speaker 1: to address strategic challenges in the Indo Pacific region. While

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Speaker 1: China hasn't been specifically labeled as a reason for forming

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Speaker 1: this alliance, it's very clear that there are shifting priorities

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Speaker 1: in the region and China's increasing dominance is one of those.

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Speaker 1: So when the Trio of leaders were announcing this new

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Speaker 1: major alliance, they also outlined what the first initiative of

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Speaker 1: ORCUS would be and that was to deliver a fleet

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Speaker 1: of nuclear powered submarines. If you've got any knowledge of

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Speaker 1: Australia's defense strategy, you'll know that the development of submarines

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Speaker 1: has been really central to that policy for a very

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Speaker 1: long time. Before last Thursday, however, this was not going

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Speaker 1: to concern the US and the UK. It was going

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Speaker 1: to concern a relationship with France, which is why tensions

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Speaker 1: have fled between the countries in recent days.

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Speaker 2: So the deal was signed in twenty sixteen between Australia

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Speaker 2: and France and it was worth about one hundred and

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Speaker 2: eighty billion dollars to be spent over about twenty years.

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Speaker 2: So far Australia has spent ninety billion dollars of that

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Speaker 2: on the deal to build twelve conventionally powered submarines. This

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Speaker 2: deal is now totally scrapped, everything from the Australians who

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Speaker 2: are in France developing from that side, to the base

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Speaker 2: in Adelaide, the entire things off and the French Foreign

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Speaker 2: Minister has described this as a stab in the back

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Speaker 2: that constituted unacceptable behavior between allies and partners. In other words,

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Speaker 2: the French are not happy. In the last few days,

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Speaker 2: questions have been asked of the Australian Prime Minister Scott

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Speaker 2: Morrison and Australia's Defense Minister Peter Dutton as to whether

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Speaker 2: they communicated the news to their French counterparts. We've heard

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Speaker 2: a little bit in the last twenty four hours or

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Speaker 2: so that Prime Minister Morrison attempted to reach out to

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Speaker 2: his French counterpart the night before announcing the deal, but

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Speaker 2: it largely sounds like the French learned about it at

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Speaker 2: the same time as we did. I think it's worth flagging.

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Speaker 2: There's kind of two big issues here. One is the

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Speaker 2: intangible damage to a relationship between two countries that are allies.

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Speaker 2: The French obviously feel like we have dumped them for

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Speaker 2: lack of a better phrase for our American counterparts. But

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Speaker 2: the other issue is really tangible, and that's the economic impact.

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Speaker 2: A lot of the money going into this deal was

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Speaker 2: being pumped into the French economy and was inevitably the

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Speaker 2: source of income for many thousands of French people. So

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Speaker 2: it's understandable from that perspective that the French are upset

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Speaker 2: with the lost opportunity of billions of dollars from the

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Speaker 2: Australian perspective, it's clearly a strategic realignment that is more

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Speaker 2: about our relationship between the US and the UK. So

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Speaker 2: on Saturday morning our time, the French ambassador was recalled.

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Speaker 2: What does that exactly mean, Szara.

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Speaker 1: Recalling an ambassador is exactly what it sounds like. It

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Speaker 1: just means that the ambassador has been called back to

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Speaker 1: France and will no longer, at least at this time,

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Speaker 1: be representing French interests in Australia. It's largely symbolic and

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Speaker 1: is usually done when there are growing political tensions between

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Speaker 1: two nations.

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Speaker 2: At the Sunday afternoon press conference where Prime Minister Morrison

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Speaker 2: announced the resignation of Christian Porter, he also addressed the

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Speaker 2: relationship with the French and reaffirmed that it was about

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Speaker 2: the decision that was going to best serve Australian taxpayers.

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Speaker 2: Australia is now just the seventh nation in the world

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Speaker 2: to operate nuclear powered submarines, and in a worrying twist,

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Speaker 2: late yesterday, North Korea released a statement saying that this

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Speaker 2: is an extremely undesirable and dangerous act which will upset

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Speaker 2: the strategic balance in Asia Pacific.

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Speaker 1: So we know that Yesterday Scott Morrison set off for

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Speaker 1: the US. He's meeting with another group of world leaders,

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Speaker 1: the Quad Group, and it's not to do with this

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Speaker 1: specific alliance, but no doubt he'll get some time with

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden to discuss matters further.

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