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Speaker 2: I'm Lucy Tassel, I'm Annabel Whitehouse.
Speaker 1: It's Thursday, the nineteenth of June. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: The jury in the trial of accused mushroom murderer Aaron
Speaker 2: Patterson are a step closer to deliberations, with the defense
Speaker 2: making their closing arguments today. Patterson is accused of deliberately
Speaker 2: poisoning four members of her strange husband's family, killing three.
Speaker 2: In his final remarks, Patterson's defense lawyer, Colin Mandy, appealed
Speaker 2: to the jury to absolve Patterson if they believe the
Speaker 2: poisonings were unintentional. He said, if you think that maybe
Speaker 2: she deliberately poisoned the meal, you must find her not guilty.
Speaker 2: If you think that it's likely that she deliberately poisoned
Speaker 2: the meal, you must find her not guilty. With closing
Speaker 2: arguments from both the defense and prosecution now complete, the
Speaker 2: jury is expected to begin deliberating a verdict next week,
Speaker 2: pending further instructions from Justice c BIL.
Speaker 1: The unemployment rate has held steady at four point one
Speaker 1: percent for a fifth consecutive month, according to the latest
Speaker 1: figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The unemployment rate
Speaker 1: measures the percentage of people who were looking for work
Speaker 1: but could not find any. The number of employed people
Speaker 1: dropped by two thousand people in May, but is up
Speaker 1: two point three percent compared to the same period in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. ABS head of Labor Statistics Sean Krik
Speaker 1: said this fallen employment, combined with a drop in unemployment
Speaker 1: of three thousand people, meant that the unemployment rate remained
Speaker 1: steady for May. Australia's unemployment rate has hovered between three
Speaker 1: point seven to four point one percent since December twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, following a peak during the height of the pandemic.
Speaker 2: The death toll from a Russian strike on Ukraine's capital
Speaker 2: Kiev has risen to twenty eight A nine story apartment
Speaker 2: was hit during the missile attack injuring up to one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty people. The strike part of a broader
Speaker 2: attack which saw Russia send two hundred and twenty drones
Speaker 2: and thirty two missiles into Kiev. According to international media reports.
Speaker 2: Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has called it quote one of
Speaker 2: the most terrifying strikes against Kiev. The attack comes against
Speaker 2: a backdrop of stored peace talks following more than three
Speaker 2: years of conflict in the region. Around twelve five hundred
Speaker 2: civilians are estimated to have been killed in the war
Speaker 2: since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: According to UN data.
Speaker 1: And Today's Good News, US authorities have approved a new
Speaker 1: HIV prevention vaccine ahead of an anticipated global rollout. HIV
Speaker 1: is a virus that attacks the cells in the body
Speaker 1: which can fight off diseases. In a world first, a
Speaker 1: new vaccine can successfully quote reduce the risk of sexually
Speaker 1: acquired HIV in adults and adolescents. Clinical trials of the
Speaker 1: twice a year immunization reported ninety nine point nine to
Speaker 1: nine percent of participants continue to remain HIV negative. Gilliad Sciences,
Speaker 1: which developed the technology, said the vaccine is one of
Speaker 1: the most important scientific breakthroughs of our time and offers
Speaker 1: a very real opportunity to help end the HIV epidemic.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily Os newsroom. If you're
Speaker 2: looking for something else to listen to, check out today's
Speaker 2: deep dive on the rise in organized crime and the
Speaker 2: gun men being recruited on social media.
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow with another deep dive, but until then,
Speaker 1: enjoy your evening. My name is Lily Maddon and I'm
Speaker 1: a proud Arunda Bungelung Caalcuttin woman from Gadighl country.
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