Speaker 1: From the Daily OS. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Lucy Tassel.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, the sixteenth of April. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: Housing Minister Claire O'Neil and Shadow Housing Minister Michael Suka
Speaker 2: have clashed over affordable housing policy during a debate at
Speaker 2: the National Press Club. O'Neil called housing quote the biggest
Speaker 2: social and economic challenge facing our country right now, blaming
Speaker 2: a chronic national shortage of affordable housing on previous Coalition
Speaker 2: governments in action. Shadow Minister Suka promised to quote build
Speaker 2: more homes than the Labor Party and put community housing
Speaker 2: providers at the heart of social and affordable housing if
Speaker 2: the Coalition wins the May III election. It comes ahead
Speaker 2: of tonight's second leader's debate, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi
Speaker 2: and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton expected to face more questions
Speaker 2: on housing and cost of living relief measures. The debate
Speaker 2: will be brought cast live by the ABC at eight
Speaker 2: pm AST.
Speaker 1: Chinese airlines have reportedly been ordered to pause all purchases
Speaker 1: from US aviation manufacturing giant Boeing. The direction by the
Speaker 1: Chinese government comes amid its escalating trade war with the US.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration has announced a one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: five percent tariff increase on goods imported to the US
Speaker 1: from China. Under a pre existing deal worth billions of dollars,
Speaker 1: Boeing was expected to deliver one hundred and seventy nine
Speaker 1: jets to Chinese carriers before twenty twenty seven. The future
Speaker 1: of the deal now remains uncertain, according to a report
Speaker 1: by Bloomberg. Beijing has also asked carriers including Air China,
Speaker 1: China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines not to buy
Speaker 1: any equipment or parts from US companies.
Speaker 2: Rebel forces in Sudan have declared a rival government two
Speaker 2: years after civil war broke out in the region. The
Speaker 2: Rapid Support Forces or RSF paramilitary group took control of
Speaker 2: the capital, Khartoum in twenty twenty three. However, Sudan's army
Speaker 2: reclaimed the city last month. Now, the RSF has announced
Speaker 2: what it's called the Government of Peace and Unity in
Speaker 2: areas still under its control. The declaration poses a direct
Speaker 2: challenge to the authority of the Sudanese Army. New figures
Speaker 2: from the United Nations estimate the two year conflict has
Speaker 2: forced twelve million people to flee their homes. It said
Speaker 2: millions of women, children and displaced families are suffering through
Speaker 2: what it called one of the worst humanitarian crises of
Speaker 2: the twenty first century.
Speaker 1: And today's good news. Two men have set a new
Speaker 1: speed climbing record in the Swiss Alps. The climbing pair
Speaker 1: from Switzerland and Austria completed the north faces of a
Speaker 1: trail of mountains ten hours faster than the previous record,
Speaker 1: which was set more than twenty years ago. The feat
Speaker 1: took Nicholas Hojak and Philip Bruger a total of fifteen
Speaker 1: hours and thirty minutes in icy conditions. Hojack described the
Speaker 1: experience as completely surreal. The trio of peaks conquered by
Speaker 1: the pair are considered some of the most challenging climbs
Speaker 1: in the Swiss Alps.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily Os newsroom. If you're
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