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Speaker 1: From the Daily Os. I'm Sam Kazlowski, I'm Lucy Tassel.

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Speaker 1: It is Friday, the thirteenth of March. Here's what's making

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Speaker 1: headlines this evening.

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Speaker 2: Energy Minister Chris Bowen has approved the release of almost

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Speaker 2: eight hundred million leaders of fuel to Australia's market, initially

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Speaker 2: targeting regional areas. It comes amid rising oil prices as

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Speaker 2: Iran continues to keep the Strait of Hormos closed, which

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Speaker 2: normally allows the transportation of up to a quarter of

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Speaker 2: the world's oil every day. The continued closure of the

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Speaker 2: strait was confirmed in the first public statement from Iran's

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Speaker 2: new Supreme leader, Machtaba Kameni, son of previous leader Ali Khameni.

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Speaker 2: The new leader did not appear in person, and his

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Speaker 2: remarks were read out by a state television presenter. No

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Speaker 2: images have been released of him since an Israeli strike

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Speaker 2: last month killed much of his family, including his father

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Speaker 2: and wife. Meanwhile, rescue efforts are underway for an American

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Speaker 2: military refueling plane which crashed in Iraq today. The US

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Speaker 2: said the crash was not due to hostile fire or

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Speaker 2: friendly fire.

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Speaker 1: A man has rammed his vehicle into a synagogue in

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Speaker 1: the US state of Michigan, in what federal investigators say

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Speaker 1: was a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.

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Speaker 1: Security staff at the Temple Israel Synagogue shot the forty

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Speaker 1: one year old dead after he drove his truck into

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Speaker 1: the building and through a hallway, where it caught fire.

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Speaker 1: The man was born in Lebanon and had come to

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Speaker 1: the US in twenty eleven after marrying an American. US

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Speaker 1: outlet CBS reported an Israeli airstrike killed two of his

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Speaker 1: brothers and two of their children in Lebanon ten days ago.

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Speaker 1: One security guard was injured in the incident, and several

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Speaker 1: police officers were treated for smoke inhalation. Michigan Attorney General

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Speaker 1: Dana Neisel said anti Semitism has no place in Michigan

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Speaker 1: and cannot be tolerated.

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Speaker 2: Blues Fest, a popular music festival held annually in Byron Bay,

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Speaker 2: has announced the cancelation of its twenty twenty sixth edition.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, festival director Peter Noble announced the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five edition would be the last, but later

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Speaker 2: confirmed it would continue for another year. This year's festival

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Speaker 2: was scheduled for the Easter long weekend running from the

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Speaker 2: second to the fifth of April. Blues Fest's website now

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Speaker 2: says quote rising production, logistics, insurance and touring costs, combined

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Speaker 2: with a challenging environment for major live events, mean it

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Speaker 2: is no longer possible to deliver the festival to the

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Speaker 2: same standard.

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Speaker 1: And your Friday afternoon good news is chick bee themed.

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Speaker 1: For the first time, a team of scientists has grown

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Speaker 1: chickpeas in soil designed to mimic the surface of the Moon.

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Speaker 1: The experiment, run at the University of Texas Austin, shows

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Speaker 1: how the members of future Moon missions could sustain themselves

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Speaker 1: without having to take all the food they'll need with

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Speaker 1: them on their rock. To grow the chickpeas, researchers mixed

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Speaker 1: a recreation of moon soil with a nutritious compost, which

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Speaker 1: they say worms brought on the space mission could create

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Speaker 1: from astronauts rubbish. The news comes as NASA prepares to

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Speaker 1: send people back to the Moon for the first time

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Speaker 1: in decades.

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Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily OS newsroom. If you're

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Speaker 2: looking for something else, you can catch up on this

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Speaker 2: morning's Deep Dive, where I explain everything you need to

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Speaker 2: know about the oscars which will be on Monday morning

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Speaker 2: Australian time.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's not going to be that productive

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Speaker 1: in the office on Monday. We're all going to be

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Speaker 1: watching that. We'll be back on Monday morning though with

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Speaker 1: another deep dive. Until then, have a beautiful weekend. My

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Speaker 1: name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung

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Speaker 1: Calcottin woman from Gadigol Country.

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Speaker 2: The Daily os acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on

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Speaker 2: the lands of the Gatigol people and pays respect to

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Speaker 2: all Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island and nations. We pay

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Speaker 2: our respects to the first peoples of these countries, both

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Speaker 2: past and present,