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Speaker 1: From The Daily os I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Sam Becauseloski.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, the first of September. Here's what's making headlines.

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Speaker 2: The setning.

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Speaker 3: A six point one magnitude earthquake has killed at least

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Speaker 3: six hundred people in Afghanistan, with officials warning the death

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Speaker 3: toll is expected to rise. The earthquakes struck the country's

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Speaker 3: east on Monday morning and was felt as far away

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Speaker 3: as the capital Kabul, which is roughly one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty kilometers from the epicenter. Homes and villages have been destroyed,

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Speaker 3: while hundreds of people are injured and missing. The Earthquake

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Speaker 3: Hazards Program has issued an Orange alert, which indicates significant

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Speaker 3: casualties and a potentially widespread disaster zone. After shocks are continuing,

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Speaker 3: with multiple smaller earthquakes reported in the hours since the

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Speaker 3: initial quake. Landslides and limited communication in the region are

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Speaker 3: hampering ongoing rescue efforts. It all comes after severe flooding

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Speaker 3: swept through eastern Afghanistan over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: And.

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Speaker 2: A software safety fault has prompted federal authorities to issue

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Speaker 2: a recall of more than seven thousand Australian owned teslas

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Speaker 2: The Department of Transport warned the faults could cause windows

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Speaker 2: to close quote with excessive force on body parts, injuring

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Speaker 2: vehicle occupants. The recall applies to all twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: Tesla model Y cars. According to government estimates, around seven

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Speaker 2: three hundred and one Australians are currently driving that model

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Speaker 2: and make a software update is required to fix the

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Speaker 2: safety risk. Tesla must now reach out to owners of

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Speaker 2: the impacted vehicles to facilitate the fix. It comes after

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Speaker 2: the electric vehicle manufacturer announced last week that it's very

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Speaker 2: close to introducing self driving cars here in Australia and

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Speaker 2: New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: Two police officers are injured and a man has been

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Speaker 3: arrested after an alleged car ramming at the Russian Consulate

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Speaker 3: in Sydney. The Consulate General acts as an official authority

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Speaker 3: for Russia's foreign relations. Police were called to the building

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Speaker 3: in the city's east this morning after reports an unauthorized

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Speaker 3: car was parked in the Consulate's driveway. According to New

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Speaker 3: Southwales Police, when officers attempted to speak to the driver,

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Speaker 3: he accelerated through the gates and into the grounds of

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Speaker 3: the property. No staff members of the Russian consulate were injured,

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Speaker 3: but two police officers sustained minor injuries, according to police,

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Speaker 3: and were treated at the scene. A thirty nine year

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Speaker 3: old man has been arrested and investigations are continuing.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news, patients with treatment resistant high blood

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Speaker 1: pressure have been offered new hope with a breakthrough treatment option.

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Speaker 1: A University College London led international trial assessed a new

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Speaker 1: medication called bastrostat by tracking around one thousand patients with

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Speaker 1: dangerously high blood pressure. After twelve weeks, nearly half the

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Speaker 1: participants recorded healthier blood pressure levels. Overall, the drug was

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Speaker 1: found too signific eilquently lower blood pressure of patients for

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Speaker 1: whom existing blood pressure medications have not previously worked. Lead

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Speaker 1: researcher Professor Bryan Williams called the findings exciting and said

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Speaker 1: the results could substantially lower patient's risk of heart attack, stroke,

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Speaker 1: heart failure and kidney disease.

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Speaker 3: And that's all we've got for you from the Daily

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Speaker 3: OS newsroom on this the first day of Spring. Now,

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Speaker 3: if you're looking for something else to listen to on

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Speaker 3: your way home this evening, do check out today's their dive,

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Speaker 3: where we explored the notion of sovereign citizenship, what it

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Speaker 3: is and what you need to know about it.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back with another deep dive tomorrow, but until then,

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Speaker 1: enjoy your very first evening of springtime.

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Speaker 3: My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda

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Speaker 3: Bunjelung Cargotin woman from Gadigl Country. The Daily oz acknowledges

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Speaker 3: that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the

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Speaker 3: Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres

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Speaker 3: Straight Island and nations. We pay our respects to the

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Speaker 3: first peoples of these countries, both past and present,