Shadowing Practice: 9News Sydney | Friday May 15 | Full Episode - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Good evening.
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Five Australians on board the ship at the centre of a
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deadly Hunter virus outbreak are tonight back on home soil but their ordeal is not over yet.
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The passengers plunged into quarantine from the moment they touched down in WA,
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possibly until the end of June.
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Finally back in Australia but still a very long way from home,
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a private jet touching down at the Pierce Air Force Base outside Perth.
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Six people, Five Australians and a New Zealander still wearing a hangover from a holiday to hell.
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From head to toe in protective clothing,
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bound for a quarantine facility where they will spend at least the next 21 days shut out from the outside world.
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I appreciate what a difficult ordeal this has been for them and I'm sure they wish they were able to get home.
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Their nightmare began on April 1 when the MV Hondias,
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with 150 passengers and crew on board set out from Argentina on a 35-day expedition.
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Between the 6th and 28th of April,
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several passengers reported a severe respiratory illness.
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On May 4, the World Health Organization confirmed an outbreak of the rodent-borne Hunter virus.
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Seven cases were confirmed, including three deaths.
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On May 8th, the MV Hondias detoured to the Canary Islands,
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where passengers from 22 countries disembarked and headed home.
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But the five Australians
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and the Kiwi had to remain on board until the authorities could find a plane to bring them home.
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They waited 48 hours and then were shuffled from country to country,
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ending up in the Netherlands before boarding the flight to Perth.
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I'm pleased to say they are in good health.
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Their fellow passengers from the US and Europe are well and truly home,
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forced to spend just three days in quarantine, not three weeks.
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We are determined to ensure there is no risk at all of any transmission of this virus into the Australian community.
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And officials here aren't ruling out extending the period of isolation.
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The World Health Organization has recommended,
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but not mandated, a 42-day quarantine period.
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That could see them locked down until the end of June.
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Damien Ryan, Nine News.
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Well, let's go straight to Rachel Clifford now, outside that quarantine facility.
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And, Rachel, the passengers will undergo strict testing there.
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Mark, that's right.
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And it's the strictest in the world,
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with the passengers having a full health check.
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That includes PCR testing as well as blood work.
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That information will be sent to Melbourne and processed.
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The results expected to be back sometime tomorrow.
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Now passengers are making ready for their first night here at isolation in Western Australia.
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This facility was initially built during the COVID-19 pandemic with 400 beds costing the government around $400 million.
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The facility has sat idle until now.
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It's being used to house six passengers,
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two pilots and one doctor.
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The passengers here set for a long stint,
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at least three weeks, but they will have items at the facility such as Wi-Fi
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and TV and as well as a balcony.
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Mark.
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OK, Rachel, thank you.
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Heavily armed police have arrested two alleged drug dealers following raids at Airds in Sydney South West this morning.
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Police allege the men had supplied drugs to Jackie Fing,
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who remains behind bars and is accused of killing his parents and brother at Rose Meadow earlier this month.
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Traffic chaos across Sydney this afternoon after crashes on both the M5 and M4 caused lengthy peak hour delays.
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All lanes have now reopened at Chimera on the M5 after a truck spilled timber through the Cooks River Tunnel
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while a multi-vehicle smash at Greystains shut lanes on the M4.
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No one was injured but drivers are still being warned to expect heavy congestion on both motorways tonight.
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Coles is not only facing a fine for its fake discounts
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but compensation bill for shoppers which could run into the many millions.
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Let's go live now to Lizzie Bryan for more.
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Lizzie what does all this mean for customers?
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Mark it means if you purchase goods at Coles between February 2022
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and May 2023 you could be in line for a payout.
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Yesterday the federal court ruled that Coles misled customers with its down down campaign
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and now lawyers who are behind a class action say it paves the way for millions of customers to be compensated.
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Greg Mackey is the man who instigated the action.
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Our team had a little cheer in the boardroom and we heard the results but I think the cheer is for consumers.
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Anyone who purchased some of the 245 products that came under the down down campaign will be included in the class action.
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The case returns to court in June.
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Mark?
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Lizzie thank you.
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A 70 year old Sydney doctor has been charged with sexually assaulting a number of female patients over almost four decades.
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Alex Heike joins us now from Surry Hills Police Station.
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Alex, he's just been given bail.
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Yeah that's right, only in the last few minutes I spoke to him about these charges,
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five of them Mark, allegedly relating to using his position as a GP to sexually assault four of his former patients.
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When I spoke to him in the last few minutes he told me and I quote,
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I've been instructed not to speak about these charges.
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He was arrested yesterday, this 70-year-old GP,
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and his Waterloo Medical Centre was raided by police as well.
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But, Mark, he says he'll be fighting the charges.
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Alex Heike at Surrey Hills, thank you.
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Well, opposition leader Angus Taylor turned salesman today after promising one of the biggest cuts to immigration in Australia's history,
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taking the fight to One Nation.
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His focus also on the Albanese government with a pledge for a major tax reform to tackle bracket creep.
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In the fight for fairer taxes,
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both major parties make the case to the people.
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Bracket creep must end, the inflation tax must end.
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Angus Taylor's budget reply proposes linking tax brackets to inflation so they increase at the same rate,
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saving the average taxpayer $250 in the first year and $1,000 by the fourth.
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It'll cost the budget $22.5 billion.
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Allowing Australians to keep more of their own money.
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It was unfunded.
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It was a recipe for much bigger deficits,
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much more debt and much more division.
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The Prime Minister is celebrating a quarter of a million first home buyers using its 5% deposit scheme,
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doubling down on his plans to wind back negative gearing and hike capital gains tax.
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All of the measures that we've put in place for supply haven't been enough.
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We need to do more.
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While the government is turning around and saying to Australians,
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pull your belt in, the government will not do the same.
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Angus Taylor's tax changes are pitched at the wallets of middle Australia,
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whose wage rises are being gobbled up by bracket creep
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but it's migration where he's desperate to keep a rampant One Nation at bay.
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Mass migration is changing Australia for the worse.
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Calling for the number of homes built in one year to equal the number of migrants coming in the next.
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Australian citizenship, not just permanent residency,
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would be required to access social services like the NDIS and taxpayer-funded parental leave.
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And when they commit to our country,
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we should commit to them.
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The one permanent resident that Angus Taylor seems happy with is Pauline Hanson,
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who's a permanent resident in his head.
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Amelie Saunders, Nine News.
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And live to federal politics reporter Amelie Saunders.
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Amelie, a second group has been banned under new hate speech laws.
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Mark, under the laws passed after the Bondi terrorist attack,
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it's a criminal offence to be a member of an officially declared hate group.
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First to come under that banner was his butt to rear.
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Now it's the neo-Nazis.
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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke confirming the group White Australia,
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also known as the National Socialist Network,
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will be banned from midnight tonight.
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It sends a clear message to people who believe in racial supremacy that their views have no place in modern Australia.
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Anyone found to be associated with the group could be prosecuted.
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It's important to note this also puts people who attend rallies neo-Nazis are involved with at risk of committing an offence too.
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Mark?
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Alright, Emily, thank you.
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Dementia training isn't mandatory for aged care workers,
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despite more than half of all nursing home residents living with the condition.
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An inquest into the Taser death of great-grandmother Claire Nowland,
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hearing that while elderly aggression is common,
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The response should remain friendly, calm and gentle.
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Claire Nowland lived a fulfilling 95 years.
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I think we've had a good life in Cooma, haven't we?
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I think, Jeff.
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Well, I have.
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Her daughter, Jenny Jordan,
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tearfully telling the inquest the way her mum died is something we have to live with the remainder of our lives.
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Taser'd in her Cooma nursing home three years ago by police officer Christian White,
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who ordered her to drop a steak knife.
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Today, an expert geriatrician saying we need to approach
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that person in the same way we would be approaching a child in distress.
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We have to be gentle,
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smiling, not aggressive, not threatening.
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Basic knowledge essential for any staff in nursing homes.
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But across Australia, dementia training isn't mandatory for aged care workers.
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Training police and paramedics is not going to be terribly helpful because the staff still won't have the skill set that's required.
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Aggressive behaviour occurs in 30 to 50 per cent of dementia cases.
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The inquest hearing, a study of coronial data over 14 years,
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identified 28 deaths resulting from violence between aged care residents.
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The coroner acknowledged that Claire's memory lives on in the love of her eight children.
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Another legacy will be findings to be delivered later this year.
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Annalise Bolt, Nine News
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A Bexley father is lucky to be alive tonight after being struck by a car
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while crossing a busy road for a morning coffee with his
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family The man in his 70s suffering serious injuries on Forest
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Road around half past nine A 23-year-old driver was led away by police for mandatory testing No charges have been laid
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One person is dead and dozens have been injured in a bus crash in Queensland's north
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A driver and 28 tourists were on board the coach from Cairns to Airlie Beach yesterday afternoon
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when it veered off the highway, rolling onto its side.
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The woman killed has since been identified as a 26-year-old Argentinian and Italian national.
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It was a high-stakes summit of global superpowers,
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but at the end of two days,
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Donald Trump has left China without announcing any major breakthroughs.
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The US president has touted trade deals and support for ending conflict with Iran.
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But exactly what Xi Jinping will gain is yet to be revealed.
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It's a long way from the famous White House Rose Garden,
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but here in Beijing, Donald Trump is still stopping to smell some.
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Nice, nice place.
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It's a nice place.
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Behind the walls of the secretive Zhongnanhai compound,
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the home of the Chinese Communist Party,
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a garden tour and then some tea with Xi Jinping,
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the leaders trading niceties through a translator.
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He's a man I respect greatly.
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Trump, desperate to sow the seeds of friendship.
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President Xi offering something more tangible.
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I've agreed to send the seeds for these roses to the president as a gift.
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I love that.
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That's great.
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But ending the war with Iran will be no walk in the park.
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Trump says she has committed to withholding military equipment from Tehran,
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the president's heading into one last private meeting.
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We feel very similar, right?
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We want that to end.
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Even before the end of the state visit,
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the US president was touting trade wins.
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We've made some fantastic trade deals, great for both countries.
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But exactly what China stands to gain is unknown.
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Overnight, a lavish state banquet,
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Xi Jinping telling Team America,
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China-US relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the world,
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in more ways than one, according to Trump.
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Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United States,
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It's all combined.
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That's a pretty big statement.
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For now, it's goodbye to Beijing,
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but Donald Trump could see its leader again very soon.
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An invitation to you and Madam Peng to visit us at the White House this September 24th.
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In the United States, Lily Greer, Nine News.
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The UK's health secretary has resigned at what's believed to be a precursor to a leadership challenge against Prime Minister Sukiyar Starmer.
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Wes Streeting says he's lost confidence in Starmer with the PM
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under increasing pressure to step down after disastrous local election results for his party.
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Delta Goodrum is through to the Eurovision Grand Final after delivering a show-stopping performance in Vienna.
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The Eclipse singer says she's feeling the love from around the world
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and back home as she flies the flag for Australia on the world stage.
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From down under to up high on the Eurovision stage.
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Delta Goodrum eclipsing her competition in the second semifinal.
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Australia now into the grand final.
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Australia!
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No matter what happens, we can all be so proud of her.
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So good, so good.
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Bring it home, Delta.
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Delta, incredible performance.
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How do you describe this moment?
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Thank you so much.
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It was, oh my goodness, my heart was racing.
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So grateful to be going through to the grand final and,
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yeah, just really, really excited.
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Delta's powerful performance completes with a Beyonce-style stage lift.
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I've played a lot of pianos.
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I've jumped on a lot of pianos,
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But I was so excited because I've never been lifted out of a piano.
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Her Aussie made dress a dazzling spectacle itself with 7,000 Swarovski crystals.
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I'd been warned that I would cry and I just bawled my eyes out from beginning to end.
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Australia's Eurovision journey began in 2015 here in Vienna with Guy Sebastian.
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11 years on we've cemented our place in this competition and Delta's become a fan favourite.
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Delta!
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Delta!
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Delta's now second favourite to take out this year's competition.
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Better set your alarms again,
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Australia, for Sunday at 5am.
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In Vienna, Hannah Sinclair, Nine News.
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The recent news segment discusses a group of Australian passengers returning home after a distressing outbreak of the Hunter virus on the MV Hondias. The situation emphasizes the importance of quarantine and health checks, illustrating the challenges faced during worldwide health crises. By watching and analyzing such transcripts, English learners can gain insights into current events, enhance their vocabulary, and improve their comprehension of formal and informal English dialogues.
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