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Prosecutors fight to use nurses tape in court · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. Commonwealth prosecutors are fighting to overturn
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  Speaker 1: a judge's decision in the matter of two Sydney nurses
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  Speaker 1: accused of threatening to kill Israeli patients. The Australians revealing
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  Speaker 1: today Sarah abdu Lebda and Ahmad Rashad Nadir successfully had
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  Speaker 1: a judge rule inadmissible a video captured by an Israeli
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  Speaker 1: influencer in which the pair allegedly said they would kill
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  Speaker 1: any Israeli patients who came into their Sydney hospital. Just
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  Speaker 1: as Michael mchughsc ruled the video couldn't be part of
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  Speaker 1: the case as it wasn't clear the influencer, Max Ilinski,
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  Speaker 1: had recorded it legally. That would have left the case
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  Speaker 1: as his word against theirs. Now the Crown is arguing
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  Speaker 1: the video should be included when the matter reaches trial.
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  Speaker 1: On August thirty one. Check out that exclusive by Bimini
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  Speaker 1: Plessa live right now at the Australian dot com dot au.
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  Speaker 1: Telstra is facing questions about the cause of a massive
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  Speaker 1: network outage that caused chaos across the country. Potentially millions
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  Speaker 1: of people were unable to make calls, send messages or
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  Speaker 1: access the Internet on Wednesday morning, while public transport services
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  Speaker 1: across Australia's major cities were disrupted. About eighty thousand businesses
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  Speaker 1: using the payments app Tyro, which runs on the Telstra network,
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  Speaker 1: were also affected, while some Commonwealth Bank business customers struggled
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  Speaker 1: to connect their terminals. It's the latest in a series
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  Speaker 1: of connectivity disasters for telco's and Telstra was fined more
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  Speaker 1: than three million dollars for an earlier disaster in which
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  Speaker 1: callers were unable to connect to Triple O in emergencies.
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  Speaker 1: Telstra's chief financial officer Michael Ackland says the cause of
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  Speaker 1: the outage isn't yet known, but repairs on affected nodes
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  Speaker 1: in Sydney and Melbourne are underway. Nodes synchronized time across
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  Speaker 1: the telco's network.
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  Speaker 2: At this stage, we have nothing to indicate malicious activity.
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  Speaker 2: We've been in contact with all regulators and government agencies
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  Speaker 2: to that effect, but we continue to investigate. We continue
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  Speaker 2: to remain curious and explore every avenue, but we have
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  Speaker 2: nothing on that.
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  Speaker 1: Aclan said. Calls to emergency services weren't affected by the outage,
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  Speaker 1: but police in at least two states are saying some
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  Speaker 1: triplo calls had failed.
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  Speaker 2: So triple zero calls follow different different settings in our
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  Speaker 2: network and therefore they were not impacted in the same way.
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  Speaker 2: We have seen a small number of reports that we
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  Speaker 2: are investigating, and as part of our standard process which
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  Speaker 2: has been operating through the night and through this morning,
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  Speaker 2: we conduct welfare checks when any call to triple zero fails,
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  Speaker 2: and we've been.
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  Speaker 1: Doing this, Anthony Albanizi said. Australians deserve answers. Check out
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  Speaker 1: those stories live right now at the Australian dot com
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  Speaker 1: dot au and come back to the front first thing
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  Speaker 1: in the morning for our look at Prince Harry's potentially
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  Speaker 1: very expensive fail in the British courts in his crusade
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  Speaker 1: against newspaper journalists, and where that leaves his relationship with
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  Speaker 1: a monarchy that still needs the media's support. That's right here,
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  Speaker 1: Thursday morning.