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- 0:01Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian. I'm Christinamio with the
- 0:05Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Israel's government has approved the first phase
- 0:09Speaker 1: of a peace deal that will see a cease fire
- 0:12Speaker 1: commence in Gaza within twenty four hours and hostages held
- 0:15Speaker 1: by Hamas released in the coming days. Israeli defense forces
- 0:19Speaker 1: currently stationed in Gaza will also withdraw to new lines
- 0:23Speaker 1: in the region. Prime Minister Benjamin Nettania, who told a
- 0:26Speaker 1: cabinet meeting it was a momentous development after two years
- 0:30Speaker 1: of fighting in the last two.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Years before doing these two years to the Tuba warriams,
- 0:37Speaker 2: the central one of these warriams, maternal passages, all of
- 0:41Speaker 2: the oss living under head. Now we're about to achieve the.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Jared Kushner, the son in law of US President Donald Trump,
- 0:51Speaker 1: also attended the meeting alongside Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.
- 0:55Speaker 3: The truth is, as I look back, I don't think
- 0:57Speaker 3: we get to this place without Prime Minister Yahoul playing
- 1:01Speaker 3: in it. How much is saying that not just words?
- 1:05Speaker 3: The President believes that My President believes that he believes
- 1:09Speaker 3: that Prime Minister Netanyahu made some very very difficult clause
- 1:14Speaker 3: and lesser people would not have made those calls.
- 1:17Speaker 1: Donald Trump, whose administration broke the deal, along with negotiators
- 1:21Speaker 1: from Qatar and Egypt, will travel to the Middle East
- 1:24Speaker 1: on Sunday to oversee the official signing of the plan.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen appears to have
- 1:32Speaker 1: conceded he got it wrong when he refuted figures reported
- 1:35Speaker 1: by The Australian about the scale of the government's renewables
- 1:39Speaker 1: rollout in question time on Thursday. He referred to reports
- 1:43Speaker 1: by the New South Wales Agriculture Commissioner, not the nationwide
- 1:47Speaker 1: data provided by Rainforest Reserves Australia.
- 1:50Speaker 4: In relation to protected lands, we have a very strict
- 1:54Speaker 4: environmental approval regime in place and if an environment if
- 1:59Speaker 4: an application is in the wrong place, it won't be approved,
- 2:01Speaker 4: whether it's for renewable energy or anything else, Missus Speaker.
- 2:04Speaker 4: That's as it should be.
- 2:05Speaker 1: It comes as a top scientist called for a moratorium
- 2:08Speaker 1: on projects until the government could be certain they won't
- 2:11Speaker 1: be destructive to Australia's biodiversity. The Australian has today launched
- 2:17Speaker 1: the list Australia's Top one hundred innovators. It's a celebration
- 2:21Speaker 1: of our most visionary entrepreneurs, judged by an esteemed panel
- 2:25Speaker 1: of experts. Here's The Australian's Technology editor Jared Lynch.
- 2:30Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of people if the innovation
- 2:32Speaker 5: belongs somewhere else, that in Australia we're no good at it.
- 2:36Speaker 5: But Australia does punch above its weight when it comes
- 2:39Speaker 5: to innovation. We're not just importing stuff from Silicon Valley.
- 2:42Speaker 5: So it's important that we do the lists like the
- 2:46Speaker 5: Innovator's List to celebrate our innovators, to give those who
- 2:50Speaker 5: are out there in the trenches trying to make a
- 2:53Speaker 5: genuine difference a good old pat on the back.
- 2:57Speaker 1: Check out the list Australia's Top one hundred innovation, as
- 3:00Speaker 1: well as all the latest in newssport, business and politics
- 3:03Speaker 1: right now at the Australian dot com dot au and
- 3:06Speaker 1: come back to the front first thing in the morning
- 3:08Speaker 1: for a frank assessment of the latest book by the
- 3:10Speaker 1: Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown.