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‘What the f… are you doing?’: Trump’s heated call with Netanyahu · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian. I'm christaname it with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines the relationship between US President Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnia, who is reportedly
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  Speaker 1: on the rocks. That's after Trump reportedly unloaded on Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: in a furious phone call. The US President spoke with
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu on Monday local time after claims by Iran Israel
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  Speaker 1: had violated a ceasefire in place since mid April. Tehran
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  Speaker 1: accused Israel of carrying out airstrikes on Hesbala in Beirut
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  Speaker 1: and pushing into southern Lebanon. Iran then suspended peace talks
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  Speaker 1: with the US. Sources told the American political news website Axios,
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  Speaker 1: a furious Donald Trump told Benjamin Netnaho he'd helped him
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  Speaker 1: avoid jail, referring to the Israeli prime minister's corruption trial,
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  Speaker 1: and asked, quote, what the are you doing? The sources
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  Speaker 1: claimed Trump said, quote, everybody hates you. Now, everybody hates
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  Speaker 1: Israel because of this. Neither the White House nor Benjamin Netna,
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  Speaker 1: whose office, have commented on the allegations, though Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: appeared to suggest the phone call between the two leaders
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  Speaker 1: was fine. In a post on Truth Social the US
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  Speaker 1: President said he asked Netna who not too quote go
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  Speaker 1: into a major raid of Beirut, and said the Israeli
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  Speaker 1: PM had quote turned his troops around. He said Israel
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  Speaker 1: and Hesbelah had agreed to quote stop shooting, and said
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  Speaker 1: he hopes it will last. But Netna, who isn't making
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  Speaker 1: any promises. In a post on x he said Israel
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  Speaker 1: will target the terror group in Beirut if Hesbelah doesn't
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  Speaker 1: stop attacking Israel's cities and citizens. Former Australian of the
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  Speaker 1: Year Grace Taine will host a new podcast for the ABC,
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  Speaker 1: a move that's outraged Jewish groups. The four part podcast series,
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  Speaker 1: called Autistic AF will explore the reality of living with
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  Speaker 1: autism for women and gender diverse people. But Australian Jewish
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  Speaker 1: Council CEO Robert Gregory says giving Grace Tame a podcast
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  Speaker 1: following her controversial comments about Israel and the Middle East
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  Speaker 1: conflict is quote tone deaf. Tame led a chant of
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  Speaker 1: from gadigal to Gaza globalized the Interfada at a protest
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  Speaker 1: in central Sydney in February, and claimed on ABC Radio
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  Speaker 1: a month later corroborated reports that Israeli women were raped
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  Speaker 1: by Hamas terrorists on October seven, twenty twenty three, are
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  Speaker 1: quote propaganda co Chief of the Executive Council of Australian Jury,
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  Speaker 1: Alex Ritchen told The Australian Tame has quote shown no
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  Speaker 1: remorse or regret whatsoever for her comments. The Australian Fair
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  Speaker 1: Work Commission has handed millions of workers earning the minimum
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  Speaker 1: wage a pay rise of almost five percent. That means
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  Speaker 1: the minimum wage has topped one thousand dollars per week
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. The decision, handed down on Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: is backed by the Albanesi labour government and the union movement,
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  Speaker 1: but employer groups say it could put financial pressure on businesses.
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  Speaker 1: Check out those stories live right now at the Australian
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  Speaker 1: dot com dot au and come back to the front
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  Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for our look at the
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  Speaker 1: latest twist in the legal saga threatening to engulf Buckingham Palace.
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  Speaker 1: That's right here, Wednesday morning.