Latest / The Front / China ‘won’t supply weapons to Iran’: Trump
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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. China will stop supplying weapons to Iran,
- 0:11Speaker 1: the nation that's been exchanging fire with US forces in
- 0:14Speaker 1: the Middle East for months. That's according to US President
- 0:17Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who's in China for a three day summit
- 0:20Speaker 1: where he's negotiating trade partnerships with President Xijinping and other
- 0:25Speaker 1: Chinese government officials. The White House confirmed on Thursday evening
- 0:29Speaker 1: he struck an aviation deal that we'll see China by
- 0:32Speaker 1: two hundred Boeing aircraft from America. But it's on the
- 0:36Speaker 1: Iran conflict that the US President says the most progress
- 0:39Speaker 1: has been made. Donald Trump told Fox News President g
- 0:43Speaker 1: pledged to stop supplying weapons to Iran, and said g
- 0:47Speaker 1: offered to help broker an end to the war, which
- 0:49Speaker 1: has been ongoing since the end of February, when the
- 0:52Speaker 1: US and Israel launched strikes on Iran.
- 0:55Speaker 2: He said, he's not going to give military equipment. That's
- 0:58Speaker 2: a big say. He said that today. That's a big
- 0:59Speaker 2: time said that strongly. But at the same time, he said,
- 1:04Speaker 2: you know, they buy a lot of they're oil there
- 1:05Speaker 2: and I'd like to keep doing that. He'd like to
- 1:08Speaker 2: see hor Moost straight opened. He didn't like the fact
- 1:11Speaker 2: that they're charging tolls.
- 1:13Speaker 1: At a state banquet held in the US President's honor
- 1:16Speaker 1: on Thursday night, Trump invited President she to visit the
- 1:19Speaker 1: White House in September.
- 1:21Speaker 3: Thank you again, President She for this beautiful welcome, and
- 1:25Speaker 3: tonight it is my honor to extend an invitation to
- 1:29Speaker 3: you and Madam Peng to visit us at the White
- 1:33Speaker 3: House this September twenty fourth, and we look forward to it.
- 1:37Speaker 3: And I'd now like to raise it last and propose
- 1:41Speaker 3: the toast to the rich and enduring ties between the
- 1:44Speaker 3: American and Chinese people.
- 1:48Speaker 1: There's a surprise hidden tax in the federal budget handed
- 1:51Speaker 1: down by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday night. New tax
- 1:55Speaker 1: rules on family trusts will also be applied to testamentary
- 1:59Speaker 1: discretionary trust that's the most common kind of trust used
- 2:02Speaker 1: in a state planning. They'll be hit with a minimum
- 2:05Speaker 1: thirty percent tax rate under the new rules. Estate planners
- 2:09Speaker 1: and industry experts told The Australian they've been blindsided by
- 2:13Speaker 1: the change, with one estate planner calling it a death
- 2:16Speaker 1: duty by any other name. The new changes will come
- 2:19Speaker 1: into effect on July one, twenty twenty eight. Australian pop
- 2:25Speaker 1: star Delta Gudram is through to the Grand Final of
- 2:27Speaker 1: Eurovision after a sensational semifinal performance on Friday morning. Delta
- 2:46Speaker 1: will perform her song Eclipse in the Eurovision Grand Final
- 2:49Speaker 1: on Saturday. Check out those stories live right now at
- 2:55Speaker 1: the Australian dot Com dot a U and come back
- 2:57Speaker 1: to the front first thing in the morning for our
- 2:59Speaker 1: critics review of Rivals season two, the show beloved by
- 3:03Speaker 1: Queen Camilla for it's no holds barred Peek behind the
- 3:06Speaker 1: curtain at the secret lives of England's upper crust. That's
- 3:10Speaker 1: right here, Saturday morning.