April 14, 2025 • 13 mins
A new twist in the search for the body of the missing mother Samantha Murphy.
A gunman is right now on the run after killing a grandmother in a drive-by shooting in Sydney's southwest.
A person has died when a family home was gutted by flames west of Brisbane with police today investigating if the incident was an act of domestic violence.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
A new twist today in the search for the body
of missing mother Samantha Murphy. It's been revealed the man
accused of her murder was escorted out of prison and
taken to Bushland where she was last seen. Our reporter
Cassie Zubossi's life for US in Ballarat, Cassi, Good afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
When did this happen?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We'll touch It has been more than a year since
Samantha Murphy left her Ballarat home for a run and
never came back. But late last year, the man charged
with her murder, Patrick Stevenson, was escorted from prison under
heavy police guard and was taken to Bushland in Ballarat,
where the mother was last seen alive. Now this is
a significant development in a case that has well and
(00:44):
truly captivated the country. Detectives from the Missing Persons Unit
Andre now keen to escort him for a second time,
focusing their efforts in and around the Canadian State Forest.
Since missus Murphy's disappearance, police and members of the public
have conducted several searches. In May last year, seven US
reported her mobile phone was found in near perfect working condition. Now,
(01:09):
Patrick Stephenson remains in custody at a prison in Melbourne.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Today.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Victoria Police did release a statement. They said they will
not be commenting because it is before the courts and
it is also very important to note mister Stephenson has
pleaded not guilty. The trial is expected to start later
this year.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Tash Cassie, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
A gunman is right now on the run after killing
a grandmother and a drive by shooting in Sydney, Southwest.
Tom Saker's life for us since Sydney, Tom Good Afternoon.
What do we know about this victim on Natasha?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
We know that she was a sixty five year old
woman inside at the time with two of her children
when she suffered a gunshot wound to the leg, and
despite paramedic's best efforts to save her, she could not
be sad. We know that she was inside at the time,
and we now know, as a result of police updating
the media a very short time ago, that there were
(02:04):
three people who hopped out of a dark colored sedan
and began shooting. However, we don't know if there was
more than one gun us. We just do know that
there were at least eight shots fired into the home.
Whether the woman was the intended target or whether it
was one of her family members, is still unknown, but
here is police speaking to the media a very short
(02:26):
time ago.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
We don't know if there's more than one shooter. We
just know three people got out of the car. It's abhorrent.
Somebody coming up to a house and putting shots off
is totally reckless. In the consequence as a catastrophic we
have a sixty five year old grandmother that's been shot
in the leg. Both people that walked up and shot
of the house.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Our neighbors say it was an incredibly dramatic scene last night.
You can imagine that the woman's the victims family members
were in a state of shock as they were going
through this incredibly traumatic scene. At this stage, police only
have a small amount of security vision showing that dark
colored sedan. The appealing for more information, more video and
(03:09):
more witnesses, the victim's son and daughter. We also know
we're initially cooperating with police, but that now appears to
have stopped.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Natasha Tom thanks so much for the update.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
A person has died when a family home was guarded
by flames west of Brisbane, with police today investigating if
the incident was an act of domestic violence. The fire
broke arts at the property around three o'clock this morning.
A body was found inside, but the identity of the
remains is still unclear.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
At this stage. A prime scene is in place, with.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Detectives treating the blaze as suspicious. The federal election campaign
has reached the halfway mark. A new polling out today
has put the Prime Minister in front bitted up and
is facing an uphill battle as he continues to push
his housing policy political reported Tim Lester reports from the
Labor held seat of Hawk.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Peter Dutton fiercely determined to put his housing policy right
at the center of campaign twenty twenty five, coming here
to an area near Bacchus Marsh, northwest of Melbourne to
visit a house and to talk up the policy that
he made public just a couple of days ago, the
one that would give mortgage interest paid by first home
(04:24):
buyers a tax deductibility status, though other questions emerged in
his press conference soon after, including plans by the Greens
to hold a fundraising party in Western Australia on the
Anzac Day. I think it's completely inappropriate and I think
it reflects the poor values that the Green stand.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
For Anzac Day is a day of respect for the
men and women who've made the ultimate sacrifice. I think
it's not a day for normal business as usual.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Who New polls out in the last twenty four hours
add to the weight of evidence that mister Dutton has
an uphill task to win on May third. The Resolve
poll out today and also an Essential poll both put
Anthony Alberizi ahead fifty three forty seven or fifty three
and a half forty six and a half, and in
(05:21):
one of them Essential, the number of voters not voting
for the major parties is now more than the number
of voters voting for either Labor or the Coalition. So
a really big task for the opposition leader as he
faces the last two and a half weeks of this campaign.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Tim, thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Meantime, the Prime Minister's cross country medicare blitz has taken
him to Tasmania, where his pledging support for extra urgent
care clinics, Anthony Alberinezi today quized on whether he has
his eyes on.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
A third term.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Political reporter Josh Martin reports from the Labor held seat
of Lines.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
Well halfway through the federal election campaign and the Prime
Minister is on a two day blitz of Tasmania at
another Medicare urgent care clinic here in Bridgewater, meeting doctor Badock,
other staff and the clinic's emotional support dog, nukul Tono.
We're in the seat of Lions, held by Labour by
just zero point nine percent. Incumbent Brian Mitchell is retiring
(06:24):
and former State Labour leader Rebecca White is under pressure
to hold the seat. The coalition accusing Labour of running
a sham pre selection so Brian Mitchell could get a
one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars payout for MPs
beaten in the contest.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
It'd be the same for any other contest where you
have two people putting for the nomination.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And I was successful in the pre selection, which I'm
really grateful that.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
At the Albanezi is gaining in confidence though, and he
says he'd like to serve three terms, sidelining the ambitions
of rivals like Jim Chalmers, Tony Burke and Kanie Plibersek,
but he needs to win a second term first, and
no prime minister has served two full terms since John
Howard back in two thousand and four. Two thousand and seven.
The Prime Minister says he won't get ahead of the
(07:06):
Australian people though.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
I'm not looking over my back. I'm not forward and
I'll serve if I'm elected, I'll serve a full term.
I think that's what the Australian people would expect of me.
Speaker 9 (07:18):
The Prime Minister will head to Melbourne later today talking
about housing again and his five percent deposit scheme for
first home buyers, but he's under increasing pressure to reveal
what that will do to housing prices and to release
modeling from the Treasury.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Josh, thank you, and with the Lettust Analysis.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
We're joined this afternoon by political scientists Simon Jackson. Simon,
thanks so much for joining us. You've just jumped on
the desk. In regards to breaking this down. The letters
to polling is showing this week two different polls that
mister Albanezi is in front.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Do you think that's reflective of what isn't going to happen?
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Yeah, it's a broad contentus in the polling. It's been
a very drong recovery for labor. I'd say now going
back to right around the time the interest rate cut,
that seems to be where labor hit its bottom, and
every pole since then, relative to their previous poll, has
had Labor slowly gaining. The question is has that crested.
(08:16):
Has the Coalition been able to do anything to arrest
that momentum swinging back to labor, Because right now, if
the election were held on the numbers that we see
across all the poles, Labor would come back, Labor might
even form a majority, and the Coalition is in danger
of repeating it's twenty twenty two performance and gaining barely
if any seeds at least that the numbers hold up,
(08:38):
because the way we're seeing it at the.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Moment, mister Dutton initially at the start of the campaign
was trying to play some people are setting to the
Trump way of thought with politics, considering what's happened with
the chaos and the tariffs with mister Trump in the US.
Do you think that's played actually to a disadvantage for
mister Dutton.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
Absolutely, absolutely, really unfortunate two weeks start for the campaign,
in part to someone's get the Coalition had made that table,
had dressed that table, that was all set up, and
then of course you get the events in the United
States that were just this huge jolt to global public opinion,
but especially Australian public opinion. But we don't want that
(09:16):
over here. We quite like elements of the Australian welfare state,
the PBS in particular medicare there's things that are baked
into the pipe the Australian Social Compact that they shalt
not touch, and that although it may be on the
table in the United States under Trump and under Musk,
we don't want to bar of that here. And I
think that was really unfortunate that I think Dutton, the
(09:38):
Coalition's campaign really struggled to find clear air. Perhaps this
last weekend, the housing policy figuring so prominently in both
campaigns launches, maybe this is the week that the Coalition
finally getstick to some clear air and is less having
the distance themselves and Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So on the housing policy.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You know, the latest polls actually show that the majority of
voters for the first time, maybe there's been an increase
on neither voting for the major parties being the Coalitional Labor.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The housing policy.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
People may look at it skeptically a bit of a sin,
you can say, is this really going to make a difference?
Am I as a young Australian ever going to be
able to afford to get into the housing market.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
Not just older younger Australians, many people over the course
of the life cycle face that choice if you're living
in an Australian capital city in particular, I think absolutely
the Greens I think did very well early in this
parliamentary term by positioning themselves quote as the renter's party.
I think leaning a little too heavily into the guards
or issuers since cost them votes. But you're absolutely right,
(10:39):
there seems to be no place to go for younger voters.
It's been a reason why that part of the population
has always parked and spoke with the Greens. It's also
part of the reason why I think none of the
above it'd be a handsome bit the teals be it.
Independent candidates are doing so well and if I think
we're going to have an even larger cross bench, there's
(11:00):
sixteen probably going to go north of that in the
next parliament. Real extraordinary because we teach our students Australia
has a two party system and right now we're being
reminded no. Under compulsory voting, you bring a lot of
voters into the electorate who will happily take an alternative option,
preferential voting, also giving those parties a bit.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Of leverage as well.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Still a couple of weeks ago in the federal election campaigns,
so we'll see what happens next. Simon, appreciate your analysis,
Thank you very much. Meantime, Donald Trump has today shown
you blame that Vladimir Zelenski after accusing him of allowing
the war with Russia to start. The Ukrainian president is
pleading with the US President to visit his war torn
country to witness the devastation of the conflict firsthand.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He's europe correspondent Ben Dalny.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
Donald Trump has launched a fresh broadside and Ukrainian leader
Vladimir is Zelenski, accusing him of starting the war with Russia.
But Donald Trump also went on to blame his predecessor,
US former US President Joe Biden, and even Vladimir Pudin.
A rare when Donald Trump criticizes Vladimir Putin, but Vladimir
Zelenski carries the line's share of the blame here in trump'size,
(12:06):
as he says of the Ukrainian leader.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You don't start a war you know you can't win.
Speaker 11 (12:11):
You don't take it a nation twenty times your size
and then ask others for help, of course, referring to
Zelenski's demands for American made missiles. And these comments are
particularly striking given they come just a day after Russia
carried out it's deadliest attack on the Ukrainian soil this year,
a missiles strike in northeastern town of Sumi, killing thirty
four people and injuring a further one hundred and seventeen.
(12:34):
And Trump went on to later run defense of Putin again,
saying the Russian leader that he didn't intend to harm
any non combatants.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
When you start a war, you're going to know that
you can win the war. You don't start a war
against somebody that's twenty times your size and then hope
that people give you some missiles. But that's a war
that should have never been allowed to start, and Baden
could have stopped it, and Zelensky could have stopped it,
and the Putin should have never started it. Everybody is
(13:04):
to blame the.
Speaker 11 (13:05):
War, now, the end of that.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
There you can see, he says.
Speaker 11 (13:07):
Everyone is to blame everyone but himself, of course, as
he went on to repeat another one of his favorite
false claims that the twenty twenty election was rigged. That's
why he says he wasn't in a position to prevent
this war breaking out as it did in twenty twenty two.
In addition to that, there was another Russian drone strike,
this time in the town of Odessa on the Black Sea,
injuring a further eighth civilians. All of this combined terrible
(13:30):
news for the millions across the world who had hoped that,
in this fourth year hour of this conflict, a peace
deal might be within reach.
Good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
A new twist today in the search for the body
of missing mother Samantha Murphy. It's been revealed the man
accused of her murder was escorted out of prison and
taken to Bushland where she was last seen. Our reporter
Cassie Zubossi's life for US in Ballarat, Cassi, Good afternoon.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
When did this happen?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
We'll touch It has been more than a year since
Samantha Murphy left her Ballarat home for a run and
never came back. But late last year, the man charged
with her murder, Patrick Stevenson, was escorted from prison under
heavy police guard and was taken to Bushland in Ballarat,
where the mother was last seen alive. Now this is
a significant development in a case that has well and
(00:44):
truly captivated the country. Detectives from the Missing Persons Unit
Andre now keen to escort him for a second time,
focusing their efforts in and around the Canadian State Forest.
Since missus Murphy's disappearance, police and members of the public
have conducted several searches. In May last year, seven US
reported her mobile phone was found in near perfect working condition. Now,
(01:09):
Patrick Stephenson remains in custody at a prison in Melbourne.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Today.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Victoria Police did release a statement. They said they will
not be commenting because it is before the courts and
it is also very important to note mister Stephenson has
pleaded not guilty. The trial is expected to start later
this year.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Tash Cassie, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
A gunman is right now on the run after killing
a grandmother and a drive by shooting in Sydney, Southwest.
Tom Saker's life for us since Sydney, Tom Good Afternoon.
What do we know about this victim on Natasha?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
We know that she was a sixty five year old
woman inside at the time with two of her children
when she suffered a gunshot wound to the leg, and
despite paramedic's best efforts to save her, she could not
be sad. We know that she was inside at the time,
and we now know, as a result of police updating
the media a very short time ago, that there were
(02:04):
three people who hopped out of a dark colored sedan
and began shooting. However, we don't know if there was
more than one gun us. We just do know that
there were at least eight shots fired into the home.
Whether the woman was the intended target or whether it
was one of her family members, is still unknown, but
here is police speaking to the media a very short
(02:26):
time ago.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
We don't know if there's more than one shooter. We
just know three people got out of the car. It's abhorrent.
Somebody coming up to a house and putting shots off
is totally reckless. In the consequence as a catastrophic we
have a sixty five year old grandmother that's been shot
in the leg. Both people that walked up and shot
of the house.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Our neighbors say it was an incredibly dramatic scene last night.
You can imagine that the woman's the victims family members
were in a state of shock as they were going
through this incredibly traumatic scene. At this stage, police only
have a small amount of security vision showing that dark
colored sedan. The appealing for more information, more video and
(03:09):
more witnesses, the victim's son and daughter. We also know
we're initially cooperating with police, but that now appears to
have stopped.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Natasha Tom thanks so much for the update.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
A person has died when a family home was guarded
by flames west of Brisbane, with police today investigating if
the incident was an act of domestic violence. The fire
broke arts at the property around three o'clock this morning.
A body was found inside, but the identity of the
remains is still unclear.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
At this stage. A prime scene is in place, with.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Detectives treating the blaze as suspicious. The federal election campaign
has reached the halfway mark. A new polling out today
has put the Prime Minister in front bitted up and
is facing an uphill battle as he continues to push
his housing policy political reported Tim Lester reports from the
Labor held seat of Hawk.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Peter Dutton fiercely determined to put his housing policy right
at the center of campaign twenty twenty five, coming here
to an area near Bacchus Marsh, northwest of Melbourne to
visit a house and to talk up the policy that
he made public just a couple of days ago, the
one that would give mortgage interest paid by first home
(04:24):
buyers a tax deductibility status, though other questions emerged in
his press conference soon after, including plans by the Greens
to hold a fundraising party in Western Australia on the
Anzac Day. I think it's completely inappropriate and I think
it reflects the poor values that the Green stand.
Speaker 8 (04:45):
For Anzac Day is a day of respect for the
men and women who've made the ultimate sacrifice. I think
it's not a day for normal business as usual.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Who New polls out in the last twenty four hours
add to the weight of evidence that mister Dutton has
an uphill task to win on May third. The Resolve
poll out today and also an Essential poll both put
Anthony Alberizi ahead fifty three forty seven or fifty three
and a half forty six and a half, and in
(05:21):
one of them Essential, the number of voters not voting
for the major parties is now more than the number
of voters voting for either Labor or the Coalition. So
a really big task for the opposition leader as he
faces the last two and a half weeks of this campaign.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Tim, thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Meantime, the Prime Minister's cross country medicare blitz has taken
him to Tasmania, where his pledging support for extra urgent
care clinics, Anthony Alberinezi today quized on whether he has
his eyes on.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
A third term.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Political reporter Josh Martin reports from the Labor held seat
of Lines.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
Well halfway through the federal election campaign and the Prime
Minister is on a two day blitz of Tasmania at
another Medicare urgent care clinic here in Bridgewater, meeting doctor Badock,
other staff and the clinic's emotional support dog, nukul Tono.
We're in the seat of Lions, held by Labour by
just zero point nine percent. Incumbent Brian Mitchell is retiring
(06:24):
and former State Labour leader Rebecca White is under pressure
to hold the seat. The coalition accusing Labour of running
a sham pre selection so Brian Mitchell could get a
one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars payout for MPs
beaten in the contest.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
It'd be the same for any other contest where you
have two people putting for the nomination.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And I was successful in the pre selection, which I'm
really grateful that.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
At the Albanezi is gaining in confidence though, and he
says he'd like to serve three terms, sidelining the ambitions
of rivals like Jim Chalmers, Tony Burke and Kanie Plibersek,
but he needs to win a second term first, and
no prime minister has served two full terms since John
Howard back in two thousand and four. Two thousand and seven.
The Prime Minister says he won't get ahead of the
(07:06):
Australian people though.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
I'm not looking over my back. I'm not forward and
I'll serve if I'm elected, I'll serve a full term.
I think that's what the Australian people would expect of me.
Speaker 9 (07:18):
The Prime Minister will head to Melbourne later today talking
about housing again and his five percent deposit scheme for
first home buyers, but he's under increasing pressure to reveal
what that will do to housing prices and to release
modeling from the Treasury.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Josh, thank you, and with the Lettust Analysis.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
We're joined this afternoon by political scientists Simon Jackson. Simon,
thanks so much for joining us. You've just jumped on
the desk. In regards to breaking this down. The letters
to polling is showing this week two different polls that
mister Albanezi is in front.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Do you think that's reflective of what isn't going to happen?
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Yeah, it's a broad contentus in the polling. It's been
a very drong recovery for labor. I'd say now going
back to right around the time the interest rate cut,
that seems to be where labor hit its bottom, and
every pole since then, relative to their previous poll, has
had Labor slowly gaining. The question is has that crested.
(08:16):
Has the Coalition been able to do anything to arrest
that momentum swinging back to labor, Because right now, if
the election were held on the numbers that we see
across all the poles, Labor would come back, Labor might
even form a majority, and the Coalition is in danger
of repeating it's twenty twenty two performance and gaining barely
if any seeds at least that the numbers hold up,
(08:38):
because the way we're seeing it at the.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Moment, mister Dutton initially at the start of the campaign
was trying to play some people are setting to the
Trump way of thought with politics, considering what's happened with
the chaos and the tariffs with mister Trump in the US.
Do you think that's played actually to a disadvantage for
mister Dutton.
Speaker 10 (08:54):
Absolutely, absolutely, really unfortunate two weeks start for the campaign,
in part to someone's get the Coalition had made that table,
had dressed that table, that was all set up, and
then of course you get the events in the United
States that were just this huge jolt to global public opinion,
but especially Australian public opinion. But we don't want that
(09:16):
over here. We quite like elements of the Australian welfare state,
the PBS in particular medicare there's things that are baked
into the pipe the Australian Social Compact that they shalt
not touch, and that although it may be on the
table in the United States under Trump and under Musk,
we don't want to bar of that here. And I
think that was really unfortunate that I think Dutton, the
(09:38):
Coalition's campaign really struggled to find clear air. Perhaps this
last weekend, the housing policy figuring so prominently in both
campaigns launches, maybe this is the week that the Coalition
finally getstick to some clear air and is less having
the distance themselves and Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So on the housing policy.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You know, the latest polls actually show that the majority of
voters for the first time, maybe there's been an increase
on neither voting for the major parties being the Coalitional Labor.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The housing policy.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
People may look at it skeptically a bit of a sin,
you can say, is this really going to make a difference?
Am I as a young Australian ever going to be
able to afford to get into the housing market.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
Not just older younger Australians, many people over the course
of the life cycle face that choice if you're living
in an Australian capital city in particular, I think absolutely
the Greens I think did very well early in this
parliamentary term by positioning themselves quote as the renter's party.
I think leaning a little too heavily into the guards
or issuers since cost them votes. But you're absolutely right,
(10:39):
there seems to be no place to go for younger voters.
It's been a reason why that part of the population
has always parked and spoke with the Greens. It's also
part of the reason why I think none of the
above it'd be a handsome bit the teals be it.
Independent candidates are doing so well and if I think
we're going to have an even larger cross bench, there's
(11:00):
sixteen probably going to go north of that in the
next parliament. Real extraordinary because we teach our students Australia
has a two party system and right now we're being
reminded no. Under compulsory voting, you bring a lot of
voters into the electorate who will happily take an alternative option,
preferential voting, also giving those parties a bit.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Of leverage as well.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Still a couple of weeks ago in the federal election campaigns,
so we'll see what happens next. Simon, appreciate your analysis,
Thank you very much. Meantime, Donald Trump has today shown
you blame that Vladimir Zelenski after accusing him of allowing
the war with Russia to start. The Ukrainian president is
pleading with the US President to visit his war torn
country to witness the devastation of the conflict firsthand.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
He's europe correspondent Ben Dalny.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
Donald Trump has launched a fresh broadside and Ukrainian leader
Vladimir is Zelenski, accusing him of starting the war with Russia.
But Donald Trump also went on to blame his predecessor,
US former US President Joe Biden, and even Vladimir Pudin.
A rare when Donald Trump criticizes Vladimir Putin, but Vladimir
Zelenski carries the line's share of the blame here in trump'size,
(12:06):
as he says of the Ukrainian leader.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You don't start a war you know you can't win.
Speaker 11 (12:11):
You don't take it a nation twenty times your size
and then ask others for help, of course, referring to
Zelenski's demands for American made missiles. And these comments are
particularly striking given they come just a day after Russia
carried out it's deadliest attack on the Ukrainian soil this year,
a missiles strike in northeastern town of Sumi, killing thirty
four people and injuring a further one hundred and seventeen.
(12:34):
And Trump went on to later run defense of Putin again,
saying the Russian leader that he didn't intend to harm
any non combatants.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
When you start a war, you're going to know that
you can win the war. You don't start a war
against somebody that's twenty times your size and then hope
that people give you some missiles. But that's a war
that should have never been allowed to start, and Baden
could have stopped it, and Zelensky could have stopped it,
and the Putin should have never started it. Everybody is
(13:04):
to blame the.
Speaker 11 (13:05):
War, now, the end of that.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
There you can see, he says.
Speaker 11 (13:07):
Everyone is to blame everyone but himself, of course, as
he went on to repeat another one of his favorite
false claims that the twenty twenty election was rigged. That's
why he says he wasn't in a position to prevent
this war breaking out as it did in twenty twenty two.
In addition to that, there was another Russian drone strike,
this time in the town of Odessa on the Black Sea,
injuring a further eighth civilians. All of this combined terrible
(13:30):
news for the millions across the world who had hoped that,
in this fourth year hour of this conflict, a peace
deal might be within reach.
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