TRANSCRIPT
- Eight more arrests made over the Hong Kong apartment fire ...
- Donald Trump to pause migration from some countries
- Oscar Piastri rules out helping his teammate, Lando Norris, win the world championship.
Firefighters in Hong Kong have confirmed 128 deaths from a blaze in an apartment complex as authorities arrested another 8 people involved in the towers' renovation.
Emergency services are searching each individual apartment of the seven buildings that were engulfed by flames in the Tai Poh district - and say more bodies may be found.
Seven men and one woman were arrested on Friday including scaffolding subcontractors, directors of an engineering consultancy and project managers supervising the renovation.
Three construction engineers were previously arrested.
Meanwhile, residents of the Wank Fuk complex, like Miss Yu, are counting the cost of the devastation.
“This is my home. Look over there, the tenth floor, that’s where my home was. By the hills, that’s where my home used to be. I really want to go back home, but my home is probably gone now. They won’t let us go back, so when I look in that direction, my heart feels so heavy.”
US President Donald Trump has announced he will permanently pause migration from what he says are all "Third World Countries."
The comments mark a further escalation of migration measures Mr Trump has ordered since the shooting on Wednesday of two national guards that investigators say was carried out by an Afghan national who entered the U-S in 2021 under a resettlement program.
Trump did not identify any countries by name or explain what he meant by third-world countries or "permanently pause."
UN agencies -appealed to Washington to continue allowing asylum seekers access to the country and to be given due process.
The death toll from floods across large parts of Southeast Asia has risen to at least 321, with authorities working to rescue stranded citizens, as the waters begin to recede.
Large parts of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have been stricken by cyclone-fuelled torrential rain for a week, with a rare tropical storm forming in the Malacca Strait.
Authorities say another 46 people were killed by a cyclone in the Sri Lanka, with a further 174 people confirmed dead and 79 missing in Indonesia's badly hit Sumatra island.
Police are investigating possible gang links to the shooting death of a man in broad daylight in Sydney.
New South Wales Police homicide squad is investigating with local detectives in Blacktown, Western Sydney.
Superintendent Brendan Gorman says two people have been arrested - and anyone with information is urged to call Crimestoppers.
Mission Australia's annual youth survey has revealed the most important issues to young Australians, including cost of living, mental health, climate change and homelessness.
The survey is in its 24th year - and this is the first time cost of living pressures have received more than two thirds of respondents' vote as their key issue of concern.
Mission Australia CEO, Sharon Callister, says in 2022, only 20 per cent of survey respondents aged between 14 and 19 voted cost of living as the chief issue. Now that has increased to 64 per cent.
"They themselves and their families are having trouble paying bills, deciding whether they pay the rent, potentially or they buy medications. And it's not just them and their families, they're seeing it also with their friends as well. And it is just becoming such a big issue. And when you overlay that with the nearly quarter of young people who rate housing and homelessness as an issue - these are really big things that need to be addressed."
To sport and in formula one,
Oscar Piastri says he won't support McLaren teammate Landon Norris' F1 title push.
Piastri said McLaren had held a "brief discussion" over the possibility of him helping Britain's Norris, during which he had made it clear that he was not willing to do so.
Ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix, Piastri and Max Verstappen are both 24 points behind Norris with two races remaining.
The Australian says he is only thinking about closing the gap and winning the driver's title.
"We'll see how we go. Obviously, there is still a chance. And I want to try and finish the year on a high if I can. So yeah, it's been a pretty good circuit for me in the past. So hopefully, it can be for me again."
