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Welcome to SBS News in Easy English, I'm Camille Bianchi.
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More than 15 hundred people have died in floods and landslides in parts of Asia, with hundreds of people still missing.
In Sri Lanka, Cyclone Ditwah has killed 479 people.
This woman living there says she and her family will have to start all over again.
“We build up our lives with the greatest difficulty. Now we will have start all over again from zero.”
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People in New South Wales are being warned about severe heat today and tomorrow, with temperatures in parts of Sydney expected to reach 40 degrees.
The Bureau of Meteorology's Sarah Scully says it’s going to be a hot and windy day across south-eastern Australia.
"From Friday afternoon into Saturday, a strong cold front crosses the south-east for Victoria and Tasmania, bringing a much colder air mass behind it. More significantly, it pushes the trough northwards, with elevated fire dangers expected to move into eastern, inland and northern parts of New South Wales. This includes the Sydney Metro and Illawarra Shoalhaven districts, where fire weather warnings are likely."
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Israel is allowed to enter the Eurovision Song Contest next year, after some countries wanted it to be banned over the war in Gaza.
Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia disagree with the decision and will not compete at all.
Dr Katja Wildermuth, represents the German and Austrian companies that broadcast Eurovision.
"We are very happy that in the end rules and values and impartiality of public service media has been stronger than emotional public debates of the day. We're talking about the biggest song contest in the world and it's a contest that stands for building bridges, for diversity, for tolerance."
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Tasmania's government has approved a stadium to be built in Hobart, which will allow the state to have its own team play in the AFL.
Federal Greens MP Nick McKim says his party will continue to fight the stadium, which will cost more than one billion dollars to build.
"Well, the stadium order is likely going past the Parliament today, but it's just the beginning of a large number of hills that the government and Macquarie Point are going to have to climb. There are no guarantees that this stadium is ever going to be built, and we will be bringing to the public's attention every issue to do with the increasing cost the government doesn't even have a fully designed stadium, they say 70 per cent. I doubt that. "
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That's the latest SBS News in Easy English.
