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#Australia: POTUS cancels PNG, Sidney and Canberra. Scott Mayman, CBS News.

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🗓️ 20 May 2023

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#Australia: POTUS cancels critical PNG, eager Sidney and disappointed Canberra. Scott Mayman, CBS News.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/16/politics/biden-cancels-australia-papua-new-guinea-visit/index.html


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This is CBS, I Am The World, I'm John Bachelors to Australia. And then on to New Zealand, there's

0:21.8

a tragedy in New Zealand that is yet to be an adequately explained arson, the headline

0:28.2

Wellington Fire, known arsonists as police interview him about fatal loafers' large

0:33.7

blaze. There are photographs and video accompanying this, but I need help. Scott Maiman of CBS News

0:41.2

is in Queensland. That's the capital is Brisbane. And we're looking at across the water to New

0:47.4

Zealand. And I'm eager for news about New Zealand. It's a far away place to me, another

0:51.6

galaxy. Scott, it's a difficult say to learn about a place when there's a tragedy. What

1:00.2

can you tell me about this fire?

1:02.5

G'day John, it's tragic, it's horrific. It's one of the worst situations that authorities

1:10.0

in New Zealand have had to deal with as far as fires are concerned. The initial reports

1:17.5

were devastating. The death toll in one respect has reduced, but there's still the search

1:27.7

for more bodies. Now what we know at the moment, one person has been charged and faced caught

1:35.8

over deliberately lighting the fire. But it's only a holding charge if I could explain

1:41.9

that for the moment. There's only one charge at the moment that's holding this person

1:47.5

in court. They made a brief appearance. This holding charge will keep this person under

1:55.7

the jurisdictions until they're able to get authorities and crews into the building,

2:02.5

seek out tragically more bodies that are still in this burnt out ruin. And depending of

2:10.8

that, we are expecting the death toll to rise, but we won't know any more significant information

2:16.7

until early next week. That's when authorities believe they will be able to go into the

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