TRANSCRIPT
- Police appeal for information as they search for a Melbourne shooter
- Rockets fired into Israel injure 11 as Iran vows retaliation
- Jockey Jamie Kah wins the Victoria Derby with Goldrush Guru
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Police are appealing for information from people who witnessed a fatal North Melbourne shooting which occurred on Langford St around 3 am on Saturday.
The shooter remains at large after gunning down a man who is yet to be identified and died at the scene, where people had been making their way home from nearby venues.
Victoria Police Detective Acting Inspector Alan Rumble says police are allocating significant specialist resources to the investigation, as well as additional local police.
"We are here to appeal for witnesses. We know that there were a lot of people in the area at the time. We really urge those witnesses to reach out, to contact police and talk to us and provide information, whatever information you have, because this is a significant priority."
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Israel's emergency services say 11 people were wounded after rockets fired from Lebanon hit a house in the central Israeli city of Tira.
It comes one day after reports from Israeli authorities seven people were killed by similar strikes in the country's north.
Emergency services say the eleven people were injured by shrapnel from the strikes and all were being treated for mild to moderate injuries.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, says Israel should expect a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and others.
"In our battle against the arrogance, we will definitely do whatever is necessary to prepare the Iranian nation, in terms of military (preparation), weapons and political work. Thanks to Allah the officials are already busy doing that."
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Meanwhile, in Lebanon, a Lebanese sea captain has been kidnapped by a group of armed men who landed on the coast of a town north of Beirut, with authorities investigating whether Israel is involved.
Lebanese officials say a vessel landed off the coast of Batroun and abducted a Lebanese citizen, without confirming whether the armed men were Israeli.
Officials say the investigation is looking into if the man has links to Hezbollah or if he was working for an Israeli spy agency and forces were coming to rescue him.
The Lebanese transport minister says the man abducted was a captain of civilian ships.
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At least 14 people have died after part of an outdoor roof collapsed at a train station in Serbia's second-largest city of Novi Sad.
More than 80 rescuers and heavy machinery were deployed in an attempt to free people trapped under rubble.
Five bodies are yet to be identified.
The station recently re-opened after years of renovation works, and Serbia's government has launched an investigation into how the collapse could have happened.
Interior Minister Ivica Dacic says the rescue operation was extremely challenging.
"This is one big, it's one huge accident. Unfortunately, despite all of us being ready to react, police, firemen, rescuers, ambulances, the medical workers had nothing to do simply because there were more dead than those injured."
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A U-S jury has convicted former police officer Brett Hankison of using excessive force in the botched drug raid that killed Breonna Taylor in 2020 and helped spark nationwide protests against racial injustice.
Breonna Taylor was a black woman and was sleeping at home with her boyfriend Kenneth Walker when they heard a noise at the door.
Mr Walker thought it was a break in and fired his gun, wounding one officer.
Police then fired 30 shots back, six of which hit Ms Taylor.
Although Hankison's shots did not hit Ms Taylor, he fired blindly through a bedroom window that had a curtain and the blinds drawn.
Alongside the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer, the case helped energise the Black Lives Matter movement and sparked subsequent police reform.
Hankison could face life in prison when he is sentenced next March.
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And in sport, Jockey Jamie Kah has become the second woman to ride the winning horse in the Victoria Derby at Flemington in the lead-up to the Melbourne Cup.
Despite suffering a suspected broken nose in an earlier race, the 28-year-old jockey produced a brilliant ride to claim an emphatic triumph aboard Goldrush Guru.
The Andrew Gluyas-trained colt won by one-and-a-half lengths from Scary, with China Sea third, and Kingofwallstreet fourth.
Kah says the owner of Goldrush Guru Harry Perks had some advice for her.
"Harry (Perks) the owner said, 'You know what fixes broken noses? Champagne, and I'll have plenty waiting for you when you cross the line first', so I'll hold him to that."
