Sydney school zone tragedy, Louvre heist arrest, Trump goes nuclear

A five-year-old girl have died after being hit by a car outside a primary school in Sydney's north west. 

French police are making headway in their investigation into the high stakes Louvre heist, rounding up another five suspects.

China has called on the United States to respect it's obligations with regards to nuclear weapons. The statement follows yesterday's meeting between Presidents Xi and Trump in South Korea.

7NEWS Headlines with Edwina Bartholomew for October 31, 2025.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good Morning. First to breaking news out of Sydney. A
little girl has died after being hit by a car
outside a primary school in the city's northwest. The five
year old was riding her scooter along a footpath yesterday
afternoon when she was struck by a white use in
Rouse Hill. She was rushed to hospital in a critical condition,
but has since died from her injuries. The forty three

(00:27):
year old driver was taken to hospital for mandatory testing,
police seizing his ute and the child's scooter for forensic examination.
The family of Australian test cricketer Philip Hughes has reached
out to Ben Austen's heartbroken parents after the Victorian teenager
died when a cricket ball struck him in the neck.

(00:48):
They've said they know all too well what the family
would be going through. The seventeen year old was at
a local training session in the nets when he suffered
the catastrophic injury. His parents in currying people to put
out their bats for Ben, honoring his memory by leaving
cricket gear at their front door. Questions remain over whether
neck guards should be introduced at local sporting levels to

(01:12):
protect young players.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well it's more.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Breaking news now out of Victoria, and the state has
become the first to pass a bill paving the way
for a treaty with its Indigenous people, the Upper House
erupting in celebration. The legislation will establish an Indigenous Council.

(01:41):
It's hoped it will lead to curriculum change in schools
and force government departments to consult with Indigenous people on
policies affecting them. Staff at New South Wales prisons are
expected to return to work this morning after plans for
a forty eight hour strike were shot down by the
Industrial Relations Commission. All thirty six of the state's prisons

(02:03):
were sent into lockdown when staff walked off the job
furious that an inmate involved in the brutal bashing of
prison officers won't serve any extra time.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Two of those officers will never work again. This problem
is not going to get any better.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
The government has to act on the is.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
The inmate, Cameron Welsh, will have his parole reviewed in
coming days and the public prosecutor can choose to appeal
his sentence. French police are making headway in their investigation
into the high stakes Louver heist, rounding up another five suspects.
Let's go live now to europe correspondent Ben Danny, who

(02:41):
is right there in Paris. Ben mourning to you. So
what about the stolen jewels? Have they been recovered?

Speaker 4 (02:49):
No sign of those yet more and really no information
gleaned from now seven people in custody, say the French
prosecutors are the carrying out multiple interviews with these suspects.
There is, however, extensive Danna evidence that's been gathered from
their equipment, their items, and obviously leads gained from their
phones that have been seized as well.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
So this is a significant breakthrough.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Now three of the four people who carried out that
heist on October the nineteenth are now behind bars or
said to have catout that he are now behind bars.
The two people who are inside the Apollo Gallery and
one of the two supposed getaway riders on board those
scooters as well.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
That getaway writer.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Police say they'd been tracking for some time knowing he
was part of this operation, an operation that made off
with more than one hundred and sixty million Australian dollars
worth of French jewels that were said to belong to
French empresses and queens.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
In the nineteenth century.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
After using a cherry picker and chainsaws to break into
the Louver in a brazen daylight robbery, and despite sparking
an international manhunt, all of the seven suspects have been
arrested in Paris in the surrounding suburbs. So while one
thief from the day remains, finding jills will be another task.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
French prosecutors issuing a publicly.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Hoping that the jills will be returned, saying that there
is still time for not only to be headed back.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
To the Louver, but also the people of France.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, you'd imagine that would be near impossible to onsell
that stuff, very very difficult. Indeed, all right, Ben Downey
for us there in Paris, thank you. China has called
on the United States to respect its obligations with regards
to nuclear weapons. The statement follows yesterday's meeting between Presidents
g and Trump in South Korea. National Security editor Tymnister

(04:37):
is there.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
As President Trump flew from here back towards the United States.
China's Foreign Ministry spoke about the meeting between the two
presidents Bouch. The two heads of state agreed to maintain
regular communication. He says, President Trump looks forward to visiting
China early next year, and has invited President Shi Jinping

(05:02):
to visit the US. Also addressed, though President Trump's surprise
social media post emerging just minutes before the All Important
Leaders Meeting, aimed at China's and Russia's nuclear programs. I
have instructed the Department of War to start testing our
nuclear weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.

(05:27):
The US last carried out a nuclear test in nineteen
ninety two, but China, while still expanding its nuclear stockpile,
last carried out a nuclear test in nineteen ninety six.
Russia's last confirmed test was in nineteen ninety though President
Putin has claimed recent successful tests of nuclear capable missiles.

(05:51):
China hopes the US will earnestly fulfill its obligations under
the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He says honor its
commitment to suspend nuclear testing. The standout theme of President
Trump's Asia trip has been his promoting himself as a peacemaker.
If he makes good on his latest threat, he might

(06:14):
also be the first US president to test a nuclear
weapon in thirty three years.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
All right, tim lester for US, There Queensid's Parliament has
passed Daniel's Law, establishing the state's first public register of
child sex offenders. It means parents will have access to names, photos,
dates of birth and identifying features like tattoos of those convicted.
The parents of murdered schoolboy Daniel Morcambe were watching from

(06:41):
the public gallery. It's all about Daniel's legacy, it's all
about keeping all about children's safe.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
We're Prendent Brown.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Thousands of school children will take part in the Day
for Daniel walk today, honoring his memory. A council bus
driver has walked free after being found guilty of hitting
and killing eighteen year old tier Cameron in Brisbane Lindsey
Selby swerved onto the footpath, striking Tea as she left
an appointment. The seventy year old received an eight month

(07:14):
suspended sentence. Federal police have made a breakthrough arrest over
the discovery of a huge quantity of illegal drugs inside
a shipping container. A Western Sydney man was arrested yesterday
accused of being the intended recipient. More than seven hundred
kilos of meth and twenty one kilos of heroin was

(07:35):
found inside boxes of dates in December last year. The
twenty four year old is expected to face Bankstown Local
Court today and checking Friday's weather now a possible thunderstorm
for you in Brisbane twenty eight degrees. In Sydney, mostly cloudy,
twenty four the top, a late shower in Canberra twenty four.
A possible shower in Melbourne heading for a top of

(07:56):
twenty two. In Hobart today, a late shower about twenty
one one degrees, clearing showers in Adelaide with the top
of twenty four. In Perth, showers also twenty four and
in Darwin today a possible shower about with a top
of thirty four degrees,