Blizzard Traps Hundreds On Mount Everest

Hundreds of adventure seekers are stranded in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Taylor Swift broke her record for most ‘first week’ sales in just one day; Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman has made an appearance at Paris Fashion Week alongside her two daughters; Police have charged a gunman who allegedly fired into a suburban street in Croydon Park; Man convicted in Gisèle Pelicot case says he ‘never intended’ to rape her in appeal.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Mumma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hi. I'm Cassandra Green from Mamma MIA's
twice daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines. For Tuesday,
October seven, hundreds of adventure seekers are stranded in a

(00:31):
blizzard on Mount Everest. They're stuck on the eastern face
in Tibet as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummels the Himalayas.
Around three hundred and fifty trekkers reach the township of
Kudang on Monday afternoon, guided by rescuers, while a further
two hundred trekkers had been contacted. Some of those on
the lower slopes may still need to be rescued. It's

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not clear how many are unaccounted for. Local authorities did
not respond to AFP requests for information on the number
of people still needing rescue. In the mountains of neighbouring
Qinghai Province, a hiker died from hypothermia and altitude sickness.
CCTV reported on Monday. It's been wet and cold in
the mountains, with a risk of hypothermia for those out

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in the conditions. Hundreds of villages and rescue teams were
deployed to remove snow blocking access pathways on the mountain.
October is usually the peak season for everest treks, as
skies are usually clear over the border. In Nepal and India,
landslides and floods triggered by heavy downports have killed more
than seventy people. Rescue workers have been struggling to reach

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cut off communities in remote mountainous terrain. Taylor Swift's twelfth
studio album, The Life of a show Girl, sold two
point seven million copies in traditional album sales, which include
physical and digital formats, in its first day in the US.
That's according to Illuminate, an industry data and analytics company.
The album was released on Friday. The sales are impressive

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for a number of reasons. Swift broke her record for
the most first week sales in just one day. Her
last album, twenty twenty four's The Tortured Poets Department, amassed
two point six million equivalent album units in the US
in the first week. The Life of a show Girl
has also become the second largest sales week for any
album in the modern era since Luminate began tracking sales

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in nineteen ninety one. That was also accomplished in just
one day. Currently, Adele's twenty five, which sold three point
three million copies in its first week, holds the top spot.
Oscar winning actress Nicole Kidman has made an appearance at
Paris Fashion Week, almost a week after she filed for
divorce from her husband, Keith Urban. The Australian Star fifty

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eight were an oversized white shirt and blue trousers to
the spring Summer twenty twenty six Chanelle fashion show on Monday.
She pose alongside the two daughters she shares with Urban,
Sunday Rose, aged seventeen, and Faith Margaret, aged fourteen. Kidman
petitioned on September thirty to end the nineteen year marriage
in a Nashville court in a filing that stated the

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marriage suffered irreconcilable differences. The filing includes a childcare plan
agreed on by the couple and submitted for a judge's approval,
which says Kidman will be the primary residential parent to
the couple's two daughters, having them for three hundred and
six days per year, with Urban taking them for the
other fifty nine. The detailed agreement suggests that the divorce
has been in the works for well over a month

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at the least. Police have charged a gunman who allegedly
fired into a suburban street, leaving one person seriously injured
and sparking a shootout with officers. The sixty year old
allegedly shot bullets into a Sydney shopping strip in Croydon
Park on Sunday night, plunging residents into an hour's long lockdown.
While no officers were hurt, more than a dozen people

(03:42):
were treated for minor injuries, many of which were caused
by broken glass. One man underwent surgery and is expected
to survive after being shot in the neck while riding
in the back of a car. The shots were allegedly
fired from the window of a unit above a shop
during the nearly two hours standoff. The man was arrested
after tactical officers stormed his unit. A rifle and ammunition

(04:03):
were seized. Who was refused police bail, but will appear
at Burwood Local Court on Tuesday. Less than a year
after Jiselle Pelicoe's husband was found guilty of drugging her
and inviting strangers to rape her. The appeals court is
set to hear a man challenge his conviction. Whosometin Doan,
was sentenced to nine years in prison last December, but

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he denies he intended to rape Pelico. He alleges he
was deceived by Dominique Pelico, Jiselle's ex husband, who drugged
his wife and offered her to strangers while filming the assaults. Doan,
a forty four year old construction worker, goes on trial
on Monday in Nime, southern France. He remains free pending
the verdict. Prosecutors had sought twelve years at his first trial,

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but the court imposed nine. In the original proceedings, Pelico's
ex husband and fifty other men were convicted of sexually
assaulting her between twenty eleven and twenty twenty while she
was under chemical submission. Dominique was sentenced to twenty years
in prison, while sentences for the other defendants ranged from
three years to fifteen years. Of the fifty one convicted men,

(05:06):
seventeen initially filed appeals. Most of those were withdrawn, and
only Doane pursued his appeal. While last year's trials stretched
over four months, the retrial is scheduled to last no
longer than four days, with a verdict expected on Thursday.
That's your evening news headlines. On Wednesday's episode of The Quikie,
we speak to the family and friends of the Australian

(05:27):
aboard the flotilla to Gaza. Plus it's time we unpack
the luteal phase. Listen to The Quickie wherever you get
your podcasts.