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mariupol and the soldiers who have been taken prisoner now. how big a blow is this for ukraine, do you think? hello? yeah, hi, alexander, can you hear me? yes, i hear you. it s a symbolic blow, of course, but the heroic siege, the heroic defense of mariupol is more to keep the moral of ukrainians high. but it still is a huge victory for putin, who s been very short of victories to present to his people. so and then vei have a two-part question. do you get any sense that public opinion about the war is changing at all in russia? it is in two ways.
election where, as your correspondent said, it was a surprise victory, a miracle victory for scott morrison. and australia, like many other country also a polling failure, and they also pointed at that election to the former prime minister losing and he didn t. it s not the overall vote that counts. got to count the seats, not the polls. and the labor opposition has to win a net seven seats to form government. and it depends where the swings are to whether labor will win. having said that, your correspondent is right. there is a sense or mood for change. in a sense, we have a character competition going on between the prime minister and the opposition leader or prime minister who s largely unliked and an opposition leader who is seen as unsure. and the prime minister sought to make the most of some gaffes on
land, creating a land bridge to the crimea and on to the sea, quite a victory not russians at this moment. one in very few that they ve had. now suzanne, the bombing of the cultural center, yet another attack on what seems to be a civilian target by the russians. reporter: absolutely horrendous. and we heard from the president of ukraine, zelenskyy, speaking out very forcefully about this as soon as word has come of this explosion that took place, taking out the newly-renovated cultural center and injuring seven people, including a child. zelenskyy saying this, calling it absolute evil, absolute stupidity. but part of an ongoing effort for the russians to wipe out the ukrainian culture, the people as well, part of what the president and many here brief is a swren side. also we are seeing fierce fighting again on the eastern
Australian jockey Luke Currie will be sidelined for at least six weeks after scans revealed a fracture to his T7 vertebrae following a fall during a barrier trial in Hong Kong on Friday morning.