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Mobile footage will form a crucial part of the investigation into the alleged murder of a 24-year-old Queensland man after he was fatally stabbed at a Brisbane train station yesterday morning.

The footage captured Lauie Tagaloa's final moments as a brawl between two groups of men allegedly erupted in Fortitude Valley's Valley Metro shopping complex and train station around 4am, July 11.

Seyram Kwami Djentuh, 20, has been charged with Tagaloa's alleged murder.

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The video footage is said to show the alleged brawl, depicting men lunging and shouting at each other during a confrontation in the shopping centre.

Tagaloa is then allegedly stabbed in the neck and left dying on the floor while his suspected attackers flee the scene.

Three men were later located by police with the alleged murder weapon at one of the train station's platforms.

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Police confirmed both CCTV and the mobile phone footage will play a crucial role in the investigation.

The shopping centre's extensive CCTV network was used to locate the alleged killer and witnesses.

"Police were watching the BCC CCTV when they observed a disturbance taking place in the public thorough fare of the fortitude valley railway station," regional duty officer Sean Cryer said.

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"On close examination they saw a male person lying on the ground, the persons nearby had blood on them- we immediately dispatched the QAS and uniform crews to the railway station."

"A search was conducted for those persons, they were located on platform 4, a weapon was located."

A lawyer for Djentuh did not give a comment on behalf of his client.

Djentuh has been remanded in custody and will appear in court August 8.

Chairs marking infected cabins and handwashing monitors at buffets were just some of the strategies used to try and tackle a COVID-19 outbreak of more than 100 people on board the Coral Princess cruise ship, a passenger says.

Victorian woman Alice Burns was on board the cruise ship for seven days, before disembarking on Sunday in Brisbane. 

Burns said passengers were aware COVID-19 had been spreading for days, but were informed on Sunday that both staff and passengers had tested positive.

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Disembarking from Brisbane on Sunday, the cruise continued on with its voyage, travelling down the coast towards Sydney yesterday.

Burns said she was disappointed the cruise operators chose not to stop the cruise on Sunday when it became apparent the COVID-19 outbreak had spread. 

"They definitely knew they were at the start of an outbreak and they should not have reloaded the ship when we got off," she said. 

"They knew this ship was going down, oh my god, they so knew it."

NSW Deputy Chief Health Officer, Dr Jeremy McAnulty, said just over 100 crew and four passengers were now infected on the ship.

It is the first coronavirus outbreak for the local cruise industry since it restarted voyages after an enforced two-year hiatus.

The Coral Princess is a sister ship to the Ruby Princess, which was linked to 28 deaths after passengers became infected with coronavirus in 2020.

The Coral Princess's operator offered refunds to the more than 2000 passengers before it sailed from Brisbane to Sydney yesterday, but it is understood most turned them down and remained aboard.

Carnival Cruises said all COVID-19 health protocols were being followed. 

"Cases identified are overwhelmingly among crew who were isolated on board in line with the protocols that have effectively supported the resumption of cruising in Australia since May," a spokesperson said.

"Under the protocols, all crew must be fully vaccinated and we also regularly conduct surveillance testing of all crew. 

"Some recorded positive tests in a recent full screening and were isolated and have no contact with guests.

"These crew members are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms."

NSW Health today introduced a new rule for the ship, saying passengers will only be allowed to disembark at scheduled destinations – which includes the town of Eden on the NSW South Coast – if they test negative on a rapid antigen test.

"Crew members will be unable to leave," Premier Dominic Perrottet said.

"Face masks will be required in settings for those passengers who are on that vessel."

In line with health regulations, all passengers on the Coral Princess were required to test negative on a rapid antigen test and declare a negative result before initially boarding the vessel. 

However, Burns said passengers were not asked to show any evidence of their negative test.

"They took everyone's word for it that they did not have COVID, you just tick a box and you're fine," she said.

"They also didn't take your temperature when you got on the ship."

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Four days into the cruise, Burns said she heard some people on board had tested positive and were being confined to their rooms.

"There was one room on our floor. They had COVID and so they were locked in their room and staff had put a stool at the door just to remind everyone to stay away, or to make sure no-one accidentally walked in there," she said.

Burns said it was clear efforts had been made to minimise the risk of infections on board, especially when it came to the buffet, but the measures could have been taken further.

"There was actually a wash station there where you had to soap up and wash your hands," she said.

"They had someone monitoring this and you weren't allowed in there unless you had a mask on. 

"Once you grab your food, you sit down at your table and take your mask off and then when you're walking around back in there, you put your mask back on, so you were masked up the whole time, except for when you were eating and drinking or outside."

Burns said she was surprised, however, that there were no glass coverings on the front of the buffet and that passengers were allowed to help themselves to food.

"I was sort of thinking that they would have a glass in front and they would have staff serving the passengers but it was still open slather in the eating area," she said.

McAnulty said passengers should be aware of the risks if they go on a cruise and suggested it was inevitable there would be outbreaks.

"We know there's going to be COVID and flu cases on ships," he said.

He said there are protocols in place on ships such as testing, treatment and isolation.

He said there are signals including red, amber and green used to indicate cases on cruise ships.

The Coral Princess is now classed as "amber".

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The ship is coming into Sydney tomorrow but he couldn't say if passengers would be tested before getting off.

He said the incubation period might mean that rapid tests didn't pick up cases earlier.

All passengers have to take a RAT – and vaccinated – to travel but don't have to prove it, aside from completing an online declaration.

"It's not surprising, I guess that's part of the information we all need to know, it's not a fail-safe system," McAnulty said.

McAnulty was asked to respond to calls on talkback radio which said the ship should not be allowed to dock.

He said there was already a "surge" of cases in the community so there was no reason for that measure.

"COVID is here. We've got to live with COVID. People chose to go on cruises, there are many many places COVID is, cruises are just one of them," he said.

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New York City's department of emergency management has released an oddly positive and disconcertingly timed video about what to do if a nuclear bomb hits.

The video posted on YouTube earlier today details what a person should do after a nuclear attack.

"So there's been a nuclear attack," the presenter says at the beginning of the video.

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"Don't ask me how or why. Just know that the big one has hit."

The presenter then listed three important steps for what to do immediately afterwards.

"Step one: Get inside fast," she said.

"Staying in the car is not an option. You need to get into a building and move away from the windows."

From there she detailed what to do once inside.

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"Shut all doors and windows. Have a basement? Head there.

"If you don't have one, get as far into the middle of the building as possible."

She said anybody who had been outside when the bomb went off needs to get undressed immediately.

"Remove and bag all outer clothing, to keep radioactive dust or ash away from your body," the presenter says.

The third step is to stay tuned to the media, and to stay indoors until officials say it is safe to leave.

"All right? You've got this," the video ends.

NYC Emergency Management has not explained why the video explaining what to do in the event of a nuclear attack was released now.

Surviving a nuclear bomb usually comes down to how far you are from the detonation point.

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A fireball would consume everything within four kilometres of the largest bomb ever tested, and surviving the initial blast would likely mean a fatal dose of radiation.

Within nine kilometres of the blast point, most buildings would be demolished and fatalities would be close to 100 per cent.

Up to 60km away, windows would be broken and people outside could suffer thermal radiation burns, causing severe scarring or disability.

New York's Department of Emergency Management's video appears aimed at the people outside that radius, who nevertheless would be exposed to radioactive ash and dust which would be very dangerous if not immediately fatal.

New Yorkers and the rest of the world can take comfort in knowing the odds of a nuclear attack anywhere in the world remain low.

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Ukraine's campaign to attack Russian supply lines and ammunition storage sites far behind the frontlines is continuing, with Ukrainian officials reporting another long-range strike against Russian military positions in the southern region of Kherson.

Serhiy Khlan, a member of Kherson's regional council, said there had been "a precise hit" on Sunday at the military unit of the occupiers on Pestelia Street in Kherson city.

There are unconfirmed reports 12 people were killed and US-supplied weapons systems were used in the attack.

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The unit was hit twice on Sunday morning, Khlan claimed.

"Eyewitnesses report the cries of Russians under the rubble. The occupiers shoot in the air when someone tries to get closer," Khlan said.

He told Ukrainian television: "Thanks to modern Western weapons, Russian air defences cannot intercept artillery."

Sunday's attack follows a series of explosions near the airport in Kherson on Saturday, and at what appears to have been an ammunition storage site in the Donetsk region.

But Russia's Tass news agency offered a different account, saying that the target was a mineral fertiliser storage facility that exploded and that a market, hospital and houses were damaged.

Some of the ingredients in fertiliser can be used as ammunition.

Tass said there casualties, without providing an estimate, and claimed the weapon used in the strike was fired from a US-supplied multiple-launch High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS.

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Ukrainian officials didn't comment on the type of weapon used.

Ukrainian military intelligence claimed on Monday to have intercepted a call between Russian soldiers, in which one said that Ukrainian forces had "hit the most important command. They hit f—— hard."

The soldier said 12 people had been killed in the strike.

Meanwhile, Russian shelling of Ukraine's second-largest city on Monday killed at least six people and injured 31, prosecutors and local officials said.

Russian troops launched three missile strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, in an attack one official described as "absolute terrorism".

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Russia's Defence Ministry said the attacks struck at the points of deployment for Ukraine's "nationalist battalions" Kharkiv regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram that the shelling came from multiple rocket launchers, and those wounded and hospitalised included children aged 4 and 16.

"Only civilian structures — a shopping centre and houses of peaceful Kharkiv residents — came under the fire of the Russians. Several shells hit the yards of private houses. Garages and cars were also destroyed. Several fires broke out," Syniehubov wrote.

Earlier, he said one missile destroyed a school, another hit a residential building, while the third landed near warehouse facilities.

"All (three were launched) exclusively on civilian objects. This is absolute terrorism!" Syniehubov said.

– Reported with CNN, Associated Press

A Melbourne aged care nurse has been charged after she allegedly worked multiple shifts at an aged care home after testing positive to COVID-19.

WorkSafe has charged the 36-year-old nurse with two breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act over her alleged actions between July 26, 2020 and August 2, 2020.

WorkSafe alleges the nurse worked multiple casual work shifts at Menarock Aged Care Services Rosehill facility in Highett, in Melbourne's south-east, after she tested positive to COVID-19 and was told not to attend work.

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The nurse has been charged with recklessly placing, or potentially placing, another person in danger of serious injury by attending the workplace after returning a positive PCR test without lawful excuse.

The maximum penalty for an individual for this offence is five years imprisonment and a fine of 1800 penalty points, which was $297,396 at the time of the alleged offence.

She has also been charged with failing to take reasonable care for the health and safety of persons at the workplace.

The maximum penalty for an individual for the offence is a fine of 1800 penalty points, which was $297,369 at the time of the alleged offence.

It is not alleged the nurse's actions resulted in the transmission of COVID-19 in the workplace.

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WorkSafe's investigation of the COVID-19 outbreak at the aged care home concluded the operator had not breached its OHS obligations and had provided extensive training regarding COVID-19 awareness.

The nurse's charges will go before Moorabbin Magistrates' Court on September 7.

A number of other investigations relating to the control of COVID-19 related risks in workplaces remain ongoing.

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