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About 300 people have been evacuated in Sydney after dangerous weather hit the SailGP, lifting a catamaran into the air and bringing the event to a standstill.

SailGP said in a statement that the weather had caused "significant damage" to at least one of the boats in competition.

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"As far as we know, no-one was seriously injured during the incident," SailGP said in a statement.

It's understood several people sustained minor injuries and several temporary structures on site were damaged by the storms.

Footage on social media shows the Canadian SailGP catamaran falling victim to ferocious winds in Barangaroo.

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After being whisked into the air, the boat was ripped apart and crashed into a tent, sending people running.

There was also damage to infrastructure at Barangaroo Wharf.

Safework NSW has been advised.

Fire and Rescue NSW said they were in attendance with four fire trucks on Barton St "to a temporary building that has been damaged by the weather".

"Evacuations taking place with numerous minor injuries," they said on social media.

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The second day of the event has been cancelled.

SailGP indicated the scale of the damage could be bad enough for future international events to be postponed.

New Zealand is the next event on the calendar, with the competition scheduled there for March 18-19.

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One Mum paid more than $7000 to fly her two daughters out to safety.

The top diplomats from the United States and China have met in the first high-level contact between their countries since the US shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken sending the message that Beijing's surveillance program had been “exposed to the world.”

Blinken and Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior foreign policy official, held the hourlong talks in Munich, where they were attending an international security conference, according to the US State Department.

“I made very clear to him that China sending its surveillance balloon over the United States in violation of our sovereignty, in violation of international law, was unacceptable and must never happen again," Blinken said Saturday in an interview for television network CBS' Face the Nation.

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His spokesman, Ned Price, said in a statement that Blinken also told the Chinese official that his nation's “high-altitude surveillance balloon program — which has intruded into the airspace of over 40 countries across five continents — has been exposed to the world.”

Blinken had cancelled a trip to Beijing earlier this month due to the balloon incident, which has become a major issue of contention between the two countries.

A meeting at the conference in Germany had been widely anticipated.

Blinken also told Wang that the US does not seek conflict with China, repeating a standard talking point that the Biden administration has provided since it has come into office.

“The United States will compete and will unapologetically stand up for our values and interests, but that we do not want conflict with the PRC and are not looking for a new Cold War," Price said.

Blinken "underscored the importance of maintaining diplomatic dialogue and open lines of communication at all times.”

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In addition to the balloon incident, Price said Blinken had reiterated a warning to China on providing assistance to Russia to help with its war against Ukraine, including assisting Moscow with evading sanctions the West has imposed on Russia.

“I warned China against providing material support to Russia,” Blinken said in a tweet.

"I also emphasised the importance of keeping open lines of communication.”

Earlier on Saturday, Wang had renewed Beijing's criticism of the United States for shooting down the balloon, arguing that the move did not point to US strength.

Beijing insists the white orb shot down off the Carolina coast on February 4 was just an errant civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research that went off course due to winds and had only limited “self-steering” capabilities.

Wang, the director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, repeated that insistence in a speech at the conference and accused the US of violating international legal norms in destroying the object with a missile fired from an US fighter jet.

“The actions don’t show that the US is big and strong, but describe the exact opposite,” Wang said.

Wang also accused the US of denying China’s economic advances and seeking to impede its further development.

“What we hope for from the US is a pragmatic and positive approach to China that allows us to work together,” Wang said.

His comments came shortly before an address to the conference by Vice President Kamala Harris, who didn't mention the balloon controversy or respond to Wang's comments.

She stressed the importance of upholding the “international rules-based order.”

She said Washington is “troubled that Beijing has deepened its relationship with Moscow since the war began” in Ukraine and that “looking ahead, any steps by China to provide lethal support to Russia would only reward aggression, continue the killing and further undermine a rules-based order.”

A 22-year-old man has fallen to his death after slipping on rocks at Gibraltar Falls, south west of Canberra on Saturday afternoon.

It is the second death in less than a week at the popular tourist spot, after 19-year-old Sydney man Tom Livingstone also lost his footing at the same spot and fell over the edge of the waterfall six days earlier.

ACT Police were called to Gibraltar Falls, which is  located about 46 km from Canberra, at about 5.25pm on Saturday.

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About half an hour later, the man was found unconscious in the water but he was unable to be revived. He was pronounced dead at the scene.   

Geoffrey Rutledge, who is the deputy director general of the Environment, Water and Emissions Reduction department of the ACT Government, told reporters tourists were meant to enjoy the site's walking trail and viewing platform but not swim there.

"The signage does show that we don't want people near the edges and we don't see it as a swimming hole," he said. 

"We have many swimming holes within our parks. We don't consider Gibraltar Falls a swimming hole."

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Rutledge said the gates to the park had been closed since last week's deadly accident and a safety review was already underway.

The location had become a popular spot to take photos, due to the influence of social media, Rutledge said.

"Social media seems to encourage people to take photos at that site," he said.

"That's not what we prefer to do, because there are inherent risks with that site. (There are) very slippery rocks and a slippery trip could be problematic."

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