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A daughter of Dubai's powerful ruler who tried to flee the country in 2018 only to be detained by commandos in a boat off India has re-emerged in new videos published Tuesday, saying she doesn't know if she's "going to survive this situation."

The videos released by the BBC show Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum at a "jail villa", apparently located in the skyscraper-studded city-state in the United Arab Emirates.

Her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, also serves as the prime minister and vice president in the hereditarily ruled UAE.

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"I'm a hostage," the sheikha says in one video. "This villa has been converted into jail.

"I can't even go outside to get any fresh air," she also said.

The government's Dubai Media Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.

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In 2018, the AP reported how a friend and an ex-French spy helped Sheikha Latifa escape by boat, only to be captured off India.

The BBC said Sheikha Latifa recorded the videos in a bathroom at the villa over months on a phone she secretly received about a year after her capture.

"I don't know when I'll be released and what the conditions will be like when I'm released," she says in a video. "Every day I am worried about my safety and my life."

The videos, part of an episode of BBC's "Panorama" investigative series being broadcast Tuesday, also include an interview with Mary Robinson, a former president of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Robinson appeared in photos with Latifa published by Emirati officials after the sheikha's return to Dubai in 2018.

Robinson told the BBC that she had been misled by Emirati authorities who told her Latifa was a troubled young woman safe in the care of her family.

"I was particularly tricked when the photographs went public," Robinson told the BBC. "That was a total surprise…. I was absolutely stunned."

The dramatic would-be sea escape and its aftermath intruded into the carefully controlled image maintained by the family of Sheikh Mohammed, who is believed to have several dozen children from multiple wives. Some of his sons and daughters figure prominently in local media and online, but others are rarely seen.

Sheikha Latifa was widely known for her love of skydiving prior to 2018.

Sheikh Mohammed's family life again became a public matter in 2020.

Then, a British judge ruled the sheikh had conducted a campaign of fear and intimidation against his estranged wife and ordered the abduction of two of his daughters, one of them Sheikha Latifa.

The ruling came in a custody battle between Sheikh Mohammed and estranged wife Princess Haya, daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan.

Sheikh Mohammed is the founder of the successful Godolphin horse-racing stable and on friendly terms with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. In 2019, he received a trophy from the queen after one of his horses won a race at Royal Ascot.

Victoria looks set to end its third lockdown today unless there is a sudden spike in coronavirus cases.

Four straight days of limited spread of the virus within the community has hopes high the state will be able to end stage four restrictions at 11.59pm.

Premier Daniel Andrews yesterday said Victorians could expect "favourable announcements" today, providing numbers remain low and no mystery cases emerge.

He said the state was "well placed" to ease restrictions, but would not reveal exactly what changes would follow at the end of the snap five-day lockdown.

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There were four new cases on Tuesday, but only two of those were outside of hotel quarantine.

"It is fair to say that with just two, contained additional community cases — this strategy is working," Mr Andrews said.

"We are well placed to be able to make changes, as I said yesterday I'm not in a position to definitively commit to that.

"The next 24 hours will, of course, be crucial.

"We will wait as long as we can to have as much data as possible to make that important judgement."

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It is not yet known if Victoria will return to the restrictions in place before lockdown, or if there will be a slow easing of measures.

"That will be based on public health advice, whether we can go back directly to the settings that were there on Thursday and Friday, or whether we have to ease back into it," Mr Andrews said.

"If we see a continuation of these sorts of numbers, I'm certain the Chief Health Officer and I, and other colleagues, will be in a position to make favourable announcements tomorrow."

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The state recorded two new local cases of coronavirus overnight, both being primary household contacts linked to the private dining event in Coburg.

The new infections take the Holiday Inn cluster to 19 cases.

"They've been isolating, they've been at home, they've done the right thing," Mr Andrews said.

"They're not unexpected positives, although I will make it clear they did test negative some days ago."

Mr Andrews said there were no further exposure sites as the cases had been isolating.

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Victoria's testing commander Jeroen Weimar said 70 primary close contacts had been identified from the woman — who worked across three mental health units at Melbourne hospitals — after she attended the Coburg party.

"There's been a phenomenal piece of work done by the teams at Royal Melbourne and Alfred over the last 24 hours," Mr Weimar said.

"We have not just tested those 70 individuals, but also a whole number of other people and their potential secondary contacts in and around the health units."

Every person tested so far has returned a negative result.

There are about 100 close contacts linked to the two Glenroy kindergarten exposure sites, Glenroy Central Kinder and the Goodstart Early Learning Centre, with all returning negative test results so far.

"We have the pop-up site again active at Oak Park to make sure the remaining close contacts, about 20 people, also conclude testing," Mr Weimar said.

There are 589 household and social primary close contacts linked to the Holiday Inn outbreak in self-isolation.

A total of 499 hotel quarantine staff and residents are also isolating.

While 1,189 primary close contacts have been linked to the exposure sites.

Mr Weimar said health authorities wanted "as comprehensive a view as possible" before deciding to lift lockdown measures.

"We've picked up two new positive cases today, but because they're in our primary close contact network we're not excessively concerned and that's the pattern we want to see," he said.

The latest coronavirus exposure sites listed on the Department of Health website include BonBon Bakery and Sacca's Fruit World in Broadmeadows.

Anyone who visited the stores during the specified times must get tested and isolate for 14 days.

Shoppers who went to the west side of Broadmeadows Central shopping centre, including the fresh fruit and meat section, must monitor for symptoms.

A 13-year-old boy has been killed after he was hit by a bus outside a South Australian high school.

The accident happened at Balaklava, north of Adelaide, about 3.20pm (3.50pm AEDT) today.

The bus driver has been taken to hospital to be treated for shock.

9News understands several students witnessed the incident, with one calling Triple Zero.

A police investigation is underway.

A man convicted of killing a Victorian couple when his car ploughed into them while he was high on ice has been jailed.

Fresh out of the Thai military and then a monastery, Baramee Janorat relapsed into ice addiction when he returned to Melbourne from Thailand.

The consequence of the 24-year-old's drug use was catastrophic for Bruce and Lyn Anderson who perished in the horrific crash.

"You not only abruptly and violently brought an end to their lives … you shattered the lives of many others who cared for them," Judge Rosemary Carlin said in the County Court today.

Today, the former Buddhist monk was jailed for 12 years for killing the grandparents at Bulla in October 2019.

The couple was driving home from a medical appointment in the city to their farm at Baynton in Central Victoria where their son Craig was waiting for them to arrive home.

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Janorat was high on ice and sleep-deprived, screaming abuse at other drivers with his middle finger out the window.

He crossed onto the wrong side of Sunbury Road and slammed head-on into the Andersons' car.

The 68 and 69-year-old grandparents died at the scene.

The court heard today the victims' adult children have been forced to sell their parent's prized 6th generation farm.

Janorat, a plasterer from Melton West, survived with only an abdominal injury.

Witnesses found a loaded syringe lying underneath his hand.

After causing the double fatal crash, the killer driver vowed to remain abstinent from drugs, but a few months later he was caught smoking cannabis and his bail was revoked.

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He has been in custody ever since.

"The knowledge of what you have done will endure long after that sentence is over," Judge Carlin said.

Janorat's parole period is seven years and two months.

He has spent 176 days in custody, which will count towards his sentence.

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