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This is Sharry Good Evening from the site of the memorial here at Bondai Beach.

Just four days ago, dozens of Australian Jews were gunned down in a horrific terror attack.

Fifteen were murdered.

The beautiful tributes from caring citizens are growing in number, a reminder that Australians do care about the tragedy of what happened here, and they care about the gross injustice of a community that's been begging for action on anti Semitism for two long years.

Well tonight here there's been beautiful song Waltzing Matilda, the Australian National anthem, and the lighting of the fifth night of the Kannaka Candles.

I've got a major show coming up.

The extraordinary courage of a fourteen year old girl who came out of her place at the Bondaid terror attack to protect two children whose mother had been shot.

KaiA was then shot while saving the lives of these little kids.

She tells her story in a powerful exclusive interview with me.

Shortly also tonight, a young paramedic shot during the attack tells his story straight out of ICU.

He sat down with me from his hospital bed, also the growing anger from his family who asked why hasn't Albineasy shown up?

Plus Angus Taylor, Rabbi Jossi Friedman and Hollywood actor Nate Bars will be here live in Bondi.

But first let's go to the breaking news tonight.

Counter terror police have arrested five men in Liverpool in Sydney's West this afternoon who they suspect were on their way to Bondi.

New Southod's police received intelligence that the individuals had traveled from Melbourne and we're intending to go to Bondi Beach heavily armed tactical offices in camouflage uniforms and helmets.

You can see that on your screen.

Made a dramatic arrest which has been captured on mobile phone footage and you're looking at that now now.

Confidential sources tell me that police took this intelligence seriously given the climate in the wake of the terror attack here on Sunday.

It's unclear what the intention of the men was in traveling to Bondai, but it is understood to have required a strong response from police.

Now New Southeast Police haven't commented publicly on this, other than to say it's an ongoing operation and we'll keep you updated as new information comes to light.

Now families are victims shot in Sunday's massacre are slamming the Prime Minister for failing to visit a single victim in hospital.

Albanezi visited the hero who took down a gunman on Monday, akhmedal Ahmed, and that it s Vincent's hospital.

Yesterday he visited medical staff and frontline doctors and nurses.

But it since emerged that as far as we know, he hasn't visited a single Jewish victim in hospital.

On Sunday night, forty two forty two were hospitalized with injuries and there are still sixteen victims of the attack in hospital as we speak.

Many prominent Jewish community leaders have raised this issue publicly in the past couple of days.

Yankee Super is one who was shot in the attack on Sunday.

I spoke with him today.

It is hospital bed a little while after he came out of ICU, and that interview is coming up.

But Brother Pinny Soup are slammed Albanzi for failing to visit Jewish victims in hospital.

No, we haven't heard anything from the government, and especially not from Melbourneesy, I don't think any of the victims, the Jewish victims from this horrific attack, have been visited by the Prime Minister, and we know why because the Prome Minister is afraid are being confronted.

There are important questions that he raises, and we asked alber Esi whether he'd attended and visited any Jewish victims in hospitals.

I have first put that question in last night and we haven't had a response to our requests for comments.

Albanizi also didn't attend.

It's getting loud as you can hear right now with beautiful Jewish singing in the background.

But Albanizi also didn't attend the funeral of little Matilda today.

You would think this would be extremely important.

She's the youngest ten year old victim of the massacre.

Just a little girl gone down moments after playing with bubbles and enjoying the festival on Sunday.

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At her funeral, Rabbi Ullman said that Matilda's murder was as painful as if it were our own daughter that was taken from us, and he described her as a gentle soul who brought light to everyone around her.

She was remembered as a little ray of sunshine, a kind, compassionate, vibrant ten year old who loved animals, dancing with her sister and spreading joy wherever she went.

We have to continue right now.

We have to grieve.

This a sleeve.

Cook's time to cry with all of the belief, with all of our intellectualizing it, nothing will help.

The sorrow is still Greek to bear it.

But ultimately we have to go on, and this is the only way to respect.

Those are what they can wear from us.

Premier Chris Means also spoke beautifully.

She bore the name Matilda to honor this great land.

Australia's heardened spirit forever hand in hand.

Now angels gather softly.

Their wings are silk and shroud, and Heaven holds her closely.

Far above the cloud.

Her spirit, like a swagman's, will never fade away.

She's waltzing with the angels where love will always stay.

Those sorrow fills the campfire and tears the night have found Matilda's name now honored in every sacred ground.

But Albanisi wasn't there.

The youngest victim of the worst terror attack in Australia's history that took place on his watch.

Chris Mins was there, the Governor General and the Federal Opposition leader Susan Lee, they all took the time to attend.

Well, as you might remember, Matilda's family told me last night that they believed her daughter might still be alive if Albanisi had acted on anti Semitism.

I don't know, I don't know even what to say.

It's it's a nightmare.

They failed.

They failed my daughter, Yes, it's right, and everyone who who was there, they failed, every victim.

Well, all of this comes as Albanie.

He finally today announced new laws to address anti Semitism, but many are saying why did fifteen people have to die for him to do this?

And actually even that wasn't enough for him to act.

The murder of Jewish Australians was not enough, not even a ten year old girl.

The Prime Minister had to be pushed and attacked and criticized, including by Josh Fridenberg, for three days before he finally today called a press conference focusing on anti semitism and not gun crime.

But it shouldn't have taken this.

So here's what he announced.

It includes a new aggravated hate speech offense for preachers and leaders who promote violence, along with increased penalties and making hate and aggravating factor in sentencing for online threats.

A new regime will be developed to list organizations promoting hate, along with a new offense of advocating racial supremacy.

The Executive Council of Australian Jury said the measures appeared to reflect recommendations that have been repeatedly made over the last two years, and they include four recommendations from our Sky News Antisemitism summit back in February.

At the conclusion of our summit, we called for an inquiry into anti semitism at Australian University's action on hate, preachers, action on social media and blocking people entering Australia if they're anti Semitic.

So these recommendations, these four areas from our anti Semitism summit back in February, and it's a summit we only held because there was no national leadership on this crisis, so we took the initiative.

Yet Albanezy Tony Burke and the rest of his government refused to act.

Now he could have done all of this and more back in February when we suggested it, so again, why did it take fifteen murders and a national outcry before the Prime Minister chose to implement these four areas.

But there is one major concern about the new laws.

Albanese said there'd be tough action on hate preachers and hate speech as it related to the promotion of violence.

The promotion of violence have a.

Look aggravated hate speech offense for preachers and leaders who promote violence.

Increase penalties for hate speech promoting violence.

But here's the major concern.

Hate preachers are becoming too smart to utter words that overtly promote violence, and that's why they haven't been captured under the current incitement to violence laws.

These laws are ineffective because promotion of violence is a threshold, that's true high.

We need promotion of hatred laws that would capture the hate preachers.

But you have to ask how committed is alban easy to all of this really, because just last night he stood on the steps of Saint Mary's Cathedral at an interfaith celebration.

He was photographed beside Shaike Shady Usselman, president of the Australian Nationally Mum's Council and The Telegraph Tonight reports that the head of Australia's peak Islamic body Regarded, recorded a podcast with a British activist who called the mass slaughter of Israeli citizens on October seven a lie and said Hermas took hostages to negotiate more freedoms and his organization has been handed twenty five million dollars of taxpay funded grants.

Well, this Calm says, I can now reveal more information about the failures leading up to the Kannacher event here on Sunday, I'm told that Jewish community and security groups had asked for more police resourceing ahead of the Kannaka at the Bay event, and this included static what's known as static or on site police rather than only roaming police.

And the Jewish Security Group CESG had also previously asked to be armed at events like this which were considered high risk.

Now I understand both of these requests were refused.

I put this to new Southe's police today and they told me, and I quote here their response, we can't confirm what's been reported to you because all circumstances surrounding what happened at Bondai on Sunday are subject to a critical incident investigation, but the Premiere, Chris Mins told me on Tuesday that he is now considering allowing CSG to be armed.

Do you think there isn't an argument for the Jewish security the CSG to have to have weapons so that they could respond to serious threats like this.

Yes, I do now.

CSG have been in discussions with the new South Wales government in the last twenty four hours.

They're given permission at Jewish places of worship Jewish schools to be armed on site.

But we're in discussions with them about events Jewish events in particular.

But this is all too little, too late.

Now, this all needs to be examined in a proper royal commission that has to be held in the wake of the worst terror attack in Australia's history.

There shouldn't even be an argument about it.

As Jeff Chambers writes in The Australian, the failures of governments on anti Semitism must be investigated by a dependent inquiry and one thing is for clear.

The Prime Minister needs to stop hiding Albanizi needs to front up apologize for letting Jewish Australians down and take personal responsibility for the devastating tragedy that took place right here, and among those, he should apologize to Little Matilda's devastated parents.

Ohia is the most extraordinary fourteen year old girl I think I've ever met.

In the middle of the Bondai terror attack, she made a decision that saved lives.

Kaya saw a mother had been shot badly so and was begging someone to take to save her children.

Whia, just fourteen, came out from her hiding spot and shielded two little children aged under five.

She was then shot, and yet she still kept protecting them.

She's now recovering from her injuries and she agreed.

Well.

She even wanted to share her story, and I sat down with her this afternoon.

Kaya, you just got out of hospital.

You've still got the hospital wristband even.

Look.

Take me back to the kinnik A festival on Sunday.

What were you doing when the firing started?

So, me and my friend Aaliyah, we were in the petting zoo, and actually it was two minutes before, like after I went straight from the petting zoo after I brought this necklace and we were in the petting zoo and we heard the noises and I was like, what is that and she was like, it's probably fireworks, and I was like, but there's no fireworks in the daytime.

Like it seemed a bit strange until we figured it out, because obviously it was everyone was screaming get down, get down, you need to get down.

So I was like, you know what, this is what we got to do.

We got to get down and we have to stay calm because us freaking out about the situation.

Is not going to make anything better.

So I was like, you know what, we have to calm down everyone around us, and we have to make sure that it's like we can make the best out of this situation.

So I ran under the bench.

I was safe under the bench, and my friend Aliyah was under the like a pram.

She found a pram to shelter her.

And it was a few minutes of the shooting and we were all praying and saying Shama, which is one of our prayers that is like about unity and about like declaring our God as one and saying how much like just.

Expressed it must have been terrified.

I was, but I channeled that energy into becoming proud.

So I after a few minutes of the shooting, I looked around and obviously there was horrible sightings, but.

To mine there was there was a pause in the shooting.

Yeah, there was a pause, and I looked to my side and there was an elderly woman and a woman that was around twenty five, I could say.

And when I looked at them, they were it was like obvious.

I could see that the elderly woman was shot in the stomach and the younger one was shot in the head, and I.

Got good see.

Yeah, it was hard, but I could see like them bleeding out, and I could see it was very graphic, and I saw they I remember hearing them screaming like please save my son, Please save my son, Save the children, save their children.

So all that was going through my head was my mission is to save this children, and this is God testing me.

You had this message telling you go save those little kids.

Yep.

So and how old did you say they were?

They like around three or to five, I'm not sure.

They were little toddless.

So I climbed that from under the bench and everyone was screaming like get down, say yourself, save yourself.

I was like, no, God is next to me.

God is telling me.

God is with me, and I'm doing this, So I sorry.

I climbed out from under the birds and it was still shot firing and I was under the.

So they'd started up again the pit.

They started again.

I was like, I don't care, I'm doing it.

Whatever happens is for the good, and if I die saving kids' lives, then that's the best way I would want to die, because that's what God wanted from you.

So take me back to that moment.

So you were hiding, there was a break in the shooting.

You look up and you see these an elderly woman and then a younger woman, both clearly not in a good stay yeah, shot badly, and the younger woman screaming, someone, look, take my kids, save my son, Save my son.

So I climbed under and I grabbed the kids from them, and it was really heartbreaking.

What is it all they had that mom.

I'm not sure if it was a mom, but I know that the son it was the son's mom.

They were covered in blood.

Had to tell of the people that.

They were the mom.

So she was holding them.

So I grabbed them and I just fully went on top of them like I felt like it was an out of body experience, Like I felt like I was watching a movie and this was what was happening.

So I jumped onto them, and I was like a cave to them, like I went on top and I just laid on top of them.

And the woman who was saying, save my son, she was the one who'd been.

Shot in her head.

So she'd been shot.

In her head.

She's holding her children looking for someone to.

Help them because she couldn't physically roll on top of them, like even if she tried, because they were next to her.

So I just when I took them then, I was cleaning their faces and I was telling them that I loved them so much to what happened then.

So I went on them and I felt the impact of the shot and I knew I got shot, and I said, I don't care, I'm protecting Where were you shot?

I was shot on my side around here.

It's like elevated right now.

But it's a pretty big bullet.

They said.

It was like the size of a twenty cent coin and it was like a few centimeears thick.

But thank god, the surgery went well and I got it out.

You were shot in your leg and you're still lying protecting these two little kids at three five year old, and I mean, you must have been in a terrible pain.

I in that moment, I channeled the pain into strength.

Like I don't know how I did it.

I never practiced doing that in my entire life, but in that fourteen you just finished your eight.

Yeah, you're incredible.

Thank you.

And so while you're protecting these little kids, you try to find your phone to call the police, to call TRIPLO.

And it was ringing and ringing and ringing, and finally I get a voice and they were like, I said, I'm sorry, there's so man, people shot a lot of people.

But I didn't want to scare the kids because I know they've obviously already been traumatized.

So I was like, you know, you probably don't understand, and I need you to be here.

I said, the police please come like it's like, like we need you to step up and support the country because you say I've been shot.

Yeah, I said, I've been shot.

There's a lot of people that have been shot.

I see a lot of people that aren't don't look well.

I was saying, please come, like, come on that beach, like, I'm sure you're getting a lot of cools, but you need to be here, like you need to support our country and you need to be here.

And then I got a voice and it was saying, sorry, we don't have time for you.

There's too many people calling right now.

And they hung up.

They hung up, and so what did you do?

Then?

You tried to call Tripolos?

What was your next move?

I called my dad and he said, I'm coming right now, and he ran to me and he told me after that when he found me, I had one kid in one arm and another kid in my other arm, and a member of our community, the sephardi Aback community of Sydney, he took the kids from me so my dad could start like to put pressure on the wound.

And I honestly, like, I thought it would just be a hole in my skirt, but when I looked down, I saw like the hole went through my skin, like I could see everything going on in my leg.

Kyah, you are.

I can't believe how courageous and amazing you are.

I mean, if you would have stayed in your hiding spot, you never would have got hit.

But you came out of your hiding spot, put yourself into the line of fire, literally to protect someone else's children.

Do you know what happened to that the mother and the older woman.

We haven't found that out.

We've been trying to reach out and find those kids and locate them, but we just you'd love to meet them again.

I just felt so connected to them.

And that's what the Jewish community is like.

If someone asked me what was one word to describe the Jewish community, I would say family, because in that moment everyone was.

It felt like we were all brothers and sisters and we were all in it together.

And so you'd love to find those two little kids again and make sure they're safe and to know that their mum is okay.

I really want to connect with them.

Yeah, and that if it is the grandmother.

We don't know if it's the grandmother or not.

Yeah, well, hopefully we'll be able to try reconnect you.

And so then you were taken straight to hospital.

You've had multiple surgeries.

I had one surgery, and basically what happened was is after that, the kids went to the pavilion where a lot of other kids were and where they went to locate their family, and the Bonde rescue.

You guys came.

And there were so many injured and so many wounds in so many like so many casualties that they had not enough stretches.

So they had to put me on a Bondair rescue life a surfboard and a bunch of men carried me out and they put the blanket over me.

And when I was there, I saw so many people's that was like all of the people.

It was like my cousin's uncle's friend and my teacher's brothers sister, like it was so it was like.

It was like it just felt.

So real in that moment, like that was when I got the like the shock of what actually happened.

My dad told me that after the surgery, like I was telling all the surgeons, I love you so much because in that moment, I felt that God made me be on this earth for a reason.

And why not share good because you.

Felt so supported by everyone around you?

Why not love the light in the tunnel of darkness?

Kaya, Thank you so much for sharing your Story's the most incredible fourteen year old girl I've ever met.

Very brave is that the most Isn't that the most beautiful, incredible story you've ever heard, and what an amazing and courageous teenager.

Genuinely, this terror attack showed us the most the worst of humanity and then the best heroes like Kaya, who could have stayed in her safe hiding place but came out to protect those little girls.

And if you're watching this and you know who the mother is, how the mother is, please reach out to me and let me know.

All right, well, we're broadcasting live from the site where the terror attack took place.

In Joining me now is Shadow Minister for Defense, Angus Taylor, Angus to see you.

Now, we've just as we've been standing here, you know, reporting tonight, there's been the most beautiful singing Waltzing Matilda Chance of Ozzy Azy Azziii Ossie Legend.

Nova Peris has given a speech.

She broke down in tears as she did.

So the atmosphere here is incredible.

Isn't it absolutely incredible?

Shark?

Can I say what a privilege it is to be here for me, at this beautiful, beautiful vigil under such dramatic circumstances tragic circumstances, of course, but you can't help be captivated by the energy and love from the ground.

And I mean, look, at the size of this floral tribute.

I've been here every single day since the night of the terror attack, and it started off as a small bouquet, you know, a bunch of flowers, and it's just grown, it's taken up.

Look at that.

I mean you, thousands and thousands Australians from all walks of life, all religions have come here.

Yeah, absolutely right, and I mean coming in here to Bondo today it was incredible just the number of people paying their respects to what has been a dreadful.

Dreadful set of circumstances.

But the communities come together and that's when Australia's added.

I want to get to the Prime Minister's press conference today.

He was urged to act on anti Semitism.

He finally did that today, not one lawsy out a press commons and anti semitism.

What did you make of the measures, he announced, Well.

We welcome them, but frankly they're too little, too late, showing too late, because we saw the warning signs on this from October seven.

Two days later, we saw the chanting and the steps of the opera house, and the graffiti and the intimidation and the harassment and the fire bombing, and still we didn't see the action we needed, and too little because we know that the threat rating was raised in the middle of last year.

There's been no extra resources put into counter terrorism in this country during that time, and we were not prepared.

That's the reality.

Josh Freidenberg here yesterday said he felt the Prime Minister was personally responsible for this attack.

Do you agree with that?

Well, I think he is responsible.

I mean I think we all need to reflect on what we could have done more to avoid this.

But the Prime Minister in particular has the most ability, the greatest ability to prevent something like this, and what is very clear is there was a failure of leadership.

That is absolutely clear for the reasons I've just said about the warning signs we saw.

Do you think more needs to be done on the issue of radical Islamic radicalization?

Absolutely?

I mean that is the root cause of the problem.

For that, this absolutely extreme, cancerous religious and ideological extremism, which is not just in Australia but around the world, is a rot and that's what caused this.

It absolutely needs to be weeded out.

We do not want it in this country and we have to do everything we possibly can to get rid of it.

I want to ask you about the question, Josh Friedenberg was asked on the ABC last night.

I don't know if we need to play it again.

Everyone's probably seen it by now.

Friedenberg was asked whether he gave that speech yesterday because he wanted to get back into politics.

He reacted in a very emotional way because this is an issue that's clearly extremely important to him, as it is what should be to all Australians, not just Jewish Australians.

What did you think of the question, the seven thirty host asked him.

Well, she asked him whether it was politically motivated.

Well, he was motivated by his community and by his country, and they are the right motivations.

I thought it was a suburb speech.

I thought you said exactly what he needed.

And the truth is the ABC gets a billion dollars lee of fund, he doesn't need to ask.

Questions like that.

Yeah, it is absolutely ridiculous as a question.

Right, Angus Taylor, thank you so much for your time.

I appreciate you being here as well.

All right, still to come, Hollywood actor Nate Buzz joins me and Rabbi Yossi Friedman will light candles for the fifth night of Kannaka Live on the show plus.

The young paramedic who was shot here on Sunday speaks to me from his hospital bed that's after the break.

Yankee Super is a twenty four year old paramedic who was one of the first shot in the terror attack.

He was on the front line volunteering with Hutsola, which is the Jewish community's volunteer ambulance service, when the shooting began.

Well from his hospital bed today, he described the moments that saved his life.

Yankee, how are you so good to see you?

How you don't get up?

I'm okay.

I don't think I can anyway, joking, So good to see you.

It's good to see you think.

Amazing, amazing, you're here, amazing, amazing, you made it through.

So you were at the Bonda Kannaker event and had you heard shots or I was?

When I arrived, I sat up a station for myself with all my equipment.

Okay, someone gets injured.

I put myself right of the entrance so I got a good advantage point the whole whole, the whole area, so I see if you're an injured, I can see where they I can get to them quickly.

So you were closest to the end.

So it was the entrance.

The entrance, Yeah, and I was standing there and even here shots or just I just felt like a zap in my body and I fell to the ground.

And then did you realize it was pretty much straight away?

Then blood's been coming out of my mouth, and those I thought shot in the head to quickly felt around was shot in the head, and I could feel blocking in my back.

And then then I could already see just shots flying over me in the entire park, on the ground.

If on the ground, looked to my left, people lying to my right, people lying on the ground.

Were you terrifying all over the ground?

Yeah, look I was hearing you don't expect that, especially in Australia.

But I grabbed my radio.

So my my radio as a microphone.

The microhone comes up around my back and sits up on my shoulder.

So when I was lying on the ground, I went to reach for the mine.

You normally would radio for help.

I grabbed the microphone.

It's not there's nothing there.

It's blown off.

So I had to grab the actual radio and disconnect the micro from the radio, and I hit my dress, and I called on the radio.

I said, instead of been hit.

All right?

Time for where are you bleeding from?

Where are you bleeding from from?

I don't know?

Twenty three you need to calm down.

Twenty three you need to calm down and try to stop the bleeding.

And that call was do you think seconds after.

You'd been here?

And one of the guys was the behindsman.

He left that event.

He got in his car, he drove down so he and he had Kelly, she was in the car with him.

There.

She jumps in the car and he responsive to to where I was, and he was sooner worded to where are you?

Where are you?

So I'm on the ground and with the entrance, I'm shot and I saw him pulling in.

I could look.

I looked up.

I saw his car pulling in the store, the store, gunshots firing.

She was talking about ten minutes to allow till till he stopped, and he or I still underli fire.

He arrived and came to help you while while the wart's lying.

So brave of him and so when you radio to Hatsola, they would have then called the police and don'tified the police as well.

The controls that would have there, and I need to respond to multiple casualties.

I need every resource.

I need everyone down here.

It's such a beautiful Kanneker event, children's rides, petting zoo music, the lighting of the Kanukia which was about to happen.

It's such a happy, relaxed event.

The shooting hadn't started.

You suddenly felt like you'd been hit on your back.

I mean, what was going through your mind at that point?

Nothing went as As soon as I was on the ground, I realized what happened.

I just think I was grabbed the radio and called them the radio.

Could you see the shooters?

I couldn't see them.

Could you see other people started all over.

The ground, A and he.

Once the shooting stopped, I stood up and I ran to my car.

And because I still have ambulances at that point, the soon just just stopped.

So I need to get to hospital.

So I jumped to my car.

I gave the keys to someone else.

I said, just drive me to the hospital.

So he jumped in the front seat and I jumped to the pasture seat, and we started pulling out of the parking lot.

And as we pulled out, the ambulances that are coming in.

So I said, pull over, let me jump out, and so he pulled over.

I jumped out of the car and I ran towards the ambulances.

And I know all the paramedics personally, my first name.

I see them every day.

I work with them all day.

They didn't realize I was shot.

I ran towards them, and so I was showing their names.

I said, so then their names.

I've been hit.

I've been hit.

They thought I was running to help them, and they grabbed me and just leaning on the ground, and I started cutting off my clothes and started treating them wounds.

And before that, and when you were lying on the ground, you're a paramedic, So what did you do to try and stop the bleeding?

So I grabbed my kipper and I folded it and I felt whether I felt blood coming to my back and I was laying on my stomach.

So I took my keyp off and I put it on the ground that I rolled onto my back and I lay back on the key part to use my keyber to try.

Oh wow, that was clever.

I stopped the stop the bleeding.

So the pressure of your body weight on the ground would hopefully try to stop the bleeding.

I think it helped.

Yeah, and it was it incredible pain.

Yeah, the pain was I wasn't thinking about the pain at that point.

Once I was in the ambulance on the way to hospital.

Then that when I was just trying to just trying to get responders that come down there to help us.

And I heard when you were finally on the way to hospital, you started giving directions about which medication you should be administered.

Yeah, I know all the I knew the parmenters who are treating me on you.

Then well it's the guy who was treaming.

I saw him a week early on an emergency with him, I'll just give you my advice what I recommend, and they listened to it.

And so then was it touch and go for a while when you were in the hospital.

So I remember coming to the hospital and going into into emergency, into the scan, into theater, and then just before theater, the doctor he as I went on the table, he came to me, he said, what's her name?

My name is Yankee.

You say Yankee, I'm also Jewish, and then he he he knocked me out and anesthetic.

Yeah, and I woke up three am.

The next morning, so they had to remove the bullet.

They had to.

So I was shot in the in the left side, but it's just here and the shrapnel collapsed my right lung.

So my left lung was actually fine.

It was the right lung which has impacted and the bullet missed my spine by two centimeters.

So they had to remove the bullet and some of the shrapnel.

The type of bullets that were used, the ones that that then shatter that causes maximum impact on your body.

Yeah, yeah, those balls are designed to once they enter to shutter to cause max impacts for hunting really, so to make sure they hit an animal.

It's a it's a clean shot, because a regular book sometimes miss and that when the shrapnel goes everywhere, there's no there's no chance.

So that's that's why they use that in hunting.

And that's why it's also so dangerous because it's not just the impact site the shrapannel went into your right lune.

It was the strapnel which collapsed my my right lunge and so how.

Are you doing now in terms of breathing?

And so I've only got half capacity of my right lung and they put a drain in there is an actual there's a drain in the back of that along with the vacuum connected right now, vacuuming out out of the lung and.

All that you just got out of ice you an hour ago, an hour ago.

Yeah, I mean, it's it's great news that you're improving.

I have to go back to surgery again tomorrow for a third surgery, and they'll make up their minds off that surgery if I have any further.

What happened around you?

So when you were down on the ground, and you're obviously very aware, you made the call to the radio, and then what else were you seeing?

People screaming?

But within within sixty seconds of shots being fired, we already heard police cars coming.

The police were there really with extremely quickly.

They were there very.

Before the shooting.

I was looking around the park and I saw three cops staying, and I actually know three.

I knew two of the three quite well from a lot of the work we do.

We worked up place quite closely.

I knew I knew two of the two of the cops who were actually hitting the hero.

They really are amazing.

People, And you believe you were the first shot.

One of you because I didn't really hear anything before that.

I didn't hear.

All I just felt was stuff got to the ground and then the shooting starts.

So based off that, I think I was one of the first one.

It's hard to know, and.

What have your reflections been since then?

Of a family Khanika event been the target of gunmen.

So they try, people try to cause evil in the world.

They we were there spreading light.

I was there the fresholl capacity to help people, and they came to destroy and help people.

But not lucky.

Luckily, I'm still alive.

Thank God looked after me.

I'm still here.

But it's a real.

Miracle, something you'd never expect in Australia.

Never, never, never would have thought in Sydney, Australia.

It's just this would happen.

How are you feeling about getting out of here and going out in public again.

I'll be back.

I'll be back at work as soon as I can.

Went back back to saving lives.

I took my radio with me from the scene to the hospital.

Right on the way, I had my radio with me the whole time.

Right I heard calls coming through.

I heard the radio looking forward to ga.

It's covered in blood, but I'm looking forward to washing it up and getting my radio back, and as soon as I can be back, I'll be back saving lines, back on the road.

Back on the road as a paramedic.

Well, Yankee, thank you so much for sharing your story with us just less than an hour after getting out of ice.

You.

You're very courageous and thank you for the contribution you make.

Okay, still to come.

Nate Buzz flies into Australia and will share his reaction to this attack, and Rabbi Yossi Friedman will light Kannaka candles on the fifth night live on air with a powerful message of light over darkness.

That's next, Welcome back Well.

The Prime Minister says the nation won't be divided by evil, but Sydney's Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher is warning that it already is.

When he spoke in Submits and Mary's Cathedral, he condemned the divisive and inflammatory words heard a week after week in demonstrations in Hyde Park with joining me now is Hollywood actor famous for Vampire Diaries and more.

Nate Buzz, Nate, good to see you.

What do you think of the archbis Bishop's comments?

Do you agree?

Well?

I think the most important theater we need to realize is that the words and the language that has been used for the past two years has come to fruition.

You know, what the pro Palastinian movement has been promising to do and targeting the Jewish community happened on Sunday And that might be hard for a lot of Australians to accept, but you and I have been warning this country for two years that there are some sinister, bad players in this pro Palestinian movement that have been radicalized, and now we saw the fruits of that.

If you accept the language of globalized the inter Fada, you shouldn't be surprised when violent acts happen.

And I think most Australians are completely shocked at what happened, But this is what Israelis have been dealing with for decades.

I mean, the First inter Fada and the Second inter Fada were defined by the violence of the Arab Palestinian movement and now we're seeing it in Australia.

And what concerns me most about that is this is Bondi Beach, this is where I grew up.

This is the furthest place you can get from Israel and now they've brought the war to every day Australians.

But this radical Islamist ideology has is behind this.

Yeah, And what's scary is you know the young man that.

Has allegedly behind this.

Yes, the young man that you know is now just come out of a coma.

He was radicalized in Australia, allegedly allegedly radicalized in Australia.

I might ask you as you just said, you know, you're in Australia and you spend a lot of time in America and in Israel.

Come home today, coming here tonight to this site and seeing the thousands of bouquets and the tragic notes from children.

I mean, how does that make you feel?

What breaks my heart is the Jewish community here, specifically in Sydney.

That I know very well.

They are amazing, incredible people that have only given to this country, and they have been so forgotten about over the past two years.

I mean I remember seeing graffiti on cars saying kill the Jews.

We can't forget that.

And I think a lot of Australians have ignored what has been happening in the last two years.

And now the Jewish community who has come together behind us who celebrate life.

I mean, we heard the Australian.

National anthem, we heard people coming together to mourn the innocent people who were killed.

And what I would love to see is Australians walking across the Harbor Bridge in solid area with them.

Would be beautiful.

Yeah, I agree as a strong Christian yourself, do you think the majority of Australians are with the Jewish community?

No, I don't.

I don't think they're with the Jewish community.

I think they've been brainwashed with lies and propaganda from pro Palestinian propagandas for two years on social media that they have no idea what's really unfolding in Israel, in Gaza, what's happening to Jewish communities.

All over the world.

I mean, we've had a stabbing in Manchester from a man named Jihad on another Holy day, a Jewish festival called yon Kipau.

I mean, this was a targeted attack.

And I don't think the Australian community really understands the evil that's behind people who inspired to do such things.

And we have to wake up.

And I think this is a real choice whether Australians choose Judaism or jihadism.

It's that simple.

And the reality is Judeo Christian values underpin our life here in Australia.

Yeah, I mean, that's what makes a functioning, healthy society.

But you know, as a Christian, I can confidently say this, it's not Judaeo Christian values.

It's Judeo values.

You know, the Messiah, the Jesus that I follow, was Jewish.

He taught from the Torah.

He lived by the rules and the principles of what was presented in the Tour into the Nark.

So the framework of Western civilization can simply be described as Jewish values, and that's what's under attack.

So again Australia has to decide what kind of country we want to live in, because this is a tipping point.

If the government doesn't come down hard on those who wish violence on this community, the Australia that we're going to live in is not going to be the same as it was yesterday.

Very well, said Nate.

Thank you as always for your incredible support and appreciate you being here tonight.

Thank you fresh off the plane, Yes, thank you.

All right.

Well, let's return to the breaking news story this afternoon, and that is that seven men were arrested by counter terror police in Liverpool.

In Western Sydney, police have now released a statement.

They've said that a police operation in Liverboo has now concluded tactical operations.

Police responded to information received that a violent act was possibly being planned.

Police intercepted two cars as part of the investigation.

As investigations continue, seven men seven are assisting police with their inquiries and at this point in time, police have not identified any connection to the current police investigation of the bond Eyed terror attack, so this is unrelated to their investigation into the bond Ei terror attack.

But as I reported earlier, I have confirmed that police received intelligence that these men from Melbourne.

That these men from Melbourne were planning to travel to Bondai.

It is unknown what their intention was.

All right, let's bring it now live at the memorial site.

Rabbi Yossi Friedman, who's been welcome.

Rabbi, you've been an absolutely inspiring figure.

Come in a big close, an absolutely inspiring figure here at the memorial every single day since the attack.

How have you personally managed to keep the community together at the single most devastating time in Australian Jewish history.

It has just been absolutely horrific, and it's just it's hard to even fathom now.

It feels like we're in a nightmare and if only we could wake up from it.

But sadly I detarted to realize yesterday when the funerals were taking place, so we were not waking up.

This is our reality now, and we just have to somehow like we always have.

We have to find the inner strength, be in a resilience and the inner light to keep going and to not forget our mission, which is to continue to increase light.

And it's so ironic that they try to prevent us from even lighting one candle at the outset of Kanaka.

We're about to usher it in and the forces of darkness cut us down.

But yet, as we saw tonight, we still are lighting those candles.

We will bounce back and we will not let those forces of hate overtake us.

I've seen, I mean even just on the program tonight, but we've seen so many inspirational, beautiful stories of you know, from a fourteen year old to the hero Akhmed who stepped up to play their part in trying to stop this tragedy or stop making it worse.

So that is something that's uplifting as well.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean what's given me a lot of courage is spending every member I can hear at the memorial and see so many hundreds of thousands of people streaming through from all different backgrounds, people coming from all over Sydney, Australia and actually the world, different organizations to stand with the Jewish people and to say no to hate.

And that has actually raised my expirits.

Yeah, I think that is the real Australia.

It's the people that we are witnessing now.

Who open up their doors to those fleeing, sending beautiful messages against hate.

That is Australia.

Well, it was a Kinnaker event, as you said, where the killer hunted Jews.

So I want you to tell us about the message of Kinnaker.

While we liked the Kinnaker counters that are I think this has ever been done live on air on Sky News.

That's our lovely young help you here can come in and bring us that.

Maybe you can even hold it for us that the Knukia, So YOSSI tell us about the message of kanukas we liked the Kanukia on the fifth Night to.

Night Night, So it's a special night because tonight the majority of the candles will be lit, the majority of the darkness will be vanquished.

And this is an.

Ancient Jewish symbol of love, light and peace, which goes back to the ancient temples that stood in Jerusalem, where this was the focal point of our worship and our devotion to God and to each other.

And so we like these candles every year to remember the miracles that took place in our past where we were able to serve God freely and respect each other.

And so every year we like these candles for eight nights.

Well, have we got a lighter handing?

Yes, we do.

Just behind you here, let's grab this one.

So normally you start with the shamash, which is the center candle, but it is heerent bondi.

We we've been struggling with the win, with the wins very week, and when they're encased, they still blow out.

So we're going to do our best.

Great, let's try.

Here we go, So this is our shamash.

This is the center candle from which you light all the others.

Let's and as you can see, the shamash the servants stands above the ark.

We've only got a minute left.

So let's I don't know lo Hano, Mela a share pit Ivan la Lecnaire, Sure don't know Loolam Sham bas Mahan has.

Then you're doing a great job.

What's your name?

Asha?

Thank you Asha?

Okay, we're just keeping them light.

It's say we did it.

There you go, the message of light.

The terrorists did not win.

All right, Thank you so much, Yossi, Thank you Asher.

But it has been a really difficult week here for all Australians, and of course particularly distressing for the Jewish community.

I have to say I've felt it deeply personally.

But what I've also felt is the incredible humanity, love and kindness of so many Australians of all fates.

And that's what we must hang on to, is we try to move forward from this tragedy.

Thank you for your company this week.

Good night, and here's poor Murray.