Today’s headlines By Emily KaineHello and welcome to our national news live blog for Friday, August 21. Here’s what is making news today.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has conceded for the first time that his decision to participate in a podcast episode with comedian Nikki Osborne on her show Bush Deep in July was an error. Speaking to ABC’s 7.30 last night, Albanese said: “If I had my time again, which you don’t, then I wouldn’t have done that podcast”.Foreign Minister Penny Wong has expressed her “outrage” at Israel’s decision not to pursue criminal charges against the soldiers who launched a fatal strike on Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and six of her colleagues in Gaza. Yesterday, Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman was hauled before Wong to explain how Israel had reached the decision. Albanese vowed the government would continue demanding justice for Frankcom and her family.Labor’s news bargaining incentive, which will tax social media giants who do not strike deals with news companies, passed the Senate yesterday. Digital platforms will now have to pay a 2.5 per cent levy on their digital advertising revenue if they do not strike deals with Australian news outlets for their journalism.And the woman at the centre of an allegation of sexual violence that occurred while she was inside a Melbourne hotel room with a group of Sydney Swans players has spoken publicly. The woman reportedly told the Herald Sun: “I don’t want money. All I care about is justice.” Swans star Isaac Heeney is the focus of the investigation by Victoria Police’s sexual crimes squad. It involves an allegation of touching beyond what was agreed.Latest Posts6.40amRussian strikes kill 17 in UkraineBy Russian airstrikes killed 17 people and injured more than 40 in Kyiv and the surrounding region on Thursday (Kyiv time) as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a failure by Ukraine’s allies to replenish its stock of air defence missiles was costing lives.Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched dozens of cruise missiles, as well as ballistic and hypersonic ones, and 168 drones, in a massive overnight attack.The air force said that nearly 90 per cent of the drones and most of the cruise missiles were downed. It did not specify whether any of the more deadly ballistic missiles were intercepted - having said last week that providing such information was giving Russia cause to celebrate.Zelenskiy called the strike one of the most “cynical, calculated, and large-scale” of the four-and-a-half year war.The upper floors of a nine-storey residential block were destroyed in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district, where at least eight people were killed, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. He declared Friday a day of mourning. Reuters 6.35am‘Clearly, that was an error’: Albanese wouldn’t do podcast if had time againBy Jack GramenzPrime Minister Anthony Albanese says it was an error to make an appearance on a podcast episode that led to weeks of criticism.“If I had my time again, which you don’t, then I wouldn’t have done that podcast,” Albanese told ABC’s 7.30 last night. “We have a view which is trying to talk to as many people as possible, but clearly, that was an error,” Albanese said.The prime minister’s appearance opposite Nikki Osborne on an episode of the Bush Deep podcast, which aired in early July, spawned some uproars.Pinned post from 6.28amToday’s headlines By Emily KaineHello and welcome to our national news live blog for Friday, August 21. Here’s what is making news today.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has conceded for the first time that his decision to participate in a podcast episode with comedian Nikki Osborne on her show Bush Deep in July was an error. Speaking to ABC’s 7.30 last night, Albanese said: “If I had my time again, which you don’t, then I wouldn’t have done that podcast”.Foreign Minister Penny Wong has expressed her “outrage” at Israel’s decision not to pursue criminal charges against the soldiers who launched a fatal strike on Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and six of her colleagues in Gaza. Yesterday, Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman was hauled before Wong to explain how Israel had reached the decision. Albanese vowed the government would continue demanding justice for Frankcom and her family.Labor’s news bargaining incentive, which will tax social media giants who do not strike deals with news companies, passed the Senate yesterday. Digital platforms will now have to pay a 2.5 per cent levy on their digital advertising revenue if they do not strike deals with Australian news outlets for their journalism.And the woman at the centre of an allegation of sexual violence that occurred while she was inside a Melbourne hotel room with a group of Sydney Swans players has spoken publicly. The woman reportedly told the Herald Sun: “I don’t want money. All I care about is justice.” Swans star Isaac Heeney is the focus of the investigation by Victoria Police’s sexual crimes squad. It involves an allegation of touching beyond what was agreed.1 of 1