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It's a "miracle" that two girls -- ages 13 and 10 -- survived an accident at a popular Australian theme park that killed four people, according to authorities.

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The victims were killed after a raft on a water ride turned over on its conveyor belt, police said. Two people were trapped in the machinery after they were thrown from the raft, which flipped backwards after hitting a raft in front of it.

Dreamworld Australia released a statement on Wednesday noting that its "Thunder River Rapids Ride had successfully completed its annual mechanical and structural safety engineering inspection on 29 September 2016."

The park is scheduled to reopen this on Friday and all proceeds from that day will go to the Australian Red Cross.

"We hope this will be considered the start of the healing process for all concerned," the statement added.

Dan Peled/EPA

After watching the footage, Brian Codd, assistant commissioner of the Queensland Police, said it was "almost a miracle" that anyone survived. Two young girls, ages 13 and 10, survived "through the provenance of God" after they were thrown from the ride but managed to get themselves out, Codd said. All four of the victims killed were adults.

Witnesses described the chaos after a scene in which a malfunction threw two people from the raft and trapped others underneath it. Codd called the accident an "apparent miss-operation or some catastrophe" that he didn't "expect" to happen.

Dan Peled/EPA

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull spoke out Tuesday about the tragedy, telling reporters, "This is a very sad day, and we trust there will be a thorough investigation into the causes of this accident over the days to follow."

Dan Peled/EPA

ABC News's Dominick Proto contributed to this report.

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It's a "miracle" that two girls -- ages 13 and 10 -- survived an accident at a popular Australian theme park that killed four people, according to authorities. The victims were killed after a raft on a water ride turned over on its conveyor belt, police said. Two people were trapped in the...

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When Lex tried to explain that her older brother had autism, the girl didn't understand what she meant.

Having recently joined the student council, Lex decided to write a letter to address the lack of awareness of autism at her school in the south of England.
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Her mother, Sophie Camilleri, posted the message to Facebook, where it has since gone viral.

The letter reads:

"On Monday I felt very sad because a girl in my class said that my brother was weird.

"My brother has autism and is not weird and I would like it if we could learn about all disabilities in schools so that everybody understands that some people are different, but we should all be treated the same."

Camilleri told BuzzFeed News, "The teacher of Lex's class asked if anyone knew what autism was. Not one child knew what it was."

By sharing Lex's message online, Camilleri hoped to bolster local efforts to raise awareness for disabilities. To her surprise, the letter has now been shared more than 27,000 times on Facebook.

Good work, Lex!

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It's a "miracle" that two girls -- ages 13 and 10 -- survived an accident at a popular Australian theme park that killed four people, according to authorities.

Interested in Australia?

Add Australia as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Australia news, video, and analysis from ABC News.

The victims were killed after a raft on a water ride turned over on its conveyor belt, police said. Two people were trapped in the machinery after they were thrown from the raft, which flipped backwards after hitting a raft in front of it.

Dreamworld Australia released a statement on Wednesday noting that its "Thunder River Rapids Ride had successfully completed its annual mechanical and structural safety engineering inspection on 29 September 2016."

The park is scheduled to reopen this on Friday and all proceeds from that day will go to the Australian Red Cross.

"We hope this will be considered the start of the healing process for all concerned," the statement added.

Dan Peled/EPA

After watching the footage, Brian Codd, assistant commissioner of the Queensland Police, said it was "almost a miracle" that anyone survived. Two young girls, ages 13 and 10, survived "through the provenance of God" after they were thrown from the ride but managed to get themselves out, Codd said. All four of the victims killed were adults.

Witnesses described the chaos after a scene in which a malfunction threw two people from the raft and trapped others underneath it. Codd called the accident an "apparent miss-operation or some catastrophe" that he didn't "expect" to happen.

Dan Peled/EPA

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull spoke out Tuesday about the tragedy, telling reporters, "This is a very sad day, and we trust there will be a thorough investigation into the causes of this accident over the days to follow."

Dan Peled/EPA

ABC News's Dominick Proto contributed to this report.

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It's a "miracle" that two girls -- ages 13 and 10 -- survived an accident at a popular Australian theme park that killed four people, according to authorities. The victims were killed after a raft on a water ride turned over on its conveyor belt, police said. Two people were trapped in the...

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Four people were killed at Australia's largest theme park Tuesday when a ride malfunctioned, police said.

Two men, ages 35 and 32, and two women, ages 42 and 38, were pronounced dead by police following the incident on the Thunder River Rapids Ride at the Dreamworld theme park in Queensland.

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Syrian refugee children have been making clothes for British shoppers, an undercover BBC investigation has found.

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Syrian refugee children have been making clothes for British shoppers, an undercover BBC investigation has found.

Panorama investigated factories in Turkey and found children had been working on clothes for Marks and Spencer and the online retailer Asos.

Adult refugees were also found working illegally on Zara and Mango jeans.

All the brands say they carefully monitor their supply chains and do not tolerate the exploitation of refugees or children.

The kids who have to sew to survive

Marks and Spencer says its inspections have not found a single Syrian refugee working in its supply chain in Turkey.

But Panorama found seven Syrians working in one of the British retailer's main factories. The refugees often earned little more than a pound an hour - well below the Turkish minimum wage. They were employed through a middleman who paid them in cash on the street.

'Unacceptable'

One of the refugees told Panorama they were poorly treated at the factory. He said: "If anything happens to a Syrian, they will throw him away like a piece of cloth."

The youngest worker was 15 years old and he was working more than 12 hours a day ironing clothes before they were shipped to the UK.

A spokesperson for Marks and Spencer said the programme's findings were "extremely serious" and "unacceptable to M&S". It is offering permanent legal employment to any Syrians who were employed in the factory.

"Ethical trading is fundamental to M&S. All of our suppliers are contractually required to comply with our Global Sourcing Principles, which cover what we expect and require of them and their treatment of workers.

"We do not tolerate such breaches of these principles and we will do all we can to ensure that this does not happen again."

But critics say the retailers are not doing enough to stop the problems highlighted by Panorama.

Danielle McMullan, from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, says the brands need to understand that they are responsible: "It's not enough to say we didn't know about this, it's not our fault.

"They have a responsibility to monitor and to understand where their clothes are being made and what conditions they are being made in."

'Pitiful wages'

Many clothes are now made in Turkey because it is close to Europe and used to dealing with last-minute orders. This allows retailers to get new designs into shops more quickly than if they are made elsewhere.

But Turkey is a challenging place to do business. Concerns are rising about the exploitation of workers after the arrival of almost three million Syrian refugees.

Most of the refugees do not have work permits and many of them are working illegally in the garment industry.

Panorama reporter Darragh MacIntyre spoke to dozens of Syrian workers who felt they were being exploited. He said: "They speak of pitiful wages and terrible working conditions. They know they are being exploited but they know they can do nothing about it."

In one back-street workshop in Istanbul, the programme team found several Syrian children hard at work. They also discovered an Asos sample in the office.

Asos accepts its clothes were made in the factory, but says it is not an approved factory. The company has since inspected and found 11 Syrian adults and three Syrian children under 16 at work.

Hazardous chemicals

Asos says the children will be financially supported so they can return to school and the adult refugees will be paid a wage until they have been found legal work. A spokesperson for the company said: "We have implemented these remediation programmes despite the fact that this factory has nothing to do with Asos."

The investigation also found Syrian refugees working 12-hour days in a factory that was distressing jeans for Mango and Zara.

The refugees were involved in spraying hazardous chemicals to bleach the jeans, but most of the workers did not even have a basic face mask.

Mango says that the factory was working as a sub-contractor without its knowledge. Its subsequent inspection did not find any Syrian workers and found "good conditions except for some personal safety measures".

Zara's parent company, Inditex, says its factory inspections are a "highly effective way of monitoring and improving conditions". It had already found significant non-compliance in an audit in June and had given the factory until December to make the necessary improvements.

In another Istanbul factory, Panorama found Syrian adults at work alongside Turkish children as young as 10.

The owner said he had been working for Next and showed the undercover team a set of Next pyjamas that he said the factory had helped produce.

Next says the pyjamas were actually made by another supplier and the pyjamas we saw may have been a sample. It says samples circulate widely and that the presence of a sample in a factory does not mean it was made there.

Panorama - Undercover: The Refugees Who Make Our Clothes is on BBC One at 20:30 BST on Monday 24 October and available on the BBC iPlayer afterwards.

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SYDNEY - Four people were killed Tuesday after a river rapids ride malfunctioned at a popular theme park on Australia's east coast, officials said.

Two men and two women died while on the ride at Dreamworld, a park on Queensland state's Gold Coast, Queensland police officer Tod Reid told reporters.

The Thunder River Rapids ride whisks people in circular rafts along a fast-moving, man-made river. A malfunction caused two people to be ejected from their raft, while two others were caught inside the ride, said Gavin Fuller, an officer with the Queensland Ambulance Service. He did not know whether the two victims who were caught in the ride were trapped under water, or caught up in the machinery.

Park staffers administered first aid to the victims, but their injuries proved fatal, Fuller told reporters.

The victims were in their 30s and early 40s, he said.

Reid said he was not aware of any previous problems with the ride. Police were interviewing witnesses and reviewing closed-circuit television footage of the incident while crews worked to remove the bodies from the scene on Tuesday night, he said.

"It is a complex retrieval involving heavy equipment and that will take several hours," Reid said.

Dreamworld CEO Craig Davidson said the park was working with police to try and determine what went wrong.

"We are deeply shocked and saddened by this, and our hearts and our thoughts go out to the families involved and to their loved ones," Davidson told reporters.

The park was closed following the accident and was expected to remain closed on Wednesday.

A witness, Lia Capes, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that she was just about to go on the ride when she saw people running out, crying.

"I was speaking to one of the guys and he said it was the raft or the boat thing in front of him, the whole thing flipped and everyone was screaming," Capes said.

Thunder River is considered one of Dreamworld's tamer, family-friendly rides, and is open to children as young as 2. The park, which has been open since 1981, also features several roller coasters and the free-fall ride "The Giant Drop," where passengers plunge from a height of nearly 400 feet. In April, the park's Rocky Hollow Log Ride was temporarily shut down after a man fell from the ride.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said there would be a thorough investigation into the cause of Tuesday's accident.

"Theme parks are a place for family fun and happiness, not tragedy," he told reporters.

Reuters reports the Dreamworld accident is one of the worst tragedies on record for a theme park. In 1984, eight teenagers were killed in a fire at the Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park in New Jersey in the United States. In 1979, seven were killed in a fire on Sydney's Luna Park ghost train. In 2010, six people were killed in a failed simulated rocket launch in Shenzhen, China. And in 1972, five children were killed when the Battersea Park Big Dipper malfunctioned in Britain.

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SYDNEY - Four people were killed Tuesday after a river rapids ride malfunctioned at a popular theme park on Australia's east coast, officials said. Two men and two women died while on the ride at Dreamworld, a park on Queensland state's Gold Coast, Queensland police officer Tod Reid told reporters.

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Mr. Kohl- AT&T to buy Time Warner Cable for $109 Billion to compete against Google.

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Telecommunications companies are becoming media companies. That explains AT&T's agreement to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion. But something else explains it, too.

Media companies are becoming telecoms.

Internet firms like Google and Facebook and Amazon and Netflix are the new media companies. They deliver enormous amounts of video online, posing a direct threat to old-school television and movie companies. But they also are becoming telecoms, threatening the likes of AT&T and Verizon.

They finance undersea cables that link their data centers. They buy fiber optic infrastructure. Facebook builds open source telco gear, Google offers high-speed Internet service, Amazon hopes to become an Internet service provider in Europe.

As this happens, telecoms must fight back. And this means challenging tech giants on the media front.

The proposed AT&T/Time Warner deal combines two powerhouses. AT&T is the nation's largest pay TV provider, the second-largest wireless provider, and the third-largest home Internet provider.

Time Warner owns a dizzying array of media properties, including HBO, CNN, Warner Brothers, DC Comics, TBS, TNT, the Cartoon Network and broadcast rights to many live sporting events. But it does not own Time Warner Cable, a separate entity that the cable company Charter Communications bought earlier this year.

The deal confirmed today follow's Comcast's merger with NBC in 2011 and Verizon's acquisition of AOL last year and planned acquisition of Yahoo this year.

Pundits quickly noted that diving into the content industry could be AT&T's attempt to fill the hole that is created as customers ditch cable TV in favor of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube. That's true, but another shift is happening, too.

For years, the big telecom Internet providers essentially operated as dumb pipes. All they did was deliver content. That used to make a lot of sense. A decade ago, the dotcom crash was still a recent memory, and digital piracy threatened to undercut the entire entertainment industry.

How things have changed. AT&T, Comcast and Verizon have watched Amazon, Facebook, and Google take their place among the world's most valuable-and powerful-companies, using infrastructure owned by the telcos. The entertainment industry rebounded as well, with upstarts like Netflix having reinvented the very idea of television.

What's more, those same tech companies have increasingly encroached on the telco's business. They threaten to upend telecommunications much like they've upended other industries, aided by the Federal Communications Commission making more of the wireless spectrum available to them.

Google in particular is eager to access more of the spectrum. And it has a few other projects going that could further undermine traditional telcos. Although Google Fiber and the companies wild schemes to use balloons and drones to deliver Internet access to remote areas garner a lot of attention, two other projects promise to be more radical.

The wireless Google Fi service essentially resells T-Mobile and Sprint's service. Android phones can discern which carrier offers the strongest signal in any given location, allowing you to move seamlessly between Wi-Fi and the two carriers depending on signal strength. Apple is among the companies that may be developing similar technology.

This could lead to a situation in which your carrier is essentially invisible, and you're paying Google (or another broker) to connect you to the network with the strongest signal. That could be a national carrier, or a local Wi-Fi provider.

Google Station, an effort to provide a unified system for logging into and paying for Wi-Fi around the world, fits neatly into the vision as well.

Put the pieces together and you begin to see a future in which tech companies have commoditized telcos in much the same way they commoditized computer hardware. Telcos, using cheap, off-the-shelf hardware powered by open source designs, could compete to sell bandwidth to the Googles and Amazons of the world at razor thin margins.

AT&T probably isn't thinking about this right now. Like the pundits say, it probably cares more about short-term gains like papering over any potential losses from cord cutting. Nor is any of this to say that the merger will be good for AT&T, let alone the public.

Robert McChesney, a communication professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says these kinds of mega-mergers rarely benefit the public. "This is a merger that will make no sense," he says. "There's no reason this merger should be done for consumers or workers."

These sorts of deals rarely pan out for the companies involved. New York University economics professor Nicholas S. Economides notes that AT&T's has a checkered history of acquisitions. For example, it bought business technology company NCR in 1991 for $7.4 billion, only to spin spin it off six years later for $3.4 billion. And who could forget Time Warner's disastrous $165 billion ¹ acquisition of AOL in 2000, which it unloaded in 2009 for $2.5 billion.

If regulators approve the AT&T and Time Warner merger, their blessing almost certainly will include stipulations barring it from, say, refusing to license its movies, television stations and other content to competitors like Comcast. That could make it hard to justify so expensive an acquisition.

But in a world where Internet access is a commodity, not a government-supported monopoly, owning a giant media company begins to make sense.
¹ Correction 10/23/2016 at 1:04 PM ET: An earlier version used an incorrect logo for Time Warner. Correction 10/23/2016 at 11:30 AM ET: An earlier version of this story said that Time Warner acquired AOL for $165 million. It was $165 billion.

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