Trump accuses China of election interference in national address | ABC News Top Stories

The federal Opposition is calling on the prime minister to reach out to the Laos government to protest the expected charges being laid over the methanol poisoning deaths of six tourists, including two Australians teenagers.Local officials are expected to announce they'll seek charges that only attract a cumulative jail term of up to one year -- as well as a 16-hundred dollar fine.Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume says the government needs to pull every diplomatic lever to get justice.The federal government insists it'll continue to advocate on behalf of the girls' families.US President Trump has accused China of extensive interference in the 2020 US elections -- which he lost.In an address to the nation, he says the government is releasing documents showing China hacked 220-million voter files.He says the documents would reveal "shocking vulnerabilities" in election infrastructure, but the Reuters news agency says many appear to show the opposite, or are not related to U-S election infrastructure at ​all.and Telstra CEO Vicky Brady has confirmed the national outage Australia faced last week was due to a delayed software update, and design changes within the telco that weren't properly documented.It meant the maintenance team, who were conducting work in the early hours of last Wednesday morning, didn't know about the changes - which led to an incorrect date spreading through the network.She told the senate inquiry an investigation is underway.And for more news at any time you can follow the ABC Top Stories podcast.