RUSH HOUR: The stories you need to know today

YOU would not want to be this man. A video has captured the moment Commando Steve loses it with a photographer.

Good morning, and welcome to our morning news coverage. We will be bringing you the best of what’s happening this morning, so you can get across the news quickly.

10am

That’s it for our live #RUSHHOUR news blog. You can get across the stories you need to know today below or go to news.com.au for the latest headlines.

9.30am

Police have cracked down on notorious radical Islamist preacher Junaid Thorne raiding his Sydney home.

Australian Federal Police yesterday raided the Perth-born man’s Bass Hill home and issued him with a court notice, a spokeswoman told news.com.au.

The 25-year-old self-styled sheik was charged with two offences including using a false identity to travel between Perth and Sydney

Junaid Thorne is a vocal supporter of the Islamic State.

9am

NSW Police are investigating after a man was stabbed multiple times in a Waterloo laneway last night.

The man, aged in his 40s, was attacked in Beaumont St about 10.15pm, where he was stabbed several times to the leg and stomach.

He was treated at the scene before being rushed to Royal Prince Alfred hospital in a serious condition.

A man is rushed to hospital after receiving multiple stab wounds in Waterloo. Picture: Gordon McComiskie

8.40am

The Newman government’s re-election hopes have received a substantial boost with a large drop in the state’s unemployment level in the final jobs update before the state election in two weeks.

Unemployment in Queensland fell from 6.9 per cent in Nov­ember to 6.1 per cent in December on a seasonally-adjusted basis.

The state previously had the highest level of unemployment in the nation, but is now on a par with other states and the overall national level.

The unemployment levels in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania are higher than those in Queensland; only Western Australia and NSW are lower.

Things are looking up for Queensland Premier Campbell Newman (right), pictured here with LNP Gregory candidate Lachlan Millar on Day 9 of his re-election campaign. Pictures: Jack Tran / The Courier Mail

8.20am

Oscar nominations were revealed overnight with a few snubs and surprises.

Below is a list of Best Picture nominees, for the rest, click here.

• Birdman

• Boyhood

• Selma

• The Theory of Everything

• The Imitation Game

• The Grand Budapest Hotel

• American Sniper

• Whiplash

Michael Keaton in a scene from Birdman.

8am

Indonesia has announced plans to execute six people this weekend and in an ominous statement has said that two Australians on death row will be executed once both have had their clemency rejected.

So far Myuran Sukumaran’s clemency plea has been rejected but Andrew Chan has yet to receive any answer, meaning that Sukumaran’s fate now rests with Chan.

Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran inside the workshop of Kerobokan jail in Bali.

7.50am

A quiet family man and restaurant manager was killed and dumped in muddy parkland last year in what is now believed to be a case of mistaken identity, in a crime that has links to the Ibrahim family.

Darren Galea, 34, was found under the Duck River Bridge in Auburn last year, shot in the head at close range and dumped with his hands bound.

According to Fairfax, the bullet that killed Mr Galea has been linked to two other shootings in Sydney. One was related to drug activity and the other, a Nomads bikie gang dispute.

“There is nothing in Mr Galea’s past to suggest any links with organised crime or drug activity, which is why we believe it could have been a case of mistaken identity,” Detective Inspector Mark Henney told Fairfax.

Police at Duck River Bridge last year. Picture; Mark Evans

7.30am

Belgian authorities say two people have been killed and one has been arrested during a shootout in an anti-terrorist operation in the eastern city of Verviers.

Magistrate Eric Van der Sypt told reporters in Brussels on Thursday that the suspects were on the verge of committing a major terrorist attack, and that they immediately opened fire on security forces.

He said at emergency news conference that anti-terrorist raids are under way in the Brussels region and Verviers. He said Belgium’s terror alert level was raised to its second highest level.

Belgian police officers gather behind a screen as they investigate a a shootout in an anti-terrorist raid in a street in Verviers, Belgium. Picture: AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert

7am

Pope Francis has condemned any killing in God’s name, but also insisted there were limits to freedom of speech and said there was one thing that would make him punch a man.

The Pope made the comments on Thursday in relation to the attack by Islamists on the offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris last week in which 12 people died

“You cannot provoke, you cannot insult other people’s faith, you cannot mock it,” the pontiff said.

Gesturing to a papal aide, Pope Francis said the man could expect consequences if he ever insulted Francis’s mother.

“If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch,” Francis said while pretending to throw a punch in his direction.

Pope Francis says he would punch a man. Photo: Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images

6.40am

The campaign to get Taylor Swift’s song Shake It Off on the Triple J Hottest 100 list continues to gain traction.

A change.org petition that appeared on Wednesday to stop Swift from appearing on the alternative music list has only managed to secure 27 supporters.

Unfortunately the Warmest 100, which has previously predicted which songs will be included in the Hottest 100, will not be continuing this year due to a change in the way people vote, making it harder for them to post their songs on social media.

But Sportsbet has the song on odds of 4.5 to be the Number 1 song, it is second to Peking Duk’s song High, which is currently the frontrunner on odds of 2 to 1.

Taylor Swift in her video for Shake It Off.

6.20am

A large shark has been spotted savaging a dolphin in the waters off Newcastle.

The Daily Telegraph photographer Peter Lorimer captured the moment as the 3.5m predator, probably a tiger shark, went in for the kill off Burwood beach.

Newcastle beaches have been closed for six days straight because of a 5m great white that was first spotted on Saturday. For more photos and coverage, click here.

A 3.5 metre shark goes in for the kill on a dolphin just off Newcastle's Burwood Beach. Picture: Peter Lorimer

The shark waited for the dolphin to die before feeding. Picture by Peter Lorimer

6.10am

A Muslim extremist who left Australia to fight with the ­Islamic State in Syria has threatened to “spill blood” in Australia.

Suhan Rahman, 23, has posted pictures of himself online with Australian terrorists Mohamed Elomar and Mahmoud Abdullatif.

According to The Daily Telegraph, the Australian Federal Police Counter-Terrorism Squad has spoken to Rahman’s family in Melbourne and are monitoring his activities overseas.

Suhan Rahman (right) with Mahmoud Abdullatif.

His distraught father Lutfur Rahman said Rahman had brought “shame” on the family. “We hoped he would never get into this type of thing,’’ he said.

Victoria Police are investigating a threat Rahman made on social media in which he warned of an attack in Australia.

5.50am

Commando Steve of The Biggest Loser has been filmed delivering an abusive tirade to a paparazzi photographer, threatening to knock his head off because ``you’re a c***’’.

According to The Daily Telegraph, Steve Willis became angry after being photographed in Potts Point last week having lunch with girlfriend and fellow Biggest Loser trainer Michelle Bridges.

Willis, a former special services soldier, confronted waiting snappers, getting in the face of one photographer working for renowned pap Ben McDonald.

Steve Willis, known as Commando, confronts a paparazzo photographer.

He accused the photographer of previously taking photos of his children and driving his girlfriend to tears.

“You f***ing know what you did. Hey mate, you are a f***ing dick, you had to have the f***ing police called on you and you f***ing had your arse tackled to the ground by the security over the f***ing movies, mate, you’re a f***ing douche, you only as good as the f***ing camera you’ve got in your hands.’’