Afternoon Edition: 03 November 2024

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
On the News Talks headby Newsroom this is newsfacs. In
this update. The US presidential race is being dubbed a
coined hoss by one commentator who's accurately predicted a number
of past elections. The countdown is on to see who
will be elected to the next president, with Americans heading
to the polls on Tuesday. US Time. American political analyst

(00:25):
Henry Olsen will announce his prediction in the coming days,
but says so far it's been incredibly close. The latest
data seem to be that it's a toss up. There's
dueling pollsters and we'll see who ends up being right,
but the data suggests we're coming down to a daddy heat.
A historic first for Britain's Conservative Party and UK politics,

(00:46):
Kemi Bedanok has become the first black woman to lead
a major political party in the UK. She will replace
Rishie Sunak, who led the party to the biggest defeat
in its history in July's general election. BBC correspondent Henry
z f Hmann says it was the closest Tory leadership
race in recent times. Tapasy Mahdi mp taku To Ferris

(01:07):
could be facing the music this week on two separate
complaints about his conduct. Video from a zoom hearing for
the Marine and Coastal Area's Bill reveals Ferris said effing
racist at the end of a submission. Tapati Mardi says
MP taku to Ferris fell short of party expectations and
act has raised the remark with the speaker as a
matter of privilege, Enzied. Herald political reporter Jamie Ensau says

(01:30):
he was already facing one complaint. He says Ferris appeared
to call other MP's liars and then denied doing so.
Success For Jack mackerel Fishes operating off the west coast
of both islands, they've gone a year without accidentally capturing
any endangered dolphins, seabirds or other marine mammals, mammals Seafood

(01:50):
New Zealand CEO Lisa foot Check puts the achievement down
to new practices and equipment and existing operating procedures. She
says one of those new tools is dolphin dissuasion devices.
This is an audio sound which the dolphins don't like.
It certainly doesn't harm them, but it means they just
stay away from the net. That's news to sport in

(02:13):
bruised and batted, all black Side will need to recover
quickly to manage their six day turnaround before facing Ireland
in Dublin, New Zealand, where there's numerous injuries and the
two point defeat of England in Twickenham, including losing hooker
Cody Taylor and first five Boden Barrett to head injuries.
Assistant coach Scott Hansen says they've got to regroup. There's

(02:34):
a number of boys that are pretty sore. It's a
very tough test match here. Those first couple carries that
came around the corner, it was very, very physical. We've
had a number of players leave the field well through
jia issues, so we're looking at that. Also. Dunedin's James
Gardner has won the Tour of Southland's opening stage and
in the Cangle for the second year running. Australian Samuel

(02:56):
Jennies crossed the line second and compatriot Nate Hadden third.
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