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August 10, 2024 3 mins
The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 10 August 2024, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talk's Edby Newsroom. This is newsfex In
this update, a plane that's fallen from the sky in Brazil,
killing at least sixty one people. Began losing altitude ninety
seconds before the crash. Video shows the aircraft spiraling as
it plummets just over five thousand meters to the ground
on the outskirts of Sarpollo. It crashed into a residential area,

(00:25):
but nobody on the ground has been reported injured. Please
for more action to fight an invasive seaweed species in
the Hurraky Gulf. A report from NZIER shows the cost
of uncontrolled killerper Brachipus could be one hundred and fifty
million dollars annually from the loss of fish and biodiversity.
New Zealand Sport Fishing Council says it's a major threat

(00:46):
to all recreational activities in the Hurraky Gulf. Operations manager
Mike Plant says the Ministry of Primary Industries is not
taking serious measures.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
If there was something on the land that we saw
like affected keyweed, fruit or foot and mouth disease, were bovines,
with expect a lot more action than we're currently seeing.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Hastings has wrapped up its world first Mari Language and
Culture festival, toy Twi Terreo. The aim was to promote
tere Omar's status as an official language and unite all
in recognizing and honoring it. Festival director Jeremy Tarteri MacLeod
says more than seven thousand people attended the two day event.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Seen people activated in confidence, celebrating being to give up.
It's certainly what's needed in the space.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
At the moment.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Many Tehuia passengers are choosing to take the train over
driving their cars. A Wycutto Regional Council survey of five
hundred passengers found ninety nine percent of them were satisfied
with the train service between Hamilton and Auckland. They highlighted
three factors that made the most difference value for money, service,
reliability and frequency. Councilor Angela Strain says about seventy six

(01:54):
percent of passengers said their car had been an option.
Missus Strange says they recently introduced extra services on Thursdays,
Fridays and Saturdays, which people love because it gives them
the option of spending a half day in Auckland. That's
news in sport. All Blacks midfielder Anton Leonard Brown is
eager to repay the confidence of coach Scott Robertson and

(02:15):
his selectors. Tonight in Wellington, Leonard Brown has esserped Rico
Yoanni at center for the first Test against Argentina, switching
places with his teammate.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I understand the competitiveness in the midfield, and I've been
on the bench a lot so to I guess to
be given the thirteen jumper and to be out there
in the starting sider, I just can't work.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Anton Leonard Brown. Lydia Coe's ready to embrace being hunted
as she eyes a maiden golf medal at the Paris Olympics. Overnight,
Coe is in a two way share of the lead
with Switzerland's morgane Metro at nine under part, two shots
ahead of the nearest competitors. Coe says when she was younger,
she felt the pressure of being chased. That's sport. I'm
Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to News Talks d

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