Midday Edition: 01 September 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 01 September 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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
On the newstalks had been newsroom. This is newsfacs. In
this update, two people face serious charges after a man
died in Mount Wellington in Auckland. Police launched a homicide
investigation after they found the man with critical injuries yesterday afternoon.
He died at the scene. A twenty three year old
man's been charged with murder and a twenty four year

(00:25):
old woman charged with being a party to murder. There
due to appear in court tomorrow and a scene examinations
underway in Auckland as police investigator fatal shooting. Overnight, a
man was found with a gunshot wound on Selwyn Road
just before ten o'clock. Wild weather is believed to have
played a part in pushing a barge ashore at a

(00:46):
West Coast beach. The mana Ho barge is run a
ground at Carter's Beach in Westport. The vessel has been
anchored off the coast for a week due to bad weather.
There are no reports of injuries or environmental damage. Buller
Mayor Jamie Cline says the barge is sitting about two
hundred meters from the local village. Will look to be
a very big thing on the beach. That's resorted like

(01:07):
it's a decent side vessel one hundred odd meters long.
Patient care has been slashed due to a doctor shortage
at Waikoto Hospital has been half the number of medical
registrars needed to staff the hospital in the past three months.
Resident Doctors Association National Secretary Deborah Palell says they're calling
on the government and Health New Zealand to address the issue.

(01:29):
Thank you for telling us that frontline clinical services won't
be affected by what's going on into Aura. That is
not correct. We are being affected. Registrars are the doctors
who care for patients suffering from heart attacks, pneumonia, strokes
and diabetes. The South Island is set to be battered
by heavy wind and rain later today and orange heavy

(01:49):
rain warnings in place for the headwaters of the Otago
Lakes and rivers. Is a strong wind warning and place
across Canterbury and North Otago, with northwest gales expected to
reach one hundred and twenty kilometers an hour in exposed places.
I'm kay Gregory, and that's news. In sport Yannick Sinner
is doing his best to avoid the fate suffered by

(02:11):
two of his biggest rivals for the title. At the
US Tennis Open, the world number ones advanced to the
fourth round in straight sets. Both Carlos al karaz and
Novak Djokovic would be knocked out in upset defeats. Sinner
says it shows how unpredictable tennis can be. Whenever you
drop a little bit of your level. You know, if
it's montle, if it's tennis wise or physical, it has

(02:33):
a huge impact on the result, and you know what happens.
I just watch on my side what I have to do.
All Blacks coach Scott Robertson's vowing to find an answer
to their final quarter blues. The All Blacks are yet
to score a point in the final twenty minutes of
a Rugby Championship match this year. That trend continued in
the thirty one twenty seven defeat to the spring Box

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at Alice Park. Again they led twenty seven to seventeen.
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