Midday Edition: 04 October 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
No the news talks headben Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS. In
this update, the government's confirm changes to free Ball's screening
criteria will be in force next week. Health Minister Simon
Brown says the starting age for screenings will be lowered
from sixty to fifty eight in Northland, Auckland and the
South Island. The rest of the North Island will follow

(00:25):
in March twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Emily Ansel reports reducing the bow cancer screening age was
a National Party campaign promise with the aim of matching
Australia's threshold of forty five as conditions allowed. The move
reverses the previous government's policy of a lower Madian Pacific
screening age threshold. A new nationwide pathway for an at
home test is also being introduced.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
There are reports Hamas has submitted a response to Donald
Trump's Garza plan. Al Jazeera says and informed sources told
in the Palestinian group has been in touch with Garza mediators.
The US President had given Hamas until Monday, New Zealand
time to respond to his proposal. He says, if an
agreement isn't reached or how will break out tension in

(01:11):
the community impacted by an attack on a Manchester synagogue.
Thirty five year old Jihad al Chami launched a knife
attack at Heaton Park yesterday, leaving sixty six year old
Malvin Kravitz and fifty three year old Adrian Dorby dead.
The BBC reports Derby was shot accidentally by police. Reporter
Ed Thomas says emotions were high at a vigil. The

(01:32):
Deputy Prime Minister David Lemon was hackled by some in
the crowd today.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Shame on you, Shame on you, anger.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
At rising tension and rising anti Semitism. It's understood the
attacker was on police bail. Infamous hip hop star Sean
Diddy Combs is heading to jail. He's been sentenced to
just over four years and fined five hundred thousand dollars
over charges of transportation to engage prostitution. Combs will sound
guilty on two counts. In July, after a seven week trial,

(02:03):
he was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges.
The judge said the court wasn't assured the crimes wouldn't
be committed again. That's news In Sport, Scott Barrett knows
exactly what will Skelton will bring to the Wallabies lineup
in the second Bleder's Low Cup Test. The French based
Locke missed the first match with club commitments, but returns

(02:25):
for the Perth match tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Pretty evident now when they picked Skelton where they want
to come and you know that's up front. He certainly
as a physical presence and does that in the Top
fourteen and has done for Australia when he's been available.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Canterbury believe they can end a three year drought and
knock Whitkato off their perch in rugby's Fara Palmer Cup.
The two provinces square off again in the competition's decider
this afternoon in Hamilton. A trio of superb goals has
propelled Bournemouth to a three to one victory over Fulham
in football's Premier League, and Daniel Adison had smashed her

(03:00):
own world record to win gold in the women's T
thirty six two hundred meters at the World Para Athletics
Athletics Championships. That Sport. I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news,
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