Midday Edition: 05 August 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 05 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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Jody Gill and this is your midday
news FACS for Monday, the fifth of August. More than
one hundred and forty people have been arrested and multiple
police officers injured as riots continue across the UK. Prime
Ministic Care starmer has described the outbreaks, which have escalated
since a stabbing at a dance class left three children

(00:25):
dead and several injured, as organized far right violent thuggery. Overnight,
ten police were injured trying to stop a mob storming
a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham. Sky News as
Jillian Joseph says, rioters in our targeting a second hotel
one hundred kilometers away at Tamworth.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Police now are tweeted saying that we're urging members of
the public to avoid the area around the holiday n
the specialist officers continue to deal with violent acts of thuggery.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
A Northland community is grieving the un explain death of
a Dargaville woman. Joe sion A Laki's body was found
on Friday between Orma Mai and ah Ranga beaches, northwest
of Dargaville after she was reported missing on Thursday. Pelissa
seeking anyone who saw her black Mitsubishi Outlander in the
car park at Orma Mai Beach or sightings of anyone

(01:20):
near it or on the beach after seven pm on Thursday.
Frustration over a violent robbery attempt in Auckland's Mount roscill yesterday,
but also relief it didn't end in the worst way
a security guards and hospital after armed roberts hit him
in the head with a hammer. They didn't break into
the store thwarted by reinforced glass. Book at the Papa

(01:42):
Local board chair Ela Kuma says robberies themselves are upsetting,
but the violence makes it worse. This particular case, this
person's been hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's just not going to stop there.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
They're going to get better, but their levels of stress
and anxiety to go back to work is going to
be very difficult. Experts will today we contribute evidence on
the functioning of an emergency door at christ Church's Al
Noor Mosque during the twenty nineteen terrorist attack. It's the
second part of an inquest in to the issue, scheduled
to run for about a week. Emily Ansell reports.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Deputy Chief Coroner Bridget Windley heard from witnesses on the
issue in May. One witness who escaped through the door's
broken glass described the manual lock as difficult to use,
especially while people were crowding around the door to try escape.
Emergency processes, coordination, and response times were scrutinized during the

(02:37):
first part of the inquest last year.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
One major bank says a cut to the official cash
rak could come sooner than expected. Most banks think the
Reserve Bank will cut the rate late November. At WESPAK
now expects the OCEA to go from five point five
percent to five point two five in early October, then
five percent late this year, four point five percent by May,
and three point seventy five early the following year. In sport,

(03:03):
Olympic Games organizers have decided the bacteria levels in the
river sen are fine for tonight's triathlon mixed team relays,
which will take place as scheduled at six o'clock New Zealand.
Time American sprint star Noah Lyles has broken a twenty
year drought for the United States in the Olympic Games
one hundred meters whenning gold and a photo finish where

(03:26):
first and seventh were separated by just zero point zero
nine seconds. The United States is finally at the top
of the Olympics medal table after day nine, with China
and France next best. I'm Jody Gill. That's your latest
news fakes. We'll be back with the next update at
five pm from the News Talk z B newsroom.