Morning Edition: 01 August 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 01 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 morning. I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Thursday, first of August. In this update,
analysts are suggesting there's no way Iran can't retaliate against
assassinations in some way. The country's vowing to avenge the
killing of Ismaelhanye after his reported death in an airstrike
in Tehran. It follows an Israeli strike on a top

(00:27):
Hezbola commander in Beirut Lebanon, which Hezbollah has just confirmed.
Otago University's Middle East politics expert Leon Goldsmith told Rhyan
Bridge part of it was timing.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Formally, Ismahana would have been in Doha, which would have
been somewhere with Israel would never touch him. The fact
that he happened to be in Tahran for the inaugurational
venue president gave Israeli as an opportunity to hit him.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Improving household finances could give hope for an improving economy.
The Centrix July credit indicatus his four hundred and sixty
five thousand people are in area, down slightly month on month.
Centrix is managing director Keith mclonklin says the cost of
living is starting to come down, and he says the
number of people behind on payments is no longer growing,

(01:11):
showing kiwis and managing their budgets better than there were
a year ago. Also coming down, a housing consents Statcensed
figures show fewer than thirty four thousand new homes were
consented in the year to June, at twenty four percent
fall annually. Core Logic chief property economist Calvin Davidson says
it's because of things like high interest rates, and he
says the numbers need to be considered in context.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
They have a lot from that paid pronectional rue context
thirty four to thirty fives and two bads, so in
everything in mind, I signed in the cornerlys.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Two rugby players have been sentenced for a covert recording
of them having sex with a woman in a shower.
The woman discovered two days later that the video had
been recorded and posted to a Snapchat group for premier
rugby players across multiple clubs around Tuttanaki. Open Justice reports
thirty two years Trent Pickering has been sentenced to fifteen

(02:02):
months imprisonment later converted to eight months home detention and
ordered to pay reparations. The other man, a representative rugby
player has been sentenced to twelve months supervision and reparations
and given fourteen days interim name suppression. Judge Gregory Heckacker
rejected calls for a discharge without conviction, saying this sort
of behavior must be deterred. A health commentator doubts new

(02:26):
appointments at Health New Zealand will change much. The government's
appointed four deputy Chief executives to run different regions from
next month. Ian Powell says that they come along with
a change in culture. It could make a difference. He
says there are bigger problems at Health ENDZ which need
to be tackled.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
It has a very poor leadership culture. It is a
very vertical that's very top down in the way in
which decisions are made.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
In sport, Hayden Wilde has earned a silver medal after
getting overtaken by longtime British rival Alex Yee around two
hundred meters from the end of the Men's Olympic Triathlon.
Men's skiff sailors Isaac McCardy and William mackenzie a third
heading into tomorrow's double point medal race off the coast
of Marseilles. Rowers Shannon Cox and Jackie Kiddle have advanced

(03:11):
to the lightweight women's double skulls final, and Angelie Kerber
has retired from professional tennis career after her defeats in
the game's quarter finals. I'm never ready man. Who in
that your latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update at midday from the news Talk ZB news group.