Morning Edition: 16 May 2026

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the news Talk Zebby newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is NEWSFX and this update. A house fire in
christ Church's mother Hoe that killed a three year old
girl and her mother is not being treated as suspicious.
The twenty three year old mother was confirmed dead last night.
After the blaze on Whittles Street on Thursday night, four
other children aged between ten weeks and five years old

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were taken to hospital, with all but one now discharged
into the care of family members. The children are all
siblings of the deceased three year old girl. Organizers of
more than forty fuel rallies across the country today say
they'll be peaceful and lawful as they protest for relief
on fuel taxes. Rising costs have prompted calls for taxes

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to be reduced and future increases scrapped. They're also calling
for more government transparency over how fuel related revenue is spent.
Fuel tax protest Tardnake branch coordinator Ben Abel says they've
been working with police to events run smoothly.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
The things that we're not going to condone it as blockades, aggression, intimidation,
abusive behavior, violence of any kind, vandalism, damage of property,
or legal activity.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Overseas and a New York judge has declared the latest
Harvey Weinstein rape case a mistrial. The trial was centered
around whether the disgraced film mogul raped aspiring actress Just
Command in a hotel room more than a decade ago.
The BBC reports a jury was deadlocked and unable to
reach a verdict. It's the third time a jury has

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considered this case against the seventy four year olds. Back
Home Man, The lights are on and the stage is
set for one in z Stadium's concert debut in christ Church.
The recently opened venue will host the once in a
lifetime event tonight, featuring Symphony and six sixty. It's expected
to generate five million dollars in visitors spending for the

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city venues. Oft A TAHI Chief executive Carolyn Harvey Tear
says it's the first time the turf will be covered
for an event.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
We're going to have seventeen thousand guests on the field
and we need to protect that beautiful two for rugby
and next weekend, so there's about nine thousand square minutes
to protection going down.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
That's news. The sport Dan, the New Zealand men's football team,
is into an a League Football Grand Final for the
first time ever. Auckland FC's dispatched Adelaide united three Nils
to win the two league tie for one on aggregate.
And New Zealand swimming stary Erica Fairweather has beaten two
other Olympians to win the woman's fifteen hundred meter freestyle

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final at the National Swimming Championships in Auckland. The twenty
two year old was stoked to edge runner up Eve
Thomas and third place Caitlin Dean's and a rare outing
at the longer distance.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
I'm really happy with that swim as the second fifth
one hundred of someone a very very long time, so
still getting the fill of the race, but I'm really
happy with that today.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Meanwhile, Lewis Clebert cleaned up in the means two hundred
meter freestyle final. That is sport. I'm Diana Vizig.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
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