Afternoon Edition: 10 June 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 10 June 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 Rayleen Ramsay. This is your afternoon news
fixer for Monday, the tenth of June. Scott Watson faces
three options as he goes before the Court of Appeal
for a second time. Watson was found guilty of murdering
friends Ben Smart and Olivia Hope in nineteen ninety nine.
The pair were last seen getting off a water taxi
onto a yacht in the Marlborough Sounds on New Year's Eve.

(00:27):
Watson's lawyers are arguing identification evidence was unreliable. Open Justice
reporter Katherine Hutton says the decision by the judges will
come months after the week long case. The three options
the court has is to dismiss the appeal and Watson
obviously stays in jail, quash the conviction and order a
High Court retail, or just to quash the conviction. The

(00:49):
Chinese Premiere will be in Wellington this week, the first
visit by someone in the position in seven years. He
will meet with Prime Minister Chris Luxon for bilateral talks.
Reporter Sophie Trigger has more.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
With two way trade worth nearly thirty eight billion dollars
last year. Luxon says the visits an opportunity to grow
areas of cooperation. He's also announced a political and business
visit to Japan, departing this weekend. He'll be accompanied by
a senior business delegation with a focus on building trade relationships.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
White Island two is Limited has gone into liquidation more
than four years on from the twenty nineteen eruption. Twenty
two tourists were killed and another twenty five injured. Last year,
Worksay fined the company more than five hundred thousand dollars
for its role and ordered five million dollars in reparations. Now,
the company's liquidators say business insurance covered the reparations but

(01:42):
not the fine, the only remaining liability. They say the
company ceased trading after the eruption and has no assets.
A vaccinologist says New Zealand could be in a hooping
cough outbreak. Institute of Environmental Science and Research figures show
that a one one hundred and fifty five confirmed cases
as of two days ago. Last year, there were only

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one hundred and forty one cases. Auckland University is Helen
Patussus Harris says the coughs highly contagious and can last
up to three months. She says, severe cases can give
adults bloodshot eyes and broken ribs. The ones we worry
about are the very small baby because that's where you
can see life threatening illness. It's through frightening and we

(02:29):
do occasionally get dead. The cost of building a new
home starting to stabilize. Figures from qv cost Builders show
the average cost to build a three bedroom home and
main centers has risen by one point eight percent for
the year and zero point three percent this quarter. It
compares to an annual average increase of nearly five percent

(02:50):
last December and nearly ten percent last June. Spokesperson Simon
Peterson says this means consumers and builders can have more
certainty in their budgets.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Can have a bit more confident that the plans for
bunging in place now will be feasible in the future.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
And to Sport. The Blues admit the loss of skipper
Patrick Tuypalutu is a bitter blow heading into Friday Super
Rugby semi final against the Brumbies at Eden Park. The
All Blacks lock has torn the media ligament in his
right knee, ruling him out for the remainder of the
competition and next month's Test matches against England and Fiji

(03:27):
Foundation or Wellington Phoenix women's players Kate Taylor and Kelly
Brown won't be returning to the club for the upcoming
A League season, and the Boston Celtics have taken care
of business at home, beating the Dallas Mavericks one O
five to ninety eight in Game two of the NBA Finals.
I'm Raylen Ramsey. That is your latest news fix and

(03:49):
we'll be back with the next update tomorrow morning from
the News Talk set B Newsroom.