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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning. I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news for Expert, Tuesday, eighteenth of June. In this update,
an expert says it would have been unsafe for a
Boeing flight to make an emergency landing in Queenstown. It's
thought a bird strike is what caused a Melbourne bound
Virgin Australia flight to be diverted to Invericargol. It experienced
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the problem on departure from Queenstown just on six pm
yesterday and landed safely about fifteen minutes later. Members of
the public reported zeeing flames coming from one of the
engines and heard loud bangs as the plane took off.
News Dog zb's Marcus Lush watched the plane landed in
the Cargo airport with fire engines, ambulances and police standing by.
That was amazing thing was how many people were there.
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The city had come to a standstill with people watching it. Meanwhile,
aviation expert Jeffrey Thomas says Queenstown's mountains become an issue
if they have to abort a landing. He says diverting
to Inficargol was the safe and right thing to do.
Our Prime Minister is being reunited with his business delegation
in Tokyo after being forced to abandon them in Papua
New Guinea. Christopher Luxen resumes his Japanese business charm offensive today.
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He'll be looking to move on from the distraction of
his plane breaking down. The government's walking back on its
approach to transgender people participating in community sports. A New
Zealand first national policy threatened to withhold public funding if
sports bodies didn't separate transathletes from grassroots competitions. Sport and
Recreation Minister Chris Bishop will now take a watching brief
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after feedback from Sport endz Save Women's Sports spokesperson Row
Edge told Mike Cosking, it's disappointing which I spought.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
With our bodies, not our identity, and we all know
that male bodies are bigger, stronger and faster than females.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Green Party co leader Madam and Davidson's breast cancer journey
highlights the importance of being checked. She's beginning treatment after
it was picked up during a routine mammogram about a
month ago. Davidson will undergo a partial mystectomy and will
be off work for about four months starting after Matsadiki
Breast Cancer Foundation Chief executive Arlene Rainer hopes this will
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get screening numbers up, especially for Mardi and Pacific women.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Martioning at sixty one point in pacifica wore mentioning at
sixty six percent. This is well below the screening target
at seventy percent.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Assurances there will be safeguards in place to ensure granny
flats built under a new proposal don't end up leaky
or unsafe. The government has released a discussion document proposing
changes to the Building Act and Resource Management System. Councils
would have to allow buildings up to sixty square meters
in certain areas without a resource consent. Arimay Reform Minister
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Chris Bishop says all of the buildings would still have
to comply with the Building Code.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
To people doing the Building Act work will have to
be licensed building practitioners or supervised by a licensed building
practitioner and as a range of criteria to be exempt
from requiring a building consent.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And In sport, forty eighth ranked Slovakia have upset third
ranked Jim one nil. In the euro Football Paul Manchet Frankfurt,
Romania have defeated Ukraine three Nila Munich for the first
win at a major tournament since two thousand. The Magic
have overcome a halftime deficit to defeat the Steel forty
eight to forty one in the A and Z Premiership.
Netball manch At Himilton and the third ranked women's tennis player,
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Arena Sabulenka, will miss the Olympics, saying scheduling makes playing
the fixture impossible if she's to protect her health. I'm
never ready, Manu, and that your latest news fix. We'll
be back with the next update at midday from the
news Dog ZBI Newsroom.