Morning Edition: 30 June 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news Talk sad By newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is NEWSFACS.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
In this update, France's far right party, the National Rally,
is preparing for a big night a snap parliamentary elections
take place. The first round of runoff voting will take
place tonight. The party's polling at thirty six point five percent,
ahead of an alliance of left wing parties who are
on twenty nine percent. President Emmanuel Macron's parties only polling

(00:32):
at around twenty percent. French historian and political commentator Romaine
Fee is in Paris and says he's seen real hatred
for Macron is seen as really Parisian arrogant. He has
done the best schools, so he's really part of the system.
Has really turned against him in a way that really

(00:52):
surprised me. Police say the death of a climber on
montsrour Pe who is a tragic incident and highlights the
unforgive environment. A woman fell a significant distance after slipping
on the eastern side of the mountain and later died
at A hue remains in place for the eastern slopes
of Mantroupehu above two thousand meters until six a m. Tuesday,

(01:17):
more than half a million Kiwis have been supplied unsafe
drinking water. A report from the country's water regulator, talmatu
Adaway shows four hundred and eighty nine thousand people got
drinking water from councils with an adequate protozoa protection. That's
what contributed to a cryptosporidium outbreak in Queenstown last year.

(01:39):
Water New Zealand's Leslie Smith says another twenty five thousand
people were given water that lacked a bacteria barrier.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
We have known for a long time that councils are
struggling to meet safe water quality standards and that there
is a need for more capacity in our sector. So
while it's concerning, it's not new.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
The government's lay out targets for the mental health system.
A new policy statement has five goals, including eighty percent
of people accessing specialist mental health and addiction services within
three weeks. And that's news. I'm donno Marie lever to
sport Switzerland's not defending champion Italy out of Euro twenty

(02:21):
twenty four in the round of sixteen. Goals on either
side of halftime earned the Swiss a two nil win
in Berlin host Germany and now tackling Denmark and deutmund
one of the greatest catchers of all time, has helped
India to a seven run win over South Africa in
the T twenty World Cup final in Barbados, Chasing one

(02:41):
hundred and seventy seven for their first ever white ball title.
The Proteins were robbed in the final over by a
scarcely believable catch on the boundary that denied a six.
The New Zealand Maldi rugby team scored six tries to
two and a thirty six to ten win over a
Japan fifty and Tokyo and Max Vstappen has won the

(03:03):
Formula one A sprint race at the Austrian Grand Prix
and qualified on poll for tomorrow's seventy one lap main event.
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