Morning Edition: 06 July 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news Talks headby Newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is newsfax end.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
This update a Tory bloodbath, with Reshi Sunak leading the
party to a humiliating defeat. Labor leader Sir Keir Starman's
taking over the reins as Prime Minister after a major
campaign for change. The BBC's Rob Watson says it's a
fascinating moment but raises the question of whether the government
can deal with the recent instability in British politics. Keer

(00:33):
Stummer's going to have this challenge of not only trying
to make Britain that a off, but he also has
to make sure that people get on together better. Farms
being praised for speedy workaround funding for cancer drugs. It's
funding key Truder, which is used for attacking breast, head
and neck collarector and bladder cancers and Hodgkins Slimphomer. Breast

(00:53):
Cancer Foundation Chief executor Varling Rainer says the drug's the
only one that can tackle triple negative breast cancer. Triple
negative breast cancer is the most aggressive form of breast
cancer eras it's the hardest to treat.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
And it has the least survival outcomes.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Support for user pays to develop and maintain new roads
of national significance. Transport Minister Simeon Brown has confirmed the
first round of seven projects are getting underway. Infrastructure New
Zealand Chief Executive Nick Leggett says New Zealand has a
major infrastructure deficit. He says, if we want modern highways,

(01:32):
we have to price them right. In other countries show
us that tolls are the way to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
It is going to take a change in mindsets, but
we have to start because we have to lift the
game in terms of how much infrastructure we build, the
quality of that infrastructure, and how well we maintain it.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Police are appealing for information to help find a fifty
six year old man who's been missing since Wednesday morning.
Ben Falks was last seen at his Masterton home, as
vehicles found on Manga's Teddy Valley Road near a walking track.
Police described Fox as one hundred and seventy two centimeters
with a medium build and short hair. And that's news.

(02:11):
I'm Donna. Marie Lever Disport Lulu Soon has reached the
last sixteen at the Wimbledon tennis major, becoming the first
New Zealand woman since nineteen fifty nine to do so.
The twenty three year old kiwis down China's Zulin seven
six seven six in round three, setting up a contest

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with US Open winner Emma Radakanu, who's beaten ninth seeds
Maria Sakari in straight sets. Rual Morrison was the last
Kiwi woman to make the fourth round sixty five years ago.
Soon says conditions were tricky.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
With the wind and wedding with the rain as well,
and she's a tough opponent. We had a lot of
rallies as well as she had great serve games, so
it really came down to just a few points.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
And Spain have scored a one hundred and twenty minutes
extra time winner to beat host Germany. Two won in
the quarterfinals of the European Championships. Michael Marino headed home
the winning goal after the Science were locked in one
all at the end of regulation time. And that's sport.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
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