Midday Edition: 11 July 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Adam Cooper and this is your midday
news fix for Thursday, the eleventh of July. Chris Luxin's
wrapped up by lateral talks with Justin Trudeau. The pair
have met on the sidelines of the NATO conference in Washington,
d C. Today, as at a time tensions are increasing
over action in the Pacific from the likes of China.
They spoke for less than half an hour, but ahead

(00:25):
of the meeting, Canada's Prime Minister spoke highly of New
Zealand's leadership role in the Indo Pacific. Having Indo Pacific
partners like you here to help emphasize the work we
have to do every around the world, but also inform
our thinking around this is really useful. Annual food prices
have dropped for the first time in six years, sliding

(00:45):
zero point three percent in the year ending June. Stantcen's
head manager, James Mitchell says it was driven by lower
prices for tomatoes, cheese and potatoes. The Crown admits there
was a miscarriage of justice and the trials that saw
Gail Maney and Stephen Stone convicted of murdering Dean Fuller Sands.
The case was explored in the RNZ Stuff podcast Gone Fishing,

(01:06):
prompting Private investigated Tim McKinnell to investigate further. The lawyers
for Mani and Stone have received a Crown memo conceding
there were grave problems with evidence and trials in nineteen
ninety nine and two thousand. A. Kennel says next month
the pair will once again argue their innocence. What's the
most important piece of new evidences. Of the four witnesses
that said these events happened, two of them now say

(01:29):
that it's not true. They were counting a story that
the police had given them more than one hundred thousand
dollars has gone into a trial offering a lot to
do a tenants at a new Kyinger Order housing complex,
bikes to use for free MZTA crying order and to
rot to do A Lake's Council purchased fifteen bikes and
built a storage cage that have been used by sixteen

(01:49):
households during an eight month government pilot which ends next month,
one of four trials across the North Island. Whenston Peters
says questions need answering over other Teddy's ground three weeks
ago the interiment. A ferry ran aground near Picton and
leaked documents shore it was accidentally put on auto pilot
before hitting sand. He's head and first questioned on social

(02:10):
media this week whether a person getting a cup of
coffee had turned on the autopilot and couldn't turn it
off again. That's been denied, and Kiwi Rail says its
investigation continues that the acting Prime Minister as demanding Kiwi
Rail gives details. Did somebody go for a cup of
coffee or what happened? Because it should never been on
all the part in the first place, and now we
getting also through explanations try and explain the unimaginable. A

(02:33):
Wellington dairy owner has woken up to a stolen car
crashed into his store in a dramatic ram raid attempt
early this morning. The car, believed to be stolen, was
driven into the Corimandel Corner store in Newtown just after
four am. The daii's owner, Nilish, told Newstalks he had
been nothing was stolen and those responsible fled the scene
when the car became stuck in the front of the building.

(02:55):
He's spent the morning picking up the pieces of his
shop front and says it's a sad day for the
business he's owned for fourteen years. And sports substitute Olie
Watkins has struck a ninetieth minute goal with centimeters of
wriggle room to deliver a two to one win over
the Netherlands at Dortmund, enabling England to advance to consecutive
European Football Championship finals. One test All Black playmaker josh

(03:17):
Uanni signed with Irish club Conduct for next season, and
Kenyan marathon runner Lawrence Cirono has been suspended for seven
years by the Athletics Integra Unit after admitting to three
anti doping violations. I'm Adam Cooper and that's your latest
news fix. We'll be backward the next update at five
pm from the News Talks. He'd be Newsroom