Morning Edition: 12 July 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 12 July 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 morning, I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Friday, twelfth of July. In this update,
David tamahead has pledged to keep fighting in the courts
after a failed bid to have his murder convictions quashed.
The Court of Appeal is ruled there was a miscarriage
of justice during his trial because of witness's false testimony.

(00:24):
May have affected the jury's verdict, but it's still satisfied
beyond reasonable doubt. Tam ahead and murdered Swedish tourists Urban
Hoglin and Heidi Parkinen in nineteen eighty nine. Police Assistant
Commissioner Paul Basham says that while Tamaheady has the right
to keep fighting police field, the matter has been well
traversed over the years. The Court of Appeal assistant validates

(00:45):
emerging verdict and the subsequent analysis of the evidence by
other courts. In other forums, the Transport Minister says road
cone uses out of control and he's pledging to cut
costs while maintaining road users safety. Involves a new risk
based approach to temporary traffic management and the Transport agency
reporting on its road cone spending more regularly. He is

(01:07):
Senior political reporter Sophie trigger.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Simeon Brown says the agency reviewed traffic management at eight
hundred state highway sites in February, finding one hundred and
forty five weren't needed. He says the new approach includes
contract changes, new training and monitoring to ensure it's safe
and cost efficient, and ZTA is also now continually reviewing
temporary traffic management and instructing it be removed when not required.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
New UK Prime Minister za Kiir Starmer has disagreed with
claims about Joe Biden's cognitive ability. His Labour party was
sweept into office just over a week ago and he
almost immediately crossed the Atlantic to attend the NATO summit
in Washington.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
D C.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Starma told Sky News claims Biden could be becoming senile
a misguided. We covered a lot of ground, strategic ground
stuff that I particularly wanted to raise. We did it
at pace. He was on good four and there's a
stark warning from NATO over the future of the Indo Pacific.
The Prime Minister this morning chaired the Indo Pacific four Forum,

(02:08):
a group of NATO aligned Southern Hemisphere countries including New Zealand, Australia,
Japan and South Korea. Christopher Luxen says tensions in the
region arising, but it was Japan's Prime Minister f Mio
Kashida who, through a translator, gave the grimmest warning. I
want the four nations to renew our determination today not
to allow today's uklaim to be East Asia of tomorrow.

(02:32):
Foodstuff's grocery prices are falling, driven by fresh produce. In
the year to June, its supermarkets saw a zero point
five percent decrease in the price of food, while the
cost of fruit and vegetables fell almost fifteen percent. It's
in line with STANZINEZED nationwide data which shows a zero
point three percent drop across all supermarkets Foodstuffs. NZED managing

(02:53):
director Chris Quinn says the negative impacts of COVID and
cycling Gabrielle are finally fading away. Heses. The prices of salary, pumpkin,
kumita and lettuce have all fallen around forty and fifty percent.
And in sport Lydia Coe as one stroke off the
lead at Gulf's Eveyon Championship Major after cuarting a six
hundred past sixty five in the opening round. Jasmin And

(03:15):
Paulini has become the first Italian woman to reach the
Wimbledon singles final in the Open era after defeating Donna
Vekicch in three sets. Widiam Gurmei has secured a third
stage victory on Cyclones Tour de France. The Dolphins have
posted a thirty six twenty eight win over the Rabbittos,
ending South Sydney's run of five straight victories to open

(03:36):
round nineteen of League's NRL. I'm never retty MANU. That's
your latest news fix and we'll be back with the
next update of midday from the newsdalg ZB Newserp