Afternoon Edition: 13 July 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 13 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):
From the news talks edby Newsroom This is newsfecs. In
this update, the Prime Minister's weighed in on United States
President Joe Biden's mishapy yesterday. Chris Luxen's heading home from
California after a busy five days at the annual NATO Summit.
At a post NATO media conference yesterday, President Biden mistakenly
introduced Ukraine President Zelenski as Putin. It's resulted in a

(00:27):
wave of Democrats asking him to step down from the
presidential race. But when mister Luckson was asked what he thought,
he remained impartial. Look, I'm not getting into that. I mean,
obviously that's not ideal. But new electric passenger trains have
arrived in Auckland, with more due over the next few weeks.
The first of twenty three trains built by CIF in Mexico,

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have three cars, each with a three hundred and eighty
passenger capacity according to their website, though a maximum speed
of one hundred and ten kilometers an hour, with the
same design as existing trains on the network. Auckland Transports
Director of Public Transport and Active Models, Stacy vander Putten
old r n Z the trains would add capacity to
the network with the ability to carry an extra eighty

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six hundred and twenty people. The school holidays is one
of the busiest times on the ski slopes, which means
it's also peak injury time. In the past five years,
ACCS received over sixty thousand snow sport related claims, with
many believed to be easily preventable. Injury Prevention lead James
Whittaker warns the business of the July holidays means people

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should exercise more caution. Mister Whittaker says there's going to
be many people trying to have fun on the slopes,
so it's important to respect other people's space and leave
them room to move. A new mission to the Titanic wreckage,
seeking new insights into its sinking, has set sail imaging experts,
scientists and historians are on their way to gather the

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most detailed photographic record ever made. Every nook and cranny
is expected to be scanned using two robotic vehicles to
make a three D mode the debris. It's the first
commercial mission to the Titanic since last year's Ocean Gate tragedy,
in which five men lost their lives in a submersible.
That's news in sport. Any sign of uncertainty from England

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over the All Blacks game plan has disappeared. Hitting into
tonight's second rugby Test at Eden Park, England was beaten
sixteen fifteen in last week's series opener, the first of
the Scott Robertson era. England skipper Jamie George says his
team's aware of what the All Blacks can produce. It's
a fascinating week when you play a team back to back.
We've got a reference point now in terms of watching

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them having played a game. How do they want to
take us on? How might that be different the following week.
The only pressure we're putting on is on ourselves. New
Zealand high jumper Hamish Curse preparations for the paras Olympics
are on track. The indoor World champion and Commonwealth Games
gold medalist has recorded an outdoor best leap of two
point three three meters to win the Monaco Diamond League title.

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That's sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to
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