Morning Edition: 14 July 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 14 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 head Been Newsroom, this is Newsfax.
In this update, at least ninety Palestinians have been reported
killed in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza targeting Hamasa's
military chief. Muhammad Daif is the alleged mastermind of the
October attacks that killed twelve hundred people in Israel and
triggered the war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin yet in Yahoo

(00:28):
says it's not clear if the Hamas leader has been killed,
but he bound to get every leader of the militant
group at any cost. The Prime Minister's wrapped up his
week long diplomatic tour of the US, saying he's achieved
what he set out to do. Political editor Jason Walls
traveled with Chris Luxen.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Luxon described himself as an American political junkie and a
major extrovert, and both proved true this week. The PM
bounced from senator to senator at Capitol Hill and from
Prime Minister to president at NATO. In doing so, he
was able to deepen New Zealand's ties with key partners,
even if he only had a brief time to do so.
He now heads to Hawaii for a few days of

(01:08):
respite before Parliament resumes next week.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally
near Pittsburgh in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania, as
suspense builds over who he'll choose it says running mate
for the November election, Trump says he will announce his
vice presidential peak shortly before or during the party's national convention,

(01:32):
which kicks off on Monday. In the US, there's a
belief the government's barking up the wrong tree with funding
roadside drug testing. The program will be announced in the
next few months, with a proposed target for police to
test fifty thousand people a year. Drug checking group Know
Your Stuff claims data in the UK and Australia suggests

(01:55):
there's around a twenty percent failure rate with the current
testing equipment. General manager Casey Spern says the current tests
used are insufficient and expensive, and that's news. I'm donno
Marie lever to sport two wins in tight circumstances for
the All Blacks and consecutive weeks to start coach Scott

(02:16):
Robertson's All Black tenure. The twenty four seventeen win over
England at eden Park came with the side needing to
turn around a four point deficit in the game. Swinging
the tourist Wayne Robertson says the injection of Boden Barrett
saw them turn the tide.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
And a half you want of your line out and
win a couple of kick battles and one of the
brothers comes on and as a hell of a hell
of a match and test tunes. I think was a
real test fretty match. Sound yeah, prouder.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
And England coach Steve Borthwick says he kept getting stopped
this week and told by KeyWe fans that that figured
the English out, that it was.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
A privilege for us to play at eden Park and
would be lucky if we got if we got away
with less than fifty points conceded. A guy told all
this today and when the team runs have been just
kept coming to New Zealand today, just kept firing.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
And check barbora crag. Chekhova has upset seventh seed Jasmine
Palini in three sets to win the Ladies Singles crown
at Wimbledon. And that's sport. For more news, listen to
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