Afternoon Edition: 19 July 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 19 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 afternoon, I'm reigning Ramsay. This is your afternoon news.
Fixed for Friday, the nineteenth of July. A four day
build up at the Republican National Convention has come to
a head, with Donald Trump taking center stage. It's the
first time he's publicly spoken about the shooting at his
Pennsylvania rally on Sunday, and Corey compeatour who was killed.

(00:25):
There is no greater love than to lay down one's
life for others.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Trump says, the Republicans emerge from the attack more determined
than ever.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Our resolve is unbroken, and our purpose is unchanged to
delivery government that serves the American people better than ever before.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
He says, now is the time for America to unite.
We must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement, which
is what's been happening in our country. Foreign Affairs Minister
Winston Peters says speaking with each other rather than act
each other, has never been more needed on the world stage.

(01:09):
Peters is visiting Japan, where he attended the tenth Japan
Pacific Islands Foreign Leaders Meeting. In an address from Tokyo.
He says, the world is troubled and his war and
instability is everyone's calamity. Diplomacy is everyone's business.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
From understanding comes opportunity, and from diplomacy it comes compromise,
the building block of better relations between nations.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Associate Health Minister David Seymour's not phased by the resignation
of a high level FARMAC director, doctor Anthony Jordan's quit
the board just days after it was directed to remove
its focus on the Treaty of Waitetangi in its decision making.
Seymour says Jordan told him a few days ago he
would be leaving Farmak as a direct result of the decision.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
I think if he wants to move on because he
believes the treaty caused as more on Moortant than all
the other stuff that Farmaker is doing, then he's probably
made the right decision and I actually respect them for it.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
The government stepping up the war on potholes Transport Minister
Simeon Brown's and aunts to target of fixing ninety five
percent of potholes on main highways within twenty four hours
of identification. Thomas Rice reports.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
On top of that, Simeon Brown wants eighty five percent
of potholes on minor state highways to also be fixed
within a day. Brown says instead of simply placing cold
mix and potholes, contractors will now increase the use of
new innovations to ensure that temporary repairs last longer. He
says they're catching up on the maintenance deficit to ensure

(02:40):
that people in freight can get to where they need
to be.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Good news for home buyers B and Z and Keywi
Bank of following A and Z and Westpac in cutting
their advertised home loan and term deposit rates Following Wednesday's
drop and CPI inflation. Most economists now expect the Reserve
Bank to cut the official cash rate this year. Consensus
is pointing to a cut in November after the release

(03:05):
of the next round of quarterly inflation data in October.
Motorists are being urged to take extra care tonight, with
rough weather on the way in some places. A heavy
rain watch is in force for Northland and North Auckland
after an already wet week. The rains expected to continue overnight.
In Sport, assistant coach Jason Holland says the All Blacks

(03:27):
are keen to make a statement in their third Test
of the year against Fiji tomorrow afternoon in San Diego.
Rafael Nadal says he has yet to make up his
mind whether he'll compete at the US Open out of
his Olympic swan song in Paris. The injury plagued a
Spanish tennis great has reached the quarterfinals of the Swedish Open.

(03:48):
A New Zealand cricket will keep faith in Ben Sawyer
as White Fern's head coach three months out from the
T twenty World Cup in India. That's despite a disastrous
tour of England. I'm railing Ramsay and that is your
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update
tomorrow morning from the news talk seed Be newsroom.