Morning Edition: 21 July 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 21 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):
No the news talks head by newsroom. This is NEWSFACS.
In this update, Mahe Drysdale's paddled his way into the
mayoral chains. The former Olympic rower is the likely winner
with eighty two percent of the votes now counted. He
has a five thousand vote lead, but more results are
expected this afternoon and next week, and Mahe Drysdale says

(00:25):
the credit for his win has to go to the voters.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Thank you for believing in me. I'm really excited about
what we can do in the city and you know,
taking the city to be the best city in New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Donald Trump said to host his first rally in public
since a gunman shot him in the air in an
attempt to take his life last week. Trump is scheduled
to address a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at around
nine this morning. It's one of several campaign stops the
former President's made to the key battleground state as poll
show him in a close race against US President Joe Biden.

(00:59):
The governments being strongly urged to honor the fifty one
lives lost from the christ Church mosk attack by committing
to keeping the ban on semi automatic firearms. Several community
leaders at the Keep Our Community Safe campaign yesterday. They
expressed concern about the government rewriting the gun law. Amum
gamal Fuda, who witnessed the mass shooting, since he thought

(01:23):
we'd learnt from this tragedy.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
I'm disappointed to say that the current government has turned
its back on the victims of fifteenth of March, as
if this mussacre had never happened.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
The Children's ministers presenting the military style Academy Pilot as
an opportunity for the boys involved. Ten young offenders will
spend three months at Palmerston North tiar Red Artatonga doing
a variety of activities including academics, physical fitness and rehabilitation.
The program, though has faced our criticism, but Minister Karen

(01:58):
Chaw says the boys will be able to get a
lot out of the experience and that's news. I'm Donna
Marie lever To sport American Billy Horschell and Englishman Daniel
Brown a battling for the lead on moving Day at
the Open Gulf Championship at Royal Troon moments ago. The
pair were locked at five under overall at the back

(02:20):
end of round three. Can we Daniel Hilly has fired
a three under sixty eight to be tied for fifteenth
A short time ago to the penultimate stage of cycling's
Tour de France. It's pure power. It's Tardy Pagaccia. It's
win number five in this year's Tour de France. Taday
Pagacha has clinched the mountainous one hundred and thirty two

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point eight kilometers stage twenty to inch closer to his
third title. He's held off Nearest Drival and defending champions
champion Jonas van Gago in the final sprint, and Oscar
Piastre has promised to put team priorities over personal ambition
after a front row lockout alongside mclarentine mate Lando Norris

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