Midday Edition: 30 July 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 30 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 Jody Gill and this is your midday
newsfex for Tuesday, the thirtieth of July. Christ Church police
are out in force searching farmland back looking for missing
woman Yan Fei Bao. A team of sixty officers have
renewed the hunt at Green Park near Lincoln on the
city's outskirts after recently received information. It's more than a

(00:26):
year since the real estate agent went missing, and ting
z Yun Kha is going to trial in October accused
of Boo's murder. Newstorp zb's Emily Ancell is at the
scene and says there are plenty of police vehicles with
officers keeping people away from the main search area and
the United Kingdom. Two children have been stabbed to death

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at a dance school in Southport, north of Liverpool, while
six more are fighting for their lives in hospital. Local
Chief Constable Serena Kennedy says another three children and two
adults have also been injured. We believe the adult who
were injured were bravely trying to protect the children who
were being attacked. A seventeen year old boy was taken

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into police custody at the scene. The prime Minister is
again calling on public sector CEOs to ensure they're spending
taxpayer money Wisely. On newsroom has revealed the Film Commission
has spent seventeen thousand dollars on four farewell and welcome
parties for incoming and departing CEOs. The revelation comes as
sources tell our newsroom a thirty three million dollar m

(01:30):
FAT cloud It project has been a failure since it
started and the Ministry was aware of it before millions
of dollars was spent. Christopher Luxen says the Film Commission
spending doesn't seem appropriate and m FAT has been spoken
to about its project.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Taxpayers money there has to be spent really prudently, and
you spend it as if it's your own money to
do your own family budgets.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
We're building that culture back into Wellington.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
We have to build it back in.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
The Associate Minister for Defense admits more needs to be
done to fix the state of Defense Force Housing Mission
home Front is sharing stories of homes assigned to personnel
and families is being invested with mold, unheated and without
running water. Laughlan Rennie has More.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
A Defense spokesperson, says all their housing meets the healthy
home standards but concedes more than ten percent in a
poor or very poor condition. Associate Minister for Defense Chris
Penk says the stories being released are confronting. He sees
the additional half a billion dollars of funding in budget
twenty four as a start, but they're working on solutions
like possible public private partnerships.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
The governments just announced a new licensing system to regulate
online casinos. Internal Affairs Minister Van Velden says operators will
need to comply with a new set of criteria before
they're able to offer services in New Zealand, and the
government's announced new legislation to enable roadside drug testing. Transport
Minister Simmy and Brown says it will allow police to

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randomly screen drivers for drugs, similar to drink in sport.
The Olympics drone gate continues. Canada Soccer and the Canadian
Olympic Committee have confirmed they've appealed the six point deduction
handed to their women's team for spying on Football Ferns
training sessions. The Black Fern Sevens will tackle the USA

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in the semi finals of the Olympic Rugby Sevens in Paris,
with Australia clash with Canada in the other semi and
thirty six nations are now on the Olympics medal table,
which is headed by Japan with six gold, followed by France, China,
Australia and South Korea with five each. I'm Jody Gill.
That's your latest news fakes. We'll be back with the

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next update at five pm from the News Talk set
B Newsroom.