Afternoon Edition: 11 August 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 11 August 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 newsfects. In
this update, Contabrians have gathered at Christ Church Botanic Gardens
World Peace Spell to mark the seventy ninth anniversary of
the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The bombings killed over two
hundred thousand people, with survivors and descendants still suffering long
term effects today. Disarmament and Security Center research fellow Marcus

(00:26):
Cole says it's important that we remember what nuclear weapons
can do.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
It's really important for New Zealand, as a country that
has a very proud nuclear free history, that we still
honor the past and honor the people who have actually
really brought that history to the fore and continue it
along in this kind of volatile world that we have.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
At least thirteen people have been injured in Cursk after
debris from a destroyed Ukraine launched missile fell onto a
nine story residential building. Moscow's forces are in their sixth
day of intense battles against Kiev's largest incursion into Russian territory.
Russia had launched a full scale attack on the area
last week. The Deer Stalkers' Association is holding its second

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National Wild Goat Hunting Competition running until the end of November.
It's partnered with the Department of Conservation to host the
event as part of wider pest control efforts across New Zealand.
Competition coordinated Trevor Gratton says conservation's an important part of
the competition.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Now, and girls and families are out there every weekend
doing their part to try and remove pieces like goats
and stoats and rabbitts and things like that, along with
the year and the hoods of importance that we need
to focus on as well.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
A car fit for royalty and one fit for a
tech mogul have gone up for auction in Auckland's Mount
Eden today. An Ultra Rea Mercedes, formerly owned by internet
entrepreneur Kim dot COM's up for sale. With only eighty
of its kind in the world. It's not yet sold
and has an estimated value of about eight hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. Queen Elizabeth the Second's Royal Rolls Royce
has sold for one hundred and seventy two thousand dollars.

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Webs collect a car expert Chris Wiseman, saying the car's
one of a kind as.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Actually specifically outfitods for the Royal Tour by Rolls Royce,
so it was using those nineteen sixty three and nineteen
seventeen Royal Tours of New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
That's news in sport. All Blacks coach Scott Robertson's vowing
to be honest as his side picks up the pieces
of a shock loss to Argentina. Robertson's offered some insight
into the way he'll approach his dealings with his team
ahead of a rematch at Eden Park next Saturday. Robertson
said today he'll make sure those stones left unturned.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I've come in fear. I come in fear and honest.
But also look, you get excited about the opportunity this week,
you know it's straight back into it at ground.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
We love to the NPC. A late charge has seen
Hawks Bay beat North Harbor forty one thirty two in
their game in Albany in the women's Fara Palmer Cup.
The one or two Cyclones have beaten Taranaki eighty six seven.
Otago just pipped North Harbor twenty four to twenty one
with a stunning try after the final hooter. That's sport.
I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to news talks.

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