Midday Edition: 21 September 2024

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
No the newstalks had been newsroom this is NEWSFACS. In
this update, two injured climbers stranded nearly two five hundred
metres up Araki Mount Cook have been airlifted to safety.
The Department of Conservations says helicopter crews were able to
reach the men just before eight point thirty am after
they spent four nights hunkered down in empress Hut, A

(00:27):
Iraqi Search and Rescue supervisor George Looms says the men
were in good spirits and had been well prepared for
a long stay in the mountains. Looms praised the efforts
of the pilots and crew who managed to reach the
men through a short window of good weather in extremely
challenging terrain, as Bulla's retaliation against Israel may be curtailed.

(00:48):
After another round of bombing in Beirut, the Lebanese Health
Ministry says at least sixty six people have been injured
and fourteen killed in the Israeli air strikes. Israel says
the explosion was targeted and a senior commander is among
those killed. London University Middle East Institute director Lena Hatib
told the BBC, in one week has Buller's stronghold cities

(01:11):
being bombed, its devices infiltrated, and its security breached. Any
complex military action against Israel will necessarily mean using communication tools,
and these have been compromised. The United States Secret Service
has highlighted a lack of diligence ahead of the shooting
at Donald Trump's rally in July. Acting Secret Service Director

(01:33):
Ronald Rowe says there was complacency from some agents leading
to a breach of security protocols and they will be
held to account. The BBC's John Sudworth says he noted
the agency's primary function is protecting the US President. This
was a very frank admission of failure on behalf of
the Secret Service in both of those key areas. A

(01:56):
monster Moggie, who tipped the scales at an eye watering
seventeen five ages, has finally shed some weight after weeks
in a fat camp. The flabby feline has been under
the care of a veterinary diet center in Russia. He's
lost more than a kilogram, but not before he tried
to escape and was found stuck in a shoe rack.
That's news In Sport. Sam Kane admits to being a

(02:19):
little surprised Joe Schmidt switched to the Wallabies so soon
after being an All Blacks camp. The All Blacks face
at Schmid's Australian side for the first time this afternoon
in the opening bledders Low Cup test in Sydney. Kin
who was captain of the Abs when Schmidt was a
key assistant, has told News Talk SeeDB he has enormous
respect for Schmidt and enjoyed working with him. Yeah. I

(02:40):
suppose it hurts a little bit that was so quickly
that he went over, but I think he's a guy
that really enjoys a challenge. Yeah. He was always big
on driving, like a lot of the work, great things
off the ball, a lot of the unseen work that
creates opportunities for others. To tennis and the Labor Cup
is locked up at two windsor piece after the first
day's play between Teams World in Team Europe in Berlin.

(03:02):
The Europeans won two of the three singles matches, but
Team World snared a singles clash and the first doubles
encounter that sport. I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news, listen
to News Talk said Be Live on iHeartRadio.