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October 1, 2024 4 mins
The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 02 October 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Raelen ramsay. This is your afternoon news.
Fixed four Wednesday, this second of October. The United States
says taking credit for helping intercept Iranian strikes on Israel.
Iran's launch nearly two hundred missiles at Israel, most intercepted
A day after Israel invaded Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Manja

(00:26):
mainettan Yahoo says the attack was a big mistake and
Iran will pay for it. US President Joe Biden says
they'll defend their allies.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Raised to all we know now, the attack peers to
have been defeated and ineffective, and this is testament to
Israeli military capability and US military.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters is urging New Zealanders not
to travel to Lebanon, Israel or Iran, and anyone that's
there to leave immediately. Open Justice reports the Court of
Appeal has acquitted Gail Manny, Colin Manny, and Mark Henrikson
for convictions relating to the death of Aucklander Dean full
of Sands in nineteen eighty nine. Four people had sought

(01:07):
to dismissal of their convictions. In August, a retrial has been
ordered for Stephen Stone, who was convicted of full of
Sand's murder and the rape and murder of sex worker
Leah Stevens. The crowns accepting the police fail to disclose
information relevant to the defense cases, which caused a miscarriage
of justice. The US vice presidential debate is over. It

(01:31):
turned to climate change in the aftermath of the destructive
Hurricane Helene. Republican Senator J. D. Van says he and
Donald Trump support clean air and water, but the best
way to get there is investing in American workers. What
have Kamal Harris's policies actually led to more energy production
in China, more manufacturing overseas, more doing business than some

(01:53):
of the dirtiest parts of the entire world. The Democratic
governor Tim Will says the Biden Harris administrations record in
vestments in the Inflation Reduction Act have created jobs across
the country.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Center Vans has said that there's a climate problem in
the past, Donald Trump called it a hoax and then
joked that these things would make more beachfont property to
be able to invest in.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
International tobacco company Philip Morris is arguing the debate on
tax for heated tobacco devices is grossly miscalculated. Associate Health
Minister Casey Costello has halved excise on the devices, a
product monopolized in New Zealand by Philip Morris. Political reporter
to Melsa Jackson has more.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
The budget allocates two hundred and sixteen million dollars to
cover the tax loss, but the devices can no longer
be sold under new vapor laws. Philip Morris says last
year the products only yielded six million dollars in excise taxes,
well below the estimated cost. It says the company will
soon make available a range of devices for consumers which

(02:55):
meet all new regulatory requirements.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
An array of weather watchers and warnings covering the country.
Met Service says heavy rain will batter the West and
Upper South Island as well as mant Taranaki and Bay
of Plenty. Heavy snowfalls also expected in the lowest South Island.
Meteorologist John Law says people in the far North that
should watch out for thunderstorms ses areas from say Auckland

(03:18):
north really through the evening time in overnight tonight the
Corimander and into the bad Planty as we head into
those early hours of Thursday morning to sport a new
gig for chiefs mentor Clayton McMillan. He has been named
as the All Blacks fifteen head coach ahead of their
games against Munster and Georgia next month. New Zealand Cricket

(03:39):
are keeping faith in Gary Stead as Black Caps coach
despite four consecutive Test losses. Tim Zavi has stepped down
as captain following the two nil Test series drubbing at
the hands of Sri Lanka and Hokiy. New Zealand has
declined an invitation for the men's Blacksticks to rejoin the
Sport's Pro League starting in December. I'm railing Ramsey. That

(04:02):
is your latest news fix and we'll be back with
the next update tomorrow morning from the News Talk sed
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