Morning Edition: 27 October 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talks v newsroom. This is Newsfax end
this update. A geopolitical analyst says the latest escalation in
the Middle East has destroyed any chance of a cease
fire in the near future. Israel's army says it unleash
strikes on Iranian military targets in retaliation to continuous attacks

(00:25):
from Iran. The Iranian army says it successfully counted the aggression,
despite it killing two soldiers. Geopolitical analyst Jeffrey Miller doubts
it will result in any de escalation in the end.
There is no military solution to what we're seeing in
the Middle East.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
There is only a political one, and you will not
solve this conflict by military means.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Mid Market businesses are the most optimistic they've been in
three years. A survey by NYOB shows sixty three percent
soor revenue increase in the past year. Climate change has
been the center of conversation for leaders. At the Commonwealth
Heads of Government meeting, Chris Luson announced the government will
contribute twenty million dollars for the Pacific Resilience Facility. While

(01:12):
in some afford the meeting, the money will be used
to prepare the Pacific for natural disasters. Luckson says many
talks were on the financial risks natural events like hurricanes
can cause.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
If you're a hotel and you can't get insurance because
the cost of rebuilding is a problem, well then we
have an issue because actually within don't get economic development
and growth happening because of the climate risk for sitting there.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
The outcome of the US presidential election could have social consequences,
both for the US and beyond. In the final sprint
to election day, Vice President Carmala Harris is working to
paint her opponent, former President Donald Trump as unstable and dangerous.
Aukln University psychology professor Danny Osborne says hate crime spiked

(01:58):
in the US following the twenty sixteen election, and that
has trickled down to New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
A lot of what happens in the US does wind
up spreading to other democratic societies, and we're certainly not
immune to that influence.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
And that's news. I'm Donna Marie lever to Sport captain
Tom Latham's describing his emotions after the Black Cap cricketers
clinched the team's first Test series victory in India. New
Zealand bowled the hosts out for two hundred and forty
five to complete a one hundred and thirteen run game
two win in Pune.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, sort of lost for words a little bit. What
in New zeal One teams have come here over the
past sixty nine years. I think it is in thirteen
series and I guess to be the first team to
win a series over here as eventually special.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
And the result mark Cindia's first Test series defeated home
since twenty twelve, a past mark from coach Scott Robertson
after the all Black scot the job done in Yokohama
after an early scare from Japan, the tourists ran out
sixty four nineteen winners, a podium placing to start the
New Giant Slalom World Cup campaign for skier Alice Robinson.

(03:07):
The New Zealanders bag second at the season opener opener
in Austria and a two mil victory for the Wellington
Phoenix over the Perth Glory in Football's A League and
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