Morning Edition: 03 November 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
No, the news talks had the newsroom, this is newsfacs
in this update.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Some believe police will always have a place in mental health.
From tomorrow, police will reduce their role in distress call outs,
transporting patients and waiting with them in ed Maikato University
nursing Associate professor Tony O'Brien says, there are certain actions
like restraining people that only the police can do.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Do you have some concerns about there being a good
understanding of just exactly what the criteria would be for
police response and what will be the example of situations
where police mon't be quite so ready to respond.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Britain's Conservative Parties elected Kemmy Bagnock as its new leader
as it tries to rebound from a crushing election defeat
that ended fourteen years in power. The forty four year
old becomes the first black woman to lead a major
political party in the UK. She defeated fellow right winger
Robert Jenrick by more than twelve thousand votes after a

(01:07):
marathon contest to replace Rishi Sunak, who led the party
to the biggest defeat in its history in July's general election.
Carmala Harris and Donald Trump are heading to North Carolina
to try and clinch support. Just three days out from
the US presidential election. It will be the fourth day
in a row that the pair have been in the

(01:28):
same state on the same day. Opinion polls have the
race on a knife's edge. More than seventy million Americans
have voted already. Back here, small businesses have taken yet
another hit to sales and the workforce. The latest Zero
Small Business Insights for the quarter ending September show sales

(01:48):
fell to two point seven percent year on year. Zero
country manager Bridget Snelling says a third of small businesses
are also downsizing their workforce.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
This is the highest proportion of small businesses reducing the
workforce that we've seen since the early twenty twenty when
lockdowns were something to impact for business landscapes.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
And that's news. I'm Dono Marie Lever in sport and
to a dramatic test at the home of Rugby, did
put a track goal, put an.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's away, it is.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Away, Gwynn my Throther tugging New Zealand have edged England
twenty four to twenty two. As you heard there on
Newstalk z B. Ford's misdrop goal sealed the result, which
came after the All Blacks are raised in eight point
deficit with fifteen minutes to play. Another goal for All

(02:48):
Whites captain Chris Wood in Nottingham Forres three mil Premier
League Football win over West Ham tong I have piped
the Kiwis twenty five twenty four in a Pacific Championships
three in Auckland. The black Caps are lead by one
hundred and forty three runs with one second innings wicket
in hand in the third Cricket Test against NDM and

(03:10):
victory for Lando Norris and ninth William Lawson in the
sprint race set Formula one's Brazilian Grand Prix and that Sport.
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