Midday Edition: 04 November 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 04 November 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):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
newsfacts for Monday, the fourth of November. A polls found
most mental health workers fear for patient safety as police
step back from distress callouts. From today, police will no
longer respond to low risk distress cause and stop transporting
patients and waiting for them. A d A PSA survey

(00:27):
finds nine out of ten mental health workers think it'll
increase risk for them and patience. Only twelve percent are
confident in there that their workplace can manage the risk.
PSA health lead Ashok Shankar says there are also worries
about long waiting lists.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
In most instances, only the people who are in very
urgent need get attended to.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Harrowing details after the death of a woman in Auckland's
Glenaden overnight, a thirty three year old man's being charged
with murder after a family harm incident on Brandon Road
about eleven pm, a woman died in hospital with stab wounds.
A neighbour says he heard a man and a woman
arguing thirty minutes before hearing screams for help. He says

(01:12):
ambulance staff instructed Another neighbor over the phone on Care
for the Bleeding Woman calls to protect children in Gaza
after an Israeli drone strikes wounded four children being treated
in a clinic. It's estimated more than fourteen thousand children
have been killed, and Israel's reportedly ramping up attacks to

(01:34):
prevent her maas regrouping. UNICEF's James Elder says the scale
of loss is catastrophic and getting worse.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
So long as there is no accountability for killing thousands
and thousands and thousands of children, then the brutality is
going to escalate.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Donald Trump has dialed up messages of violence and conspiracy
less than forty eight hours before the US presidential election.
Latest polling ports Krmela Harris narrowly ahead of Trump, including
in the Republican stronghold of Iowa. Many key battlegrounds could
still go either way. In Pennsylvania, Trump has repeated claims

(02:13):
of cheating through the city's mail in ballots.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
To get me somebody who would have to shoot through
the fake news, and I don't mind that so much.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Trump's campaign managers have been forced to back track on
comments he made about media at the same rally. Wellingtonians
are playing twice as much as Auckland is for home insurance.
Business reporter Michael Sergel has been crunching new data released
to newstalk s'b from insurance comparison website Quashed. He says

(02:46):
the average home insurance quote in Wellington is now almost
four thousand, five hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Wellington's average compares to a national average of two thousand,
seven hundred and is more than double the Auckland average
of two thy one hundred. It means an average Wellington
household is spending three percent of their income on an
average policy, that compares with the average Kivy family spending
two percent and the average Auckland household just one point
three percent.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
To sport Max Verse, Stappen has taken a major turn
towards a fourth Formula One drivers Championship with victory at
a wet Brazilian Grand Prix. Liam Lawson came ninth. Coach
Judd Flavell's named potential debutantes Sarkaiah Isaac and Oscar Goodman
for his first Asia Cup qualifying games in charge of
the toll Blacks basketball side this month, and Hayden Wilde

(03:33):
has won the Super Triathlon series Crown, despite being pipped
by Alex Yee in a sprint finish at the season
finale in Saudi Arabia. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest
news fix. We'll be back with the next update at
five pm from the news Talk zb newsroom