Morning Edition: 07 December 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news Talks Heady Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS and
this update. Officials are waiting on more test results as
the bird flu response continues. Samples from a farm near
Dunedin have come back negative after the virus was detected
at a monarchy egg farm, with eighty thousand birds being
called MPIs. Dr Mary van Andel says they're not out

(00:27):
of the woods yet as there's an incubation period of
up to twenty one days. It's so much still to go.
We're absolutely not counting our chickens before they hatch where
the conditions could help. Fire crews battling a major fire
ravaging scrubland in Canterbury. The out of control blaze at
Castle Hill has grown to nine hundred and eighty hectares

(00:48):
since Thursday. Met Service Meteorologist Alan Bailey says there will
be some showers this morning and again this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Hopefully they get one or two of those shellers to
help them out, but not going to be battling against
really high winds and.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
The South Island is being worn to brace for heavy
rain and strong wind. Met Service has issued a heavy
rain warning for the Westland District from tomorrow. Meteorologist John
Law says there's a strong wind warning for the Canterbury
high Country with gusts reaching up to one hundred and
fifty kilometers, so while since we've seen winds of that strength,

(01:23):
well worth taking a bit of a caution through the
weekend time trampolines down. The Foreign Minister says the situation
in New Caledonia is complex, but New Zealand stands ready
to help. Winston Peters visited the Pacific Island territory this
week following a sustained period of tension between the French
government and the indigenous population. He says there's still a

(01:47):
large amount of uncertainty.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
We went there and listened to hear all sides of
the story, to talk to them about what they all
wanted and whether where they could combine going forward and
agree on a pathway that say fifteen twenty years from now,
they could settle on.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
And that's news to sport. New Zealand will resume on
eighty six for five, trailing by one hundred and ninety
four runs. On the second day of the Second cricket
Test against England and Wellington, the visitors scored two hundred
and eighty with Harry Brooker belteen one hundred and twenty
three black Caps all round it. Nathan Smith says their

(02:24):
bat is largely delivered with a plum, including night Watchman willow' rourke.
It's obviously a nigli time to bat. I thought the
guys that went out applied themselves really well. Cars had
a tile up there is bol and beautifully downwind. Mitchell
Stark's career best figures of six four forty eight of
helped Australia bowl India out for one eighty on day
one of the day night's second Test against India and Adelaide.

(02:46):
Australia reached eighty six four one at stumps and Lionel
Messi has been named the most Valuable Player of the
twenty twenty four Major League Soccer season in the US.
The Argentinian star scored twenty goals to lead Inti Amy
to the first ever Supporters Shield as top club in
the regular season and that Sport. I'm Donna Marie Lever.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
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