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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon on Malcolm Jordan, and this is your midday
news fix for Wednesday, the second of July. The US
President is saying Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions
of a ceasefire in Gaza. Donald Trump has posted online
saying cutter and Egypt will ensure that Hamas agrees to
the deal. The Greens say ending severe hardship in New
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Zealand would be a better solution to shoplifting than increasing penalties.
The government's announced a proposed crackdown, including instant infringements and
harsher prison sentences. Green Party co leader Chloe Swarbrick says
it should be about preventing crime, not just reacting to it.
She says this kind of offense would reduce if people
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weren't driven to it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I think that if society were a lot fairer.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I think that if people weren't experiencing extreme poverty revelations
programs that have contributed to the reputation of our defense
Force and New Zealand are being required to cease or
scale back. These are the words in an NZDF letter
sent to a union last year when the pair were
in negotiations. Obtained by News Talks EDB political reporter Azariah
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Hall has more the.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Defense Force is withholding details on what its cost savings
actually look like, but says the Minister of Defense has
been kept well informed throughout. Judith Collins says the enzed
DF is refocusing to become more combat capable and frontline focused.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
A person's in custody and police are carrying out a
homicide investigation after a person was found dead last night
in Auckland's Ponsonby. Police aren't looking for anyone else, but
are back at Renalds Street this morning. The heralds Rachel
Mayer is there and says cordons are up.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Please say there is no further risk to the community,
but there will be increased police prisons on Renal Street today.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
A teenager's died in Auckland City Hospital after he was
involved in a serious crash in Cumiu on Friday night,
a car crashed into a house on the Coatesville Riverhead
Highway after failing to stop for police. Earlier that evening.
Three other teens are stable after being hospitalized with injuries.
Waitematar District Commander Superintendent Nila Hassen says this is a
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tragic development. Support is being provided to the boy's family
and officers who responded to the crash. The chief victim's
advisor says juries shouldn't be used in trials over sexual
assault and family violence. A deadlock for jurors in the
high profile trial of music mogul shorn Diddy Combs unable
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to find consensus on one of the charges. The New
York courtroom's being told a verdicts been reached on the
charges of sex trafficking and transportation for prostitution, but deliberations
continue on the charge of racketeering that could incur a
sentence of life in prison. Defense and trial attorney Misty
Maris told CNN it's possible the jury is struggling to
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understand the criminal enterprise element.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Usually there's a goal of a criminal enterprise.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Its to me make money, drug trafficking, gun trafficking. Here
it was a little more abstract. To sport, Wimbledon's version
of a combine harvester has threshed more top ten seeds
out of the first round at an Open Era tennis
major than ever before. Four have exited from the men's
and women's draws. Ethan Blackadder has signed a one year
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contract extinction with the Crusaders and New Zealand Rugby through
to the end of twenty twenty six. And Real Madrid
have booked their birth in the quarterfinals at football's Club
World Cup after securing a one mill win over Juventus
in Florida. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the newstalk ZB newsroom.
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