Morning Edition: 06 July 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news talks had the newsroom this is newsfacs.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
In this update. Authorities in Texas say at least twenty
seven people, including children, have been killed in flash flooding.
The BBC reports the bodies of eighteen adults and nine
children have been recovered from Kerville near San Antonio, while
twenty girls who were attending summer camp are still missing.

(00:28):
Kerville City manager Dalton Rice says they're scouring harsh environment,
up down sideways. They're turning over as many rocks as
they can, culverts up in trees. They are looking at
every possible location. Our newsrooms revealed more than two hundred
people were able to enter New Zealand on work visas
for defunct businesses later exposed as fronts for a network

(00:52):
of cannabis growhouses in Auckland. Many were Vietnamese nationals duped
into coming to the country with false promises of employment.
Police Operation Clementine identified thirty eight registered companies with connections
to the properties where the cannabis growhouses were busted. A
warning that future nurses are considering taking their talents overseas.

(01:14):
A New Zealand Nurses Organization survey found sixty one percent
of students would consider seeking a job offshore if they
can't get one here. Chief Executive Paul Golter believes there
should be paid placements for nurses. He says losing these
up and coming nurses would be a big drain on
the health system.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Because tomorrow's fully qualified and working, registered and enrolled nurses
and they are going to move on and to senior
nurse roles in two roles like nurse prescriber and nurse practitioner.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Parisian swimmers now have another option if they're keen on
a refreshing dip, the River Saine. The river has reopened
for public swimming for the first time in more than
one hundred years. Last year, the Saine was opened up
for swimmers and triathletes in the Olympics, and now there's
designated areas where anyone can call off. That's news sport

(02:06):
and All Blacks coach Scott Robertson is ruing not being
able to put France away. In the opening test of
the season. The All Blacks claimed a thirty one to
twenty seven victory in Dunedin after leading twenty one to
thirteen at halftime. Robertson's side had three tries ruled out
by the television match official, but bungled several other attacking raids.

(02:27):
A third straight show of dominance from world tennis number
one Yarnick Sinne Wimbledon, the Italian swept aside Spaniard Pedro
Matenez to reach round four. Belgian sprinter Jaspar Phillipson has
powered to victory and a reduced bunch sprint to open
the twenty twenty five edition of cycling's Tour de France
KIWI Lawrence Pythey was one minute, thirty three seconds back

(02:49):
in one hundred and fifteenth. That's sport. I'm Diana Vesch.
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