Morning Edition: 13 July 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news talks, there'd been newsroom. This is newsfacs.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
In this update, some crops on farms and orchards and Nelson,
Tasman have been destroyed by floodwaters following severe weather in
the area. A local state of emergency is still in
place and the damage in the region is expected to
be in the millions of dollars. Properties and parts of
Muchuweka and Waeiti Valley appear to have fed the worst.

(00:29):
Rural Support Trust chair Richard Kempthorne says the river stop
banks weren't built for such unprecedented water levels.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Two weeks ago, something you would expect once in one
hundred years, and then in a couple of river systems
you would expect once every fifty years. So these are
two massive floods within two weeks.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Families of the victims of the deadly Air India plane
crash that killed two hundred and sixty people have voice
frustration following the release of an initial report. The report
found that immediately after take off, both fuel control switches
were in the cutoff position, stopping fuel supply to the engines. Schwetepahia,

(01:08):
who lost her husband in the crash, told the BBC.
She's questioning what happens now, what they're in society?

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Everything is done, everything is finished. What answer they will
give us, What investigation they will do.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
New Zealand sending forty three more firefighters to assist the
Canadian government in battling wildfires. The group leaves today and
will bolster the seven who have already been deployed. There
are more than five hundred wildfires currently burning across Canada.
New Zealand won't become a cashlist society if New Zealand
first has its way. The Party is putting forward a

(01:45):
new members bill to protect the ability to use cash.
Business reporter Michael Sergle has the details.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
The bill would require vendors to accept cash for all
purchases under five hundred dollars. Winston Peter says cash is
important for personal private choice as well as our national
sovereignty and security. While the Reserve Bank has been looking
into the possibility of issuing digital cash, it says most
of us still use physical cash from time to time

(02:11):
and all of us should still have it on hand
for emergencies.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
That's news the sports and it was a one sided
affair in the Wimbledon Women's tennis final.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Six love six eagle conference with US and becomes a
Wimbledon champion.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Eight seed Egastriontic has blitzed Amanda I'm over six love,
six love in less than an hour to claim her
maiden Wimbledon crown, and the Bulldogs have edged the Cowboys
twelve to eight and the NRL clash in Townsville to
sit third on the competition ladder. Elsewhere, the second place
Storm recorded a commanding thirty two to fourteen victory over

(02:54):
the Knights in Newcastle, and the Roosters defeated the Dragons
thirty one to twenty four in Sydney. That sport I'm
Diana visage.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
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