Midday Edition: 10 August 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
No the news talks heavy newsroom. This is newsfacs in
this update. A huge loss for the sailing community with
the death of former America's Cup tactician Peter Lester, aged seventy.
He saw through three America's Cup campaigns and became an
expert voice on the sport, involved in the World Feed
team for last year's America's Cup and Barcelona. He died

(00:27):
on Friday night after suffering a heart attack a week earlier.
Fellow America's Cup commentator Peter Montgomery says he's had a
staggering amount of people contact him shocked at the news.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
He took care of himself physically and to sink all
of a sudden the lights have gone out, just as
suddenly as they have. It's twenty years too early.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Day two of Australian Prime Minister's Anthony Albanese's visit has
continued with the wreathlaying ceremony in Arrowtown to commemorate a
Zac's soldiers. He's been meeting with our Prime Minister Christopher
Luxe and Queen down this weekend. The pair have discussed
economic policy, war in Gaza, the Pacific and more. Albaneze
says they'll focus on boosting productivity to benefit both countries' economies.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Prime Minister Luxe and I have a great relationship, and
that is simplomatic. I think of the friendship between our
two great nations.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Strong winds and high swells have canceled Faery sailings in
the Cook Strait. Both inter Islander and Bluebridge have canceled
multiple sailings. Today, the inter Islanders Kaitaki was delayed by
five hours because of rough weather. Ukrainian's president says he
will not surrender land to Russia. It comes as US
President Donald Trump signaled there could be some swapping of

(01:42):
territories to end the war in Ukraine. Trump will meet
with Russian President Putin in Alaska next week, their first
face to face encounter in several years. CNN's Betsy Klein says,
US Vice President JD. Vance has also reconvened leaders, including
UK five Foreign Secretary David Lammy, near London to discuss

(02:03):
the war in Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Discuss this plan and where Russia stands at this time.
We're told, according to a US official, that this hour's
long meeting produced quote significant progress.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
That's news in Sport and a rust from triathlete Hayden
Wild during his victorious return at the latest T one
hundred race in London, the Olympic SI were medal. Has
competed for the first time since an horrific creation in
Japan three months ago that left him with a punctured lung,
shoulder blade injury and six broken ribs. Wild admits he

(02:36):
lost his bearings during the run leg.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
I was asking a lot of people around because I
didn't actually know how many laps I had to go,
so I over confused. You managed so many laps, you
kind of forget sometimes and I looked. I was like,
I'm at forty and k I saw all the laps
to go, so I was asking around people. I was like,
how many more laps to go?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Warrior's coach Andrew Webster expects Tanner Boyd to return to
the halfback role following to Marie Martin concussion during the
NRL defeat by the Bulldogs in Sydney that Sport. I'm
Sandy Hodge. For more news, listen to News Talk said
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