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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news Fix. Four Tuesday, the twenty first of October. Severe
weather across the South Island, Lower North Island and Hawkes
Bay is forecast to continue throughout the day. Strong winds
have suspended flights at Wellington Airport, disrupted services at Queenstown
and Christchurch and knocked out power to some Flooding has
(00:25):
closed the Lewis Pass and is affecting West Coast roads,
with farmers worn to move to higher ground near Alpine
Canterbury Rivers. Meteorologist tape Makobutane says the gale force winds
in Wellington will blow into tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The strongest windsbeed are one hundred and forty kilometers per
hour and then around Wellington City you've seen around one
hundred and twenty four kilometers per hour.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
It's unclear how much travelers will have to pay to
drive on yet to be built new roads of national significance.
The government's investing one point two billion into the program's
set seventeen highway projects. Six hundred and seventy five million
dollars has been approved for starting work, with another five
hundred and fifteen million set aside for acquiring land. Transport
(01:11):
Minister Chris Bishop says the toll price for each road
will depend on the road itself.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
The starting point for each of the roads is that
we will look to toll them and the Transport Agency
goes through a bit of a process around that. You
want to try and make sure that you're getting some
revenue in, but you're also not putting people off using
the road.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
The country's second largest electricity gent tailor says rising electricity
prices are the result of rising lines charges. Inflations now
back up at three percent. The single biggest driver is
electricity prices, which have increased eleven point three percent in
the past year. Contact Energy chief executive Mike Fuje says
(01:47):
electricity firms are having to pass on the fixed lines
charges that cover the cost of infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
They rose by about twenty percent last year.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I think the average rise of the line's charge is
about sixteen percent this year.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Broadcasting Minister believes it's right to question whether online programs
should need to meet broadcasting standards the bsas considering a
complaint against internet media outlet The Platform. Prime Minister Chris
Likeson says that could be overreach, and he has sympathy
for host Sean Plunkett. Minister Paul Goldsmith says it's unclear
(02:20):
why TV breakfast shows are covered but not similar shows
screening online.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
There is some sort of suggestion that there's this idea
that it's going to cover the entire area of social
media media and everybody doing Facebook, and that is certainly
not at stake. What we're talking about is a very
small number of programs.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Problems with Amazon's cloud services in the US have been
felt around the world. Thousands of websites and apps were
affected by an outage during the night, including TV and
Z Plus, Neon, SkyTV, and Snapchat. Guerrilla Technology CEO Paul
Spain says this latest outage will likely have a financial
impact in the hundreds of billions of dollars. He said,
(03:00):
it's like a house of cards and one point of
failure can make it all tumble down.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
What seems to have happened here is Amazon systems in
Virginia in the US have stumbled pretty badly and that
has had a flow on effect.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
To sport injury problems for Ireland. Ahead of their test
against the All Blacks in Chicago on November two. Mack
Hanson has been ruled out with a foot problem and
fallow backs Bundy r Key and Robbie Henshaw are in out.
West Ham's Premier League footballing woes continue, losing two nil
to Brentford to leave them nineteenth on the twenty team ladder.
(03:35):
Italy will bid for a third straight Davis Cup tennis
title without world number one Yarnick Sinner. He has sought
a rest. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the news Talk ZB newsroom
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