April 5, 2026 • 3 mins
The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 05 April 2026, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.
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From the news talk zedby Newsroom. This is Newsfix. In
this update, a second US service member on board a
fighter jet shot down over southern Iran has been rescued.
US President Donald Trump says the service members a highly
respected colonel and is injured but will be fine. Trump
says the rescue proves the US has air dominance and
superiority of Iranian skies, But former Pentagon policy analyst Robert
(00:26):
English told the BBC the plane was shot down because
the US is flying lower and slower to seek out
missile launchers and drone placements. The lesson could be, if
you don't want more shootdowns and you don't want more
pilots in captivity, maybe the strategy has to shift because
there will be more. Farmers may need to think outside
the box. As the conflict in the midd least destabilizes
(00:47):
fertilizer production and drives up the cost of some food.
Ships carrying raw materials such as ammonia, nitrogen, and sulfur
are being held up at the Strait of Hormuz. Ground
Shift co founder Chanello Sullivan says, even and if the
war ended now, fertilizer production could be set back years
because of damaged processing facilities, but miss O'Sullivan believes farmers
(01:08):
can navigate it by farming closer to nature for a
fantastic past studies out there showing how it is possible
to change the way we farm into a lower costs,
lower input system and still produce huge amounts of food.
Job Seekers are being worn to be cautious of a
risky ATM scam. The Banking Onwoodsman's investigated several cases where
people were asked to withdraw and deposit cash into a
(01:29):
cryptocurrency ATM with tens of thousands of dollars lost. Transactions
are quick and can't easily be traced or reversed once completed.
Nicholas Slattin says the scams are part of an employment offer.
We would encourage people to independently verify her that dealing
with to ensure the cinemat job platform. A major tobacco
giants accused of stubbing out the truth. A ut analysis
(01:52):
of Philip Morris International finds it uses carefully selected images
and data to help mask the harm its product's cause.
Author Sabrina Chong says consumers need to be visually literate
so they can recognize when a company's embellishing its performance.
The company's been approached for comment. That's news in sport.
Asker Goodman's become the second New Zealander to make the
(02:14):
American Men's college basketball Final and the first Saint Jack
Salt in twenty nineteen. In a championship run with Virginia,
Goodman featured for the final minute as Michigan breezed past
fellow top seed Arizona ninety one seventy three to set
up a title decider with the University of Connecticut on Tuesday.
It's officially crunch time for the Wellington Phoenix, with a
(02:34):
league playoff hopes on the line. The Phoenix have just
kicked off against the Victory in Melbourne, striving to rise
from ninth place into the top six. Four points away
a win and a loss for the universities in the
world's most famous annual rowing race, the Cambridge men have
beaten Oxford. The Oxford women have broken a ten year
losing streak. That's Sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news,
(02:58):
listen to News Talks V on the free iheartapp.
From the news talk zedby Newsroom. This is Newsfix. In
this update, a second US service member on board a
fighter jet shot down over southern Iran has been rescued.
US President Donald Trump says the service members a highly
respected colonel and is injured but will be fine. Trump
says the rescue proves the US has air dominance and
superiority of Iranian skies, But former Pentagon policy analyst Robert
(00:26):
English told the BBC the plane was shot down because
the US is flying lower and slower to seek out
missile launchers and drone placements. The lesson could be, if
you don't want more shootdowns and you don't want more
pilots in captivity, maybe the strategy has to shift because
there will be more. Farmers may need to think outside
the box. As the conflict in the midd least destabilizes
(00:47):
fertilizer production and drives up the cost of some food.
Ships carrying raw materials such as ammonia, nitrogen, and sulfur
are being held up at the Strait of Hormuz. Ground
Shift co founder Chanello Sullivan says, even and if the
war ended now, fertilizer production could be set back years
because of damaged processing facilities, but miss O'Sullivan believes farmers
(01:08):
can navigate it by farming closer to nature for a
fantastic past studies out there showing how it is possible
to change the way we farm into a lower costs,
lower input system and still produce huge amounts of food.
Job Seekers are being worn to be cautious of a
risky ATM scam. The Banking Onwoodsman's investigated several cases where
people were asked to withdraw and deposit cash into a
(01:29):
cryptocurrency ATM with tens of thousands of dollars lost. Transactions
are quick and can't easily be traced or reversed once completed.
Nicholas Slattin says the scams are part of an employment offer.
We would encourage people to independently verify her that dealing
with to ensure the cinemat job platform. A major tobacco
giants accused of stubbing out the truth. A ut analysis
(01:52):
of Philip Morris International finds it uses carefully selected images
and data to help mask the harm its product's cause.
Author Sabrina Chong says consumers need to be visually literate
so they can recognize when a company's embellishing its performance.
The company's been approached for comment. That's news in sport.
Asker Goodman's become the second New Zealander to make the
(02:14):
American Men's college basketball Final and the first Saint Jack
Salt in twenty nineteen. In a championship run with Virginia,
Goodman featured for the final minute as Michigan breezed past
fellow top seed Arizona ninety one seventy three to set
up a title decider with the University of Connecticut on Tuesday.
It's officially crunch time for the Wellington Phoenix, with a
(02:34):
league playoff hopes on the line. The Phoenix have just
kicked off against the Victory in Melbourne, striving to rise
from ninth place into the top six. Four points away
a win and a loss for the universities in the
world's most famous annual rowing race, the Cambridge men have
beaten Oxford. The Oxford women have broken a ten year
losing streak. That's Sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news,
(02:58):
listen to News Talks V on the free iheartapp.
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