Afternoon Edition: 06 January 2026

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 06 January 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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the news talk Zebby newsroom. This is newsfecs. In
this update, Russia is accusing the US of returning to
lawlessness in the wake of the Venezuelan president's capture. An
overnight US military operation over the weekend saw air strikes
in Caracas and President Nicholas Maduro and his wife taken
to New York. Neighboring country Columbia is called an emergency

(00:25):
UN Security Council meeting, where it's condemned the actions. Russian
Ambassador Vasilina Benzia has told the Council what the US
did was an assault. His words are translated in the
eyes of May has become a harbinger of a turn
back to the era of US domination by force chaos.
Manage My Health expects to start notifying people hit by

(00:48):
its data breach this week. Hackers are holding the health
Practice Health platform to ransom, threatening to release more information
from the more than one hundred thousand people affected. Health
New Zealand Jason Power says they're moving carefully before informing clients.
We're wanting this to be done as soon as possible,
but we also want to make sure that it is

(01:09):
accurate and concise. And that the verifications has been done
because we do not want to create any more distress.
The Christmas holiday road toll has risen to eight. A
woman critically injured in crash south of Wanganui last week
has died. Emergency services were called to the two carkilagion
near Bulls early on Friday morning. The main road through

(01:30):
the Taranaki town of Stratford's been cleared after a truck
spilt some of its load in the northbound lane this morning.
Police had warned it would take some time for the
debris to be cleared. Police are seeking an Auckland man
in relation to assault and theft offenses. Twenty three year
old William Nelson Bell is believed to be actively avoiding police.

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He's known to frequent the county's Monaco area. A warrant
has been issued for his arrest and anyone seeing him
has urged to contact police. I'm kay Gregory and that's news.
In sport, key we tennis player Monique Barry is wishing
she could have done better in her first round loss
at the ASB Classic in Auckland. An emotional Barry was

(02:13):
in tears post match, saying she's disappointed. She couldn't reach
the level she's displayed in recent years. The Aces have
dealt themselves a winning hand in their T twenty Super
Smash class against the Vaults in Auckland. After posting a
formidable two hundred, the Aucklanders have dismissed the Otago side
for one hundred and twelve to win by whopping eighty

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eight runs. Auckland opener Dale Phillips was player of the
match with a quick fire seventy seven until tvnzed plus
he threw caution to the wind when he was almost
bold in the first over. When you get off the
mark with a little inside edge, sometimes you just know
that it might be one of those days, and luckily
for me it was. The Aces now go top of
the table on net run rate. That's Sport. For more news,

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