Afternoon Edition: 13 April 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 13 April 2025, 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 (00:04):
On the news talks edby Newsroom. This is newsfecs. In
this update, the Foreign Minister advises patients as the Prime
Minister makes moves around trade. Winston Peters was not told
before Chris Luxe and outlined plans for a free trading
block of Asia, Pacific and European Union countries to collectively
push back against President Trump's US tariffs. Mister Peters has

(00:26):
been speaking in Hawaii, where he claimed the use of
military language such as trade, war and fight has come
across as hysterical and shortsighted. Mister Peters says the US
is well aware of our position and we should wait
for the dust to settle. He says he's being patient
while the US works out its own policies. A post
mortem has been carried out today on a body of

(00:46):
a woman found in a car in Auckland's Wayuku on
Friday afternoon about twenty to six. A fifty year old
man's been taken into custody and is assisting police with
their homicide inquiry. A researcher says it is clear New
Zealand needs to apt to a change in climate, with
billions of dollars of property at risk The Ministry for
the Environment's triennial report highlights about three quarters of a

(01:08):
million people are living in communities near rivers or coastal
areas already exposed to extreme flooding. It warns half a
million buildings worth more than one hundred and forty five
billion dollars are also at risk. GNS Science Principal Scientist
Nick Craddock Henry says the clear effects of global warming
are now being felt.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
While we are a small contributor, we're also a pair
of relatively small islands in the Pacific Ocean, so we
are largely on the receiving end of that.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
A tsunami risk zone near Napier as In for a
fifty nine unit subdivision. The project has been approved despite
overwhelmingly negative public submissions. Auckland University architect senior lecturer Bill
McKay says insurance companies may not be keen to cover
people who live there. Mister mckaye says the current government's
planning strategy has a strong focus on growth and progress.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I think with the way government direction is going, we
will see more of this kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
That's news. In sport, teenage middle distance runner Sam Ruth
has finished third at the Boys three two hundred meters
at the Arcadia Invitational in California. The race featured four
other high school runners who have achieved a sub for
minute mile time this year. Rory McElroy intends to keep
his emotions in check. In the final round of Golf's

(02:28):
Masters in Augusta. McElroy holds a two stroke lead over
live golf rival Bryson Deshambo after three rounds. McElroy says
there is a fine balance between focus and the final
day's emotions.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
You have to sort of try to ride that momentum
as much as you can, but then also tamper it
with a little bit of rationale and logic. And so
I certainly don't want to be a robot out there,
but at the same time, I don't want to be
too unimated either.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
That's sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to
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