Afternoon Edition: 22 June 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News talks edby Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS. In
this update, US President Donald Trump is tarting United States
strikes on Iranian nuclear sites as a spectacular success. He
says the US military has destroyed three Iranian nuclear sites today,
including four dough located deep inside a mountain. Iran's previously

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warned the United States of dangerous consequences if it became
involved in its conflict with Israel. In an address to
the nation, President Trump warned Iran to make peace quickly
or face further strikes. President Trump says the United States
has gone a long way to erasing this threat to Israel.
I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister bb Netanyahu.

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We worked as a team like perhaps no team has
ever worked before. The government's working to get New Zealanders
out of Iran and Israel as the conflict escalates. Speaking
from Fenuapai Air Base, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says government
personnel and of Hercules aircraft are being deployed to stand by,
ready to assist. He says the escalating conflict in the

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Middle East is extremely worrying and it is critical further
escalation is avoided. This is the most use that I've
ever dealt with, take me to the missile crisis, the
level of inflectioning me talking about potentially international Geopolitical analyst
Jeffrey Miller says, US involvement is madness that could bring
us to the brink of World War III.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Book. If you're attack by the United States, you go
into respond this as a preempt of unprovoked attack from
Aram's perspective, and they're not going to attack this lying down.
So it's a huge escalation here.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
The body of missing christ Church woman Elizabeth Nichols appears
to have been found in the central city. While formal
identifications yet to take place, police hope today's discovery will
help provide some closure for her family and loved ones.
The death is being referred to the coroner. Human Rights
Measurement Initiative information shows ongoing downward trends across most of

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the rights associated with safety from the state and empowerment.
Amnesty International ARTS as Lisa Woods says, there are many
concerning parts of our justice system, notably use of force,
ability to make a complaint, and access to healthcare. That's
news in Sport Scott Barrett's toasting affair well to the
Crusader's so called temporary stadium. Last night's final may have

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been their last game at Apollo Project Stadium, built after
the February twenty eleven earthquake. The new Takaha Stadium is
due to open next April. Barrett says he felt more
emotional than he expected knowing that that was the last
final he'll play at the ground. The Mainland Tactics led
the Stars nineteen ten moments ago early in the second
quarter of their A and Z Netball Premiership game in Christchurch.

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Newcastle NRL playmaker Fletcher Schaff has been diagnosed with a
lacerated kidney and is in hospital in Perth. Sharp reported
abdominal sawnas after a concussion in the night's twenty six
twenty win over the Dolphins. That's Sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan.
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