Afternoon Edition: 27 October 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 27 October 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):
From the News Talk's Edby newsroom. This is newsfecs in
this update. Areas already hit by last week's wild weather
are in for another round. Met Service has issued a
fresh wave of heavy rain and strong wind warnings for
much of the country. Up to ten thousand properties in
Southland and Kluther could be without power for a week.
More than twenty flights have been canceled at Wellington Airport,

(00:26):
where a strong wind warning is in place. A heavy
snow warning covers the Canterbury high Country, Queenstown Lakes and
central Otago. Met Services head of Weather News Heather Keats
says flurries down to two hundred meters are possible in
Otago the'll.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Way up to fifteen centimeters of snow settling above five
hundred meters that could go as high as thirty centimeters
above eight hundred meters.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
New Zealand's Prime Minister hopes to expand trade and global
partnerships in Malaysia. Chris Luxen is in a very humored
Kuala Lumpa for the forty seventh Association of Southeast Asian
Nations Conference. Senior political reporter Azariah Howel is there talk of.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Global tariffs as rife at the summit, especially as US
President Donald Trump is in the area. World leaders are
meeting face to face in the region. Chris Luxen's first
bilateral was with the Prime Minister of Vietnam. The duo
smiling and shaking hands as sounds of cameras clicking filled
the room.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Health New Zealand is expecting more cases of measles following
two positive results over the weekend. The two new cases
are in Wellington, bringing the total number of known cases
across the country to ten. Seven came from a positive
case traveling on a Blue Bridge ferry earlier this month.
Health end ZED says the risk of exposure remains high.
Several hundred close contacts have been identified at Wellington College

(01:43):
and a number at Wellington Girls College. Health end ZED
has informed the schools and says it'll contact them and
decide if they need to isolate. An anonymous member of
the public has given twenty thousand dollars to an Auckland
Community Patrol group. The money given to the EPSOM branch
has gone towards purchasing a new car for patrolling local neighborhoods.

(02:03):
That's news in Sport. Joseph Parker's adamant he still has
the fire to climb the ranks of boxing's heavyweight division again.
The Kiwis bid to become undisputed champion took a massive
blow after a shock eleventh round TKO lost to Fabio
Wardley in London Parker Fields. He has plenty left in
the tank.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
And I guess I have to show that in the
next onement. Otherwise if it doesn't go my way again,
it can be very difficult.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Football Ferns coach Michael Mayne is lamenting a poor start
that's led to a two nil loss away to Mexico
in their second international friendly. New Zealand allowed both goals
in the opening sixteen minutes of the game.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
I think it's a better performance than the other night,
you know, Like, I think we let in two sloppy
goals here in the game and you've got a mountain
of climb at that point. So that's what we spoke
about a halftime, and it was just about finding a
way back into the game.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
That's sport. I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to
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