February 27, 2025 • 3 mins
The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 28 February 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Friday, the twenty eighth of February. A
conviction against Faikari Management Limited over the twenty nineteen White
Island disaster has been quashed. The volcanic eruption killed twenty two.
The company was fined more than a million dollars in
twenty twenty three in order to pay nearly five million
(00:25):
in reparation after being found guilty of breaching its health
and safety obligations. It's now successfully appealed the conviction at
the High Court in Wellington, just as Simon Moore has
ruled the company had no active management duties over the
walking tour site as landowners, nor any responsibility to ensure
it was without risk. Conditions of a Ukraine ceasefire have
(00:50):
been at the forefront of the British Prime Minister's meeting
with Donald Trump. The two leaders met at the White
House as Trump also prepares to welcome Ukraine's Voladimirsili so Keir.
Starmer has stressed any deal must be long lasting and
has committed to helping the US ensure there are no breaches.
Trump says they'll work to ensure that Ukraine gets its
(01:12):
annexed land back.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
We're going to certainly try and get as much as
we can back, but on the NATO that's not going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Confidence this morning that firefighters are on top of a
blaze in Northland's White Powa Forest. Three helicopters and about
eighty people on the ground have been battling the fire
since Wednesday afternoon. Kaiper and Mayor Craig Jepson says he
understands the fires well under control.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
A lot of confidence there this morning amongst the Firkers
that insy that fire was tremendously threatening a new whenutes
at a certain point there's not much you can do
to put it out, but now they've got a beaten nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Police have acknowledged the family of murdered eighteen year old
Ariki Rigby after guilty please by the thirty two year
old accused, Jimmy Heremayer, has pleaded guilty to killing Rigby
after her body was found in a burnt out car
in Hawks Bay in September twenty twenty two. Police say
the Farnoh have waited a long time to see justice
(02:09):
for the tragic killing and the man accused of murdering
Nelson Police Senior Sergeant Lynn Fleming has entered his please.
The thirty two year old has pleaded not guilty to murder,
attempted murder and grievous bodily harm. He has admitted guilt
to drink driving and driving while disqualified. The government says
(02:29):
it's doing everything it can to ensure the country has
the power it needs this winter. Energy Minister Simon Watts
says the situation is now acute. Meridian, the country's largest
power firm, is calling for generators to be able to
lower hydro lake levels below levels allowed in current resource consents.
(02:49):
What's told Mike Hosking He's met with Meridian and he's
asking regulators to look into what can be done.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
We're leaving Nelstone unturned into secure energy this winter.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That's going to include contingent hydro storage if needed. Watts
hopes are proposed to changes giving independent companies the same
wholesale access will also help drive down prices. Questions over
how US actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa
died in their New Mexico home, with the situation deemed
(03:19):
suspicious despite no signs of foul play to Sport. The
All Blacks twenty twenty five schedulers complete with confirmation of
their matches against Argentina in the Rugby Championship. The first
match will be played in Cordoba on August seventeenth, before
the second a week later in Buenos Aies. The Black
Sticks women have come from a goal down to beat
(03:42):
Scotland three to one and secure passage through to the
Hockey Nations Cup semi finals. Leicester City's slot
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Friday, the twenty eighth of February. A
conviction against Faikari Management Limited over the twenty nineteen White
Island disaster has been quashed. The volcanic eruption killed twenty two.
The company was fined more than a million dollars in
twenty twenty three in order to pay nearly five million
(00:25):
in reparation after being found guilty of breaching its health
and safety obligations. It's now successfully appealed the conviction at
the High Court in Wellington, just as Simon Moore has
ruled the company had no active management duties over the
walking tour site as landowners, nor any responsibility to ensure
it was without risk. Conditions of a Ukraine ceasefire have
(00:50):
been at the forefront of the British Prime Minister's meeting
with Donald Trump. The two leaders met at the White
House as Trump also prepares to welcome Ukraine's Voladimirsili so Keir.
Starmer has stressed any deal must be long lasting and
has committed to helping the US ensure there are no breaches.
Trump says they'll work to ensure that Ukraine gets its
(01:12):
annexed land back.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
We're going to certainly try and get as much as
we can back, but on the NATO that's not going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Confidence this morning that firefighters are on top of a
blaze in Northland's White Powa Forest. Three helicopters and about
eighty people on the ground have been battling the fire
since Wednesday afternoon. Kaiper and Mayor Craig Jepson says he
understands the fires well under control.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
A lot of confidence there this morning amongst the Firkers
that insy that fire was tremendously threatening a new whenutes
at a certain point there's not much you can do
to put it out, but now they've got a beaten nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Police have acknowledged the family of murdered eighteen year old
Ariki Rigby after guilty please by the thirty two year
old accused, Jimmy Heremayer, has pleaded guilty to killing Rigby
after her body was found in a burnt out car
in Hawks Bay in September twenty twenty two. Police say
the Farnoh have waited a long time to see justice
(02:09):
for the tragic killing and the man accused of murdering
Nelson Police Senior Sergeant Lynn Fleming has entered his please.
The thirty two year old has pleaded not guilty to murder,
attempted murder and grievous bodily harm. He has admitted guilt
to drink driving and driving while disqualified. The government says
(02:29):
it's doing everything it can to ensure the country has
the power it needs this winter. Energy Minister Simon Watts
says the situation is now acute. Meridian, the country's largest
power firm, is calling for generators to be able to
lower hydro lake levels below levels allowed in current resource consents.
(02:49):
What's told Mike Hosking He's met with Meridian and he's
asking regulators to look into what can be done.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
We're leaving Nelstone unturned into secure energy this winter.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
That's going to include contingent hydro storage if needed. Watts
hopes are proposed to changes giving independent companies the same
wholesale access will also help drive down prices. Questions over
how US actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa
died in their New Mexico home, with the situation deemed
(03:19):
suspicious despite no signs of foul play to Sport. The
All Blacks twenty twenty five schedulers complete with confirmation of
their matches against Argentina in the Rugby Championship. The first
match will be played in Cordoba on August seventeenth, before
the second a week later in Buenos Aies. The Black
Sticks women have come from a goal down to beat
(03:42):
Scotland three to one and secure passage through to the
Hockey Nations Cup semi finals. Leicester City's slot
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