Afternoon Edition: 30 July 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 30 July 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):
Good afternoon. I'm railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Wednesday, the thirtieth of July. Tsunami waves have
begun rolling in on Japan after a magnitude eight point
eight quakes hit off Russia's Pacific coast. After shocks continue
and waves up to four meters have washed up in
parts of Russia, reaching half a meter in Japan. Warnings

(00:27):
cover Alaska, Hawaii, and the entire US West Coast. New
Zealand's emergency management agencies warning unpredictable surges are possible on
all shores from midnight. They've just issued an alert to
all mobile phones. BBC's Shima Khalil says Japan's Fukushi Ma
nuclear plant, which melted down in a twenty eleven quake,

(00:50):
is on high alert.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
All workers have been evacuated from the nuclear power plant,
adding that so far the were no abnormalities.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Tens of thousands of Health New Zealand nurses are calling
for action on workforce shortages. A sea of protesters in
purple of packed towns and cities country wide as Nurses
organization members carry out a twenty four hour strike. C
TOU Secretary Melissa Ansel Bridges says this is a serious
move because this is a crisis.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Government has governed our world leading pay there twas done and.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
That has failed to invest adequate length and our health
SYSOM Health Minister Simeon Brown says the union and Health
Endz need to get back to the negotiating table.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Today's union strike is causing real and avoidable harm to
patients across the country.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
The strikes expected to affect more than four thousand planned
procedures and specialist appointments. Health end Z says people should
only go to hospital eds for emergencies. A development in
the search for missing West Coast Roy Arban, the seventy
five year old left a note last Wednesday saying he
planned to walk from mart Davis to mart Sewell, possibly overnight,

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and was seen biking from Runanga Courtney.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Winter reports searchers have put more than seven hundred and
fifty hours into the hunt. Phone records have revealed row
Arbon's phone within an open area two kilometers south of
Mount Davy on Thursday afternoon. Senior Sergeant Mark Kirkwood says
rescue experts will be reviewing the search, hoping fresh eyes
might turn up new leads.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
In new Zealand's chosen its chief digital officer to step
up as a leader from October. Nikol Ravishanka will replace
Greg Fouran when he bows out after six years at
the Helm. The board says Ravi Shanka isn't afraid to
ask questions and challenge how things are done. Business desk
scarth Bray says this appointment comes as in New Zealand
increasingly focuses on innovation.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I just think to deal with open Ai to create
a chet GPT style range of products within the company,
to smove that part of it forward.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
So I guess that's an interesting pick from that point
of view. You sport a new Wellington Phoenix women's coach,
Bev Priestman, so she spent the last year contemplating some
of her regrets for her part of the Paris Olympics
drone scandal. Lewis Claire Bird is into tonight's semi finals
of the two hundred meter medley at the World Swimming

(03:17):
Championships in Singapore. Rob Penny will run it back with
the Crusaders and their title defense. He signed a one
year extension and Andrew Webster's revealed Warriors co captain James
Fisher Harris could be up for up to four weeks
with his calf injury. That is your latest news fix.
There'll be another update for you tomorrow morning from the

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news Talk Z'DB newsroom.