Midday Edition: 02 March 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 02 March 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):
No the news talks, he'd been newsroom, this is newsfacs.
In this update, the UK Prime Minister's doubled down his
support for Ukraine as he host Vladimir Zolensky at Downing Street,
only a day since Zelensky's clash with Donald Trump. The
Ukrainian leader was asked to leave the White House early
after a meeting with President Trump and Vice President J. D.

(00:25):
Varance quickly went Downhill. Zelensky is at the UK ahead
of talks with European leaders in London tomorrow. Staler told
the Ukrainian leader he'd always be welcome in the UK.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
As you heard from the chairs on the street outside,
you have full backing across the Laika.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
We start with you with Ukraine for as long as
it they take. Microsoft services, including Outlook, went down this morning,
leaving millions of users unable to access their emails. Social
media was flooded with complaints about the issue, with reports
of the company suffering a global outage. Several services were affected,
with users unable to access Microsoft three six, five, Microsoft Teams,

(01:05):
Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Store tracking website down Detective showed
a huge spike and users reporting problems with Microsoft three
six five from around nine am. New Zealand Time services
came back online full at around ten forty five this morning.
Disappointment the government is putting the road lobby's interests over

(01:25):
public health. A University of Otago's studies revealed policy submissions
from seven motoring trade organizations use similar advocacy tactics, similar
to the tobacco industry. Cycling Action Network says the Road
Lobby has consistently advocated for more roads and against investing
in cycling and walking. Project manager Patrick Morgan says their

(01:48):
actions are shocking. Their tactics seemed to be to deny
this a problem, to delay action and to distract attention
by victim blaming. That's not good enough. The government is
tightening laws around the Firearms Prohibition Order regime today. The
orders are made by the court to band offenders who
have committed serious filent offenses from holding a firearms license

(02:10):
for ten years. That's news. In Sport, Warriors' coach Andrew
Webster's feeling as optimistic as possible as their twenty twenty
five NRL campaign begins in Las Vegas this afternoon. The
Auckland Club clash with the Raiders in the season opening
double header at one o'clock with the Panthers facing their
Sharks from five point thirty.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Is so confident you think had a great pre season
the opposition sis as confident and then yet get punch
in the face and you like, holy holy doll. You know,
so that that's the only unknown is how's the result
going to go? But all we're confident is our preparation
has been awesome. The boys we've got a great attitude.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Scott McLachlan showcased his bounce back ability and the lead
up to tomorrow's opening race in the New IndyCar season
after crashing in practice yesterday. The New Zealander claimed pole
position on the streets of Saint Petersburg, Florida and Auckland,
a Bowl first after warning the toss, and the men's
cricket Domestic One Day Final against Canterbury and Dunedin. That

(03:06):
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