March 2, 2025 • 3 mins
The Midday Edition of News Fix for 03 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news figs for Monday, the third of March. A former
US Defense Department official believes his country will still work
for a Ukraine ceasefire. President of Voladimir Zelenski's weekend meeting
with Donald Trump turned hostile and he left the White
House early. European and Canadian leaders have gathered in London
(00:25):
for peace talks, but Jeffrey Price says the world needs
some resolution.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The problem is that we've got the Americans, we've got
the Europeans, we've got the Ukrainians and the Russian so
it's a complicated negotiation. The last time we had something
that's similar to me was the war in Bosnia in
the nineties.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
A nurses union isn't surprised by how many KIWI accredited
nurses are registering in Australia. Nearly twelve thousand made the
most of a trans Tasman registration pathway in the year
ending June twenty twenty four. Out of nearly fourteen and
a half thousand health workers signing up, nearly eight thousand
nurses went the year before. Nurses organization kay Fuckerhaya and
(01:04):
Kierrie Nuku says Australia's better wages, work conditions and safer
ratios means it's likely to continue.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That's attractor for many of the nurses to go and
work in an environment to use his skills and to
be paid and recognized for that.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Serious financial and organizational issues at Wellington Water. A scathing
report has addressed a whistleblowercclaim about the possibility of fraud
in its procurement process. An investigation found one case of
fraud and highlighted a lack of preventive safeguards. Police are
now working investigating an employee who no longer works at
(01:39):
the agency. The water company was also found to not
have enough oversight in contracting work. It was paying nearly
three times more per kilometer of pipe maintenance than the
comparable council average. Wellington Water says works underway on wide
ranging improvements and getting better value for money. Dozens of
(01:59):
protests is waiting outside fung A, a district court for
a well known black market medicinal cannabis provider's appearance. Staff
reports police raided Green Fairy Paul Smith, better known as Gandalf,
last week. It's understood the sixty six year old supplied
hundreds of people with issues like a chronic pain and insomnia.
(02:20):
Protest coordinator Markey Herbert says he shouldn't be charged, and
this is about equity. Here's plenty of people that are
growing your own because they can't afford the legal version,
and the legal version has always been available to those
that could afford it. Pope Francis is in a stable
condition after a serious coughing fit on Friday. He's been
(02:42):
having treatment for pneumonia in hospital for more than two weeks.
International correspondent Gavin Gray told Andrew Dickens he's had a
peaceful night. He received extra oxygen the ball, but we're
being told he was not interbated. In other words, did
not have one of those breathing tubes down his throat.
Women's trying to hit the mark on work life balance
(03:02):
as it announces it'll have a new police training site
in Auckland, allowing recruits to train without having to leave
home to sport. New Zealand has a new national record
holder in the women's mile. Paris Olympian Maya Ramsden's clocked
four minutes twenty one point five six seconds at an
indoor meet in Boston, blitzing the mark set by Kim
(03:23):
Smith in two thousand and eight by two point five
eight seconds. Two Raiders players Xavier Savage and Joseph Toppenay
face NRL suspensions following the win over the Warriors, and
Scott Dixon has finished the best of the Kiwis in
second in the opening IndyCar race of the season at
Saint Petersburg. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
(03:45):
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the news Talk ZB newsroom.
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news figs for Monday, the third of March. A former
US Defense Department official believes his country will still work
for a Ukraine ceasefire. President of Voladimir Zelenski's weekend meeting
with Donald Trump turned hostile and he left the White
House early. European and Canadian leaders have gathered in London
(00:25):
for peace talks, but Jeffrey Price says the world needs
some resolution.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The problem is that we've got the Americans, we've got
the Europeans, we've got the Ukrainians and the Russian so
it's a complicated negotiation. The last time we had something
that's similar to me was the war in Bosnia in
the nineties.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
A nurses union isn't surprised by how many KIWI accredited
nurses are registering in Australia. Nearly twelve thousand made the
most of a trans Tasman registration pathway in the year
ending June twenty twenty four. Out of nearly fourteen and
a half thousand health workers signing up, nearly eight thousand
nurses went the year before. Nurses organization kay Fuckerhaya and
(01:04):
Kierrie Nuku says Australia's better wages, work conditions and safer
ratios means it's likely to continue.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That's attractor for many of the nurses to go and
work in an environment to use his skills and to
be paid and recognized for that.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Serious financial and organizational issues at Wellington Water. A scathing
report has addressed a whistleblowercclaim about the possibility of fraud
in its procurement process. An investigation found one case of
fraud and highlighted a lack of preventive safeguards. Police are
now working investigating an employee who no longer works at
(01:39):
the agency. The water company was also found to not
have enough oversight in contracting work. It was paying nearly
three times more per kilometer of pipe maintenance than the
comparable council average. Wellington Water says works underway on wide
ranging improvements and getting better value for money. Dozens of
(01:59):
protests is waiting outside fung A, a district court for
a well known black market medicinal cannabis provider's appearance. Staff
reports police raided Green Fairy Paul Smith, better known as Gandalf,
last week. It's understood the sixty six year old supplied
hundreds of people with issues like a chronic pain and insomnia.
(02:20):
Protest coordinator Markey Herbert says he shouldn't be charged, and
this is about equity. Here's plenty of people that are
growing your own because they can't afford the legal version,
and the legal version has always been available to those
that could afford it. Pope Francis is in a stable
condition after a serious coughing fit on Friday. He's been
(02:42):
having treatment for pneumonia in hospital for more than two weeks.
International correspondent Gavin Gray told Andrew Dickens he's had a
peaceful night. He received extra oxygen the ball, but we're
being told he was not interbated. In other words, did
not have one of those breathing tubes down his throat.
Women's trying to hit the mark on work life balance
(03:02):
as it announces it'll have a new police training site
in Auckland, allowing recruits to train without having to leave
home to sport. New Zealand has a new national record
holder in the women's mile. Paris Olympian Maya Ramsden's clocked
four minutes twenty one point five six seconds at an
indoor meet in Boston, blitzing the mark set by Kim
(03:23):
Smith in two thousand and eight by two point five
eight seconds. Two Raiders players Xavier Savage and Joseph Toppenay
face NRL suspensions following the win over the Warriors, and
Scott Dixon has finished the best of the Kiwis in
second in the opening IndyCar race of the season at
Saint Petersburg. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
(03:45):
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the news Talk ZB newsroom.
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