Midday Edition: 05 January 2026

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 05 January 2026, 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 (00:02):
From the news Talk Zebby newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is NEWSFX.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
In this update condemnation of Donald Trump's actions in Venezuela
from Democrat opponents. The US launch strikes over the weekend
and took President Nicholas Maduro into custody. President Donald Trump
says his country will run Venezuela for the foreseeable future.
US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says the operations are illegal.

(00:28):
The Deputy Privacy Commissioner says people whose health information may
have been compromised in major breaches should take immediate precautions.
More than one hundred thousand people may be impacted by
the hack of the privately owned Managed my Health portal
used by GP clinics and containing sensitive health details. Deputy
Commissioneralis McPherson says people are right to be concerned.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Change of passwords, especially if you reuse them. Monitor for
any suspicious activity on your accounts, bank accounts, your phone,
your email.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Are renewed warning for those entering the water as where
there looks to improve. Five people drowned over the holiday period,
which ended at seven this morning. There are provisionally seventy
eight drownings for all of twenty twenty five, up from
seventy two the year before. Water Safety and z Chief
Executive Glenn Scanlon says swimmers need to use common sense.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Never swim alone. If you can swim at beaches that
are patrolled, and if life cards are patrolling at those beaches,
don't get in the water. Don't dive alone. Another really important.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
One me while police say they're welcoming another below average
summer holiday road toll, but not celebrating seven people died
on the roads this summer holiday period. Director of Road
Policing Superintendent Steve Greeley says seven deaths is still seven
families losing loved ones for no good reason. And State

(01:52):
Highway twenty four the to longer road south of Marta.
Marta is closed near the intersection with Old Teadaha Road
after a two VC called crash. Serious injuries are being reported.
I'm kay Gregory and that's news. In Sport, Australian bowling
coach Dan Vittry believes the omission of a specialist spinner
for the fifth Ashes test in Sydney is an outline,

(02:15):
not the new norm. The hosts have gone with a
full seam attack at the SCG for the first time
since the nineteen eighties, but Torri says recent history told
them spin has been ineffective at the venue, but he's
convinced spin will continue to have a place.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
People love watching it when it's at its absolute best
and when conditions can suit and assist the spin bowler.
But we're just in this stage now where that's that's
not the case. I wouldn't be surprised that it changed
in the future.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
England have just resumed at two hundred and eleven for
three Harry Brookers seventy eight, Joe Rooke on seventy two,
and main draw action has begun at the ASB Tennis
Classic in Auckland. Third seed Eva Yovich is first up
on center court. That's Sport.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
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