Midday Edition: 08 September 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 08 September 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 Malcolm Jordan and missus your mid day
newsfix for Monday, the eighth of September. Fugitive Marekorper father
Tom Phillips, has been shot dead by police following a
burglary of a rural supply store in the Wacuttle town
of Peolpil about two thirty this morning. Acting Deputy Commissioner
Jill Rodgers says a member of the public called police

(00:25):
after seeing two people on a quad bike. She says
officers laid spikes about three point twenty and the quad
bike ran over them, stopping a short time later. The
first attending officer was shot at close range with a
high powered rifle and struck in the head. Their undergoing
surgery for critical injuries. A second patrol unit arrived and

(00:46):
engaged with the offender, who died at the scene. The
second person is one of Tom Phillips's children, who isn't injured.
Police are urgently searching for the other two children. Mushroom
murderer Aaron Patterson will soon learn her fate with her
sentencing today in Victoria, Australia. Patterson was found guilty of
killing her husband's parents, His auntie and attempting to murder

(01:09):
a fourth person by lacing their beef wellingtons with poisonous
death cap mushrooms. The fifty year old mother of two
pleaded not guilty to all charges, claiming the deaths were
a tragic accident. The trial of double murder accused Ha
Kyong Lee is due to get under way at the
Auckland High Court. Lee, in her forties, was arrested in

(01:30):
South Korea in twenty twenty two, charged with killing her
two primary school aged children. The remains of Mi Nu
and U Nah Joe were found in suitcases in an
abandoned Auckland storage unit three years ago. The Prime Minister
is downplaying rumours his leadership is on the rocks. On Friday,
former National Party staffer Matthew Houghton claimed in a column

(01:53):
that ministers and backbenches are losing confidence in Luxeon and
a leadership challenge could soon follow. Last week, Life And
said the rumors were rubbish, and today told Mike Hosking
he's never had a nice column from Houghton.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I can talk about media when I'm getting fair treatment
or not, but I just think it's not particularly helpful
usful rail in the Lower North Island is going electric,
as the government announces the train manufacturer tasked with delivering
the government's eight hundred million dollar upgrades to BS Macintosh
is at the announcement at Wellington's Central Station.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
French manufacturer Alstorm will provide eighteen five car battery trains
as part of the first fleet of battery electric trains
in the Southern Hemisphere in a thirty five year deal.
The trains will almost double services on the one or
two and wide upper lines and save commuters coming from
Masterton fifteen minutes. The fleet will be made in India.
Minister of Transport Chris Bishop says it'll mean an increase

(02:47):
in productivity and support economic growth.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
In sport, Carlos Alcaraz has won the US Open tennis
title for a second time, defeating Yarnick Sinner in four sets.
He moves back to the world number one spot via
his sixth Major crown. Rhees Mariu is two hundred not
out as part of New Zealand Day's three hundred and
fifty seven for one at stumps on the opening day

(03:10):
of their first class cricket match against South Africa A
at Potrestrom And Rory McElroy has clinched his second Irish
Open golf title on the third whole of a playoff.
Daniel Hillier finished in a tie for twenty ninth. I'm
Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be back
with the next update at five pm from the news
Talk zb newsroom.