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June 8, 2025 3 mins
The Midday Edition of News Fix for 09 June 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 fix for Monday, the ninth of June. A major
escalation on the ground in Los Angeles, with President Donald
Trump sending in the US National Guard to disrupt demonstrators.
Protests have erupted over US raids on undocumented migrants managed
by local law enforcement. Now Trump's deploying two thousand guardsmen,

(00:27):
despite officials, including California Governor Gavin Newsome, warning it could
fuel tensions. CNN's Kyong La says protests have fled up
again since it's really stunning watching this unfold from the
beginning of the morning to what we are seeing now.
The Prime Minister is promising protections for our healthcare as

(00:48):
the government introduces a parent boost visa at Grant's parents
of migrant citizens and residents five years multi entry access
with one renewal, meaning they could hold the visa free
ten years. Applicants must meet specific health, income and insurance requirements.
Chris Luxon says it will require parents to have health

(01:08):
insurance to prevent a drain on the public system. We've
got to make sure the obligation sits with that family
and those individuals if they want to be able to
come here and have this multiple entry visa that we've got.
Another round of work at Auckland Hospital will crank its
resilience upper notch. Work over the next three years will
upgrade its high voltage power supply and replace its steam

(01:29):
heating design. Works also beginning on replacing the hospital's aging
water pipes, which burst this year, with water supply shut
down for days. Health Minister Simeon Brown says Health New
Zealand will manage the disruptions, but this future proofing work
is essential. Today's announcement is about continuing that investment, and
there's electrical systems and the heating systems, those building management

(01:50):
systems so we can provide their continuity of care for patients.
Are Willington nurse, a thought missing in Europe prompting global concern,
has been found safer well in Bangkok after his phone
was stolen in Italy. Our Defense Force has no comments
on an Australian Navy ship accidentally blocking wireless internet and

(02:10):
radio services in parts of New Zealand. Last week. M
BE told The Guardian the HMAS Canberra interfered with a free,
free of charge shared spectrum band available to all for
Wi Fi and Bluetooth. An unrelated chorus fault on Friday
cut internet for about ninety minutes to thousands in the
Lower North Island and Hawks Bay intelligence expert Paul Buchanan

(02:33):
says our military has nothing to say. They said they
contacted the Australians. The Australians took care of it and
of stories see you later, promises of a quicker, reliable
and safer journey Now the Munawtu Tarahua Highway is finished.
The new eleven point five kilometer motorway replaces State Highway
three between Ashurst and Woodville. Once open to traffic, it's

(02:56):
expected to get nine thousand vehicles a day. TIS golfer
Ryan Fox has won his second PGA Tour event. He's
held his nerve to Pip sam Burns on the fourth
playoff hole at the Canadian Open. Carlos Algaath has beaten
the Yarnick Center in a five set French Open Men's
tennis final, continuing his unbeaten record in five Grand Slam deciders.

(03:21):
New Zealand Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson is exiting at
the end of twenty twenty five, bringing an end to
an almost six year tenure. He plans to relocate to Australia.
And former All Blacks captain Stu Wilson has died aged seventy,
in Todranger. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm

(03:42):
from the newstalk's z'd B Newsroom.
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