Midday Edition: 11 December 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 11 December 2024, 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 this is your midday
news fix for Wednesday, the eleventh of December. B and
Zed says a pullback from petro Stations is not about
judging ethics but economics. Federated Farmers says one customer received
a letter from b and Zed telling them they won't
lend to petro Stations and all debts must be repaid

(00:24):
by twenty thirty. B and Zed's CEO Dan Huggins has
told the Banking Inquiry this is purely an investment decision.
As more vehicles electrified.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Know that particular business over the next ten years or
so outter sort of twenty thirty, our viewers that the
risk profile is heightened and therefore from a bank perspective,
now we've made that credit decision.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
A community service providers taking ordering a tomaiky to court
claiming a breach of its twenty one million dollars a
year contract stand to Meyer Trust says its contract has
been cut short, ending in early January due to Children's
Ministry budget constraints. It had been signed up until July
twenty twenty six. Chief executive FI owner Inkpen is concerned

(01:07):
about the impact.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
We're engaged with over a thousand families who have between
them four thousand children. All of those families had significant
challenges every single day of their lives.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
A terrorism expert says a realistic possibility of an attack
probably remains for the foreseeable future. The security intelligence services
holding the national threat level at low. It says exposure
to online extremism and rising global instability increases the risk
of radicalization. Massa University professor John Battersby says we mustn't

(01:43):
be complacent or worse after so much recent exposure to threat.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
We're a long way from either going back below low,
and I think it would probably be pretty risky for
any intelligence agency to constities that there is no possibility.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
To Prismonds appearing in court today charged with murdering Robert Albert,
found dead in a building in a Levin park in October.
The forty year old also faces a charge of unlawful
possession of a pistol. Syria's borders are being kept busy
with arrivals and departures after the fall of President Bashah

(02:19):
al Assad. Many Syrians who fled the war are trying
to return home. At the same time, many aligned with
the former president are fleeing the country fearing sectarian revenge violence.
The BBC's Anita McVeigh says the EU's foreign policy chief
is warning about the risk of ethnic conflict. She urged
international powers to help a peaceful transition, saying we must

(02:42):
avoid a repeat of the horrific scenarios in Iraq, Libya
and Afghanistan. Systems are back up and running at Auckland
Airport's international terminal and external network outage impacted check in
systems this morning, forcing airlines to process people manually. Passengers
told our newsroom it's caused big delays. Domestic flights are

(03:03):
not impacted. Herald Travel reporter Sarah Pollock is there.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
There's a few flustered travelers and a few unhappy families,
but most people are really calm. There's really a sense
of quiet people just getting on with it.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
To sport. The football Ferns will face Costa Rica in
two football friendlies in February and Aston Villa have claimed
their fourth win of the European Champions League season, seeing
off RB Leipzig three to two away. Ross Barkley scored
the winner for Villa in the eighty fifth minute to
move to provisional third on the ladder. That's through six games.

(03:37):
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.