Midday Edition: 11 March 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 11 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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Tuesday, the eleventh of March. The Prime
Minister claims his government is working harder than any as
new polling shows he's fallen behind Chris Hipkins as preferred PM.
The Taxpayer's Union Curier poll also has Labour on thirty
four point one percent, just ahead of National on thirty

(00:24):
three point six. Chris Luxe and told Mike Hosking the
government's putting in lots of work, on lots of legislation
to get things sorted, to make sure that we're cleaning
up the mess, but more impotents in the country up
for great success. Meanwhile, Phil Goff's interim replacement as British
High Commissioner has been announced. Foreign Minister Winston Peters has
appointed former Foreign Affairs and Trade Secretary Chris Seed. Seeds

(00:47):
previously served as Commissioner to Canberra and Papua New Guineas.
Port Moresby. Ex Auckland mayor and former Labor leader Gough
was sacked by Peters after questioning Donald Trump's understanding of
history at an event. Prime Minister Christopher Luxen says Chris
Seed is an accomplished and seasoned diplomat. That's what we
need in that role. We need our diplomats to be

(01:07):
diplomatic and I fully support that decision. New Zealand business
leaders have their eyes on one of the world's fastest
growing economies. The Prime Minister is taking one of the
largest ministerial delegations to India on Saturday. He's hoping to
strengthen trade and security ties. During talks with Prime Minister Narendramodi, India,

(01:28):
Business delegation lead Dame ter Raise Walsh says there's a
lot of growth opportunities in India, in particular in the
egg resection, but even outside of that, tourism, tech education
is just a lot there to unveil for New Zealand.
Walsh's co leader of the Business delegation is former Black
Cap Ross Taylor. Concerns about the long term economic and

(01:49):
ecological impact of today's major collision off England's East Coast.
A Portuguese container ship carrying toxic sodium cyanide appears to
have run into an a mirea, an oil tanker carrying
fuel for the US Defense Force. One person has been
rushed to hospital and jet fuel is pouring into the
North Sea. Local skipper Craig Moore says even closing off

(02:12):
the area for a few days will cause billions of
dollars of disruption. Military officials from at least to thirty
two nations, including New Zealand, are meeting in Paris tomorrow
to form a peace plan for Ukraine. It's part of
European led efforts to rally more countries in a coalition
of the willing. Prime Minister Chris Luxin's confirmed our Defense

(02:33):
Force attache will attend and our Defense Force chief will
tune in. Online Europe correspondent Catherine Field says the aim
is creating a secure a security framework for a ceasefire.
This is not going to be people talking about going
to the frontline. This is about guaranteeing a future piece
in Ukraine once there is a ceasfire framework. The Vatican

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says Pope Francis is now showing a good response to
his treatment ford double pneumonia. He remains in a stable
condition in hospital where he's been for three weeks. To Sport,
all New Zealand Indian Premier League players are unavailable for
the black Caps five match T twenty series with Pakistan
starting Sunday in christ Church. Michael Bracewell will captain the

(03:17):
side in place of Mitch Santner. The All Whites have
made one change to their squad for the final stage
of the Oceania World Cup Qualifiers this month. Jesse Randall
replaces Finn Sermon, and National Basketball League officials are scrambling
to resolve a player shortage for the new Indian Panthers
due to international commitments at the Asia Cup qualifiers. I'm

(03:41):
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.