Midday Edition: 12 July 2026

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 12 July 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 Sabby newsroom. This is NEWSFACS in
this update. A powerful typhoon has made landfall in China,
with nearly two million people evacuated from areas in the
path of the storm. Typhoon Barbie's the second to hit
the country in a week, spanning roughly the with of
France at its widest point. The BBC reports landslides triggered

(00:24):
by the now category one storm have killed at least
seventeen people in the Philippines. BBC meteorologist Helen Willets says
there's potential for widespread damage in southeastern China. Typhoon Barbie
has already brought destructive weather across the Mariana Islands, the
Outer Japanese Islands, the Philippines into Taiwan as well. The
Sports Minister has announced a month of sporting events in

(00:46):
November to celebrate the New Zealand India relationship. Jordan Dunnemore.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Sports was a significant focus of the Indian Prime Minister's
visit here yesterday, with agreements to expand collaboration. Now Minister
Mark Mitchell is announcing additional investment to support the one
hundred Years of Unity through Sport program several Indian national
teams will visit and tour the country in November, including
their men's football team and their individual and mixed Peers

(01:13):
Bowls team.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
A line of police officers have pushed out crowds of
clubgoers from Auckland's Cutting a Happy Road overnight. Police say
they responded to reports of fighting at a bar about
twelve thirty am, where they arrested one person. Shortly after,
more fighting broke out, with management closing the bar, which
had about five hundred patrons at the time. Police say
they brought in additional forces, culminating in one person charge

(01:38):
with assaulting police. The organizer of a controversial hunting event
says protesters just brings more attention to the competition. The
Way In for the North Canterbury Hunting Competition has kicked
off with just under a dozen protesters present. It has
drawn the ire or for its glorification of animal killing,
its fair or cat category and its child participation, but

(02:03):
event organizer Matt Bailey says most competitors aren't phased by
the detractors. That's news. In sports. England is through to
football's World Cup semi finals after a thrilling two one
extra time win over Norway in Miami, refereeing frustrations on
both sides. Following the All Blacks forty seven seventeen win

(02:24):
over Italy in the Capitol, Unimpressed Italian coach Gonzalo Cassida
says they had a try denied for held up that
should have stood among a host of other if he calls.
All Blacks coach Dave Rennie was also miffed after the
TMO incorrectly intervened following Will Jordan's first try. Shane van
Gisbergen has qualified twelfth in a field of thirty eight

(02:47):
for the latest NASCAR race at Echo Park Speedway in Atlanta,
and the Black Caps are defending two hundred and sixty
eight against the West Indies in their first One Day
International in Guyana, after losing their last wickets for a
paltry thirty three runs. That Sport. I'm Sandy Hodge. For
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