Midday Edition: 15 June 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 15 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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the newstalks had been newsroom this is NEWSFACS.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
In this update, two people are missing after a boat
has capsized in South Taranaki. Emergency Services and Coastguard volunteers
were called to an incident about two hundred meters off
shore of Party At just after ten am. Three people
were on board. One has been found and is receiving treatment.
Israel and Iran are exchanging a new round of strikes

(00:29):
as the back and forth attacks continue. It's reported fourteen
people have been injured in Israel in Iran's latest missile barrage,
while it's reported Israel strikes have killed around in overall
eighty people in Iran. Cn AND Chief International correspondent Clariss
Award says this conflict could go on for days.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
The expectation is that as long as those ballistic missiles
keep on flying in both directions, people across this region
will remain on high alert.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
To increase Chinese visitor numbers with an improvement of visa
settings and processes, They remain the lowest market, sitting at
about sixty percent of pre pandemic levels. From November, the
government will trial visa waivers status for Chinese passport holders.
Traveling from Australia, allowing them to visit for up to
three months. A man hunt is underweigh in the US

(01:22):
for a gunman who shot dead a Democratic Party politician
and her husband in their hometown of Minnesota. It's been
described as a politically motivated assassination. The gunman had earlier
shot another Democratic state senator and his wife in their home,
but they both survived. BBC correspondent Jake Quorn says the
suspect was posing as a police officer.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
The person was wearing the uniform, wearing the badge as
well as the vest, and they were also writing a
white suv that is often taken by a police officer,
and it had the blue lights and everything. So he
really suggests somewhat of a planned, a very meticulars planned killing.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
US President Donald Trump has condemned the shootings, saying such
horrific violence will not be tolerated in the USA. That's news.
In sport, Heey Formula one driver Liam Lawson has been
unable to take his practice form into qualifying for the
Canadian Grand Prix. After top ten finishes in the first

(02:20):
two practice sessions. The twenty three year old could only
set the nineteenth fastest time in qualifying, but he will
start one place higher in tomorrow's race after Yuki Sonoda
was demoted from eleventh to last. Mercedes George Russell has
ruled to his first pole position of the season, with
Red Bulls Max Vestappen second on the grid and McLaren's

(02:41):
championship leader Oscar Piastre starting third. Jeordie Barrett's stint at
Leinster has ended on a high, with the All Blacks
utility scoring a try in the Irish club's comprehensive thirty
two seven win over South Africa's Bulls in the United
Rugby Championship final in Dublin. Keepi golfer Ryan Fox is

(03:01):
inside the top forty at the US Open after shooting
a third round three over par to be eight over
for the Oakmont Tournament. That's Sports. I'm Sandy Hodge. For
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