Midday Edition: 20 September 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 20 September 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):
No the news talks heavy newsroom. This is newsfacs. In
this update. In Australia, three people have sadly been found
dead in their homes after hundreds of phone calls to
Triple zero didn't make it through due to a technical failure.
Adoptis impacting South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territories.

(00:24):
CEO Stephen Rue says they're incredibly sorry and I offer
my most sincere and heartfelt condolences to the families and
friends of the people who passed away. I am so
sorry for your loss. Three Russian warplanes that violated Estonian
airspace have been intercepted by NATO. Around twenty drones entered

(00:45):
Poland's airspace last week, allegedly launched from Russia. NATO has
described the violation in Estonia as yet another example of
reckless Russian behavior. Estonian Defense Minister Hanko Pevker told the
BBC allies at quickly and the Russian warplanes were forced
to flee Estonia. It is unprecedented that for twelve minutes

(01:06):
the Russians were in an hour airspace, but there was
a very good coordination among different countries. A focus on
the Middle East is New Zealand's Foreign Affair minister jets
off to the United Nations. Winston Peters travels to New
York this weekend to attend the eightieth session of the
UN General Assembly and attend a conference on a two

(01:26):
state solution to the Gaza conflict. Peters says engagements with
other world leaders will help finalize New Zealand's position on
recognizing a Palestinian state. That question will be discussed at
the UN on Monday, and comes after New Zealand said
recognizing Palestine was there a matter of when, not if.

(01:46):
The school holidays are kicking off with wet and wild weather.
It's expected to continue for most of the country over
the weekend, with eastern parts of the country seeing the
least rain. Meanwhile, Auckland Airport's expecting more than one million
people traveling abroad and domestically over the two week break.
Met Service meteorologist Marta Petalo Marta Bitutane says there's severe

(02:12):
northerly gales in eastern parts of the South Island. That's news.
In Sport, the Black Fans are coming to terms with
their eight year reign as World champions being over. They've
been stunned by Canada thirty four to nineteen in the
World Cup semi final in Bristol. New Zealand will now
have to gather themselves for a bronze medal playoff against

(02:32):
either England or France next weekend. All Blacks half back
Cam Royguard is ready to make an impact from the
bench for Counties Monaco in this afternoon's NPC battle against
Auckland and Pocacoe. It'll be the first choice and unber
nine's return game after recovering from a foot fracture. Roygard
hasn't played since the second Test against France in July. Yeah,

(02:54):
I'm not bothering on the bench and it's probably a
nast challenge for to close out the game if it
is tight and have experienced there to hopefully do what
I can to do what's necessari to get the one
kick off is at two o five that Sport. I'm
Sandy Hodge. For more news, listen to News Talk Said
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