Midday Edition: 23 August 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 23 August 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 News Talks Headby newsroom. This is NEWSFACS. In
this update, Auckland bus drivers are welcoming new technology aimed
at mitigating possible attacks. Auckland Transports equipping more than seventy
buses with live CCTV cameras, allowing drivers to silently alert
operators of potential assaults or abusive behavior. There's been twenty

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nine physical assaults so far against eighty bus drivers this
year and fifty six for last year. Tramways Union president
Gary Frogert says the new equipment's already showing positive results.
It's been so successful that Mzbus, who owned kineticts, have
decided to put them into the buses in one of
their largest depots. Already, over one hundred and thirty thousand

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children under five and Gaza are at risk of being
killed by famine. The UN backed Integrated Food Security Phase
Classification Report has officially confirmed a man made famine in
the region. Half a million peace people are at risk
of starvation. World Peace Foundation Executive director Alex Deval told
the BBC exceptional effort is needed. Israel firmly rejects the

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report's findings. Multiple people are dead, including a child, following
a tour bus crash near Niagara Falls in the US
state of New York. The BBC reports fifty two people
were on board, with twenty one victims taken to hospital
so far. State authorities say passengers were visitors from India,
China and the Philippines. State trooper James O'Callahan says people

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are trapped and somewhere rejected. It is a tour boss
coming out of Niagara Falls back to what we believe
New York City and at this time we have multiple fatalities.
The Reserve Bank governor admits some parts of the economy
are doing it harder than others. Auckland Business Chamber boss
Simon Bridges spark debate after telling News Talk ZB the
government needs to do more to address surging unemployment in Auckland.

(01:57):
Christian Hawksby won't say whether the stimulus is needed, but
he says some people are being hit harder by the
economic slowdown. At the moment, it feels like a two
speed economy. It is very pronounced at the moment between
Auckland and Wellington and the rest of the country. That's news.
In sport, All Backs Forwards coach Jason Ryan is trumpeting

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the return of Prop Tomighty Williams from injury ahead of
Test two against Argentina tomorrow and Buenas Airas in the
Rugby Championship, the one hundred and forty four kilo lu said,
we'll come off the bench after spending two months out
with a knee injury he played through in the Super
Rugby Final. Ryan says Williams is in great nick. He's
training extremely well over here. His body's right and it

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gives us a pretty quick front road to Brennan as well,
which is exciting. Kimi Zoe Patterson has won gold in
the fifty metres butterfly at the World Aquatics Junior Swimming
Championships in Romania, clocking twenty five sixty three seconds to
beat her own national age record. Monique Whereazowski has broken
an eighteen year old national rage record and qualifying for

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the one hundred meters breaststroke final. That Sports. I'm Sandy Hodge.
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