Midday Edition: 27 November 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 27 November 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
newsfix for Thursday, the twenty seventh of November. Our probe's
been announced into government agencies actions to protect Tom Phillips's children,
who spent four years on the run with him. Police
shot the fugitive dead in September. Senior political reporter Azaria
Halle has more.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
The inquiry will make findings about whether agencies took all
practicable steps to protect the privacy and welfare of the children.
This includes whether agencies engaged appropriately with the Family Court.
Attorney General Judith Collins says it's important the government determined
whether agencies could take steps to prevent or resolve similar

(00:43):
situations more effectively in the future.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Reports the shooting of two National Guardsmen just blocks from
the White House was targeted. The US President says the
gunman's severely wounded and in custody, and he's asked for
an extra five hundred troops to be sent to the
The guardsmen are both in a critical condition. CNN's John
Miller says authorities are reviewing footage of the attack.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
It appears that the suspect walks up to the guardsmen,
who are in uniform fairly quickly pulls out a handgun
and opens fire.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
A secondary teacher pay agreement has been reached between employers
and the union after a week of talks. The PBTA
will now take the offer to the membership for a vote.
Jamie Cunningham has.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
More secondary teachers have engaged in a wave of strike
action in recent months, including a full day strike on
October twenty three, a ban on extracurricular activities, and rolling
year level stoppages. The unions thanked the Employment Relations Authority
for its efforts to facilitate bargaining.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Police have arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter in
relation to the huge apartment fire in Hong Kong. A
deadly blaze has ripped through an apartment complex, leaving at
least thirty six dead and nearly three hundred missing. Investigating
where the polystyrene window boards helped the fire spread, cn
end's Ivan Watson says hundreds of firefighters are still at

(02:07):
the scene though the flames have eased. They had gotten
emergency calls from residents trapped inside who were informed to
state it was too dangerous to get up to the
higher floors. We have not heard of any rescues. An
argument over a water tank ended with a Tasman man
trying to kill his seventy eight year old father with
an axe. Frank John Harris has been sent to jail

(02:30):
for three years and seven months on a charge of
attempted murder. Open Justice reports that Harris attacked his father
in December, fracturing his skull and breaking a wrist. Harris
apologized to his father in March, saying he had lost
willful control of his body. The Crown descrived Harris's extreme
violence as unusual from a man with no previous history

(02:51):
who had lived an otherwise quiet life. In Golden Bay
in Auckland, a small boat has been burnt down to
the water line on the Hodaki Gulf this morning near
Brown's Island, with two boaties escaping unscathed in a dinghy
as it went up in flames. To sport to Champions
League Football Arsenal our top of the table after beating

(03:11):
Bayern Munich three to one at home. Liverpool's four to
one loss to PSV is there at ninth in twelve
games across all competitions. Formula one technical guru Adrian Newey
will take over as Aston Martin's team principal next season
and a Metabad will host the twenty thirty Commonwealth Game
Centenary edition. India sees the event as a launching pad

(03:35):
to bid for the twenty thirty six Olympics. I'm 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.