Morning Edition: 07 October 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 07 October 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 (00:05):
Good morning, I never ready Manu, and this is your
morning Newswix for Tuesday, seventh of October. In this update,
Israel says it's deported one hundred and seventy one foreign
activists who were detained as part of a flotilla to Gaza,
including Sweden's Gretitunburg. It comes as Hamas and Israel are
preparing for indirect peace talks in Egypt over Gaza. Police

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are investigating after a window at the Auckland home of
Foreign Minister Winston Peters was smashed. Officers were called to
the address yesterday after a report of wilful damage before
six pm. Police say the offender had left the scene
and wasn't able to be located. In a social media post,
Peters says it's truly gutless and glass was shattered all

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over his dog, with a sign left on the front door.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxen and Labor leader Chris Hipkins have
both condemned the attack, those protests outside Peter's home and
support of those on board the Gaza flotilla. David Seymour's
rolling out new attendant services, promising to reach twice the
number of students budget twenty five added one hundred and

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forty million dollars to improve attendance over four years, the
majority for frontline services. Associate Education Minister David Seymour says
all contracts have been replaced with extra in school support
for one hundred and seventy schools with high chronic absence.
He says services will focus on understanding why students aren't
in class. The government's target is for eighty percent of

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students to attend school more than ninety percent of the time.
A boost for the vaping industry as the government asks
for tenders for devices for longtime smokers. Health New Zealand's
provided three thousand of the devices since January under a
pilot program, but news talksb can reveal it plans to
order more, including flavors like cinnamon and blueberry at the

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maximum legal nicotine level. Health and Z is talking up
the pr benefits to suppliers, saying that it will increase
their health system profile, credibility and visibility, and it says
their strict criteria on who can be given vapes, but
general Practitioner is ulty at All is calling this move
naive and disturbing. More than two hundred people have won

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by default. In this weekend's local election analysis from our newsroom,
with thousands of council races over five elections, has found
more than one in seven roles have been won by
the only person who stood. TikTok is defending its safety controls.
It's appeared before a select committee looking into the harms
young people face on the internet. Public policy lead Alla

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Wood's Joyce says TikTok's made under sixteen accounts private by
default and has banned them from sending direct messages each
and every year. We are investing approximately three point four
billion New Zealand dollars into the teams, the tools and
the technology that enforce our very strict community guidelines. In Sport,
South Africa have blitzed the White Ferns by six wickets,

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chasing two hundred and thirty two with fifty five balls
to spare in their women's fifty over Cricket World Cup
match at Indoor. Former England rugby captain Lewis Moody has
been diagnosed with motor neuron disease. The forty seven year
old says muscle wasting has begun in his hand and shoulder.
World number nineteen tennis player Daria kazit Kenna, who switch

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nationality from Russia to Australia this year, has put her
career on hold after stating she's at breakpoint mentally. I'm Nevaretti, Manu.
That your latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update of midday from the newstalk ZB newsroom.