Morning Edition: 20 December 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 20 December 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 talk said be newsroom, this is Newsfax.
In this update, relief from Ukraine has set to receive
a one hundred and eighty three billion New Zealand dollar
loan from the European Union to help fund its defense
in the war with Russia. The loans are funding planned
for Ukraine's economy and military for the next two years.
At the same time, the US says efforts to try

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and negotiate a cease fire are continuing. US Secretary of
Saint Marco Rubio says there's still a lot of work
ahead for any peace deal to be made, and of.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Course that takes a lot of time and a lot
of hard work. It can't generally be done in the
media are and press conferences. I think we've made progress,
but we have ways to go, and obviously the hardest
issues are always the last issues.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Best selling children's authoring comedian David Walliams has been dropped
by his publisher, HarperCollins, reportedly overclaims he harassed junior female
employees at the publishing house. The author has not responded
to the allegations. For climbers to thoroughly plan and prepare
for Mount Cook's unique conditions after four deaths in the

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last month. Two climbers are believed to have died in
an avalanche after attempting to summit Aldaki more than a
week ago. Another peer died in a fall near the
summit in November. In Zed Mountain Safety Council Chief Executive
Mike Daisley says the mountain isn't high by international standards,
but the weather systems and terrain are complicated and high.

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Summer demand for air travel with thousands of Kiwi's jetting
overseas today. In New Zealand's is almost twenty thousand of
its passengers are heading off short today for the airline's
busiest international travel day before Christmas. One point one million
people will fly internationally across summer, with Sydney, Tahiti and
Fiji popular getaway destinations. In New Zealand's general manager for

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Airport's Cape Boyas is it's a stressful time of year
and they're focused on delivering or on time. Performance This
month is tracking really well or very significantly ahead of
December last year, so we're confident that our preper is
going to pay off. That's news. The Sport and Auckland
FC has moved to the top of the A League
standings after a two mil away win over the Western

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Sydney Wanderers. I mean, while the Breakers have been unable
to contain Typean's power forward Jack McVeigh and a four
point NBL basketball loss and cans. McVeigh had a career
high forty seven points in his two hundredth NBL appearance.
Breakers coach but Terry Copenan says McVeigh was deadly.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
He score all over the place, threes inside the pain
free throw line and you know he killed us.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
And the Brisbane Heat has built off the Big Bash
League's greatest ever run chase and an eight wicket home
when over the Perth Scorches. Perth posted a franchise record
two hundred and fifty seven for six with Kiwi opener
Fin Allen smashing seventy nine off thirty eight balls, only
for the Heat to reel in the massive total with
just one ball to spare. That's sport. I'm Diana Visitch.

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