Morning Edition: 23 June 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 23 June 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 morning. I never retimanu and this is your morning
news fix for Monday, twenty third of June. In this update,
the US Defense Secretary claims strikes on Iran have crippled
its nuclear capabilities. The United States struck three sites with
so called bunker buster bombs yesterday. The Red Crescent in

(00:24):
Iran says eleven people suffered minor injuries during the strikes.
It says no radiation leaks have been detected at the sites.
Pete Hexit says the US has been very clear in
ordering Iran not to retaliate.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
The United States does not seek war, but let me
be clear, we will act swiftly and decisively when our people,
our partners, or our interests are threatened.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
And a former Defense minister agrees, we need to try
to get New Zealanders out of one of the most
significant conflicts in decades. Defense Force personnel are heading in
a Hercules aircraft does stand by to assist New Zealanders
in Israel and Iran. Airspace above Iran and Israel is
closed with an estimated one hundred and eighty New Zealanders
struck across both countries. Wayne Mapp says as Foreign Minister,

(01:12):
Winston Peters said yesterday it's the biggest international incident since
a Cuban missile crisis. Low confidence from the Criminal Bar
Association that a backup trial process is helping to address
court backlogs. District court backups are intended to take the
place of any firm trials which fall through, but Association

(01:33):
Vice president so Mudo Thoad says that the backups often
get adjourned anyway, despite lawyers being loaded with the extra pressure.
She says it can have a huge impact on workloads
and income. The Ministry of Justice says standby and reserved
trials are vital, adding four hundred and thirty nine were
completed in the year to April. A mixture of sadness

(01:54):
and relief for the family of christ churchwoman Elizabeth Nichols,
whose body police believe they're found in central christ Church.
Police think they found the body of the seventy nine
year old yesterday. She'd been reported missing from a ricket
and rest home on June fourth. Formal identification is yet
to take place. The family says it's very grateful for
the efforts from police in the community in the search.

(02:15):
The death is being referred to the coroner Auckland is
will need to get to work in school without trains. Today.
No train services will be operating due to ongoing Kibi
rail work ahead of next year's City rail Link opening.
Full network closures are usually limited to quiet a school
holiday periods, despite previous closures causing major delays for commuters.

(02:37):
Kirby Rail Chief Capital Planning Officer David Gordon is adamant
today's closure should not be too disruptive. We did this
at King's Birthday. We work very closely with Autland Transport
out providing alternative transport arrangements and bussing. Auckland's train network
is due to reopen tomorrow. In Sport, loose forwards, the

(02:58):
midfield and the outside backs appear the areas creating the
most questions when the all Black squad to play France
is named at the Coastal Club in Tartanaki after midday.
Starr's deputant Marie Hanson has slotted five consecutive two pointers
and herside's sixty one fifty three am Z Premiership lost
to the table topping Tactics Hockey New Zealand. Except they're

(03:21):
unlikely to receive any monetary windfall from high performance Sport
in New Zealand, off the back of a second consecutive
Nations Cup victory in Malaysia for the Black sticks Men,
I'm never reaty man who in their your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at midday from
the newstalk ZB news room