Morning Edition: 25 September 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 25 September 2024, 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 ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Wednesday, twenty fifth of September. In
this update, Israel says it has killed a senior Hezbola
commander as fighting in Lebanon continues. The Lebanese Health Ministry
says strikes have killed around five hundred people. The Israeli
Defense four says its mission is to stop the Iranian

(00:26):
Bank group from firing rockets into Israel's north and to
push them back from the border. International relations analyst Stephen
Hoadley told Ryan Bridge he expects air and artillery attacks
will continue and hopefully has Billa's rocket attacks on Israel
will stop. Consequently, there will be a lull, but it's
very possible that in another year or two will see

(00:47):
a repeat. A six month's trial of facial recognition in
supermarkets has ended in resounding success. Foodstuff's North Island installed
the technology in twenty five stores to test how it
impacts theft and alens. Company secretary Julian Bennifield says early
results suggest it was a strong success, helping avoid about
one hundred and thirty serious incidents across the twenty five stores.

(01:11):
Gisbon's leading the way in regional economic growth. The region's
claim top spot on asb's latest Regional Economic scoreboard. Growth
and annual house sales was the second highest in the country,
and its three point six percent growth and employment was
well above the national average of one point six percent.
Senior economist Chris Tennant Brown says it's mostly down to
post cyclone recovery. It's all the same with Hawk's Bay

(01:33):
last year.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Constructions as a bright spot with CONSENS rising either the year,
particularly with a lot of the non residential activity, and
consens appointing to more activity remaining in the pipeline.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
The Finance Minister's be nurged by her officials to lobby
for Wellington City Council to sell its shares in Wellington Airport.
They've advised her to try to convince the council to
reduce the risks to the Crown's balance sheet. Political editor
in Wall says this exclusive story.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Whether or not the shares should be sold will be
decided in an October tenth meeting at the council. Ahead
of that vote, Nikola Willis says she's spoken to the
mayor and councilors about the stake, expressing her personal opinion
that the sale makes sense for the city.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Really from the bus drivers union as the government announces
new measures to improve workplace safety. It includes new aggravating
factors and sentencing for attacks on transport workers and a
fifteen million dollar injection into safety precautions. Tramway's union president
Gary Frogett says the long needed policy follows Tasmania, which
puts bus drivers under the same category as police officers

(02:40):
and ambulance drivers. Sale GPS expected to bring economic benefits
to Auckland. The sailing event makes it's debut in the
City of Sales on January eighteen and nineteen. Tickets go
on sale today and in sport, NFL Hall of Fame
quarterback Brett fav says he's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
He played twenty NFL seasons and won the nineteen ninety

(03:02):
seven Super Bowl with Green Bay. The White Funds have
endured a tenth straight T twenty cricket defeat dating Bank
to March. Australia have chased one hundred and forty seven
to win by five wickets with five balls to spare,
and Brisbane the Dragons have been issued a forty three
thousand dollars fine by league's NRL for withdrawing Ronald Wolkman's
contract after his signing from the Warriors. I've never ready

(03:24):
mane who in that your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update at midday from the news
doalg ZB Newsroom