Afternoon Edition: 21 September 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 21 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):
From the news Talk's edby Newsroom. This is NEWSFACS In
this update, Indonesian police say New Zealand pilot Philip Mertens
has been freed from captivity. The former Jetstar pilot had
been held captive by West Papur rebels since February twenty
twenty three after landing a small commercial plane on the island.
Read Etherington reports.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Indonesian police say Mertens was freed and picked up by
a joint team and is undergoing health checkups and a
physiological examination. The rebels had posted a list of demands
for his release earlier this week, including Indonesia's army suspending
operations and space for him to convey what he felt
while in captivity.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has welcomed the release in a statement.
He says it's the result of nineteen and a half
months of work from a wide range of government agencies
and Indonesian authorities. Two people have been injured, one seriously,
in a two car crash in Wellington's Patani this afternoon.
It happened at around two o'clock on Hut Road between
Jackson and Nevers Street. The roads expected to be closed

(01:08):
for some Time rocket Lab has enjoyed another successful launch
from Mahia Peninsula. The space company has launched its second
of five electron rockets for its Kenaise mission, which will
see twenty five satellites deployed over the five launchers. Chief
executive Sir Peter Beck says the launch marks another milestone
for continuing to enable Kinnase to push boundaries of global

(01:30):
Internet connectivity. New Zealand singer Eddie Lowe has died after
more than sixty years in the music industry. Eddie low
was born blind in Rotrua in nineteen forty three and
educated at the Blind Foundation in Auckland. He was eighty
one and had been in a long battle with cancer.
His vocal and multi instrumental skills saw him receive an

(01:50):
Order of Merit in two thousand and six. Eddie Lowe
is remembered for his massive contribution to the New Zealand
music scene, not only in country music, but also in
puts Mardy music on the map, as an early adopter
of combining terreey Omardy in his song titles That's News
in Sport Butled is Low One may be widely tipped
to be a blowout for the all blacks, but that's

(02:12):
not how the captain's approaching their Sydney stash. Zero from
two in South Africa means New Zealand won't be lacking
motivation to lock away the silverware with an opening win
over the Wallabies, though AB's skipper Scott Barrett's expecting a
very different beast to the spring box.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, hi, timpo game with you know that they want
to play, they want to hold the ball, so that's
a challenge we're sort of prepared for and they'll certainly
look to challenge us around the fringes.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Takes on upfront kickoffs coming up at quarter to six
to the NPC where Wellington led Bay of plenty twelve
eight at halftime in Wellington moments ago, the why Cuto
women are showing their hosts Northland no mercy. Whycutto led
the Cody forty six nil at the break. That's sport.
I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to news talks.

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