Midday Edition: 25 December 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 25 December 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 Talks Headby Newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is Newsfex.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good afternoon, It's twelve o'clock. I'm Scarlet Swutanovich. In this update,
Transporting New Zealand's asking road users to allow extra time
when traveling over the Christmas break. It's reminding people that
road transport is a twenty four to seven business and
trucks we'll keep delivering supplies throughout the holiday. Barrier. Interim
Chief Executive Don Kalise says motorists need to keep calm

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and be patient when stuck behind a truck traveling at
ninety kilometers an hour all our drive. There's a rule
try and pull over when it takes to do so,
so Unfortunately a lot of places the shoulders aren't that wide.
The Holiday road toll already stands at two after two
separate North Island crashes. Last night, A motorcyclist died after

(00:50):
colliding with a car and tod on this park veil.
Another person died about two hours later about eleven after
a single vehicle crash on par Hill Road and Fudderhenny
near Welsford, north of Auckland. The Holiday Road toll began
yesterday at four pm and ends at six am on Friday,
the third of January. Her prisoner is still on the

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run following a bold escape from the eighth floor of
Waikato Hospital. The forty eight year old was filmed shimmying
down a pipe half naked on Monday afternoon. A witness
says no one realized Damon Anderson was a prisoner as
he wasn't wearing handcuffs before he escaped out the window.
He's the second prisoner to escape Corrections custody from the
hospital after a similar incident last month. Corrections is undertaking

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a review of how he managed to escape. No reprieve
for those in Vanuatu with heavy rain worsening devastation following
last week's seven point three magnitude earthquake. Rain posts, flooding
and landslip risks as more than one thousand people are
being forced from their homes to sleep in the open
save the children's Levinya Maheat is in Port Villa and

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says the damage has been overwhelming. Everyone's still taut size,
not just children, but you know adults as well, and
with the added rereen this has caused more anxiety war stress.
US President elect Donald Trump is promising to vigorously pursue
the death penalty when he takes power in January. His
statement on social media is in response to President Joe

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Biden's announcement he had commuted thirty seven out of forty
federal inmates on death row. Trump says he'll direct the
Justice Department to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers,
and monsters. A lot of New Zealanders are sticking with
tradition and having a Christmas Ham today, and your survey
reveals thirty four point eight percent of Kiwis will serve

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ham as their main protein, etching out lamb by zero
point two percent. Nearly fifty percent of New Zealanders are
planning a traditional roast with all the trimmings in zid
Pork's CEO, Brent Clice is, there's something about a glazed
hand that speaks Christmas. Pork are a domestically focused industry.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
They're all about feeding.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Families, bought and a show of respect. Between the two
super Maxi yachts contesting for line honors and tomorrow Sydney
to Hobart Race, Master Locke Comanche is looking to beat
defending champions law Connect in the six hundred and thirty
nautical mile race. Comanchie skipper James Mayo has a lot
of love for the law Connect sailors, who he knows
well off the water.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
They're world class sailors land. It's going to be a
real dogfight, but there is a huge amount of respect
amongst both teams. We're all good friends, but the gloves
are off once we get across that start line.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I can assure you of that. Racing gets underway at
three pm tomorrow. In sailing Legend, Sir Russell Coots is
having a relaxed Christmas before a busy new year begins.
The three time America's Cup winner is back for a
rare festive season on New Zealand soil Now Sale GP
Boss Coots says he's looking forward to the Moth World
Championships with several young Kiwi sailors competing at the Manly

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Club near his home base north of Auckland.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
That's pretty cool, particularly when they're competing alongside Diego Boteine
and Sebastian Snyder for Roberts and some of the other
SALVP drivers or former drivers in the case of film,
it's pretty cool that these young sailors can compete against them.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Oh Well, wind year for kayaker Amy Fisher will conclude
with her settling in her home of Hawks Bay for
the summer. The twenty nine year old missed out on
a medal in the women's K one five hundred race
at the Paris Olympics, but has announced her bid to
compete at the Los Angeles twenty twenty eight event as
part of the upcoming cycle. She's moved back to her
hometown of hawks Bay after ten years living in Auckland.

(04:28):
Fisher says she's ready to put her