Midday Edition: 26 December 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 26 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):
No the news talk sad the newsroom, this is newsfacs.
In this update, shopping centers across the country are gearing
up for a frenzied boxing day. Many malls have extended
their hours and anticipation of customers looking for a good deal.
Dressmark Auckland says December foot traffic last year jumped to
eight point three percent on the previous year. Center manager

(00:27):
Laurie Seleki says the crowd typically hits as soon as
the doors open, so we'll do a big morning rush
and then we'll get some people, you know, the rush
again after lunch. As such, Laurie Seleki says, even utlet
malls will have further sales that should keep running over
the weekend. Police are treating a house fire in Napier's
Moronui in the early hours of this morning as suspicious.

(00:49):
Emergency services were called to the Gettis Avenue address about
one forty five and found it fully alight. A scene
examination will be carried out today. Concerns for the North
Island East coast with today's weather forecast. Met Service has
issued an Orange heavy rain warning for Gisbon and Hawk's
Bay north of Napier for at least the next twenty

(01:11):
four hours. RNZ reports Hawk's Bay Regional Council is calling
back some staff in preparation for potential flooding. Meteorologist Mark
Todd says orange is a middle of the road warning
for heavy rain of potential concern.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
A red warning, on the other hand, is something that
we only use in terms of weather events that are
particularly severe, so something that is rarely remarkably out of
the ordinary.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
A Russian attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure is being branded
a conscious choice by its president. Ukraine's Air force says
it detected seventy missiles and one hundred drones, but many
were shot down or missed their targets. President Vlodime Zelenski
has called it inhumane and works being done to restore
power as soon as possible. France correspondent Catherine Field says

(01:58):
Kiev and other Eastern areas have ended up with no water,
electricity or heating. It sort of shook everyone because it's
a freezing cold time there. People are cold.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
They're getting us their third winter of this war.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
That's news. In sports, no signs of a front runner
in Australia's arm wrestle of a test series with India
as both sides head into the boxing day Test set
to get underway in Melbourne. The visitors won the first
Test in Perth by two hundred and ninety five runs,
with Australia winning by ten wickets in the second in Adelaide.
Rain remained victorious in the third Test in Brisbane. Head

(02:35):
coach Andrew McDonald says it's been an even contest so far.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
I think it was always going to be a closely
full Test series and it wasn't always going to be
a four to one either way.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
So where it's out of the moment I think is
probably ere I.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Thought it would be.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
At first ball schedule for twelve thirty pm, A battle
of the SUPERMAXI yachts is expected to be on the
cards in today's Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Master Locke
Comanche will be out to wrestle line honors from twenty
twenty three winners Loucnette, as it also looks at beating
the record time of one day, nine hours on the
six hundred and thirty nautical mile journey. That's sports. I'm

(03:10):
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