Morning Edition: 11 January 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 11 January 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):
From the news Talks had the newsroom. This is NEWSFACS.
In this update, US President elect Donald Trump will not
go to jail or pay a fine over his criminal
conviction stemming from hush money paid to a pawn star,
but the sentencing will place a judgment of guilt on
his record. The unconditional discharge closes a case that had

(00:26):
loomed over his bid to retake the White House. Just
days before his January twenty inauguration. Heartbreaking stories are emerging
from Los Angeles as massive wildfires continue to scorch the area.
The fires cover more than twelve thousand tectes and have
destroyed more than ten thousand structures. Officials confirmed at least

(00:48):
ten deaths and one hundred and eighty thousand people under
evacuation orders. CNN correspondent Natasha Chen says one woman shared
the story of her father.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Was an amputee who used a wheelchair, and he was
found next to the bed of his son, who had
cerebral palsy. She said that her father would have never
left his side and they were found together like that.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
On going uncertainty about what Donald Trump's tariff plan will
mean for New Zealand. Sources are telling CNN the President
elect may declare an economic emergency in order to impose
tariffs on all imported goods. Foreign Minister Winston Peters says
our government's lobbying for New Zealand to be excluded. Saunda's

(01:32):
Unsworth partner and former trade negotiator Charles Finney says what
happens next remains a big unknown. Everyone is just waiting
to see what's going to happen there and what the
implications are, so one should not be jumping to any
quick conclusions among all mob boss on Bail has gone
on the run while awaiting sentencing for dealing mess. Police

(01:53):
are appealing for information on the location of thirty eight
year old Matthew Philip Carettu, who's the subject of an
arrest to warrant. Police say he's thought to be in
the counties Minico and Eastern Districts. That's news to sport
and first to a last gasp winner in Basketball's NBL.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
One point Livela Tazzi ball.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Mature Tame Doyle's tip in with zero point two seconds
left in overtime has delivered Tasmania a dramatic one hundred
and four to one hundred and three victory over Adelaide
on ESPN. Mardjock Den had has shot rattle down before

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Doyle needed two tip in attempts to seal a dramatic
win for the home team. New Zealand will be represented
on finals day at Tennis's ASB Classic. Michael Venus and
Croatian partner Nicola Mactish have won their double semi final
in a super tie break. The Canterbury Men are finally
on the board in crickets T twenty sou Smash, wrapping

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up a forty one run win over Auckland and christ
Church and Western United have scored twice an added time
to pinch a four to three win over Melbourne Victory
and Football Men's A League and That Sport. I'm Donna
Marie Lever.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
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