Midday Edition: 02 February 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 02 February 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):
No, the news talks had been newsroom. This is newsfacs.
In this update, US President Donald Trump has signed an
audit confirming tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Imports from
Canada and Mexico will have a twenty five percent tariff
and China getting slapped with ten percent. Canadian energy imports

(00:24):
will have a ten percent tariff, the White House says
on social media the tariffs are aimed at curbing drug
trafficking from Mexico. CNN's Elaina Trained says there is also
a clause which could see them increased at any.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Time, particularly seeing whether or not if any of these
countries decide to retaliate to the President's directive here with
their own tariffs, and that could potentially bring these prices
and these tariffs even higher.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Police are treating the death of a Hamilton teenager as unexplained.
Emergency services were called to a Forest Lake Road address
shortly after midnight after reports a nineteen year old woman
was unresponsible of Medical staff confirmed her death on arrival.
Police are speaking with witnesses and conducting further seen investigations.
Two U S cities and mourning the lives lost and

(01:11):
two separate plane crashes. Just days apart, a medical plane
crashed into a residential neighborhood in Philadelphia, killing one person
in a car and all six people on board, including
a mother and her child. Earlier this week, sixty seven
people died after an American Airlines plane collided with a
US Army helicopter over Washington, d C. The BBC's Graham

(01:33):
Satcholes says at least nineteen people had been injured on
the ground in Philadelphia. At first light, the full extent
of the damage became clear, debris across a wide area
and a small crater where the plane hit. There's been
a smooth hostage exchange between Hamas and Israel. Three Israeli
hostages being held by Hamas and Gaza were released from
captivity in exchange for one hundred and eighty three Palestinian

(01:56):
prisoners held by Israel. The BBCs where it. Davis says
the tone of the exchanges in contrast to the chaotic
handover earlier when Kraftz press hostages. I think both sides
have learned from the mistakes of earlier days, and it
shows that this peace process, or at least this seasfire process,
is holding. That's news in sports Key, we mixed martial

(02:21):
artist Israel Adisanya is kicking himself after a shock second
round KO loss in UFC's fight night in Saudi Arabia.
The former two time middleweight champ could have stopped the
fight to recover after an accidental poke in the eye
from Nasa dein emmevov. Adisanya says if he had twenty
twenty hindsight, he would have called for a time out.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I felt good round one. I was in control of everything.
In hindsight, maybe I should have taken some time. I
just didn't want him to rest because I knew who
was tired, so I didn't want him to rest.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
But again, twenty twenty, Dame Lydia Coe will head into
the final round of the LPGAs Tournament of Champions tied
in third place. Co struck a brilliant seven under pass
sixty five on day three to be eleven under four
shots off the pace. In rugby, England has suffered its
sixth loss and seven tests, falling twenty seven to twenty
two to Ireland in their opening Six Nations clash. That Sport,

(03:13):
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