Morning Edition: 15 February 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news Talks Heavy newsroom. This is newsfacs in
This update lo morale from public servants in the health
sector as numerous senior executives call it quits. The latest
to go is Director General of Health, doctor Diana Sofati,
announcing her resignation from a term that was due to
end in twenty twenty seven. Also departing's Health New Zealand

(00:25):
Chief Executive Marjie Upper and Director of Public Health Nicholas Jones.
Public Service Association National Secretary Flirford Simons says, the health
systems and chaos.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I think it's very likely we will see more resignations
than our health system. They are being asked to do
impossible things with less and less money.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelenski is meeting with US Vice President
JD Vance at a major security meeting in Munich. Ukraine
and its European allies are still reacting to US President
Donald Trump's surprise announcement that he and Russia Vladimir Putin
had agreed to begin talks to end the war. As
Zelenski told the conference, he made it clear to Trump

(01:06):
that Putin won't just cease fire.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
He said to me I think that put In he
wants to solve the war. I said to him that
he's a liar and you can count on it. I
hope that you will pressure him because I don't trust him.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
AMAS has announced further details of three Israeli hostages it
will release in accordance with the terms of the cease
fire with Israel. It comes after Israel warned the militant
group it must release three living hostages this weekend or
face a resumption of the war. In Gaza, German prosecutors
are treating the case of a man who drove a
car into a crowd in Munich as a murder attempt.

(01:40):
At least thirty six people were injured, some of them seriously.
In a union's calling for collaboration to save jobs at
Kinleith Mill and Tokuawa, paper production will cease in June,
taking away two hundred and thirty jobs. CTU president Richard
Wagstaff's as that means there's still time for paper company, OG,
the government and union to get around the table. He

(02:01):
says the government needs to do work to improve the
manufacturing sector in general.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
That means creating a supply of labor, training and so forth.
It means supplying what we need to create the industries
we need and that's what other countries do successfully.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
That's news to Sport and the black Caps have won
the One Day cricket Try series against Pakistan and South Africa.
New Zealand's beaten Pakistan by five wickets in the final
in Karachi, chasing two hundred and forty three with twenty
eight balls to spare. Seema Willow Rourke took top bowling
figures of four for forty three, while Darryl Mitchell and

(02:35):
Tom Latham hit half centuries with the bat. Captain Mitch
Satner has been asked if they've ticked all the boxes
ahead of the Champions Trophy starting Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah, I guess sir. That's obviously nice to win on tonight,
but I think different guys stepping up at different times
throughout the series is always good for the guys going
forward and I guess it means nothing until we play
the first game in Champions for.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
The Highlander is lamenting a lack of ruthlessness after losing
their opening Super Rugby Pacific match at the death thirty
seven thirty six to the Waratas in Sydney, and that sport.
I'm Scarlet Swartanovic. For more news, listen to News Talk
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