Morning Edition: 21 February 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 21 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):
Good morning, I never ready Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Friday, twenty first of February. In
this update, child advocates are asking for politics to be
put aside to make sure substantial change can happen to
reduce child poverty rates. Annual figures to June show no
significant change, with more than one hundred and forty three

(00:25):
thousand children estimated to be living in material hardship. The
rates virtually unchanged since twenty eighteen, when a cross party
commitment was formed to Harvard By twenty twenty eight Save
the Children Research direct to Jackie Southey says, this can't
become a political football. We need to not fall into
the chat that this is a one government, one term issue.
This has got to be tackled collectively, over all governments,

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over many turns. The Woke Banks Members Bill has been
drawn from Parliament's biscuit tin New Zealand firsts Andy Foster
created the bill, which, if enacted, would stop banks from
denying services to businesusinesses for environmental, social and governance reasons.
Federated Farmers says this will shine a light on big
banks that have been forcing their ideological views down the

(01:08):
throats of everyday kiwis belief we should not overreact about
China's warships in the Tasman Sea. The Defense forces monitoring
a trio of Chinese ships near Australia, which yesterday was
spotted about two hundred and eighty kilometers east of Sydney.
Defense Minister Dueith Collins says it's the first time they've
sent warships with enormous strike power this far south and

(01:31):
they don't know why. Auckland University retired international relations professor
Stephen Hoadley says China's exercising the free right to travel
in international waters. The government plans to spend up to
two hundred million dollars removing level crossings in Auckland. Transport
Minister Chris Bishops expected to announce the investment today, which
would see seven level crossings in Tuccaninny and Glenninus removed.

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They'll be replaced by new road bridges and station access bridges.
The work is expected to be completed around the time
the city roundlink opens next year. Former Spanish Football Federation
president Luis Rubialis has avoided prison after being found guilty
of sexually assaulting player Genny Himoso Rubialis kissed her without
consent after the twenty twenty three Women's World Cup final

(02:17):
in Sydney, before trying to coerce her into saying it
was consentual. He's been fined ten thousand euros for a kiss.
The BBC's Guy Hitchco says prosecutors had been seeking two
and a half years in prison, including for coercion. He
has been found not guilty of that charge, and so
of the other three defendants who are also accused of coercion,
all of them have been cleared of that charge. People

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are being encouraged to remember the twenty eleven earthquake at
a public civil service in christ Church tomorrow. A minute
of silence will be held in Sport. India have chased
two hundred and twenty nine to beat Bangladesh by six
wickets with twenty one balls to spare at Cricket's Champions
Trophy in Dubai. The Tall Blacks have started the third
window of the Asia Cup basketball qualifiers by dismantling hosts

(03:01):
Hong Kong ninety two fifty one. Wallaby's captain Harry Wilson
has signed a new four year deal that will keep
him in Australian rugby until twenty twenty nine. And downhill
skier to Reza Nova has been woken from a coma
nearly four weeks after crashing and training for a World
Cup race. I'm nevera retty Manu. That your latest news
Fox and we'll be back with the next update of

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midday from the newsdalg Zbe Newsroom.