Morning Edition: 10 March 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 10 March 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'm never readimanu and this is your morning
news fix for Monday, tenth of March. In this update,
Russia is ramped up its Ukraine incursion as European countries
try to fill the gap in military funding left by
the US. France will fund a further three hundred and
seventy million dollars worth of arms to Ukraine and hand
over some of its older fighting vehicles. But Hannah Schalest

(00:27):
of the Center for European Policy Analysis told the BBC
there are certain types of ammunition only the US can provide,
and it's also controlling a lot of the military intelligence.
Not all of these can be supplemented by the European providers,
or at least not so quickly like Startline, for example.
We have several competitors in Europe, but they don't have
the same coverage staying overseas, Israel says it's cutting off

(00:50):
its electricity supply to Gaza, days after cutting all supplies
of goods. Among other things. The moves expected to affect
desalination plants that use power to drinking water. Meanwhile, a
group representing service personnel says we have a lot of
work to do before our defense forces after scratch. The
government's promising a significant increase in defense spending in Mayze budget.

(01:13):
Mission home Front says we need to be spending four
hundred million dollars a year more on pay and benefits
like super and medical insurance. Its director, former Lieutenant Colonel
Hayden Ricketts, says we're far behind our five eyes allies.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I've got superannuation, retraining, education provisions after you lease. At
the military, we don't have anything like that and we're
very much the poor cousin and urge for.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
The government to strike a balance between public and private
infrastructure projects. It's pitching changes to the public works actors
speed up acquiring land for major projects, including premium payments
to private landowners, but Auckland University planning lecturer Bill McKay
says the changes look to be targeting those that have
been fast tracked, most of which are private is as

(01:59):
most people would be more accepting if there were more
public works on the fast track list. Wellington water bosses
will today front up to both the local government minister
and the region's meors as pressure builds for resignations. Ethan
Minera has the details.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
The capital's water provider faces the fallout from investigations finding
a lack of competition in contract procurement meant it was
overpaying raypayer funds, potentially by millions. Local Government Minister Simon
Watts called Wellington Water in for a please explain and
will meet with them today. Chairm and Nick Leagant will
also appear before a committee of the region's frustrated mears,

(02:35):
some of whom have expressed no confidence in him and
have raised questions over how he's managing a conflict of interest.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Grocery supply costs arising at the slowest pace in three years.
Latest Infometrics food Stuff's data show supplier costs increased one
point eight percent in the year to February. Dairy products, chocolate,
coffee and chilled food prices arising more sharply, but Infometric's
chief executive Brand Dolson says some products, particularly produce, are

(03:03):
becoming cheaper to supply. In sport, India have chased two
hundred and fifty two to beat New Zealand buy four
wickets with an over to spare and the Champions Trophy
cricket final at Dubai. French halfback Antoine du Pont has
rumptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during
their Six Nations win over Ireland. England had beat in

(03:23):
Italy forty seven twenty four at Twickenham, and Melbourne have
maintained their twenty two season round one winning record under
coach Craig Balamy with the fifty six to eighteen defeat
of Paramatta to open the NRL League season. I'm never
ready manuh that your latest news fix. We'll be backed
with the next update of midday from the news Dog
ZB Newsroom.