Morning Edition: 20 March 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning, I'm never Readymanu, and this is your morning
NEWSWIKS for Thursday, twentieth of March. In this update, direct
flights connecting New Zealand and India could be in place
by twenty twenty eight. In New Zealand, Y of Executive
Greg Fans and Mumbai along with Prime Minister Christopher Luxen
and other members of his delegation, as well as looking
at a direct flight in New Zealand, and Air India

(00:27):
have signed a new code sharing arrangement to simplify travel
between India, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Indeed, Herald political
reporter Adam Pears, who's there, says the main issue is
around aircraft availability. Putting on order in New Zealand has
a number that they're expecting to come online around about
twenty twenty eight. And the Malaysian Cabinet has approved a

(00:49):
fresh search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH
three seventy, more than a decade after the aircraft vanished.
The search will cover a fifteen thousand square kilometer area
in the Southern Indian Ocean under a no fine, no
fee agreement with the Exploration firm Ocean Infinity. US President
Donald Trump and Volodimu Zelenski have spoken on the phone

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for about an hour. The Ukrainian president says a vow
by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin not to attack energy infrastructure
was very much addanced with reality following drone strokes across
the country overnight. CNN's alex Markwood says Trump saying his
call today went well, but it's worth remembering Russia has

(01:31):
not agreed to stop the fighting entirely like he and
Zelensky had proposed. This is much much smaller than the
US wanted. They are trying to sell this as a win,
but they are acknowledging that there's a lot of work
to be done. It's expected our economy has grown, but
not by a huge amount. Stats Enz will release GDP
figures for the final quarter of last year. It follows

(01:52):
two consecutive falls in last year's June and September quarters.
The government's watchdog believes harsher penalties might be needed for
government departments that delay releasing official information. The Chief on
Boodsman's released a report on the Official Information Act, highlighting
issues with some agencies taking a long time to respond
with specific concerns. At Health New Zealand, around fourteen thousand

(02:17):
complaints about oyas have been launched since twenty fifteen. On
boodsman Peter Bosher thinks people respect the law if they
know there's a consequence. There is a penalty in the
act that's laughably low. It's really no decherrant at all.
The Ministry of Education is offering support to a christ
Church school after a student attacked two teachers with a
pair of scissors. Emergency services were called to Adanui's Hayata

(02:40):
Community Campus around two yesterday afternoon. Principal Peggy Burrow sees
the two teachers concerned received medical attention but not hospitalization,
and are recovering well. Police are making inquiries into the incident.
In sport, fifteen year old Sam Ruth has become the
youngest person to break the four minute mile barrier. The
race for arguingly the most powerful job in world sport

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is ignited, with the seven contenders making their final moves
ahead of a vote in Greece tomorrow to determine who
takes over from International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bark. The
Indian Panthers expect to have their full squad available by
next Friday, after international commitments and visa issues had their
missing eight players to start the NBL basketball season. I'm

(03:23):
never ready, man who eventual latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update at midday from the news
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