Morning Edition: 12 April 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talks head been Newsroom. This is newsfacs.
In this update, Beijing is vound to fight until the end.
As the trade war with the US escalates. China has
hiked its tariffs on US imports to one hundred and
twenty five percent after the White House slapped China with
tariffs of one hundred and forty five percent. Leader Jijingping

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says his nation is not afraid in his first public
comments on the trade war. CNN's Jeff Zulaney says it
looks to be a case of who will blink first.
The White House has said the President of the US
President has no immediate plans to reach out and call
President Ojijinping. They want China to do the outreach back home,

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and the Remembrance Army is calling for local councils to
step up for their veterans as they celebrate the life
of a decorated soldier today. Lance Corporal Rory Malone was
killed in Afghanistan in twenty two twelve at the age
of twenty six. He was posthumously awarded the New Zealand
Gallantry Medal. Auckland Council was now allowing a plaque for

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him to be placed at Riverhead War Memorial Park today,
despite previous concerns there was already an existing memorial. His
Grave Remembrance Army founder Simon Strombom says it highlights a
larger issue. There are contemporary veterans still end up dying
and not actually seeing their service recognize on warmorials in
New Zealand. US President Donald Trump says Russia has to

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get moving and finding a peace deal on Ukraine. Trump's
Special ENVOYE. Steve Witkoff has flown to Russia for talks
with President Vladimir Putin. Posting to social media, Trump says
too many people are dying thousands a week in a
senseless war, and eight hundred and forty six thousand travelers
are expected through Auckland Airport over the next two weeks

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as the school holidays get underway. For those heading overseas,
Queensland tops the destination list, followed by Fiji, the Cook Islands,
and House of Travel CEO David Coombs says, if you're
heading abroad, don't leave things until the last minute, get
there a little bit earlier, give yourself plenty of time.
You know traffic around the airport, don't wait till the
morning of the flight to look for your passport. That's

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news to Sport and the war Atars have snapped an
eight game losing streak against the Chiefs, winning their Super
Rugby clash in Sydney twenty one fourteen. The result drops
the Chiefs to second on the table, behind the Crusaders,
who survived two late yellow cards to fend off the
Hurricanes thirty one twenty four in Wellington. Gane skipper Duplas

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Carrefi told the Gold Sport there often their own worst
enemy doesn't get any easier. You're probably shooting ourselves in
the foot, to be honest. And we do a good
thing and then we back it up with a bad thing.
So if we're going to string together No. Two or
three good passages, hopefully we're in a better position. And
Kiwi Formula One driver Liam Lawson has set the twelfth
fastest time and practice two ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix.

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That Sport. I'm Diana Vesig. For more news, listen to
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