Midday Edition: 20 April 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 20 April 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):
No the news talks heavy newsroom. This is newsfacs. In
this update, more unsettled weather is rolling through as excyclone
Tam continues to be felt met service as a line
of thunderstorms producing localized heavy rain is expected to develop
over southern Northland and Auckland early this afternoon. Energy companies

(00:24):
are continuing to make progress restoring power in Auckland and Northland,
while heavy rain warnings are in place for Tasman northwest
of Machoweka as well as Mount Taranaki moto Eeka Ward
councilor Brent Maru says it's been hard to keep up
with the changing forecasts. Sally up and down, so heavy
rainfalls for really short periods. But yeah, strange weather. As

(00:46):
you unwrap another chocolate egg or butter one, more hot
Cross bun is a warning about indulging your pets with
these detreats. Peedy Insurance Chief operating Officer Michelle Lelong says,
while it might be tempting to give your fairy friends
some Easter food, it can harmful. Now there's a lot
of hallacans out there, so chopolet is obviously toxic to
both cats and dogs, and hot cross buns with raisins,

(01:08):
so just be careful. The emerging global trade war could
already be having an impact on first home buyers in
New Zealand. Stock markets around the world tumbled after US
President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on trading partners. L J. Hooker,
head of Network Campbell DeNoon, says there's already signs buyers
are being affected, particularly first home buyers relying on their

(01:29):
key we saver being a little more cautious and perhaps
quite rightly as to how much money they might actually
be able to have to provide as a deposit. Ukraine
says attacks have continued despite Russian President Vladimir Putin declaring
a brief Easter truce. Putin ordered his forces to stop
fighting for thirty hours, with the ceasefire lasting until Monday,

(01:50):
but Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelenski says Russian attacks are still
happening on several front lines. The BBC's James Waterhouse says
Moscow also announced a last Monk holiday truce early in
twenty twenty three. We reported from the frontline city of Bachmut,
and let me tell you the fighting did not stop
then either. That city would gradually be captured and reduced
to rubble. That's news in sport. The next edition of

(02:15):
the America's Cup will be down one challenger. Former Old
Mug Holders and Lingy Red Bull Racing have withdrawn from
the thirty eighth regatta, with the Swiss syndicate beginning an
orderly wind down of the team. In a statement to
Lingy says they couldn't reach an agreement with the defender
of the America's Cup, that being Team New Zealand over
the future of the event. Max Vestaffan has taken pole

(02:37):
position for tomorrow morning's Formula One Grand Prix in Saudi Arabia.
Liam Larsen will start from twelfth, his best qualifying mark
of the season, and golfer Ryan Fox remains well off
the pace heading into the final round of the latest
PGA Tour event in the Dominican Republic. He's carted a
third round one over pass seventy three to move into

(02:58):
a share of sixty first at time under overall, that's
fifteen shots behind American leader Joel Damon, who's at seventeen
under that sports, I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news, listen
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