Midday Edition: 21 April 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the News Talks head the newsroom. This is Newsfix
in this update to a month's worth of rainfall has
battered some parts of the country over Easter weekend. Or
weather watchers and warnings have been lifted, except for a
severe thunderstorm watch covering a chunk of Hawk's Bay, Waikato
and Bay of Plenty. Met Service says Funday received almost

(00:26):
ninety millimeters of rain between Thursday and Sunday, surpassing its
eighty two millimeter April average. Meteorologist Alec Holden says the
worst affected area was Albany to Mount Roskille, which received
a whopping one hundred and thirty millimeters of rain.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Considering the average April rainfall for much of Auckland is
about eighty to ninety millimeters, they did receive more than
their average monthly rainfall at about three days.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Police are seeking urgent public assistance in a homicide investigation
after a fatal assault at an Auckland bus stop. Thirty
three year old man died in hospital after being assaulted
on Saint John's Road in Meadowbank about ten pm Saturday.
Detective Inspector Glenn Baldwin says they believe two offenders were involved,
but they still haven't been identified. He's asking for information

(01:15):
from anyone in the area at the time. Claims government
support is failing to ease housing stress. An Auckland University
study shows New Zealand's accommodation supplement is doing little to
improve affordability for renters. It's found Auckland renters receiving the
supplement pay more than those who don't. Associate Professor Edward

(01:36):
lu says other studies show landlords may raise rents in
response to subsidies.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Then a better way to help rent us is to
directly provide as or health instead of providing care.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
A thirty hour easter truce between Ukraine and Russia has
officially ended, with doubts it ever really started at all.
Both sides are accusing the other of breaking the ceasefire.
Jimmy Rushton, a foreign foreign policy analyst based in Kiev,
says civilians have reported hearing silence, but Ukrainian military sources

(02:11):
have told him they've continued to come under attack. In sports,
American Justin Thomas has won his first event in three
years in a playoff at the PGA Tour's RBC Heritage
in South Carolina. He's ousted compatriot Andrew Novak with a
birdie on the par four eighteenth on the opening playoff

(02:32):
hole after they finished tied at seventeen under overall, Thomas
says there wasn't much margin for error.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Although you do have to be very smart and pick
your spots, you do need control your ball. It's such
a fine line. I mean, we obviously don't play greens.
I get this firm very often, but it is fine
when we do because you have to be so precise
and so particular when you try to attack.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Meanwhile, South African Garrett Higo has won the secondary PGA
Tour event in the Dominican Republic, Liverpool, allowing themselves to
after moving within one win of clinching their first Premier
League football title since twenty twenty, their one now when
at Leicester's, put them thirteen points ahead of Arsenal with
five games remaining.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
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