Morning Edition: 09 May 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 09 May 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 ready, Manu, and this is your
morning news books for Friday, ninth of May. In this update,
a new pope has been elected. Sixty nine year old
Robert Prevost will be known as Pope Leo the fourteenth.
The crowd of thousands gathered outside Saint Peter's Basilica at
the Vatican erupted in cheers as he emerged on the balcony.

(00:32):
Prevost was born in Chicago and becomes the first American pope.
In his first speech, the new pope urged the faithful
to move forward without fear. Translated by CNN, He's paid
tribute to his predecessor, Pope Francis, and continued a blessing
he gave during Easter before his death.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
God loves us, God loves everyone. Evil will not prevail.
We are all in the hands of God.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
The New Zealand Catholic Bishop's Conference says the announcement is
joyous news. Donald Trump says having an American pope is exciting,
very meaningful, and a great honor for the US and
Catholic journalist Mark O'Connor is at the vantaken and told
Ryan Bridge the new pope has a history of caring
for those less fortunate.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
He's just lovely, warm, caring human being who is going
to try and build bridges, and he's very much in
the spirit of Fo Francis.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
In other news, belief the tertiary sector is at crisis
point as the number of academic staff drops. New data
shows the ratio of students per staff member last year
was the highest since twenty sixteen. The total number of
staff also decreased by one point one percent between twenty
twenty three and twenty twenty four. Tertiary Education Union Sandra

(01:46):
Gray says there's not enough money to keep up with
growing student numbers and the sector's needs.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Our institutions are about cross edge fensis governments determined to
push them over. That's going to harm students and it's
going to be disastrous employers who are actually reliant on
quality tertiary education.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Psychiatrists are being driven out of our public mental health workforce.
Newstork zeed be can reveal the head count of psychiatrists
employed by Health New Zealand dropped from five hundred and
eighteen to four hundred and ninety seven between September twenty
twenty two and September twenty twenty four College of Psychiatrists'
National Committee chair here in Tharbru says a lot of

(02:24):
psychiatrists feel they can't do their job effectively in a
system increasingly understrained.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Many psychiatrists are experiencing burner moral distressed, being regularly forced
to make unsafe decisions or discharge people too early due
to a lack of bad staff or appropriate services.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
As tension escalates between India and Pakistan, both blame the
other for ongoing strikes and shelling. Pakistan says thirty one
people are being killed and fifty seven injured by air
strikes partly in Pakistan Administered Cashmere since Wednesday. Meanwhile, India
claims at least sixteen civilians are dead after shelling on
its side of the border. The BBC reports of blackouts

(03:01):
in place in Indian Administered Cashmere following reports of explosions
in Sport, England's Marrow uttter Jay will captain the Lions
on their rugby tur of Australia this winter. Defending champion
Caroline Powell and her Mount Greenacre Special Cavalier have withdrawn
less than an hour before the dressage at the Badminton
Horse Trials. The Dolphins have opened Round ten of League's

(03:24):
NRL with the twenty sixteen away win over the bottom
placed Eels. And finally, golfer Ryan Fox's two strokes off
the lead at as late As PGA Tour event after
shooting a six hunder pass sixty five in South Carolina.
I'm never ready man, who and that your latest news fakes.
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