Midday Edition: 25 May 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 25 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):
No the news talks head the newsroom, this is newsfacs.
In this update, a doctor working on duty in Gaza
has had a large family nearly completely wiped out by
an Israeli air strike. It's reported the doctor was working
at NASA Hospital in carn Unice when her home was
hit and nine of heir ten children killed. British surgeon

(00:24):
Graham Groom told the BBC the woman's husband and one
surviving child are very badly injured.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Invariably cruel that his mother, who is a pediatrician and
has spent her professional life fairy four children, could lose
almost all in a finger brom On mittile strike.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Israel's military says it's revering acclaimed civilians were harmed in
an attack at the carn Unice area. Shifting production of
the iPhone to the US would not only be more costly,
but could also take up to a decade. Donald Trump
has threatened to impose a twenty five percent tariff on
Apple's signature phone if they're not made in the USA.

(01:03):
The tariff could come into force at the end of June.
Cene End's Matt Egan says it would make the iPhone
more expensive.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
There's asthmens out there that if the iPhone is man
in the US, each one would cost thirty five hundred
dollars a piece.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Don't be alarmed when an emergency mobile alerts rolled out tonight. NIMA,
the National Emergency Management Agency, will carry out a nationwide
test of its emergency mobile alert system between six and
seven this evening. They say it's to check the system
as running as it should. Civil Defense Emergency Management direct
to John Price says that it's all about keeping communities safe.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Ninety percent of New Zealman Hill by the receiv alert
or are with someone who does receive it.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Harvard's student body says international students are being used as
poker chips. With tension rising between the university and the
US president, a judge has issued a temporary restraining order
blocking Donald Trump's plan to bar foreign students from America's
oldest university. Harvard constitutional law professor Lawrence Tribe told CNN

(02:05):
president Trump's claim he's fighting anti Semitism is bogus. Anti
Semitism is real.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
It's pervasive, but Harvard is doing its part in fighting it.
The President is just using his alli semitism trope as
a thing leaf for doing what he wants.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
That's news in sports. A hint of surprise but no
complacency from the Tactics ahead of this afternoons game against
the winless Magic in Netball's A and Z Premiership Tactics
and Silver Ferns defender Karen Berger says it's surprising to
see the Magic struggling.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
There was a lot of talk about them prior to
the season starting because they've got great talent. They've been
a team that's played really well in the past as well.
I know they'll be disappointed with their performance, but I
think that's why they'll come out really hard in this game.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Captain Ardi Savvis are showing a rallying crime to the
more on a Pacific squad after their eighty five seven
Super Rugby humbling at the hands of the Chiefs. Mowanas
still hold the sixth and final playoffs birth, but we'll
need to pick themselves up for a trip to the
Hurricanes next week. No a league grand final for Auckland
FC and coach Steve Corricker is making it know and

(03:14):
the officiating is the reason why Melbourne Victory's two nil
second league win has clinched a two to one triumph
on Aggregate that Sport. I'm Sandy Hodge. For more news,
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