Morning Edition: 13 June 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 13 June 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 never ready Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Friday, thirteenth of June. In this update,
at least two hundred and ninety a dead after a
plane crash in western India, with at least one passenger
identified alive. The Air India Boeing seven eight seven Dreamliner
had just taken off from a hunderbud heading for London's

(00:26):
Gatwick Airport. It crashed into a doctor's hostel. More than
two hundred and forty passengers were on board, including Indian, British,
Canadian and Portuguese nationals. CNN's Aarunnima says the one reported
survivor flung himself from the plane through the emergency door.
The aircraft was still gaining height, therefore he survived. He

(00:46):
has some impact injuries. He's being given medical attention. Air
India's chief executive and managing director, New Zealander Campbell Wilson,
is overseeing the response. This is a difficult day for
all of us, and efforts now are focused in Hi
on the needs of our passengers, crew members, their families
and loved ones. Some properties at christ Church as Littleton

(01:06):
remain evacuated following a late night landslide. Fire and Emergency
Southern Shift manager Alex Norris says emergency crews were called
to the portside town around nine pm. Fire and emergency
crews called in urban search and rescue and police so
they could go door to door checking homes and evacuating residents.
The man who killed christ Church real estate agent Jan

(01:29):
Fei Bao is being sentenced today. Ding Jhun Chao was
found guilty of murdering the forty four year old who
went missing after the pair viewed a house in Hornby
in July twenty twenty three. Her body was discovered with
stab wounds over a year later, buried on farmland outside
the city, and a coroner is preparing to hand down
findings in relation to the death of Gore Toddler Lockey

(01:52):
Jones in an oxidation pond in twenty nineteen. Two Police
investigations found the three year old accidentally drowned, but as
far father has always believed, he was murdered. An inquest
into the death was held in Vicargo last year. Meanwhile,
a High Court judge says twenty seven year old, on
the balance of probabilities killed a fifty four year old

(02:12):
esteemed entomologist Stephen Thought was fatally stabbed near the Blockhouse
Bayed Tennis Club in August. At the High Court in
Auckland yesterday, just as Graham Lang said, the defendant, who
has named Suppression, can't be found guilty because of his
mental illness. He's returned to the Mason Clinic, a lockdown
psychiatric facility, where he's been since his arrest. Advocates say

(02:34):
projections for the correction system should be a wake up
call for policymakers. The Ministry of Justice expects the prison
population will increase thirty six percent by twenty thirty five
to more than fourteen thousand people. It's prompted concerns for
the country's ability to cope with demand. Amnesty International Campaign's
director Lisa Woods worries about more people being funneled into

(02:56):
the system.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
What we need to see if we're really going to
make a difference, it's a serious investment in the causes
of offending and until we get that right, we're going
to be stuck in the cycle that makes us all
worse off.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
In Sport, Australia at one hundred and forty four for
eight and their second innings a lead of two hundred
and eighteen at stumps on the second day of the
World Test Championship Cricket final against South Africa at Lord's JJ.
Spahn is the early clubhouse leader at Golf's US Open
on the formidable Oakmont course after conting a four under
past sixty six. Cornulla have resurrected the NRL League season

(03:31):
with a thirty eighteen win to open Round fifteen against
in Georgia. Lawara, I'm never ready, Manu, and that your
latest newsweeks. We'll be back with the next update at
midday from the news Talk ZB newsroom