Midday Edition: 13 June 2025

The Midday 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 afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Friday, the thirteenth of June. A Boeing
seven eight to seven Dreamliner jet identical to the one
that's crashed in India, made four emergency landings in less
than a month. Earlier this year, an Air India plane
heading for London crashed into a doctor's hostel in a
Metabad overnight right after takeoff. Officials have confirmed the preliminary

(00:28):
death toll is at least two hundred and ninety. The
Telegraph reports issues involving an identical American Airlines plane this
year were linked to its wing flaps. CNN's Richard quest
says footage of the Air India plane shows no indication
of these flaps retracting as they should. There is this
definite moment where the power issue becomes quite prevalent and obvious. Meanwhile,

(00:53):
the boss of Air India, New Zealander, Campbell Wilson, says
this is a difficult day for his company, but the
focus is on the family and friends of those on board.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Investigations will take time, but anything we can do now
we are doing.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Six years after the body of three year old Lockey
Jones was discovered in a gore oxidation pond. A coroner
is set to make the call on whether the death
was a tragic accident or something more sinister. Police have
twice concluded the toddler drowned in the pond near his
home in twenty nineteen, but his father believes he was murdered.

(01:27):
Herald reporter Ben Tomsett told Herald Now coroner Alexander Hoe
will deliver his findings in Invercago today. The Corrections Minister
is defending tougher crime laws with projections showing it'll spike
our prison population. The Ministry of Justice projects the prison
population will increase thirty six percent by twenty thirty five

(01:49):
to more than fourteen thousand people. New policy such as
the Sentencing Reform Act and the reinstatement of the three
strikes law are pushing the projected growth. Mark Mitchell told
Ryan Bridge prisons are the safest place for violent offenders. Meanwhile,
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has announced a Judicial conduct Panel

(02:10):
will inquire into the alleged behavior of an acting District
Court judge. It relates to an incident at Auckland's Northern
Club last year in which Judge Emma Aitken allegedly disrupted
a New Zealand first event. He is senior political reporter
Sophie Trigger.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
The alleged incidents lent to the Judicial Conduct Commissioner recommending
that a formal panel investigate what happened, a recommendation Paul
Goldsmith's accepted. Following the inquiry, he says, the panel will
provide a report which will include its opinion on whether
Judge Aitken's removal should be considered. Panel members will be
appointed after consulting the Chief Justice.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Ski Fields and Queenstown have got their cheerlifts turning ahead
of opening day tomorrow. In z SKI Chief Executive Paul
Anderson says the Remarkables and Coronet Peak have had eight
solid days of snowmaking mixed in with natural snowfall. Meanwhile,
Mount Hart attempted to open this morning, but rainfall caused
the snowpack to become unstable, pushing launch day back to tomorrow.

(03:11):
To sport, golfer Ryan Fox has shot a too over
pass seventy two in the opening round of the US
Open on the Oakmont course to sit six strokes off
the lead. Canadian swimmer Summer Macintosh has set three world
records in less than a week. She's now broken the
marks for the two hundred and four hundred medleys and
four hundred freestyle at their national trials. And Tottenham have

(03:35):
reached an agreement with Brentford to make Thomas frank their
next football manager after days of negotiations in the wake
of ange Posta coglo sacking. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update
at five pm from the newstalk ZB newsroom.