Afternoon Edition: 14 June 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 14 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):
From the News Talk's edby Newsroom. This is newsfecs in
this update. Iran has retaliated against Israel with a new
wave of missiles, Conflicts escalating between the two countries after
Israel bombed nuclear and military sites in Iran. Israeli police
report a woman died when a weapon fragment fell to
the ground in the city of Ramat Gan. She's the

(00:24):
first reported fatality of Iran's retaliatory strikes. Missiles lit up
the night sky and Tel Aviv, with some intercepted reports
suggests there's a real sent in Israel that this is
an extremely significant escalation. Families are left grieving in the
aftermath of yesterday's Air India tragedy in Ahmedabad. The aircraft
crashed into a doctor's hostel less than a minute after

(00:46):
take off, heading for London's Gatwick Airport. The lone survivor
of the two hundred and forty two passengers, vishwash Kumar Ramesh,
flung himself from the emergency exit and says he cannot
believe he came out alive. One woman, Lilah Ben, lost
her grandson and the crash, and her daughter in laws
in hospital with serious injuries. Her words translated by Sky News,

(01:07):
I can't even see my child's face now. They said
he's so severely burned, but I just want to. Kiwi
Bank is suggesting more OCR cuts are needed to revive
our economy. Its latest economic outlook shows science recovery has begun,
but it is softer than previously forecast. The report notes
another twenty five basis point cut would keep up momentum.

(01:28):
Senior economist Mary Joe Vigara says they're forecasting the OCR
at two point five percent by the end of the year.
We'll see mortgage rates retur rots four close to four
and a half percent them where they are now if
we do get to two and a half percent cashrope.
Some South Island ski fields are having a cracker start
the season, and said skis the remarkables in Coronet Peak

(01:49):
and Queenstown have opened with lifts running from top to bottom.
Canterbury's Mount Hut opened yesterday. CEO Paul Anderson says the
good snow's a result of a couple of weeks cold temperatures.
Says a storm brought some natural snow and they've been
busy snowmaking. Cardrona, owned by Reel ends Head also open today.
Treble Cone will open later this month. That's news in sport,

(02:11):
The Chiefs hope their playoffs experience will come to the
four and tonte Super Rugby Pacific semi final with the
Act Brumbies in Hamilton. The Chiefs have made the last
two competition finals, but were beaten both times. Chiefs playmaker
Damien McKenzie says they must lift their game in the
final fifteen minutes when they came undone in the qualifying
final last to the Blues follows rugby's a different basis.

(02:33):
We've been e before, which is great. We've had experience
here and we know what it's like. We're just going
to take a steep up from last week. The NBA
Finals a level at two games apiece after the Oklahoma
City Thunder stormed their way back into win Game four
one eleven to one oh four against the Indiana Pacers.
The road wind came late on as the Thunder posted
a twelve and one run to finish the game. That's sport.

(02:55):
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