Midday Edition: 17 June 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 17 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 THESS is your midday
news FIGX for Tuesday, the seventeenth of June. The US
President has told reporters at Canada's G seven summit Iran
is not doing well. After four days of escalating conflict
with Israel, Donald Trump this year gave Iran a sixty
day ultimatum telling it to strike a nuclear deal or

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face consequences. On day sixty one, which was Friday, Israel
launched unprecedented strikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear program and
military leaders. Trump told CNN they don't have a deal.
He's painful for both parties, but I'd say Iran is
not winning this war and they should talk, and they
should talk immediately before it's still lead. Only about five

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hundred families remain in emergency housing after one year of
the government's Priority one policy. It bumps families with dependent
children who have spent more than twelve weeks in emergency
house up the waiting list. Almost one thousand families with
more than two thousand children have been moved from emergency
motel rooms into homes. Housing Minister Chris Bishop says they're

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well on the way to solving the problem. You remember
three years ago into labour at one point we had
over four thousand families living permanently basically in these motels. Meanwhile,
uproar from some heritage advocates over the government helping speed
demolition of a heritage listed derelict Wellington building. Chris Bishop
has announced a fast tracked move to delist the massive

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Gordon Wilson Flats on the Terrace. The building is owned
by Victoria University, which plans to put in student accommodation.
City councilor i own A. Panett says the building should
have been restored but has fallen victim to institutional failure,
so politicians should not be maintained heshig decisions. They are
usually not qualified appropriately to know what is of value

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and what is not. Stress over the cost of living
may be shaping well being in our workforce. More than
half of respondents to a Talus Health survey cite financial
stress as their top concern. Forty percent felt overwhelmed at work,
and two in five workers have no emergency savings. General
manager Julie Cressey says financial pressure is huge coupled with

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the stress for many of potential redundancies changes in organizations,
so we've seen a lot of organizations go through change.
Surveys in the past six months show New Zealanders have
almost no trust that China will do the right thing
in world affairs, many seeing the country as a threat,
and only about fourteen percent of people expressing trust. A

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christ Judge mother has spoken of her four year old
son's near death experience caught in a curtain blind cord.
Reagan's told our newsroom her five year old called her
into their play room last week where their brother was
trapped Harold. Senior reporter ann elisek says the mums described
the ordeal hoping to warn others. She goes up and
finds the four year old hanging from the blind cord.

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He's limp, he's blue and he's not breathing. They call
one on one and the boys rush to hospital where
he does wake up. The four year old has made
a full recovery. To Sport White Ferns One Day International
cricket captain Sophie Devine will retire from the fifty over
format at the conclusion of the year's World Cup. She's
been offered a casual contract by the governing body for

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the upcoming season. The men's Blacksticks have continued their nation's
Carper Hockey tournament form with a four to three victory
over Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, guaranteeing a spot in the
semifinals and tickets to the sold out Crusaders Chiefs Super
Rugby Final in christ Church are already appearing on auction
sites at scalpt prices. H'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest

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news fix. We'll be back with the next update at
five pm from the Newstalk ZB newsroom.