Midday Edition: 20 July 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 20 July 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 newstalks had been newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is NEWSFACS in this update. The death of a
young man in Hamilton overnight is being treated as a homicide.
Police attended an alter cat reportedly involving two groups on
Alexander Street just after midnight. Four people were injured at
the scene, but one of them, a twenty year old man,
died in hospital a short time later. The other injuries

(00:27):
ranged from moderate to serious. A manhunt is now under
way to locate those involved, including the offender. Alexandra Street
is currently cordoned off between Collingwood and Hood Streets, and
the road is expected to remain closed through the day.
New roads, hospitals and schools are amongst six billion dollars
worth of government funded construction due to start between now

(00:50):
and Christmas. There's eight hundred million dollars of school property
projects and three point nine billion dollars worth of roading projects.
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop says that includes the Maling Interchange
and the Autachy to North of Livin Expressway.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
We will turn the first side on that in the
next couple of months. That is a massive program of work,
multi billion dollar program of work that will support thousands
of jobs and make that road a lot safer.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Suggestions in the hills and seas of Australia countries including
New Zealand and training to fight China. Operation Talisman Saber
is underway in Australia, involving thirty five thousand personnel from
nineteen countries, including seven hundred from New Zealand. It features
combat operations across land, air, sea, space and cyber domains.

(01:37):
The Wall Street Journal's Mike Cherney says this operation is
in the backdrop of increased Chinese naval presence.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Some of these countries are sort of coming to the
realization if they hadn't already, that they could very easily
get drawn into a conflict with China if one were
to erupt. So there's been a little bit more of
a focus on some of these exercises in recent years.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
New Zealand on Air is launching a new funding category
to help with the growing cost of music tours. Up
to fifty thousand dollars per artist is up for grabs
in the New Music Project Touring fund, open exclusively to
applicants promoting a New Zealand on Air funded music project.
That's news in sports, New Zealand's Joseph Parker. Looms is

(02:17):
the next opponent for two time undisputed world heavyweight boxing
champion Alexander usik USIX beaten Britt Daniel Dubois with the
brutal fifth round knockout. Speaking post fight, Dubois promoter Frank
Warren confirmed Parker as esix manned Tree challenger.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
His first defense of his title is the WBO belt
and that would be against Joe Joyce, Sorry, Joe Joyce,
Joe Parker. Even yeah, against Joe Parker. So you know
that's that a game could be a great fight.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
All Blacks coach Scott Robertson has shouldered arms to suggestions
his side got lucky from a misforward pass in the
twenty nine to nineteen win over France and Hamilton and
on Lennett Brown crossed before the break to cut the
French lead to two. Questionable pass was not checked by officials.
Robertson has decided to steer clear of weighing in that sports.

(03:07):
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