Midday Edition: 29 September 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 29 September 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 Monday, the twenty ninth of September. ACT
leader David Seymour says the war in Gaza is just
one of many awful geopolitical situations. Cabinets opted not to
recognize a Palestinian state, saying it doesn't reach the traditional benchmark.
Seymour says the government's not following the mob and used

(00:25):
reason not emotion to reach this decision. He says less
high profile conflicts gets scant attention.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
What I would say is that we have a level
of concentration of concern and a phenomena that has grown
up around this conflict that you don't see.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
For South Sudan, a man's death on Ormond Road and
Gisbon's Riverdale this morning is being treated as a homicide
and police are hunting a person seen fleeing near Lytton
Road and the Reparatus Street just after four am. A
critically injured thirty six year old man found on the
lawn later died in hospital. Meanwhile, a thirty five year

(01:02):
old woman's appearing in court today charged with murder and
wounding with intent after a death in Bay of Plenty's
Matatah Emergency services were called on Saturday to reports that
two people have been injured by a third person in
a vehicle that then crashed. One victim died, with the
other in a stable condition. The governments expected to announce

(01:23):
a raft of changes to earthquake building standards today, building
assessments are currently based on the New Building Standard, which
compares risk to a newly built structure. Any rating below
thirty four percent is deemed earthquake prone, often requiring extensive remediation.
Prime Minister Chris Luxen says more nuanced rules are needed.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
It has been well intentioned, but legislation that really has
been one size fits all across the country and we've
just got to get much better at looking at earthquake
risk and in getting appropriate cost alongside that.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Nelson Police Officer Lynn Flemings being recognized this Police Remembrance Day.
Commissioner Richard Chambers and Minister Mark Mitchill are attending a
private service at flemings home station in Nelson. Deputy Commissioner
Jill Rodgers, associated Minister Casey Costello and hundreds more are
at a larger service at the Police College in Potida.
To be as Macintosh is.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
There is a reflective and melancholic atmosphere this morning as
the police role of Honor receives another name. The names
of the thirty four police killed in the line of
duty are being read out. Fleming's name is being added
to the role after she was killed on the job
on New Year's Day, the first name added since twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
The carreraa New Zealand falcon, has been named this year's
Bird of the Year. The Carrerea is a high speed
hunter capable of reaching two hundred kilometers per hour. However,
it's at risk due to habitat loss and predation. Its
call was recorded by Massi University's mona Wa two campus
back in twenty seventeen. More than seventy five thousand people

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voted in this year's Bird of the Year, a record
engagement for the competition, now in its twentieth year. To sport,
Team Europe have won Golf's Ryder Cup fifteen thirteen over
Team USA at New York's beth Page Black Course. Shane
Lowry sank the winning six foot putt on the eighteenth
to tie with Russell Henley, leaving three dead rubber matches

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to play. Lulu Sung has triumphed on the WTA Tennis
Tour in China and is poised to rise around twenty
places in the world rankings. She's currently at number one
hundred and forty six. And Arsenal have scored two late
goals to beat Newcastle two to one in football's Premier League.
H I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll

(03:39):
be back with the next update at five pm from
the news Talk ZB newsroom.