Morning Edition: 26 October 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
On the news talks had been newsroom, this is NEWSFACS.
In this update, Fire and Emergency is on high alert
with more severe weather on the way. Met Service is
forecasting a significant weather system arriving from the west on
Labor Day, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. It comes
after Fire Cruise say they received more than three and

(00:24):
a half thousand weather related calls over the last few
days following this week's major storm. Assistant National Commander Ken
Cooper says they're preparing for another round.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
It could from bringing to the west coast and obviously
some of those commissions in the eastern parts of the
North and perfoland silkness. Everyone just remains the northern fires.
We should get through it.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
The Prime Minister heads to Asia today for crucial meetings
on trade and the economy. Chris Luckson's first traveling to
Malaysia for the East Asia Summit and to Marca milestone
of fifty years of diplomatic tides with the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations. Senior political reporter Azaria Hawe reports.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
The Prime Minister will then travel to South Korea to
attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meeting and is
expected to speak with a number of world leaders. Both
forums represent more than seventy percent of New Zealand's international
trade at about sixty percent of the world's economy.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
And calls for pharmac to expand access to potentially life
saving breast cancer medication. The drug Kiskali is only funded
for advanced breast cancer, but a global study has found
major benefits for those in earlier stages. It's thought around
nine hundred New Zealand women living with the disease could
benefit from access to the treatment. The breast Cancer Foundations

(01:45):
at medi shabaspors Is the study adds vital new evidence
to their understanding of the drug.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
When you combine this with worman therapy, that and the
treatment this medicine law as a chance of the cancer
coming back, giving more TVs a better chance of remaining
cancer free for longer.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's news to Sport and State of Origin is set
to be played outside of Australia for the first time
in twenty twenty seven, with reports Game two will be
hosted at Auckland's Eden Park. The Kangaroos have stormed home
in the first Ashes League Test in twenty two years,
beating England at twenty six six at Wembley. Newly promoted

(02:21):
Sunderland have moved into second on the English Premier League
table after a shock two to one win at Chelsea.
Another EPL newb Leeds has beaten west Ham two to one,
while Newcastle is eased past Fulham with the same two
to one scoreline, and Canterbury's beaten Atago thirty six to
twenty eight to secure the MPC title for the first

(02:41):
time since twenty seventeen.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
That's Sport.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'm Diana Vesich. For more news, listen to News Talk
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