Midday Edition: 11 November 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 11 November 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 Tuesday. The eleventh of November. Armistice Day
has been marked around the country one hundred and seven
years since the end of World War One. Why Urdu
National Army Museums. Nicola Bennett says their somber service includes
a speech from Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Williams and dwyout from

(00:24):
school children.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
At the Greenstone Memorial. We will honor the brave souls
who gave everything for our future.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Tobs Macintosh is at the National Commemorative Service in Wellington.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Rayne is gently falling here in the capital, was diplomats,
military officials and descendants of those who serve together At
Pukiahu National War Memorial Park, Governor General Dame Cindy Kittle
is acknowledging the trauma and loss of thousands of Kiwis
enlisted as resolate in their memory, as a reflective atmosphere
here as the sound of music and stories Phil's Anzek Square.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
And whether conditions continue to remain favorable for fire crews
battling the huge blaze in Tongariro National Park. There are
now currently no signs of live fire, but Incident Controller
Nigel Dravitsky says the fire will take a few more
days to fully extinguish.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Please to say.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Another overcast to stay here today, so that again is
supporting our activities. The US government is closer to reopening
as it shut down surpasses forty days. Republicans and Democrats
in the Senate have voted for a deal to fund
services until January thirty. It still has to go through
votes in the Senate and the House of Representatives and

(01:30):
needs presidential sign off. It had support from eight moderate Democrats.
Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto says she supported it because
things are desperate.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
We were seeing lines to our food banks in northern Nevada.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
These were lines that I hadn't seen since the pandemic.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
A livestock trader has been fined at ten thousand dollars
for not declaring the movement of five hundred and thirteen
cattle from Canterbury to different North Island farms. Dallas Gary
Gerkin has been sentenced in the Ashburton District Court yesterday.
Under the National Animal Identification and Tracing Act, all cattle
or deer must be fitted with a Nate tag and

(02:09):
registered MPI says it only takes one animal to potentially
cause a biosecurity problem. Labour says Tapati Marii will need
to sort itself out if it wants to be part
of a Labour led government. Following the expulsion of MPs Mariameno,
Kapakingi and Tucker to Feris, Labour leader Chris Hopkins says

(02:29):
there will need to be changes to avoid jeopardizing any
potential coalition deal.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
A future Labour government will be focused on inclusive governance,
on bringing New Zealand together, on uniting people. The divisive
sort of rhetoric that we've heard from Tabati Mahdi in
recent times has no place in that.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
The cost of climate action has dominated the agenda. On
the first day of the COP thirty Climate Conference in Brazil,
a UT senior architecture lecturer Priscilla Bezen is at the conference.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
We hear the class of and adaptation, but also thinking
about long term what is the cost of all the
environmental disasters to sport.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry is poised to act
on a key platform to her election by introducing a
blanket ban on transgender women from female categories across all sports.
Ferrari chair John Alkahn insists his drivers should talk less
and perform more in Formula One after Lewis Hamilton and

(03:29):
Charles Leclair failed to finish the Brazilian GP, and England
faced the prospect of playing Sunday morning's Test against the
All Blacks at Twickenham without wing Tommy Freeman and locke
Ollie Chessham. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm
from the news Talk ZB newsroom.