December 28, 2025 • 3 mins
The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 29 December 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
No the news talks had been newsroom this is NEWSFACS.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
In this update, taitong Is Community New Year's Eve events
have been canceled due to bad weather. The city council
says weather reports indicate significant rainbands and strong wind gusts tomorrow,
with conditions likely to continue into Wednesday. All five community
events have been canceled, but the council says fireworks displays
(00:28):
may still be able to go ahead, whether permitting. These
will take place at approximately nine thirty and midnight to
welcome the new year. Donald Trump says Russias Vladimir Putin
wants to see Ukraine succeed. The US President and Ukraine's
Lotimer Zelenski have concluded what they call an excellent meeting
in Florida today. They were discussing a twenty point piece
(00:51):
plan for the Russia Ukraine conflict. Zelensky says the plan
is ninety percent agreed and security guarantees were one hundred
percent agreed. The South Island's favorite New Year's festival is
bucking industry trends, with organizers expecting a near sellout. Rhythman
Alps is back in Cardrona Valley for its fifteenth year
(01:11):
drawing about ten thousand people a day. British trio Rudimental
headlines Tomorrow Night and Symphony Rings in the New Year
on Wednesday. General manager Harry Gorrind says ticket sales are up,
but the industry isn't out of the woods yet.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's always been a bit of a lottery for existence
of events concerts. Right now it feels like there's people
putting on really good shows that aren't doing well and
sometimes it's long as if there's no rum or reason
for that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And tramping is proving the activity of choice. This summer,
bookings are up on last year. At the Department of Conservation,
Huts and Dock has added more huts and campsites to
its online booking system to manage crowding and give visitors
more certainty. Visitor Services manager Cameron Highland says post COVID
more people are choosing to get out into nature.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We seeing a lot of growth in particularly the so
we put onto the booking system that it's the Travis
state Line circuit down in Nelson Lakes areat at Greenstone
Cables Track the Rouplan. It's very popular this summer.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That's news. In Sport, The Wellington Blazer two from two
in the women's Super Smash T twenty cricket competition, after
thrashing the Auckland Hearks by forty nine runs that came
thanks to a superb unbeaten century from opener A merely
accur as the Blaze made one hundred and eighty four
for two at the Basin Reserve, but the all round
(02:30):
it hold TVNZ. There were a few nerves sitting in
the nervous nineties.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
For me getting one hundred and T twenty as special,
but at the end of the day, if you're going
to get it, you're going to get it. If you don't,
you don't. So it was at that stage of the
game you're trying to hit boundaries anyway, and whatever happened happened.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Bright in Carses, England's last out and out speeds to
standing after fellow bowler Gus Atkinson was officially ruled out
of the Sydney Ashes finale with a hamstring injury. That's sport.
I'm Nina Burton.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
For more news, listen to News Talk set B Live
on iHeartRadio.
No the news talks had been newsroom this is NEWSFACS.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
In this update, taitong Is Community New Year's Eve events
have been canceled due to bad weather. The city council
says weather reports indicate significant rainbands and strong wind gusts tomorrow,
with conditions likely to continue into Wednesday. All five community
events have been canceled, but the council says fireworks displays
(00:28):
may still be able to go ahead, whether permitting. These
will take place at approximately nine thirty and midnight to
welcome the new year. Donald Trump says Russias Vladimir Putin
wants to see Ukraine succeed. The US President and Ukraine's
Lotimer Zelenski have concluded what they call an excellent meeting
in Florida today. They were discussing a twenty point piece
(00:51):
plan for the Russia Ukraine conflict. Zelensky says the plan
is ninety percent agreed and security guarantees were one hundred
percent agreed. The South Island's favorite New Year's festival is
bucking industry trends, with organizers expecting a near sellout. Rhythman
Alps is back in Cardrona Valley for its fifteenth year
(01:11):
drawing about ten thousand people a day. British trio Rudimental
headlines Tomorrow Night and Symphony Rings in the New Year
on Wednesday. General manager Harry Gorrind says ticket sales are up,
but the industry isn't out of the woods yet.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's always been a bit of a lottery for existence
of events concerts. Right now it feels like there's people
putting on really good shows that aren't doing well and
sometimes it's long as if there's no rum or reason
for that.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And tramping is proving the activity of choice. This summer,
bookings are up on last year. At the Department of Conservation,
Huts and Dock has added more huts and campsites to
its online booking system to manage crowding and give visitors
more certainty. Visitor Services manager Cameron Highland says post COVID
more people are choosing to get out into nature.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
We seeing a lot of growth in particularly the so
we put onto the booking system that it's the Travis
state Line circuit down in Nelson Lakes areat at Greenstone
Cables Track the Rouplan. It's very popular this summer.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That's news. In Sport, The Wellington Blazer two from two
in the women's Super Smash T twenty cricket competition, after
thrashing the Auckland Hearks by forty nine runs that came
thanks to a superb unbeaten century from opener A merely
accur as the Blaze made one hundred and eighty four
for two at the Basin Reserve, but the all round
(02:30):
it hold TVNZ. There were a few nerves sitting in
the nervous nineties.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
For me getting one hundred and T twenty as special,
but at the end of the day, if you're going
to get it, you're going to get it. If you don't,
you don't. So it was at that stage of the
game you're trying to hit boundaries anyway, and whatever happened happened.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Bright in Carses, England's last out and out speeds to
standing after fellow bowler Gus Atkinson was officially ruled out
of the Sydney Ashes finale with a hamstring injury. That's sport.
I'm Nina Burton.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
For more news, listen to News Talk set B Live
on iHeartRadio.
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