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Speaker 1: Good morning, I never ready Manu, and this is your morning news fix for Thursday, thirteenth of March. In this update, the waiting game continues with Scott Watson and his bid for parole. Watson was sentenced to life with his seventeen year non parole period for the killing of Olivia Hope and Ben Smart in nineteen ninety eight. Their bodies have never been found, and Watson continues to deny the murders. Emily Ansel has more.

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Speaker 2: Four psychologists spoke at his sixth parole bought appearance yesterday to say Watson is unfit for release due to his violent and vengeful nature, one citing a feces throwing incident. Two other experts say his release could be safely managed, one adding his behavior maybe a prison survival mentality. A decision is expected before April.

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Speaker 1: Also waiting is Labour MP Panair Henareh, who's apologized for part of his behavior in Parliament but is standing by other parts of it. He's appeared in front of Parliament's Privileges Committee for performing a hukker in the House in opposition to David Seymour's Treaty Principals Bill. Henna is as he's sorry for leaving his seat as it was a clear breach of the rules, but he won't apologize for the huker itself and would do it again. A ruling from the committee is forthcoming. The Minister in charge of today's infrastructure investment summit is confident New Zealand has the goods to attract billions of dollars worth of offshore capital. Representatives of companies from all over the world will be in Auckland today hoping to find a new home for their investment. Capital and Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop is confident they'll find New Zealand a great place to invest.

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Speaker 2: You think about everything that's going on in the world, if only the olds looking pretty good.

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Speaker 3: We're stable, we've got the rule of war, we've got proper rights, we've got enormous natural resources, and we've got a government that wants to go for growth.

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Speaker 1: In Winston, Peters is being urged to stand up for New Zealand's values as he heads to the United States. The Foreign Minister will be traveling to New York and Washington, d C. To meet with set Cretary of State Marco Rubio and senior UN representatives Otaga University Professor of International Relations Robert Padman says he expects peters to consolidate on points that we agree with and speak of about those we don't. White House officials are heading to Moscow to lay out a Ukraine banked proposal for a thirty day cease fire. Mico Rubio expects the issue of European sanctions and frozen assets to come up. Public trust and confidence in New Zealand police are recovering. The latest crime in victim survey shows it's risen to sixty nine percent. That's a two percent rise in the year to October twenty twenty four. More than eighty percent of kiwi's believe officers conduct themselves professionally. Former police negotiator Lance Burdette told Andrew Dickens it's good news and follows changes to the organization's leadership.

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Speaker 3: Commissioner Richard Chambers. He has a front line officer who has lots of experience and operations and he's pulling that to the four right. So has made some changes the top that's going to fly on down to the police themselves.

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Speaker 1: And in Sport Paramatta five Eighthsan Brown has admitted the offer of a fourteen million dollar deal over ten years was hard to ignore in his decision to sign with Newcastle in League's Nrral from next season. Costa Barbarussis claims the despair of missing out of the All Whites twenty ten World Cup campaign as the driver behind his bid to appear at the twenty twenty six edition. Golfer Rory McElroy expects Tiger Woods to miss the entire season after suffering a ruptured left achilles tendon while preparing to play next month's Masters. I'm never retty Manu. That your latest news fix and we'll be back with the next update of midday from the Newstalk ZB newsroom.