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Full Show Podcast: 20 April 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for Business Technology that keeps business
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Speaker 1: moving news talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good morning, Welcome to Monday, six after five.
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Speaker 2: The Straight of Horm moves open and closed, and open
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Speaker 2: and closed. We'll speak to a former US ambassador in
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Speaker 2: the Middle East about this. Govin is in the UK
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Speaker 2: for US this morning. We'll do the business and the
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Speaker 2: green solar panel plan. That's not really much of a plan.
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Speaker 2: The agenda Monday, the twentieth of April. Surprise, Surprise, Straight
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Speaker 2: is closed again. This is the Iranians on it.
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Speaker 3: We even stated it to them explicitly. We will close
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Speaker 3: the Strait of Horn moves and we will certainly pursue war.
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Speaker 3: We will utilize all our tools in this way. We
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Speaker 3: were able to impose our will and our demand.
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Speaker 2: Now Trump is going to send Jadie Vance to Pakistan
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Speaker 2: for negotiation. Talking to them.
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Speaker 4: They wanted to close up the Straight again, you know,
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Speaker 4: as they've been doing for years, and they can't blackmail us.
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Speaker 4: In fact, a lot of the ships are coming up
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Speaker 4: to Texas. I don't know if you know, and Louis had
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Speaker 4: ships are coming up. They got used to it. Maybe
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Speaker 4: they'll keep doing it. It's worked out pretty good. But
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Speaker 4: it's going actually along very well.
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Speaker 2: Poor old Pope's being misquoted by the mainstream media and
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Speaker 2: feeling it in the well. It was on a plane
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Speaker 2: and he was asked about the tyrant comment that he
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Speaker 2: made that people assumed was about Trump, and he said, no,
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Speaker 2: it wasn't actually about Trump at all.
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Speaker 5: The talk that I gave at the prayer meeting for
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Speaker 5: peace a couple of days ago was prepared two weeks ago,
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Speaker 5: well before the President ever commented on myself and on
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Speaker 5: the message of peace that I am promoting. And yet
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Speaker 5: as it happens, it was looked at as if I
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Speaker 5: was trying to debeat again the President, which is my
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Speaker 5: interested on.
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Speaker 2: Finally, this morning, police in Austria are wanting people to
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Speaker 2: stay alert because there was some rat poison found in
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Speaker 2: a jar of baby food. Thankfully no baby got their
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Speaker 2: hands on it, but authority say has been ten ampered
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Speaker 2: with and now they're worried that there could be other
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Speaker 2: contaminated jars out there.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for Business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving, news talks that'd.
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Speaker 2: Be truly sick people out there isn't there. It's like
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Speaker 2: the ambulances last week, that story out of Auckland where
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Speaker 2: the ambulances have their tires slashed. Well, come on, I mean,
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Speaker 2: an ambulance is the thing that comes and saves you
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Speaker 2: when you are having you know, health difficulties. Do you
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Speaker 2: really want the tires to be slashed? Anyway, let's go
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Speaker 2: to the Free Trade Agreement. So at five o'clock this
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Speaker 2: morning there was a wimbargoed release from Todd McClay saying
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Speaker 2: what should have been apparent to everybody who has been
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Speaker 2: complaining about you know, people have basically been saying the
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Speaker 2: government's going to sign this in the FDA, no one's
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Speaker 2: seen it, and then it has to go through parliament.
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Speaker 2: You can't the government can't just sign a free trade
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Speaker 2: deal and you know without parliamentary support and then just
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Speaker 2: ram it through. You need to get the support of parliament.
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Speaker 2: So the legal verification of the trade deal has been completed.
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Speaker 2: Both countries now sign it on the twenty seventh of April.
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Speaker 2: They'll do that in New Delhi and then you kack
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Speaker 2: off your parliamentary process. So the FTA text and the
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Speaker 2: National Interest analysis that comes along with it, so all
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Speaker 2: of the detail will be tabled in Parliament the day after,
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Speaker 2: so the twenty eighth of April we'll get all the
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Speaker 2: details we've ever wanted about this. It then goes to
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Speaker 2: the Foreign Affairs Committee. After that happens, then you bring
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Speaker 2: in the legislation that goes through the normal legislative process,
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Speaker 2: so it has to go through first, second, third reading,
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Speaker 2: which means select committee, which means scrutiny, which means democracy
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Speaker 2: is alive and well, so panic over. They'll all agree,
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Speaker 2: well not all of them, but Labour will agree to
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Speaker 2: do it eventually. Anyway. Now tomorrow we're getting our quarter
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Speaker 2: one inflation number and we will expect it to soften.
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Speaker 2: The RBNZ was picking two point eight percent back in February,
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Speaker 2: and that was of course pre war. So their most
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Speaker 2: recent update in April they said three percent for March
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Speaker 2: and they reckon four point two percent for June. What's
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Speaker 2: interesting is that on Friday we got the Selected Price Index.
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Speaker 2: This is the monthly number that they released and it
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Speaker 2: includes half of the goods that are in the basket
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Speaker 2: in which they used to measure inflation. Now, petrol was
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Speaker 2: up nineteen percent for the month, diesel up forty three
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Speaker 2: percent for the month, and that means that for at
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Speaker 2: least part of that quarter, prices were going north. Now
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Speaker 2: most of the banks are picking two point nine percent June.
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Speaker 2: We will have to wait for the full impact of
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Speaker 2: the war. But if you look at the numbers, so
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Speaker 2: February twenty eighth is when the wall started, and the
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Speaker 2: effects really didn't start pushing up our prices here for
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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, so mid March, which means only
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Speaker 2: one sixth of March quarter will be impacted by the
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Speaker 2: price of oil, which is why it won't go through
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Speaker 2: the roof and will probably actually come down slightly on
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Speaker 2: where it is where it was in quarter four of
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Cry and Bridge eleven minutes alfter five
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Speaker 2: year on News Talks. So Chloe Sawbrook and Madam and
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Speaker 2: Davidson did a big speech yesterday. I'm sure you were
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Speaker 2: across it. Very light on detail, but solar panels for
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Speaker 2: all will talk about that next.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business Technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps business moving News talks'b five.
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Speaker 2: Point thirteen On News Talks, there'd be lots of you
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Speaker 2: texting in about the poll last night on TV one,
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Speaker 2: and I will come to that at about five twenty
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Speaker 2: five this morning. It's interesting watching the US Ambassador to
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Speaker 2: the UN. This is Mike Waltz. He's come out and said,
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Speaker 2: you know how Trump is now again threatening to blow
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Speaker 2: up power plants and blow up bridges in Iran. Well,
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Speaker 2: he's come out with a justification. He says, the bridges
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Speaker 2: and the power plants that we're talking about are run
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Speaker 2: by the Revolutionary Guard, which runs the entire military. Therefore,
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Speaker 2: they are absolutely legitimate military targets. He says, not only now,
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Speaker 2: but they've always been that way, and it is a false, fake,
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Speaker 2: ridiculous notion that this is type of war crime. So
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Speaker 2: it's basically saying, because the Revolutionarygard is essentially in charge
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Speaker 2: of the whole country, including civilian infrastructure, it is a
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Speaker 2: legitimate target bridge. But let's do business. Vicki Price with
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Speaker 2: US business correspondent Vicky, Good morning, Good morning, Good to
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Speaker 2: have you on the program. Now, big debate. I want
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Speaker 2: to start with the debate about the North Sea oil
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Speaker 2: expiration because the US and Trump have been putting some
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Speaker 2: pressure on here. What's the latest on there, Well.
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Speaker 6: What's going on in the UK is of course, we've
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Speaker 6: got a division in politics. We have quite a lot of
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Speaker 6: political parties, including now the Greens, which seemed to be
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Speaker 6: in the a sentence here in the UK, arguing that
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Speaker 6: we should of course push if anything cardif net zero
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Speaker 6: and certainly not go down the route of allowing more
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Speaker 6: licenses new licenses for drilling. Also, the Labor Party, which
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Speaker 6: is a ruling party right now, has also expressed concerns
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Speaker 6: about moving in that direction. They have more or less
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Speaker 6: stuck with the gun, saying that it's only the fields
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Speaker 6: that are already operating that can be developed further rather
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Speaker 6: than granting new licenses. But that's up in the air
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Speaker 6: right now. But you've got loads of other parties here,
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Speaker 6: particularly the Conservatives of course and Reform, arguing that we
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Speaker 6: should be using nauseoil a lot more because obviously, given
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Speaker 6: everything else happening, getting a bit more security is a
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Speaker 6: good thing, you know. Of course, everybody is arguing that
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Speaker 6: gas markets and oil markets, as we've seen recently, a
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Speaker 6: very international markets. Everything is priced in global markets rather
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Speaker 6: than necessarily things being delivered to the UK at lower prices.
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Speaker 6: So we've stuck anyway. But there is an argument that
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Speaker 6: you get a lot more revenue tax revenue that way,
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Speaker 6: and a lot of the money that comes out of
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Speaker 6: selling more oil and gas stays in the UK as
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Speaker 6: a result, I mean always doing it right now. It's
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Speaker 6: exploring more fields and granted more licenses, and we do
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Speaker 6: import in the UK strangely an awful lot of gas
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Speaker 6: from Norway right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And the stocks are doing well as a result
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Speaker 2: of it right now. The oil, yes, especially.
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Speaker 6: Indeed, if you're in the oil market, you're doing all
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Speaker 6: right for the moment.
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Speaker 2: Now oil prices. I was sitting in around ninety dollars
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Speaker 2: brink crowd, at least ninety dollars last time I checked.
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Speaker 2: But I mean up and down with what's going on
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Speaker 2: in the Middle East.
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Speaker 6: Well, yes, I mean what's happening is of course, even
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Speaker 6: now the news here in the UK is that, yes,
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Speaker 6: there's going to be a meeting in Pakistan, but we
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Speaker 6: don't actually know whether Iran is going to be there
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Speaker 6: at all. So basically negotiating further to have some more
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Speaker 6: permanent arrangement in terms of a cease fire lasting for
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Speaker 6: longer on present assumptions is going to last only for
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Speaker 6: a few more days, and everything could of course, unsettled
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Speaker 6: the markets again, but right this minute the market seemed
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Speaker 6: to think that some resolution will be found, so though
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Speaker 6: it prices went up again in the in the last
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Speaker 6: day because Iran moved into closer straight off her moves
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Speaker 6: completely even though it had opened it supposedly just a
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Speaker 6: day earlier. What we're seeing is that the market still
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Speaker 6: thinks that some solution will be found, and there are
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Speaker 6: also indications that different routes are developing in terms of
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Speaker 6: how or it comes out of the Gulf, possibly which
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Speaker 6: might of course become more permanent for the future and
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Speaker 6: therefore eat some of the tensions if they ever reappear again,
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Speaker 6: assuming of course, there's a resolution to the conflict in
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Speaker 6: the next few weeks. So the market seem to think that, yes,
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Speaker 6: ups and downs, but overall we're not at the heights
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Speaker 6: that we saw after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia
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Speaker 6: and also in previous Old crisis. So so far I presume,
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Speaker 6: so good. But we do also know, of course that
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Speaker 6: International Monetary Fund is saying that if rates, if oil
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Speaker 6: prices day where there are interest rates may have to
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Speaker 6: be higher, inflation will be higher, and the world economy
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Speaker 6: is going to grow a lot more slowly and that's
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Speaker 6: the real problem.
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Speaker 2: Vicky. Appreciate your update this morning. Vicki Price our business correspondent.
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Speaker 2: Either way, Vicky will be with us on Monday morning.
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Speaker 2: She's chief Economic Advisor at the UK Center for Economics
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Speaker 2: and Business Research, used to advise the UK government as well,
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Speaker 2: so very useful to have on your Monday morning to
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Speaker 2: set up your week. Eighteen after five. Will do solar
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Speaker 2: panels next.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and Spark for business technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: Newstalgs'd be North Korea is added again. They're firing more
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Speaker 2: of these ballistic missiles into the eastern waters of the country.
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Speaker 2: Are four launches this month alone and last week. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if you caught this, but the Atomic Energy
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Speaker 2: Agency they came out and said that this is the
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Speaker 2: watchdog for nuclear weapons in the world, came out and
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Speaker 2: said North Korea had a quote very serious progress being
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Speaker 2: made towards building nuclear weapons. So that's great news for
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Speaker 2: your Monday morning, Ryan Bridge. The Greens want the government
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Speaker 2: to hand out cheap loans for solar panels in everyone's house.
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Speaker 2: They want a national electrification plan, no detail or costings
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Speaker 2: at this point, Sam, such a green building council with
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Speaker 2: me this morning. Morning Sam.
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Speaker 7: Very nice to be on your show, Ryan and.
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Speaker 2: Great, thank you and good to have you here too, Sam.
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Speaker 2: What I thought banks already do loans now they do
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Speaker 2: one percent loans remains in so you can do stuff
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Speaker 2: like this, don't.
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Speaker 7: They They do, yes, and some people are making use
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Speaker 7: of that. I made use of that to some of
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Speaker 7: the year where I've had done in my house. But
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Speaker 7: you know, part of the issue with that is that
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Speaker 7: you can only have it on if you've got a mortgage.
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Speaker 7: So you know, there's a large life percentage of homeowners
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Speaker 7: you know, own their home outright. They can't get the
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Speaker 7: hold of that loan. And then of course you know
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Speaker 7: we have things like rentals and things like that where
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Speaker 7: there's much much less intentive for the landlords to put
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Speaker 7: the solar panels on their on their homes.
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Speaker 2: If you have a house that you own out right,
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Speaker 2: surely you can you can probably afford to go ahead
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Speaker 2: and do a solar panel.
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Speaker 7: You know what, there are plenty of home poorer homeowners here.
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Speaker 7: They own there's their asset rich, but they cash poor.
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Speaker 7: You know, that's quite a common case.
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Speaker 2: This idea of mass electrification. Does our grid even have
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Speaker 2: the capacity to handle something like that?
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Speaker 8: Well, do you know what?
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Speaker 7: It's a It's an interesting one because now you're getting
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Speaker 7: into the cruts of the issue for News and Green
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Speaker 7: Building Council, which is that everyone focuses on the solar
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Speaker 7: side of things. But we've been pushing very strongly for
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Speaker 7: getting homes off gas, so replacing things like gas hot
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Speaker 7: water with heat pump hot water or electric cylinders. We
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Speaker 7: did a report last year week showed that if we
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Speaker 7: did that, you know, if we moved to something like
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Speaker 7: heat pumps, which are way way more efficient, and actually
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Speaker 7: converted some of the existing electric cylinders that we've got,
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Speaker 7: we've usually reduced the demand on the grid. So you know,
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Speaker 7: it doesn't necessarily mean just because we're electrifying things that
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Speaker 7: we're going to be increasing demand.
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Speaker 2: The heat pump situation, how many houses in New Zealand
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Speaker 2: right now aren't on heat pumps.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the heat pump space heating there's a huge uptake now,
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Speaker 7: so I think I think the last time I looked
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Speaker 7: at the figures that were sixty or seventy percent something
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Speaker 7: like that. With space heating. The newest technology is The
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Speaker 7: thing that we're wanting to see ecer have been promoting
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Speaker 7: is a heat pumps for hot water, you know, fish
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Speaker 7: for your showers. They're the uptakers. Maybe one or two
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Speaker 7: percent is a very very low uptake at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Okay, A long way to goo there, Sam Good TV
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Speaker 2: on the program Sam Mucha from the New Zealand Green
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Speaker 2: Building Council. Time is twenty three minutes after five.
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Speaker 1: The early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio how
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Speaker 1: It by Newstalks AB News.
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Speaker 2: Talk ZB twenty five minutes after five. Loads of people
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Speaker 2: just in the last couple of minutes have been texting
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Speaker 2: in to say, actually, the bank's loans because you know,
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Speaker 2: the Greens have come out saying they want cheap loans
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Speaker 2: from the government so that people can put solar on
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Speaker 2: their roofs. Ryan, I own my home outright, and we
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Speaker 2: got that one percent loan from A and Z for
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Speaker 2: our solar panels. Because our previous guest is said no,
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Speaker 2: if you don't have a mortgage, you can't get the loan.
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Speaker 2: Ryan another says that's rubbish. If you are freehold, then
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Speaker 2: the loan is one percent against the house, no difference
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Speaker 2: whether there is existing lending going on or not. And
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Speaker 2: that's from people who've actually gone and got these loans,
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Speaker 2: so it looks like they are a goer. Bryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: five twenty six on News Talks, he'db now look on
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Speaker 2: the issue of the poll. Everyone's been texting about this
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Speaker 2: one this morning. It's too early to tell whether National
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Speaker 2: should switch leaders. We've had one poll last night with
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Speaker 2: the Left Bloc winning.
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Speaker 9: The tables have turned on National's coalition government, putting even
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Speaker 9: more pressure on the prime minister. National crashing down four
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Speaker 9: points now on thirty percent. Another serious hit for Christopher
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Speaker 9: Luxen down four points to sixteen percent.
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Speaker 2: Now, if that case were to eventuate, it probably wouldn't
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Speaker 2: eventuate in the way that it's been reported right now.
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Speaker 2: New Zealand first, I think would step into rescue Labor
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Speaker 2: from departy Mardi and soften the power of the Greens
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Speaker 2: if there wasn't enough support on the right to form
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Speaker 2: a government. You can't tell me that Winston wouldn't do
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Speaker 2: a deal with his devil to keep the left honest.
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Speaker 2: But back to Luxen and the leadership for a second.
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Speaker 2: He's had a bad poll, no doubt about it. But
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Speaker 2: there had been plenty of late with the right keeping
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Speaker 2: the Treasury benches. That's why most of his cabinet keeps
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Speaker 2: his support. That and the fact that nobody else seems
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Speaker 2: confident enough that that actually do a better job and
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Speaker 2: improve those numbers. The next best preferred prime minister for
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Speaker 2: the NATS is Bishop on two percent. Until it's clear
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Speaker 2: in not just one poll, but a trend of polls
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Speaker 2: that these guys wouldn't be part of a cabinet because
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Speaker 2: they wouldn't have the numbers to form one in the
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Speaker 2: first place, then the leadership won't change. There's still plenty
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Speaker 2: of time before election day. There's more than six months
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Speaker 2: to go, and a lot can change by then, too.
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Speaker 2: Descenda didn't need long to turn and transform Little's vote
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Speaker 2: into enough support to seize powdered. She this idea that
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Speaker 2: all must be decided this Tuesday or next Tuesday, before
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Speaker 2: Luxon's trip to Singapore, ahead of the budget that follows.
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Speaker 2: It is a red herring. Caucus would be making a
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Speaker 2: decision without enough time to gather the facts and without
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Speaker 2: confidence in a decent replacement in bread Rich doesn't sound
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Speaker 2: to me like a terribly smart thing to do. Lots
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Speaker 2: of support for Erica Stamford who cares if she doesn't
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Speaker 2: not like by her colleague, she's liked by the public.
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Speaker 2: The thing with Erica Stamford, and I've got a lot
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Speaker 2: of time for Erica Stamford and she's being on panels
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Speaker 2: on my shows for years, is that she's very good
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Speaker 2: at what she's doing. And what she's doing is quite
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Speaker 2: important with education. So do you really want to take
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Speaker 2: her off and put her onto a job like prime
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Speaker 2: minister when she could be changing the future of the
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Speaker 2: country in a more meaningful way. Hey, I want to
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Speaker 2: tell you about this Chinese carmaker series. I think I'm
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Speaker 2: saying that correctly. They've been given a patent for an
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Speaker 2: in vehicle toilet, and they're not making them yet. But
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Speaker 2: just imagine. I know you don't want to imagine, but
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Speaker 2: just imagine for a very brief second. Basically, they're saying,
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Speaker 2: you don't need to stop and stretch your legs and
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Speaker 2: go to the toilet. You can stay in the car
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Speaker 2: and do your business. It's voice activated, so you can
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Speaker 2: presumably say number ones or number twos and these it goes.
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Speaker 2: What about your fellow travelers, I hear you ask, don't worry.
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Speaker 2: There's a fan and an exhaust pipe for the odor.
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Speaker 2: There is a waste tank that you have to manually
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Speaker 2: empty after you've finished your business. And the reason they're
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Speaker 2: doing this is because they are packing the cars, the
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Speaker 2: evs with very unconventional features. They've got massage seats, some
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Speaker 2: of them have got karaoke systems, they've got fridges on board.
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Speaker 2: One car turns into a drone. Not commercially available yet,
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Speaker 2: of course, so there you go. They're not making them yet,
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Speaker 2: but there is a patent out there. Are we there yet?
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Speaker 2: You don't need to be just do it in the car.
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Speaker 2: Twenty nine to five News Talks BE. We're lying to
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Speaker 2: the UK.
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Speaker 2: News TALKSB. It's twenty four minutes away from six year.
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Speaker 2: On news TALKSB, we'll get to a four US ambassador
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Speaker 2: in the Middle East on the Straight upor Moves before
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Speaker 2: six o'clock this morning. Gavin Gray's in the UK for
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Speaker 2: US as well. The poor old Pope getting burned by
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Speaker 2: the mainstream media. You know, last week we told you
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Speaker 2: that he said these comments, the tyrant comments that he
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Speaker 2: made and everybody interpreted that to be a flight against
18:17
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, and he's now come out and said he's
18:20
Speaker 2: had to clarify. And it is weird hearing the Pope
18:22
Speaker 2: with an American accent. I'm just going to say that,
18:24
Speaker 2: But anyway, he's come out and clarified said it wasn't
18:26
Speaker 2: about Trump. He was visiting Cameroon. He was in Africa
18:30
Speaker 2: and he was talking presumably referring there to African tyrants,
18:33
Speaker 2: not to Donald Trump as a tyrant. So there's been
18:36
Speaker 2: some clarification from him this morning. Gavin will cover that too.
18:39
Speaker 2: It is twenty three to six, Ryan Bridge and Callens
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Speaker 2: and Dneeda Morning Callum, Morning Ryan. What's this Tiger UNI
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Speaker 2: study about uniforms.
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Speaker 10: Well, it's discovered what a lot of New Zealand families
18:53
Speaker 10: already know, the cost of uniforms is skyrocketing and proving
18:57
Speaker 10: to be a barrier to education many students. The research
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Speaker 10: Ryan looked at three Wellington schools and it shows that
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Speaker 10: one in five families across New Zealand struggle to afford
19:09
Speaker 10: uniforms full stop. Ten percent of families have to borrow
19:13
Speaker 10: money in order to outfit their children. Some students have
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Speaker 10: missed school altogether due to not having the correct uniform.
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Speaker 10: The study says the social purpose of uniforms is being
19:22
Speaker 10: weakened by these rising costs. The authors say that the
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Speaker 10: idea of uniform providing social camouflage to conceal socioeconomic differences
19:30
Speaker 10: as being eroded. They say, look, while government support could
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Speaker 10: help these costs, schools also need to carefully consider what
19:37
Speaker 10: should count as essential item.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd have to think so too, callum. How's the weather.
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Speaker 10: Eleven degrees the high today, so a real cool one,
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Speaker 10: mostly cloudy, few showers for Dunedin and Southeasteries today.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you, Cleise and welling. Sorry Christians this morning, clear,
19:52
Speaker 2: good morning. Good to have you on the program as always. Now,
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Speaker 2: tell me about this young girl who's looking for a
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Speaker 2: stem cell donor.
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Speaker 11: This is eleven year old Miya Richards. She's been looking
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Speaker 11: for a stem cell donor for some years now. Mea
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Speaker 11: lives with a rare, life threatening condition, it's called aplastic anemia.
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Speaker 11: Years of searching right around the world have only produced
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Speaker 11: a half match for her bone marrow that is, her
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Speaker 11: oldest sister, and she is in desperate need of this transplant.
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Speaker 11: Now Canterbury University is getting behind the search for a donor.
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Speaker 11: They're hosting a donor drive tomorrow aiming to grow the
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Speaker 11: bone marrow registry. It is a really simple swab to
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Speaker 11: the in a cheek. You're then loaded into the register
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Speaker 11: and hopefully will either be a match for mea or
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Speaker 11: someone else elsewhere around the world as well. Now me
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Speaker 11: as Dad Ray Richards says, anyone can turn up. It
20:39
Speaker 11: means people like his daughter can get a match out
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Speaker 11: of the event as younger donors in particular are dropping
20:44
Speaker 11: and are in particular demand. Which had said, it's really
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Speaker 11: important that people realize bone marrow donation exists and how
20:51
Speaker 11: really easy it is to do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so definitely worth something looking into. How's your
20:55
Speaker 2: weather clear.
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Speaker 11: Caladi with a few showers today, Southerlys will be strong
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Speaker 11: at times high if you can call it their twelve degree.
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Speaker 2: Thank you and Max and Wellington. We've got thunderstorm warnings
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Speaker 2: and effected at the moment in some flooding apparently. Max.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, Hi, it's been absolutely buckling it down here over
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Speaker 12: the past two days or so, and particularly in the
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Speaker 12: past hour, really really coming down heavy in the past hour.
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Speaker 12: It has just eased off, and it may be we
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Speaker 12: might have a period of respite the next few hours,
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Speaker 12: but a lot of surface flooding around the place, particularly
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Speaker 12: in the Hut Valley, a few street closures, some smaller slips,
21:28
Speaker 12: a few homes of reported flooding. We'll be trying to
21:31
Speaker 12: get a full gauge of the impact this morning. I
21:34
Speaker 12: imagine with how much rain has come down overnight and
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Speaker 12: again in just the past hour and early this morning,
21:39
Speaker 12: there'll be some similar reports today. Teams have been overnight
21:43
Speaker 12: monitoring the Hut River, Way, Fedu Stream, Black Creek and
21:46
Speaker 12: Way Nujomata in case they overflow again. The rain should
21:50
Speaker 12: ease off a little this morning, but it's basically going
21:52
Speaker 12: to be wet at times until later this week. Keep
21:55
Speaker 12: following advice, keep an eye on the guidance.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like a plan. How's the four cars for the
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Speaker 2: rest of the day.
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Speaker 12: Max, Yeah, As I say, it's hopefully a few hours
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Speaker 12: of drier weather and then rain returning this afternoon this
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Speaker 12: evening and again heavy at times and strong southerlies all
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Speaker 12: the while. Gail and exposed places a higher fifteen.
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Speaker 2: All right, Thank you, Neva's an Auckland morning.
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Speaker 13: Neva, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Now we've got charities reporting a dip in the number
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Speaker 2: of food parcel pickups going.
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Speaker 14: Yes, that is correct, and that's because well, this is
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Speaker 14: what they're attributing it to, that families can't afford the
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Speaker 14: petrol to drive to these distribution centers. So Saint Vincent
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Speaker 14: de paul Ni Hunger says its team has been seeing
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Speaker 14: an increased amount for food parcels. This is ever since
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Speaker 14: you know, the around war broke out. But general manager
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Speaker 14: Delphina Soti says that the requests they don't actually correspond
22:41
Speaker 14: with people actually picking up the food, so she says
22:44
Speaker 14: they've been forced to prioritize their travel. Food is often
22:47
Speaker 14: seen as a discretionary item. She says, the unable to
22:51
Speaker 14: pick up right now. That has risen from around four
22:53
Speaker 14: percent to twenty six percent in just weeks.
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Speaker 2: Shuret. That's pretty good, it is, isn't it. How's our
22:59
Speaker 2: weather today? Okay?
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Speaker 14: Occasional showers, rain, rain, rain, thunderstorms possible throughout the day,
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Speaker 14: with the risk of hail hale this afternoon. Still kind
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Speaker 14: of warm, warm within the rest of the country. Nineteen
23:10
Speaker 14: is the high in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Very good, Neva, thank you very much. I became a
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Speaker 2: god parent. On the weekend for the first time, we
23:16
Speaker 2: went to a baptism a friend of ours to both
23:18
Speaker 2: of their children were baptized on the same day and
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Speaker 2: one of them. I was a godparent. Lovely a boy
23:23
Speaker 2: or we girl, two boys and I you have to
23:26
Speaker 2: it's quite intense if you have been a godparent.
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Speaker 14: Yes, I'm godparent to three.
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Speaker 2: Have you because were you kath Were you raised Catholic?
23:33
Speaker 14: I was, actually, yeah, I went to Catholic school.
23:36
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and so I was baptized and all that stuff.
23:38
Speaker 2: But I kind of forgotten because I was a child.
23:40
Speaker 2: I've forgotten how tense it is. You've got to renounce
23:43
Speaker 2: the devil and all sorts.
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Speaker 14: Oh yeah, well it it's been a while. So it's
23:46
Speaker 14: because the two god daughters are like in the mid
23:48
Speaker 14: twenties now. But yes, you're quite right.
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Speaker 2: While we present, while since you announced, no, do you
23:56
Speaker 2: know what I didn't get at present? But what I'm
23:58
Speaker 2: going to do because what my godfather did for me,
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Speaker 2: which I've always appreciated, was put money aside every year
24:03
Speaker 2: into a bank account. And then when I turned eighteen,
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Speaker 2: I got this money which I could use for my
24:08
Speaker 2: university study. Well, that's great.
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Speaker 14: Oh I haven't done that, so you've been left with thousands.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I wouldn't go that far.
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Speaker 14: Oh. I just actually saw my goddaughter of the weekend,
24:18
Speaker 14: took her out for branch Oh, so you know, we
24:20
Speaker 14: just have a little bonding session. What's the HAPs, what's
24:23
Speaker 14: going on?
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Speaker 2: It's a nice tradition. It is a nice tradition. Right.
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Speaker 2: on this Israeli embassy situation?
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Speaker 15: Yes, so, a number of different attacks it would appear
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Speaker 15: over the last few days on the Jewish community and
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Speaker 15: according to the chief Rabbi saying, they really are gathering
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Speaker 15: momentum with another arsen attack reported at a Northwest London synagogue.
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Speaker 15: The Kenton United Synagogue, which is in Harrow, was attacked
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Speaker 15: overnight and it is the latest in a series. I'm
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Speaker 15: afraid with another attack that was at a Jewish charity
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Speaker 15: in Hendon, Northwest London, a finchally reformed synagogue North London,
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Speaker 15: and ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity satellite in Golders Green,
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Speaker 15: which we've already reported on. Plus an arson attack at
26:36
Speaker 15: a Persian language media organization also being investigated. So the
26:41
Speaker 15: Jewish community feeling very, very stressed about this. And over
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Speaker 15: the weekend Kensington Gardens, one of the most popular large
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Speaker 15: gardens right in the center of London, had to be
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Speaker 15: closed because a video was uploaded by somebody saying that
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Speaker 15: they were going to fly drones packed with radioactive matters
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Speaker 15: at the Israeli embassy which borders it. Now. Police did
27:04
Speaker 15: recover some items from the park but said they were
27:07
Speaker 15: not considered harmful or hazardous, but definitely the police stepping
27:11
Speaker 15: up their patrols around Jewish community related areas.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the Pope has felt the need to come out
27:16
Speaker 2: and clarify his comments about the tyrants.
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Speaker 15: Yes, so obviously the Pope and Donald Trump had been
27:22
Speaker 15: having a spat over the last few days and he
27:25
Speaker 15: criticized tyrants, as you say, for spending billions on wars
27:29
Speaker 15: in a speech earlier this week. Now he delivered it
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Speaker 15: days after a high profile spat with the US President,
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Speaker 15: having written a fortnight earlier, well before the president ever
27:40
Speaker 15: commented on myself. He said he had written this well
27:44
Speaker 15: in advance of that earlier spat, and so consequently he said, look,
27:50
Speaker 15: I think this has all been misinterpreted. He's currently on
27:52
Speaker 15: a tour of Africa. He said, a certain narrative that
27:55
Speaker 15: has not been accurate developed site in the political situation
27:59
Speaker 15: created by Trump's comments. He said that was not my intention.
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Speaker 15: He's stepping back from linking that comment about tyrants to
28:07
Speaker 15: Donald Trump, saying I never linked them and that was
28:10
Speaker 15: not my intention.
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray are UK europe correspondent time as eleven minutes
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Speaker 2: away from six.
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Speaker 1: Ry and Bridge.
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Speaker 2: By the way, quick little update on what's happening in Wellington.
28:19
Speaker 2: So they've basically had a massive dump of rain and
28:21
Speaker 2: some thunderstorms. The severe warning has been lifted, but we're
28:24
Speaker 2: getting people saying there's flooding, flash flooding happening in bre
28:28
Speaker 2: and Poor and Newtown in particular by the hospital right
28:31
Speaker 2: to the Strait of hor Move's been opening and closing
28:33
Speaker 2: like a creaky door. It is basically open closed, open clones.
28:36
Speaker 2: Vance is heading back to Pakistan for more talks. Irana
28:38
Speaker 2: hasn't yet said whether they'll actually show up to those.
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Speaker 2: David Settersfield is a former US ambassador who's served extensively
28:45
Speaker 2: in the Middle East, including the Persian Gulf, Lebanon, and Iraq,
28:49
Speaker 2: and joins ME Live this morning. David, nice to have
28:51
Speaker 2: you on the program. Thank you for being with me.
28:55
Speaker 8: Thank you.
28:56
Speaker 2: We've had shots fired at those vessels from while they
28:59
Speaker 2: were fled to India over the weekend. What do you
29:02
Speaker 2: think is going to happen with straight from here?
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Speaker 8: What you're seeing is posturing on the Iranian side and
29:12
Speaker 8: what appears to be emerging as a division or at
29:17
Speaker 8: least multiple viewpoints within the Iranian leadership. It's all hard line,
29:23
Speaker 8: let's not kid ourselves about that. But there are elements
29:27
Speaker 8: who are perhaps more pragmatic about negotiations and some who
29:33
Speaker 8: are more rigid. But the strait was never opened. Iran
29:38
Speaker 8: posed a requirement that all vessels passing comply with Iranian requirements,
29:44
Speaker 8: which is not consistent with international obligations. So it's not
29:48
Speaker 8: a question of open and then closed. It's never been
29:51
Speaker 8: reopened again. The real question here, which we'll see over
29:55
Speaker 8: coming hours, is whether the Iranians show up in Islamaba
30:00
Speaker 8: tonight or tomorrow to meet the US delegation, and if
30:04
Speaker 8: they do, whether there is any movement on either side,
30:08
Speaker 8: the US or Iranian regarding fundamental positions on the enrichment
30:13
Speaker 8: program and on the turnover of highly enriched stock.
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Speaker 2: Do you think the fighting is over and now?
30:23
Speaker 8: Well? I think the cease fire has every potential to
30:27
Speaker 8: endure so long as negotiations go on. But let's be
30:31
Speaker 8: realistic here. There are three options as to where this
30:34
Speaker 8: all can go. The negotiations proceed, They're tough, but they
30:40
Speaker 8: proceed against a backdrop of a ceasefire and closure of
30:43
Speaker 8: the strait. US adjusts its position, the Iranians perhaps adjust theirs,
30:49
Speaker 8: and you ultimately come to a resolution. That's one option.
30:53
Speaker 8: There's another option, which is the negotiations don't restart. That is,
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Speaker 8: the the very hardline elements do not come to islam Abad.
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Speaker 8: I think that's less likely than not, but it happens,
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Speaker 8: or the negotiations go nowhere and President Trump in frustration
31:15
Speaker 8: and anger over the Iranian refusal to move forward elects
31:20
Speaker 8: for an escalation. The problem with that is Iran possesses
31:25
Speaker 8: undoubted escalation dominance. What that means is the US obviously
31:30
Speaker 8: can inflict greater pain on Iran militarily, but Iran has
31:34
Speaker 8: the capacity to effectively inflict pain across the Gulf and beyond.
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Speaker 8: That's the dilemma that shapes all of what we are
31:44
Speaker 8: seeing now.
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Speaker 2: David Sanderfield, appreciate your update this morning. Forming US ambassador
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Speaker 2: served extensively in the Middle East, including the Persian Golf, Libanon,
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Speaker 2: and Iraq. Also served under Trump as ambassador for Turkey
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Speaker 2: It's five minutes away from six and Mike is in
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Speaker 2: with you next. Good morning, Mike, I am great to
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Speaker 2: see you. Ryan has always got the PM in today
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Speaker 2: of course having a chat about you know do I.
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Speaker 13: Oh, that's right to do too. Do you Have you
32:23
Speaker 13: ever been in trouble in your career? Have you ever
32:25
Speaker 13: sort of been in the public eye at a time
32:28
Speaker 13: when people have a bit of a crack at you
32:29
Speaker 13: and yeah, you get a bit worn down by it
32:31
Speaker 13: and go part part of the territory, isn't it?
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Speaker 8: Is it? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I mean yes, it is can be quite stressful.
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Speaker 13: I'm just thinking you like, I mean, how much do
32:39
Speaker 13: you want to put up with in terms of lux
32:41
Speaker 13: and I mean how many polls do you want to read?
32:42
Speaker 13: How many? You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he doesn't want to go out after two
32:46
Speaker 2: years in the job.
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Speaker 13: Well, he's not going anywhere. I mean, this is the point.
32:49
Speaker 13: This is my whole point. He's not quitting.
32:51
Speaker 2: There is no cue.
32:53
Speaker 9: No.
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Speaker 13: But I mean, you know, you want to get up
32:54
Speaker 13: on the morning in difficult times, you want to get
32:57
Speaker 13: up in the morning and you want to focus on
32:59
Speaker 13: some important stuff. But today will all be about you
33:03
Speaker 13: know what I mean?
33:05
Speaker 2: On next Tuesday, Yeah, exactly. And it's just But the
33:08
Speaker 2: thing is that I think I said earlier that there's
33:11
Speaker 2: not enough information yet to justify getting rid of him.
33:14
Speaker 15: You know.
33:14
Speaker 2: The one, they don't know who they're going to go for,
33:16
Speaker 2: so they've got got a challenge. And two they haven't
33:19
Speaker 2: got enough polls yet. A trend on the polls to
33:22
Speaker 2: sow the government would be given the boots. See as
33:23
Speaker 2: New Zealand first.
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Speaker 13: If you look at last night's New Zealand First on
33:26
Speaker 13: fifteen or ten, and I mean the material difference between
33:29
Speaker 13: those two, Yes, it is ridiculous. And last night's pole
33:32
Speaker 13: also had the Murray Party on six as in six
33:34
Speaker 13: seats and we know.
33:35
Speaker 2: Those labor haven't got any policies. It doesn't make sense.
33:38
Speaker 13: But yet again we'll spend the day on this and
33:42
Speaker 13: the war. By the way, we'll be able before the
33:43
Speaker 13: end of the week.
33:44
Speaker 2: Deal stuff.
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Speaker 13: You want to look you look like you want to
33:47
Speaker 13: get out of here. Look at you, You're packed, doing
33:49
Speaker 13: your stuff up.
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Speaker 2: Take your time.
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Speaker 13: Exactly happen all right.
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Speaker 2: Have a good day.
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