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Full Show Podcast: 24 June 2025 · 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: an early edition with ex pole insulation, keeping Kiwi Holmes
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Speaker 1: warm and try this winter News Talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be Good Morning It at six after five year
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Speaker 2: on News Talks. A b as we go to air,
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Speaker 2: Iran is attacking Iraq and Qatar US air bases. We'll
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Speaker 2: keep you up to date with that situation. It's happening
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Speaker 2: as we speak, apparently the one over Doha, because there
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Speaker 2: are explosions being heard in Doha right now. That has
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Speaker 2: been emptied evacuated by the Americans ahead of time, so
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Speaker 2: we'll keep you up to date with whatever happens there.
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Speaker 2: Plus we'll get to Stuart Nash, the former Labor Cabinet minister,
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Speaker 2: on the Golden visas which are pulling in the numbers
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Speaker 2: in terms of applications. We'll find out exactly how much
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Speaker 2: money they're going to bring with them. Nick Brewley is
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Speaker 2: with us, this is News Talks. He'd be sports journalist
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Speaker 2: on the thirty five man All Black squad that's been
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Speaker 2: named to face France. And we'll look at the price
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Speaker 2: of oil as well. Pretty holding up pretty well, actually
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Speaker 2: not going through the roof, not going through the floor.
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Speaker 2: Actually pretty stable the price of oil, all things considered.
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Speaker 2: In the Middle East. We'll get to that shortly with
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Speaker 2: Terry Collins from AA seven after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda so.
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Speaker 2: Just gone a pm local time. In Kafa. Explosions are
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Speaker 2: being heard and alert has been issued for US air
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Speaker 2: bases in Iraq. But as I said, explosions heard and
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Speaker 2: cuta the capital, Dohat, world's busiest airport, closed the airspace
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Speaker 2: above it closed three hundred and sixty flights per day there.
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Speaker 2: They reckon the explosions at this stage could be air
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Speaker 2: defense systems. We will keep you up to date with
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Speaker 2: what's going on there. Trump meanwhile, talked about regime change yesterday.
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Speaker 2: But don't worry. Caroline Levitt's come out. She's been wheeled
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Speaker 2: out to rain this in. But if they refuse to
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Speaker 2: engage in diplomacy moving forward, why shouldn't the Iranian people
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Speaker 2: rise up against this brutal terrorist regime. That's a question
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Speaker 2: the President raised last night.
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Speaker 3: But as far as our military pasture, it hasn't changed.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, world ladies have been arriving in the Hague for
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Speaker 2: this year's NATO summit. NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutter spoke
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Speaker 2: to media ahead of the summit.
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Speaker 3: If you're committed to defending every inch of Allied territory,
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Speaker 3: should any potential adversary make the mistake of attacking any
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Speaker 3: ally based on those plans, Allies have agreed and ambitious
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Speaker 3: new set of capability targets, the specific practical requirements that
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Speaker 3: ensures that we can implement our any sense plants.
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Speaker 2: Luck and wrapping up in Belgium, heading to NATO in
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Speaker 2: the Hague. Still not criticizing or supporting the US attacks
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Speaker 2: on Iran. We do not want to see a nuclear
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Speaker 2: armed Iran.
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Speaker 4: What will solve the problems.
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Speaker 2: As a political solution that.
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Speaker 4: Requires it a dialogue and diplomacy.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on earlier edition with expole insulation keeping Kiwi
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Speaker 1: Holmes warm and dry.
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Speaker 2: This winter news talks, ab news talks it be. It's
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Speaker 2: just gone nine minutes half to five. So budget twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty five we had one point three seven billion dollars
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Speaker 2: for GPS. That's from the health budget. One point three
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Speaker 2: seven billion dollars was what they allocated, and yesterday the
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Speaker 2: minister reached an agreement with the GPS. Because this is
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Speaker 2: you know, the problems that people have you most often
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Speaker 2: hear about is I can't get into a GP, like
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Speaker 2: I can't even get on the role for to see
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Speaker 2: a doctor, or once I get on the roll, I'm
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Speaker 2: having to wait three weeks or a month, by which
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Speaker 2: time I'm well again, the whole thing's pointless. So they've
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Speaker 2: increased the funding, and it'd be interesting to hear from
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Speaker 2: GPS today what their response to this is. But the
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Speaker 2: numbers have come out this morning new agreements signed with
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Speaker 2: GPS yesterday. Thirteen point eight nine percent increased this year.
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Speaker 2: That's an extra one hundred and seventy five million dollars
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Speaker 2: for GPS. In theory should cut the weight times in theory,
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Speaker 2: should allow more enrollments, but will it Is it enough
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Speaker 2: to patch up the cracks? Five million dollars for this
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Speaker 2: is interesting for minor procedures, so that because they're to
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Speaker 2: take the pressure off hospitals, right, so one of the
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Speaker 2: things they're going to do is give some more money
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Speaker 2: for minor procedures, like if you've got a skin legion
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Speaker 2: or a you know, some sort of iron infusion that
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Speaker 2: would otherwise need to be done by a hospital will
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Speaker 2: potentially be able to be done by a GP. So
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Speaker 2: that should speed for the wake times up as well,
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Speaker 2: they reckon. We'll hear from them today on that. I'm
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Speaker 2: sure if you're just joining us right now, Iran is
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Speaker 2: This is, according to Iran's one of their state news agencies,
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Speaker 2: launching what they're calling the Annunciation of Victory operation in
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Speaker 2: Iraq and Cussa, and they are targeting US military bases
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Speaker 2: or US lead military bases. They are firing on these.
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Speaker 2: Doha's airspace has been closed. Kutars air defenses have intercepted
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Speaker 2: attacks on a US base there. Now, we had heard
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Speaker 2: from the Americans over the last couple of days warning
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Speaker 2: to their citizens and cuting are quite specifically. And then
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Speaker 2: we heard from Lamming over in the UK are warning
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Speaker 2: to UK citizens in the last couple of hours that
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Speaker 2: they should be aware of their safety as well and
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Speaker 2: basically shelter in place. Now, this is interesting because Doha
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Speaker 2: is the world's home to the world's busiest airport, one
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Speaker 2: of the busiest in the world, three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 2: flights a day, so that is currently closed and the
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Speaker 2: ten thousand troops or defense full staff they reckon that
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Speaker 2: normally would be at this base. Apparently everyone's been evacuated
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Speaker 2: ahead of time because the Americans kind of saw this coming,
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Speaker 2: so we'll keep you up to date with that. Next
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Speaker 2: we talk the price of oil. Eleven after five News
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Speaker 2: Talk said B.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 2: News Talk Sat B. You're just joining news Talk sead
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Speaker 2: B fourteen minutes after five KATARS reporting that there have
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Speaker 2: been no deaths or injuries after Iran attacked a US
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Speaker 2: airbase in Doha. The espace there is currently closed. We'll
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Speaker 2: cross through our Middle East correspondence at about quarter to
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Speaker 2: six this morning for the latest on that. Meanwhile, Luxeon's
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Speaker 2: over in I mentioned earlier. He's over in the Hague,
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Speaker 2: heading to the Hague from Brussels. This is for the
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Speaker 2: NATO summer and everyone is hoping well. He was hoping
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Speaker 2: that Trump would have a meeting. Apparently wanted to meet
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Speaker 2: with the IP four, which is US in the South
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Speaker 2: Koreans and the Japanese and the Australians, the sort of
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Speaker 2: partners of NATO in the Indo Pacific. But in the
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Speaker 2: last twenty four hours the Japanese prime ministers pulled out.
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Speaker 2: He's not going, and also Anthony Albanize is not going.
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Speaker 2: He's sending his deputy and defense minister. So that doesn't
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Speaker 2: bode well for a meeting with Trump, because if Trump
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Speaker 2: was going to be meeting with you, then you'd probably
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Speaker 2: find that those two leaders would be going. Ryan Breed,
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Speaker 2: quarter past five, price of oil hasn't gone through the roof,
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Speaker 2: despite what's happening in the Middle East. Brent crude oil
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Speaker 2: is actually down four percent of the day to seventy
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Speaker 2: dollars seventy cents a barrel. This is US and there
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Speaker 2: are a couple of reasons for this. We'll get to
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Speaker 2: those in a second. Terry Collins, the principal AA advisor
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Speaker 2: with US Petrol Expert Oil expert, on the program, Terry,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning on Yeah, were you surprised to
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Speaker 2: see or did the markets just price in trouble in
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Speaker 2: the Middle East?
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Speaker 4: You're right initially what they did when their text were
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Speaker 4: launch as they just twicted the risk. Everybody now was
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Speaker 4: just sitting back and seeing how the Uranians retaliate to
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Speaker 4: the US strikes. They've talked well threatened to shut straight
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Speaker 4: up the moors, and that could take a variety of forms,
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Speaker 4: everything from the stopping some targeted ships of certain nationalities,
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Speaker 4: to putting minds down to directly attacking shipping, and each
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Speaker 4: of those would have an impact on the twice of oil.
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Speaker 2: Interesting that the markets are only betting on a twenty
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Speaker 2: five to thirty percent chance of that actually happening because
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Speaker 2: they've threatened to do this before and nothing came of it.
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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I think what everybody's sitting back and looking
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Speaker 4: is the Uranians know that they can't go full on
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Speaker 4: with the US and its neighbors, so they've got to
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Speaker 4: save face. They've got to do some form of recaliation.
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Speaker 4: Let's say to the world that we will defend ourselves
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Speaker 4: and if you strike us, we will strike back. But
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Speaker 4: I think they're scared about going too far because of
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Speaker 4: the consequences of that.
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Speaker 2: Also, the other thing about the Strait that I was
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Speaker 2: running about yesterday, part of it is actually in Oman's waters,
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Speaker 2: with vessels actually able to go in their waters to
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Speaker 2: get through. So can they actually completely block it off?
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Speaker 4: Well, the straight that its scenarios is about thirty three
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Speaker 4: kilometers wide, and for the cook straight of that scenarios
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Speaker 4: is about twenty two. But they've got these shipping rains
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Speaker 4: about three kilometers wide. In both directions. One of them
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Speaker 4: will be in the Omar side, that's in one direction.
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Speaker 4: Practicalities of it, if they're going to start shooting each
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Speaker 4: other will laying minds. They'll just do it discruminent where
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Speaker 4: they has drop them. So what that happens is the
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Speaker 4: shipping companies, because of the insurance issues, won't want to
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Speaker 4: take the ships in there. They'll do that voluntary. I'll
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Speaker 4: think the risk of being struck by a mine the
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Speaker 4: environment will clean up is too significant, and that's how
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Speaker 4: they will slow down.
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Speaker 5: The supply of will all right.
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Speaker 2: And these to talk of potentially doubling the price of
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Speaker 2: oil per barrel overblown.
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Speaker 4: Overblown, and probably if it did happen, it would be
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Speaker 4: a short term spike. What we saw after the Russian
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Speaker 4: evasion of Ukraine is the world did spike around the
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Speaker 4: one twenty one to thirty, but then as alternative roots
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Speaker 4: of oil going back onto the market were established, those
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Speaker 4: prices drop down. We've seen from a number of these
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Speaker 4: geopolitical events that there's an immediate short term spike and
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Speaker 4: then the court of markets settled down as alternative arrangements
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Speaker 4: are made for delivering oil to the market.
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Speaker 2: Terry appreciate your time this morning. Terry Collins from AA.
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Speaker 2: It is eighteen minutes after five. You're on News Talk CBB.
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Speaker 2: So the market pretty resilient to what's going on over
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Speaker 2: in the Middle Ag despite the fact that missiles are
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Speaker 2: still flying into new locations as well in Kuta and
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Speaker 2: Iraq from Iran. You're on News Talks hebe coming up next.
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Speaker 2: It's the All Blacks, the squad naming who's and who's out,
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Speaker 2: and there is some controversy about who's out. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to that next.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 2: News Talks b You're on News Talks HEB is twenty
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Speaker 2: minutes after five. If you're just joining US, Iran is
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Speaker 2: right now attacking US bases in Kata and Iraq. We've
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Speaker 2: got a correspondent out of the Middle East just before
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Speaker 2: quarter to six this morning. We will get an update then,
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Speaker 2: plus you'll have more on the news at five point thirty.
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Speaker 2: But just so that you're aware, the airspace above Kut
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Speaker 2: above Doha, I should say, and Kuta has been closed. However,
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Speaker 2: no deaths have been reported thus far no injuries and
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Speaker 2: that air base, that US air base was evacuated ahead
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Speaker 2: of time. Somebody's just texted to say, I Reckon are
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Speaker 2: quite performative from aram these attacks and at this stage
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Speaker 2: you'd have to say that though obviously they're still ongoing,
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Speaker 2: so damage assessment still some time off. Twenty one minutes
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Speaker 2: half to five. All Blacks coach Scott Robertson has unveiled
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Speaker 2: as thirty five band squad to face France and next
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Speaker 2: month's three test series, including five new faces. Nick Beuley
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Speaker 2: is News Talks a big sports journalist and is with
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Speaker 2: me now, Nick, good morning.
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Speaker 6: Wanning's here Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Big surprises for you, probably just.
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Speaker 6: The one, and that would be Chief Sooker Brody McAllister,
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Speaker 6: who was down my way in Crusaders Country up until
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Speaker 6: last year, was behind the likes of Cody Taylor, who's
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Speaker 6: in this all Black squad and was told, you know,
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Speaker 6: you might want to go try and get some game
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Speaker 6: time outs where established yourself went to the chiefs and
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Speaker 6: by all accounts you know from the All Black sports
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Speaker 6: coach Jason Ryan and the All Blacks coach Scott Robertson
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Speaker 6: really made every post a winner and he wasn't on
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Speaker 6: many predicted squads before midday yesterday, so he's the genuine bolter.
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Speaker 6: The other new names, the likes of Duplassy Kadifi from
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Speaker 6: the Hurricanes to Mafi Tavatavanawai and Fabian Holland from the
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Speaker 6: Highlanders and Olie Norris from the Chiefs are probably pretty forecast.
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Speaker 6: But yeah, Brady mcallus to the big surprise.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and on do please? Could he the nearly a
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Speaker 2: decade in Super Rugby and NPC? This is quite long
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Speaker 2: overdue for him, isn't it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's really toiled away and had an opportunity to
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Speaker 6: go overseas and make a fair bit of money in Japan,
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Speaker 6: but I felt that there was unfinished business for him.
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Speaker 6: And yeah, he's a real success story of if you
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Speaker 6: persist and apply the what's been passed on. I suppose
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Speaker 6: in terms of the feedback that the all backs coaches
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Speaker 6: are after, you can make it. So I was really
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Speaker 6: pleased to see deeplessly kriefy. These offers a point of difference.
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Speaker 6: He's right up there in Super Rugby this season right
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Speaker 6: in terms of the top players in terms of turnovers,
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Speaker 6: has work in and around the ball, over the breakdown
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Speaker 6: is second to none. So yeah, I'd like to see
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Speaker 6: him really get a real good opportunity against France and
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Speaker 6: the formidable loose forward trail likes of Ardi sav and
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Speaker 6: Wallace a Ted as well.
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Speaker 2: It's reading Gregor Paul's take on this this morning in
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Speaker 2: the Herald. What has the reaction been like from fans,
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Speaker 2: you know, from the pundits, what are they praying?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 6: Look Ryan down here in Crusader's country, there's a few
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Speaker 6: people that feel a little bit aggrieved because Ethan Blackadder
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Speaker 6: was probably one of our best in the Super Rugby
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Speaker 6: Final against the Chiefs on Saturday and had a really
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Speaker 6: good back end of the season. He wasn't there. He's
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Speaker 6: been an All Black in the past. I think he
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Speaker 6: can consider himself one of the unlucky ones. David harvillly
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Speaker 6: as well, the Crusaders captain not getting a nod there
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Speaker 6: in the midfield. But look at the same time, it's
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Speaker 6: a very good squad and it should be tough to
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Speaker 6: pick an All Blacks team, you know, to whistle it
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Speaker 6: down to thirty three now, the challenge for Scott Robinson
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Speaker 6: is to get it to twenty three for a match day.
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Speaker 6: So look, I think on the whole it's a very
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Speaker 6: good team and one that should really push and really
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Speaker 6: it should beat Friends France.
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Speaker 2: Well that would be the goal, wouldn't it. Nick appreciate that.
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Speaker 2: Of course, there's really News Tooks. He'd be sports reporter
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Speaker 2: with us this morning on the Squad Yesterday twenty four
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Speaker 2: minutes after five and you're on News TALKSB. Coming up next,
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Speaker 2: the numbers. We've had a couple of numbers on an
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Speaker 2: investment from the government over the last few days. One
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Speaker 2: is on the investment Visa, you know, the Golden Visa
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Speaker 2: where we get the rich Americans to come over here.
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Speaker 2: But also yesterday we had one from David Seymour. We
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Speaker 2: have more on both of those next the.
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Speaker 2: News Talks THEIRB is twenty six minutes after five. A
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Speaker 2: couple of investment related revelations from the government this week
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Speaker 2: prove a couple of basic points about business. One you've
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Speaker 2: got to sell something that people want, and two you've
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Speaker 2: got to do it at a competitive price. Take the
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Speaker 2: Golden Visa numbers. The government's crowing about. This is changes
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Speaker 2: netting results. This is where we give residency to wealthy
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Speaker 2: foreigners and they're basically got to buy their way in.
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Speaker 2: In the three months since the government changed the rules,
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Speaker 2: we've had six hundred people apply via two hundred applications.
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Speaker 2: The old category had one hundred and sixteen applications in
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Speaker 2: two and a half years, so we've nearly doubled the
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Speaker 2: number in three months. So clearly loosening the rules, allowing
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Speaker 2: property and bonds to be included as investments and lowering
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Speaker 2: the amount required has given this visa the rocket up
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Speaker 2: the JAXI that it needed half the applicants that are American.
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Speaker 2: So you've got a bunch of wealthy American families fed
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Speaker 2: up with trumpour on the hunt for a new bolt
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Speaker 2: hole whatever, and suddenly our requirements are at least as
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Speaker 2: competitive or more competitive to similar options, and hula, you
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Speaker 2: get some wins. That's potentially eight hundred and forty five
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Speaker 2: million dollars of investment for New Zealand. But what they're
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Speaker 2: essentially buying is our lifestyle. They want a beautiful, safe
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Speaker 2: place at the bottom of the world to call home
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Speaker 2: or home away from home. The numbers Seamol revealed in
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Speaker 2: his press conference yesterday on overseas investment show that while
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Speaker 2: we've made that process more attractive for people, more competitive,
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Speaker 2: you've still got to have something worth selling at the
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Speaker 2: end of the day, which in this case is an
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Speaker 2: attractive investment. You can make it as easy and hassle
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Speaker 2: free to invest here as you want, but if the
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Speaker 2: opportunities aren't here, if the potential for wins aren't here,
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Speaker 2: the investment won't follow. Overseas investment decisions are now being
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Speaker 2: made twice as fast thanks to Seymour's intervention, but the
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Speaker 2: number of applications has gone down in the last year.
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Speaker 2: Why because the property market's gone capot Which is not
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Speaker 2: to say the process shouldn't have been simplified, but it
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Speaker 2: just goes to show if you want investment, you've got
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Speaker 2: to have something attractive on offer, and right now, the lifestyle,
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Speaker 2: the key we lifestyle is what we've got going for us.
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Speaker 2: Ray eight minutes after five you're on News Talks EB
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Speaker 2: and if you're just joining us, there's a bit of
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Speaker 2: breaking news out of the Middle East. Iran is responding
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Speaker 2: to the United States attack on its nuclear weapons facilities.
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Speaker 2: They have done this by attacking military bases. US military
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Speaker 2: bases in Kuta and in Iraq. So far, we haven't
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Speaker 2: had any reports of casualties. The Qatari Foreign Minister is
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Speaker 2: condemning Iran entering its airspace. Airspace over Doha has been closed.
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Speaker 2: We've got a Middle East correspondent coming your way after
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Speaker 2: News News Talk said be.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 5: Good Burning.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty four minutes away from six year on
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Speaker 2: News Talks V. We'll get to our reporters around the
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Speaker 2: country shortly. We're going to get to the former Cabinet
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Speaker 2: Minister Stuart Nash, who's now running a sort of an
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Speaker 2: advisory for people wanting to come to New Zealand on
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Speaker 2: the Golden visa numbers we had yesterday. And if you're
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Speaker 2: just joining us, the Run is heading back trying to
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Speaker 2: hit back at the United States after its attack on
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Speaker 2: three nuclear sites in Iran. They have this morning, just
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Speaker 2: in the last hour, they have attacked two US military
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Speaker 2: bases in Qatar and in Iraq, and so far there'd
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Speaker 2: been no reports of casualties in either of the attacks.
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Speaker 2: The Americans kind of saw it coming and evacuated the
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Speaker 2: basis beforehand. Just in the last couple of minutes, an
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Speaker 2: update from the White House that General Dan Kin who's
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Speaker 2: the chairman of the Joint chiefs of Staff, and Pete
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Speaker 2: Headseth who's of course Secretary of Defense. They are in
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Speaker 2: the White House Situation Room, so no doubt they are
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Speaker 2: monitoring what's going on there. And we will speak to
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Speaker 2: alistair Buncle, he's the Middle East correspondent for Sky News.
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Speaker 2: Just before quarter two six this morning now twenty three
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Speaker 2: to two Brian and reporters. We start with Calm and Donedan, Calm,
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Speaker 2: good morning morning, right, international flights touching down in Dunedan
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Speaker 2: once again.
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Speaker 7: If this is the first of Jet Stars direct flights
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Speaker 7: between Donedan and the Gold Coasts, call and gather. It
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Speaker 7: lands at two forty five this afternoon. So much excitement
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Speaker 7: here around that this new service will fly three times
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Speaker 7: a week and it's the first international route for the
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Speaker 7: city since twenty twenty. This will add about fifty thousand
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Speaker 7: seats between the two cities annually. Daniel Tobono's the Daneedan
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Speaker 7: Airport Chief Executive. He says this has taken years of
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Speaker 7: hard work to get over the line. The occasions being
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Speaker 7: marked today with some of Dunedin's landmark buildings let up
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Speaker 7: in Jetstar Orange and the airport has a celebration plan
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Speaker 7: to welcome today's first passengers in from the GC.
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Speaker 2: Nicean, that's good to hear. And how's the weather for
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Speaker 2: that first flight?
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Speaker 7: Well compared to the Gold Coast where it's twenty three
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Speaker 7: today and Eden's fine and twelve brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. I know which way I'd rather give you going? Callum,
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Speaker 2: thank you?
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Speaker 5: Clear?
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Speaker 2: In christ Church, hey clear, good morning, good morning. Now
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Speaker 2: you've got your annual plan being finalized. That's exciting.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, how exciting. Look the plan outlines the day to
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Speaker 8: day activities and services that christ Church City Council will
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Speaker 8: provide alongside the capital projects, so that stuff like our
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Speaker 8: new stadium. The average rates increase is set to be
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Speaker 8: six point seven seven percent. That's lower than the seven
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Speaker 8: point five eight percent that they did mention in the draft.
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Speaker 8: It works out to be around five dollars a week
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Speaker 8: for the average at christ Church household. The total operational
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Speaker 8: spend of eight hundred and seventy one million dollars is
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Speaker 8: included in that that is higher by nine point seven
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Speaker 8: million than what was originally proposed. Councilors are also going
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Speaker 8: to decide today whether to pause our Christ Church Cathedral
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Speaker 8: Levy Now. Households have been paying about six dollars fifty
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Speaker 8: two cents per year for the restoration of the cathedral
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Speaker 8: since twenty eighteen. But we do expect that we'll go.
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Speaker 8: There's also expected to be money for a study into
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Speaker 8: a central city shuttle service to be discussed too.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how's your weather?
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Speaker 8: Very frosty to start? Should clear to fine a bit
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Speaker 8: later nor the least developing. The high will be.
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Speaker 2: Eleven last one. Thank you and Max and Wellington Max.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Max, good morning.
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Speaker 9: Can you hear me?
21:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got you. Hell Hey, tell us about your
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Speaker 2: new toilet?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, not my new toilet. A new block of public
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Speaker 9: toilets has been unveiled in the Capitol and the CBD
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Speaker 9: Taranaki and Dixon Streets, accompanied by quite an extravagant press
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Speaker 9: release by the city Council. It's got apparently a ribbed
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Speaker 9: timber facade which can be transformed into a special light
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Speaker 9: show at night. Exterior lighting by Angus Mure Design, with
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Speaker 9: the colors that can be changed to reflect campaigns like
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Speaker 9: Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Christmas, the Jazz Festival or Ranzac Day,
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Speaker 9: they shall not grow old. At two point three million
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Speaker 9: dollar cost for these toilets, one hundred and fifty thousand
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Speaker 9: a loan for the lights, the project delayed quite a
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Speaker 9: few months, otherwise it wouldn't be a council project. Two
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Speaker 9: standard loos and essentially four accessible ones as well. Bit
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Speaker 9: if a mixed reaction from locals is spoken to by
22:13
Speaker 9: our newsroom on the streets, the owner of a neighboring
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Speaker 9: business calls these two point three million dollar toilets a
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Speaker 9: bit of overkill, but they certainly stand out.
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Speaker 2: Two point three million dollars and how many do you get?
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Speaker 2: You get six toilets.
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Speaker 9: Two standards, three accessible toilets, and then one sort of
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Speaker 9: changing room.
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Speaker 2: With no actual lu in it just somewhere to why
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Speaker 2: do you need to get changed in the middle of
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Speaker 2: the city.
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Speaker 9: Well, if you're you know, stuck in a pinch or something,
22:42
Speaker 9: just use one of the toilets.
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Speaker 2: I mean, okay, two point three million dollars and it's
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Speaker 2: a nice light show. Do the lights go in the
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Speaker 2: toilet or edit for outside viewing?
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Speaker 9: No exterior lighting? And I suppose you know, pink for
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Speaker 9: Breast Cancer Awareness months. Stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: Interesting all right, Max, how's your with it today?
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Speaker 9: A cold star but should be mostly fine. Fourteen the
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Speaker 9: High Central brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Let's go to Neva and Aukland Hay Neva,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Sounds like a bit of a flashy I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's why they don't get anything done in Wellington, isn't it.
23:13
Speaker 2: Because everything's got lights and the raid and a show,
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Speaker 2: and I just.
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Speaker 10: The lose I know, so much money.
23:20
Speaker 2: You're just somewhere to sit down and do your business.
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Speaker 11: That's all you need. Do it and go.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, a hole in the ground.
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Speaker 10: Do you need lights? Noney?
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Speaker 2: We do need this Northern Expressway though, we do.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 10: I can tell you that an Australian, Spanish and French
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Speaker 10: firm now they're all vying to build. This is the
23:36
Speaker 10: first stage of the multi billion dollar Northland Expressway. So
23:39
Speaker 10: this twenty six kilometer project, which will connect Walkworth and Tehna,
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Speaker 10: is being delivered as a private public partnership. The Australian
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Speaker 10: company it's called Plenary. Now they've committed to bid on
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Speaker 10: five New Zealand partnerships over the next five years. Vancy
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Speaker 10: is the French construction company one of the biggest in
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Speaker 10: the world, and the Spanish firm Axia is the third
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Speaker 10: bit of hope. That's a great pronunciation. And it built
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Speaker 10: the Pooh Boy to Walk With Highway which will connect
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Speaker 10: to the North of Expressway.
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Speaker 2: So nice, yes, see how that goes? Good job there.
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Speaker 2: How's our weather today, Neva.
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Speaker 10: Partley, cloudy sixteen is the high quite warm actually for us?
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Speaker 2: Thank you Ryan, thank you, she's out, Thank you, Neva. Right,
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Speaker 2: it is eighteen minutes away from six year. On News
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Speaker 2: Talk SB, we'll get to our Middle East correspondent on
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Speaker 2: the news over just in the last hour that Iran
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Speaker 2: is heading back at the US and cutter and Iraq.
24:33
Speaker 2: We will also get to Stuart Nash on the Golden
24:35
Speaker 2: Visa numbers that the government's crowing about. That's all ahead.
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Speaker 1: News Talk SEDB International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance,
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Speaker 1: Peace of Mind for New Zealand business.
24:45
Speaker 4: Of the New Talks.
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Speaker 2: We've been waiting for Iran to respond. While they've done.
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Speaker 2: In the last hour they have attacked you were spaces
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Speaker 2: in Iraq and Kuta. So far, no injuries or deaths
24:56
Speaker 2: or casualties have been reported that according to the Pentagon
24:59
Speaker 2: via Fox News in the last couple of minutes. Elister
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Speaker 2: Bankle is the Middle East correspondent from Sky News. When
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Speaker 2: us this morning, Alistair, what is the lightest on these attacks?
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Speaker 12: Well, I mean, the only confirmed attack is the one
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Speaker 12: on Katar, on the Alu Ded Air Base, which is
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Speaker 12: the biggest American air base in the region. The Iranians
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Speaker 12: reportedly fired ten missiles, saying they are saying fired a
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Speaker 12: missile for every missile that the Americans fired at them
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Speaker 12: when the Americans attacked the nuclear bases over the weekend.
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Speaker 12: I'm not sure that figure exactly tallies, but we haven't heard.
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Speaker 2: More reports from Iraq at the moment.
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Speaker 12: On the one hand, it is a major major escalation.
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Speaker 12: Iran attacking a GCC country in the Middle East, a
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Speaker 12: country like Katar is a huge escalation. But we knew
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Speaker 12: the Arenas would have to respond in some way. This
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Speaker 12: is well start, possibly the end of their response, and
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Speaker 12: no reports of casualties, so possibly, you know, it does
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Speaker 12: provide everybody with a bit of an off ramp, But
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Speaker 12: then it depends on the way President Trump sees it.
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Speaker 2: Does the fact that there are no casualties indicate that
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Speaker 2: the Americans because they had been warning their own citizens
26:22
Speaker 2: in Kata for a couple of days, and we heard
26:24
Speaker 2: from the UK in the last couple of hours that
26:26
Speaker 2: these citizens should be aware in Kata. Is it possible
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Speaker 2: that they did give them a well, that they were
26:32
Speaker 2: no one about and that you know, that's why we
26:34
Speaker 2: didn't see any casualties. Yeah, I reckon so.
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Speaker 12: To be honest, we don't know that officially, but I
26:41
Speaker 12: think that's probably very likely. The Ktaris are pretty close
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Speaker 12: to the Iranians. Qatar hosts the leadership of Hummas, for example,
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Speaker 12: an Iranian proxy, but they're also close to the Americans.
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Speaker 12: They host major US military bases. And my sense from
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Speaker 12: covering these things for many years is that this would
27:06
Speaker 12: have been known about. There would have been a maybe
27:09
Speaker 12: not more than a few hours, but there would have
27:12
Speaker 12: been some notification that this.
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Speaker 2: Was happening, and it would have allowed.
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Speaker 12: Everybody to ensure that there were no US forces above ground.
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Speaker 12: They were either not at the base or they were
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Speaker 12: underground in safety. Ditto to the British. The British have
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Speaker 12: a very large military personnel at that airbase, but I
27:32
Speaker 12: understand they had evacuated it in the recent days and
27:35
Speaker 12: so if that's accurate, then what it does is it
27:39
Speaker 12: gives Aroun the kind of the story to say, look,
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Speaker 12: we have attacked the biggest US air base in the region,
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Speaker 12: and it gives the Americans the ability to sort of
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Speaker 12: back away having suffered no damage.
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Speaker 2: Elistair appreciate that analysis. This morning, Alistair Bankele, who's the
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Speaker 2: Middle East correspondent for Sky News, confirming there that there
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Speaker 2: have been a missiles fired from Iran into a US
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Speaker 2: air base in Katar, though apparently intercepted. No injuries or
28:10
Speaker 2: casualties reported at this stage. Iran has said that they
28:14
Speaker 2: have fired missiles not just at US air bases in Kata,
28:17
Speaker 2: but also in Iraq, though as Alista says, that hasn't
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Speaker 2: been confirmed. Eleven minutes away from six Ryan Bridge. So
28:26
Speaker 2: the Golden visas have gone gangbusters. Apparently, nearly two hundred
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Speaker 2: applications from foreign investors have been received since the scheme
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Speaker 2: was launched in April, so it's only been three months.
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Speaker 2: One hundred of those have been approved. In principle, seven
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Speaker 2: applications have already invested. Applicants rather invested their money and
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Speaker 2: been granted visas. Stuart Nash by the way, by comparison,
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Speaker 2: there was only just over one hundred and two and
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Speaker 2: a half years to this category. Stuart Nash, former Labor
28:48
Speaker 2: Cabinet minister who launched the Golden visas back in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty two, is with us this morning. Stuart. Good morning,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Roight.
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Speaker 5: How are you?
28:57
Speaker 4: Yeah?
28:57
Speaker 2: Good, thank you. So does this mean that the to
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Speaker 2: kick up the jaxi the listening of the rules is worked.
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Speaker 5: It seems to have worked. But it's also you know,
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Speaker 5: all the geopolitical uncertainty that's going on in the world
29:08
Speaker 5: at the moment. I mean, you've just talked to your
29:09
Speaker 5: guy about Iran and the US. We've got a lot
29:14
Speaker 5: of lot going on in American domestic politics. Obviously, we've
29:17
Speaker 5: got the British Prime Minister talk about putting his forces
29:20
Speaker 5: on you know, a sort of a higher alert. You've
29:23
Speaker 5: got the South China Sea, obviously, you've got the tinder
29:25
Speaker 5: box which is the Middle East. So you know, we're
29:28
Speaker 5: a bit of an oasis at the bottom of the
29:29
Speaker 5: world at the moment.
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Speaker 2: And this is potentially an eight hundred and forty five
29:33
Speaker 2: million dollars of new investment for US if they all convert.
29:36
Speaker 2: Do we know what the conversion rate normally is for
29:39
Speaker 2: visas like this.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's very high. Keeping in mind these people have
29:43
Speaker 5: to pay quite a lot of money to get the
29:44
Speaker 5: visa in the first place. They've gone through quite a
29:46
Speaker 5: rigorous process because the one thing that we wanted to
29:48
Speaker 5: ensure was that everyone coming to New Zealand had integrity.
29:52
Speaker 5: And by that I mean you've got to prove that
29:53
Speaker 5: the money you've got has been gained by legitimate means.
29:56
Speaker 5: You've got to do a health test, you got to
29:58
Speaker 5: do a police test. So it's quite a rigorous process
30:00
Speaker 5: to actually put the visa in. So the conversion rate
30:02
Speaker 5: is very high. From once you apply to the visas
30:05
Speaker 5: being submitted and then approval.
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Speaker 2: What did they do when they get here, Well, they've got.
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Speaker 5: Six months to invest in money, and keeping in mind
30:14
Speaker 5: a lot of these, well over fifty percent of coming
30:16
Speaker 5: from the United States. So you're allowed to put your
30:18
Speaker 5: money in a managed fun to start with, or you
30:20
Speaker 5: can put your money direct into equities or bonds or
30:23
Speaker 5: direct into a company if you really want. So there
30:26
Speaker 5: are two classes of people, really ryan. There are those
30:28
Speaker 5: who were seeking permanent residency who don't necessarily want to
30:31
Speaker 5: immigrate here, and then there are those who want to
30:34
Speaker 5: immigrate here two different pathways. So you know, if you're
30:37
Speaker 5: part of the growth category, you only have to spend
30:40
Speaker 5: three weeks over three years. But what we tend to
30:42
Speaker 5: find is that once you've invest in, you know, you're
30:45
Speaker 5: five million or you're three million in US, and you
30:48
Speaker 5: come over here after a while, you know, you fall
30:50
Speaker 5: in love with the place, and you tend to immigrate
30:52
Speaker 5: or spend more time here than the minimum.
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Speaker 2: This is a net positive for New zeal I mean,
30:58
Speaker 2: we're getting a lot of text thing and why do
30:59
Speaker 2: we need these rich Americans coming here who are escaping
31:02
Speaker 2: Trump and using us as some kind of bunker. I
31:05
Speaker 2: mean that the benefits to us far outweigh the costs
31:09
Speaker 2: of having right.
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Speaker 5: I don't see any downside to this. Now we're not
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Speaker 5: getting people coming here like Peter Tael. Remember that that
31:18
Speaker 5: very wealthy American who came over here, bought a property,
31:20
Speaker 5: was given citizenship after about eleven days. This is not
31:24
Speaker 5: that skin. These are people who are required to invest
31:28
Speaker 5: five million kre we or three million US and the
31:31
Speaker 5: growth fund or ten million care we or six million
31:33
Speaker 5: US and the balance fund. They're contributing in a way
31:37
Speaker 5: that adds value that now it's not just about the money. Also,
31:40
Speaker 5: for me, fifty percent of it is about the connections,
31:43
Speaker 5: the networks they experience, the competencies, the capabilities these men
31:46
Speaker 5: and women bring, and keeping in mind if they're actively investing,
31:51
Speaker 5: by and large, a lot of them take a very
31:53
Speaker 5: active interest in the companies they're investing in, so this
31:57
Speaker 5: is there is no downside. Also, keep in mind that
31:59
Speaker 5: they're not competing with Kiwis for faith houses. We're talking
32:02
Speaker 5: about the very wealthy here. They're not you know that
32:05
Speaker 5: they're buying down in Queenstown or up north or on
32:07
Speaker 5: the northern slopes of Humbey if they decide to immigrate here.
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Speaker 5: So that for me, there was absolutely no downside. And
32:14
Speaker 5: keeping in mind capital has always been mobile. These people
32:18
Speaker 5: are looking for a home for themselves. In the past,
32:21
Speaker 5: most have tax havens. At the moment a lot of
32:23
Speaker 5: them are seeking safe havens, which is what New Zealanders.
32:26
Speaker 5: But like I said, they're investing a lot of money here.
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Speaker 5: They've been part of our community, part of our economy,
32:31
Speaker 5: and there's a it's just fantastic, man. I think it's
32:35
Speaker 5: there's no downside.
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Speaker 2: Stuart, appreciate your time. This morning, Stuart Nash, former Labor
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Speaker 2: Cabinet minister. It is seven away from six News Talk, said,
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Speaker 2: Mike is here with your next Mike, good morning.
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Speaker 11: What would you be doing if you're on the one
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Speaker 11: fifteen this afternoon?
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Speaker 2: Auckland to Doha pulling out? Well, I mean it's not
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Speaker 2: going to be It's not going to be going anywhere,
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Speaker 2: is it. I don't know airports, well, airspace is closed.
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Speaker 11: So it's interesting when it starts to it starts to
33:14
Speaker 11: affect us home.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So you know, three hundred and sixty flights a
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Speaker 2: day and out of Doha, they said, and currently none
33:20
Speaker 2: of them are moving.
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Speaker 11: Interesting, interesting times. Oil You note the oil price are
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Speaker 11: gone backward?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I did, And do you know what?
33:26
Speaker 11: Do you know what I think that is? I think
33:28
Speaker 11: the world's seas are run for what they are, which
33:30
Speaker 11: is basically a busted flush performative. And we've been here
33:33
Speaker 11: many many times before, and therefore there is no panic.
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Speaker 2: They threatened to close the strait a couple of times.
33:38
Speaker 11: And they threw a lot of stuff.
33:40
Speaker 2: Plus you can apparently go through Aman's waters rather than
33:44
Speaker 2: theirs anyway to get through there. So but also the
33:47
Speaker 2: market's priced it all in so.
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Speaker 11: I think so too. So anyway, we'll talk about that
33:50
Speaker 11: in other matters this morning. Scott Robinson's with us, by
33:52
Speaker 11: the way.
33:52
Speaker 2: Oh nice for a catch up.
33:54
Speaker 11: Haven't talked to him all year?
33:55
Speaker 2: What do they do all yet?
33:56
Speaker 11: What's the all black coach literally do all year up
33:58
Speaker 11: until this particular point. I mean, obviously watch is super regular.
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Speaker 2: I supposed decide what he announced.
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Speaker 11: It's a lot of deciding, six months of deciding. Anyways,
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