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Full Show Podcast: 05 June 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Francesca Ruggin on
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Speaker 1: Early Edition with Spark for business technology that keeps business
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Speaker 2: Morning, welcome to Early Edition. I'm Francisca Rudkins filling in
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Speaker 2: for Ryan Bridge this week. You're most welcome to contact
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Speaker 2: me anytime this morning flicking your text on ninety two
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Speaker 2: to ninety two. You can email me at Francesca and
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Speaker 2: Newstalk THEIRB dot co dot MZ. On the show today,
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Speaker 2: we find out why construction activity is at a ten
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Speaker 2: year low. We look at what to expect from the
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Speaker 2: Super Rugby playoffs this weekend, and the House of Representatives
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Speaker 2: have voted has voted to limit President Trump's part in
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Speaker 2: a round. We talked about that before the end of
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Speaker 2: the hour as well.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the fifth of June. Donald Trump has head
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Speaker 2: back at lawmakers who voted to limit to the president's
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Speaker 2: power and run. He's calling it an unpatriotic vote.
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Speaker 4: Donald Trump described the four Republicans who supported the voter's
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Speaker 4: grandstandards and said they should be ashamed of themselves. Last month,
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Speaker 4: he was equally angery by a group of Republicans who
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Speaker 4: backed a similar vote in the Senate. But it is
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Speaker 4: another important sign that increasingly, as the president moves towards
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Speaker 4: the second half of his final term in office, some
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Speaker 4: are starting to feel emboldened to risk his wrath.
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Speaker 2: Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has rejected the ceasefire agreement between
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Speaker 2: Israel and Lebanon.
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Speaker 5: The government is adamant in exposition to find their solution,
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Speaker 5: an end to the war, that they have no say
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Speaker 5: on the ground. We've heard from the leader of Hesbalana
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Speaker 5: and Carsin calling these kind of folks shameless and humiliating
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Speaker 5: for the nation and rejecting the terms of this cease fire.
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Speaker 5: And in fact, before his statement came out, we've already
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Speaker 5: heard report of a Hesbela attack on Israeli forces inside Lebanon.
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Speaker 2: UK Prime Minister Kirs Stamer has expressed his frustration with
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk. Stamer has backed Labour mpgess Asato, who is
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Speaker 2: suing Mask's Xai over deck fake images of her. He's
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Speaker 2: also accused Mask of interfering over the comments on the
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Speaker 2: Henry Nowick case.
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Speaker 6: Musk again has been interfering in our politics in the
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Speaker 6: last few days, trying to whip up decision. That is
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Speaker 6: not who we are in Britain. In Britain, we are reasonable,
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Speaker 6: tolerant people. When we have a terrible case like Henry's
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Speaker 6: case Henry Novak, we react calmly as his family have done.
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Speaker 6: When it comes to disgusting images on rock. We take
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Speaker 6: rock on and fight because that's who we are as
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Speaker 6: a country.
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Speaker 2: And football fans are unhappy. Is FIFA Ben's reusable water
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Speaker 2: bottles from stadiums at the World Cup.
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Speaker 7: Fevera's position on water bottles at this World Cup appears
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Speaker 7: to have shifted multiple times. The late change has been
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Speaker 7: criticized with concerns it could increase plastic waste and make
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Speaker 7: it hard for supporters to stay properly hydrated in extreme heat.
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Speaker 1: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: Analysis Early edition with Francesca Rudkin and Spug for Business
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Speaker 1: Technology that keeps Business Moving, News Talks it' be.
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Speaker 2: It is nine past five now, being a Friday, I
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Speaker 2: thought I would give you a recommendation for something good
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Speaker 2: to watch on the tally heading into the weekend. I
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Speaker 2: cannot recommend enough Raffa on Netflix. Have you watched it?
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Speaker 2: I checked on Raffa probably because the French Open has
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Speaker 2: taken place right now. It's a tournament that Rafa nadel
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Speaker 2: one fourteen times. But I am really enjoying it. And
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Speaker 2: I know that some sports lovers are a little over
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Speaker 2: the selected narratives of Netflix sports drama slash docos these days.
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Speaker 2: And look, this is another very slickly produced number, but
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Speaker 2: it's really interesting. So I had no idea that as
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Speaker 2: a younger player, just as he was finding form and
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Speaker 2: becoming a grand Slam threat, Raffa discovered that he had
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Speaker 2: a foot condition that really should have put an end
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Speaker 2: to his career. But he dealt with it. He found
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Speaker 2: a play a way to play with it, and has
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Speaker 2: been playing in pain his whole career. I mean, you
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Speaker 2: would never believe it watching him slide across the court, right.
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Speaker 2: So the series is filled with great footage of as
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Speaker 2: a kid, as a teenager. They interview his long term
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Speaker 2: team and his family, his dad, and they talk a
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Speaker 2: lot about, of course, his uncle who was around a
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Speaker 2: statistic coat, and it leads to his retirement and the
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Speaker 2: difficulty of deciding when that should be. And of course
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Speaker 2: you get some fabulous tennis. You get to admire the
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Speaker 2: pirate pants and the sleeveless tanks. But if you want
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Speaker 2: to know what it takes to be the best, if
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Speaker 2: you want to understand the mindset of an elite player
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Speaker 2: and understand the sacrifices that are required to get there,
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Speaker 2: it is definitely worth the look. Just a little hint
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Speaker 2: if you're looking at your kid thinking yip, I've got
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Speaker 2: a tennis player in the making. They just need to
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Speaker 2: be obsessive. That's what I got from this documentary. But
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Speaker 2: highly recommend it, so check it out. Now is talking
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Speaker 2: about sport. We have the cricket on at the moment.
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Speaker 2: The black Caps are playing England at Lord's. England were
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Speaker 2: all out for one hundred and forty one day one,
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Speaker 2: and we got really excited and thought this is excellent.
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Speaker 2: Our bowlers were fantastic. I regret to form you that
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Speaker 2: New Zealand is now twelve for four. Yes, I have
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Speaker 2: not got that wrong. We are twelve for four. I
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Speaker 2: shall keep you updated throughout the hour. It is eleven
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Speaker 2: past five year with.
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Speaker 8: Early edition.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio. Early edition with
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Speaker 1: Francesca Rudge and Spark for Business Technology that keeps Business Moving,
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Speaker 1: News talks.
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Speaker 2: B It's five point thirteen data from Stats New Zealand
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Speaker 2: shows construction activities at a ten year low. The number
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Speaker 2: of ongoing jobs dropped three point five percent between the
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Speaker 2: December and March quarters. Residential activity fell two point two percent,
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Speaker 2: while non residential dropped four percent. Malcolm Fleming is the
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Speaker 2: CEO of New Zealand Certified Bill does and he joins
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Speaker 2: me this morning. Good morning, Malcolm, Good morning, Francesca. So
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Speaker 2: is it feeling like a ten year low? Is that
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Speaker 2: what you're seeing.
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Speaker 8: It's not feeling like a ten year low. Feels certainly
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Speaker 8: like challenging times are continuing, and we have had challenging
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Speaker 8: times this last couple of years, so those being the
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Speaker 8: last and ten years, it doesn't feel that way.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how much is the around war flowing the construction
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Speaker 2: construction sector?
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Speaker 8: So I know the biggest drop in construction activity was
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Speaker 8: in the commercial space. And it do get a sense
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Speaker 8: that some of those VARs jobs that have been keeping
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Speaker 8: some of those companies going for the last three or
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Speaker 8: four years, some of those big projects have been grinding
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Speaker 8: on while we've been in challenging times. By coming to
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Speaker 8: an end and some of those commercial contracts contractors, there's
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Speaker 8: no big project to replace them. So that's sort of
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Speaker 8: been playing out. But in the residential space that I
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Speaker 8: represent with these on certified dollors, we're seeing we're seeing
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Speaker 8: some really good signs at the tile end of last
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Speaker 8: year and into this year, that activity was starting to increase,
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Speaker 8: and we're seeing building contracts being downloaded to a great extent.
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Speaker 8: Employment contract has been taken out by builders, et cetera.
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Speaker 8: So some confidence returning to the market that's been extinguished
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Speaker 8: to a good degree by their war of course, and
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Speaker 8: consumer confidence has dropped a little bit. But talking to
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Speaker 8: members just yesterday and I had the regional leadership around
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Speaker 8: the country, about twenty five builders in the room, there's
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Speaker 8: certainly the pipeline of work in front of them is
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Speaker 8: starting to reduce, so baut yesterday those with more than
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Speaker 8: eight months with the work in front of them is
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Speaker 8: certainly less than it was back say in March, for example.
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Speaker 8: But they're just they're adapting. Talking to a builder in
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Speaker 8: Taranaki yesterday, they're unsuccessful at the new house. It managed
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Speaker 8: to pick up a commercial for it out so that
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Speaker 8: they normally do. So they've got that ability to adapt
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Speaker 8: and do works that they don't talk typically do just to.
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Speaker 2: Keep on going, Malcolm, how quickly can the industry turn around.
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Speaker 8: There's a lot of capacity within the industry to be
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Speaker 8: able to get on to do works. So think about
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Speaker 8: our members in particular, they've got their core groups that
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Speaker 8: they continue to keep going. They are looking for additional work.
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Speaker 8: They can flex and move with additional demand quite quickly
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Speaker 8: as we ramp up. The big problem here, of course,
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Speaker 8: is looking further down the track in terms of people
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Speaker 8: that are coming into training. So we've lost a lot
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Speaker 8: of people to training over the last couple of years,
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Speaker 8: and that's a future pipeline of s called workers.
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Speaker 2: Okay, when you talk about the commercial pipeline and sort
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Speaker 2: of it's sort of drying up a little bit. Do
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Speaker 2: we know why that is or is that just is
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Speaker 2: it just sort of something that happens. It's a cychical thing.
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Speaker 8: We've lost a lot of central government works. It was
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Speaker 8: stopped for a number of years go, and of course
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Speaker 8: we talked about earlier, those existing projects kept on grinding
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Speaker 8: on through, but they're not being replaced. In the commercial
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Speaker 8: area as well, which is the main of say apartment buildings.
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Speaker 8: There's not a lot of the apartments being built because
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Speaker 8: they're not the demand for it. So we again getting
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Speaker 8: back to that whole infrastructure discussion, gushing commitment for long
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Speaker 8: term infrastructure build hospitals and schools via stations, universities and
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Speaker 8: those sorts of thoughts.
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Speaker 2: WelCom Fleming, thank you so much for your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: Really appreciate it. It is seventeen past five. You're with
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Speaker 2: News Talks AB.
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Speaker 3: Before the news breaks. Here at first.
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Speaker 1: Francesca Rugkin on early edition with Spark for Business, technology
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: Big weekend for rugby. We are into the playoffs. Four
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Speaker 2: key WE teams will be fighting to stay in the
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Speaker 2: Super Rugby playoffs. Tonight the Hurricanes take on the Brumbys.
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Speaker 2: The Crusaders go head to head with the Blues at
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Speaker 2: a sold out One New Zealand Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Then Sunday night, the Chiefs will try and take down
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Speaker 2: the Reds. Sports commendator Sam Ackman is worth me now.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Sam, Yeah, very good morning. How many key
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Speaker 2: WE teams are going to survive the weekend?
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Speaker 9: Well, in a funny way, all of them. The playoff system,
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Speaker 9: even though there's only six teams, there's three games that
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Speaker 9: the three winners will advance to the semi finals and
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Speaker 9: quite unquoite lucky loser and there'll be the highest ranked loser.
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Speaker 9: So if everything goes to plan, and it kind of
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Speaker 9: looks like it will that you expect the Hurricanes to
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Speaker 9: continue their strong ways. Last week was a bit of
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Speaker 9: a blip with resting semi players, but they used to
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Speaker 9: be far too strong for the Brumbies as the top
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Speaker 9: team in the comp. The Chiefs again, will you imagine,
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Speaker 9: will march on their merry way against the Reds Crusaders.
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Speaker 9: Blues Crusaders will be hot, hot favorites. The Blues haven't
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Speaker 9: done anything of any note in about a month now,
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Speaker 9: which is the Blues man is very hard to say, Francisca.
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Speaker 9: But the fact of the matter is they'll lose and
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Speaker 9: they'll be playing next week, so there is something on
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Speaker 9: the line, of course, but it feels a little by
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Speaker 9: that stage they could know their fate already.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So if we've got the Hurricanes and the Crusaders
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Speaker 2: and the Chiefs through, are the Blues in line to
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Speaker 2: be the lucky loser?
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Speaker 3: Do we know that that's right?
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Speaker 9: They are because in the rankings they finished fourth.
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Speaker 3: So should there be some upsets of the Applecarts.
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Speaker 9: Should the Brumbies or the Reds be able to achieve
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Speaker 9: a real upset, it would be a massive one. Then
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Speaker 9: the Blues losing would see them on the way out.
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Speaker 9: So it is an intriguing balance in that way. But
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Speaker 9: because those first two games see so lay down, it
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Speaker 9: does feel like we already know what's going to happen
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Speaker 9: in the semi finals.
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Speaker 3: But it sports the funny thing. We can't predict it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, as much as it does pain me to
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Speaker 2: say this, but you are probably the right. The Crusaders
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Speaker 2: should win their match against the Blues.
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Speaker 3: Yes, this is their sweet spot.
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Speaker 9: Francesca given to the playoffs and they become a different
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Speaker 9: team and they are the most successful Super Rapy franchise
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Speaker 9: for a reason. They did win the title last year.
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Speaker 9: Their coach Rob Pennies on his way out and you know,
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Speaker 9: there's all eggs in one basket there to achieve this.
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Speaker 9: They've got players who are used to that level of experience.
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Speaker 9: It's the Blues just is. They've got all the talent there.
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Speaker 9: Unfortunately they've been misfiring for the best part of a
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Speaker 9: month now. It would be an extraordinary reversal of form.
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Speaker 3: They are so far, they're bigger outsiders.
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Speaker 9: To win the title now finishing fourth and six teams
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Speaker 9: left than they were when there was the entire comp
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Speaker 9: in pre season.
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Speaker 3: That shows exactly where they are.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we've got it, We've got the picture.
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Speaker 3: It hurts.
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Speaker 2: It hurt does the Hurricanes talking about changing up your squad?
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Speaker 2: They're bringing back a lot of rested players and things.
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Speaker 2: Is that an issue to sort of change the team?
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Speaker 9: It can, absolutely can be in many sports and situations
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Speaker 9: like that, it makes sense to rest players. It has
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Speaker 9: found out when they've played Will Jordan, they've lost him
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Speaker 9: now for the rest of the Super season and it
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Speaker 9: will affect the all backs as well. Was it worth
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Speaker 9: in a game where they were going to finish birth anyway?
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Speaker 9: Allow somebody like a Ruben Love to go out there
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Speaker 9: and potentially knock on what hurt themselves.
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Speaker 3: No, it's not.
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Speaker 9: So they did the right by the standards, but they
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Speaker 9: need to make sure that that little gap in momentum
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Speaker 9: isn't really the wrong thing. You ask any athlete if
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Speaker 9: a break is a good thing over momentum, most of
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Speaker 9: them go, do you know what, I'd love to freshen up?
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Speaker 9: So our host of big names came back and they
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Speaker 9: should be just flying against the Brumbies. The Brumbies have
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Speaker 9: produced some of the best results from Australian side against
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Speaker 9: New Zealand teams this season, but it feels like that
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Speaker 9: ship has sailed.
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Speaker 2: Okay, A question to better ask at the end of
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Speaker 2: the weekend, but who do you think could potentially take
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Speaker 2: out the title this year?
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Speaker 9: It's the Hurricanes to lose Derbia if they don't want
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Speaker 9: it after the dominant season they have, that will be
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Speaker 9: a huge misopportunity, especially when they have seventy players on
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Speaker 9: the way out the door to take up overseas contracts.
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Speaker 9: So this is a window in time that they really
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Speaker 9: need to capitalize on. But there's honestly, anything outside of
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Speaker 9: the Hurricanes, Chiefs or Crusaders is pretty much unthinkable. So
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Speaker 9: all those sides given in a final, it could be
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Speaker 9: anyone's game. But I definitely wouldn't put any money anywhere
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Speaker 9: else than the Hurricanes right now.
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Speaker 3: They are the top dog.
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Speaker 2: Sam Ackman, enjoy your weekend of rugby. Thank you so
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Speaker 2: very much for your feedback. Construction industry pretty much stuffed.
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Speaker 2: One text reads nearly everyone who can afford a house
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Speaker 2: Keep the text coming. You can text on ninety two
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Speaker 2: ninety two. It is twenty two to six.
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Speaker 1: Will it be okay?
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Speaker 2: Let's head around the country now and joining us from Dunedin.
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Speaker 2: Hannah Fake good morning, Hannah, good morning. So tell me
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Speaker 2: what snow sports event is making its way to the South.
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Speaker 11: Wow snow Leaks expanding its footprints setting at sits on Queenstown.
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Speaker 11: A new pre season installment of the global snow sports
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Speaker 11: event called snow League World Challenge will be held at
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Speaker 11: Kadrona in September. It will show case sixteen athletes across
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Speaker 11: free ski and snowboarding halfpipe events. The competition's part of
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Speaker 11: the government's forty million dollar Events Attractions package. The invitation
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Speaker 11: only pulled that's helped fund events like last month's World
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Speaker 11: Surf leag to it in Raglan. Tourism Minister Louise Upstin
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Speaker 11: says this will help to lock in New Zealand as
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Speaker 11: a world class events destination.
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Speaker 2: And in Eden's weather today, Hannah partly.
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Speaker 11: Cloudy, claring to find this afternoon northerly east, turning westerly
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Speaker 11: in the evening high of seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so so much, Hannah, have a good day.
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Speaker 2: Joining us now from christ Church. Claire shaw Sherwood, Good morning, Claire,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Okay, So in new christ Church campus the
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Speaker 2: Tigo University. Where is this going to be?
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Speaker 12: Yes, this is the new y Order Building. It's on
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Speaker 12: the banks of the Avon River, just down from christ
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Speaker 12: Church Hospital and the good news is it's nearing completion.
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Speaker 12: This will bring staff together from eleven separate sites and
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Speaker 12: will expand the university's teaching space by twenty percent. It
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Speaker 12: will serve as a hub for medical and physiotherapy students,
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Speaker 12: as well as nursing and health science post grads. This
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Speaker 12: has been under construction since twenty twenty two, though the
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Speaker 12: plans for it started before the christ Church earthquakes, and
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Speaker 12: it will finally open this September. Faculty of Medicine Head
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Speaker 12: Professor Suzanne Pee Tamer says this will expand the university's
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Speaker 12: ability to undertake some world class research as well as
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Speaker 12: clinical trials across a wide range of health challenges.
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Speaker 2: And the weather in christ Church today Claire mostly cloudy.
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Speaker 12: We could see some scattered rainabouts a bit later. Northeasterly
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Speaker 12: is dying out and the high should be twenty.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Rosie Leishman is in Wellington and
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Speaker 2: joins us now. Good morning, Good morning, Some good news
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Speaker 2: for Potador rate payers.
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Speaker 13: Yes, so, Potador City Council is projecting an average zero
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Speaker 13: percent non water rates rise, down from a previous proposal
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Speaker 13: of four percent. It is an average and there may
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Speaker 13: be small increases and even decreases for some rate payers.
21:22
Speaker 13: Rate Payers will still face pachy wise water changes and
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Speaker 13: Greater Wellington Regional Council rates which are estimated to be
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Speaker 13: an average of around two hundred and twenty thousand dollars
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Speaker 13: a year. Mayor Anita Baker says it will be done
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Speaker 13: without cutting services or reducing maintenance work. She says it's
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Speaker 13: a great result for households facing economic pressure.
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Speaker 2: And Wellington's weather today.
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Speaker 13: Periods of heavy rain with possible thunderstorms today over the
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Speaker 13: early morning and evening with gusty northerlies in a high
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Speaker 13: of sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Rosie and joining me now on
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Speaker 2: the Augland studio near a ready Mane. Good morning, Good
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Speaker 2: morning RANCHESCA. Okay, so we've got a near miss between
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Speaker 2: two trains in Auckland. Yes it doesn't sound.
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Speaker 14: Ideal, not very good at all. But this near miss
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Speaker 14: of the two trains in Auckland is being blamed on
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Speaker 14: a failure to follow track warnings and safety protocols. So
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Speaker 14: a freight train past a stop signal came within two
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Speaker 14: hundred and fifty meters of a passenger train early last year.
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Speaker 14: So we know that distraction, route, unfamiliarity, limited track sideques
22:23
Speaker 14: are all cited. This isn't a new report. Transport Accident
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Speaker 14: Investigation Commission Chief investigator. That's Louise Cook. She says, look,
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Speaker 14: the consequences could have been far worse. She says that
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Speaker 14: while the freight train did end up hitting the emergency stop,
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Speaker 14: the risk of a collision was grater due to it
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Speaker 14: not doing it straight away or heating the warnings in
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Speaker 14: front of them.
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Speaker 2: You need to drawing a bit of paper anymore. Well, no,
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Speaker 2: I always like to do surprise. You can read it
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Speaker 2: there so much, There so many squiggles all over that
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Speaker 2: bit of paper. Can you read the weather for aucklrind today?
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Speaker 14: I did highlight it, but oh yes I can. I
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Speaker 14: can just just occasional rain, strong northerly is becoming heavier
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Speaker 14: in the afternoon, possible squawly thunderstorms, still warm. Twenty is
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Speaker 14: the high and I've just got a save Francisco. I
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Speaker 14: heard you mention about producer Carrie Shaw just before five thirty. Oh,
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Speaker 14: the producer of the year, the producer of the year
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Speaker 14: at the Radio Awards last night.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, I.
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Speaker 14: Have to say New Storks did very well winning Station
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Speaker 14: of the Year, and here the duples Cyllen Broadcaster of
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Speaker 14: the Year, and lots of others like Marcus Last and
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Speaker 14: blah blah blah. But Carrie sure a producer of the Year,
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Speaker 14: your producer. She's just so deserving. She works so hard
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Speaker 14: and there's just one of her, one producer. There is
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Speaker 14: not a cast of that.
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Speaker 2: There is having to manage me having that's I mean,
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Speaker 2: that's that's a handful, right.
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Speaker 14: Or she needs five awards for that alone. But I
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Speaker 14: just said to her, well done. I said, what are
23:42
Speaker 14: you going to do today? And she said, well, I
23:44
Speaker 14: think I'm going to take the children out for brunch
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Speaker 14: to celebrate us. We'll have a cheeky mimosa.
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Speaker 2: Cheeky I think, so we have. We we both obviously
23:51
Speaker 2: had to get up very early this morning because carry's
23:53
Speaker 2: filling in here on early editions. So yes, we will
23:55
Speaker 2: at some point have a good celebration. But yeah, no,
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Speaker 2: very deserving. I completely agree. Thank you so much, Neva.
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Speaker 2: We're going to head off to Europe and the UK next.
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Speaker 2: It is seventeen to six you with early edition, and
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Speaker 2: just a moment we are going to talk to Jeffrey Price.
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Speaker 2: And of course this is there's quite a lot going
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Speaker 2: on at the moment. Obviously, overnight we heard that Hezbollah
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Speaker 2: has rejected the Israel Lebanon truce. They've rejected this US
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Speaker 2: broken ceasefire plan agreed by the Lebanese and Israeli governments,
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Speaker 2: throwing the future of the truce in Lebanon and the
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Speaker 2: regional peace negotiations into questions. That the group's leader has
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Speaker 2: called the ceasefire plan a roadmap to annihilate part of
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Speaker 2: the Lebanese people in a statement delivered on Thursday, he
24:39
Speaker 2: demanded a complete cease fire and withdrawal of Israeli troops
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Speaker 2: from Lebanon, and said that as long as Lebanese villages
24:45
Speaker 2: were being bombed, northern Israel would not be safe. So
24:50
Speaker 2: as long as the occupation exists, the resistance will continue,
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Speaker 2: he said, and they're going to call upon the officials
24:56
Speaker 2: to put an end to this farce and humiliation called
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Speaker 2: wrecked negotiations. The Lebanese Prime Minister, of course, has responded
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Speaker 2: and said that a delay or rejecting the sea spar
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Speaker 2: will bear the responsibility for those who are sorry. Delaying
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Speaker 2: or rejecting the cea spar will bear the responsibility for
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Speaker 2: the consequences, and that negotiations were the best option ahead
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Speaker 2: of Lebanon. And this is of course, all on top
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Speaker 2: of the trouble that President Trump is having back at home,
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Speaker 2: because it's pretty clear to see that I think even
25:31
Speaker 2: members of his administration are getting to the point where
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Speaker 2: they are just a little bit concerned that maybe Trump
25:38
Speaker 2: now finds himself in a bit of a bind over Iran.
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Speaker 2: And then of course we have also seen that the
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Speaker 2: House of Representatives has voted to limit Trump's power in Iran.
25:49
Speaker 2: Four Republicans have crossed party lines to support Democratic led resolution.
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Speaker 2: It passed two hundred and fifteen to two hundred and
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Speaker 2: eight after three attempts already this year. It now moves
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Speaker 2: to the Jeffrey Price is a senior fellow at the
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Speaker 2: Foreign Policy Institute at the John Hopkins School of Advanced
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Speaker 2: International Studies, and he joins me, Now, good morning, Jeffrey.
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Speaker 15: Good morning, Francesca.
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Speaker 3: How are you.
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Speaker 2: I'm really good, thank you. Will this actually rain Trump
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Speaker 2: in or is it a largely symbolic at this stage?
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Speaker 15: Well, it is symbolic, but it's very important. I mean,
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Speaker 15: the way the law is set up. One, this resolution
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Speaker 15: had to come up, and that that was something that's
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Speaker 15: been on the agenda for some time now. But it
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Speaker 15: will go to the Senate. It will not legally it
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Speaker 15: will require President Trump to sign it, which he will
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Speaker 15: not do for it to become legally effective. But it's
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Speaker 15: very important politically because what it's showing is basically the
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Speaker 15: tide is turning, that Congress is beginning to reassert its
26:49
Speaker 15: authority in foreign affairs, and also that I think that
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Speaker 15: some patients with the progress in ending the war in Iran,
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Speaker 15: it's beginning to become exhausted.
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Speaker 2: Will it pass in the Scenate?
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Speaker 15: It very likely could some version of this. It's a
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Speaker 15: little bit harder in the Senate because the margin is,
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Speaker 15: i say, the greater in favor of the Republicans. But
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Speaker 15: there's a decent.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, and we have lost Jeffrey. We will try
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Speaker 2: and get Jeffrey back. Are you there, Jeffrey. We will
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Speaker 2: try and get Jeffrey back. Totting much luck with the
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Speaker 2: phones this week. Here he is again. I think have
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Speaker 2: we got on there? Thank you very much, Jeffrey, you're there?
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Speaker 15: Yes, here, I am sorry.
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Speaker 2: Sorry about that. No, No, I think it was oured.
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Speaker 2: So I was just wondering, if it does pass in
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Speaker 2: the Senate, does that make it even more significant? Really
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Speaker 2: gets the point to cross because, as you make the point,
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Speaker 2: even if it does pass, them both changes lawmaker. You know,
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Speaker 2: the lawmakers don't necessarily legally have the power to force
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Speaker 2: the president to withdraw troops or act.
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Speaker 15: No, it will be very significant because it's not just
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Speaker 15: the Iran War. For instance, you just saw yesterday in
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Speaker 15: the House there was another measure that passed with regard
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Speaker 15: to the Russian War in Ukraine, which had been blocked
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Speaker 15: by the White House, and that passed by a slightly
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Speaker 15: larger margin, imposing sanctions on Russia and providing some assistance
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Speaker 15: to Ukraine. So in another area, it looks like the
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Speaker 15: Congress is beginning to act more independently of the White
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Speaker 15: House into asserted its role in foreign policy in ways
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Speaker 15: that the White House has not been supportive of in
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Speaker 15: the past.
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Speaker 2: So what changed for these four Republicans to cross over?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 15: A few things. Some chickens are coming home to roost.
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Speaker 15: Some people have incurred the wrath of President Trump. For instance,
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Speaker 15: Representative Massey lost his primary, but he's still in Congress
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Speaker 15: for another six months and so he's free to do
28:51
Speaker 15: as he sees fit. And I think the impending elections
28:56
Speaker 15: are beginning to weigh on people's minds. We're going to
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Speaker 15: have midterm congressional elections in November, and so every member
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Speaker 15: of Congress and third of the Senators will be up
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Speaker 15: for reelection. The war in Iran is not very popular,
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Speaker 15: so that may be another factor that that's that that's
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Speaker 15: making a difference. And again, Congress is very narrowly divided.
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Speaker 15: The Republicans have a majority that allows them only to
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Speaker 15: lose three votes to maintain the majority, and for lose
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Speaker 15: four votes, they're in the minority. So it's a very
29:30
Speaker 15: it's a very narrowly divided Congress, and most people expect
29:35
Speaker 15: in November that the Republicans will lose control of one
29:38
Speaker 15: or both houses of Congress. So I think that's beginning
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Speaker 15: to be felt as well.
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Speaker 2: Trump has responded, calling the vote against him meaningless and unpatriotic.
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Speaker 2: Will he be feeling the pressure here?
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Speaker 5: Is?
29:47
Speaker 7: There?
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Speaker 2: Is there grow and concerned inside the administration that Trump
29:50
Speaker 2: now finds himself in a bind over Iran.
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Speaker 15: He is in a difficult position because I think that
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Speaker 15: in general, the White House would like to bring this
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Speaker 15: war to a successful conclusion, but the enemy gets a vote.
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Speaker 15: As we're saying, the Pentagon and the Iranians are not
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Speaker 15: really cooperating in providing the deal that Trump would like.
30:11
Speaker 15: And he's in a bit of a bind domestically as well,
30:15
Speaker 15: because not only is he losing support on continuing the war,
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Speaker 15: but on the other hand, there are Republicans who are
30:21
Speaker 15: also critical of him coming to a deal on the
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Speaker 15: Iran nuclear program that doesn't meet all of the sort
30:29
Speaker 15: of ambitious standards that were applied to Obama's nuclear deal.
30:33
Speaker 15: So it's a harder row for President Trump to hoe
30:38
Speaker 15: than perhaps he might have experienced with either the previous
30:44
Speaker 15: bombing striking Iran last year or the operation in Venezuela.
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Speaker 15: So I do think that there's increasing pressure.
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Speaker 3: On the president.
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Speaker 2: Jeffrey militant group Hiszbollah has rejected the ceasefire agreement between
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Speaker 2: Israel and Lebanon overnight. What impacts it's going to have.
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Speaker 15: So for the United States, the principal issue is Iran,
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Speaker 15: but for Iran, Lebanon is a part of the larger conflict,
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Speaker 15: and for Israel even more so because for Israel, people
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Speaker 15: in northern Israel are within missile range of Hesbala. So
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Speaker 15: this is an important part for each party, but in
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Speaker 15: a different priority. And the problem is that Hesbalah is
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Speaker 15: a Lebanese organization, but it has its own army and
31:27
Speaker 15: it probably responds more to the Iranian government than it
31:30
Speaker 15: does with the Lebanese government. So it's a complicated situation
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Speaker 15: we are now with the United States are now in
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Speaker 15: negotiation with the government of Lebanon, with the government of
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Speaker 15: Lebanon and the government of Israel to get them together.
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Speaker 15: That would be great. The big issue is getting Hesbalah,
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Speaker 15: which is the real threat to Israel to submit to
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Speaker 15: the authority of a Lebanese government.
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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Price really appreciate your time this morning. Thank you
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Speaker 2: so much. Now, if you've just joined us, I mentioned
31:55
Speaker 2: earlier at the beginning of the show that obviously the
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Speaker 2: black Caps applying England at Lord's. It is day one.
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Speaker 2: We got England out for one hundred and forty. We
32:04
Speaker 2: were feeling really good. But I have a terrible feeling
32:08
Speaker 2: that New Zealand's innings could be over just in the
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Speaker 2: space of this show. So New Zealand is now thirty
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Speaker 2: one for six. Yes, that is correct. If you're just
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Speaker 2: joining us, New Zealand is thirty one for six. Leave
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Speaker 2: it at that, It is six to six.
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Speaker 1: Francesca Rudkin on early edition with Spunk for business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving, the use talks that'd.
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Speaker 2: Be coming up at six d plus. Ellen in for
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Speaker 2: my costing and she joins me, Now, good morning morning, Cranchhi.
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Speaker 2: We we're just talking about the fact that the black
32:41
Speaker 2: Caps are thirty two for six. And you said to me,
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Speaker 2: is this a mental mental collapse? And mental you know
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Speaker 2: what I blame for this? Same well, gentle parenting.
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Speaker 1: No, no, but I do.
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Speaker 6: Look.
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Speaker 10: I think I think when you look at something like this,
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Speaker 10: like this is inexplicable. We thirty six for six, and
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Speaker 10: I think what happens is it is a mental collapse
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Speaker 10: because mental stuff is so much part of people's success
33:06
Speaker 10: on the sports field. And so you're watching all these
33:08
Speaker 10: top order batsmen fall over, so you're number seven or
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Speaker 10: five or whatever, you think, well, if they fell over
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Speaker 10: for ducks, I'm going down.
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Speaker 2: And cricket's one of those interesting sports sports. Even though
33:17
Speaker 2: it's a team sport, actually you're out there as really
33:19
Speaker 2: as an individual. Yeah, it's quite unusual in that sense. Absolutely.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's like it's basically like being a tennis player.
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Speaker 2: But I have no words for how we got here.
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Speaker 2: At the beginning of our show, we actually thought that
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Speaker 2: this innings could be over just within early edition, which
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Speaker 2: is yeah, it's definitely going to be over, and you're
33:36
Speaker 2: going to cover all sorts of things, this warning, the ceasefire,
33:38
Speaker 2: foreign teachers, super Rugby, it's all on. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be Award winning Standard Radio Broadcaster of the Year. Congratulations
33:48
Speaker 2: by the way, in to your producer, carry and pretty good, amazing,
33:51
Speaker 2: have a great day. I'll be back on Sunday with
33:53
Speaker 2: the Sunday Session.
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