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Full Show Podcast: 12 June 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Francesca Rudkin on
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Speaker 1: Early Edition with Mark for business Technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 2: At a six past five. Welcome to Early Edition. I'm
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Speaker 2: Francisca Rudkin filling in for Ryan Bridge this week. Coming
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Speaker 2: up on the show, we hear how ACT is planning
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Speaker 2: on reducing rural crime. The fief for wil Cup twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty six kicks off this morning. Jason Pine on the
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Speaker 2: game's worth catching and it's on again between the US
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Speaker 2: and Iran. So what next? You're most welcome to contact
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Speaker 2: me anytime this morning Flip near text on ninety two
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Speaker 1: The agenda, it's fine.
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Speaker 2: Out of twelfth of June. In the Middle East, Trump
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Speaker 2: says the US has dropped two hundred and fifty million
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Speaker 2: US dollars worth of bombs on I Ran. He's also
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Speaker 2: talked up taking cag Island, the run's key oil terminal.
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Speaker 3: Look, my preference has always been take carg Island, I said.
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Speaker 4: My preference would be that I don't know that is
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Speaker 4: the stomach for it. To be honest with you.
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Speaker 2: In response, Iran has again moved to close the straight
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Speaker 2: upr moves and to the UK Now, Defense Secretary John
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Speaker 2: Healey has resigned from Kerstarmer's government. He told the PM
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Speaker 2: in a letter that the defense investment plan falls well
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Speaker 2: short of what is required for defense and the country
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Speaker 2: at this dangerous time.
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Speaker 5: He has done the honorable thing and resigned. I am
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Speaker 5: glad that he agrees with me that we need to
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Speaker 5: put more money into defans. But what is shocking is
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Speaker 5: what he's written in his letter, where he says that
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Speaker 5: the Prime Minister is making the country less safe and
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Speaker 5: putting our troops at risk at a time of increasing threats.
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Speaker 2: After years undergoing extensive renovations, Mexico City's iconic Aztec Stadium
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Speaker 2: is already to kick off the biggest feef of World
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Speaker 2: Cup in history, a title of one hundred and four
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Speaker 2: matches featuring forty eight teams spread across sixteen venues in
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Speaker 2: sixteen cities in three North American countries, the United States,
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Speaker 2: Mexico and.
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Speaker 6: Can It's the pride of being part of a very
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Speaker 6: small part of a very big team that we'll deliver
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Speaker 6: one of the biggest spectacles in the history of the world.
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Speaker 2: Mexico and South Africa kickoff at seven am New Zealand
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Speaker 2: time this morning.
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Speaker 1: Heurrett first Francesca Rudkin on early edition with Spark for
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Speaker 1: business technology that keeps business moving, news talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be eight past five. So I don't really follow football.
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Speaker 2: I think I was traumatized after having to coach my
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Speaker 2: son's year seven and eight grade football teams. But look,
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Speaker 2: I love a World Cup any sort, especially in winter.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 2: It's just something to watch, and according to the FIFA President,
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Speaker 2: this World Cup is simply the greatest event that humanity
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Speaker 2: that mankind has ever seen and will see. I'm not
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Speaker 2: quite as hyped as him, but I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of people will jump on board this World Cup once
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Speaker 2: the All Whites take the field, and once we throw
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Speaker 2: some of thereliminary rounds and maybe drop from forty eighteens
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Speaker 2: to thirty two. Okay, so maybe when there's sixteen left
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Speaker 2: that might be more manageable, and probably when I will
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Speaker 2: get involved. My stance is that at home we are
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Speaker 2: oversubscribed when it comes to streaming services at the moment,
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Speaker 2: and since I am the Minister of Finance in our house,
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Speaker 2: I said no to paying for the TVNZ package, but
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Speaker 2: I gave in last night after being convinced it would
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Speaker 2: be well watched and as good value, which is probably true.
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Speaker 2: And I wonder what the numbers are for TVNZ how
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Speaker 2: many people have purchased it. I reckon most people will
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Speaker 2: leave it to the last minute like me and given
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Speaker 2: and buy it. Anyway, we are now all in in
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Speaker 2: our household, so I thought I'd better get my head
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Speaker 2: around the main contenders. So of course I turned to
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Speaker 2: chat GPT and I asked it to tell me who
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Speaker 2: could likely make the top four. And based on a
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Speaker 2: combination of FIFA rankings, betting markets, expert panels, squad strength,
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Speaker 2: and recent tournament performances, these are the top four contenders
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Speaker 2: for the World Cup this year. Spain reuniting, reigning, of course,
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Speaker 2: UEFA Euro twenty twenty four champions, arguably the best balanced
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Speaker 2: squad in world football. According to chat GPT, France ranked
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Speaker 2: among the world's top teams and possess exceptional depth at
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Speaker 2: every position. Brazil, historically the most successful World Cup nation
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Speaker 2: in England that has one of the deepest squads in
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Speaker 2: the tournament. Just outside the top four, Argentina came into
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Speaker 2: the mix as well. Defending champions experts though placed them
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Speaker 2: behind Brazil and England due to the squad age, which
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Speaker 2: I presume means you're all a bit old for footballers
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Speaker 2: and the difficulty of winning back to back World Cups.
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Speaker 2: So I want your opinion on this. Is this on
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Speaker 2: the money? What do you think there are going to
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Speaker 2: be some wonderful underdog stories that we can all get behind.
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Speaker 2: Text on ninety two ninety two and we do have
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Speaker 2: a professional coming in shortly to give us his thoughts.
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Speaker 2: Jason Pine will be with us soon. It is eleven past.
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Speaker 1: Five before the news breaks here at first Francesca Rudkin
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Speaker 1: on early edition with Spark for this technology that keeps
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Speaker 1: business moving, news talks there'd be.
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Speaker 2: It is thirteen past five. I can not on my own.
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Speaker 2: Quite a few of you are saying that once we
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Speaker 2: get down to the last sixteen you'll start watching. That
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Speaker 2: feels manageable, doesn't it. When it comes to the FEFA
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Speaker 2: Rugby Football World Cup. Okay, Acts taking a tougher stance
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Speaker 2: on rural crime, The party wants an extra one hundred
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Speaker 2: thousand police hours a year, along with the dedicated Rural
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Speaker 2: Crime Unit Armed poachers would face heavier penalties and text
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Speaker 2: two one one one services would be expanded. It comes
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Speaker 2: as rural crime continues to rise, with sixty seven percent
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Speaker 2: of farmers now reporting they've been hit from forty one
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Speaker 2: percent a decade ago. Andrew Hoggart is at party agricultural
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Speaker 2: spokesperson and he joins me, Now, good morning, Andrew.
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Speaker 4: Oh, good morning, Francesca.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So if we want to clock one hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: extra patrol hours and we want to have a dedicated
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Speaker 2: rural crime unit, how many more police officers are we
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Speaker 2: going to need.
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Speaker 4: We worked it out to be somewhere on the range
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Speaker 4: of one hundred and eighty two I think was the number,
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Speaker 4: although it could be my memory could be a bit
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Speaker 4: faidy on that one. Certainly worked out the costs of
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Speaker 4: training and equipping. We'd look at around forty to forty
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Speaker 4: five million first year, and they're thirty to thirty five
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Speaker 4: million each year after, and so it's about, you know,
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Speaker 4: that's sort of target we want to move towards and
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Speaker 4: you know, hopefully get there to just increase that place
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Speaker 4: of visibility in the rural areas.
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Speaker 2: Where's that money coming from?
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Speaker 4: So we'd look to other savings within anywhere within government.
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Speaker 4: You know, there's plenty of things that if I was
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Speaker 4: let loose on the entire budget, I could put a
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Speaker 4: red line through where I think I could find better
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Speaker 4: use for it doing this sort of stuff that New
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Speaker 4: Zealanders really care about.
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Speaker 2: Got any idea at the moment where you put that
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Speaker 2: red line?
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Speaker 4: I think is I've seen on a regular basis lots
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Speaker 4: of stuff, but I wouldn't want to comment on that
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Speaker 4: be literally that for coalition negotiations.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, is there enough entry in the recruitment stage to
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Speaker 2: meet that demand that?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, it's certainly been tough. You've seen this year
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Speaker 4: this team, there's been that target around five hundred and
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Speaker 4: obviously there's been a lot of competition from Australia for
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Speaker 4: those police. So I mean, for us, this is a
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Speaker 4: target we want to move towards, and I think it's
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Speaker 4: important that we have the aim of getting there and train, train,
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Speaker 4: encourage as many people as we can to join the
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Speaker 4: police and fill those ranks. I think I've got a
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Speaker 4: niece that's still quite keen in the next couple of
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Speaker 4: years to join up.
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Speaker 2: So who knows, excellent Andrew, can I ask when it
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Speaker 2: comes to stolen livestock. How many do people sort of
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Speaker 2: steal at a time. Is it cost a lot to
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Speaker 2: track them down or do they end up in a
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Speaker 2: freezer pretty quick?
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Speaker 4: Well, this is pretty one of the challenges. He's actually
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Speaker 4: been a case and this is sort of why I've
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Speaker 4: got some of these policies in here. And recently some
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Speaker 4: farm is not too far away from me came to
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Speaker 4: me with a case of they've lost over hundred animals,
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Speaker 4: them and their neighbors to someone who was they thought
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Speaker 4: they trusted, but was removing the official tags, replacing them
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Speaker 4: with their own tags and fudging the records, and effectively
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Speaker 4: the punishment in the end was pretty weak for their
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Speaker 4: person and also the system. And that's why we talk
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Speaker 4: about we want to increase interagency sort of coordination. Just
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Speaker 4: there wasn't able to be a decent prosecution in the end,
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Speaker 4: and so we're going to look to improve that system. So,
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Speaker 4: you know, there's these we're all those farmers. We have
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Speaker 4: to go through this process of recording all these animals,
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Speaker 4: registering them in the NATE system, but the system doesn't
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Speaker 4: really it could be a hell of a lot better
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Speaker 4: in terms of helping us when someone does steal the livestock.
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Speaker 2: What are the type of penalties for armed poaching that
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Speaker 2: you'd like to see.
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Speaker 4: Well, just genuinely toughening them up at the moment. We've
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Speaker 4: looked at New South Wales. They have some really tough
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Speaker 4: penalties there. You know, we've got a situation in New
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Speaker 4: Zealand where a few were steel scattle rustling. It's the
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Speaker 4: maximum prison e nt of seven years, whereas New South
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Speaker 4: Wales is fourteen years. I would be surprised if there's
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Speaker 4: been many examples that can like the example I just gave.
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Speaker 4: I think it's still finalizing in the courts, but nowhere
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Speaker 4: near seven years. I'm not even sure that guy's going
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Speaker 4: to see the inside of a jail cell. So yeah,
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Speaker 4: it just does need to be toughened up from where
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Speaker 4: it is at the moment because it is generally gets
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Speaker 4: sort of like oh naughdie boy, don't you go sneaking
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Speaker 4: on this land type approach, and we're going to make
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Speaker 4: it a bit tougher.
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Speaker 2: Andrew, thanks so much for your time this morning. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: That was Andrew Hoggard. They're talking us through the Act
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Speaker 2: Party Policy for Royal Crime. Ken to hear your thoughts
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Speaker 2: about that interesting. I think they're trying to cover a
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Speaker 2: CROs the board here from prevention to response through to prosecutions.
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Speaker 2: Ninety two to ninety two is the text.
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Speaker 1: News and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 2: It is five twenty, so the weight is over. The
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Speaker 2: FEEFA World Cup is about to be underway. The opening
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Speaker 2: ceremony is going to kick off at five thirty New
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Speaker 2: Zealand time. There's been plenty of drama off the field,
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Speaker 2: from ticket prices to political tensions, but now the football
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Speaker 2: takes center stage. Mexico and South Africa are about to
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Speaker 2: kick off at Mexico City ceremony, and the Voice of Football,
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Speaker 2: Jason Pine is with us to look ahead at the
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Speaker 2: tournament morning. Piney Hillo Francesca Mexico versus South Africa kicking
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Speaker 2: us off at seven am this morning. Who do you
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Speaker 2: think is starting the tournament strong?
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Speaker 6: Well?
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Speaker 7: I think Mexico won this game, you know, one of
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Speaker 7: three co hosts. South Africa down the rankings a little
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Speaker 7: bit and at the Azteca stadium, which will be jam
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Speaker 7: packed with eighty one thousand people who are there I'm
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Speaker 7: sure for the football rather than the opening ceremony, although
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Speaker 7: that'll be nice as well. Look, I think Mexico when
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Speaker 7: this one, Okay, hosts normally do pretty well at their
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Speaker 7: own World Cup. They know the conditions, big home support
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Speaker 7: of course, and Mexico are a good team. So yeah, look,
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Speaker 7: South Africa may well be up against it today a
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Speaker 7: repeat of the twenty ten World Cup opener. This was
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Speaker 7: a course in South Africa when these two teams met
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Speaker 7: at Soccer City in Johannesburg sixteen years ago.
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Speaker 2: So, Jason, I did what everybody who doesn't really have
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Speaker 2: good knowledge of global football does and I referred to
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Speaker 2: chat GPT as to who the favorites are to win
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Speaker 2: this year, and they told me the top four contenders Spain, France,
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Speaker 2: Brazil and England, with Argentina close behind. What do you
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Speaker 2: think about that?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I will chat GBT is prem much got it right, Yeah,
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Speaker 7: I think so. I think what chat GGP has done
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Speaker 7: is gone to the world rankings and just picked the
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Speaker 7: top five basically.
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Speaker 2: So I should have really just left out the bit
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Speaker 2: where I went to chet GPT and then pronounced that
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Speaker 2: this is what I thought would happen, and I would
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Speaker 2: have nailed it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you would have.
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Speaker 7: You would have, And it's hard to see it coming
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Speaker 7: from outside of that sort of five. You know, the
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Speaker 7: cream does tend to rise to the top when it
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Speaker 7: comes to World Cups. In the early parts of a tournament,
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Speaker 7: there are upsets, you know, teams. I mean, Argentina won
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Speaker 7: it last time and they were beaten in group played
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Speaker 7: by Saudi Arabia. So you know, there's a lot of
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Speaker 7: sort of jockeying for position early on in a tournament.
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Speaker 7: But as I say, the big teams do tend to
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Speaker 7: come through their experience, their depth, their big game temperament.
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Speaker 3: So I've got France winning it.
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Speaker 7: I'll say that today the twelfth of June, I'll be embarrassed.
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Speaker 3: Out July I have. I've just got go with one
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Speaker 3: team down France, France. I should be able to.
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Speaker 2: Remember that on the Sunday session. But look, surely there
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Speaker 2: are some wild cards to keep an eye out for
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Speaker 2: some underdog teams that might just delight us.
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Speaker 3: Always always Japan one.
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Speaker 7: I love watching Japan play very technical side. They almost
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Speaker 7: always get to the knockout rounds, but have trouble getting
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Speaker 7: any further than that because it's going to be quite
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Speaker 7: hot in North America during this tournament. The fact that
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Speaker 7: Japan play a very possession based game will mean that
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Speaker 7: their opponents tire of chasing them around. I really like
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Speaker 7: Japan and Ecuador are also a bit of a dark horse.
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Speaker 7: They're from obviously from South America, very good defensive side,
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Speaker 7: and we'll have good home supports. So a couple of
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Speaker 7: dark horses there for you, Japan and Ecuador.
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Speaker 2: Any chance that all whites will leave the group.
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Speaker 3: Stage, I think they will.
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Speaker 7: I really believe that they can. It all rest on
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Speaker 7: a couple of things. First game against Iran on Tuesday,
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Speaker 7: massive have to get something out of that game, have
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Speaker 7: to start off with at the very least to draw,
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Speaker 7: and have to be a lot more clinical in front
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Speaker 7: of gold. They've had real problems scoring goals against higher
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Speaker 7: ranked opponents in the last year or so, so when
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Speaker 7: those chances come along, they simply must put them away.
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Speaker 7: Must be clinical in front of goal. But yes, I
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Speaker 7: fully believe they have what it takes to make history
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Speaker 7: and get out of the group for the first time.
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Speaker 2: Piney, Thank you so much for your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: We will talk on Sunday. It is twenty four past.
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Speaker 2: Twenty six past five. Cheap ilicit black market sigis are
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Speaker 2: in the news again. A new report claims more than
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Speaker 2: one third of tobacco consumed last year was brought on
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Speaker 2: the black market. It estimates the government lost eight hundred
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Speaker 2: and seventeen million dollars in exiles and gest revenue last year.
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Speaker 2: It is worth noting the report was commissioned by tobacco companies,
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Speaker 2: who are obviously very keen to knock this behavior on
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Speaker 2: the head immediately. Though, it raises questions about the excise
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Speaker 2: tax placed on cigarettes and whether we should raise it,
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Speaker 2: keep it steady, or drop it. XOS tax and GST
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Speaker 2: in New Zealand means a packet of cigarettes is around
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Speaker 2: forty dollars, but you can pick up a pack on
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Speaker 2: the black market for around thirteen dollars. It is a
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Speaker 2: difficult policy choice because, on the one hand, high cigarette
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Speaker 2: taxes have helped reduce smoking rates over time. On the
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Speaker 2: other hand, you can't deny that rising prices have increased
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Speaker 2: the incentive for black market tobacco, smuggling and illicit sales.
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Speaker 2: There is a reasonable argument for reducing or freezing ex
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Speaker 2: taxes if policymakers believe the illegal market is growing faster
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Speaker 2: and the legal market is shrinking, and Australia of course
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Speaker 2: provides the warning. After years of large tax increases, the
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Speaker 2: Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated that illicit products made up
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Speaker 2: of eighty percent of nicotine consumption at twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: Organized crime groups have become heavily involved, led into violence
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Speaker 2: and extortion and firebombings. However, cutting taxes also has drawbacks.
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Speaker 2: Cheaper cigarettes may encourage more smoking, undermining progress towards public
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Speaker 2: health goals, and I would also argue it's unlikely the
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Speaker 2: excise tax would be reduced enough to truly compete with
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Speaker 2: a black market thirteen dollar packer Cicky's New Zealand has
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Speaker 2: not only reached has not yet reached Australia's level of
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Speaker 2: criminal involvement. The government has stated that while elicit tobacco
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Speaker 2: is increasing, New Zealand is not yet facing the same
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Speaker 2: issues as Australia. Authorities have responded with joint operations including Customs,
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Speaker 2: police and Health agencies, and last night, Customs Minister Casey
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Speaker 2: Castalo defended border controls on newstorg z'b Drive, stating that
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Speaker 2: Customs Is had huge success in seizing illicit tobacco and
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Speaker 2: to be fair, they have demonstrated significant enforcement capability. In
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Speaker 2: one recent case, officers intercepted nine hundred and twenty seven
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Speaker 2: thousand smuggled cigarettes concealed in shipments falsely declared as clothing,
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Speaker 2: leading to arrests and the potential tax avoidance of one
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Speaker 2: point four million. Other operations have seized more than one
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Speaker 2: point five million cigarettes and over a ton of loose tobacco.
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Speaker 2: What we need to see though, is better organization between
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Speaker 2: police and health agencies once the product is in New
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Speaker 2: Zealand and on sale. In the year ending March, Ministry
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Speaker 2: of Health did not undertake any enforcement action against retailers
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Speaker 2: under the smoke free legislation, and yet dodgy retailers don't
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Speaker 2: seem to be very hard to find, so from here
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Speaker 2: they need to make it clear whose jurisdiction it is
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Speaker 2: to focus on breaking up the domestics fly supply of
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Speaker 2: these illegal cigarettes, with serious fines and consequences on the table. Overall,
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Speaker 2: though the strongest response may be a middle path avoid
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Speaker 2: large future excise increases while increasing more resources in enforcement.
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Speaker 2: This approach preserves the health benefits of high tobacco prices
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Speaker 2: while reducing the risk of creating an Australian style black
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Speaker 2: market dominated by organized crime. Use Talks b so Ken
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Speaker 2: to hear your thoughts. You're most welcome to text on
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Speaker 2: ninety two ninety two. Thanks for the text, Nicola text
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Speaker 2: to say I'm all in for Norway in the World
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Speaker 2: Cup because they have the best team photo. And to
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Speaker 2: be honest with you, Nikola, it's probably how I'm going
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Speaker 2: to end up picking my favorite team as well. Back afternoons,
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Speaker 2: which is next we need.
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Speaker 1: Come to.
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Speaker 3: Willoyy ellsly.
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Speaker 1: Francesca Rudkin on early edition with Spark for business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving. Used Talks at Bank.
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Speaker 2: Is early edition on Newstooks they I'm Francisca Budkins filling
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Speaker 2: in for Ryan who is on drive today. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: being with us. Kicking off of the bit of Shakira,
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Speaker 2: who will be performing at the opening ceremony at the
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Speaker 2: FIFA Football World Cup this morning taking place in Mexico.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize this, but because it's in three different countries.
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Speaker 2: There's going to be an opening in Mexico, and opening
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Speaker 2: in Canada and an opening in the US, which might
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Speaker 2: be why the ticket prices are so high. Following up
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Speaker 2: on Nikolo who said that she's going to be supporting
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Speaker 2: and Normay because of the team photo, another text came
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Speaker 2: in and went Francesca that Norwegian team photo is fantastic.
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Speaker 2: So I looked at it. Are we talking about the
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Speaker 2: one with the addressed as Vikings? That is absolutely fantastic.
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Speaker 2: A whole lot of Vikings in a feud with I imagine
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Speaker 2: some AI generated Viking ships behind it. But that is
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Speaker 2: very cool. I get where you're coming from, ladies. Other
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Speaker 2: texts this morning morning support act on Rural Policying, pardon.
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Speaker 2: They will need to fund to support the rest of
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Speaker 2: the justice system, the courts and prison and things. One
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Speaker 2: hundred animals at two thousand dollars ahead is two hundred
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars. This is just capital cost plus loss of
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Speaker 2: income plus cost of replacement. Minimum should be four years
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Speaker 2: and or a holter collar put on them and other
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Speaker 2: text reads in regards a few more texts in regards
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Speaker 2: to the to fef Me. No not a big fan
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Speaker 2: for footballer. Game too often decided on boring penalty shootouts. Boring, boring.
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Speaker 2: They are the most nerve racking thing Larry, you can
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Speaker 2: possibly watch. After all that football and it comes down
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Speaker 2: to a penalty shootout, I find that far too stressful
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Speaker 2: to watch. And somebody else here text to say. I
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Speaker 2: told the police seven months ago about three dearies blatantly
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Speaker 2: selling illegal cigarettes and Royal lo can only hunger and
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Speaker 2: they're still doing it. Thank you very much for your feedback.
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Speaker 2: You can keep it coming. On ninety two ninety two,
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Speaker 2: it is twenty one to six.
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Speaker 8: Z me.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's head around the country now and Callum Proctor
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Speaker 2: joins me from Dunedin. Good morning, morning, Francisco. How are
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Speaker 2: Queenstown Lake's residents feeling about their council?
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Speaker 9: Well, we know now because the results are in the
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Speaker 9: Community Insights Survey. It shows the district Council's performance is improving,
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Speaker 9: but there's still some work to do. Results indicate gradual
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Speaker 9: gains in council services and engagement, with satisfaction with the
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Speaker 9: Mayor and counselors up ten percent on last year to
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Speaker 9: twenty seven percent now seventy three percent of residents in
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Speaker 9: Queenstown are satisfied with the community's facilities, while trust remains
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Speaker 9: an area needing improvement. The Mayor, John Glovers, says the
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Speaker 9: council's heading in the right direction but is still not
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Speaker 9: where it needs to be.
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Speaker 2: And dinedin's weather today.
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Speaker 9: Callum rain clears early this morning to find the heights
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Speaker 9: today thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Cloiche. What is with us? From
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Speaker 2: christ Jitch Good morning, Good morning. What's the latest with
20:53
Speaker 2: Canterbury's business?
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Speaker 10: Yes, well, there's a new Business Canterbury survey that's come
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Speaker 10: out and it looks like the majority are trying to
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Speaker 10: cling on to some optimism despite what's happening in the
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Speaker 10: Middle East. The latest survey shows eighty percent of businesses
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Speaker 10: here are confident in their ability to manage the shocks
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Speaker 10: that are still set to come. More than half expect
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Speaker 10: the regional economy will strengthen over the next year. Sixty
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Speaker 10: percent of forecasting improved financial performance. Now in Business Canterbury
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Speaker 10: Chief executively Anne Watson says there's no doubt the confidence
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Speaker 10: has softened, but not as much as many had fears.
21:27
Speaker 10: She says people are cautious but still focused on the
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Speaker 10: future and finding creative ways to operate, invest and employ
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Speaker 10: new staff where they can.
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Speaker 2: And the weather today Claire raining this morning.
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Speaker 10: That should start to clear up as phone spells developed.
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Speaker 10: South Westerly is dying out and are high thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Adam Cooper is with us from Wellington.
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Speaker 3: Good morning morning, francesca.
21:46
Speaker 2: Mass confusion for workers at the Government Science and Technology Agency.
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Speaker 11: Here so Former Science Minister Shane Retti announced in January
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Speaker 11: last year that Callahan Innovation would be wound up by
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Speaker 11: the end of this month, but the Public Service Association
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Speaker 11: now saying that the one hundred and seventy six science
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Speaker 11: workers still there are in chaos after the government failed
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Speaker 11: to follow through on its plan and nounce seventeen months ago,
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Speaker 11: which was to dissolve the agency and transfer its functions. Now,
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Speaker 11: the PSA's National Secretary, Flirfit Simons says the legislation to
22:14
Speaker 11: wind it up hasn't even been introduced to Parliament, so
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Speaker 11: these workers are in limbo with no idea what their
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Speaker 11: future holds. Callahan already had laid off about one hundred
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Speaker 11: its staff when that initial announcement took place. Eighty of
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Speaker 11: those remaining one hundred and seventy six have been told
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Speaker 11: they'll be deployed to other agencies, but it seems those
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Speaker 11: transfers may be delayed, and some money from the budget
22:34
Speaker 11: has been allocated to keep the lights on at the
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Speaker 11: institute in the meantime, but are still unclear how many
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Speaker 11: people that will keep in jobs for now. Penny Simmons,
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Speaker 11: who was appointed Science, Innovation and Technology Minister in April,
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Speaker 11: says the government has a very busy legislative agenda and
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Speaker 11: limited house time available to make it move quickly.
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Speaker 2: And Wellington's weather today.
22:53
Speaker 11: Cloudy periods today, possible late showers. Santahai fourteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Adam never britty man who joins
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Speaker 2: me now in the Aukland studio, Good morning, Eatings.
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Speaker 3: You're right, Yes, I was happy Friday.
23:03
Speaker 2: We've made a sweet Yes, certainly have God. You get
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Speaker 2: hungry in the mornings. I'm finding these early morning starts.
23:09
Speaker 2: I'm having about four meals a day. Yes, yes, get hungry,
23:12
Speaker 2: don't you do? So what have you been at like
23:14
Speaker 2: a little tree beforehand? What's your I have a little
23:17
Speaker 2: bit of a yogurt and blueberries, and but then I
23:21
Speaker 2: go home and I want to breakfast, and then I'm
23:22
Speaker 2: stead of having lunch at eleven.
23:24
Speaker 12: Hey, I just have to say, I hope you're not
23:26
Speaker 12: leaving his cereal in the newsroom because you know, we've
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Speaker 12: got a moth problem in the newsroom. No, there are
23:30
Speaker 12: moths around and so so many people leaving the cereal
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Speaker 12: and boxes and things and putting them in the cabinets.
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Speaker 12: We've just been talking about it and the reporters out
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Speaker 12: there have been killing moths. There are moths buzzing around
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Speaker 12: sting Mahadden.
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Speaker 2: But Auckland News Today through that quickly though, if you
23:45
Speaker 2: wouldn't mind.
23:46
Speaker 12: Oh okay, then well look there's a former Olympian turned
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Speaker 12: coach and another mail employee at an Auckland hockey club.
23:53
Speaker 12: Now they've been accused of misconduct involving young women. Now
23:55
Speaker 12: the Herald has been onto this. They're reporting that the
23:58
Speaker 12: olympian resigned. This is for North Harbor Hockey Association following
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Speaker 12: an investigation into these inappropriate relationships with female players. He
24:07
Speaker 12: denies the allegations. The other staff member has been charged
24:11
Speaker 12: with three counts of indecent assault, two of which allegedly
24:14
Speaker 12: involve a girl aged between twelve and sixteen. His case
24:18
Speaker 12: is currently before the Auckland District Court. No suggestion the
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Speaker 12: two men's alleged conduct is linked. Got to make that clear, FRANCHISCA.
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Speaker 2: Good on your nev weather today cloudy.
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Speaker 12: The odd light shower sixteen is the high here in Auckland.
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Speaker 11: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: You can head back to your moth hunt now next
24:36
Speaker 2: next off we're off to the UK. It is seventeen to.
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Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ends and eye Insurance. Peace of
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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
24:48
Speaker 2: Vincent mcavney is with me now, Good morning, Vincent, Good morning, okay,
24:52
Speaker 2: so tell us what is happening. Defense Secretary John Healey
24:55
Speaker 2: has resigned from Keir Starman's government. He has said that
24:58
Speaker 2: the defense investment plan falls short.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, this is a huge blow to Sekirre Stahmer's government
25:05
Speaker 13: because John Heally is someone who's respected pretty much across
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Speaker 13: the Labor Party, and it has to be said, there've
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Speaker 13: in tributes from people across politics here because he was
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Speaker 13: seen as someone who was a calm and competent defense
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Speaker 13: secretary at a time of real geopolitical risk. But he
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Speaker 13: has resigned from the government after a much delayed spending
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Speaker 13: plan was sort of presented to him on Monday from
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Speaker 13: Treasury officials, and he simply says that it does not
25:31
Speaker 13: provide enough funding in order to raise the UK's spending
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Speaker 13: as a percentage of GDP to about three percent over
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Speaker 13: the next couple of years and sufficiently supply the British
25:41
Speaker 13: military and armed forces with all the equipment that it
25:43
Speaker 13: needs in such a dangerous world. So the Prime Minister
25:46
Speaker 13: has responded acknowledging the letter, saying he doesn't agree that
25:49
Speaker 13: the spending is not up to the levels needed, but
25:52
Speaker 13: he still hasn't found anyone yet to replace him, it seems,
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Speaker 13: as Defense secretary in the cabinet, So that position currently vacant.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all eyes are on what Trump is saying he's
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Speaker 2: going to do, Enna's doing, And we've just had a
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Speaker 2: new Tree social message from him saying that he has
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Speaker 2: canceled the scheduled strikes and bombings against around this evening.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 13: There was a bit of a deep irony in the
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Speaker 13: man who won the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize announcing that
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Speaker 13: he was going to do these huge strikes on the
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Speaker 13: opening night of the World Cup in North America. But
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Speaker 13: it seems he's rowed back from that. He says now
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Speaker 13: a deal is very close, and it's being looked at
26:30
Speaker 13: by the highest levels of Iranian authority. But we have
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Speaker 13: been I mean, I have done this report several times
26:37
Speaker 13: over the past couple of weeks of Donald Trump saying
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Speaker 13: a deal is very close, and yet nothing happens, because
26:41
Speaker 13: the Iranians know the longer they can drag this out,
26:44
Speaker 13: the more damage it does to the West and particularly
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Speaker 13: to Donald Trump's chances in those midterm elections in November.
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Speaker 2: Vincent, thank you so much for your time this morning.
26:53
Speaker 2: Hev a great weekend. It is twelve to six s
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Speaker 2: it be so as we were just talking about tensions
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Speaker 2: in the Middle easting up again. The US has launched
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Speaker 2: a fresh round of strikes on Iran after Trump vailed
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Speaker 2: to hit the country very hard. Iran's response was to
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Speaker 2: move once again to close the Strait of Horn Moves,
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Speaker 2: as we know, one of the world's most critical oil
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Speaker 2: shipping routes, and as we've just heard, Trump has now
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Speaker 2: decided to stand down. Jeffrey Price is a senior fellow
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Speaker 2: at the Foreign Policy Institute 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 2: Good morning. An hour ago. We started this show presuming
27:31
Speaker 2: that Trump was going to strike Iran, and an hour
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Speaker 2: later the strikes are off. It's kind of what we've
27:40
Speaker 2: learned to expect, isn't it.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a roller coaster, and you know, there's a
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Speaker 8: certain amount of brainsmanship here. Now, Donald Trump usually has
27:50
Speaker 8: some information that goes into his tweets, so we will see.
27:57
Speaker 8: I mean this is this is another example of a
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Speaker 8: sort of branksmanship and diplomacy going to the very very
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Speaker 8: sort of edge of military strikes.
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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth had said that these these latest strikes were
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Speaker 2: not in retaliation for Iranian military action. It was to
28:14
Speaker 2: put pressure on Tehran to agree to peace on Trump's terms.
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Speaker 2: We see from the Truth Social Message that he has
28:21
Speaker 2: said that the final points have been both in concept
28:26
Speaker 2: and in great detail, approved by all parties. So has
28:29
Speaker 2: it worked.
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Speaker 3: Again?
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Speaker 8: You know, I will believe it. Believe it when you
28:35
Speaker 8: see it, because there's many slept trist the company that
28:39
Speaker 8: there was a few weeks ago, we thought on our
28:41
Speaker 8: Saturday that there was going to be an MLU that
28:45
Speaker 8: would lead to basically a cease fire with three aspects
28:48
Speaker 8: to it. One is a permanent seaspire, which would probably
28:52
Speaker 8: include Lebanon two, opening of the Street of hornor movement,
28:58
Speaker 8: and the US naval blockade, and through the beginning of
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Speaker 8: nuclear negotiations, and that might have might not be accompanied
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Speaker 8: by some process on unfreezing Iranian assets or lifting of
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Speaker 8: sanctions on Iran. And then there's a side element to it,
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Speaker 8: which is whether other Gulf states would proceed on something
29:19
Speaker 8: related to the Abraham Accords with Israel. That is a
29:24
Speaker 8: lot to put into an agreement. One of the things
29:28
Speaker 8: that you might expect here is that perhaps Besid Trump
29:32
Speaker 8: has decided that what can be gained by further strikes
29:38
Speaker 8: doesn't the juice is north to squeeze, as at wey say.
29:41
Speaker 8: But we will see another thing he's alluding to is true,
29:45
Speaker 8: which is that the Iranian decision making process can be
29:49
Speaker 8: very extended. Things have to be brought up to the
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Speaker 8: Supreme Leader, who is by all accounts, you know, severely injured,
29:58
Speaker 8: and they have a sort of law painstaking process of
30:01
Speaker 8: decision making. So it's possible that we're getting closer to a.
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Speaker 2: Deal, Jeffrey, when you take a look at what we've
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Speaker 2: seen just sort of taking place over the last week
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Speaker 2: or so, do you get a sense that the UIs
30:10
Speaker 2: have a strategy.
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Speaker 8: So some of this is managing a cease fire. Cease
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Speaker 8: fires when under line is stings are not resolved can
30:21
Speaker 8: be remarkably unstable. And I think what prompted the recent
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Speaker 8: ground of strikes was the downing of the US Apache helicopter,
30:29
Speaker 8: which the Aranians say was by accident, but there was
30:31
Speaker 8: a sort of reciprocal set of strikes, and then the
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Speaker 8: Iranians at a set of strikes, maybe that that sort
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Speaker 8: of you know, days long cycle of escalation is ended
30:43
Speaker 8: and now we're we're back to the negotiating table. So
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Speaker 8: the larger elements of a settlement seemed to be there,
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Speaker 8: those three elements that I mentioned, but it seems to
30:55
Speaker 8: be very hard to get there.
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Speaker 2: When you look at those three elements, is the one
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Speaker 2: that could be the most tricky is including Lebanon in
31:01
Speaker 2: a permanent spa Israel and Lebanon in a permanent sea
31:04
Speaker 2: spar It was.
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Speaker 8: So the difficulty there is that Israel has its own
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Speaker 8: strategy and its own interest there. I mean, the United
31:12
Speaker 8: States is primarily focused on Iran, but for Israel, particularly
31:16
Speaker 8: in the Miyahu government, they are very sensitive to the
31:19
Speaker 8: fact that people in northern Israel are subject to missile
31:23
Speaker 8: strikes from Hesballa, from Lebanon, so they're taking the opportunity
31:28
Speaker 8: the Israeli government to try and clean out missiles from
31:35
Speaker 8: areas where they can hit northern Israel because they're families
31:39
Speaker 8: in northern Israel who can't go to their homes, so
31:42
Speaker 8: they have a different set of interests. Now, President Trump
31:45
Speaker 8: has i think, you know, fairly overtly put pressure on
31:49
Speaker 8: Yahoo to like not be the spoiler in the steal.
31:53
Speaker 8: And it looks like, you know, as of the moment,
31:55
Speaker 8: there's hope that all three elements you know of this
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Speaker 8: three part are aligned and out so that people can
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Speaker 8: think of a deal. But again very hard to reach,
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Speaker 8: so believe it when you see it.
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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Price, thank you so much for your time this morning.
32:13
Speaker 2: The message also the True Social Message also reads the
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Speaker 2: naval blockade will remain in full force and effect until
32:19
Speaker 2: this transaction is finalized. Time and place of the signing
32:21
Speaker 2: to be announced shortly, so we shall wait and see.
32:24
Speaker 2: It is six to six.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis earlier edition with Francesca Rudkin and Spark for Business
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Speaker 1: technology that keeps business moving, news talks that be.
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Speaker 2: So the faith of World Cup opening ceremony has begun.
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Speaker 14: Them Benizos a Mexic BM Benizo sal.
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Speaker 5: Jeezy face.
32:54
Speaker 2: Yes, there's a lot of color, there's a lot of feathers.
32:57
Speaker 2: There's a lot of dancing and a lot of singing.
32:58
Speaker 2: I think that might be Shaki A bit to be
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Speaker 2: honest with you, I've got.
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Speaker 3: No no, I've got no idea.
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Speaker 14: Kensey Kenzy, Kenzy producer, Kenzie can she hear us? Is
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Speaker 14: that Shakira? Oh?
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Speaker 2: Thank there we go? No burner boy and Shakira? Did
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Speaker 2: we go?
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Speaker 3: Ashamed of yourself?
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Speaker 14: Kenzi? Because Kenzy is washed?
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Speaker 3: What do you reckon?
33:15
Speaker 14: She is twenty three, twenty four and she was like,
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Speaker 14: I don't know. And then Glenn was about five hundred
33:19
Speaker 14: years old.
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Speaker 2: I said it was Shakira. He goes I was Shakira?
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Speaker 2: And but who did he say?
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Speaker 14: Burn a boy?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
33:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we're done with him?
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Speaker 14: No, Well we have no We were sitting here going
33:28
Speaker 14: is that snoop Dogg?
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Speaker 8: Is that?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 3: I am? Who is that?
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Speaker 13: Who's that?
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Speaker 14: We're embarrassing?
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Speaker 2: Hey?
33:34
Speaker 14: Speaking of boomer stuff though, question for you? Okay, so
33:37
Speaker 14: one of the big credit card companies, Visas, decided it's
33:40
Speaker 14: going to allow chat chipet to become your personal shopper. Right,
33:43
Speaker 14: so you could go into chatch ept and you can
33:46
Speaker 14: say to it, I want to buy a pair of
33:47
Speaker 14: Nike sneakers and pink size, blah blah blah for less
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Speaker 14: than two hundred dollars, and it will find it for you,
33:53
Speaker 14: and it will buy it for you. Questioners though that
33:55
Speaker 14: it's a boomer moment for me because I don't even
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Speaker 14: know half.
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Speaker 5: Of what AI could do.
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Speaker 2: Would you give AIU credit card? I wouldn't give them
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Speaker 2: my credit card, but I'd get it to find me.
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Speaker 2: Then I used to I used AI check GPT to
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Speaker 2: buy me a car.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I put it.
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Speaker 2: I put an all information and it spat them out.
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Speaker 2: I had five top one week. Krishtch looked at them
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Speaker 2: all board, a car sorted, amazed, done and dustin. Not
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Speaker 2: a boomer here, the deplicit Allan is up with you. Next,
34:18
Speaker 2: have a great day.
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