Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 16 March 2026
Transcript
- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
- 0:05Speaker 1: an earlier this show with one roof love where you
- 0:08Speaker 1: live News Talks, they'd be.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Good morning six after five, great to have your company.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Is anyone going to help Trump with the straight We'll
- 0:14Speaker 2: ask that question before six Gavin Gray and the UK
- 0:17Speaker 2: for us, what are they going to do? They couldn't
- 0:18Speaker 2: even get a ship to cite first. Remember that last
- 0:20Speaker 2: week Andrew's head was sport. Brad has food. That's Brad
- 0:24Speaker 2: Olsen with food prices for you this morning.
- 0:27Speaker 3: The Agenda, Monday, the sixteenth of March.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Thews Raelis have been pounding Western Iran overnight quite hard.
- 0:33Speaker 4: We are creating the conditions. We are creating the conditions
- 0:36Speaker 4: for the Arenian people to take their destiny and their
- 0:41Speaker 4: own hounds. It so once in a laytime opportunity and
- 0:44Speaker 4: time is right, they'll know what to do. In the meantime,
- 0:47Speaker 4: we've been hitting a taller regime harder than ever before.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Trump's hit Hag Island over the weekend. It's basically a
- 0:55Speaker 2: Ram's oil island. Not that they care.
- 0:57Speaker 5: They think that by striking cut or some of the islands,
- 1:00Speaker 5: they can put pressure on us on the contrary, all
- 1:03Speaker 5: the pressure will fall on the US and European linked
- 1:06Speaker 5: oil companies. That's why we faced no problem in this regard.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Now you've been to the petrol station lately. You want
- 1:11Speaker 2: the Straight to open. Everyone wants the Straight to open.
- 1:13Speaker 2: The UK's energy secretary at Miliban wants the Straight to open.
- 1:16Speaker 6: Two.
- 1:17Speaker 7: It's a priority for the world that the Strait is reopened.
- 1:20Speaker 8: Obviously, the best and simplest way to do that is
- 1:22Speaker 8: to de escalate the conflict, and I think it's important
- 1:25Speaker 8: to underline that.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Meanwhile, poor old Zelenski in Ukraine trying to remind the world,
- 1:29Speaker 2: Hey guys, there's another war going on.
- 1:31Speaker 9: To Middle East.
- 1:32Speaker 10: Partners had more missiles for better than we got from
- 1:37Speaker 10: the United States and Europeans during all the war they
- 1:41Speaker 10: used more missile they used and more than eight hundred
- 1:46Speaker 10: Patriot missile during first attack during.
- 1:48Speaker 9: First twenty four thirty six hours.
- 1:51Speaker 2: More on that in a second. Finally, this morning, remember
- 1:53Speaker 2: punched the monkey at the Japanese zoo, rejected by its mother,
- 1:57Speaker 2: found comfort in a plushy teddy bear, then the world
- 2:00Speaker 2: fell in love with it. Well, a happy update this morning,
- 2:02Speaker 2: the zoo now saying that punch is starting to fully
- 2:06Speaker 2: integrate with the group. They say, there's a long way
- 2:08Speaker 2: to go, but there are good signs.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
- 2:15Speaker 1: Branch and one roof Love, where You Live News Talks.
- 2:19Speaker 2: That'd be nine two ninety two is the number of
- 2:21Speaker 2: text would love to hear from you this morning, just
- 2:22Speaker 2: gone eight minutes after five. We're speaking of texts. Got
- 2:25Speaker 2: a bunch of texts from you last week, and I
- 2:28Speaker 2: had some questions from people over the weekend as well,
- 2:30Speaker 2: and I thought, well, let's answer these questions, all basically
- 2:33Speaker 2: asking the same thing. Why does an America just go
- 2:36Speaker 2: in and just take over the strait of her moves?
- 2:38Speaker 2: Just go in there and control it? What can be
- 2:41Speaker 2: so hard? Well, there's basically four reasons. First one, and
- 2:45Speaker 2: a nice important one, is the geography of this thing.
- 2:47Speaker 2: It's not don't think of it like a big ocean.
- 2:49Speaker 2: It's basically an alleyway thirty three kilometers wide. That's about
- 2:53Speaker 2: ten k's wider than the Cook Straight. The actual shipping lanes, though,
- 2:57Speaker 2: are even narrower. They're only three three kill meters wide
- 3:01Speaker 2: in each direction. So if you're thinking think about a
- 3:04Speaker 2: big oil tanker, they can get up to four hundred
- 3:06Speaker 2: meters long. That is a tight squeeze, and the whole
- 3:10Speaker 2: time you've been pelted with projectiles from both sides. The
- 3:14Speaker 2: second thing is the mines. The US may have the
- 3:17Speaker 2: world's top navy, and they do, but you can't shoot
- 3:20Speaker 2: what you can't see. Reuters reckons that run as already
- 3:24Speaker 2: laid a dozen of these in the Strait, and the
- 3:26Speaker 2: Americans reckon that. The Iranians have a stockpile of five
- 3:29Speaker 2: to six thousand to play with. And they're not like
- 3:32Speaker 2: old you know, you think about old World War two
- 3:35Speaker 2: mines that they dropped in the ocean. They're not like
- 3:37Speaker 2: that anymore. They're modern smart mines and they can censorship
- 3:41Speaker 2: and they basically explode big damage. They can break a hule,
- 3:46Speaker 2: and clearing them takes ages. There were some of these
- 3:49Speaker 2: mines lay during conflicts in the eighties and nineties, and
- 3:51Speaker 2: apparently it took them in the Northern Gulf took two
- 3:54Speaker 2: years to declare it completely mind free. So good luck.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Third Ist drones not just the water, but in the
- 4:01Speaker 2: year obviously, Iran uses the Shah haired drones. They talk
- 4:05Speaker 2: about these like flying scooters because they cost about thirty
- 4:08Speaker 2: thousand American dollars, so they're very cheap. US is forced
- 4:11Speaker 2: to use the very expensive, think millions of dollars interceptive
- 4:15Speaker 2: missiles to stop them. So basically the tankers are like
- 4:18Speaker 2: sitting ducks and it's very hard to stop the drones
- 4:21Speaker 2: for insurance. This is the big problem. Even if Trump
- 4:25Speaker 2: declares the straight open, commercial shipping won't move. Why because
- 4:30Speaker 2: of the war risk premiums that have gone through the roof.
- 4:33Speaker 2: I was reading at the weekend. There's a shipping industry journal,
- 4:36Speaker 2: Lloyd's List. They reckon premiums for seven day war risk
- 4:41Speaker 2: cover in the Middle East. In the Gulf region has
- 4:44Speaker 2: increased tenfold since the war started, and some are not
- 4:47Speaker 2: even offering it all together. Some have described the vessels
- 4:51Speaker 2: basically as missile magnets just waiting to be hit. So
- 4:55Speaker 2: no insurance means no tankers, and no tankers means no oil.
- 5:00Speaker 2: Trump can claim victory in the Strait, but that doesn't
- 5:02Speaker 2: mean the insurers and the markets will take the risk
- 5:05Speaker 2: of sailing through it. Bridge Talk CB. Hopefully that helps
- 5:09Speaker 2: eleven after five we'll get to Brad Olsen on food
- 5:12Speaker 2: prices at supermarkets.
- 5:13Speaker 1: Next on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition
- 5:19Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and One Root Love Where You Live.
- 5:23Speaker 2: News Talks dB five p. Thirteen News TALKSB. You can't
- 5:26Speaker 2: help but think there's a bit of character assassination going
- 5:29Speaker 2: on over its staff of the Prime Minister. Did you
- 5:31Speaker 2: see the story at the weekend about him and the
- 5:33Speaker 2: title the head He's off in the Islands on this
- 5:36Speaker 2: trip and the title of the article. Originally the title
- 5:40Speaker 2: of the article was you know luxen Or Prime Minister
- 5:44Speaker 2: to get on retitle at his request that was the headline.
- 5:47Speaker 2: No attribution, No, says the Salmon Prime Minister, which, as
- 5:51Speaker 2: it turns out, that was the full story beginning middle end. No,
- 5:55Speaker 2: according to No just he has requested this. Well, apparently
- 6:00Speaker 2: it's all fake news. This is according to our government,
- 6:02Speaker 2: not just the Political Office, but the Ministry of Foreign
- 6:05Speaker 2: Affairs has said that is incorrect.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge.
- 6:09Speaker 2: Won't stop you hearing about it today, though, will it right?
- 6:12Speaker 2: Fourteen after five Food prices update for you this morning.
- 6:15Speaker 2: New Informtric's numbers show supply costs to supermarkets two point
- 6:19Speaker 2: three percent higher in February this year than the same
- 6:21Speaker 2: time last year, steady on January. Of course, this was
- 6:24Speaker 2: all before the all before the war. Brad Olsen Informetric's
- 6:27Speaker 2: principal economists with us this morning. Morning, Brad, Good morning.
- 6:30Speaker 2: And that's the thing, isn't it's all backwards looking now
- 6:33Speaker 2: that the data that we're getting, any supermarket's going to
- 6:36Speaker 2: put up prices soon or are they now?
- 6:38Speaker 6: Do we know?
- 6:40Speaker 3: Well?
- 6:40Speaker 9: I think that one of the challenging questions at the
- 6:42Speaker 9: moment is that exact point we know this further pressure
- 6:45Speaker 9: coming through the supply chain. The question is how quickly
- 6:48Speaker 9: all of this will emerge through because for a lot
- 6:50Speaker 9: of producers, you know, they've probably locked into two contracts,
- 6:54Speaker 9: you know, maybe with their transport agency or whatever else
- 6:57Speaker 9: for the next sort of months or so, so we
- 6:59Speaker 9: might not see the figures show up as immediately in March.
- 7:04Speaker 9: It's probably the one area we are a bit more
- 7:06Speaker 9: focused on is probably the likes of produce, because the
- 7:09Speaker 9: cost there do change around a lot, and again transport
- 7:12Speaker 9: costs are fairly important there, not only for moving produce
- 7:16Speaker 9: to store, but because all of the harvesting and everything
- 7:19Speaker 9: else has to go through with using diesel. What we
- 7:22Speaker 9: have seen as well is that margins in the transport
- 7:26Speaker 9: sector have been squeezed a lot the last couple of years,
- 7:29Speaker 9: and so we wouldn't be surprised to see that sort
- 7:32Speaker 9: of pass through emerging. And given you know just how
- 7:36Speaker 9: much these fuel prices have increased, it would seem sensible that, yes,
- 7:40Speaker 9: you'll see some pass through. The question is sort of
- 7:43Speaker 9: how quickly I expect you will see it. Definitely within
- 7:46Speaker 9: the next three months as all those various contracts roll over,
- 7:49Speaker 9: But I'm not so sure you'll see it as immediately,
- 7:51Speaker 9: just given that everyone's got things locked up for now.
- 7:54Speaker 2: People are talking about this still as a short term spike.
- 7:57Speaker 2: You know, will we get a short term spike to inflation,
- 7:59Speaker 2: but then we will overcome it? Is that realistic? I mean,
- 8:02Speaker 2: we know what happened last time, not long ago, that
- 8:04Speaker 2: we had a spike in inflation.
- 8:06Speaker 3: I mean it it's so stubborn, exactly, and.
- 8:10Speaker 9: Not only so stubborn, but if we were starting from
- 8:12Speaker 9: a normal inflation level, if you will sort of around
- 8:15Speaker 9: that two percent, then you might get a bit of
- 8:17Speaker 9: a feeling that that sort of overall spike might be
- 8:20Speaker 9: less intense. People could wather the storm are a little
- 8:23Speaker 9: bit more. And we know as well that usually an
- 8:25Speaker 9: oil supply shock like this yes, it hits headline inflation
- 8:29Speaker 9: and pushes it up, but it also generally means that
- 8:32Speaker 9: households and businesses are spending more on fuel. That's less
- 8:36Speaker 9: money in the budget available for other things that will
- 8:38Speaker 9: temper demand in other sectors, and so the Rezoo Bank
- 8:42Speaker 9: and everyone else can generally look through it. The difference
- 8:45Speaker 9: this time potentially is that we're already seeing inflation out
- 8:49Speaker 9: the top of the band, so we've got less room
- 8:51Speaker 9: to maneuver. Clearly, businesses are sort of I guess you
- 8:55Speaker 9: could say, more willing and ready to send through price increases,
- 8:59Speaker 9: and so you do have to question will businesses overall
- 9:02Speaker 9: be going if fuel prices come down and say a
- 9:05Speaker 9: month or two's time, will they actually ease their prices
- 9:09Speaker 9: or is this going to be part of effectively rebuilding
- 9:12Speaker 9: the margin the buffer the balance sheet of the last
- 9:15Speaker 9: couple of years. And although we often talk about these
- 9:18Speaker 9: sort of pressures being short term, short term can still
- 9:21Speaker 9: be months and for households out there, you know, for
- 9:24Speaker 9: businesses who pay a lot for fuel, months of high
- 9:26Speaker 9: costs are still deeply uncomfortable.
- 9:28Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Brad appreciate that. Brad Olsen Infometrics at
- 9:31Speaker 2: seventeen after five. Brian Bridge, the ass of course are
- 9:35Speaker 2: very worried, more worried about the price increases and the
- 9:37Speaker 2: price of gas than we are, because they're already way
- 9:41Speaker 2: outside their inflation band. They're closer to four percent, and
- 9:44Speaker 2: so what the RBA is going to do the markets
- 9:47Speaker 2: are saying now is not just one but two hikes,
- 9:49Speaker 2: one in March and one in May. That's up from
- 9:52Speaker 2: the one they were predicting before the war eighteen after
- 9:55Speaker 2: five black Caps got owned by South Africa. Last night
- 9:58Speaker 2: we'll talk to Andrew Next.
- 10:00Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
- 10:03Speaker 1: early edition with Bryan Bridge and one roof Love where
- 10:07Speaker 1: you live News Talks.
- 10:09Speaker 2: That'd be five twenty. Welcome to Monday. We'll get the
- 10:11Speaker 2: latest out of Washington on the war. Just before sixth
- 10:13Speaker 2: this morning, Andrew Orlison here was Sport Morning.
- 10:15Speaker 3: Andrew Gritting's Ryan.
- 10:16Speaker 2: So Liam Laws, let's start with the good news before
- 10:18Speaker 2: we get to the cricket. A.
- 10:19Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's that's the way to do it
- 10:21Speaker 3: on a Monday.
- 10:22Speaker 2: Lost and so double points weekend, yeah.
- 10:24Speaker 8: And I think that just this final race overnight, the
- 10:27Speaker 8: Chinese Grand Prix seventh he's come from fourteenth.
- 10:30Speaker 3: There to get to that mark.
- 10:32Speaker 8: That's a great effort and the best of the Red
- 10:35Speaker 8: Bulls stable if you like. I know he's racing balls,
- 10:37Speaker 8: but part of the four drivers. Another great yah there
- 10:40Speaker 8: is Camietinelli who's won the race for Mercedes nineteen years old.
- 10:44Speaker 8: Is the second youngest to win a Formula One Grand
- 10:47Speaker 8: Prix after Max with starup and I think in twenty sixteen,
- 10:50Speaker 8: but also the first Italian in almost twenty years, after
- 10:53Speaker 8: seeing color Fisher Keller Malaysia in two thousand and six
- 10:56Speaker 8: to take the checker flag.
- 10:57Speaker 3: So, yeah, the youth of today.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Are they coming through? Aren't they? Is that sort of
- 11:02Speaker 2: what we're saying?
- 11:03Speaker 3: Whizzing around excess of three hundred k's and now the.
- 11:06Speaker 2: G I saw well, I heard a bit of audio
- 11:08Speaker 2: from them from his car saying we did everything we
- 11:11Speaker 2: could with this car. We got everything out of it
- 11:13Speaker 2: that we could.
- 11:13Speaker 3: Yeah, and hopefully he's coming.
- 11:15Speaker 8: You know, he's he's seasoned now to a degree, and
- 11:19Speaker 8: he's got some time behind the wheel and it's probably
- 11:22Speaker 8: quite settled this year, more so than last for sure,
- 11:25Speaker 8: and that's that's got to be a good thing. So
- 11:27Speaker 8: we wait and see but of course the bigger issue
- 11:29Speaker 8: as well in formula one the cancelation of what the
- 11:34Speaker 8: zili Arabia and Bahrain Grand presiue of the war as well.
- 11:36Speaker 3: So more on that is it comes to.
- 11:39Speaker 2: Hand now the black Caps are pretty much smoked by
- 11:42Speaker 2: sound everything last night.
- 11:43Speaker 8: Yeah, disappointing started the serious him I think dismissed for
- 11:46Speaker 8: ninety one after choosing the bat and then South Africa
- 11:49Speaker 8: getting there with what three point two overs to spare,
- 11:52Speaker 8: which is a considerable margin seven winning by seven wickets,
- 11:56Speaker 8: a considerable margin the mount in T twenty terms. So yeah,
- 12:00Speaker 8: they've got a bit to do heading into the final
- 12:02Speaker 8: four games of the series. But it's just quite congested
- 12:05Speaker 8: is that they come away from a World Cup straight
- 12:07Speaker 8: into this. I mean understandably from New Zealand cricket trying
- 12:11Speaker 8: to get some people through the gate to the Yeah.
- 12:15Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 12:15Speaker 8: And also I don't understand it's tuning in last night
- 12:18Speaker 8: and it's finishing at ten o'clock and beyond if you
- 12:22Speaker 8: want to get young people, you know with the school
- 12:24Speaker 8: day the next day he is to the grounds. I
- 12:26Speaker 8: don't really get that the mindset behind that.
- 12:29Speaker 2: I caught a bit of the white the end of
- 12:31Speaker 2: the White Funs because it was just before the news
- 12:33Speaker 2: when it was finishing and they obviously won, but that
- 12:36Speaker 2: time might be a bit better for some of those
- 12:37Speaker 2: younger people.
- 12:39Speaker 8: Yeah, if you want to bring the young people in,
- 12:40Speaker 8: you can't be having a game finished after ten.
- 12:42Speaker 2: Adam Hall great news overnight.
- 12:44Speaker 8: Terrific silver medal Fredom Hall long and established, decorated career,
- 12:50Speaker 8: his sixth medal in his six games in New Zealand's
- 12:53Speaker 8: only one at the Milan Courtina Paralympics in the slalom standing.
- 12:57Speaker 3: So yeah, excellent news for him, eight years of age.
- 13:00Speaker 2: Fantastic. Andrew Goodsee was always right. Altison was sports. He'll
- 13:04Speaker 2: be updating you throughout the morning. Of course, time is
- 13:07Speaker 2: twenty three minutes after five on News Talks mb A.
- 13:09Speaker 2: Good little. I went to the movies on the weekend
- 13:11Speaker 2: and well did I that's the there's the plot twist. Yes,
- 13:16Speaker 2: I did, but I didn't see a movie because got
- 13:19Speaker 2: into the cinema and they couldn't play it. It was
- 13:22Speaker 2: the new one with Ryan Gosling, you know, the space
- 13:24Speaker 2: movie Hail MARYO. It's called got in there and they said, sorry,
- 13:27Speaker 2: we can't play the movie, and so everyone gets a refund.
- 13:30Speaker 2: And you know we're talking the other day about cash.
- 13:32Speaker 2: Do we have enough cash? Well, everyone got a cash refund.
- 13:36Speaker 2: By the time we got there, it was like one
- 13:38Speaker 2: hundred more than one hundred dollars for four tickets. They
- 13:41Speaker 2: gave us bags of coins, So I had four bags
- 13:45Speaker 2: of one dollar and fifty cent coins sitting in my car.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Twenty four after five News Talks VB the early.
- 13:52Speaker 1: Edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio power by News
- 13:56Speaker 1: Talks AB.
- 13:58Speaker 2: News Talks B five twenty six. Last week ended with
- 14:01Speaker 2: this bizarre situation where Labor basically came out against a
- 14:04Speaker 2: pay rise for teachers. If you caught the end of
- 14:07Speaker 2: last week, they did this because of, well, that's what
- 14:10Speaker 2: the unions want, and what the unions want the unions
- 14:13Speaker 2: generally get with labor. Union strategy one oh one is
- 14:16Speaker 2: getting everyone who's not a member to become one. The
- 14:18Speaker 2: tactic generally is pear pressure. If you can deprive non
- 14:22Speaker 2: union members of pay rise while dragging out your negotiations,
- 14:26Speaker 2: that's leverage. Labor last week got rid of Willow gene Prime.
- 14:30Speaker 2: About time she's scored an F in the portfolio. Ginny
- 14:34Speaker 2: Anderson's been lumped with it at a time when national
- 14:36Speaker 2: is seen across a bunch of different polls, this term
- 14:39Speaker 2: to be either better or at least as good as
- 14:41Speaker 2: labor on education, which is saying something because like health,
- 14:45Speaker 2: it's usually the purview of the left to own that issue.
- 14:49Speaker 2: But something shifted and Ginny probably and maybe that's partly
- 14:53Speaker 2: Erica Stanford's doing, but Ginny probably needs to take a
- 14:57Speaker 2: good hard look at which battles she blindly follows who
- 15:00Speaker 2: Comrade's into. She's now got education. Of course, charter schools
- 15:04Speaker 2: is another example. I was reading at the weekend about
- 15:07Speaker 2: the breadth of subjects and students that these schools actually
- 15:11Speaker 2: cater to. You've got seven Mardy schools, You've got a
- 15:14Speaker 2: Pacific a girls' school who were featured on the show previously, Autism,
- 15:18Speaker 2: French Sport, Cambridge, you name it. There's a shopping list.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Last week the Principals Union said all of those schools,
- 15:27Speaker 2: I think they're about nineteen applications for them so far.
- 15:30Speaker 2: All of them should be closed and the money, they say,
- 15:34Speaker 2: should be put back into the mainstream system. They don't
- 15:38Speaker 2: believe schools are failing certain cohorts of young people, which
- 15:42Speaker 2: is the very reason, of course, that charter schools exist
- 15:44Speaker 2: in the first place. Now to an average parent or
- 15:48Speaker 2: an average person, but actually an average voter, more importantly,
- 15:52Speaker 2: for the politicians. For an average voter, this looks political
- 15:56Speaker 2: and not practical. I think most kiwis except mainstream schooling
- 16:01Speaker 2: doesn't work for everyone. Most also except that teaching needs
- 16:06Speaker 2: to be better paid, regardless of your union affiliation. So
- 16:10Speaker 2: to rile against these things just because your union mates
- 16:13Speaker 2: demand you do so is hardly going to win back
- 16:15Speaker 2: public support in an area where ground has clearly been
- 16:18Speaker 2: lost in bread Bread twenty eight minutes after five News
- 16:23Speaker 2: Talk said be very quickly Trump's call for help with
- 16:27Speaker 2: the straight please come and join the mission. No one's
- 16:31Speaker 2: really put their hand up definitively yet, have they. The
- 16:34Speaker 2: Brits are sort of thinking about it, but as I said,
- 16:36Speaker 2: they couldn't even get a ship to Cypress, for goodness sakes,
- 16:38Speaker 2: which is a hell of a lot closer than the
- 16:40Speaker 2: Strait of hor Moves Japan, they have said the threshold
- 16:44Speaker 2: for deploying naval forces would be extremely high. South Korea.
- 16:49Speaker 2: We're looking at it, will review it, they say. So,
- 16:51Speaker 2: no one's leaping up, you know, and embracing the idea. Interestingly,
- 16:56Speaker 2: fuel reserves. This might have something to do with it.
- 17:00Speaker 2: The weekend they published a list of how much fuel
- 17:02Speaker 2: each country has up their sleeve. Japan has almost three
- 17:06Speaker 2: hundred days of fuel and reserves, which is incredible. They
- 17:10Speaker 2: rely mostly on the Middle East, so they were prepared
- 17:13Speaker 2: for this. The Koreans two hundred days of oil. So
- 17:17Speaker 2: there you go. We're down there with the Philippines, the
- 17:19Speaker 2: Malaysias were a couple of months at best News Talk
- 17:23Speaker 2: ZB were in the US before six.
- 17:30Speaker 1: The News You Need this Morning and the in depth
- 17:33Speaker 1: Analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roofe Love
- 17:37Speaker 1: Where you Live News Talks EDB.
- 17:46Speaker 3: Please uncle, good.
- 17:49Speaker 2: Morning, twenty four minutes away from six on News Talk
- 17:51Speaker 2: ZB for your Monday morning. Great to have your company.
- 17:53Speaker 2: I hope you had a great weekend. Were you one
- 17:55Speaker 2: of the people at the opening of Wellington's revw amped
- 18:00Speaker 2: two hundred million dollar part of it was earthquake Strengthening Library.
- 18:05Speaker 2: Did you go there on the weekend? Were you one
- 18:06Speaker 2: of the people who got seven thousand books out over
- 18:09Speaker 2: the weekend. They're all very excited about this, but amongst
- 18:12Speaker 2: the crowd, I watched a video I know that it's
- 18:14Speaker 2: a bit lame that I did this. Watched a video
- 18:16Speaker 2: of them opening a library, but I did. And in
- 18:20Speaker 2: amongst the crowd was Nelson's deputy mayor who was visiting.
- 18:23Speaker 2: And Nelson's deputy mayor loves choirs, very into it, and
- 18:28Speaker 2: he said hearing all the choir singing was a because
- 18:31Speaker 2: they had Of course they had choirs singing would open
- 18:33Speaker 2: a library? I mean, why not just go get a
- 18:35Speaker 2: book out? That's what a library's of. Anyway, he said,
- 18:39Speaker 2: choir singing was a profoundly moving experience. I've seen big,
- 18:43Speaker 2: immersive pieces with lots of choirs, but never on with
- 18:48Speaker 2: an interaction with the public like this, with people moving
- 18:50Speaker 2: between the floors, on the elevators. It was fantastic. Now,
- 18:54Speaker 2: remember Max told us last week that this opening date,
- 18:58Speaker 2: no nay, opening weekend. It was a two day extravaganza
- 19:03Speaker 2: they were planning was going to cost four hundred thousand dollars.
- 19:07Speaker 2: There was going to be a party, There was going
- 19:08Speaker 2: to be road coasures, performances, street festivals, food trucks. That's
- 19:13Speaker 2: the equivalent of eighty households rate bills. That's how much
- 19:16Speaker 2: they were going to spend. They managed After Andrew Little
- 19:18Speaker 2: found out, he goes, oh, you know what, I've just
- 19:20Speaker 2: been swinging in there in the Lyle Bay and just
- 19:24Speaker 2: a bit worried about, you know, the mess. He managed
- 19:27Speaker 2: to get the bill down to one hundred and seventy
- 19:28Speaker 2: five thousand dollars. So well done, Andrew Little. I hope
- 19:31Speaker 2: you had a great weekend Wellington. Certainly spending your money
- 19:35Speaker 2: on the right things. We'll talk to Max about that.
- 19:37Speaker 2: In Sect twenty two to six, Ryan Bread Shamie for
- 19:40Speaker 2: Deneed and Jamie, good morning, good morning. Farmer's not happy
- 19:43Speaker 2: with the EWE overland there.
- 19:46Speaker 11: Yeah, so in Gore, the Gore District Councils proposing farmers
- 19:50Speaker 11: have routine land use activities and resource consents assessed against
- 19:54Speaker 11: Nightahu's cultural values by the local EWE. Federated Farmer's Southern
- 19:59Speaker 11: President Jason and Heres is creating a parallel approval process
- 20:03Speaker 11: will just increase cost, complexity, uncertainty and delays. He says
- 20:08Speaker 11: they've lodged it in appeal with the Environment Court. Hokunui
- 20:12Speaker 11: Runanga Representative Terry Nicholas told the ODT the comments are scaremongering.
- 20:17Speaker 11: Council says, as with the existing plan. It may seek
- 20:20Speaker 11: input from MANAFENOWA where the Resource Management Act requires it,
- 20:24Speaker 11: but for most everyday activities this doesn't apply.
- 20:28Speaker 2: All right. How's the weather for Toned and Jamie.
- 20:30Speaker 11: Cloud increasing showers for a time, late afternoon and evening
- 20:34Speaker 11: and a high of nineteen.
- 20:36Speaker 2: You have a great day, Clears and christ Its.
- 20:37Speaker 3: Morning, clear, good morning.
- 20:39Speaker 2: The Wolston Club bit of financial problem for them.
- 20:42Speaker 12: Yeah, and it's creating some sort of flow on effects.
- 20:45Speaker 12: The Wolston Club, of course, one of the old you know,
- 20:48Speaker 12: working men's club, is now selling off two thirds of
- 20:51Speaker 12: the land that it sits on, including a sports park
- 20:55Speaker 12: here named Garrick Memorial Park.
- 20:57Speaker 2: We believe that's.
- 20:57Speaker 12: Because of ongoing financial pressures for the club. The city
- 21:01Speaker 12: council is meeting with the club this week in order
- 21:04Speaker 12: to discuss a potential option to buy at least some
- 21:07Speaker 12: of that land. The park is time to cash Mere
- 21:10Speaker 12: Technical Football Club. It's hosted some FIFA World Cup competition
- 21:15Speaker 12: prep and some club cricket games as well. Linwood Councilor
- 21:18Speaker 12: Yanni Johansson says it's a facility that no one in
- 21:21Speaker 12: the community would like to see go. He says he
- 21:23Speaker 12: knows firsthand just how much of a difference the park
- 21:26Speaker 12: has made to that community.
- 21:27Speaker 2: How's your weather clear?
- 21:29Speaker 12: It should be fine today, a bit of a cloud
- 21:31Speaker 12: about this morning, and this evening northeasterlies for a time
- 21:34Speaker 12: at a high of twenty three.
- 21:35Speaker 2: All right, thank you very much, enjoy your day, max
- 21:37Speaker 2: Is and Wellington morning.
- 21:38Speaker 3: Max.
- 21:39Speaker 2: Did you go to the opening of the library.
- 21:42Speaker 13: No, I didn't go myself, but it certainly looked still
- 21:46Speaker 13: very flash You talk just now about the cost of
- 21:48Speaker 13: that ceremony having to be reduced from a staggering four
- 21:51Speaker 13: hundred odd k but it's still looked like quite an occasion.
- 21:54Speaker 10: Well.
- 21:54Speaker 13: The coverage over the weekend keeps mentioning the fact that
- 21:57Speaker 13: the library now has things like three D printers, sewing
- 22:00Speaker 13: machine or recording studio. I think the point is, rather
- 22:04Speaker 13: it's not just about the books anymore, and it's what
- 22:06Speaker 13: a modern library looks like, not endless rows of Penguin
- 22:09Speaker 13: classics and history books. Click and collect has become a
- 22:12Speaker 13: big thing in recent years. Fewer books, more couches, communal areas,
- 22:16Speaker 13: more of a community hub rather than a library in
- 22:19Speaker 13: the sense of the dusty old corners and nooks and crannies.
- 22:22Speaker 13: There'll be live music performances there, digital video, art, family events.
- 22:27Speaker 13: Two hundred and seventeen million dollars. As you said, this
- 22:30Speaker 13: seismic work was never going to be cheap. City Gallery
- 22:33Speaker 13: is the next to tick off the list that's down
- 22:35Speaker 13: to reopen in October.
- 22:37Speaker 2: Mix. What do we need community hubs? We have cafes.
- 22:41Speaker 2: One of the comments from one of the people who
- 22:42Speaker 2: went was over the winter, it's good to spend time
- 22:45Speaker 2: in a place like this to meet up with people
- 22:47Speaker 2: or kill time between activities. Yeah, two hundred million dollar
- 22:51Speaker 2: space to kill time is a very expensive way to
- 22:54Speaker 2: do it.
- 22:54Speaker 3: How's you with her?
- 22:56Speaker 2: Sure?
- 22:57Speaker 13: Merely fine today north least twenty Thank.
- 22:59Speaker 2: You very much. Good morning, Good morning.
- 23:01Speaker 14: Do you know what gets me is the sewing machines?
- 23:03Speaker 14: You know, sewing machines. That's a dying art.
- 23:06Speaker 2: Are you going to take all your fabrica to the plea?
- 23:09Speaker 2: You will? Yeah? Man, I mean I don't know. I
- 23:12Speaker 2: don't go to l libraries personally, but I know a
- 23:14Speaker 2: lot of parents who say they're good for kids, so
- 23:16Speaker 2: I'm kind of I don't know. It's like swimming pools.
- 23:19Speaker 2: You may not swim, but some people do.
- 23:24Speaker 12: Yeah, you're right though.
- 23:25Speaker 2: Otherwise, but swimming pools. I suppose swimming pools. You know,
- 23:28Speaker 2: you teach kids to swim there they don't drown.
- 23:30Speaker 14: Well, that's right, there's a point in there.
- 23:32Speaker 2: And libraries you teach kids to read. But then you've
- 23:34Speaker 2: got the d I mean they're on their screen.
- 23:36Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 23:37Speaker 2: You tell me nineteen ninety two neither. Yes, coming on
- 23:40Speaker 2: with this motorway, Yes, a.
- 23:41Speaker 14: Proposed toll This is for the first road of national
- 23:44Speaker 14: significance and it runs from Warkworth to to Hana. The
- 23:47Speaker 14: Transport Agency is inviting the public to have the essay.
- 23:50Speaker 14: So construction on this new twenty six kilometer for lane
- 23:54Speaker 14: route road now that's expected to begin at the end
- 23:56Speaker 14: of the year. It will mark the first stage of
- 23:58Speaker 14: the Northern Corridor. N ZTA is suggesting light vehicles pay
- 24:02Speaker 14: four dollars fifty heavier vehicles pay nine dollars to drive
- 24:06Speaker 14: on the road, also saying that well hopefully you know,
- 24:09Speaker 14: this tolling will free up money to invest another important projects.
- 24:14Speaker 14: But consultation at the moment on the tolls is open
- 24:17Speaker 14: and it closes in one month.
- 24:18Speaker 3: So have you say all.
- 24:19Speaker 2: Right, there we go, because it's already what two dollars
- 24:21Speaker 2: fifty or something to go on the told road as
- 24:24Speaker 2: it is.
- 24:24Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're looking at it.
- 24:26Speaker 2: I don't know. Seven nearly ten bucks to get up here.
- 24:28Speaker 14: Everything costs money, doesn't.
- 24:29Speaker 9: It it does?
- 24:30Speaker 2: How's our weather?
- 24:31Speaker 15: Fine spells isolated? Charles Clearing twenty two is a high
- 24:33Speaker 15: here in Auckland.
- 24:34Speaker 2: Thank you, Neva. It is seventeen minutes away from Sex
- 24:36Speaker 2: News Talk CB. We'll get to the UK and followed
- 24:39Speaker 2: by Washington. Now, when most of us think of Fiji,
- 24:43Speaker 2: we tend to recall sunfilled family holidays with the kids,
- 24:47Speaker 2: romantic getaways with the other half. Nothing wrong with this.
- 24:50Speaker 2: Thousands of key we have done it, and they will
- 24:52Speaker 2: tell you they had a great time. What doesn't come
- 24:55Speaker 2: to mind that often, though, is the idea of absolute luxury.
- 24:59Speaker 2: Well here's an up for you. Fiji does luxury just
- 25:02Speaker 2: as luxuriously as anywhere else in the world. Think overwater,
- 25:06Speaker 2: boo rats, elevated dining experiences, personalized wellness retreats, secluded luxury
- 25:12Speaker 2: experiences that will recharge your batteries like nothing else on earth.
- 25:16Speaker 2: In Fiji, you can have it all pretty much absolute
- 25:20Speaker 2: luxury wherever you go, but start at Vomo named number
- 25:25Speaker 2: one best luxury Fiji resort for families. And then of
- 25:28Speaker 2: course there is Tokuriki, named Fiji's best adults only resort,
- 25:32Speaker 2: and then Naranuku Resort, a five hundred acre coastal Fiji estate.
- 25:38Speaker 2: Your Hollywood stars go there. Hillary Swank has staved there,
- 25:41Speaker 2: Neil Patrick Harris has stayed there, raved about it, loved it.
- 25:44Speaker 2: The list goes on. So if you're looking for luxury
- 25:46Speaker 2: with a distinctly welcoming vibe, head to Fiji, where happiness
- 25:51Speaker 2: and luxury come naturally.
- 25:53Speaker 1: International correspondence with NS and eye insurance, peace of mind.
- 25:57Speaker 1: For New Zealand business.
- 26:00Speaker 2: Fifteen minutes away from Sex, it's going to given ground,
- 26:02Speaker 2: the UK given So considering all options is what the
- 26:06Speaker 2: British government sees about Trump's requested over the Strait.
- 26:10Speaker 15: That's right, Ryan. A week ago we were talking about
- 26:13Speaker 15: how President Trump had said he didn't need the UK's
- 26:15Speaker 15: help or any ships because the war with Iran was one.
- 26:19Speaker 15: Well a week on, he's now pleading four ships from
- 26:22Speaker 15: the UK, China and France in order to try and
- 26:25Speaker 15: protect the Strait of horror moves. We've all seen petrol
- 26:27Speaker 15: prices go up, and we all know that is because
- 26:30Speaker 15: the Strait of horn Moves is currently effectively blocked for
- 26:33Speaker 15: fear of being attacked by Iran, so Donald Trump calling
- 26:36Speaker 15: on nations to send ships to protect shipping and freight
- 26:40Speaker 15: through that strait. But we don't know what the UK
- 26:43Speaker 15: response is so far, Ministers trading a very very careful
- 26:46Speaker 15: line on all the politics programs that come out on
- 26:49Speaker 15: a Sunday, basically saying all options are being looked at.
- 26:52Speaker 15: What does that mean? Talk perhaps mine sweepers, because of
- 26:55Speaker 15: course there's rumors of mines being laid as well. But
- 26:58Speaker 15: will they join in this with Trump having been less
- 27:01Speaker 15: keen in the past, Well, we don't know. What we
- 27:03Speaker 15: do know is in the latest statistics from the UK
- 27:07Speaker 15: Maritime Trade Operations that sixteen vessels including a number of
- 27:11Speaker 15: tankers have been attacked near the shipping lane of the
- 27:14Speaker 15: Street of horn Moves. We know oil prices of sword
- 27:17Speaker 15: and today, earlier today to USB one Lancer bombers to
- 27:21Speaker 15: go off from a British base carrying what I thought
- 27:24Speaker 15: to be those so called bunker buster bombs and cruise missiles.
- 27:28Speaker 15: It takes normally around eight hours to reach Iran, and
- 27:32Speaker 15: that could mean that we will see a bit more
- 27:34Speaker 15: action this evening our time.
- 27:36Speaker 2: All right, Kevin appreciate that, Kevin Gray are UK europe
- 27:39Speaker 2: correspondent time as a living away from six Ryan bre
- 27:42Speaker 2: have you got to feel a little bit for Zelensky,
- 27:44Speaker 2: by the way, because there's a pipeline, an old Soviet
- 27:46Speaker 2: pipeline that goes from Russia through Ukraine to get to Hungary,
- 27:50Speaker 2: and a Victor Oban who's the leader there, he wants
- 27:54Speaker 2: the pipeline fixed because it got bombed. And Zelenski's saying,
- 27:57Speaker 2: hang on a minute, that would basically be gifted war
- 28:00Speaker 2: money to the Russians. So we're not going to do that.
- 28:03Speaker 2: In the meantime, they're holding up funding for Ukraine, so
- 28:07Speaker 2: that's all very messy for them. Let's go to Washington though,
- 28:10Speaker 2: week three of this war, and the US has unleashed
- 28:14Speaker 2: massive strikes on Hager Island. This is around oil Island.
- 28:17Speaker 2: Trump wants help opening the Strait of Horn moves. David
- 28:20Speaker 2: Smith is Washington bureau chief for The Guardian, joins us
- 28:22Speaker 2: this morning. David, good morning, good morning. So the issue
- 28:27Speaker 2: of the strait, has anyone come to his aid? Is
- 28:30Speaker 2: anyone saying yep, we'll jump on board and help there?
- 28:35Speaker 6: Not much sign of that yet British ministers and others
- 28:40Speaker 6: sort of being the diplomatic and non committal and was notable.
- 28:45Speaker 6: There's been a British newspaper report saying that diplomats from
- 28:50Speaker 6: France and Italy have been talking to the Iranian government
- 28:54Speaker 6: about getting safe passage for their ships, and the Iranian
- 28:59Speaker 6: foreign ministers interviewed on one of the Sunday politics shows
- 29:02Speaker 6: in the US saying they're open to countries who want
- 29:06Speaker 6: to talk about safe passage of their vessels. He couldn't
- 29:10Speaker 6: mention any country in particular, he said, so all a
- 29:16Speaker 6: little bit nebulous right now. And what you're seeing in
- 29:21Speaker 6: America is certainly some political blowback against Donald Trump. Basically,
- 29:26Speaker 6: you know, why did he not think of this? I
- 29:30Speaker 6: think many military experts and politicians feel it was pretty
- 29:33Speaker 6: obvious that Iran would be hopelessly outdunned and overwhelmed militarily.
- 29:38Speaker 6: But it does have this card to play of closing
- 29:42Speaker 6: the Strait as whole news which, of course the twenty
- 29:44Speaker 6: percent of oil goes through there, and even for a
- 29:47Speaker 6: position of weakness, it can inflict some pain on the
- 29:51Speaker 6: US and indeed the entire global economy.
- 29:54Speaker 2: It's literally in their playbook that they would do something
- 29:56Speaker 2: like this. So is it fear to say that they
- 29:59Speaker 2: weren't he had the Americans, or that they didn't say
- 30:01Speaker 2: this coming or they didn't prepare enough for it happening.
- 30:06Speaker 6: Well, the White House denies that and claims that they
- 30:09Speaker 6: did foresee it. And there's been some reporting suggesting that
- 30:13Speaker 6: Donald Trump was warned and this is a possibility by
- 30:16Speaker 6: his military planners, and his response was it'll be okay.
- 30:20Speaker 6: The regime will have collapsed by then, or if it hasn't,
- 30:23Speaker 6: the military can take care of it. But I think
- 30:27Speaker 6: critics are pretty skeptical of that and feel that the
- 30:30Speaker 6: White House has been caught out here. And evidence of
- 30:34Speaker 6: that is the way Trump has been fairly insulting towards
- 30:39Speaker 6: some Western allies, such as Keir Starmer of the UK
- 30:42Speaker 6: for several days and then yes, suddenly on Saturday, we
- 30:46Speaker 6: got this appeal from international coalition to help out, and
- 30:53Speaker 6: he mentioned the China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK
- 30:56Speaker 6: and others affected by this, wanting them to to weigh
- 31:00Speaker 6: in and help provide safety for the shipping, among other things.
- 31:06Speaker 6: Notable that China is mentioned. They're often a big US
- 31:11Speaker 6: adversary of course, and Trump is visiting Beijing towards the
- 31:15Speaker 6: end of the months and fascinated to see how China
- 31:18Speaker 6: plays all of this. But yeah, it does appear at
- 31:23Speaker 6: least one example of a lack of US planning and
- 31:27Speaker 6: foresights in a war that many members of the Democratic
- 31:31Speaker 6: Party say Trump really failed to sell to the public
- 31:34Speaker 6: and failed to form a strategy.
- 31:36Speaker 2: On David, appreciate your analysis this morning, David Smith, Washington
- 31:39Speaker 2: Bureau chief for The Garden. You'll be pleased to know
- 31:42Speaker 2: Pope Leo he has called overnight for a seas fire
- 31:44Speaker 2: in the Middle East seven away from six.
- 31:48Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
- 31:51Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love where.
- 31:55Speaker 2: You live news talks, it'd be that as far to
- 31:57Speaker 2: second news talks. It'd be great to have your company
- 31:59Speaker 2: the Monday morning. Mike is in with you next Good morning, Mike,
- 32:02Speaker 2: thrilled to see you.
- 32:03Speaker 10: Ryan.
- 32:03Speaker 2: You would have been pleased with those headlines about luxon
- 32:06Speaker 2: AND's on retitle at the weekend. Did you see that?
- 32:08Speaker 7: Just do we literally make up stories now and he
- 32:11Speaker 7: spends the rest of his life just going around denying everything.
- 32:15Speaker 2: It's just ridiculous.
- 32:16Speaker 7: Hey, The other thing I thought about yesterday, when do
- 32:18Speaker 7: we stop using the term cost of living crisis, given
- 32:21Speaker 7: that I'm listening to the fruit and veggies, right, yeah,
- 32:24Speaker 7: there is no cost of living crisis. Now you can go, oh,
- 32:26Speaker 7: but what about the petrol? But have we now stuck
- 32:29Speaker 7: in a mindset where everything's it's permanent cost of living
- 32:32Speaker 7: crisis forever? Yes, And every time you can point to
- 32:35Speaker 7: something that's going up a bit untoward, then that must
- 32:37Speaker 7: be part of the cost of living.
- 32:39Speaker 2: I think when wages start out stripping the increase in
- 32:41Speaker 2: inflation and they have a decent margin, well, what's a
- 32:45Speaker 2: decent margin, Well, something that makes you feel less poor.
- 32:48Speaker 7: Yeah, but that's open to interpretation, isn't it.
- 32:50Speaker 5: So?
- 32:50Speaker 2: Yes, but yes, we're in a peture state of crisis.
- 32:53Speaker 2: As a simple answer question.
- 32:54Speaker 7: Post COVID, we've never got out of our funk, have
- 32:57Speaker 7: we do?
- 32:57Speaker 2: We also have an expectator Christ of expectations, you know,
- 33:02Speaker 2: like you think about the if the flights and five
- 33:04Speaker 2: percent of the flights get cut, it's like, well, if
- 33:07Speaker 2: he is quite a boogie, Well, used to be quite
- 33:09Speaker 2: a boogie thing to do, but now it's kind of
- 33:11Speaker 2: an expectation.
- 33:12Speaker 7: We go from zero to one hundred, and like you
- 33:15Speaker 7: look at this war. It's two weeks old and we're
- 33:18Speaker 7: over it. Yeah, you know, there was a period of
- 33:20Speaker 7: time where and I don't know, dear, I suggest Ukraine.
- 33:22Speaker 7: It's actually been going on quite a while since oh
- 33:24Speaker 7: the third week? Are you serious?
- 33:27Speaker 2: But this one? I mean this, it's just you want
- 33:30Speaker 2: the straight open, you want the oil flowing, don't you?
- 33:32Speaker 7: Yes, you do. Does anyone ask the Prime Minister whether
- 33:35Speaker 7: we are sending the frigate?
- 33:36Speaker 2: I'm going to ask someone today, David Seymour, but not
- 33:39Speaker 2: not the PM.
- 33:40Speaker 7: Well, I've got the PM, mom, I'm going to ask him.
- 33:41Speaker 7: I'm going straight to him. I'm going to go what
- 33:43Speaker 7: about this chiefly title? And by the way, we're sending
- 33:46Speaker 7: a frigate.
- 33:47Speaker 2: The one that's at the bottom of the ocean in
- 33:48Speaker 2: summer or another one. News Talks they've been Mike with
- 33:51Speaker 2: you next.
- 33:54Speaker 1: For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
- 33:57Speaker 1: to News Talks it'd be from five am weekdays, or
- 34:00Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.