Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 23 June 2025

Transcript

Full Show Podcast: 23 June 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

0:01
Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
0:05
Speaker 1: early edition with ex Pole insulation, keeping keeping Holmes warm
0:09
Speaker 1: and tray this winter news talks.
0:11
Speaker 2: That'd be good morning. It is Monday, the twenty third
0:13
Speaker 2: of June. Just gone six after five, Our lead interview
0:15
Speaker 2: before six this morning, Judith Collins is on the program.
0:18
Speaker 2: Defense Minister. We've got Defense Force personnel in the Middle
0:22
Speaker 2: East at the moment on joint operations under US command.
0:27
Speaker 2: So what happens to them if Iran retaliates? We'll ask
0:30
Speaker 2: the minister before six. Also the latest on Operation Midnight Hammer,
0:34
Speaker 2: that's what the Yanks are calling it. In the UK.
0:38
Speaker 2: Our Corey Gavin Gray is with us. Were the Brits
0:41
Speaker 2: involved in this military operation? And also I'll ask him
0:44
Speaker 2: about this new poll on reform the party that's just
0:48
Speaker 2: absolutely blitzing the field one year into Labour's reign. Andrew
0:52
Speaker 2: Allison on super rugby dog attacks on the rise here
0:56
Speaker 2: in New Zealand. And more aid for Ukraine. That's from
0:59
Speaker 2: luxon who over in Europe at the moment, Just gone
1:02
Speaker 2: seven after five the agenda, So Trump says the strikes
1:07
Speaker 2: on the three nuclear sites in Iran were a success.
1:11
Speaker 3: Iran's key nuclear and Richmond facilities have been completely and
1:14
Speaker 3: totally obliterated around the bully of the Middle East must
1:19
Speaker 3: now make peace.
1:21
Speaker 2: Can you really say they're obliterated. We'll talk about that
1:23
Speaker 2: a little later in the program too. Iran warning of
1:26
Speaker 2: everlasting consequences after this betrayal from the US.
1:31
Speaker 4: The war mong green and lawless administration in Washington is
1:36
Speaker 4: solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far
1:41
Speaker 4: riching implement implications are its act of aggression.
1:46
Speaker 2: You'll feel relieved to know that the UN Security Council
1:49
Speaker 2: is going to have a meeting today that will solve things.
1:51
Speaker 2: At least eight people have died in a hot air
1:53
Speaker 2: balloon accident in southern Brazil, but thirteen including the pilots, survived.
1:58
Speaker 3: Holballos are having a fire of this magnitude is quite rare,
2:03
Speaker 3: but there have been other unfortunate hotter balloon air tour accidents.
2:09
Speaker 2: Back home. The Crusaders beat the Chiefs and the Super
2:11
Speaker 2: Rugby Pacific final redemption for coach Rob Penny.
2:15
Speaker 5: What is fantastic?
2:16
Speaker 6: Just been part of a group small to cold in
2:18
Speaker 6: the wheel The pride is without saying and yeah, the
2:22
Speaker 6: moment it's a wonderful one.
2:25
Speaker 2: That's your agenda for Monday morning.
2:28
Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
2:30
Speaker 1: analysis earlier this shar with Ryan Bridge and ex Bowl
2:34
Speaker 1: insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This winter news talks.
2:38
Speaker 2: A'd be well, that was always going to happen, wasn't it?
2:41
Speaker 2: What happened what the United States did at the weekend,
2:43
Speaker 2: because well, just the soundings that you were getting from
2:46
Speaker 2: the White House were increasingly ominous throughout the last week. Interestingly,
2:51
Speaker 2: Jade Varns has said overnight in this interview that the
2:54
Speaker 2: goal of the operation was just to stop the nuclear program.
2:57
Speaker 2: This is not about despite what some people were saying
3:00
Speaker 2: over the last coup twenty four hours, this was not
3:03
Speaker 2: about changing the regime in Iran.
3:06
Speaker 7: The main strike package, comprised of seven B two Spirit bombers,
3:10
Speaker 7: each with two crew members, proceeded quietly to the east
3:15
Speaker 7: with minimal communications. Once over land, the B twos linked
3:20
Speaker 7: up with escort and support aircraft in a complex, tightly
3:24
Speaker 7: timed maneuver requiring exact synchronization across multiple platforms in a
3:30
Speaker 7: narrow piece of airspace, all done with minimal communications.
3:35
Speaker 8: Our B twos went in and out and back without
3:38
Speaker 8: the world knowing at all. In that way, it was historic.
3:43
Speaker 2: Well we did know, didn't we We knew about the
3:45
Speaker 2: ones going over the Pacific because we had these warnings
3:47
Speaker 2: on Sundays saying, hey, there's a B two bomba's going
3:50
Speaker 2: over the Pacific. But that was intentional. They were the decoys.
3:53
Speaker 2: The real ones were going from Missouri. Now, this is
3:56
Speaker 2: Jettie Vance talking about the goal of the Operation at War.
4:00
Speaker 8: With Iran's nuclear program, and what we did is we
4:03
Speaker 8: destroyed the.
4:05
Speaker 3: Iranian nuclear program.
4:06
Speaker 8: I think we set that program back substantially, and we
4:09
Speaker 8: did it without endangering the lives of the American pilots.
4:13
Speaker 2: Yeah. So have they done that? Have they? No doubt
4:16
Speaker 2: they've taken it back, the nuclear program. You know, they've
4:20
Speaker 2: They've given a good kick in the goolies, but it
4:23
Speaker 2: even got rid of it, have they. I Mean, Iran
4:25
Speaker 2: has shown us time and time again that not only
4:29
Speaker 2: are they capable when it comes to nuclear and uranium enrichment,
4:33
Speaker 2: but they are quite determined, aren't they. I Mean, there's
4:36
Speaker 2: not much that puts them off. Just gone ten minutes
4:38
Speaker 2: after five anyway, we'll talk about that with jud Collins,
4:40
Speaker 2: A little later in the program, and we will have
4:42
Speaker 2: a correspondent from the United States as well. I want
4:45
Speaker 2: to talk to you about dog attacks. I've had a
4:48
Speaker 2: friend whose dog has been attacked. In fact, that's the
4:51
Speaker 2: second friend of mine whose dog has been attacked by
4:54
Speaker 2: one of these mongral ones. So what do we do
4:57
Speaker 2: about this? Nine two ninety two is the number to text.
5:00
Speaker 2: Apparently the council's have gone a bit soft because they
5:04
Speaker 2: get worried, to get concerned what the owners will of
5:07
Speaker 2: the dogs will do if they destroy them. So instead
5:10
Speaker 2: of actually taking action, they just fob it off to
5:13
Speaker 2: the courts and then you're going to go through a
5:14
Speaker 2: whole court process. Takes you months, maybe years to get
5:17
Speaker 2: through that, and the dog stays alive during that process,
5:21
Speaker 2: the dog that's attacked your dog or attacked you, which
5:25
Speaker 2: seems crazy to me. Nine the numbers of text. We'll
5:28
Speaker 2: talk about that a little bit later on just gone
5:29
Speaker 2: eleven after five.
5:31
Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on a early edition with
5:35
Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and x Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi homes warm
5:39
Speaker 1: and dry this winter news talks.
5:41
Speaker 2: That'd be just gone five thirteen. So some numbers for you.
5:43
Speaker 2: This is just from Auckland. Nearly three thousand dog attacks
5:47
Speaker 2: were recorded on animals and humans across the city last
5:50
Speaker 2: year three thousand. That's up more than one thousand on
5:53
Speaker 2: twenty twenty numbers. Basically, this is a problem that we've
5:57
Speaker 2: heard about for a while now, COVID lockdowns. Everyone winning
5:59
Speaker 2: god animal couldn't look after it bred well. They just
6:04
Speaker 2: started going at it with one another. And then we've
6:07
Speaker 2: got fewer animals being d six, we've got more unregistered
6:10
Speaker 2: dogs and now we have a balloon, a ballooning in
6:15
Speaker 2: the number of animals, particularly dangerous ones, dog control offices
6:20
Speaker 2: on the front line. This is according to the Herald.
6:23
Speaker 2: They've got a story out this morning. Apparently not just
6:25
Speaker 2: aggressive animals, but threats and abuse from the owners are
6:30
Speaker 2: on the increase as well, so that's delightful. The areas
6:33
Speaker 2: to look out for Mony Day were recorded more than
6:35
Speaker 2: two hundred attacks last year alone, seven hundred across the
6:38
Speaker 2: last five years. Papa Couda one hundred and eighty attacks
6:42
Speaker 2: last year, six hundred and thirty eight over the last
6:44
Speaker 2: five years. The paper points out it's not because they're
6:46
Speaker 2: poor areas necessarily, just because they are highly populated ones
6:49
Speaker 2: with high dog ownership. But I'm sorry. If you've got
6:53
Speaker 2: a dog that is attacking someone or has attacked someone
6:57
Speaker 2: or another dog and drawn blood, I mean, I undertink
7:01
Speaker 2: they should be put down, don't you.
7:04
Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
7:05
Speaker 2: It's gone quarter past five News Talk set B. US
7:08
Speaker 2: Defense Secretary Pete Higgsith says the US strikes on three
7:11
Speaker 2: nuclear sites in Iran were an overwhelming success.
7:15
Speaker 8: We devastated the Iranian nuclear program. But it's worth noting
7:21
Speaker 8: the operation did not target Iranian troops, so the Iranian
7:24
Speaker 8: people now.
7:26
Speaker 2: Earlier, Trump told Iran to quote make peace or face
7:29
Speaker 2: far greater attacks in the future. Tony Waterman is the
7:32
Speaker 2: US correspondent feature story in News with Me this morning. Tony,
7:34
Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning. So we've heard about the strikes.
7:39
Speaker 2: We've heard about the way that this happened. Quite a
7:42
Speaker 2: few aircraft were involved and some decoys.
7:46
Speaker 9: Yeah, you're right. We've got a lot of detail in
7:48
Speaker 9: that press briefing by the Defense Secretary earlier today, including
7:52
Speaker 9: the fact that this mission actually started at midnight on
7:55
Speaker 9: Friday with this group of B two stealth bombers leaving
7:59
Speaker 9: a military base in the US state of Missouri, and
8:02
Speaker 9: that group actually split into two one acting as this
8:05
Speaker 9: decoy flying over the Pacific. The other group heading east
8:09
Speaker 9: that consisted of seven B two bombers, and they made
8:12
Speaker 9: this eighteen hour flight to the target areas and they
8:17
Speaker 9: use these bunker busting bombs, fourteen of them, most of
8:21
Speaker 9: them dropped on the four dau enrichment site. We also
8:25
Speaker 9: learned that a Navy submarine in the Persian Gulf fired
8:29
Speaker 9: off two dozen Tomahawk missiles as part of this attack,
8:32
Speaker 9: hitting that Islafan site, and the Defense Secretary saying that
8:38
Speaker 9: this entire operation lasted twenty five minutes and that it
8:43
Speaker 9: seemed as if nobody on the ground was aware of
8:46
Speaker 9: what was happening. He said that there were no shots
8:49
Speaker 9: fired from the Iranian side. Pete Hegseth also saying that
8:53
Speaker 9: the objective of this operation was not about regime change,
8:57
Speaker 9: but about taking out Iran's nuclear capabilit Can.
9:00
Speaker 2: I say definitively that I've done that.
9:05
Speaker 9: Well, it's all about the wording. The President last night,
9:08
Speaker 9: in this national address, said that the military had completely
9:12
Speaker 9: obliterated these nuclear sites. Pete Hegseth used some of the
9:16
Speaker 9: same language, but at one point he said that the
9:19
Speaker 9: United States had taken out Iran's nuclear ambitions, which is
9:24
Speaker 9: very different from completely getting rid of their nuclear capabilities.
9:28
Speaker 9: And then General dan Kin, who was the chairman of
9:30
Speaker 9: the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that there is this
9:34
Speaker 9: battle damage assessment that's underway right now, that all three
9:37
Speaker 9: of these sites have been extremely damaged, but that it
9:40
Speaker 9: was way too soon to know whether Iran still retains
9:44
Speaker 9: some nuclear capability. And of course, we had these satellite
9:47
Speaker 9: images showing this caravan of lorries at the sites in
9:52
Speaker 9: the days ahead of these strikes, so it's feasible that
9:55
Speaker 9: some of this material or some of the equipment may
9:58
Speaker 9: have been moved. And in fact, it's exactly what Iranian
10:01
Speaker 9: state media is saying, that these locations were completely empty
10:05
Speaker 9: when the strikes took place.
10:07
Speaker 2: And what about Iran's capability for retaliation? What ammunition have
10:13
Speaker 2: they got? Where is the US most worried about them attacking?
10:19
Speaker 9: Well, the primary concern for US officials right now are
10:22
Speaker 9: the forty thousand plus US troops that are stationed across
10:27
Speaker 9: the Middle East on ships, on land at military basis.
10:31
Speaker 9: That is the primary concern in terms of retaliation. It
10:34
Speaker 9: could be a whole bunch of things. What we're hearing
10:36
Speaker 9: right now is that the Iranians are going to be
10:38
Speaker 9: shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, which is a major
10:41
Speaker 9: shipping lane to the world and also particularly for US
10:46
Speaker 9: natural gas. So this is potentially going to spike oil prices,
10:51
Speaker 9: sprit gas prices in hit America in its pocketbook. There's
10:54
Speaker 9: also concerns that proxy groups, some sort of militias or
10:58
Speaker 9: terrorist organizations could carry out attacks that either have been
11:02
Speaker 9: in the works or that are newly produced. So the
11:05
Speaker 9: US is very much in defense mold right now, but
11:08
Speaker 9: the President and his team trying to position this as
11:12
Speaker 9: a very surgical attack, that this is not part of
11:15
Speaker 9: a larger war that they want to get into.
11:18
Speaker 2: All right, Tony, appreciate your time this morning, Tony Wardman,
11:20
Speaker 2: who's Fitch Story news reporter out of the United States.
11:22
Speaker 2: It's just gone nineteen minutes after five Lots of your
11:25
Speaker 2: texts coming in on dogs day. Take care, Tony, Lots
11:30
Speaker 2: of the texts coming in on dogs and whether we
11:32
Speaker 2: should ban that. You know, there are a small number
11:35
Speaker 2: of quite dangerous breeds. We do have a number of
11:37
Speaker 2: breeds that are banned already, but do we extend that
11:40
Speaker 2: to include the ones who we most often hear about
11:44
Speaker 2: doing the damage. Ryan Simple banned the small number of
11:46
Speaker 2: recognized dangerous dog breeds that would solve the problem. Would
11:50
Speaker 2: it solve the problem though? I mean, well, I suppose
11:53
Speaker 2: if you saw one you could immediately put it down,
11:55
Speaker 2: couldn't you? That would help grants? Is it's more the
11:58
Speaker 2: owners of these dogs that are the problem. They're the
12:00
Speaker 2: ones that need to be locked away and they're not
12:03
Speaker 2: at present? Are they just gone? Twenty half to five year?
12:06
Speaker 2: On News Talks hereb we are going to get to
12:08
Speaker 2: Judith Collins before six o'clock. And Andrew Ordison next on
12:12
Speaker 2: Super Rugby, the Warriors and the squad naming today for
12:16
Speaker 2: the All Blacks on.
12:18
Speaker 1: Your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with Ryan
12:22
Speaker 1: Bridge and x full Insulation Keeping Kiey Holmes warm and
12:26
Speaker 1: dry this winter News Talks hed B.
12:29
Speaker 2: Five two On News Talks, head be Andrew Ordison. Here
12:31
Speaker 2: was sport this morning? Hey, Andrew, Greeting's right? Now? Should
12:34
Speaker 2: we start with the All Blacks squad named today? What
12:37
Speaker 2: surprises are we expecting? Well, let's start without the surprises.
12:41
Speaker 6: It's been held at the Coastal Club in Taradaki, so
12:44
Speaker 6: I would have thought it would be a hell of
12:45
Speaker 6: a surprise. Of well, Scott Barrett's not captain given it's
12:47
Speaker 6: the home of the Barretts, and perhaps Jordi Barrett and
12:51
Speaker 6: and Boden Barrett are part of that squad. But there's
12:55
Speaker 6: so many sort of areas up for I guess contesting here.
13:00
Speaker 6: I mean loose forwards, midfield, outside backs. Just given what
13:04
Speaker 6: we've seen across the whole breadth of Super Rugby, I
13:07
Speaker 6: suppose I'm interested to see where the players you haven't
13:10
Speaker 6: been in that. So there's two sides that contested the
13:12
Speaker 6: Super Rugby Final with the Crusaders and the Chiefs, you know,
13:15
Speaker 6: the likes of your dupless Carefi and the loose forwards
13:18
Speaker 6: there Christian the o'willy with Tomothi Ta Tava Nahwai might
13:24
Speaker 6: stand a chance of getting into the midfield and you
13:26
Speaker 6: can cover on the wing as well. Of course, from
13:28
Speaker 6: the Heartlanders, it's how much they based on the individual
13:32
Speaker 6: rather than you know what the combinations have been developed
13:35
Speaker 6: over that Super Rugby season. But it's always an exciting
13:37
Speaker 6: time of the year for I guess rugby fans with
13:39
Speaker 6: the announcement of the All Blacks, and I like the
13:42
Speaker 6: fact that they're going to the Coastal Club at Tarahaki,
13:45
Speaker 6: but going a bit off piece if you like to
13:47
Speaker 6: go and announce that rather than just the formal occasion
13:50
Speaker 6: that say, you know Rugby HQ.
13:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I'm looking forward to that. Now. The Crusaders,
13:55
Speaker 2: you couldn't wipe the smile off Rob Penny faces and
13:57
Speaker 2: you can understand why, right you can.
14:00
Speaker 6: And he's been through a lot, as they're given. The
14:02
Speaker 6: pressure is on and probably justifiably in some of the
14:04
Speaker 6: ways last year with the way that things were going
14:06
Speaker 6: for the Crusaders. But he's turned out around and you
14:09
Speaker 6: know where he was given the criticism, he deserves the
14:11
Speaker 6: credit now. But no confirmation as to whether he's going
14:14
Speaker 6: to take that job on for the coming season or
14:17
Speaker 6: next season and onwards. That will be a fascinating point
14:21
Speaker 6: of I guess interest as time goes on. But he
14:24
Speaker 6: was again justifiably elated. And I mean look at that record, right,
14:29
Speaker 6: I mean what a thirty two or zero playoff record
14:31
Speaker 6: at home in thirteen of the twenty eight Super Roby
14:35
Speaker 6: Crowns have gone the way of the Crusaders, so they
14:38
Speaker 6: just know how to do it and bring it and
14:40
Speaker 6: the Chiefs Clan McMillan have been so close, I mean,
14:42
Speaker 6: the most consistent team probably over the last three seasons,
14:45
Speaker 6: making him final every time, but just unable to deliver
14:48
Speaker 6: as he heads off to Munster.
14:50
Speaker 2: Now now very quickly, the Warriors lost to the Panthers
14:53
Speaker 2: a weekend. Panthers at the weekend that wasn't meant to happen.
14:56
Speaker 6: Well, it was a bit of a surprise. Well it's
14:58
Speaker 6: a surprise in a way, but then Ivan Cleary is
15:02
Speaker 6: such a wily coach and he would know, I mean
15:06
Speaker 6: mounts smart so well after having six spent six seasons
15:10
Speaker 6: at the ground as coached the Warriors and having had
15:13
Speaker 6: this relationship with Andrew Webster that the head coach of
15:16
Speaker 6: the Warriors now pretty much out Fox I suppose, and
15:20
Speaker 6: just yeah, convincing one for them and they needed that
15:23
Speaker 6: really moving up the table the Panthers now I think
15:25
Speaker 6: in eighth was seventeen points, Warriors still fourth and there
15:29
Speaker 6: is a buffer of six points now for the Warriors
15:31
Speaker 6: from fourth to fifth with the Broncos on eighteen Warriors
15:34
Speaker 6: twenty four, so they've they're still in control there.
15:37
Speaker 2: Brilliant Andrew good heavy on the show is always love
15:40
Speaker 2: Mondays rining. It is twenty five minutes after five. News
15:42
Speaker 2: Talks THEB. We'll get to a little update from the
15:46
Speaker 2: satellite images of the bunker Buster bombs.
15:50
Speaker 1: Next the early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio powered
15:55
Speaker 1: by NEWSTALKSB.
15:57
Speaker 2: News Talks ZB. It is twenty eight minutes after five.
16:00
Speaker 2: So we now know the Americans used seven B two
16:03
Speaker 2: stealth bombers to attack Iran. A dozen bunker Buster bombs
16:07
Speaker 2: were used. They flew in the dark at night, dropping
16:10
Speaker 2: the payload just after two am local time. They fired
16:13
Speaker 2: Tomahawk missiles from US Navy ships nearby. They call it
16:17
Speaker 2: Operation Midnight Hammer. They claimed it was successful, but what
16:22
Speaker 2: we don't actually know is how successful and what success
16:26
Speaker 2: actually means. Satellite images don't show you what's happening underground. Obviously,
16:32
Speaker 2: the bunker Buster bombs are designed to blow stuff up
16:35
Speaker 2: around sixty meters underground. Nobody but the Iranians know exactly
16:39
Speaker 2: how deep their enrichment facilities are hidden. Nobody knows how
16:43
Speaker 2: thick the concrete is that they put on top of it.
16:47
Speaker 2: It's possible that the main gups of their facilities haven't
16:50
Speaker 2: been hit at all. Then you ask, what does success
16:54
Speaker 2: mean if success is destroying Iran's nuclear capability. Well that
16:58
Speaker 2: hasn't happened. Signists were taken out in Israel's first strikes,
17:02
Speaker 2: but not all of them. Iran has very smart people
17:05
Speaker 2: with knowledge of nuclear weapons and enrichment. China sends them
17:09
Speaker 2: the uranium. This stripe will have set them back. But
17:12
Speaker 2: this is a country who's shown time and again not
17:15
Speaker 2: just how capable they are, but how determined they are
17:19
Speaker 2: to have nuclear weapons. To be a nuclear state doesn't
17:23
Speaker 2: mean the stripe wasn't worth it, of course, if they
17:26
Speaker 2: won't negotiate, but also success depends on how you define it.
17:32
Speaker 2: Bryan Bridge twenty nine after five news talks, they'd be
17:35
Speaker 2: the reform polling numbers out of the UK. Fascinating. Gavin
17:38
Speaker 2: Gray on that shortly News.
17:40
Speaker 1: And Views you trust to start your day. It's early
17:44
Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge at expol Insulation keeping, Kiwi, Holmes,
17:48
Speaker 1: Ward and Drey.
17:49
Speaker 2: This winter news talks had been Good Morning twenty four
17:57
Speaker 2: minutes away from sex Yer on Newstalks, there'd be Judith Collins,
18:00
Speaker 2: Defence Minister on the program I lead into view before six.
18:02
Speaker 2: We're sending a hurt to the Middle East, What use
18:06
Speaker 2: will it be? And why haven't you sent it already
18:08
Speaker 2: one of the questions. Also, lots of texts this morning.
18:11
Speaker 2: We'll get to Gavin Gray out of the UK as well.
18:13
Speaker 2: Lots of texts this morning on Iran, and I don't know,
18:16
Speaker 2: there seems to be quite a few people who think,
18:18
Speaker 2: actually America is the bad guys here. You know, why
18:22
Speaker 2: did they head Iran when we don't know for sure
18:24
Speaker 2: for certain that they have nuclear weapons? And you're right,
18:26
Speaker 2: we don't know for certain that they had nuclear weapons. Well,
18:29
Speaker 2: in fact, we don't think they did have nuclear weapons,
18:31
Speaker 2: and the US hasn't said that either. It's the enriching
18:35
Speaker 2: the uranium that we're worried about. And how close you
18:38
Speaker 2: get to being able to, you know, prop up to
18:42
Speaker 2: propel a nuclear weapon, and the numbers, by the way,
18:47
Speaker 2: you get to over a certain percentage and you're no
18:49
Speaker 2: longer looking at a civilian purpose. And they were over that.
18:53
Speaker 2: They weren't quite at weapons grade. They were about thirty
18:56
Speaker 2: percent off weapons grade, so they weren't, you knowately going
19:00
Speaker 2: to have a nuclear weapon in their hands. But I
19:02
Speaker 2: guess the question for the US is how close do
19:04
Speaker 2: you get to that line? How how tight do you
19:09
Speaker 2: want to run this thing. And so if you've got
19:11
Speaker 2: an opportunity to drop some bombs and set them back
19:13
Speaker 2: a couple of years, then do you just take it? Well,
19:15
Speaker 2: clearly they've decided that. Yees, that is the answer. Twenty
19:18
Speaker 2: three minutes away twenty two, I should say, away from
19:21
Speaker 2: six o'clock reporters around the country now Colum Proctor and
19:25
Speaker 2: needing for us this morning, Colum, good morning morning. Right now,
19:27
Speaker 2: you've got a lotto winner and invcargo well a ticket
19:30
Speaker 2: sold from an invercargol store. Correct, that's right.
19:35
Speaker 10: They could live anywhere, of course, but two players in
19:38
Speaker 10: the end sheared the thirty million that was up for
19:41
Speaker 10: grabs for Powerball on Saturday night. One of those tickets
19:44
Speaker 10: sold in Wellington won and in the cargo. So the
19:46
Speaker 10: inv cargo ticket was sold at a Plaza super Well,
19:50
Speaker 10: at the Plaza Super Valued and Vicago. We know that
19:52
Speaker 10: the owner says he's only just taken over the store
19:55
Speaker 10: and was woken by a call from as aeria manager
19:57
Speaker 10: to be told the news. So he's planning big celebrations
20:00
Speaker 10: this week with the staff. The ticket, though as yet,
20:03
Speaker 10: is yet to be claimed.
20:06
Speaker 2: Very interesting to see if we ever find out who
20:08
Speaker 2: it is and you're weather today callum.
20:12
Speaker 10: Yet morning cloud then fine strong Selle Westerly is the
20:15
Speaker 10: high ten today, brilliant.
20:16
Speaker 2: Thank you Claires and christ to shake Claire, good morning.
20:18
Speaker 2: Now you've got some employment opportunities for us at the
20:21
Speaker 2: Metro Sports Center.
20:23
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, at all of our new sports venues. To
20:25
Speaker 11: be honest, we've got two hundred people to be employed
20:27
Speaker 11: at the part of cur Day Recreation and Sports Center,
20:30
Speaker 11: with up to one hundred and fifty staff expected to
20:33
Speaker 11: be on site at any given time. That's a facility
20:36
Speaker 11: that's one of its kind. It's the only one like
20:38
Speaker 11: it in the country that scheduled for opening later this
20:40
Speaker 11: year in time for the Special Olympics in December. That's
20:43
Speaker 11: the one we've spoken about before that's blown out to
20:46
Speaker 11: cost half a billion dollars. Meanwhile, we've heard from venues
20:49
Speaker 11: Auto Tahi about doubling their casual workforce. That's ahead of
20:53
Speaker 11: the opening of the one New Zealand Stadium at Takaha. Now,
20:56
Speaker 11: the company already employs about four hundred and fifty casuals
21:00
Speaker 11: in order to service events at some of the other
21:02
Speaker 11: venues like the town Hall. They're going to increase that
21:04
Speaker 11: though to one thousand casuals in time for the stadium's
21:08
Speaker 11: opening in April next year.
21:09
Speaker 2: All right, how's your wear the clear.
21:12
Speaker 11: Morning cloud and then find frosty by tonight Westerly is
21:15
Speaker 11: easing and high.
21:16
Speaker 2: Of eleven brilliant. Thank you Max's and Wellington Max. Good morning,
21:19
Speaker 2: good morning. You got questions about the second Mountwik tunnel.
21:23
Speaker 5: Yes, during the post this morning. Always good to keep
21:25
Speaker 5: tabs on where we're at with a big project like
21:27
Speaker 5: this spades in the ground. Of course, this term was
21:31
Speaker 5: the government's promise. The final funding was supposed to have
21:34
Speaker 5: been determined in June, running out of time for that.
21:38
Speaker 5: Until then, the Transport Agency can't look at design time
21:40
Speaker 5: frame obviously cost. Therefore, you've had the Green Party asking
21:44
Speaker 5: questions of the Transport Minister on whether a second tunnel
21:48
Speaker 5: will even be available to pedestrians cyclists. I'm not sure,
21:53
Speaker 5: was the answer from mister Bishop. A lot of people
21:55
Speaker 5: walk through the existing tunnel even though it's dark and fume,
21:58
Speaker 5: and a bus lane in this second time, for instance,
22:01
Speaker 5: might be equally if not more important, all things that
22:03
Speaker 5: are important to look at. But the clock seems to
22:05
Speaker 5: be ticking on that timeframe.
22:07
Speaker 2: Certainly, does it just seems like one of those things
22:10
Speaker 2: that will never happen, although is desperately needed for anyone
22:13
Speaker 2: who's trying to get to the airport in Wellington. How's
22:15
Speaker 2: your wear?
22:15
Speaker 5: The Max mostly fine today thirteen the High Central brilliant.
22:19
Speaker 2: Thank you neighbors and Auckland good morning game that morning.
22:22
Speaker 8: Now.
22:22
Speaker 2: Kb rawl says passenger line closures will continue in Auckland today.
22:27
Speaker 12: Yes, that's right, So another day of disruption for Auckland
22:30
Speaker 12: rail commuters. No trains in the city today. Now, this
22:33
Speaker 12: is due to this ongoing Kiwi Rail work ahead of
22:36
Speaker 12: next year City rail Link opening. So this follows that
22:39
Speaker 12: full closure. This was of Auckland as well as Wellington
22:42
Speaker 12: train services over the long weekend. I can't tell you though,
22:45
Speaker 12: that Wellington's train services are back to normal today ours
22:48
Speaker 12: Auckland due to resume tomorrow now. Kiwi Rail's David Gordon
22:52
Speaker 12: says that they're working with Auckland Transport just to put
22:55
Speaker 12: on some of those adequate rail replacement buses like they
22:59
Speaker 12: do the other closure periods that we've had that alklors
23:04
Speaker 12: know so well.
23:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're basically always buses now, aren't they? Children
23:09
Speaker 2: confuse trains for buses these days and am just.
23:13
Speaker 12: That's exactly what I was thinking, and you said that
23:15
Speaker 12: you're quite right right.
23:16
Speaker 2: How's that weather?
23:17
Speaker 12: Partly cloudy, shells easing this afternoon, our high seventeen.
23:21
Speaker 2: Have a great day, Neiva, and it's just gone eighten
23:23
Speaker 2: minutes away from six o'clock. We will get to Gavin
23:26
Speaker 2: Gray out of the UK. Couple of things for him.
23:28
Speaker 2: One was the UK at all the military involved in
23:32
Speaker 2: the strikes on Iran, you know in terms of help, support, logistics, anything,
23:36
Speaker 2: this question being asked over there at the moment. And
23:38
Speaker 2: also reform this pole, I'll tell you about it right now.
23:43
Speaker 2: You know they've been they've been going up and up
23:45
Speaker 2: and out. This is reforming Nigel Farage in the UK.
23:48
Speaker 2: But the new IPSOS Political Monitor Pole has Reform on
23:52
Speaker 2: thirty four percent, Labor that's nine points ahead of Labor
23:56
Speaker 2: on twenty five percent, the Conservatives languishing on fifteen the
24:01
Speaker 2: lowest ever in a NIPSOS poll. Kistarmer by the way,
24:05
Speaker 2: one year into government and satisfaction levels are pretty much
24:10
Speaker 2: down there in the bunker. It's eighteen two six and
24:13
Speaker 2: Judith Collins before the N two News Talk.
24:15
Speaker 1: SEB International Correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of
24:20
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
24:23
Speaker 2: You've talked tob It has called it the sixth Judith
24:25
Speaker 2: Colins next right now, Gavin Gray are UK europe correspondent. Gavin,
24:28
Speaker 2: Good morning, good evening to you. Are there right now?
24:31
Speaker 2: The UK has the Kistarmer come out and criticized the
24:35
Speaker 2: US for the strikes at this point, what is their.
24:37
Speaker 13: Position, No, Sir Kistarmer saying obviously warning of a risk
24:42
Speaker 13: of escalation. However, really the government stance is that there
24:46
Speaker 13: is no way Iran can have a nuclear weapon, and
24:48
Speaker 13: so in that sense, you know, he is not criticized
24:52
Speaker 13: in the Americans, but he's saying that he wants to
24:54
Speaker 13: reassure the British public that they're doing everything that they
24:57
Speaker 13: can to stabilize the situation. He has stress crucially here
25:01
Speaker 13: that there is no involvement in the US action on
25:05
Speaker 13: behalf of the UK. Now, why is that important? Because
25:07
Speaker 13: the US Air Force have bases here in the UK.
25:11
Speaker 13: It was thought that they might use these bases to
25:13
Speaker 13: launch the attack. That would appear not to have been
25:16
Speaker 13: the case, I say a peer because UK involvement and
25:19
Speaker 13: allowing America to use the Air Force Bass are two
25:22
Speaker 13: slightly different things, but anyway, the Prime Minister this afternoon.
25:25
Speaker 13: In the last few hours has shared an emergency Cobra
25:27
Speaker 13: response meeting and held calls with other world leaders, including
25:32
Speaker 13: France's Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Frederic Mertz. They are all
25:36
Speaker 13: urging for Iran not to take any action that could
25:39
Speaker 13: destabilize the region. But a UK defense source said military
25:43
Speaker 13: personnel in the Middle East were now on their highest
25:46
Speaker 13: level of alert, and we're being told as well that
25:51
Speaker 13: the Foreign and Commonwealth Offices advice against all traveler. Israel
25:55
Speaker 13: has now organized a charter flight from Tel Aviv for
25:58
Speaker 13: British nationals who want to leave Israel, and now British
26:01
Speaker 13: Airways announcing its pausing flights to Dubai in the United
26:04
Speaker 13: Arab Emirates and Dohat in Kata in light of the situation.
26:08
Speaker 2: Kevin I was looking at the numbers, the latest poll
26:10
Speaker 2: numbers from IPSOS at the weekend. Just fascinating what's happening
26:15
Speaker 2: with reform. So they're on thirty four percent if the
26:17
Speaker 2: vote was held in my thirty four percent, Labour twenty
26:20
Speaker 2: five in the Conservative fifteen.
26:23
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, a real routing and such great news. For
26:26
Speaker 13: reform and Nigel Farahs, she's smiling face in plenty of
26:29
Speaker 13: newspapers at the weekend. This isn't just a creeping up
26:33
Speaker 13: the polls. This is some avalanche that he's getting in
26:37
Speaker 13: terms of the polls. But it's one thing to have
26:39
Speaker 13: those polls. It's another thing of pulse for people to
26:42
Speaker 13: vote that way. But I think it really is a
26:44
Speaker 13: reflection of huge dissatisfaction about the levels of migration, yes,
26:49
Speaker 13: but about the way in which the country's being run,
26:52
Speaker 13: and he's cashing in big on those. But of course
26:55
Speaker 13: the general election could be several years away and things
26:57
Speaker 13: can change very very quickly.
27:00
Speaker 2: So much for your time this morning. Gavin Gray Are
27:01
Speaker 2: UK Europe, corresponding twelve minutes away from six Ryan Mico
27:05
Speaker 2: Rubio in the last couple of hours has talked about, well,
27:08
Speaker 2: we had JD. Vance come out and say no, we
27:10
Speaker 2: didn't want regime change in Iran. We just wanted to
27:13
Speaker 2: hit the nuclear facilities, which is exactly what they did.
27:16
Speaker 2: But look out, regime change could be coming if you
27:19
Speaker 2: continue trying to get your hands on a nuclear weapon.
27:23
Speaker 10: If Iran is committed to becoming a nuclear weapons power,
27:28
Speaker 10: I do think it puts the regime at risk. I
27:30
Speaker 10: really do.
27:30
Speaker 12: I think it would be the end of the regime
27:32
Speaker 12: of their tribe to do that.
27:33
Speaker 2: Now. Our Defense Force is sending a C one thirty
27:35
Speaker 2: j Hercules to the Middle East to assist any key
27:37
Speaker 2: we stranded in Iran or Israel. Winston Peters at this
27:41
Speaker 2: point not saying whether we supported America's strikes or not.
27:46
Speaker 2: Due to Collins, the Minister of Defense is with me
27:48
Speaker 2: life this morning. Minister, good morning, Oh, good morning, Ryan.
27:51
Speaker 2: Do you have any update on those numbers. Apparently there
27:54
Speaker 2: were lots coming out of the woodwork yesterday you were
27:56
Speaker 2: saying any more overnight.
27:58
Speaker 14: Not that I'm the wheel of but as we've said
28:02
Speaker 14: many times now, people should not be in there if
28:05
Speaker 14: you can possibly get out and get yourself out there
28:08
Speaker 14: by any fayfish way possible.
28:11
Speaker 2: Is it frustrating that people haven't been signing up from
28:14
Speaker 2: day one and doing what you said? Yeah?
28:17
Speaker 14: I guess that people work on the pray and hope
28:23
Speaker 14: strategy often, which is like, I know, we've heard this
28:26
Speaker 14: all before, Nothing's going to happen. In those people who
28:30
Speaker 14: have been in the region for a while, they often
28:33
Speaker 14: think like that. But it's a natural human condition to
28:37
Speaker 14: hope for the best, and I think it's very important
28:40
Speaker 14: everyone takes the opportunity while they can to get themselves
28:45
Speaker 14: out to the borders. As they said, those airspaces have
28:48
Speaker 14: not opened up their clothes, so we can't just fly in.
28:52
Speaker 14: We've got to have people to come out to the
28:54
Speaker 14: borders at Moon.
28:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean there are land borders open from
28:57
Speaker 2: is in a, Jordan and Egypt, the ripen so you
28:59
Speaker 2: can cross land and then potentially get a commercial flight anyway.
29:04
Speaker 14: Yes, that's right, but we've also one of the reasons
29:07
Speaker 14: for having the Hercules there with our people is that
29:10
Speaker 14: should those should their airspace open up at all, then
29:15
Speaker 14: we can possibly go into some areas. But the point
29:18
Speaker 14: is I really get yourself to a land order if possible.
29:23
Speaker 2: Yesterday I was watching you and Minister Peter's that Phenolapaie
29:26
Speaker 2: said that you know, we're waiting on more information to
29:28
Speaker 2: determine if the strike was justified or not from the
29:30
Speaker 2: United States. Do we have any more information? Do you
29:34
Speaker 2: have a view yet?
29:35
Speaker 14: Well, I don't not overnight, and that would normally be
29:38
Speaker 14: the Foreign Affairs or to deal with that. But no,
29:42
Speaker 14: I don't have any more information.
29:44
Speaker 2: Do you know whether it was legal or illegal.
29:47
Speaker 14: No, I'm not trying to give you a legal advice
29:50
Speaker 14: on something I don't have full information on.
29:52
Speaker 2: Right, we still have Pie, we still have personnel minister
29:56
Speaker 2: in Jordan Air for Operation Gallant Phoenix, because I know
30:00
Speaker 2: you did an update on that a couple of weeks back.
30:03
Speaker 2: This is under US Special Operations Command. Are they at
30:06
Speaker 2: any risk of a retaliatory strike by Iran?
30:10
Speaker 14: I would not have thought so, and the Defense Force
30:13
Speaker 14: has made their assessment on risk. We do have, as
30:17
Speaker 14: you write, you say quite a few people in the
30:19
Speaker 14: Middle East, and our people in the Middle East, you know,
30:22
Speaker 14: obviously for most in our minds, my view is don't
30:27
Speaker 14: take unnecessary risk, particularly a small nation like ours. We
30:31
Speaker 14: have to be very careful about what we do. But
30:33
Speaker 14: I don't believe our people are under any particular threats according.
30:37
Speaker 2: To Defense so none of them are being moved.
30:40
Speaker 14: Well, I can't say exactly where everybody is, but I
30:43
Speaker 14: can tell you that we still are continuing with some
30:47
Speaker 14: of our operations in the Middle East, but there are
30:50
Speaker 14: some people have already been moved out. Sorry to be vague,
30:55
Speaker 14: but I have to be bad.
30:56
Speaker 2: It's okay when you say people were moved out you
31:00
Speaker 2: last week as a result of this.
31:02
Speaker 14: In the last week or so.
31:04
Speaker 2: And any change to the war games that are going
31:07
Speaker 2: to be happening. I think it's July nine due to
31:10
Speaker 2: start a Talisman Saber in off the Queensland coast. We've got,
31:15
Speaker 2: you know, people being sent there. Any change to that at.
31:18
Speaker 14: All, not that I'm aware of. I wouldn't have thought not.
31:21
Speaker 14: It just depends what happens. I mean, I think everyone's
31:25
Speaker 14: very aware in the sense that anything can happen at
31:27
Speaker 14: any stage, so they've just got to be prepared. But
31:30
Speaker 14: at this stage there's no change, okay.
31:32
Speaker 2: And new funding for Ukraine, I see it announced overnight
31:35
Speaker 2: by Prime Minister Luxe. And we had actually the ambassador
31:39
Speaker 2: on our Herald show a week or so ago and
31:42
Speaker 2: he was talking about maybe we could pick up some
31:44
Speaker 2: of their drones. Are we looking at that at all?
31:47
Speaker 14: Yes, we have actually quite a few drones ourselves in
31:50
Speaker 14: terms of the manufacturing New Zealand, but it would be
31:54
Speaker 14: it's a very nice offer that Ukraine has learned an
31:58
Speaker 14: awful lot about warfare. We're using drones and they're also
32:03
Speaker 14: they've made let's say they have learnt a lot more
32:07
Speaker 14: than many other people have. So there's nothing wrong with
32:09
Speaker 14: us actually talking to Ukraine about what those liasons are.
32:13
Speaker 14: Impossibly some of those drones, but I think right at
32:15
Speaker 14: the moment their drones are necessary in crime.
32:19
Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Minister. That's Judith Colin, c
32:22
Speaker 2: Defense Minister. It's seven to Sex News Talks THEB Mike
32:25
Speaker 2: with us.
32:25
Speaker 1: Next, Ryan Bridge on earlier this year with Expole insulation
32:31
Speaker 1: keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and try this Winter News Talks.
32:34
Speaker 2: B Use TALKSB. It's five minutes away from Sex, So
32:37
Speaker 2: there you go. Judith Collins on the show saying that
32:39
Speaker 2: we have moved some of our defense force personnel in
32:42
Speaker 2: the Middle East in the last week as a result
32:43
Speaker 2: of what's going on in Iran. Mike will have more
32:46
Speaker 2: coverage of this of course throughout the morning, and he's
32:48
Speaker 2: with us.
32:48
Speaker 15: Now, mikeel On, well Winston Peters as well.
32:50
Speaker 7: This.
32:50
Speaker 15: Do you get the sense where sort of we we
32:52
Speaker 15: oversell this thing. I see this as a regional thing.
32:55
Speaker 15: I don't see it going global.
32:56
Speaker 2: No, well, I don't think anyone's saying it all go
32:58
Speaker 2: global at this.
32:59
Speaker 15: And we're sort of, really, are we going to move
33:02
Speaker 15: some defense personnel. We've got an old Hercules that will
33:04
Speaker 15: park somewhere close by.
33:06
Speaker 2: It's a new Hercules. Well, you replaced the old one.
33:09
Speaker 2: So this is the sea one thirty j.
33:11
Speaker 15: When we've got the few people out, what are they
33:13
Speaker 15: doing in Iran? I mean sure of working for the embassy,
33:15
Speaker 15: which we as far as I know, got a couple
33:17
Speaker 15: of people. What are they doing in i Ran?
33:18
Speaker 2: Well, well, presumably they're got two passports.
33:22
Speaker 15: And what are you doing in that part of the
33:23
Speaker 15: world anyway?
33:24
Speaker 2: You've got family there?
33:25
Speaker 15: Well, you're still in Israel.
33:27
Speaker 2: Well, we interviewed a couple the other day who work there,
33:30
Speaker 2: you know, and the tech business got no interest in
33:33
Speaker 2: coming back here.
33:34
Speaker 15: Great, and so if that's your decision and that's your life, fantastic.
33:38
Speaker 15: You're on your own well well, I mean it's it's
33:40
Speaker 15: sort of like that, doesn't it make your own decision,
33:42
Speaker 15: live your own life.
33:43
Speaker 7: You know?
33:43
Speaker 15: Why are we parking planes just in case somebody wants
33:46
Speaker 15: to let Anyway?
33:46
Speaker 2: When St.
33:47
Speaker 15: Peter's went this morning Prime Minister in Europe as well,
33:49
Speaker 15: so he'll be joining.
33:50
Speaker 2: He'll be up late. He'll be up well late.
33:52
Speaker 15: So let's be honest, it'll be eight thirty nine o'clock
33:54
Speaker 15: and it'll be a pair of tief time and he'll
33:56
Speaker 15: just you don't give us.
33:57
Speaker 2: A call, make with your next Have a Great Day,
33:59
Speaker 2: runs tomorrow.
34:00
Speaker 1: Besten Myzony For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
34:06
Speaker 1: listen live to News Talks it Be from five am weekdays,
34:10
Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio