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Full Show Podcast: 03 March 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: earlier this show with one roof love where you live
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Speaker 1: News talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning.
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Speaker 3: It is Tuesday, will will be all across the Middle
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Speaker 3: East situation this morning. You've got oil refineries being hit.
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Speaker 3: Now you've got gas plants being hit, so prices are
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Speaker 3: being affected. We'll keep you across that this morning. When
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Speaker 3: does it end? That's the question on everybody's lips. Depends
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Speaker 3: on the weapons. I suppose we've got a guy out
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Speaker 3: of the US who's got the numbers on that will
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Speaker 3: bring you him before six o'clock and the money and
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Speaker 3: Nui captain to stand in the dock as our navy
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Speaker 3: vessel sits at the bottom of the ocean in Samoa.
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Speaker 3: The agenda Tuesday, third of March Great to have your
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Speaker 3: company will start. In the US, the War Secretary Pete
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Speaker 3: Headseth has been talking alongside the Air Force General Dan Caine.
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Speaker 3: Here's an update from them.
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Speaker 4: Turns out the regime who chanted death to America and
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Speaker 4: death to Israel was gifted death from America and death
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Speaker 4: from Israel. This is not a so called regime change war,
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Speaker 4: but the regime sure did change and the world is
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Speaker 4: better off for it.
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Speaker 3: Trump speaking surely will bring you what he says. Stamis
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Speaker 3: just spoken to the House. The Commons will bring you
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Speaker 3: him to us. Casualties go from three to four.
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Speaker 5: Military objectives are clear. Our mission is to protect and
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Speaker 5: defend ourselves and together with our regional partners, prevent aaran
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Speaker 5: from the ability to project power outside of its borders
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Speaker 5: and be ready for follow on actions as appropriate.
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Speaker 3: And in Europe, Night Rattel, he's on board with all this.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely support if all for the Americans are doing, taking
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Speaker 6: out to nuclear and the ballistic capability in uralm which
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Speaker 6: is a threat to us in Europe, threat to Israel,
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Speaker 6: to the region. I think it's really clear that you're
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Speaker 6: stepping up, and that's very important.
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Speaker 3: Now, in other news this morning, I'll take you to
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Speaker 3: Nepal where a thirty five year old rapper turned politician,
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Speaker 3: where we heard that before Mamdami, he's been dominating a
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Speaker 3: local electoral race there. The election is March fifth. Our
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Speaker 3: former Katmandu mayor Belindra Shah has been playing his Ai
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Speaker 3: generated campaign song translates to times up, Fake Leader's game over,
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Speaker 3: will ring the bell on March fifth.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love, Where you Live, News TALKSB.
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Speaker 3: News TALKSB just got eight minutes after five nine nine
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Speaker 3: two is the number to text this morning. Would love
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Speaker 3: to hear from you, and we will hear now from Starma,
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Speaker 3: who's just addressed the House of Comments.
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Speaker 7: The first decision was whether or not the United Kingdom
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Speaker 7: should join the US Israel offensive against Iron. We took
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Speaker 7: the decision that we should not. It is our duty,
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Speaker 7: my duty to ensure they have a lawful basis. On
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Speaker 7: Saturday we deploy it. We deployed UK pilots into the
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Speaker 7: sky in the region and they've been working there ever since.
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Speaker 7: They deserve to know that their actions are lawful.
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Speaker 3: See. The problem you've got for people like Starma is
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Speaker 3: they didn't support their original thing. Sure, but then as
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Speaker 3: soon as Iran starts firing rockets everywhere and heading bases
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Speaker 3: where your troops are based, then you've actually got to
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Speaker 3: get involved and do something, don't you. So he said
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Speaker 3: he's allowing his basis for defensive purposes at the stage,
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Speaker 3: but who knows how far that's going to go. The
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Speaker 3: other thing you've got to think about is the fact
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Speaker 3: You've got three hundred thousand Brits who are in countries
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Speaker 3: currently being targeted by Iran. One hundred thousand of them
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Speaker 3: are registered. You know, we have the Safe Travel website.
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Speaker 3: They've got a Foreign Office equivalent one hundred thousand registered,
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Speaker 3: but they reckon three hundred thousand there. So you can't
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Speaker 3: just sit idly bi can you. Trump was also criticizing
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Speaker 3: Starma for not getting involved in allowing the use of
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Speaker 3: bases earlier. Coming to the price of oil and the
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Speaker 3: price of gas, which is shot up too. So oil,
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Speaker 3: you look at futures for brient crue. Global energy benchmark
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Speaker 3: up eight percent, European natural gas prices up fifty percent
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Speaker 3: this morning. Cut our energy. That's the world's largest allen producer.
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Speaker 3: They produce about twenty percent of the world's allergy. That's
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Speaker 3: the stuff that we're going to get through Tartanaki. By
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Speaker 3: the way, of course, you wouldn't want to be buying
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Speaker 3: it at the moment. They produced twenty percent of the
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Speaker 3: world's supply. That's gone up fifty percent in Europe overnight.
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Speaker 3: Just a couple of numbers for you. Now, the shipping
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Speaker 3: lanes the Strait up is still basically closed that's a
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Speaker 3: narrow little bit on around southern border, no way around.
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Speaker 3: It essentially gets your oil through, gets your stuff through.
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Speaker 3: Not only a fifth of the global oil passed through there,
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Speaker 3: but also a fifth of LNG shipments which were just
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Speaker 3: spoken about, and a third of fertile So our farmers
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Speaker 3: will be wondering about this. And then this is the
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Speaker 3: question how long does it go on? That's really the
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Speaker 3: question that you want to answer this morning, and that
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Speaker 3: depends on how big a weapons stockpile Iran really has
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Speaker 3: and what their capability is to keep firing it, because
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Speaker 3: as long as they can do that, the whole thing
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Speaker 3: will carry on. That's the expert we're talking to before six,
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Speaker 3: and the guy is good. He's been running the numbers.
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Speaker 3: Apparently they can make four hundred drones a day, the Iranians.
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Speaker 3: And this is you know, people talk about boots on
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Speaker 3: the ground, as boots on the ground is relevant anymore
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Speaker 3: when you've got drones. Look at what's happening in Ukraine
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Speaker 3: nine two ninety two gone, twelve minutes after five? Next
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Speaker 3: the money with Nui, what's happening with the Captain? News?
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Speaker 3: Talk said b on.
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Speaker 1: Your radio and online on Iheard Radio early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof love where you live.
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Speaker 3: News Talk said b quarter past five, great to have
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Speaker 3: your company just so some words of wisdom and maybe
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Speaker 3: to calm the farm a little bit. Pipers Sandler's chief
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Speaker 3: investment strategist, a guy called Michael Crantrawitz, who was being
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Speaker 3: quoted quite widely in global media this morning, has come
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Speaker 3: out and said, hey, settle down, settle down. The market
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Speaker 3: corrections dating back to nineteen sixty four spurred by headlines,
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Speaker 3: which is what we have at the moment, rather than
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Speaker 3: broader economic trends like rising interest rates, unemployment, all that
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Speaker 3: sort of stuff tend to be the shortest, so investors
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Speaker 3: don't get overly defensive. As his advice, getting bearish now
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Speaker 3: is making you a market timer, which is a very
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Speaker 3: dangerous place to be and a backdrop that can change
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Speaker 3: with literally one headline. Ryan Breck, the Captain of the
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Speaker 3: Man of minuis commander of von Gray, is among three
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Speaker 3: Navy officers being charged over at sinking in Samoa last year.
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Speaker 3: You remember that they all face court martial proceedings alleged
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Speaker 3: of negligently causing a ship to be lost. John Battersby
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Speaker 3: is senior fellow, Massive University Center for Defense and Security Studies, John,
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Speaker 3: Good morning, John, Have I got you?
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Speaker 2: I'm here?
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Speaker 3: We are John? Are they are they? What's the story here?
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Speaker 3: Are they out for blood? Or is this just process
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Speaker 3: or what?
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Speaker 8: I would definitely say it's it's process, and it's inevitable
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Speaker 8: whenever a major air set light this is lost in
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Speaker 8: peace time, of course, is going to be an inquiry
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Speaker 8: is huge public interest, major public a seat. Yes, there
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Speaker 8: has to be an inquiry that exhaustively locks at all
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Speaker 8: the circumstances. And as a commander of a naval peace
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Speaker 8: of your one job is to keep that above order.
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Speaker 8: So no, they're not out for that. This is the
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Speaker 8: accountability process that is perfectly normal in a circumstance.
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Speaker 3: Does it mean that they've looked at other factors and
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Speaker 3: determined it must have been human era?
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Speaker 2: Though?
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Speaker 8: I think they've looked at all possible factors, and I
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Speaker 8: think that in the naval report that came out did
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Speaker 8: highlight a number of contributed factors or associated factors. So
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Speaker 8: now it doesn't it doesn't rule those out, But what
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Speaker 8: it does do is the human element of this needs
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Speaker 8: to be explored, and that is what this inquiry will do.
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Speaker 3: Okay, what is it negligence? What's the punishment? Well, what
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Speaker 3: could be a punishment or something like that.
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Speaker 8: Oh, there could be a range of punishments, and it
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Speaker 8: would be probably unwise to be too too speak litive
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Speaker 8: about that. The losing a ship in peace time, that's
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Speaker 8: a that's a serious matter. So I can't imagine there'll
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Speaker 8: be a trifle.
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Speaker 3: Hey, your thoughts John on what's going on in the
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Speaker 3: Middle East? You must be interested in that.
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Speaker 8: Oh, when your reporter rang me last night, he said,
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Speaker 8: we're not going to ask you about that, so be
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Speaker 8: prepared for you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Look, there's there's Look, there's are so much happening over
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Speaker 8: there at the moment. I would say historically, whenever the
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Speaker 8: Americans have got involved in Iran, there's been a short
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Speaker 8: term tactical success and much more severe longer term actual
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Speaker 8: lys successful outcomes. The fifty three overturning of a democratic
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Speaker 8: elected president there led to a period of very very
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Speaker 8: poor government that was not in the advantages of Iranian
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Speaker 8: people and inevitably lead to the two and seventy nine
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Speaker 8: which has put the current regime in there. So look,
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Speaker 8: from a historical perspective, not looking terribly enthusiastically at what's
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Speaker 8: happened over there, although you know that regime is horrific.
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Speaker 8: So while I won't publicly celebrate the death of any
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Speaker 8: human individual, the overturning of the regime, but that is
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Speaker 8: going to happen. As long as it leads to a
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Speaker 8: better one, you could be a good outcome. But again,
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Speaker 8: we seem to be hoping a lot, and there doesn't
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Speaker 8: seem to be a clear objective in what the Americans
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Speaker 8: are doing, not a clear cut one. There's no obvious
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Speaker 8: successor we could go back to what was there before.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent, John, Thanks very much for your
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Speaker 3: time this morning. John battersbe Massi University Center for Defense
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Speaker 3: and Security Studies, Senior Fellow. It's eighteen after five. You're
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Speaker 3: on News Talk ZBB. But all this talk for so
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Speaker 3: the Australians have designated the terror entity, the iicg over
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Speaker 3: there terror entity, and they've also expelled the Iranian ambassador
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Speaker 3: from Australia. We haven't done that here. Does that actually matter?
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Speaker 3: Fill golf on that.
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Speaker 1: It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love
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Speaker 1: where you Live News talksb.
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Speaker 3: News talk ZBB. It is twenty after five, So the
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Speaker 3: PM yesterday and is post scabs signaling the IRGC. That's
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Speaker 3: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Could they're the really bad ones?
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Speaker 3: Could soon be officially listed as a terrorist organization here
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Speaker 3: in New Zealand.
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Speaker 9: Calls for New Zealand.
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Speaker 6: To designate the IIGC as a terrorist entity.
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Speaker 10: Will you do that again? That has been a process,
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Speaker 10: as you know, around terrorism designation that we have separately
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Speaker 10: from this event. But suffice to say that I think
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Speaker 10: we'll have a decision on that very shortly.
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Speaker 3: The Aussies have already done it. They've also expelled their
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Speaker 3: Iranian ambassador for god former Foreign affairs minister with US
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Speaker 3: and Minister of Defense. Good morning Phil, Yes, good morning.
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Speaker 11: Right.
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Speaker 3: Does it really matter if we do that at this point?
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Speaker 11: No, it looks like it's totally opportunistic to do it now.
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Speaker 11: If you're going to do it, you should have done
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Speaker 11: it much earlier. But you've also got to be consistent.
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Speaker 11: So we decide that Iran, which has an awful regime,
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Speaker 11: we're not going to have diplomatic relations with it, or
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Speaker 11: we're going to prescribe they're military. What about Russia? Russia
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Speaker 11: invaded Ukraine. It's killed hundreds of thousands of people. Why
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Speaker 11: do we treat Iran different from another oppressive regime or
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Speaker 11: North Korea? You need to be consistent in your foreign
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Speaker 11: policy and you need to follow the rule of law. Really,
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Speaker 11: Luxance A six and seven's over that that's obvious from
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Speaker 11: his performances. He knows that the action by Trump and
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Speaker 11: Israel was illegal, but he just can't find the words
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Speaker 11: to say that and say, well, we don't.
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Speaker 3: Care about the rule of international law anymore. But no
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Speaker 3: one can look starma.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I know.
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Speaker 3: You know what, when you're enough, you've got to be careful,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: We live in a world where we have a predictable
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Speaker 11: leader in the United States, the United States, the very
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Speaker 11: country that's set up the rule of law in the
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Speaker 11: United Nations with other countries, and we're too scared to
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Speaker 11: say anything that might offend them. Therefore, we've effectively abandoned
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Speaker 11: our sovereignty. We're not prepared to say what we think,
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Speaker 11: to speak the truth and to do the right thing.
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Speaker 3: We've been here before with the run. What do you see?
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Speaker 3: What's the endgame here? What's going to happen? Do you
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Speaker 3: reckon Well.
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Speaker 11: Trump has talked about it being regime change, and he's
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Speaker 11: encouraging people to rise up, but then he's saying he's
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Speaker 11: not going to put boots on the ground. And we've
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Speaker 11: seen that story before. So you encourage people to rise up,
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Speaker 11: they don't have the guns, they get slaughtered, and the
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Speaker 11: United States stands back and doesn't do anything because it's
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Speaker 11: not going to put boots on the ground. You don't
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Speaker 11: advise people to do something that results in them being
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Speaker 11: slaughtered unless you're prepared to back them up, and they're
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Speaker 11: not prepared to do that. It's really, you know, human
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Speaker 11: rights don't matter that much to Trump. When he changed
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Speaker 11: the leadership in Venezuela, he didn't change the regime.
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Speaker 3: Felg former Defense minister, former foreign minister. Time is twenty
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Speaker 3: three after five. Ryan brig just on that. Hig Seth
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Speaker 3: has said, this is the War Secretary new title. He
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Speaker 3: has said, we will go as far as we need
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Speaker 3: to go to advance American interests, but we're not dumb
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Speaker 3: about it. You don't have to roll two hundred thousand
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Speaker 3: people in there and stay for twenty years. So they're
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Speaker 3: not ruling out putting troops at boots on the ground.
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Speaker 3: But are they actually going to do that?
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Speaker 4: President Trump is sure that our enemies understand, will go
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Speaker 4: as far as we need to go to advanced American interests.
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Speaker 4: We're not dumb about it. You don't have to roll
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Speaker 4: two hundred thousand people in there and stay for twenty years.
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Speaker 3: So he's adding forces to the region. They've already got
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Speaker 3: two aircraft carriers there, hundreds of five di JITs, dozens
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Speaker 3: of refueling tankers, thousands of troops. But are they going
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Speaker 3: to put boots on the ground. Well? As I said earlier,
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Speaker 3: is it actually about that anymore? Or is it all
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Speaker 3: about the drones?
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Speaker 3: Five point twenty six on News TALKSB. There's been a
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Speaker 3: lot of chat lately. We'll come back to the war
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Speaker 3: stuff in a second, but there's been a lot of
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Speaker 3: chat lately about AI replacing jobs, and I get it.
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Speaker 3: There are signs that it's happening, little pockets of it
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Speaker 3: happening for certain roles, especially your more junior roles. The
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Speaker 3: threat is real, but there are some things that a
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Speaker 3: computer will never know and never be able to do
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Speaker 3: like reading somebody's emotions. Burger King in the US, this
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Speaker 3: is a story out this week is trialing AI software
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Speaker 3: to judge how courteous and friendly it's staff are. I
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Speaker 3: know it sounds weird. That is weird. They've got an
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Speaker 3: aptly named AI assistant Patty, apparently doing this task for them.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 3: Patty lives in their headsets, poor things, monitoring their every word.
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Speaker 3: So if you have handing out Whoppers, it a drive through.
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Speaker 3: Patty will apparently record how many times you say welcome, please,
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Speaker 3: and thank you. Patty then delivers the Whopper crew a
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Speaker 3: daily friendliness score. Apart from sounding like peak micro managing
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Speaker 3: and a pain in the backside, Patty with respect actually
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Speaker 3: doesn't know what she orat is talking about. Can Patty
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Speaker 3: detect sarcasm? Does Patty know if you're dead in the
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Speaker 3: eyes while you're welcoming the next hungry customer? Customer service
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Speaker 3: isn't so much about what somebody says, but how they
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Speaker 3: say it. It's that glint in their eye, it's in
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Speaker 3: an affectation of their face in Japan, a polite bow
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Speaker 3: of the head. In New Zealand, too much talking or
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Speaker 3: fake friendly could be seen as rude, am I right,
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Speaker 3: We're a bit like that here. We're more of a
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Speaker 3: smile and polite hand gesture type country, aren't we. Human
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Speaker 3: interaction is intricate, it's unique. It takes even trained humans
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Speaker 3: time to properly figure out how you're really feeling. Have
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Speaker 3: more than forty facial muscles and using them in different
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Speaker 3: ways can apparently lead us to ten thousand subtle emotional
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Speaker 3: messages that we convey to one another. Isn't that fascinating?
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Speaker 3: I went to the bank yesterday to order an f postcard.
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Speaker 3: Bank manager came over, set hello. Can't tell you most
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Speaker 3: of what she said to me, but I know that
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Speaker 3: she was lovely. Went home told my partner how lovely
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Speaker 3: this woman at the bank was. Is this a job
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Speaker 3: that AI can master? I mean rarely. Even if Paddy
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Speaker 3: had a camera on our eyeballs, a microphone and a
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Speaker 3: pulse checker, I don't think it could truly tell what
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Speaker 3: we're really thinking in a way that only other humans can.
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Speaker 3: Rain Bridge two on newstalk 'b hey, we're here to
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Speaker 3: Leslie yeomans out of Australia. Shortly they had a lot
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Speaker 3: of rain in central Australia. Some flooding there. This is
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Speaker 3: around Alice Springs. Also dairy farmer's there. They want Australia
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Speaker 3: to follow the UK. They are not happy with non
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Speaker 3: dairy products being labeled as milk. I think oat milk
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Speaker 3: and whatever else. You are the nuts, that's not milk.
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Speaker 3: Quick numbers for you on jobs employment market showing further
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Speaker 3: simes of stabilizing strong growth in services sector jobs. This
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Speaker 3: is stats in Z's monthly report on employment. So we're
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Speaker 3: up point two percent for January to two point three
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Speaker 3: five million. You're on News Talks EDB We're live to
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Speaker 3: Australia next, and then the.
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Speaker 2: And One Room Love where you live. News Talks B.
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Speaker 3: Twenty we're away from six Yer on News Talks. Be
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Speaker 3: great to have your company this morning. Right now, stocks
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Speaker 3: are trading strongly negative correlation to oil. Basically, as the
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Speaker 3: price of oil goes up, and it was up eight
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Speaker 3: percent in the futures markets, then the stocks come down.
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Speaker 3: Look at the stocks that are coming down, No surprises.
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Speaker 3: It's your cruise lines, your Royal Caribbeans down six percent.
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Speaker 3: Carnival shares down eleven percent, your airlines taking a hit,
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Speaker 3: British ear weighs down four percent. Stocks that are going
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Speaker 3: up as we come to wear defense company stocks unsurprising there.
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Speaker 3: The big worry for us, of course, is what's happening
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Speaker 3: in the Strait of whom was which is oil, which
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Speaker 3: is gas, but is also fertilizer that we put on
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Speaker 3: our farms. Basically, it's no go at the moment. They're
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Speaker 3: bombing the hall out of anything that tries to go through,
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Speaker 3: including an oil tanker in the Gulf of Amman yesterday
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Speaker 3: that was hit by a drone. You've got the Iranians
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Speaker 3: now heading Saudi oil refineries, which is the Saudi's lifeblood.
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Speaker 3: So where does that go from here? We are expecting
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Speaker 3: in the next half hour or so to hear from
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump out of the White House. He's doing a
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Speaker 3: Medal of Honor ceremony there, but he is expected to
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Speaker 3: give remarks about what's going on in the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: They will bring you though as we get them to hand.
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Speaker 3: We'll head to Australia where there's some heavy rains in
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Speaker 3: the central area, and we will head to the US.
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Speaker 3: When does the war end? That is the question and
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Speaker 3: the answer lies in how big the stockpile of weapons is.
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Speaker 3: And we've got a guy who's been counting twenty three
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Speaker 3: to six.
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Speaker 2: Bryan Bread, Dunedin.
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Speaker 3: News, Jamie Cunningham, good morning, Good morning, Ryan. So nominations
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Speaker 3: are in now for the City Council by election year.
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Speaker 12: So fourteen candidates have taken a stand to fill the
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Speaker 12: seat left vacant by the unexpected death of Counselor and
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Speaker 12: former Mayor Juels Raddick earlier this year. Among the hopefuls
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Speaker 12: is former Meir Aaron Hawkins, who served nine years on
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Speaker 12: the council, including three years as mayor, before losing to
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Speaker 12: Raddick at the twenty twenty two election. Also in the
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Speaker 12: running as previous city councilor Carmen Hulahan. Voters will have
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Speaker 12: until midday on May twelve to return their postal ballots.
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Speaker 3: All right, and how's the weather fine?
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Speaker 12: Apart from some morning cloud easterly's in the afternoon and
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Speaker 12: are high of fifteen?
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Clear than Christ morning, Claire, Good morning.
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Speaker 3: I just want to read your text from Danny Claire
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Speaker 3: before we start. Ryan, I always look forward to hearing
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Speaker 3: clear from christ Church easily the best female voice in
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Speaker 3: New Zealand Broadcasting. Sorry Neva, Sorry Jamie who we just
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Speaker 3: head on news talk should make greater use of her
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Speaker 3: on the national stage. There you go.
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Speaker 13: Oh how lovely. What a way to pump the tires
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Speaker 13: this early on a Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: Now, don't cock this up.
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Speaker 13: Hey, look, I've got an update for you and you'll
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Speaker 13: be unsurprised about Bromley Ryan. We have council announcing that
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Speaker 13: there is a fresh plan to tackle the stink coming
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Speaker 13: from the east. It's a plan, but it is one
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Speaker 13: that's already raising some eyebrows and i'll explain that shortly effectively.
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Speaker 13: Christich City Council has been issued this abatement noticed by
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Speaker 13: Environment Canterbury, which demands a plan to deal with the stink.
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Speaker 13: We know there have been thousands of complaints in recent weeks.
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Speaker 13: It's been ongoing though for some years, since a fire
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Speaker 13: ripped through the plant in twenty twenty one. Now, in
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Speaker 13: order to reduce the stench from the plant, the council
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Speaker 13: now has a plan to pump thirty percent of part
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Speaker 13: actually treated wastewater into an existing ocean outfall pipe. They
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Speaker 13: will add chlorine in order to keep bacteria levels safe.
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Speaker 13: Now Pilm. Major confidently told us yesterday that they've been
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Speaker 13: working on this plan alongside Environment Canterbury and Mana Fenua.
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Speaker 13: That said, reporting this morning suggests that he can have
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Speaker 13: not been consulted about this plan to date. Major does
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Speaker 13: say that anyone worried about the ocean being filled with
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Speaker 13: chlorine should fear not, as the chemical will be dissipated
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Speaker 13: by the time.
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Speaker 14: It gets to sea.
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Speaker 3: All right, how's your weather?
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Speaker 13: Mostly cloudy, There is the odd shower around this afternoon,
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Speaker 13: but will become fine by evening. Southwesterlies and a higher fifteen.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, cliar Max in Wellington.
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Speaker 15: Morning, Max, good morning, No such praise for you, but
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Speaker 15: no no sicker fancy here.
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Speaker 3: We haven't planned for Andrew little for the city.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, the mayor has laid out his council's key commitments
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Speaker 15: for the term a head projects being paused. We already
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Speaker 15: know the snake away rollouts on Hold Golden Mile basically
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Speaker 15: on hold. It's trying to make the city more of
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Speaker 15: affordable and reader arect spending away from the luxuries. We
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Speaker 15: are planting a lot of trees. Actually I'm not sure
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Speaker 15: you'd call that luxuries, but three hundred thousand native trees
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Speaker 15: and plants, a weekly cap on public transport fares. Those
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Speaker 15: just rose here last week by about three percent. Nothing
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Speaker 15: specific on rates and rates rises which have gone up
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Speaker 15: astronomically here. That'll come in a separate plan. Apparently Andrew
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Speaker 15: Little also wants a law change to allow the Crown
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Speaker 15: to pay rates on land it owns. So we'll see
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Speaker 15: how far that goes. A few of the more conservative counselors,
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Speaker 15: like Ray Chung wants spending cut further. Before they agree.
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Speaker 15: We'll see how the vote pans out next Thursday.
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Speaker 3: Indeed, how's your winner?
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Speaker 15: Rubbish cloudy showers very strong biting southerly's as well at
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Speaker 15: high thirteen.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Max Nava, good morning, good morning. So what
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Speaker 3: do you got in the city cinder for us?
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Speaker 14: What does this good news actually? So support being rolled out?
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Speaker 14: This is with the small music and comedy venues here
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Speaker 14: in Auckland City Center, looking to help develop the local artists.
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Speaker 14: So the Spark Arena Community Events Funding pilot program, now
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Speaker 14: we know today it's going to provide one hundred thousand dollars.
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Speaker 14: This is going to go for equipment such as microphone
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Speaker 14: package and professional DJ gear. Live Nation Managing Director, that's
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Speaker 14: Mark Kneebone. He says it's going to help in sure
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Speaker 14: the local artists can develop right here, right here, I say,
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Speaker 14: in Auckland. And he's saying that it's about protecting, you know,
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Speaker 14: places that generate local talent like Whammy and the Kasach
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Speaker 14: Comedy Club. And you know, he's saying, look if we
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Speaker 14: lose those venues and we lose the art form and
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Speaker 14: all of those local artists coming through like Teakson, Lord
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Speaker 14: and all the big names.
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Speaker 3: All right, sounds good, sounds like something that probably should
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Speaker 3: be done.
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Speaker 2: How's our weather?
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Speaker 6: Fine?
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Speaker 9: Strong?
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Speaker 14: Southwesterlies a little bit cooler today. Nineteen is the hi
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Speaker 14: though here in Auckland, brilliant.
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Speaker 3: Never think you have a great morning eighteen minutes away.
23:47
Speaker 2: From six Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 3: Just there's loads of texts on the AI. I'll get
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Speaker 3: to those in a second, But I like this one
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Speaker 3: that's coming this morning from you. Haven't our John Ryan?
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Speaker 3: Is all this tough guy talk from American politicians starting
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Speaker 3: to grate on you. Yet they all sound like they
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Speaker 3: want to be in an action movie. Haven't listened? This
24:05
Speaker 3: is peaked headset from earlier.
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Speaker 4: Turns out the regime who chanted death to America and.
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Speaker 2: Death to Israel was gifted.
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Speaker 4: Death from America and death from Israel. This is not
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Speaker 4: a so called regime change war, but the regime sure
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Speaker 4: did change and the world is better off for it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is grating me, John, I do I hear you,
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Speaker 3: I understand you, and I agree with you. Interestingly that
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Speaker 3: you mentioned, you know, action movie heroes. Trump apparently gave
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Speaker 3: the military officials the signal to go ahead with the
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Speaker 3: operation in Iran on Friday afternoon local time. He was
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Speaker 3: a board Air Force one. He was heading to Texas.
24:49
Speaker 3: Also on board at that time Senator Ted Cruz, another
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Speaker 3: couple of senators, and an actor by the name of
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Speaker 3: Dennis Quaid, you know Deni Quaid fly to the Phoenix,
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Speaker 3: but also, perhaps ominously, the day after tomorrow used talks.
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Speaker 1: Bibe international correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of
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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand.
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Speaker 3: Business fourteen to six will hit to the US shortly
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Speaker 3: on the Middle East, but to Australia first torrential rain
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Speaker 3: across central Australia and there's now a state of emergency there. Leslie,
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Speaker 3: Yeomans are correspondent, Leslie, Yes.
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Speaker 16: Good morning, Ryan. Yes, the torrential rain is right and
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Speaker 16: the state of emergency has been declared by the NT government.
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Speaker 16: We've had road closures, school closures, we've got people having
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Speaker 16: to sand bag their homes and their businesses. We've got
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Speaker 16: roads washed out and large large areas just covered in
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Speaker 16: water after all this torrential rain, and the one I
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Speaker 16: guess positive thing is that it's brought a lot of
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Speaker 16: the BirdLife and the wildlife back, and people are sort
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Speaker 16: of hoping too that once, once some of the roads
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Speaker 16: are open, that the tourists will be able to get
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Speaker 16: in and sort of benefit from seeing all this new
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Speaker 16: wildlife and BirdLife.
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Speaker 3: Now, the farmers there are wanting to follow the UK
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Speaker 3: Cuitain and bring in some labeling laws to stop those
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Speaker 3: pisky oat milks from calling themselves touch.
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Speaker 16: Yes, I don't know if you get confused when you
26:22
Speaker 16: go to buy your milk, but some people, some people
26:26
Speaker 16: seem to think that it's confusing when you're buying milk,
26:29
Speaker 16: that if you buy you don't know whether you're buying
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Speaker 16: cow milk, goat milk, or milk that's produced by almonds
26:36
Speaker 16: and oats. So the Australian dairy farmers are wanting to
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Speaker 16: follow in the footsteps of UK dairy farmers and also
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Speaker 16: EU and US farmers. Now they have. The UK Supreme
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Speaker 16: Court just a couple of months ago actually ruled that
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Speaker 16: a Swedish firm Oatly can't sell oat milk and label
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Speaker 16: it oat milk in the UK. They have to label
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Speaker 16: it as something else. So the Australian dairy farmers are
27:06
Speaker 16: wanting the same labeling new labeling laws. They don't want
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Speaker 16: people confused when they're heading off to the supermarket to
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Speaker 16: buy their milk. They want them to make sure that
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Speaker 16: they can buy animal based milk, not nut based milk.
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Speaker 3: All right, fair enough, they'll make the distinction. And our
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Speaker 3: heads are spinning it the supermarket, don't they. Leslie Lovely
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Speaker 3: to chat is always Leslie Yeomans our Australia correspondent. It
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Speaker 3: is twelve away from six Ryan Bridge. So Trump's about
27:32
Speaker 3: to speak. We'll bring you that, well, Mike might when
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Speaker 3: he does run targeting Saudi oil refineries. Overnight tank is
27:38
Speaker 3: being hit trying to enter the strait of him. Was
27:40
Speaker 3: Lebanon the latest battleground his buller israeled a trading strikes.
27:44
Speaker 3: Here's Pete Higgs seth.
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Speaker 4: If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth,
27:50
Speaker 4: we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation,
27:54
Speaker 4: and we will kill you.
27:56
Speaker 3: So what's the end? Where does it end? Is the question.
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Speaker 3: Matthew Schmidt, Director of International Affairs, national security expert, and
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Speaker 3: you have in University with US Live this morning. Matthew,
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Speaker 3: Welcome to the program.
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Speaker 2: Hi Ryan, thanks to be here.
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Speaker 3: I know that you have your brief across not only
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Speaker 3: the leadership in Iran but also the weapons. So when
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Speaker 3: does the scene how does the scene?
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Speaker 10: In your view, Matthew, you have to think of Iran
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Speaker 10: right now as sort of a late stage, you know,
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Speaker 10: autocracy that's coming apart, and you end up.
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Speaker 9: With sort of three basic groups. You've got the security services,
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Speaker 9: the upper ranks were devastated in the first wave of
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Speaker 9: the attack, the IRGC, the Iola Kamemi, his son is
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Speaker 9: connected to the IRGC and stands as a possible successor,
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Speaker 9: although his own father said and Shia Islam sort of
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Speaker 9: pushes against the idea of hereditary succession, so there's there's
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Speaker 9: a bit of a problem. On the other side, you
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Speaker 9: have the founder's grandson, Hassan Komeni, who positions himself sort
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Speaker 9: of as a martyrate, who is someone that may be
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Speaker 9: able to come in and say, look, we can salvage
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Speaker 9: the Islamic Republic as an Islamic republic.
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Speaker 3: And looks like we just completely lost Matthew, which is
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Speaker 3: a real shame because he has fantastic and fascinating things
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Speaker 3: to say. He does have numbers, So the war likely
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Speaker 3: to shift to Iran's drone capabilities next, because you look,
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Speaker 3: I many people have talked about boots on the ground,
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Speaker 3: as boots on the ground actually as relevant these days.
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Speaker 3: Look at what's happening in Ukraine. He says, the stockpile
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Speaker 3: of drones there could be as high as eighty thousand,
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Speaker 3: and those drones are good. He's back with us now, Matthew,
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Speaker 3: I'll let you finish.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: So I think it was on Hormenia's grandson. So he's
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Speaker 9: a martyr candidate that could sort of bridge things. And
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Speaker 9: then you have the question of some sort of democratic revolution, right,
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Speaker 9: And the name that we all know in the West
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Speaker 9: is Reza Palavi, the son of the late Shaw, and
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Speaker 9: he's got a lot of support, but he also has
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Speaker 9: a lot of detractors inside Iran and a lot of
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Speaker 9: people who are simply saying you haven't lived here, you
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Speaker 9: don't know society. And there are different groups. There's a
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Speaker 9: student group, there's labor groups in Iran, but there's no
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Speaker 9: one really emerging as a leader on the ground in Iran.
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Speaker 9: And that's the real question. So my money right now
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Speaker 9: is on the IRGC consolidating control for the moment. And
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Speaker 9: the problem with the democratic groups is is right now,
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Speaker 9: they're just trying to save their kids from the bombs,
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Speaker 9: right pick them up from school, get them to somewhere safe,
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Speaker 9: and nobody's really out in the streets.
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Speaker 3: Yet, Matthew will leave it. They appreciate your time this morning.
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Speaker 3: Sorry about that dodgy line. That's said doctor Matthew Schmidt,
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Speaker 3: who's National Security University of new in the United States.
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Speaker 3: What he also points out is the stockpile of drones there,
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Speaker 3: as I said, could be eighty thousand, and then you
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Speaker 3: look at the fact that they can quickly and at
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Speaker 3: very low costs produce about four hundred more a day.
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Speaker 3: And then Israel's you know the iron dome that they've got, well,
31:17
Speaker 3: the iron Dome interceptions run it about a million dollars.
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Speaker 3: Your drones run it at about twenty five thousand. Dollars.
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Speaker 3: So how how many intercepts do you do for such
31:27
Speaker 3: cheap toys that have been thrown at your country that
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Speaker 3: can be deadly? Nine nine two. The number to text
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Speaker 3: it is eight to six micers with your.
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Speaker 1: Next the first word on the News of the day
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roote love where
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Speaker 1: you live?
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Speaker 2: News talks that'd be.
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Speaker 3: It's six to six news talks, they'd be. So Iran
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Speaker 3: was producing one point six million barrels of oil a day.
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Speaker 3: That's ninety percent of it going to China, so China
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Speaker 3: takes the lion's share of it. Does that put China
31:54
Speaker 3: in a tight spot if they don't have access to
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Speaker 3: it because it's all sitting on the water, or can't
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Speaker 3: go anywhere. The answer is no, because China is smart
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Speaker 3: and they've been stockpiling and they have one point five
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Speaker 3: billion barrels of strategic petroleum reserves, enough to cover around
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Speaker 3: two hundred days of oil imports. So there you go,
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Speaker 3: don't worry about China. Five to six plan, Good morning,
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Speaker 3: Mike morning.
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Speaker 17: I was in a wheel shop yesterday and I saw
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Speaker 17: a machine that was made in Ukraine and it's a
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Speaker 17: cold welding machine. This is apparently cutting edge technology is
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Speaker 17: just listening to your drone thing that the Ukrainians and
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Speaker 17: their ingenuity must not be underestimating.
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Speaker 3: Fascinating.
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Speaker 17: And this cold welding thing revolutionizes welding because of course,
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Speaker 17: traditionally welding tends to be a bit hot. So if
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Speaker 17: you can do it cold, and this was just a
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Speaker 17: little machine, like a little box, you wouldn't look at it.
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Speaker 17: Twice made in Ukraine, invented in Ukraine, and you cold
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Speaker 17: weld now, so it revolutionizes the ability to mess with
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Speaker 17: cars and metal and alloy en like that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're drone factories over there. Have you seen those
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Speaker 3: on YouTube? Literally Mum and dad putting them together by hand.
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Speaker 3: They've got machines doing it now. And their ambassador was
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Speaker 3: over here not long. It's been over a couple of
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Speaker 3: times now, basically trying to sell us their drones, which
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Speaker 3: we should probably.
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Speaker 17: We've got the Towering Company which is doing the opposite,
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Speaker 17: of course and selling it to the British and they're
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Speaker 17: apparently very successful.
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 17: Oh really yeah, got nice nice nice teeth nic Australia.
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Speaker 3: You've opened the door.
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Speaker 17: Fantastic, You know, what do you say?
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Speaker 3: At least ye? Kay? We've just been talking about our
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Speaker 3: photo shoot tomorrow. Yes, So my argument is, why would
33:36
Speaker 3: you have a photo shoot when we're going to look
33:38
Speaker 3: worse than we would have looked in the previous photo shoots,
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Speaker 3: which were taken when we were all younger.
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Speaker 17: That's really more your issue than mine, for fairly obvious reasons.
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Speaker 17: But I mean, just generally, why would you, why would
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Speaker 17: you why would you not just AI at computer drive it.
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Speaker 3: Let's say it just save, touch you up? You know? Yeah,
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Speaker 3: all right, some of some of that stuff that's but
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Speaker 3: you say, probably fifty grand I reckon, what are they thinking?
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Speaker 6: Let's put it at the boss?
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Speaker 3: All right? Okay, Mike is with your next News Talks.
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Speaker 3: It'd be.
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