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Ryan Bridge: This ceasefire, can we celebrate yet? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Should we welcome a ceasefire? Yes, of course we should.
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  Speaker 1: Should we count on it holding? No, of course not.
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  Speaker 1: The Iranians now control as strait that they didn't control
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  Speaker 1: before the war, and the Israelis are still dropping bombs
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  Speaker 1: in Lebanon, even though the cease fire apparently says that
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  Speaker 1: they shouldn't be doing that. In fact, both sides now
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  Speaker 1: seem to be claiming that they're talking about completely different
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  Speaker 1: ten point plans. These are the things you can't control,
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  Speaker 1: but on the things we can. Does anybody else feel
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  Speaker 1: a bit relieved about the grown ups we have in
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  Speaker 1: charge at home? Nikola Willis has risen to the occasion,
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  Speaker 1: clear concise, across the detail, realistic about what government can
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  Speaker 1: and can't do to fix everybody's problems. You'll remember when
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  Speaker 1: this all kicked off, I said that they had very
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  Speaker 1: few political choices, given how hard they fought Labour's COVID
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  Speaker 1: spending and its effect on inflation. So the targeted, temporary, timely,
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  Speaker 1: the three t's, the motto seems to have been for
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  Speaker 1: now the right call cometh, the hour cometh the woman.
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  Speaker 1: If there was to be a leadership spill in national
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  Speaker 1: her performance, I think in this crisis has put her
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  Speaker 1: to the top of the list of contenders, and Winston
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  Speaker 1: Peters for all the cries and pleas for him to
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  Speaker 1: thump Trump, to criticize, to protest, to play the role
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  Speaker 1: of the ICC, he's held his nerve and he's kept
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts to himself. Some argue that shows weakness, but
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  Speaker 1: I think most key wees know what he's doing is
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  Speaker 1: protecting us from the wrath of a very sensitive, vindictive president.
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  Speaker 1: This situation is far from done and dusted, but it's
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  Speaker 1: shown us we have competent political and diplomatic leaders who
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  Speaker 1: are realistic about what they can and can't control. For
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