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Full Show Podcast: 31 October 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Francesca Rudgin on
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Speaker 2: They'd be good morning, welcome to early edition. I'm Francisco
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Speaker 2: Budkinfiling and for Ryan, You're most welcome to contact me
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Speaker 2: anytime this morning. You can flict me a text on
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Speaker 2: ninety two ninety two or you can email me at
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Speaker 2: Francesca at Newstalk ZBF co dot MZ right coming up
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Speaker 2: on the show, how serious is President Trump when it
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Speaker 2: comes to resuming nuclear testing for the first time in
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Speaker 2: more than thirty years? Can the All Blacks defeat Island
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Speaker 2: in Chicago? On Sunday? And before the end of the hour,
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Speaker 2: Minister of howth Samim Brown is with us on the
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Speaker 2: measles outbreak.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the thirty first of October, and the match
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Speaker 2: hyped Donald Trump President She meeting appears to have got results.
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Speaker 2: Trump has agreed to reduce tarrifs on China by ten
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Speaker 2: percent in exchange for China cracking down on its flow
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Speaker 2: of fentanel. China will resume importing American sweepings as well,
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Speaker 2: and rare earth export limits have been paused. Trump is happy,
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Speaker 2: but it.
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Speaker 4: Was so amazing, meaning he's a great letterer, great leader
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Speaker 4: of a very powerful, very strong country, China. What can
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Speaker 4: I say?
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Speaker 1: It was an outstanding.
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Speaker 4: A group of decisions. I think that was made a
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Speaker 4: lot of decisions remained too. I said, you're much left
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Speaker 4: out there.
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Speaker 2: Jamaica is now in rebuild mode after the devastation of
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Speaker 2: Hurricane Melissa. It's left at least thirty two dead throughout
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Speaker 2: the Caribbean, but the State Minister is feeling positive.
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Speaker 5: It would have been worse because capitalisty the Kingston, which
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Speaker 5: is the center of mobilization efforts, pardinage relief and disaster fearedness,
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Speaker 5: has been generally I would sit unscared or not badly
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Speaker 5: affected by the hurricane.
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Speaker 2: There's been another five arrests in the Louver heist saga.
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Speaker 2: They were detained overnight during coordinated raids, but say there's
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Speaker 2: still no indication Love staff had anything to do with it.
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Speaker 6: They've interviewed a lot of people inside the Louver staff
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Speaker 6: members and yesterday the prosecutor said that at this stage
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Speaker 6: they did not suspect that this was an inside job,
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Speaker 6: but she did suggest that there were very likely other
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Speaker 6: members involved, that this wasn't just a four man gang,
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Speaker 6: that this could have been part of a much bigger
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Speaker 6: criminal network.
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Speaker 2: And back on the UIs government shutdown watch, which has
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Speaker 2: been dragging on since the beginning of October, the Republicans
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Speaker 2: are still squarely blaming the Democrats.
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Speaker 7: The Democrat Party is now controlled, as I said, by
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Speaker 7: the Marxist activists, dark money donors. This is not a
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Speaker 7: grassroots effort and anti American ideologies is dominating this and
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Speaker 7: they would rather destroy the system than to lose power.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Francesca
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Speaker 1: Rudkin and are the Supercenter the explore are these accessories
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Speaker 2: It'd be It is nine past five, okay, So Andrew
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Speaker 2: Bailey story is back to cause the National Party some
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Speaker 2: more headaches. You may remember he resigned his ministerial portfolios
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Speaker 2: in February after he faced allegations he put a hand
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Speaker 2: on a staffer's arm during what was called an animated
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Speaker 2: discussion that came after the weird incident at a winery
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Speaker 2: where he called a worker a loser and he put
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Speaker 2: the l on his forehead and things. But now the
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Speaker 2: story has got a bit murky. Even more murky. Bailey
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Speaker 2: was on with Heather last night saying he regrets resigning
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Speaker 2: as it's been revealed there was no formal complaint about
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Speaker 2: the February allegations or formal investigation by the DIA. He
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Speaker 2: told Heather he was led to believe the country and
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Speaker 2: has even confirmed that with a staff involved.
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Speaker 8: When I rang the person, the male who I put
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Speaker 8: my hand on in an encouraging way, he told me
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Speaker 8: when I rang him that he had not made the allegation.
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Speaker 2: He also talked about the fact that he is full
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Speaker 2: of regret.
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Speaker 8: In a rightly wrong vie. I shouldn't have offered that resonation.
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Speaker 8: If I'd known what I know now, I wouldn't.
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Speaker 3: Have offered it.
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Speaker 2: So what does he want now?
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Speaker 8: I would obviously love to be administer a game, and
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Speaker 8: now that other informations come to light, I just want
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Speaker 8: people to know what the real situation is.
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Speaker 2: Right, So the Prime Minister has been asked about it overnight.
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Speaker 6: I trust DIA and the bottom line is that I
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Speaker 6: had information at the time. Information Today I look at
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Speaker 6: it and I go, Yep, he made the right decision.
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Speaker 3: It was his choice to resign.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure I trust the DIA. This is very murky.
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Speaker 2: The presumption now surely has to be someone else wanted
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Speaker 2: him gone, and the way they went about it, it's
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Speaker 2: not a good look. Bailey's always been a little bit quirky,
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Speaker 2: hasn't he? And the information that we got around that
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Speaker 2: February incident never quite made sense. I always felt that actually,
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Speaker 2: this was just another thing he kind of got wrong.
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Speaker 2: And he was at the point going, actually, maybe politics
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Speaker 2: isn't for me, Parliament isn't where I need to be.
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Speaker 2: I got the feeling he was fed up a voice
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Speaker 2: sort of being in the limelight about all these little incidents,
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Speaker 2: and he just went, I'm out of here. But obviously
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Speaker 2: that was not the case, and it has all been
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Speaker 2: handled very poorly, and Bailey is right and trying to
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Speaker 2: clear his name and correct the facts. But I still
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Speaker 2: wonder who resigns without really understanding why they're resigning, without
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Speaker 2: getting all the facts. Wouldn't you ask the information on
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Speaker 2: the formal complaints so you can respond or get legal advice?
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Speaker 2: He spoke as he said to the person he presumed
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Speaker 2: made the formal complaint just before resigning and they confirmed
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Speaker 2: that they've not made a formal complaint. Surely that's a
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Speaker 2: little red flag just to pause. So it just remains
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Speaker 2: a little bit baffling. And for someone who resigned so
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Speaker 2: that they didn't cause a distraction for the Prime Minister
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Speaker 2: in the National Party, he surely has created a very
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Speaker 2: interesting distraction.
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Speaker 3: News Talk said Bee, so cay.
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Speaker 2: To hear your thoughts on this one. You're most welcome
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Speaker 2: to text me throughout the morning. Ninety two ninety two.
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Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I'm not sure that even
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Speaker 2: if he got off at his job back that he
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Speaker 2: would take their job, and that's probably the place for
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Speaker 2: him to be. I feel like maybe time has done there,
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Speaker 2: but absolutely these things need to be done. Any One
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Speaker 2: in HJR Will tell you there are processes to go
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Speaker 2: through and you've got to do these things correctly. And
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Speaker 2: it really does start to sound like somebody wanted him
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Speaker 2: out the door and they got him out the door,
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Speaker 2: and that is coming back to bite them in that
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Speaker 2: you know where it is twelve past five. You with
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Speaker 2: At b It's fourteen past five. Donald Trump is playing
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Speaker 2: the nuke card. The US president has ordered his Department
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Speaker 2: of Defense slash Water immediately begin nuclear weapons testing, something
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Speaker 2: that the US hasn't done since the nineties. Foreign policy
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Speaker 2: analyst Jeffrey Millet is with me now. Good morning, Jeffrey,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Francesca. He said, this is a warning shot
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Speaker 2: to his enemies. Who are we talking about here, China, Russia.
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Speaker 9: Or both of them? I think, Francesca, and you know,
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Speaker 9: you can say, well, this is the typical saber rattling
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Speaker 9: of the Trump presidency, and this is the world that
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Speaker 9: we live in. But I think we need to be
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Speaker 9: aware here of the power of a nuclear conflict. I
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Speaker 9: think we've largely forgotten or underappreciated the nuclear dimension in
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Speaker 9: these constant geopolitical tensions. But you've got to remember that
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Speaker 9: the US and Russia both still have over five thousand
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Speaker 9: nuclear warheads. Out's well down from the peaks of the
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Speaker 9: Cold War. But if we suddenly see them back nuclear testing,
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Speaker 9: that would be the first time since the mid nineteen
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Speaker 9: nineties that we've seen China, Russia, in the United States
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Speaker 9: testing nuclear weapons, and that could be well on the cards.
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Speaker 9: So I think we really need to dial back the
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Speaker 9: tensions here because this is more than just a typical
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Speaker 9: Trump outburst on social media. I mean, nuclear weapons can
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Speaker 9: have real consequences and we certainly have seen that in history.
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Speaker 2: So you think that there is a possibility he will
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Speaker 2: actually begin nuclear tests again.
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Speaker 9: Yes, the escalation is in play, isn't it. And we've
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Speaker 9: seen this in so many dimensions now over the past
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Speaker 9: few years. I mean, the world is a much scarier
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Speaker 9: place now than it was, and we've seen the nuclear
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Speaker 9: dimension come into play in the war in Ukraine, for example,
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Speaker 9: that the zuparasion. Nuclear partners come under attack numerous times
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Speaker 9: in the war between Russia, Russia and Ukraine. We saw
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Speaker 9: that war between India and Pakistan earlier in the year.
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Speaker 9: Two nuclear powers. They conducted a nuclear test back in
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Speaker 9: nineteen ninety eight, but since then it's only been North
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Speaker 9: Korea that has tested nuclear weapons. We've got a comprehensive
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Speaker 9: nuclear test ban treaty that was agreed in the mid nineties,
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Speaker 9: but China, Russia, and the United States have not ratified that.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 9: Russia did ratify it and then pulled out a couple
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Speaker 9: of years ago. The United States and China have never
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Speaker 9: ratified that treaty. So we need to, I think, step
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Speaker 9: back from the brink here. And that's the game that
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Speaker 9: Donald Trump is playing constantly, This game of brinksmanship. When
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Speaker 9: you go right to the brink of war, then you
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Speaker 9: pull back in clear victory. It is, I think, a
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Speaker 9: scary way to do politics, a scary way to do geopolitics.
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Speaker 9: It is Trump's game. We've seen that very successful meeting
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Speaker 9: over between Donald Trump and Jjingking. It has come out
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Speaker 9: with a deal. I mean that's a good news story.
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Speaker 9: But you wonder what will come next week or next
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Speaker 9: month with Donald Trump. I mean, nothing is really ever
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Speaker 9: set in stone, and you never know how long it's
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Speaker 9: going to be before he changes his mind.
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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Miller, thank you so much. Always appreciate your thoughts.
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Speaker 2: Of course, the question is where would he teaest? I mean,
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Speaker 2: the Nimbi's will be out in force over this one, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean, no one's going to do it in your backyard.
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Speaker 2: Next we are going to head too Chicago. It is
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Speaker 2: eighteen past five.
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Speaker 2: It'd be okay. So the All Blacks Grand Slam Tour
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Speaker 2: gets underway this weekend with arguably the toughest test. They'll
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Speaker 2: be back at Chicago's Soldier Field on Sunday morning, taking
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Speaker 2: on Ireland. Of course, we all remember the last time
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Speaker 2: these two met in Chicago twenty sixteen. We're famously Island
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Speaker 2: recorded its first win over the All Blacks. Our voice
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Speaker 2: of Rugby, Elliott Smith, is in Chicago and he joins me, Now,
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Speaker 2: good morning.
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Speaker 10: Hi, Francesca.
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Speaker 2: What's the vibe like? Is everyone amped and looking forward
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Speaker 2: to a game of rugby?
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Speaker 10: It's quite interesting. I mean it sold out and months
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Speaker 10: ago as well, sixty one thousand capacity for the game,
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Speaker 10: but barring a few lampost flags, you probably wouldn't know
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Speaker 10: it's on. And that's fine. Look it said. It's one
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Speaker 10: of those things in a big city that sometimes these
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Speaker 10: things don't break through, and it's a sport that isn't
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Speaker 10: one that is widely popular in the masses. And you know,
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Speaker 10: I think Chicago's probably more focused on the Chicago Bullside,
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Speaker 10: which have started four an Oer to start the NBA season.
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Speaker 10: Then there's teest for having said that you don't sell
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Speaker 10: sixty thousand by accident. And there'll be you know, plenty
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Speaker 10: of fans and you know a lot of Irish people
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Speaker 10: in Chicago and a lot of ex that's coming through
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Speaker 10: from both nations and those also coming from the countries
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Speaker 10: flying in for the game. So promises to be a
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Speaker 10: special occasion, even if it's not tearing the headlines off
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Speaker 10: the front pages of the paper.
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Speaker 2: At the moment, considering the All Blacks Rugby Championship, are
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Speaker 2: you confident that they can take Ireland?
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Speaker 10: Look, I think they can take Ireland. Island coming in cold.
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Speaker 10: They haven't played as a group since the Six Nations.
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Speaker 10: Andy Farrell, their head coach, wasn't head coach on that occasion.
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Speaker 10: He took a break to focus on his Lions duty.
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Speaker 10: So it's been a while. In fact, last year's end
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Speaker 10: of year tour withhe All Blacks had success over Ireland.
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Speaker 10: Since that they were all together as a proper group,
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Speaker 10: with all the management and all the players in the
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Speaker 10: right place. So they come in a little bit cold
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Speaker 10: to this test matcher. They've had a diet of urec.
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Speaker 10: They played each other in a derby a lot of
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Speaker 10: these players last weekend, so they've had a bit of
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Speaker 10: a hitout internally as well as my understanding, but they
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Speaker 10: come in a little bit cold. But the All Blacks,
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Speaker 10: you know, they're right in the middle of the season
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Speaker 10: or in the back end of their season. The Rugby
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Speaker 10: Championship fills you probably was not a great deal confidence.
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Speaker 10: They beat the Wallabies obviously to finish it off, but
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Speaker 10: that heavy loss to the spring Box and Tina losing
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Speaker 10: in Buenos Aires as well gives you the sense that,
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Speaker 10: you know, it's the old Forest Gump analogy, you know,
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Speaker 10: the All Backs. At the moment, you just don't know
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Speaker 10: what you're going to get. And it could be a
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Speaker 10: win this weekend, they could set themselves on to a
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Speaker 10: Grand Slam, or it could be a defeat to you know,
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Speaker 10: the Irish, and the Grand Slam's gone at the first hurdle.
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Speaker 10: So look, there's a lot of improvements needed by the
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Speaker 10: All Blacks and that starts this weekend.
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Speaker 2: What would losing again in the US do to the
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Speaker 2: All Blacks brand because we are playing there purely for
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Speaker 2: commercial reasons for the advertisers.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think they need to keep up appearances by winning,
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Speaker 10: and you know that's where they drive a lot of
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Speaker 10: their revenue is obviously their historical record, and the record
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Speaker 10: over the last few seasons hasn't been good enough. So
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Speaker 10: you've got to deliver on that. You've got to show
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Speaker 10: the sponsors that are backing us. That's got you know,
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Speaker 10: Gallagher is the naming rights sponsor on the back of
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Speaker 10: their shorts, but also for the fixture itself. You know,
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Speaker 10: they expect success, So it's you know, it's contingent on it.
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Speaker 10: And the more you lose, the less commercially lucrative you
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Speaker 10: are potentially to some of those overseas markets where you're
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Speaker 10: selling the success story of the All Black So I
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Speaker 10: think it's imperative that they do pick up these wins,
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Speaker 10: especially when they are, you know, in America and trying
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Speaker 10: to tell that the rugby story and the All Black story.
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Speaker 2: Elliott, thanks so much for your time. Appreciated. The All
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Speaker 2: Blacks will be announcing their team at six a m.
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Speaker 2: This morning. I'm feeling confident. I reckon we can keep
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Speaker 2: up appearances. I feel like we're on a bit of
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Speaker 2: a role. I think we've learned a lot from the
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Speaker 2: rugby championship, and I don't think that they will want
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Speaker 2: to kick off this tour with a with a lot
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Speaker 2: w They never want to lose, do they. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I'm feeling good about it. The coverage will begin here
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Speaker 2: on Sunday morning at eight thirty a. M. Elliott is
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Speaker 2: going to be calling the game. We will be broadcasting
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Speaker 2: it live here on your storks Abit. I've kindly stepped
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Speaker 2: away from All Blacks from the Sunday session to allow
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Speaker 2: the All Blacks to be brought to you live, So
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Speaker 2: make sure you've joined Elliott on Sunday morning. It's two
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Speaker 2: four past.
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Speaker 2: It's twenty six past five. Okay. So there is growing
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Speaker 2: frustration around messaging when it comes to the increase of
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Speaker 2: measle cases in New Zealand and the push for vaccinations.
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Speaker 2: As of yesterday, there were thirteen cases in the country.
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Speaker 2: So here's what I've learned about measles just over the
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Speaker 2: last couple of days. One infected person can infect up
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Speaker 2: of information we're told, so we understand the seriousness of
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Speaker 2: measles and are encouraged to get the vaccine or get
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Speaker 2: up to date, and people are listening with the problem
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Speaker 2: is thought maternal antibodies protect a baby up to four
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Speaker 2: months of age. As many parents will know, the MMR
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Speaker 2: vaccine is given at twelve or fifteen months. We all
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Speaker 2: remember that, right, although if you're traveling overseas, a vaccination
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Speaker 2: can take place when a child is between four and
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Speaker 2: twelve months old. So this vaccine is called an MMR
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Speaker 2: zero dose because it only works for a limited time
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Speaker 2: and parents need to get their children vaccinated again with
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Speaker 2: two doses after twelve months. So you can see the
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Speaker 2: mixed and confusing messages here. Parents in Wellington, which looks
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Speaker 2: like to be the epicenter of cases, are rightly concerned
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Speaker 2: and want to do the right thing protecting their baby
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Speaker 2: and others. However, at this stage, the Public Health Service
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Speaker 2: to recommending we should vaccinate children under twelve months old,
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Speaker 2: no one seems to be able to tell us at
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Speaker 2: what point this outbreak would reach a threshold where it
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Speaker 2: would Something tells me though, that the trigger point will
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Speaker 2: be met soon and official advice will change. But in
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Speaker 2: the meantime, if it's safe, and the risks and benefits
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Speaker 2: are clearly explained to a parent, and they want to
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Speaker 2: vaccinate their baby, just let them do it. I expect
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Speaker 2: I suspect to futter order is concerned that giving a
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Speaker 2: vaccine before twelve months the parents will not return for
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Speaker 2: the too late vaccines needed to provide lifelong immunity. I
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Speaker 2: suggest that the parents concerned enough to get early vaccinations
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Speaker 2: are the type of parents who will absolutely return and
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Speaker 2: finish the job. The irony is that the big issue
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Speaker 2: is not immunizing babies from four to twelve months. It's
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Speaker 2: about raising our general immunization levels, which are terrible. They're
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Speaker 2: the lowest they have been since twenty and twelve. We
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Speaker 2: have been so good at protecting ourselves and our young
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Speaker 2: people against measles in the past. For goodness sake, we
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Speaker 2: eliminated measles in two thy and seventeen. So on Monday
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Speaker 2: we're heading into Measles Immunization Week and really it couldn't
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Speaker 2: come sooner, right? We need clear, detailed and helpful information
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Speaker 2: rather than mixed messages.
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Speaker 3: News talks head be so look.
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Speaker 2: Keen to hear your thoughts. You might be based in Wellington.
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Speaker 2: You might be you're hearing all this information. You want
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Speaker 2: your baby. And look, if you've got a baby in
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Speaker 2: daycare and things you might you know, I could understand
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Speaker 2: how you would be especially concerned about this. Do you
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Speaker 2: think that the Ministry of Health is doing enough here?
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Speaker 2: We are going to talk to Simeon Brown before six
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Speaker 2: filling in for Ryan. Thanks for being with us in
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Speaker 2: use Today it is Halloween or Lolly Day. The door
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Speaker 2: knockers are coming. Do you know what the best thing
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Speaker 2: about Halloween these days is the rules of engagement of
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Speaker 2: trickle treating have become a little clearer here in New Zealand.
18:34
Speaker 2: It's not compulsory. It's an opt in system, which I
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Speaker 2: hugely appreciate. If you want to participate and welcome the
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Speaker 2: sugar babes, you can just place something Halloween outside and
18:44
Speaker 2: everyone comes floating to the door. But if you don't,
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Speaker 2: just don't put anything out, indicate you're not taking part,
18:50
Speaker 2: and everyone just walk by and you can just pull
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Speaker 2: the curtains and get on with your evening and you
18:53
Speaker 2: don't have to worry about it at all. So I
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Speaker 2: love that. Hey, in the next half out, we're heading
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Speaker 2: to the UK and Europe, and as I've talked about,
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Speaker 2: and we've got a problem with measles and it's only
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Speaker 2: going to grow because our immunization rates are so bad.
19:04
Speaker 2: So how worried should we be and is Health New
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Speaker 2: Zealand doing enough so the Health Minister Simeon Brown is
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Speaker 2: with us just before six. Thank you very much for
19:12
Speaker 2: your feedback, A bit of feedback on Andrew baby Francesca.
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Speaker 2: This is a very bad look for the PM's office.
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Speaker 2: The PM said he would have sacked him if he
19:19
Speaker 2: hadn't resigned, so he wanted him out. Did the PM
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Speaker 2: know that no complaint had been made? Well, we're just
19:24
Speaker 2: going to have to wait and see. I think this
19:26
Speaker 2: is one of these situations where you'd say HI has
19:28
Speaker 2: not followed to the processes correctly and we'll just leave
19:31
Speaker 2: it at that, because I think there will be more.
19:33
Speaker 2: We will hear more about this as at Unfold zodiours
19:36
Speaker 2: techs say you're a health professional. Al radio host didn't
19:38
Speaker 2: know you were a health professional now not claiming to
19:40
Speaker 2: be a health professional. But I am a mum and
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Speaker 2: I can't understand why people are listening very carefully to
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Speaker 2: the information they've been given and the warnings they're being given,
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Speaker 2: and then are wondering why they don't have are aren't
19:51
Speaker 2: able to access a service which is available to them
19:55
Speaker 2: to protect their baby. So that's what we've been talking
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Speaker 2: about and As I said, we'll follow a little bit
19:59
Speaker 2: more on just before six, so keep the feedback coming.
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Speaker 2: You can text on ninety two ninety two it is
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Speaker 2: twenty one to.
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Speaker 3: Six news Talk seby right.
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Speaker 2: Let's head around the country now and joining me from Dunedin,
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Speaker 2: Rosy Leishman, Good morning, Rosie, Good morning. A plea for
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Speaker 2: farmers and landowners in storm hit areas to plan before
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Speaker 2: burning debris.
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Speaker 11: Yes, so fire and emergencies asking people to make sure
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Speaker 11: that they're burn piles are at least thirty meters away
20:27
Speaker 11: from buildings or trees and to let the material dry
20:31
Speaker 11: out first. The warning comes as Southland and Cloth remain
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Speaker 11: under a state of emergency. Otago District Commander Craig Gettis
20:40
Speaker 11: says there's been no fire incidences so far, but CRUs
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Speaker 11: are concerned they could happen. He says water supplies are
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Speaker 11: well below normal levels, so their ability to support any
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Speaker 11: firefighting is challenged. Gettus sees local fire brigades are really
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Speaker 11: stretched with the cleanup and the focus is on avoiding
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Speaker 11: unnecessary call outs.
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Speaker 2: The weather in Dneedon today, Rosie.
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Speaker 11: Possibly heavy showers clearing in the morning but remaining mostly
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Speaker 11: cloudy until evening. With some strong southwesterlies in the afternoon
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Speaker 11: and a high of fourteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. And Claire joins us now from
21:14
Speaker 2: christ to clear what is going on with this Metro
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Speaker 2: Sports Center. What is going on with it? Francesca.
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Speaker 12: Look, this is the part of Cure Metro Sports Center
21:22
Speaker 12: which is meant to open any time now, due to
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Speaker 12: host the Special Olympics in December. The trouble is we've
21:29
Speaker 12: been told for months now that handover would be in October.
21:32
Speaker 12: That has not happened, and we've had confirmation of that.
21:35
Speaker 12: This is our five hundred million dollar project. It's faced
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Speaker 12: repeated delays since its original opening, which was due to
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Speaker 12: be in twenty twenty one. That was following a legal
21:44
Speaker 12: dispute between the contractor and government agency. The cost has
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Speaker 12: blown out. It's almost doubled over time. The Crown Infrastructure
21:52
Speaker 12: Delivery Organization says main construction work is complete, but practical
21:57
Speaker 12: completion has to be certified before it can be transferred
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Speaker 12: into the council. Council though has already begun its fit
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Speaker 12: out and some early commissioning work. It has eleven pools
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Speaker 12: and spars, hydrocides and sports courts.
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Speaker 2: All sounds fun.
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Speaker 12: In the weather today, clear cloud increasing, there could be
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Speaker 12: some brief morning showers. Northwesterly is changing southerly and the
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Speaker 12: high will be seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Max. Tollers and Wellington and a
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Speaker 2: bad tax as possible for Wellington.
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Speaker 13: Max, Yeah, good morning. The new mayor, the new council.
22:24
Speaker 13: They were all sworn in last night in a ceremony.
22:26
Speaker 13: We spoke to Andrew Little, the new mayor, who has
22:28
Speaker 13: been already plotting some major changes. One might be a
22:31
Speaker 13: bed tax. He wants to team up with Wayne Brown,
22:34
Speaker 13: apparently to help lobby the idea to central government. There's
22:37
Speaker 13: also a new committee to run the rule over finances.
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Speaker 13: The Golden Mile is being reviewed. That's the rather controversial
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Speaker 13: plan to pedestrianize much of the central city, starting with
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Speaker 13: Courtney Place. And regarding transport, he says he's totally on
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Speaker 13: board with the government's plan for new tunnels Mount Victoria
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Speaker 13: and the Terrace, and a new lane of State Highway
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Speaker 13: one as well down Vivian Street. Little says amalgamy seems inevitable. Firstly,
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Speaker 13: though the council itself, he believes it needs something of
23:05
Speaker 13: a restructure to bring down costs. And there may be
23:08
Speaker 13: some job losses that come along with that. He's got
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Speaker 13: his right hand man by his side, Ben McNulty, he's
23:13
Speaker 13: his deputy mayor. Both are labor members. The first full
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Speaker 13: council meeting in three weeks.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Wellington's weather sdomex.
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Speaker 13: Mainly fine, might get a bit of rain mid afternoon
23:23
Speaker 13: nineteen today's high.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, have a good day, and neither
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Speaker 2: ritty man who was in the studio this morning. Do
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Speaker 2: you go trickle treating? Trickle treating tonight? You love a
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Speaker 2: dress up?
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Speaker 14: Look, I do, and some of the ones here in
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Speaker 14: the news are of their drey start. Well, someone's got
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Speaker 14: it like a leamp shade and I said, what is that?
23:39
Speaker 14: And she's a pumpkin head. It's a bright orange.
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Speaker 2: Did you know?
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Speaker 15: Genially, what do you do your kids do it? Because
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Speaker 15: some do, some don't. Do you think it's too commercial
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Speaker 15: at primaries?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 2: I hate it. I hate that the commercial. I hate this.
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Speaker 2: That's kind of like the stone last nasty grab for lollies.
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Speaker 2: And then you have to go been money on a costume.
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Speaker 2: You don't just get the kids to make a costume.
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Speaker 2: Very commercially American. But I've got over that. Neither do you,
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Speaker 2: because I was the brunch and I'm over it. It's fun,
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Speaker 2: it's well because my kids are too old now they are.
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Speaker 14: But do you have a bowl of chocks at the
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Speaker 14: front door? Will you have that tonight?
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Speaker 2: No, because I'm actually working late to night my partners
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Speaker 2: at work. And I'll tell you what. My sixteen year
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Speaker 2: old daughter is an opening the door to anyone. She
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Speaker 2: will no, but she won't get off her bum and go.
24:26
Speaker 2: And no, sorry, everybody, we will not be putting you.
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Speaker 2: We won't be putting anything.
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Speaker 15: You've got a hardcore you used to me?
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm over it. I used to be
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Speaker 2: the hot I used to be the Halloween ground.
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Speaker 3: Over it.
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Speaker 2: It is fun and I love it, especially love kids
24:40
Speaker 2: who make a real effort to create their costumes. And yes,
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Speaker 2: you're not alive.
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Speaker 14: Yeah you're scary.
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Speaker 2: You don't like to know. Well, actually I did almost
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Speaker 2: kill a couple of kids when I decided to get
24:50
Speaker 2: into it because I opened the door. You're in a
24:52
Speaker 2: really scary mask. And we have these full on front
24:55
Speaker 2: doorsteps and they all stick backwards and almost toppled down
24:57
Speaker 2: and died. So that's another tip to urance. Don't dress
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Speaker 2: up as something really scary when you open the door,
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Speaker 2: because you're just earfuy.
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Speaker 14: What I was going to say, do you really have
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Speaker 14: to dress up because you're pretty scary?
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Speaker 15: Thank you very much, Neva, what are you about either you?
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the weather, okay.
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Speaker 14: Mainly fine, it's a good day tonight to trigger treat
25:17
Speaker 14: morning cloud.
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Speaker 2: Today's high eighteen and can I.
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Speaker 14: Just say steer clear of Francisca's house. Thank goodness, we
25:22
Speaker 14: don't know where you live, girl, Thank.
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Speaker 10: You so much.
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Speaker 2: And Neva's really keen to you to pop into hers
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Speaker 2: tonight as well. Oh no, look it is fun you
25:31
Speaker 2: You kind of just got to get on board, don't you. Anyway.
25:33
Speaker 2: Next off, we are up off to Europe and the UK.
25:36
Speaker 2: It is fifteen to.
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Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance Peace of
25:42
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
25:45
Speaker 2: Vincent Macadani is with us from the UK and Europe.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Vincent, good morning. Tell us what has been
25:51
Speaker 2: going on with the Dutch elections?
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Speaker 16: Well, a big upset in these Dutch elections. The grain
25:58
Speaker 16: in Europe has been that political parties to the right
26:01
Speaker 16: have been doing well in recent years, but there's been
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Speaker 16: a surprise campaign by a centrist liberal party Dutch sixty six,
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Speaker 16: who've gone from fifth place all the way to first place,
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Speaker 16: jointly now with Hurt Fielders, who is the sort of
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Speaker 16: far right leader that was leading a government's coalition government
26:22
Speaker 16: there not as prime minister, but that all collapsed back
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Speaker 16: in this summer and now it's all being put down
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Speaker 16: to one man, Rob Jetton. He would be Europe's youngest
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Speaker 16: leader and he thirty eight. He's openly gay, and he
26:35
Speaker 16: went from being called Robot Jettin to someone who took
26:39
Speaker 16: the campaign by a storm by taking on a bit
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Speaker 16: of positive messaging, a bit of the Obama playbook of
26:43
Speaker 16: yes we can, trying to combat the kind of very
26:46
Speaker 16: negative attitude that a lot of people have got at
26:48
Speaker 16: the moment in politics.
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Speaker 2: Vincent, we're still awaiting a settlement in the negotiations between
26:53
Speaker 2: the King and his brother Prince Andrew. The thing that
26:55
Speaker 2: Prince Andrew was able to negotiate I find quite amazing.
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Speaker 16: Well, the problem with this all is is that if
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Speaker 16: they sort of just kick him out without a plan,
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Speaker 16: he becomes a desperate man and he could become more
27:08
Speaker 16: dangerous than a liability, would he in the need to
27:11
Speaker 16: get some money behind him, to get somewhere to stay.
27:13
Speaker 16: Would he suddenly write a tell all book or go
27:15
Speaker 16: on a reality show or do a documentary they've seen
27:18
Speaker 16: you know how damaging that can be with the likes
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Speaker 16: of Harry and Meghan. Although you know, the axations against
27:23
Speaker 16: him are incredibly serious, all of which he's denied. But
27:26
Speaker 16: it seems he's trying to negotiate with his brother to
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Speaker 16: get Harry and Meghan's old property, Frogmore Cottage. But the
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Speaker 16: real sticking point seems to be he wants a separate
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Speaker 16: property for his ex wife, Sarah Ferguson. They divorced all
27:38
Speaker 16: the way back in nineteen ninety six. She's lived with him,
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Speaker 16: though in somewhat because of desperation because she's mismanaged their
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Speaker 16: finances so badly since two thousand and eight, but apparently
27:48
Speaker 16: there's been a frosting of their relationship. But he wants
27:51
Speaker 16: her to be provided a home, given that she is
27:54
Speaker 16: the daughter of the mother of two princesses. So this
27:57
Speaker 16: has been rumbling on all week. We're expecting men in
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Speaker 16: the next forty eight hours who might get some kind
28:02
Speaker 16: of deal. But behind it all, we believe that Prince
28:05
Speaker 16: William is very unhappy with the situation as it stands
28:08
Speaker 16: and doesn't really want his uncle attending any kind of
28:10
Speaker 16: public events. He just wants them gone.
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Speaker 2: Slightly understandable there, Vincent, thank you so much. It is
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Speaker 2: ten to six simb okay. So the latest outbreak of
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Speaker 2: measles could pose a risk as it spreads undetected. There
28:24
Speaker 2: were two more cases confirmed yesterday, bringing the toll the
28:27
Speaker 2: total to thirteen. Alongside that, there are over two thousand
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Speaker 2: close contacts who've already been identified. Simeon Brown is the
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Speaker 2: Health Minister and he's with me now. Thank you so
28:36
Speaker 2: much for your time this morning, minister, Good morning.
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Speaker 3: Good morning.
28:39
Speaker 2: How much does this worry you?
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Speaker 17: Look, I think this is very concerning. We have a
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Speaker 17: significant amount of effort being put in by the National
28:47
Speaker 17: Public Health Service to step it out. There's a lot
28:50
Speaker 17: of work being done to contact trace every case. But
28:54
Speaker 17: the real key message is that vaccination is our best
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Speaker 17: Britie against further spread of measles, and to encourage everyone
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Speaker 17: to check their records and get immunized if you're not already.
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Speaker 2: We have this immunity gap of the four to twelve
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Speaker 2: month year olds. The moms are hearing this. They want
29:13
Speaker 2: to do the right thing, They want to immunize their children,
29:16
Speaker 2: and we obviously have cases spreading in the community. Should
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Speaker 2: we be allowing these parents to use the zero dose?
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Speaker 17: Yeah, so that's a question which I've raised with the
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Speaker 17: National Public Health Service. It's something which they have said
29:32
Speaker 17: they are keeping watching brief on in terms of the analysis. Ultimately,
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Speaker 17: the advice, or the early advice I've received is that
29:43
Speaker 17: that is an option which will be considered. But there's
29:47
Speaker 17: also a potential downside in that as children are immunized
29:51
Speaker 17: earlier than one year, then potentially their longer term immunity
29:55
Speaker 17: isn't as good or effectively effectiveness, or the vaccine isn't
29:57
Speaker 17: as good over the longer term. So there are some
30:01
Speaker 17: things that they need to be considered. But that's certainly
30:03
Speaker 17: the conversation that we've had at this stage. Look, I've
30:07
Speaker 17: got a two month old myself, so I fully appreciate
30:11
Speaker 17: the concerns of parents and understand exactly how they're feeling.
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Speaker 2: I have a feeling that the parents who are interested
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Speaker 2: in getting their child that's between four months and twelve
30:22
Speaker 2: months are going to be the parents who will come
30:24
Speaker 2: back and do the further two immunizations. You know what
30:26
Speaker 2: I mean?
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Speaker 17: No, look, absolutely one hundred percent agree, and so that
30:31
Speaker 17: is a piece of work which the National Public Health
30:34
Speaker 17: Service will do. But ultimately this stage very much focused
30:38
Speaker 17: on stamping this outbreak out and making sure that we
30:44
Speaker 17: get on top of it.
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Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen, we had seven hundred people hospitalized when
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Speaker 2: we had the measles outbreak. Are we prepared for that
30:51
Speaker 2: all potentially more?
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Speaker 17: Look, I think there is a plan in place. Ultimately,
30:58
Speaker 17: we want to avoid what happened back into twenty nineteen,
31:01
Speaker 17: and that's why we are very focused to stamp it out.
31:05
Speaker 17: Our hospitals are always under significant pressure regardless of this
31:11
Speaker 17: of this outbreak, so ultimately that will put additional pressure
31:14
Speaker 17: on our hospitals. But that's why the key message is
31:19
Speaker 17: to check your immunization status, get immunized and you know,
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Speaker 17: and the work that the National Public Health Service is
31:27
Speaker 17: doing to contact, trace every case to get on top
31:29
Speaker 17: of this as quickly as possible is critical work and
31:33
Speaker 17: we're very pressurive of the work that they're doing.
31:35
Speaker 2: We've see plankets just open twenty vaccine sites around the country,
31:38
Speaker 2: which is great. Is there going to be a more
31:39
Speaker 2: general roll out from Health New Zealand.
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Speaker 17: Yes, look, there's there are a lot of vaccination opportunities
31:46
Speaker 17: and Health New Zealand is shortly going to be running
31:50
Speaker 17: a National Immunization Week to promote immunization and immunization promotion
31:56
Speaker 17: campaign is already underway and we've asked OCCON Zealand to
32:00
Speaker 17: step that up. But there is plenty of opportunities for
32:04
Speaker 17: people to be vaccinated and the purpose of running that
32:07
Speaker 17: Immunization Week will be to focus on all of those
32:11
Speaker 17: opportunities and to raise awareness with the public of what
32:14
Speaker 17: those opportunities are. So what Plunket's doing is excellently. Pharmacies
32:20
Speaker 17: are always open, have a huge opportunity through pharmacies, your
32:24
Speaker 17: general practitioner. There are many opportunities for people to be
32:28
Speaker 17: vaccinated and what we want to do is to highlight
32:31
Speaker 17: all of those opportunities so people know how easy it
32:35
Speaker 17: is that they can get themselves and their loved ones vaccinated.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your time this morning, Simon really
32:41
Speaker 2: appreciated that was a health minister. Same and Brown, can
32:44
Speaker 2: you get your thoughts Do you feel a little bit
32:45
Speaker 2: more reassured there that everyone's across everything and aware of
32:48
Speaker 2: what's going on and the next steps and what's been considered.
32:51
Speaker 2: Ninety two to ninety two is the text. It is
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Speaker 2: six to six. Mike co Hosking is in the studio
32:56
Speaker 2: with me.
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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 Francesca Rudker and r V super Center
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Speaker 3: More than one news talk said.
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Speaker 2: Be my costing is in the studio with me. Now,
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Speaker 2: of course my costing breakfast kicking off at six am
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Speaker 2: looking very dapic. Can I say? I love the pink
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Speaker 2: jacket strip. It's sort of slightly metallochy.
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Speaker 18: I'm glad you raised this because I was wearing this
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Speaker 18: morning because my wife has spent up a tremendous amount
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Speaker 18: of feedback this week on my wife's Instagram right where
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Speaker 18: she makes fun of me, and I don't see this
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Speaker 18: that I just get feedback because she's making fun of me. Anyway,
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Speaker 18: the thing today I.
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Speaker 3: Was going to wear this with it that hard to believe. Mate,
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Speaker 3: with a lovely new white T shirt.
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Speaker 2: I quite love black.
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Speaker 3: But the problem that's not black.
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Speaker 18: Oh my god, it's not blue. It's really early anyway,
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Speaker 18: pointers my new white T shirt showed my nipples. Oh,
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Speaker 18: and she said to me last night before we went
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Speaker 18: to bed, she said, I don't want to see your nipples,
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Speaker 18: and so I thought, ah, here we go. So two
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Speaker 18: thirty this morning, I'm sticking on the white, like, oh
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Speaker 18: my god, nipples. And I just knew if I wore this,
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Speaker 18: she got nipples, and I thought she'd make more fun
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Speaker 18: of me.
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Speaker 2: I know that I would be far too polite.
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Speaker 10: He had to bring up the.
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Speaker 18: Nipples changed it. But very nice of you to say something.
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Speaker 2: And very much looking forward to the show. Mike Husk
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