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Full Show Podcast: 25 September 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture beds and a player store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be good morning at a six half
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Speaker 2: to five year on. News Talk said the early edition
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Speaker 2: coming up on the show Facial Recognition Technology. Why it's
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Speaker 2: probably coming to a new world near you in the
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Speaker 2: next half hour. Why a ground war between Israel and
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Speaker 2: his Buller is unlikely? Toper sentences for bus driver Bashes
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Speaker 2: Good and Gavin Gray's in the UK.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, the twenty fifth September. Israel is claiming victory,
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Speaker 2: claiming to have killed a senior his Billa commander overnight.
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Speaker 2: The death toll now five hundred and fifty thousands are
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Speaker 2: fleeing southern Lebanon. Residents from there say a response from
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Speaker 2: his Villa will be strong In this.
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Speaker 4: War, you can't win every day.
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Speaker 5: Let Israel wait and see what.
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Speaker 6: Our response will be.
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Speaker 5: We are strong feet.
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Speaker 2: But Biden has spoken at the UN overnight.
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Speaker 6: Full scale war is not in anyone's interesting.
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Speaker 7: Even a situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible.
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Speaker 2: Staying in the United states early voting. There is tricking
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Speaker 2: in in the United States election, the male voting, that is,
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Speaker 2: postal voting. The Democrats usually dominate this, but the edge
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Speaker 2: has shrunk in favor of the Republicans save US so
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Speaker 2: slightly in key states including Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 4: One thing that Democrats have done really well over the
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Speaker 4: last couple of cycles is basically understanding who's voting, when
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Speaker 4: they're voting, and how they're voting, and then as campaign
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Speaker 4: cycle gets, you know, closer and closer in November, knocking
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Speaker 4: them off their voteral list.
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Speaker 2: More than sixteen hundred seriously ill prisoners have been freed
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Speaker 2: from the Mcala Prison and the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Speaker 2: to help ease overcrowding issues. The prison has a capacity
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Speaker 2: and get this, you thought we had a problem with
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Speaker 2: overcrowding in prisons, has a capacity of fifteen hundred people
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Speaker 2: but has been holding twelve thousand. Earlier in the month,
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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty nine prisoners died while attempting to escape.
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Speaker 2: Here in New Zealand, can we signists have discovered a
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Speaker 2: new species of ghost shark. The narrow nosed spookfish lives
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Speaker 2: in depths of up to two thousand, six hundred meters.
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Speaker 2: Was once thought to be part of a globally distributed species,
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Speaker 2: but new research shows it's genetically different. Newas's ghost sharks habits, sorry, habitats,
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Speaker 2: can make them difficult to study and monitor.
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Speaker 8: We know where it lives, but we know a little
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Speaker 8: bit about what it eats, but we have no idea
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Speaker 8: how long they live. We have no idea what their
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Speaker 8: population side is.
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Speaker 3: Like the news you need this morning and the in
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Speaker 3: depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Sis City,
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Speaker 3: New Zealand's furniture beds and a plying store, news.
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Speaker 2: Talk said, be hence the ghost part of it. I
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Speaker 2: suppose if you have been sitting back in your comfortable
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Speaker 2: lounge chair laughing at the Wellington meres and competition, that
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Speaker 2: her arrogance over the last couple of weeks since she
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Speaker 2: took office, really laugh no more. This is not a
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Speaker 2: Wellington problem. She and Wellington City Council are also our problem.
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Speaker 2: There's Treasury advice that says this applies to all councils,
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Speaker 2: but it gets specific about Wellington. In a second Treasury
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Speaker 2: advice says that councils, including Wellington's, represent a large contingent
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Speaker 2: liability on the Crown's balance sheet. That means they are
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Speaker 2: our problem in the event of a natural disaster. And
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Speaker 2: this is specifically talking about the airport, the airport shares.
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Speaker 2: Obviously they're making a decision shortly on whether they should
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Speaker 2: sell them or keep them it. Wellington City Council has
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Speaker 2: around seven hundred and twenty five million dollars of insurance
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Speaker 2: protection for assets. The replacement value is around seventeen billion dollars.
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Speaker 2: The maximum probable loss is somewhere between five billion and
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Speaker 2: seventeen billion dollars. The advice secifically sites the risk created
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Speaker 2: by Wellington City Council's airport shares. It says Wellington Airport's value,
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Speaker 2: for example, will deteriorate after a natural disaster, the same
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Speaker 2: point at which Wellington City Council may wish to draw
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Speaker 2: down on its balance sheets. So basically we would have
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Speaker 2: to pick up the tab, wouldn't we? And how are
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Speaker 2: they going to vote on this? We have no idea.
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Speaker 2: Who knows, They're all over the place, don't know if
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Speaker 2: the Arthur or Martha. So if basically, if Wellington is
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Speaker 2: hit by a natural disaster other than Torrey Faro they're
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Speaker 2: up shit creek and we're left holding the paddle.
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Speaker 3: Raymbridge Life.
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Speaker 2: Just gone ten minutes after five year on News Talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be some good news for you this morning out
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Speaker 2: of China. Obviously, we need a strong China. We need
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Speaker 2: a strong Chinese consumer because we sell them a lot
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Speaker 2: of stuff. China is fighting back against their downturn. They're
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Speaker 2: pulling out the big guns. The People's Bank of China
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Speaker 2: governor has announced plans. They're cutting the amount of cash
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Speaker 2: that banks have to have on reserve, freeze up money
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Speaker 2: for them to land, which should hopefully kickstart the economy
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Speaker 2: a little bit. They're also cutting interest rates on existing
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Speaker 2: mortgages to try and help as the struggling property sector.
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Speaker 2: So that is good news for us this morning. Eleven
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Speaker 2: minutes after five, we're talking Hiszbula and Israel next.
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Speaker 3: Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge, you for twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty four on Early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 3: furniture Beds and a play at store News Talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be thirteen after five News Talks. It'd be great
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Speaker 2: to have your company. Nine two ninety two is the
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Speaker 2: number to text. We'd love to hear from you. This morning,
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Speaker 2: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Traders warning Kiwis to
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Speaker 2: leave Lebanon now if they haven't already. It comes as
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Speaker 2: the fighting continues between Israel and Hezbila, and more than
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Speaker 2: five hundred and fifty people, including fifty children, according to
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Speaker 2: the Lebanese Health Ministry, have died just this week. I'm
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Speaker 2: joined now by Stephen Hoadley, retired professor of International Relations.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Stephen, thanks for being with me.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, Marian.
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Speaker 2: Let's start with this attack overnight. Israel claims to have
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Speaker 2: killed a senior commander, a senior Hezbola commander in charge
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Speaker 2: of their missile systems. They've dropped two thousand weapons on
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Speaker 2: fifteen hundred targets inside Lebanon just in the last day.
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Speaker 2: And what do you make of those developments.
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Speaker 9: Well, this is all part of Israel's attempt to stop
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Speaker 9: the missiles firing into Israel. Israel is fighting an existential
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Speaker 9: war that means a war for its very existence against
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Speaker 9: the surrounding Arab hostel, Iranian backed opponents that are trying
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Speaker 9: to eliminate that Israel from the map. So Israel, it
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Speaker 9: takes the view that these civilian casualties are unfortunate, but
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Speaker 9: necessary in an all out war against those who would
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Speaker 9: do is harm. Now, I was glad to hear that
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Speaker 9: you said, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health about
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Speaker 9: the five hundred casualties, what you could also have said
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Speaker 9: the Hesbellah dominated ministry of Health. I've got an article
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Speaker 9: in front of me from the Washington Post. It says
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Speaker 9: Israel's military targeted a school in Gaza. What it didn't
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Speaker 9: say is that it targeted a Hesbelah command headquarters that
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Speaker 9: had taken over a school in Gaza. And this is
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Speaker 9: I think the bias of the news media that it's
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Speaker 9: easy to report on the casualties, the women and children,
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Speaker 9: the collapsed buildings, the explosions. What is more difficult to
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Speaker 9: report is what are the reasons behind this? Why is
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Speaker 9: Israel doing these things? And Israel does have a point
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Speaker 9: of view that I believe the media are not presenting
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Speaker 9: as fully as they are presenting the victimhood of those casualties.
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Speaker 2: And as Ntinnya who said overnight, anyone who has a
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Speaker 2: missile in their living room or a rocket in their
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Speaker 2: garage will not have a home, making the point that
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Speaker 2: he's not going after Lebanon he's going after Hezbolah.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, a very good point. And also, as you well know,
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Speaker 9: Israel issues boardings tells people that they know there's a
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Speaker 9: Hezbola facility nearby, a rocket launching facility, a command post,
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Speaker 9: a cache of weapons, to keep their distance because they're
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Speaker 9: very likely to be a target of an airstrike. And
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Speaker 9: that's exactly what Israel is doing. This is within the
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Speaker 9: guidelines of the laws of war. They're targeting military assets
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Speaker 9: of Hebelah. They're not targeting civilians. And I think this
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Speaker 9: is not well appreciated in the way the media is
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Speaker 9: covering this particular contract.
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Speaker 2: But you have to be the attacks on the walkie
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Speaker 2: talkies stuff, You're obviously going to hit civilians in the process,
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Speaker 2: aren't you.
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Speaker 9: No, not at all. The walkie talkies and the hit
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Speaker 9: pagers were specifically given to Habila operatives, but some of them.
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Speaker 2: Went off in supermarkets. I mean, you can't stop the
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Speaker 2: children getting the fruit in the aisles from being hit too,
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Speaker 2: can you.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right. And many of the were given by
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Speaker 9: the operatives to their sons and daughters to play with,
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Speaker 9: which was against the rules of their own organization. In
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Speaker 9: the case, a kind of casual corruption of their use
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Speaker 9: of their assets, and yes there are incidental Servilian casualties,
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Speaker 9: but again the target, the intent was military assets.
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Speaker 2: Stephen, where does this go next? Because there's an interesting
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Speaker 2: piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning talking about
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Speaker 2: the fact that Israel won't go on a ground offensive
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Speaker 2: into Lebanon. They it was basically a draw a stalemate
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Speaker 2: last time in two thousand and six, and that there
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Speaker 2: are some pretty intense weaponry on the side of the
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Speaker 2: Lebanese courtesy of Iran. They won't go in. There is
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Speaker 2: the scene.
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Speaker 9: What happens next, Well, it depends a little bit on
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Speaker 9: the United States. The United States is urging calm and
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Speaker 9: negotiations and obviously urging Israel not to escalate, but at
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Speaker 9: at the same time quietly replenishing Israel's arsenal. And so
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Speaker 9: Israel does have the weapons, but does it have the manpower?
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Speaker 9: Does it have the morale? The army is tired, their reservists,
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Speaker 9: The economy of Israel is difficult because people are away
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Speaker 9: from their normal professions. Can Israel sustain a ground offensive,
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Speaker 9: which would be the most efficient way of moving the
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Speaker 9: Hezbola rockets back to the north past the Litani River?
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Speaker 9: In accordance with United Nations Resolution seventeen oh one. But
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Speaker 9: there are doubts that Israel has the capacity to do that.
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Speaker 9: I expect the grounded, the error attacks will continue, the
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Speaker 9: artillery attacks will continue. Hopefully Hisbola will be degraded Israel
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Speaker 9: and their rocket attacks on Israel will will stop, and
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Speaker 9: consequently there will be a lull. But it's very possible
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Speaker 9: that in another year or two will see a repeat
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Speaker 9: of this cycle of silance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and unfortunately that seems to be a recurring in
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Speaker 2: common theme. Stephen Hoadley, a retired professor of international relations
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Speaker 2: with US just gone nineteen minutes after five Briana.
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Speaker 9: That Wall Street.
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Speaker 2: Journal article really interesting. So it says that they have
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Speaker 2: been given this is via via Iran, an arsenal of rockets, drones,
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Speaker 2: and anti tank missiles that they can deploy to counter
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Speaker 2: in Israeli advance among its most dangerous new weapons. So
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Speaker 2: this is weapons they have received since two thousand and six,
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Speaker 2: the last time there was a ground offensive. Is an
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Speaker 2: Iranian made guided anti tank missile called Almus, the Persian
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Speaker 2: word for diamond, which gives has Bill a much higher
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Speaker 2: agree of precision in its strikes than when it last fought.
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Speaker 2: There was a US intelligence officer who said telling Israel
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Speaker 2: to go back into Lebanon would be like saying to
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Speaker 2: the United States in nineteen eighty, do you want to
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Speaker 2: go back to Vietnam?
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Speaker 3: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
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Speaker 3: a Flying Store News Talk z'd.
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Speaker 2: Be Sweden's brassed offer I Ran, I'll tell you why
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Speaker 2: that's coming up just before six this morning, Right now
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Speaker 2: though twenty two after five, the government's introducing a new
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Speaker 2: aggravating factor for his fences against public transport workers. This
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Speaker 2: is after attax on bus drivers and passengers on the
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Speaker 2: buses as well has left them bashed and bloodied and bruised.
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Speaker 2: Gary Froget is with us. He's the Tramways Union president. Gary.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Ryan, Thanks for being with me.
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Speaker 2: Tell me, do you think this aggravating factor for offenses
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Speaker 2: is going to help? Is going to two people who
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Speaker 2: do this?
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Speaker 8: Well, I guess it's another weapon in the armory against
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Speaker 8: this type of crime. It will help make some passengers
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Speaker 8: think again before assaulting a bus driver. However, it's not
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Speaker 8: going to be a solution on its own. The quicker
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Speaker 8: at can install the promise safety screens would be a
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Speaker 8: much better solution.
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Speaker 2: I think yeah, and there is money, they say, money
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Speaker 2: coming for that. Why do they generally attack bus drivers?
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Speaker 2: What sets it off?
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Speaker 8: Well, mainly it's over fears. When the driver questions why
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Speaker 8: their hot card doesn't work, they get aggravated. The driver
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Speaker 8: usually tells them to take a seat. But in the
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Speaker 8: last four instances, in the last two weeks, we've discovered
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Speaker 8: that the passengers come down the aisle and then whack
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Speaker 8: the driver while he's actually driving the bus. We don't
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Speaker 8: know what triggers that off. Maybe they don't like authority
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Speaker 8: being asked to pay their fare. I'm not sure.
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Speaker 2: So what are you What are the drivers told to
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Speaker 2: do in that situation? Are they told to tell them
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Speaker 2: to sit down? Or what's the rule?
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Speaker 8: Well? Often Transportive in this particular case, all Can Transportive
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Speaker 8: now agree that bus drivers are no longer required to
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Speaker 8: monitor the fair cards all and the drivers have been
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Speaker 8: told not to question the passengers, just to let them
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Speaker 8: take a seat. It's better lose a couple of dollars
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Speaker 8: than have a bus driver off work for three months
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Speaker 8: or so.
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Speaker 2: I can see the logic. But man, it's a sad
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Speaker 2: day when you have to just let them run a mark,
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Speaker 2: isn't it?
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Speaker 8: Yes, it is. It's not acceptable, But I don't have
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Speaker 8: a solution. We can't have a police officer on every bus, unfortunately,
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Speaker 8: and we really don't want that. And the old days,
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Speaker 8: of course, there was a conductor who collected the fares
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Speaker 8: and they did. There's a type of security.
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Speaker 2: Gary. What about slamming on the brakes.
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Speaker 8: Well, that has happened on occasions. One of our drivers
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Speaker 8: did that. Unfortunately, the bus company didn't like it, and
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Speaker 8: when he tried to kick the passenger off the bus,
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Speaker 8: they got upset and tried to threaten him with penalty. So, yeah,
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Speaker 8: your dad, it's a difficult situation.
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Speaker 2: It is rocking a hard place. Gary, thanks very much
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Speaker 2: for being with me. Hopefully the new aggravating factor might
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Speaker 2: make some difference. That's Gary Frogett. He's the Tramways union president.
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Speaker 2: Twenty five minutes after five the Early.
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Speaker 2: You're on Early Edition News Talk ZB. Just gone twenty
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Speaker 2: seven after five. It's time I reckon. We started sending
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Speaker 2: bills to those protesters for wasting police time and resources.
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Speaker 2: I watched yesterday with growing anger as a couple of
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Speaker 2: greenpiece people climbed on top of an awning on the
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Speaker 2: terrace just one floor up, stood there looking like numpties
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Speaker 2: with their overalls and their helmets on. Nothing wrong with protesting,
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Speaker 2: but there were eight first responders on the scene, at
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Speaker 2: least three police cars, a fire truck. They even had
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Speaker 2: to use their cherry picket to get these guys off
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Speaker 2: the roof. The cars were at a standstill. Instead of
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Speaker 2: solving crime, a poor cot was marshaling traffic to allow
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Speaker 2: the fire truck to position itself in place. What a
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Speaker 2: waste of time. Just hang your banner and piss off. Please,
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Speaker 2: don't waste any more of our time. It's like those
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Speaker 2: crazy ones that used to block the motorways and willing
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Speaker 2: to remember that. Thank goodness, they seem to have given
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Speaker 2: up and gone away. Good riddance. They made people the
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Speaker 2: motorway ones. They made people late for their cancer appointments.
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Speaker 2: I do hope they're ashamed of themselves for that. This slot, though,
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Speaker 2: on the terrace, they can just jog on the courts
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Speaker 2: if there are courts. Initial reaction to the motorway ones
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Speaker 2: was anything to go by it. You can expect another,
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Speaker 2: you know, slap on the wrist with a wet bus
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Speaker 2: ticket for this lot. I say send them the bill
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Speaker 2: for the police, the use of the police cars, the
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Speaker 2: communications center, the fire truck fee, the cherry pecker fee,
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Speaker 2: the firefighters charge out rate, double it and make them
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Speaker 2: pay it. And if the individuals won't pay for that,
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Speaker 2: then send the build a green piece. Twenty nine after
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Speaker 2: five Bryan Bridge, Lots more to come on News Talk SEB.
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Speaker 2: We're going to talk to First Retail Group about the
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Speaker 2: facial recognition technology. They've done a trial and lots of
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Speaker 2: the supermarkets and the results are out. We'll have those
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Speaker 2: for you shortly.
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Speaker 8: You are reminding you of your daddy in my.
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Speaker 2: Laborodor hanging out the passenger door.
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Speaker 3: News and Views you Trust. To start your day, It's
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Speaker 3: Early Edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 3: furniture beds and a flying store. News Talk ZB.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, it is twenty four away from six. Welcome
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Speaker 2: to Early Edition. You're on News Talk, said Bee. Coming
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Speaker 2: up inside the next half hour. Justin Trudeau. They're trying
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Speaker 2: to get rid of him. I'll tell you how and
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Speaker 2: whether it'll work. Also, we've sent six Defense Force members
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Speaker 2: to try and get rid of the hooty attacks in
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Speaker 2: the Red Sea. Is it working. We'll look at that. Also,
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Speaker 2: we're going to look at Gavin Gray in the UK.
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Speaker 2: We'll not look at him, but listen to him. We're
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Speaker 2: also going to talk about the food stuffs push for
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Speaker 2: facial recognition technology. They're currently doing a trial and they
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Speaker 2: are expected to roll it out across all of the
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Speaker 2: North London stores, so we'll tell you about that too.
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Speaker 2: I don't really care if they take a photo. I
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Speaker 2: mean you sort of assume when you go into a
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Speaker 2: store these days that someone is filming you, or watching
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Speaker 2: you or something, don't you. A lot of people upset
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Speaker 2: about the fact that we've just heard from the Tramways
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Speaker 2: union that bus drivers in Auckland probably everywhere, are being
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Speaker 2: told if someone doesn't pay their fair don't ask any questions.
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Speaker 2: Least they bash you over the head. Ryan, Why should
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Speaker 2: I pay for the bus when the criminals don't have to? Ryan?
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Speaker 2: Modern society is pretty disappointing. You don't pay your bus
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Speaker 2: fare because you're a thug, while Laura, abiding citizens pay
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Speaker 2: as they rightly should. Ryan Another says Hi Ran a
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Speaker 2: lack of respect for public transport drivers and the new
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Speaker 2: rules coming in probably won't make much of a difference.
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Speaker 2: That's from Craig nine. Two ninety two is the number
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Speaker 2: to text twenty three to.
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Speaker 3: Six, Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: We're going to our reporters right around the country, Cluen
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Speaker 2: proctors and Dnedian someone and Calumny Deneen High School students
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Speaker 2: who were sent home after the threat yesterday or told
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Speaker 2: to duck and cover. What was the threat do we know?
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Speaker 10: Well, we understand it was a bomb threat, Ryan, that
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Speaker 10: was emailed to Bayfield High School. This is what forced
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Speaker 10: the shutdown initially and then it was closed for the day.
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Speaker 10: Police escorting the five hundred and fifty students out of
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Speaker 10: the school premises after this threatening email was sent. Since then,
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Speaker 10: a sixteen year old has been arrested in relation. He'll
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Speaker 10: appear in the Duaneedan youth caught tomorrow. It caused significant
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Speaker 10: disruptions as you can imagine, this lockdown to roads around
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Speaker 10: the school, compounded by parents rushing to pick up their children.
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Speaker 10: Acting principal Mike Beagley's told us the school will open
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Speaker 10: as normal today after getting the all clear from police. Remember,
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Speaker 10: the school also went into lockdown, a two hour lockdown
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Speaker 10: last November following a similar online threat.
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Speaker 2: Oh goodness for me, so yeah. I did wonder whether
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Speaker 2: it was one of those international threats, but it sounds
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Speaker 2: like it's a local boy. How's your weather today.
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Speaker 10: Colum fine, cloud increasing, westerly's turn northerly and fourteen today brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Thank you have a great one, Claire shewarods and christ
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Speaker 2: Church clear, you're already going and talking about next year's
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Speaker 2: rates in christ Church.
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Speaker 11: Yes, that's the case here in christ Church, Ryan. The
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Speaker 11: first public briefing on the annual plan for twenty twenty
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Speaker 11: five twenty six was held yesterday. Counselors had their first
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Speaker 11: discussions about next year's raids. The rates increase which they've
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Speaker 11: set out in the long term Plan has it sitting
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Speaker 11: at about eight point four to five percent, although it's
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Speaker 11: not looking hopeful. It's already being signaled that the recent
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Speaker 11: official forecasts on inflation are higher than the forecasts they
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Speaker 11: used to form that eight point four five percent figure.
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Speaker 11: Council's General Manager of Finance, Risk and Performance B Karen
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Speaker 11: says that counselors and staff are now working together over
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Speaker 11: several months to refine the figure and drive it as
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Speaker 11: low as possible. They do have some further briefings planned
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Speaker 11: for October, November and December.
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Speaker 2: All right, clear, thank you.
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Speaker 11: The weather today a bit frosty to start, Otherwise clearing
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Speaker 11: to find with some evening high cloud at southwesterlies and
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Speaker 11: a high of thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, have a good day there, max Is and
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Speaker 2: Wellington Hamax the mayor the latest.
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Speaker 12: Yes well surely after she was interviewed for TV, which
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Speaker 12: had Sunday toy Fino went on a very obscure podcast
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Speaker 12: for an hour long interview exactly exactly the same length
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Speaker 12: of interview she does for Newstalk ZB which she been bemoaning,
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Speaker 12: only this one didn't have breaks, which is odd then
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Speaker 12: that she would blame exhaustion for her TV interview a
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Speaker 12: quote not going well, that the interviewer asked hard questions,
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Speaker 12: but also generally speaking, she doesn't think the level of
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Speaker 12: criticism she's been getting lately is normal and rather because
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Speaker 12: she is a progressive woman much like Jacinda Ardurn. She
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Speaker 12: told this podcast that coming into the job should assumed
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Speaker 12: mayors flew under the radar a bit more, and that
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Speaker 12: the new side of things completely blindsided her and it's
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Speaker 12: been a massive learning curve. Also that the criticism that
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Speaker 12: she's been receiving from the so called privileged who are
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Speaker 12: against her push for progressive change, many of whom are
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Speaker 12: anti Cycleway. She's also been looking for whatever way she
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Speaker 12: can to get out of a Mildi Ward referendum and
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Speaker 12: is keen to break the law if she and the
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Speaker 12: council can.
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Speaker 2: Can you tell what do people really think about this?
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Speaker 2: In Wellington?
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Speaker 12: I can tell you that even the people who have
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Speaker 12: defended her term are turning again against her and you'll
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Speaker 12: find it hard to find a defender of her and
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Speaker 12: her comments lately.
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much. Oh you're weather today, Max,
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Speaker 2: She'll be fine. Southerly's fourteen, Thank you very much. Neva's
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Speaker 2: and Auckland, Hey, Neva, good morning. Tell us about Sale GP.
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Speaker 13: Yes, well this is positive because thousands of spectators now
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Speaker 13: they're likely to arrive here in Auckland for Sale GP.
23:23
Speaker 13: Now this event will be making its debut in January
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Speaker 13: next year and the tickets they go on sale today.
23:29
Speaker 13: So of course the organizers they withdrew their bid to
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Speaker 13: host the race against again rather in christ Church's Littleton Harbor.
23:36
Speaker 13: Remember that was a decision when the marine was impacted.
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Speaker 13: You know the events the dolphins. So I don't think
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Speaker 13: there'll be any dolphins here, you know their waterfront, surely not.
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Speaker 13: Nick hel the Tatucki, Auckland Unlimited chief executive. He said,
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Speaker 13: this is great news for Auckland. You know, he's going
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Speaker 13: to boost GDP by at least five million dollars and
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Speaker 13: they're really really excited about this. So, as I said before,
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Speaker 13: tickets go on sale today and hopefully fingers crossed that
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Speaker 13: when you'd caught a footbridge will be fir You'd have.
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Speaker 2: To think so, wouldn't you? Because does this kickoff? Is
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Speaker 2: it this summer?
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Speaker 13: Yeap, this summer, so this will kick off in January.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be cool.
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Speaker 6: Oh it'd be.
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Speaker 13: Great and hopefully well I think the footbridge should be
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Speaker 13: fixed by December. They need some business going their way.
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Speaker 8: They do.
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Speaker 2: All it will take them neither is one dead dolphin
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Speaker 2: and it's all over. They'll send it somewhere else. They
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Speaker 2: didn't even there were they weren't even you're right, you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean. There weren't even any dead dolphins
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Speaker 2: in christ and they lost it.
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Speaker 13: Jim Jinxon, Now I shouldn't say that.
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Speaker 2: Has the weather today never fine?
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Speaker 13: Fine apart from warning cloud high sixteen. Is it a
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Speaker 13: good day for a dolphin to be, you know, smimming.
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Speaker 2: Around here to be killed? It's ever a good day
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Speaker 2: for a dolphin to be killed? Neither, thank you. It's
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Speaker 2: in a sick and right now. Devin Gray is our
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Speaker 2: UK Europe correspondent Gvin. Sweden is upset with Iranian intelligence.
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Speaker 2: What's going on?
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Speaker 14: Yes, you may remember the story about twelve months ago
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Speaker 14: when fifteen thousand texts were sent to different Swedes basically
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Speaker 14: saying that they wanted revenge against Koran burners. Now, what
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Speaker 14: had happened was that Sweden's government condemned a number of
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Speaker 14: people burning the Quran and police tried to ban them,
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Speaker 14: but the courts allowed the burning of Kuran in Sweden
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Speaker 14: under freedom of expression laws. Lots of Muslims were not happy. Indeed,
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Speaker 14: Sweden's embassy in Iraq were set alight by protesters. Then
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Speaker 14: all these texts started arriving in people's emails on people's
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Speaker 14: phones rather saying that they should consider revenge against the
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Speaker 14: Koran burners. Well, now, after all this work, Sweden's security
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Speaker 14: service SAPO said these texts were sent by the Iranian
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Speaker 14: intelligence service connected to the Revolutionary Guards and they had
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Speaker 14: basically managed it in some way to get hold of
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Speaker 14: the Swedish company's SMS service, takeover passwords, usernames and other
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Speaker 14: tools before sending a message to private individuals, and the
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Speaker 14: message was quote those who insulted the Quran must be
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Speaker 14: punished for their work. Can the Swedes do anything about it? No,
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Speaker 14: because although they think they know who was behind it,
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Speaker 14: I'm afraid there is no extradition treaty, so there won't
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Speaker 14: be any punishment for those they suspect.
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Speaker 2: Gevin, we have a brief moment to talk about the
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Speaker 2: police in Switzerland making a couple of erasi in relation
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Speaker 14: Yes, very unusual. So this suicide pod is basically one
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Speaker 14: which allows people to operate it on their own and
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Speaker 14: end their own life without medical super You basically step
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Speaker 14: into this pod and it will kill you. As I said,
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Speaker 14: without medical supervision, you can do it all on your own. Now,
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Speaker 14: Switzerland does allow assisted dying, but there has been a
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Speaker 14: lot of debate about the Sarco pod. Indeed, some say
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Speaker 14: it's not safe. The design of it almost glamorizes suicide.
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Speaker 14: But now we learn there has been what we think
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Speaker 14: is the first suicide in a Sarco pod on the
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Speaker 14: border of the Switzerland, and it is being said that
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Speaker 14: could be the very very first case of its kind.
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Speaker 14: We're not yet being told the identity of the person
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Speaker 14: that's believed to take in their own life.
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Speaker 2: All right, Devin, thank you for Thatkevin Gray are UK
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Speaker 2: europe correspondent just gone eleven minutes away from.
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Speaker 3: Six Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Foodstuffs has found that facial recognition technology has reduced serious
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Speaker 2: harm and retail crime and its stores. It's been trialing
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Speaker 2: them in twenty five stores. They say it's avoided an
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Speaker 2: estimated one hundred and thirty serious harmful incidents like assault
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Speaker 2: and verbal abuse. The total retail crime down eight percent
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Speaker 2: quarter on quarter four thy seven hundred incidents still between
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Speaker 2: April and during though Chris Wilkinson is the first retail group,
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Speaker 2: it's a retail consultancy. Chris, good morning. Heure Ryan, are
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Speaker 2: we sure that it's the facial recognition that's behind the drop?
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Speaker 5: Look, there are multiple factors. We've got a new police minister,
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Speaker 5: there's a letter of expectation with the police, there's more
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Speaker 5: determination around the sector and that's had a ripple effect
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Speaker 5: through New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: So positively, the camera recognizes somebody and goes, oh, I
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Speaker 2: remember you, you were a bad egg, and then what happens, Well.
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Speaker 5: That lets the staff know in the stores and then
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Speaker 5: they can take action so they can make sure that
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Speaker 5: there are more people on the floor to protect those
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Speaker 5: that are vulnerable, to protect the customers. You know, this
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Speaker 5: is all about being proactive in stopping these potential risks
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Speaker 5: to firstly people in terms of safety, but then also
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Speaker 5: that loss. So safety is the key aspect here.
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Speaker 2: What do they actually do because up until now, it
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Speaker 2: was my understanding the security guards couldn't really force anyone
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Speaker 2: out of the store. So if you're trying to deal
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Speaker 2: with somebody physically who hasn't even committed a crime yet,
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Speaker 2: how do you deal with that?
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Speaker 5: Well, the likelihood Ryan is that people have been trespassed
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Speaker 5: from those premises, so lugally they shouldn't be here. No,
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Speaker 5: there won't be that physical altercation. That's the time when
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Speaker 5: police need to be called in. But again we've got
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Speaker 5: much more responsiveness to this now with police because of
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Speaker 5: that letter of expectation.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting, So the government's rhetorical messaging is actually having
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Speaker 2: an impact.
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Speaker 5: You reckon, very significant impact.
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Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, Chris, Thank you very much for your time.
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Speaker 2: Chris Wilkinson, First Retail Group managing director. It sounds like
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Speaker 2: Foodstuffs is liking the cut of this jib and they'll probably,
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Speaker 2: I reckon roll it out into other stores. Just gone
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Speaker 2: nine away from six Bryan Bridge. Thank you for all
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Speaker 2: of your chicks and your feedback this morning. Sorry I
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Speaker 2: haven't got to all of it. Here is one from Delia.
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Speaker 2: Delia says, good morning, Ryan, loving your show. Thanks Delia,
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Speaker 2: that's lovely to hear. Just on the subject of buses,
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Speaker 2: we were talking about assaults on bus drivers, etc. Last
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Speaker 2: Friday afternoon, I witnessed three Westlake girls board the bus
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Speaker 2: via the back door and not pay a cent when
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Speaker 2: they got off, they said, beat beep to the scanning machine.
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Speaker 2: Very disappointing to see this reflected on the school. So
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Speaker 2: am I Delia. By the way, we asked Tory Fano
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Speaker 2: on the show. We've been asking her for a while.
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Speaker 2: I know it's early, so I do understand. But Leo,
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Speaker 2: our producer lee, I've lost the piece of paper. But
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Speaker 2: basically he said, we can do any day in the
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Speaker 2: next two weeks or the next week, at least in
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Speaker 2: the next few weeks. Any pre recorded time, any live time, anyone.
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Speaker 2: She's not available at any time of the day or night.
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Speaker 2: Probably a good thing for her, I would think. Eight
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Speaker 2: Away from six News Talks mb.
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Speaker 3: A fine, Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on
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Speaker 3: early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds and
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Speaker 2: Five away from six News Talks, heb quick update. We've
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Speaker 2: sent some Defense Force members to go and help the
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Speaker 2: US and the UK try and get the HOOTI rebels.
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Speaker 2: The leader of Yemen says it's not working. What they're
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Speaker 2: doing is not reducing the huties' military capabilities. Also in Canada,
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Speaker 2: justin Trudeau, they're going to try and get rid of
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Speaker 2: him this week. This is the Conservative Party. He's been
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Speaker 2: in power for almost ten years. It's not going to work,
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Speaker 2: but there will be election held by mid next year,
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Speaker 2: five away from six now, and Mike's in the studio.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, morning, Andrew Costa. This morning, let me ask
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Speaker 7: you this question. So the management of this company come
32:56
Speaker 7: to you and they go, look, Ryan, we want you
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Speaker 7: to do a bit of this and a bit of that.
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Speaker 7: And you're thinking to yourself, that's not really going to work,
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Speaker 7: and it's not who I am.
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Speaker 6: Would you do.
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Speaker 2: It depends how desperate you are for a job.
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Speaker 6: Well, see that's so you look at Costa.
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Speaker 7: Costa was appointed by adourn as being a sort of
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Speaker 7: a liberal type operator, so he seemed comfortable in that role,
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Speaker 7: and he took all the heat for it. And then
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Speaker 7: a new government comes in and they tell him to
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Speaker 7: do something else. So he's one of those guys who
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Speaker 7: just does what he's told. So I want you to
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Speaker 7: police hard, I want you to police soft, and he
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Speaker 7: seems sort of comfortable.
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Speaker 6: It's a weird job. I couldn't do.
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Speaker 2: It, but that is the point of the public service
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Speaker 2: meant to be chameleons.
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Speaker 6: I guess it is I guess.
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Speaker 7: It's it's but I mean, when it comes to policing
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Speaker 7: and you're an it and you've been in the police
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Speaker 7: force your whole life, you must know what's right and
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Speaker 7: wrong and works and doesn't, which.
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Speaker 2: Is why the front line used to hate him so viscerally, right,
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Speaker 2: because that's like that, that is not what we're here
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Speaker 2: to do.
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Speaker 7: And then so part of your job would be to
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Speaker 7: go to a season copy and he goes, Andrew, you
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Speaker 7: know full well this is bollocks, and he'd go, what
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Speaker 7: do I do?
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Speaker 6: You see what I mean?
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Speaker 7: We're in a position a anyway, So he's off to
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Speaker 7: do social investment whatever that is.
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Speaker 6: Anyway, he's with us. He's with us after seven o'clock.
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Speaker 2: Sounds good. Yeah, alright, Mic is with you next. I
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Speaker 2: will see you tomorrow. Have a great.
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