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Full Show Podcast: 20 February 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early leadership with One Room Love, Where you Live, news talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be good morning sexts after five breaks a havea
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Speaker 2: your company. We'll look at housing before six this morning.
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Speaker 2: Which suburbs in Auckland are safe from the high rises?
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Speaker 2: Will head to the UK. On Andrew's arrest, you've probably
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Speaker 2: heard about that by now. Also Erica Stamford on the
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Speaker 2: program Can she do no wrong? This time?
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Speaker 1: It's visa success the agenda.
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Speaker 2: Oh, here's this breaking news out of the UK. Andrew
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Speaker 2: mount Batten Windsor. This is the King's brother arrested at
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Speaker 2: Sandringham estate.
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Speaker 3: It demonstrates actually the strength of the constitution in this
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Speaker 3: respect that the police have acted without fear of favor.
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Speaker 3: They've treated him as if you were any other as
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Speaker 3: he is any other citizen, without fear or fever, without
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Speaker 3: any sense because he is a member of the royal family,
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Speaker 3: that he should be given us treatment.
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Speaker 2: The charges, while there are none at the moment, he
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Speaker 2: is suspected of misconduct and public office.
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Speaker 4: The King and the Queen, both of them have actually
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Speaker 4: continued with their pre planned royal engagements.
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Speaker 5: Remember the King had no idea.
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Speaker 4: According to buckingha, patis in advance of the arrest.
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Speaker 2: Right, let's go to the wall we've been talking about
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Speaker 2: here for ages apparently could happen within a few days.
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Speaker 2: This is the US in Iran.
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Speaker 4: Iran would be very wise to make a deal with
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Speaker 4: President Trump. And with this administration, he's talking to many people.
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Speaker 4: Of course, his national security team first and foremost, and
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Speaker 4: this is something obviously the President takes seriously. He's always
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Speaker 4: thinking about what's in the best interests of the United
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Speaker 4: States of America, of our military, of the American people,
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Speaker 4: and that's how he makes decisions with respect to military
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Speaker 4: action of any kind.
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Speaker 2: We'll have more on that in just a second. The
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Speaker 2: whole thing could of course be just a tactic because
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Speaker 2: they're doing nuclear talks at the moment, or could be both. Finally,
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Speaker 2: remember yesterday I told you about that Channel nine reporter
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Speaker 2: out of Australia who's covering the Winter Olympics, went viral
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Speaker 2: for slurring her words during a live cross Well. People
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Speaker 2: were blaming the control room for keeping her out in
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Speaker 2: the cold. Turns out she was just a bit tipsy.
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Speaker 6: I just want to take a moment, if that's okay,
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Speaker 6: Just to apologize. Look, I totally misjudged a situation. I
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Speaker 6: shouldn't have had a drink, and especially in these conditions
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Speaker 6: it's cold, we've got altitude, and not having had dinner
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Speaker 6: probably didn't help as well. But I want to take
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Speaker 6: full responsibility. It's not the standard that I set for myself.
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Speaker 2: Ah, she's fine, she's but she did a great job
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Speaker 2: outside of that. Just one little heck up and she
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Speaker 2: will throwing back a few muled wines. It's all good.
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Speaker 2: Danaka the first word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 2: early edition.
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Speaker 1: With Ryan Bridge and One Root Love where you Live
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Speaker 1: news talks that'd be.
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Speaker 2: So sounds quite alarming, doesn't it. Nine two ninety two
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Speaker 2: is the number text sounds quite alarming. What's happening with
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Speaker 2: the US in Iran? Trump ready to go? Basically the
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Speaker 2: nuclear talks are continuing but obviously haven't concluded. So you
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Speaker 2: could say this is just one big negotiating tactic. It's
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Speaker 2: gone to your head to di plomacy, isn't it from Trump?
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Speaker 2: Which he likes doing. So if you don't do this,
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Speaker 2: or you don't give us what we want, you don't
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Speaker 2: get rid of your nuclear program, then we will invade
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Speaker 2: or we will cut off the head of your snake,
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Speaker 2: that kind of thing. But what is the goal of
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Speaker 2: the military action. Obviously it is to get rid of
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Speaker 2: the nuclear program completely, which they didn't do last time
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Speaker 2: when they use the stealth bombers. The problem with the iotoler.
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Speaker 2: You get rid of the iatoler and then you've got
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Speaker 2: the Revolutionary Guard who still will have a lot of
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Speaker 2: power in the country. So how do you actually do that.
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Speaker 2: It's not like Venezuela is, I think one of our
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Speaker 2: experts said yesterday, So what is the goal. You've got
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Speaker 2: to have a goal, and you've got to know what
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Speaker 2: you're going to do. The wipe out the missiles, you
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Speaker 2: could do that. Do you go after the rest of
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Speaker 2: the nuclear sites? Well, who really knows. He only knows
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Speaker 2: what they're planning. But what we do know so far
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Speaker 2: is that this is the most air power in the
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Speaker 2: Middle East since the two thousand and three Iraq invasion.
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Speaker 2: Now he's got that many, that much air support in
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Speaker 2: the region. It is enough for a weeks long war
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Speaker 2: rather than just a one and done like your Operation
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Speaker 2: Midnight Hammer. After five, we've got to Erica Stamford, Immigration Minister.
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Speaker 2: Next the visa change, visa free for China. Turns out
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Speaker 2: they quite like it. News TALKSB Get ahead of the
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Speaker 2: Headlines on early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Roofe
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Speaker 2: Love where You Live. News Talks B five twelve. So
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Speaker 2: Chris Biship came to Auckland, got taught a bit of
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Speaker 2: a lesson. Don't mess with the villas and the leafy suburbs,
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Speaker 2: thank you very much.
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Speaker 7: There's a little bit of self interest here with some
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Speaker 7: of the MP's and concerned with their own leafy suburbs
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Speaker 7: and perhaps some of the feedback that they've been getting
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Speaker 7: from their constituents.
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Speaker 2: So question now there's a fight going on between well
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Speaker 2: a war of words. Let's be ritt more real about
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Speaker 2: it between David Seymour and Wayne Brown because David Seymour
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Speaker 2: was because this all came about this issue because the
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Speaker 2: Auckland Council law change HA and then Auckland Council comes
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Speaker 2: out with a map and it says these are the
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Speaker 2: areas where you can build your high rises or build
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Speaker 2: your apartment blocks, and David Seamill said, well, not in
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Speaker 2: my backyard, thank you very much. So let's go back
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Speaker 2: to the government get this change so that we can
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Speaker 2: force their hand and Wayne Brown. It's like a battle
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Speaker 2: of dueling egos, isn't it? And Wayne Brown says, no,
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Speaker 2: this is my cety. I will tell you where these
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Speaker 2: high rises go, and I will tell you where they
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Speaker 2: won't go. And David Seamoa says, nay, you ain't. So
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Speaker 2: that's happening at the moment. So the council has to
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Speaker 2: decide first which suburbs and then the government will legislate.
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Speaker 2: We'll speak to one of the councilors about I mean,
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Speaker 2: is it at your backyard? We'll ask you how, councilors
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Speaker 2: before six seventeen away from six update on the visa
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Speaker 2: free travel policy for Chinese and Pacific Island to US.
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Speaker 2: You'll remember this visit to numbers from China and the
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Speaker 2: Islands have traveled since December. Eighty five percent of the
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Speaker 2: Chinese travelers are saying that the policy, the policy change
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Speaker 2: was a deciding factor in choosing to come here. Erica
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Speaker 2: Stanford Immigration, We've been this morning and I think, good morning,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Ryan. So since December we've had is this right,
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Speaker 2: thirty six thousand, nine hundred tourists have come in under
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Speaker 2: the new visa free system.
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Speaker 8: That's right, and that's triple the number that we've had
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Speaker 8: since December, which was when we last looked at it,
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Speaker 8: which was a month after this new pathway opened. And
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Speaker 8: remembering it, it's a I'm doing a sort of trial
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Speaker 8: of this for twelve months to see how it works.
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Speaker 2: Yees. So that thirty nine hundred that's for one month,
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Speaker 2: is it?
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Speaker 8: That's over overall? So that's that's a tripling of the
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Speaker 8: number from thirteen thousand that we announced in December, right and.
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Speaker 2: What that thirteen thousand that was for how long? What period.
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Speaker 8: That was since since December? So tripled since December. But
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Speaker 8: remember this is only one small pathway. This is not
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Speaker 8: overall Chinese visits. We've got visitor visas and group visas,
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Speaker 8: there's a number of other visas. This is quite overall.
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Speaker 8: It's a small number, but it's still significant for the
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Speaker 8: New Zealand economy. And it's added about two hundred million
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Speaker 8: dollars into our local tourism businesses and hotels in hospitality businesses,
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Speaker 8: which is great to key with us got JA.
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Speaker 2: So it's almost thirty seven thousand tourists have come here
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Speaker 2: under this visa since it began in December. And so
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Speaker 2: what you mentioned all the money that they're bringing, which
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Speaker 2: is all good stuff. Does this mean that is this success?
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Speaker 2: Do we keep the whole you know, it's a trial.
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Speaker 2: Do we keep it going?
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Speaker 9: Now?
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Speaker 8: Well, we're only a few months and we'll do a
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Speaker 8: review closer to the twelve month mark and we'll take
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Speaker 8: a look at some of the entries and the risks
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Speaker 8: and hasn't been successful because of course, what we do
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Speaker 8: in the background is look at the risk and so
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Speaker 8: far from what I have seen and I get updated
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Speaker 8: every month of course, is that the risk is extraordinarily
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Speaker 8: low because the Australians we're piggybacking essentially off their visa processing.
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Speaker 8: They have very robust visa processing and so it is
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Speaker 8: a very low risk activity for us. We've not seen
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Speaker 8: anything yet apart from the system working. There's been a
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Speaker 8: couple of turnarounds and a handful of where we've not
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Speaker 8: issued the n z ETA document. But that's just the
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Speaker 8: system working well between Australia and New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Why did you turn them around? What are the risks
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Speaker 2: that will have overstayers?
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Speaker 8: They're just you know, people that we wouldn't usually issue
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Speaker 8: a visa too. And if the Australians haven't issued them
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Speaker 8: a visa, then we wouldn't have issued them in visa.
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Speaker 8: In fact, the Australians are little. When we look at
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Speaker 8: the Australian declines compared to our declines, they seem to
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Speaker 8: be a bit tougher than us soberall, so they're very robust.
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Speaker 8: So it's a pretty risk reactivity for us. But we
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Speaker 8: do information sharing between the two countries and quite often
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Speaker 8: when we're looking to issue an ETA, if we get
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Speaker 8: any information that we shouldn't be from the Australians, then
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Speaker 8: we don't. But like I say, it's a tiny handful
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Speaker 8: and it shows the system is working very very well.
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Speaker 8: So I expect in a year's time, you know, it
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Speaker 8: looks pretty positive, but we still got a long way
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Speaker 8: to so we'll keep.
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Speaker 2: An eye on it all right, Minister, appreciate your time
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Speaker 2: this morning. Erica Stanford, Immigration Minister. Time as seventeen minutes
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Speaker 2: after five on News Talk zb Bryan Bridge Chicks coming in.
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Speaker 2: This is an interesting one. There was an event at
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Speaker 2: Eden Park last night. Ryan Aight stuffed up the trains
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Speaker 2: last night. After this event, we waited at Kingsland to
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Speaker 2: head to Newmarket. Only three car train arrives then a
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Speaker 2: new market arrives at eleven eighteen. We were still waiting
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Speaker 2: for the Southern Line service at quarter past twelve. Oh,
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Speaker 2: this is so typical of then the platform was full
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Speaker 2: of elderly people in the end of because it was
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Speaker 2: the what's you might call it mbra tadoo, wasn't it?
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Speaker 2: So in the end twelve thirty ish? God, I mean
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Speaker 2: you're at eighty you'd be bloody long past bedtime. A
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Speaker 2: train turns up, no announcements, the elder left to take
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Speaker 2: taxis or uber A total balls up. Well, it sounds
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Speaker 2: like one too. Nine two nine two is the number
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Speaker 2: to text. Is it even worth contacting Auckland Transport for
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Speaker 2: a response? You know, Kensy is shaking her head. Honestly,
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Speaker 2: you try to talk to these people, they never front
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Speaker 2: and then they're getting kind of disbanded or emasculated by
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Speaker 2: Wayne Brown anyway, So it's like, what's the point. We
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Speaker 2: know they were crap. Let's hope whatever comes next is better.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live. News
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Vincent mcavanne a UK you're correspondent with.
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Speaker 2: Is really only one thing happening? Apparently Andrew mount Batten
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Speaker 2: Windsor has been arrested. If you were just waking to
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Speaker 2: this news, big story, big crisis for the royal family.
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Speaker 2: Well more of an ongoing story, but quite at the
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Speaker 2: development overnight. So let's go to Vincent. Now, Vincent, so
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Speaker 2: what happened? How did this all shake out?
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Speaker 10: A huge day here in the UK. The King's brother
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Speaker 10: was arrested this morning at eight am on his sixty
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Speaker 10: sixth birthday, after several unmarked police cars surrounded the temporary
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Speaker 10: property that he's staying in Norfolk on the King's Sandringham estate.
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Speaker 10: He was taken to a nearby police station where we
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Speaker 10: believe he is being questioned. They are able to hold
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Speaker 10: him for some twenty four hours. Meanwhile, other police officers
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Speaker 10: are searching Royal Lodge, which is the home in Windsor
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Speaker 10: that he's just been evicted from. And as the King
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Speaker 10: has given a statement, the King and the rest of
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Speaker 10: all family were not made aware of this at all
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Speaker 10: in advance, and in a statement the King has said
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Speaker 10: that they are deeply concerned about the news, but he
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Speaker 10: has said that they are full and wholehearted in their
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Speaker 10: support and cooperation with the police, saying that he says,
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Speaker 10: let me state clearly the law must take its course.
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Speaker 10: So a very remarkable situation here in the UK. We
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Speaker 10: have not had a member of the royal family arrested
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Speaker 10: like this. You have to go back about three hundred
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Speaker 10: and fifty years since a member of the royal family
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Speaker 10: was sort of captured in any way. So it is
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Speaker 10: a huge day and a very difficult situation for the
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Speaker 10: Royal family.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, now he hasn't actually been charged with anything yet.
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Speaker 10: His he no, not yet. Now there are at least
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Speaker 10: we think eight investigations currently going on at the moment
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Speaker 10: into Epstein in his links with the UK. This is
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Speaker 10: being led by Thames Valley Police, which is the police
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Speaker 10: force that covers Windsor, and they're investigating these allegations that
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Speaker 10: whilst he was a UK Trade envoy in the two
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Speaker 10: thousands and the early twenty tens, Andrew, as we saw,
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Speaker 10: we think from the Epstein emails, was leaking sensitive government information,
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Speaker 10: documents and briefings to Epstein, and that is the kind
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Speaker 10: of nature of this arrest. Now he has always denied
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Speaker 10: any wrongdoing, but this could just be the start of
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Speaker 10: a long process because multiple police forces in the UK
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Speaker 10: are investigating Epstein's travel in and out of this country
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Speaker 10: on as private jet and allegations that he was trafficking
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Speaker 10: women to meet Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. There is also now
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Speaker 10: an investigation within the Met Police within the Diplomatic Protection
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Speaker 10: teams who provided security for Andrew when he traveled, because
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Speaker 10: there are allegations that they turned a blind eye to
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Speaker 10: things that they shouldn't have done whilst they went with
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Speaker 10: him to the island which Epstein owned in the Caribbean.
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Speaker 10: So it is moving pretty quickly here in the UK,
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Speaker 10: but you know, it's very tricky for the royal family
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Speaker 10: and even for the police because of the way our
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Speaker 10: laws are in terms of giving kind of commentary and
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Speaker 10: anything else. So we don't know sort of specifically yet
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Speaker 10: any the details of why they've pulled him in, why
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Speaker 10: they've done it this kind of way, but we expect
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Speaker 10: that he will be we think, either charged or released
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Speaker 10: in the next twenty four hours and then could be
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Speaker 10: charged at a later date. There are more investigations ongoing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because My understanding is white collar crime like this
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Speaker 2: should get pulled and could be a couple of hours
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Speaker 2: and they'll let you go on bail. Do we know
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Speaker 2: exactly where he is right now or I'm sure at
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Speaker 2: the stage.
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Speaker 10: We know he's at the police station being questioned right now.
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Speaker 10: We do think that, I mean, one of the reasons
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Speaker 10: potentially why they moved in this way doing it, you know,
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Speaker 10: because they could have asked him to come in for
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Speaker 10: question questioning there is that you know, he is potentially
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Speaker 10: a flight risk. We saw that with the former King
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Speaker 10: of Spain who disappeared to the Middle East when he
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Speaker 10: was facing serious, you know, accusations, and you know, also
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Speaker 10: didn't give him any time to kind of prep all
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Speaker 10: answers with a legal team or anything like that in advance.
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Speaker 10: He will have access to a lawyer today in this questioning.
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Speaker 10: But you know, they obviously thought that there was enough
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Speaker 10: here that they needed to move quickly.
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Speaker 2: All right, Vincent meca Any, a UK europe correspondent. Time
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Speaker 2: is twenty four minutes after five news talks. Hev Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge coming up next to'll tell you about the housing
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Speaker 2: situation in Auckland. Just a couple of things after that,
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Speaker 2: U turn, there will be twenty three percent fewer homes.
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Speaker 2: I mean, were these homes ever going to be built? Anyway?
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Speaker 2: Wayne Brown yesterday said that the number, the two million number,
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Speaker 2: was you might as well look into the sky and
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Speaker 2: count the clouds. That's how useful the number was. So
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Speaker 2: did it even really matter anyway? We'll look at that
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Speaker 2: after this and we'll also speak to a counselor before
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Speaker 2: B five twenty seven News Talks AB. I was driving
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Speaker 2: through a street just outside of Auckland, CBD yesterday saw
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Speaker 2: of these apartments that were for sale, new buildings that
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Speaker 2: many of them looked empty, and there's loads of full
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Speaker 2: sale signs up around and everywhere. I thought, why don't
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Speaker 2: people want to buy them? Is it the price? Is
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Speaker 2: that the problem? You can get there's some older seventies
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Speaker 2: eighties brick and tile type apartments selling them their four
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Speaker 2: hundreds apparently around this area and around Auckland. Newer one
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Speaker 2: seemed to run more depending on the location. Wellington has
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Speaker 2: a few steals at the moment. You'll know about that
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Speaker 2: if you've looked into it. But again, not that many
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Speaker 2: interested buyers. So is this the economy? Is it the
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Speaker 2: annoying body corp fees that you have to pay? Is
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Speaker 2: it the leaky building memories, lingering, the fact you can't
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Speaker 2: swing a cat in most of the living rooms, having
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Speaker 2: to see your neighbors in the lift all the time.
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Speaker 2: That's annoying, isn't it? No one really wants to do it.
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Speaker 2: Are they poorly designed and poorly made? Are they overheating
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Speaker 2: in summer? Or is it just that we still want
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Speaker 2: to stand alone house with a backyard. We just hate apartments.
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Speaker 2: The government yesterday announced day twenty three percent reduction and
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Speaker 2: new homes in Auckland as part of the changes. But
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Speaker 2: we're still getting one point six million new homes and
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Speaker 2: many of them will be apartments. My question is who's
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Speaker 2: going to buy them. There's an entire block in Auckland
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Speaker 2: new new build developer and they had to be rented
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Speaker 2: out because they wouldn't sell. There was a recent survey
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Speaker 2: found eighty percent of people would consider living in a
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Speaker 2: standalone house, seventy percent a townhouse, an apartment just a third.
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Speaker 2: I get it. Ideally, we all want space, we all
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Speaker 2: want gardens, we all want lawns to mow. But if
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Speaker 2: we can't get that and we want somewhere to live,
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Speaker 2: why are we buying apartments, especially young people who apparently
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Speaker 2: don't mind high rise of living as much as older people.
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Speaker 2: We can't be that dissimilar to the rest of the world, surely.
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Speaker 2: I think what it comes down to is that people
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Speaker 2: don't want to invest in something that's relatively expensive and
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Speaker 2: won't appreciate like land will which makes you wonder who
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Speaker 2: on earth will buy and live in all these one
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Speaker 2: and two beddies popping up over town. Here on News
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Speaker 2: Talks AB, we'll get to our UK the Royal Correspondent
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Speaker 2: and Moron Housing.
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Speaker 1: Next, Views and Views you Trust to start your day.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, it is twenty four away from six on
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Speaker 2: Newstalk CB. Welcome to your Friday. Andrew no longer Prince Andrew.
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Speaker 2: Andrew he was put in the back of a police car. Well,
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Speaker 2: it was an unmarked they were playing close. But he's
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Speaker 2: in a police station right now answering a whole bunch
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Speaker 2: of questions about misconduct. Hasn't been charged, but he's been
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Speaker 2: arrested in the UK. We'll head to a royal expert
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Speaker 2: in a second. We'll also talk housing. A bit of
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Speaker 2: a war going on between David Seymour and Wayne Brown.
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Speaker 2: Over that we'll explain and speak to a counselor. Time
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Speaker 2: is twenty four away from six. Ryan Bread, our reporters
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Speaker 2: Cape Ricard for Dunedin. This morning, Cake, Good morning morning, Ryan,
18:41
Speaker 2: tell us about this organized crime thing happening in a business.
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Speaker 11: Yes, three people have been arrested following an operation targeting
18:48
Speaker 11: organized crime in Dunedin. Officers executed a search Warren warrant
18:52
Speaker 11: at a Willis Street business last Thursday, seizing a stolen vehicle.
18:56
Speaker 11: Now the suspects, aged twenty eight to thirty two and
18:59
Speaker 11: thirty s seven, have appeared in court in a duet
19:02
Speaker 11: re appear on March twelfth.
19:04
Speaker 9: Now.
19:04
Speaker 11: They face multiple charges including supplying Class B and C
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Speaker 11: drugs and receiving stolen property. Detective Joe McLaughlin says their
19:12
Speaker 11: arrests are great for the community as the supply of
19:14
Speaker 11: drugs causes astronomical harm.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather sharers developing?
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Speaker 11: Early morning? Possibly heavy clearing to find towards evening in
19:23
Speaker 11: a high of seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Kate. Let's go to clear on christch morning.
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Speaker 5: Claire, good morning.
19:27
Speaker 2: You've got some good progress that's been made, and I
19:30
Speaker 2: think anyone who's visited knows this since the earthquakes, fifteen
19:33
Speaker 2: years since the twenty eleven earthquake.
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Speaker 5: Hard to believe. This weekend mark's fifteen years.
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Speaker 12: Of course, the public civic service will be held on
19:41
Speaker 12: Sunday on February twenty two at the National Earthquake Memorial
19:45
Speaker 12: that's along the banks of the Avon River. Of course,
19:47
Speaker 12: the names of the one hundred and eighty five people
19:49
Speaker 12: who died that day will be read aloud. The six
19:52
Speaker 12: point three magnitude quake hit at twelve fifty one on
19:55
Speaker 12: that day in twenty eleven. We've spoken with former Deputy
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Speaker 12: Mayor and Iri Button, who says, Christ to it.
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Speaker 5: She is looking fantastic at the moment.
20:03
Speaker 12: She's done a lot of recollecting, including the whole story
20:08
Speaker 12: of counselors visiting San Francisco to consult recovery experts at
20:13
Speaker 12: the time who told them that rebuilding a city would
20:15
Speaker 12: take time. She acknowledges there's still a whole lot of
20:18
Speaker 12: work to do, but She says the experts did warn
20:21
Speaker 12: them at the time that it would be around twenty
20:23
Speaker 12: years until the last nail will go in a building.
20:26
Speaker 12: She's also spent some time reflecting about mayor of the time,
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Speaker 12: Sir Bob Parker, who we know is now in a
20:32
Speaker 12: care facility after suffering strokes. She says, while he would
20:35
Speaker 12: be frustrated by some of the ongoing challenges in the city,
20:39
Speaker 12: he'd be very proud of how far it's come.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely he would. And this is a side note, but
20:45
Speaker 2: I was trying to book a hotel in christ It yesterday.
20:47
Speaker 2: Has anyone mentioned to you the price? Goodness, no more
20:50
Speaker 2: expensive than you would than booking a hotel in Auckland,
20:53
Speaker 2: for sure, I reckon. I don't know whether it's just
20:55
Speaker 2: the time that I'm trying to book, but yeah, very pricey.
20:59
Speaker 2: I'm still going, I'm still coming. Don't worry. How's the weather.
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Speaker 5: It's worth the money, Ryan, Hey, it's the mainly fine here.
21:04
Speaker 12: Isolated showers late morning and into the afternoon could be heavy,
21:08
Speaker 12: schoorely thunderstorms possible as well. Otherwise, northwesterly's turning southwest and
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Speaker 12: twenty two.
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks Claire, Max's and Wellington where you couldn't
21:16
Speaker 2: pay me to go. At the moment, Hey, Max.
21:18
Speaker 13: It's not worth the money. I'm trying to buy flights
21:20
Speaker 13: to chraist Search at the moment it's six hundred dollars
21:22
Speaker 13: just to go in, you know, four weeks time from
21:25
Speaker 13: Friday to Sunday. Over six hundred dollars. Ridiculous cost of
21:28
Speaker 13: flights at the moment, not even started on accommodation yet,
21:31
Speaker 13: it's not worth them. It's that jet Star both start
21:35
Speaker 13: or in New Zealand. Usually you'd get a more affordable
21:37
Speaker 13: jet Star flight, but not even not even jet Star
21:39
Speaker 13: at the moment.
21:40
Speaker 2: Is there an event on that weekend?
21:42
Speaker 13: No, I have family in Chostitch. We're basically from Crosstitch.
21:45
Speaker 2: So you don't need a hotel either. You're just adding
21:47
Speaker 2: that in for effect.
21:48
Speaker 13: No, well it's my brother and it would either be
21:50
Speaker 13: a couch or Airbnb, so we'll go Airbnb.
21:53
Speaker 2: You go Airbnb. Well, look, it's outrageous. Max. If anyone
21:56
Speaker 2: out there has a private jet, then they would like
21:58
Speaker 2: to find Max. Please.
21:59
Speaker 13: Does I'm sure my costking goes a helicopter company.
22:03
Speaker 2: Surely, Now, no guarantee that I think this is a
22:06
Speaker 2: weird question for Wellington Water to answer given the circumstances.
22:10
Speaker 2: But no, they've given no guarantee that water will be
22:13
Speaker 2: safe for swimming next summer.
22:15
Speaker 13: Yeah, that would be enough a disaster, not just for
22:17
Speaker 13: locals but for taurists as well. Believe it or not,
22:19
Speaker 13: people do come here and swim. The chair of the
22:21
Speaker 13: New Water Organization has told a board meeting that there's
22:27
Speaker 13: doubt about you know, how long this problem is going
22:29
Speaker 13: to take to fix, and there's no guarantee that the
22:32
Speaker 13: water will be safe in what a year's time. This
22:35
Speaker 13: is a tiaki y which is going to inherit more
22:38
Speaker 13: point in July, which is a bit like inheriting NaN's
22:41
Speaker 13: old cassette player and ringer washing machine. The only mild
22:44
Speaker 13: positive about Monday's heavy rain is we're now back to
22:48
Speaker 13: partially treated wastewater pouring into the ocean rather than raw sewage.
22:53
Speaker 13: The Councils was also allowing locals to dispose of their
22:56
Speaker 13: green waste to the Southern Landfill for free over the
22:59
Speaker 13: next seven days. He's Hot City doing something similar, so
23:03
Speaker 13: some mild relief. I suppose that the cycle away rollout
23:06
Speaker 13: has also been put on hold while we figure out
23:08
Speaker 13: what the cost of the fixing mole point is gonna be.
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Speaker 2: Uh, that's hilarious. How's your weather today?
23:16
Speaker 13: Yes, mainly find stronger norther least twenty two.
23:19
Speaker 2: Like you think. Hello Wellington, welcome to the real world.
23:23
Speaker 2: Nineteen away from six and as Nevas here morning, Neva Greetings.
23:28
Speaker 2: Now that to who we are trained service? This was
23:30
Speaker 2: the ghost train, wasn't it. Yes, getting a reprieve extension
23:34
Speaker 2: for another year.
23:34
Speaker 14: Well, blow me down with a feather. You're quite right,
23:37
Speaker 14: and you know that services just hoping to prove its
23:39
Speaker 14: critics wrong as it gets extended for another year.
23:43
Speaker 15: Now.
23:43
Speaker 14: Obviously this service, which connects Auckland and Hamilton, it's going
23:46
Speaker 14: to run until June next year, MZTA picking up sixty
23:50
Speaker 14: percent of the bill. Now everyone knows it's been criticized
23:53
Speaker 14: in the past for low passenger numbers and revenue, but
23:56
Speaker 14: why cuttle. Regional Council chair Warren mar He says, I
23:59
Speaker 14: actually think that changes in Auckland this year. It's going
24:02
Speaker 14: to help kick start improvements the news direading. You know
24:05
Speaker 14: Michael Siugal the year he's he's from Hamilton and he's
24:08
Speaker 14: been on this to who you I haven't so I
24:10
Speaker 14: shouldn't be going on about it. But he's been on
24:12
Speaker 14: there several times and he said, every time he's been
24:14
Speaker 14: on there, it's full. And he says, and they're all
24:17
Speaker 14: there in the cafe are well what cafe?
24:18
Speaker 2: You know the food carriage? They've got a food carriage.
24:20
Speaker 2: I know about that, but it's is it doesn't It
24:22
Speaker 2: take you from Hamilton to somewhere like Pappatoe toast something.
24:25
Speaker 2: Then you have to get on another train and then
24:27
Speaker 2: the whole thing takes you about five hours.
24:29
Speaker 14: Well that's what I thought. And I said to well
24:31
Speaker 14: where do you get off? And he said, you know,
24:33
Speaker 14: like it takes you to the old Auckland train state.
24:35
Speaker 14: I said, what does that mean?
24:36
Speaker 2: What is that?
24:36
Speaker 14: And he said the part now you know the old
24:38
Speaker 14: it's quite it's a character.
24:40
Speaker 2: You know that old stage now.
24:42
Speaker 14: And I said, and then you've got to get off
24:43
Speaker 14: of what walk?
24:44
Speaker 9: Oh?
24:44
Speaker 2: For goodness, for goodness, how's the weather?
24:46
Speaker 14: Early morning showers, fine spells. And on that note, I
24:49
Speaker 14: twenty three here in.
24:49
Speaker 2: Auckland, brilliantly, thank you. Seventeen away from six Bryant Branch,
24:54
Speaker 2: New South Wales. They're cracking down on e bikes and
24:57
Speaker 2: I thought about this yesterday as I saw a bunch
24:58
Speaker 2: of kids zooming past a woman who was in not
25:02
Speaker 2: It wasn't a wheelchair. It was one of those mobility
25:04
Speaker 2: things you know with the flags on the back of them,
25:06
Speaker 2: zooming past the mobility scooter. Was a bunch of kids
25:10
Speaker 2: on their e bikes and they go so fast, and
25:13
Speaker 2: the in New South Wales they are banning them. Any kid,
25:16
Speaker 2: you're going to be at least twelve to use them,
25:19
Speaker 2: and they are looking at making that sixteen to use
25:22
Speaker 2: e bikes because they're quite quick and chaos on the
25:25
Speaker 2: roads and on the footpaths. They're cracking down and in
25:29
Speaker 2: Western Australia you cop a fifty dollars fine if you
25:32
Speaker 2: caught riding an e bike before you turn sixteen. Here
25:35
Speaker 2: I had a look this morning. It does not appear
25:37
Speaker 2: that there is an age barrier at all. And the
25:40
Speaker 2: cops have said if your bike can exceed fifty k's
25:44
Speaker 2: an hour, it must be registered as a motorbike. So basically,
25:47
Speaker 2: anything up to fifty k's an hour you can be
25:50
Speaker 2: nine and zooming along and there's no problems. Do we
25:53
Speaker 2: think that's okay? Sixteen away from six News Talks they'd
25:57
Speaker 2: be housing in Andrew next talks be it is fourteen
26:01
Speaker 2: minutes away from six right, Which suburbs will Allland Council
26:04
Speaker 2: save from high rise apartment towers? That is the question
26:07
Speaker 2: after the government you turn on intensification yesterday. The council
26:11
Speaker 2: apparently has until around April to tell the government. Andy
26:14
Speaker 2: Baker is Franklin Ward councilor joins us Live this morning. Andy,
26:17
Speaker 2: Good morning, Kday. Right, So who it is council that
26:21
Speaker 2: will decide or at least recommend to the government which
26:24
Speaker 2: suburbs Do you know have an idea of which suburbs
26:27
Speaker 2: you might be saving from high rises?
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Speaker 9: No, we don't because we haven't seen any detail yet.
26:32
Speaker 9: But you know, I would imagine with the intent being
26:36
Speaker 9: that we're going to intensify along the when near transport
26:39
Speaker 9: hubs and along the report transit network, it's those areas
26:43
Speaker 9: on the outside of those that aren'twers well served that
26:46
Speaker 9: will be first in line to be have a specter
26:49
Speaker 9: of intensification removed from them.
26:51
Speaker 2: So you're Mount Edens, Oh.
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Speaker 9: Well, who knows?
26:55
Speaker 2: I mean?
26:56
Speaker 9: And that's the thing. And so you know Mount Eden
26:58
Speaker 9: has a beautiful new train station getting built there Munga
27:01
Speaker 9: Foe so as part of the CRL, so you know
27:05
Speaker 9: who knows. I don't think it's going to please everybody
27:08
Speaker 9: the outcome. I don't think it's the silver bullet that
27:11
Speaker 9: some people are being asking for.
27:12
Speaker 2: So for those because there's the people with the character
27:15
Speaker 2: homes and the character areas, they're going, yeah, we've won,
27:18
Speaker 2: you're saying, not necessarily.
27:20
Speaker 9: I'd be Yeah, it wouldn't be. I wouldn't be celebrating
27:23
Speaker 9: too soon. You know who knows. And that's the thing.
27:26
Speaker 9: It's just we just don't know, and we're going to
27:29
Speaker 9: have to you know, as of last night, staff had
27:31
Speaker 9: any engagement with government officials. We only know what's out
27:37
Speaker 9: in the public arena from what we've seen and read.
27:40
Speaker 2: Is it fair to say, if you are in the CBD,
27:42
Speaker 2: or if you are in the town center or near
27:45
Speaker 2: a station, you're probably going to have a high rise
27:48
Speaker 2: near you, and if you're not, you won't.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I think that's a reasonable assumption and
27:54
Speaker 9: that makes sense. And I don't think there's been too
27:56
Speaker 9: much opposition to that whole sort of for the context
28:00
Speaker 9: of doing it and doing the intensification where there is
28:04
Speaker 9: access to good public transport. You know, we do have
28:07
Speaker 9: to take into consideration heritage and the other things that
28:10
Speaker 9: we've been told are important, Alkanders. But exactly what that
28:17
Speaker 9: means we won't know yet and for a little while yet.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Andy, Thank you, Andy Baker,
28:22
Speaker 2: Franklin Warld Council. A time is eleven away from six.
28:26
Speaker 2: Rich So, the King's brother has been arrested overnight Andrew
28:29
Speaker 2: former prince of course, allegied misconduct and public office. No
28:33
Speaker 2: charges have been laid yet as far as we know,
28:36
Speaker 2: just arrested in for questioning at the police station as
28:39
Speaker 2: we speak. We spoke to Vincent mcaviney are UK correspondent earlier.
28:42
Speaker 10: You know, he is potentially a flight risk. We saw
28:44
Speaker 10: that with the former King of Spain who disappeared to
28:48
Speaker 10: the Middle East when he was facing serious accusations.
28:52
Speaker 2: Richard at Fitzwilliams, a royal commentator, joins us now from
28:56
Speaker 2: the UK. Richard, good morning, good evening to you. Good
29:00
Speaker 2: morning so and a shock or did we see, kindness,
29:05
Speaker 2: expect that something like this would happen And how does
29:08
Speaker 2: its play out for the royal family?
29:11
Speaker 15: How indeed a very very pertinent question. I mean I
29:14
Speaker 15: think that with for example, the daily mail pressure on Andrews,
29:19
Speaker 15: nine police forces probe files, the whole variety of allegations.
29:24
Speaker 15: I mean, what they've charged him with was a miscombuct
29:26
Speaker 15: in public office which meant giving confidential material or when
29:31
Speaker 15: he was special trade endpoy to Epstein or similar sources.
29:35
Speaker 15: So there's no doubt at all that this is completely unprecedented.
29:40
Speaker 15: What is of course so shocking is the behavior of
29:44
Speaker 15: Andrew mount Battenbins and his former wife Sarah Ferguson. I
29:48
Speaker 15: mean this over a long period of years, but when
29:51
Speaker 15: it comes to criminality, that is what we're focusing on.
29:54
Speaker 15: What we've got clearly is the charge is linked to
30:00
Speaker 15: the sharing of confidential information which most empactically should not
30:05
Speaker 15: have occurred. But also, of course, as you well know,
30:07
Speaker 15: there are the charges linked to his disastrous friendship with
30:14
Speaker 15: the deceasedpedo file Jeffrey Epstein, and of course a photograph
30:18
Speaker 15: of him with Virginia Robins Geoffrey, which we now know
30:21
Speaker 15: is r genuine one. She tragically committed suicide last year,
30:25
Speaker 15: a case settled for twelve million pounds which she brought
30:29
Speaker 15: against him. In my twenty twenty two Facts are that
30:32
Speaker 15: with this area trafficking allegations and so forth. Because Epstein
30:38
Speaker 15: is supposed to have possibly brought women into Britain, this
30:42
Speaker 15: is also something that may rear its head. With the
30:45
Speaker 15: Epstein files having brought to light so much, what more
30:51
Speaker 15: will in fact come. I mean, this is one of
30:53
Speaker 15: the reasons. It places the Palace, which have been very
30:55
Speaker 15: much on the back foot dealing with this in a
30:58
Speaker 15: possible position.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely in this statement from the King that the law
31:03
Speaker 2: must take its course, do you think he's done enough
31:05
Speaker 2: to kind of insulate himself from Andrew.
31:08
Speaker 15: I don't think it's possible to say, because we don't
31:11
Speaker 15: know what is going to come out more in the files.
31:15
Speaker 15: I also think that it's very very difficult in the
31:20
Speaker 15: coming weeks and months to keep calm and carry on,
31:24
Speaker 15: which is essentially the royal family's job as a symbol
31:26
Speaker 15: of national unity, projection of soft power, the chalitable work
31:30
Speaker 15: and sand which is invaluable. It's an institution with over
31:33
Speaker 15: a thousand years. But I mean, to find a president
31:36
Speaker 15: for this you have to go back to the sixteenth
31:38
Speaker 15: century where Mary, Queen of Scott's, arrested Princess Elizabeth, most
31:44
Speaker 15: memorably I mean, it really is an extraordinarily difficult time
31:50
Speaker 15: for the royals. But I mean we also think of
31:52
Speaker 15: the victims of Epstein and how, for example, some of
31:56
Speaker 15: them may bring cases. It's possible anything, quite frankly as possible,
32:01
Speaker 15: because there's this global network of millionaires and billionaires who
32:05
Speaker 15: thought that they were above the law. And it would
32:08
Speaker 15: see Andrew Man Batton Windsor is in for a very
32:12
Speaker 15: very tough ride, but so is the royal family and
32:16
Speaker 15: this is going to play out all in the public games.
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Speaker 2: Richard Fitzwilliams. Appreciate your update this morning from the UK,
32:23
Speaker 2: our royal commentator. It is seven to six the.
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Speaker 1: News you need this morning and the in depth analysis
32:30
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32:35
Speaker 2: The'd be five to sixth on your Friday morning. Mike's
32:38
Speaker 2: in the studio. Mike, good morning, greetings to your Ryan.
32:40
Speaker 2: Big show today for you. It will be a big
32:42
Speaker 2: show Ryan, thanks for asking.
32:44
Speaker 16: Greg Murphy's on, by the way, if one, just if
32:46
Speaker 16: you follow the F one overnight, Williams come tenth, tenth
32:49
Speaker 16: and times Antonelli is.
32:52
Speaker 2: First, okay, and is that good? It is good. It's
32:55
Speaker 2: very good for Lilliams.
32:56
Speaker 16: So what we're starting to see now is is they're
32:58
Speaker 16: getting on top of their car. So they're understanding because
33:01
Speaker 16: they're all new cars, that's you understand, So they're getting
33:03
Speaker 16: on top of the cars kind of understanding what's going on.
33:06
Speaker 16: To be Fairheader and Limblad didn't actually race in the
33:09
Speaker 16: afternoon because they've only got one car there, so you know,
33:12
Speaker 16: but tenth is tenth all right? Very good anyway, supercars
33:16
Speaker 16: on this weekend. There's the reason I got onto that
33:17
Speaker 16: Greg Murphy's with how much.
33:19
Speaker 2: Does it cost for if they had to build from
33:21
Speaker 2: new one of these f one because there's many millions.
33:23
Speaker 2: The other day it's ten million for one of those
33:25
Speaker 2: sale GP boats. Easy. Well, yeah.
33:27
Speaker 16: The moment he gets a carbon you ever bought a
33:29
Speaker 16: nice car. If you buy a nice car, one of
33:31
Speaker 16: the things they offer you is carbon attack.
33:33
Speaker 2: We know.
33:35
Speaker 16: So anyway, so you get your like you can get
33:37
Speaker 16: a you buy a Porsche and you say I want
33:39
Speaker 16: my mirrors in carbon.
33:40
Speaker 2: What did you pay for your Porsche?
33:41
Speaker 16: There'll be two or three it will be two or
33:43
Speaker 16: three thousand dollars just for the cab. The moment you
33:44
Speaker 16: get into carbon, it's it's like hideously expensive.
33:47
Speaker 2: Have you got a carbon Porsch? Is that what you're
33:49
Speaker 2: saying about.
33:49
Speaker 16: I'm just saying, I'm just saying blind that if you
33:51
Speaker 16: get a flat of the whole cars made a bloody
33:53
Speaker 16: carbon and so the moment you're buying carbon Carvin's expensive
33:57
Speaker 16: and the boats are carbon and the car cabin and
33:59
Speaker 16: why is carbon Calvin's light and it's strong.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know.
34:02
Speaker 16: I don't know why I have to educate you on
34:03
Speaker 16: the start.
34:04
Speaker 2: Do you know what I learn every day? Mate? Every
34:08
Speaker 2: day's a learning off aways what I'm here for. How
34:10
Speaker 2: you have a great weekend, have a great show.
34:12
Speaker 16: I will and stop asking me every Friday if I've
34:14
Speaker 16: got big plans for the weekend, because I do the
34:15
Speaker 16: same thing every weekend and.
34:17
Speaker 2: I'm trying to make the comments you seem super much.
34:21
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend, everybody you Monday.
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