Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 28 July 2025
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
- 0:05Speaker 1: early edition with ex Pole insulation, keeping Kimi Holmes warm
- 0:09Speaker 1: and tray this winter news talks.
- 0:11Speaker 2: That'd be good morning, six after five. Welcome to your
- 0:13Speaker 2: Monday morning. Loads of segregation happening in our prisons. This
- 0:17Speaker 2: is according to a Newstalk SAB story this morning. Is
- 0:20Speaker 2: this a bad thing? We will ask that question before
- 0:23Speaker 2: six this morning. Israel under pressure over starvation in Gaza.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Jordan and the UAE are helping them mount Jeffrey Miller
- 0:30Speaker 2: on that shortly. Gavin Gray in the UK this morning
- 0:33Speaker 2: on Trump and the EU Chief Bonderlayan by having us
- 0:37Speaker 2: sit down, I think, on the sidelines of his golf course.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Plus Andrew Orlison here on F one. All ahead for
- 0:44Speaker 2: your Monday morning.
- 0:47Speaker 1: The Agenda twenty eight of July.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Jordan and the UAE have been dropping supplies into Gaza
- 0:52Speaker 2: after Israel announced its new plans, including military pauses to
- 0:56Speaker 2: increase the flow of aid, but humanitarian groups aren't buying this,
- 1:00Speaker 2: calling the drops a distraction.
- 1:03Speaker 3: When aid is air dropped, it causes injuries and damage.
- 1:06Speaker 3: They cause massacres on the street. We're coming here for death.
- 1:10Speaker 3: All these people the people who die every day. If one,
- 1:13Speaker 3: two or ten boxes are dropped, all these people cannot
- 1:16Speaker 3: take them. Only one or two percent of people get
- 1:19Speaker 3: the aid.
- 1:20Speaker 2: So to Scotland, where you wonder why is Trump meeting
- 1:22Speaker 2: with Ursula vonderlyone? This is the EU chief. Well, first
- 1:26Speaker 2: of August is fast approaching, and that's the deadline to
- 1:29Speaker 2: get a trade deal for the block.
- 1:31Speaker 4: I think Ursler will say probably fifty to fifty.
- 1:34Speaker 5: Of making a deal.
- 1:35Speaker 3: Help you know, I'd like to make a deal.
- 1:37Speaker 1: I think it's good for boths. But actually fifty to fifty.
- 1:41Speaker 2: To the US astronomer, this is the tech firm whose
- 1:44Speaker 2: boss and the HR boss got caught hugging, kissing whatever
- 1:49Speaker 2: at cold Play and everyone thought they were having an
- 1:51Speaker 2: a fear Well Astronomer the company that employed them both,
- 1:55Speaker 2: they have apparently got a PR company and got a
- 1:58Speaker 2: new video promoting their brand. It's got Qwyneth Paltrow. Who's
- 2:03Speaker 2: Chris Martin Zick's wife? You know of Coldplay fame? Answering
- 2:07Speaker 2: the company's most asked questions.
- 2:10Speaker 6: Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow. I've been hired on a very
- 2:14Speaker 6: temporary basis to speak on behalf of the three hundred
- 2:17Speaker 6: plus employees at Astronomer. Astronomer has gotten a lot of
- 2:20Speaker 6: questions over the last few days, and they wanted me
- 2:24Speaker 6: to answer the most common ones. Yes, Astronomer is the
- 2:27Speaker 6: best place to run APATCHE airflow, unifying the experience of
- 2:31Speaker 6: running data mL and AI pipelines at scale. We've been
- 2:35Speaker 6: thrilled so many people have a newfound interest in data
- 2:38Speaker 6: workflow automation.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Hmm, Okay, wasn't that funny? Was it? Eight half to five?
- 2:48Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
- 2:51Speaker 1: Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and
- 2:55Speaker 1: dry this winter.
- 2:57Speaker 2: US talks at me. You probably don't want to come
- 2:59Speaker 2: out and make it look like you're making jokes when
- 3:01Speaker 2: a family has been destroyed. You know, I don't know
- 3:05Speaker 2: it's Gwyneth Paltrow. There you go now to look at
- 3:09Speaker 2: the news at the weekend on passports. Did you see this?
- 3:12Speaker 2: So I can understand why the government has had a
- 3:15Speaker 2: directive where they say, you know, if there's a stop
- 3:18Speaker 2: sign and stop, we all know how to spell stop.
- 3:25Speaker 2: So if you put it in another language, you run
- 3:27Speaker 2: the risk. You run the risk that people won't understand
- 3:30Speaker 2: what it is or what it says, and then crash
- 3:33Speaker 2: a car. So I can understand why the government's wanting
- 3:36Speaker 2: to make changes to potentially have put English first on
- 3:40Speaker 2: road science, etc. But when it comes to a passport
- 3:45Speaker 2: at the moment, I didn't even realize this until I
- 3:48Speaker 2: read this story, but I went and looked at my passport,
- 3:50Speaker 2: and true enough, the Maldi word comes first, so it
- 3:54Speaker 2: says and then next it says New Zealand pass sport.
- 4:00Speaker 2: If ever there was a place where and who even
- 4:03Speaker 2: sees a passport anyway, apart from you when you're waiting
- 4:07Speaker 2: in the departure lounge. But it's border staff. They are
- 4:11Speaker 2: used to seeing a million different languages on a passport, Like,
- 4:14Speaker 2: is this the biggest, biggest fish we should be frying
- 4:17Speaker 2: right now? That's my question about it. Tell me why
- 4:23Speaker 2: it matters? Who cares which way around that goes? They're
- 4:26Speaker 2: both true, they're both languages here, so what's the big deal.
- 4:31Speaker 2: Same with some of the speed limits. I've noticed the
- 4:34Speaker 2: government came in on a platform of reversing those blanket
- 4:38Speaker 2: speed reductions, which again I think they were silly to
- 4:43Speaker 2: be blanket reduced in the first place, But then they've
- 4:47Speaker 2: gone and blanket increased them even on roads where it
- 4:50Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense. You know, there are some roads
- 4:52Speaker 2: where you probably should be going seventy or other than
- 4:54Speaker 2: one hundred ks an hour, And when you do blanket
- 4:58Speaker 2: things like that, we end up with extreme outliers that
- 5:03Speaker 2: kind of undermine everything you're doing. And I think the
- 5:06Speaker 2: passport story is a bit like that for me. Eleven
- 5:09Speaker 2: after five nine two nine two is a nubum to
- 5:11Speaker 2: text this morning. We'd love your feedback and your views,
- 5:14Speaker 2: and we'll talk to Jeffrey Miller about the situation in Garza.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Next Views and Views you Trust to start your day.
- 5:22Speaker 1: It's earlier edition with Ryan Bridge at Xpole Installation keeping
- 5:26Speaker 1: Kiwi Homes board and dry. This winter News Talks B.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Five thirteen on News Talk SAB. You might have seen
- 5:32Speaker 2: an announcement yesterday on building products. Sounds great and there's
- 5:36Speaker 2: a lot of builders I know who are excited about this.
- 5:38Speaker 2: This is where will we will basically follow international standards
- 5:43Speaker 2: on products like plaster board and cladding and windows and
- 5:46Speaker 2: external doors, all sorts of stuff which should bring the
- 5:48Speaker 2: price of them down, mean that we have more choice,
- 5:52Speaker 2: more options, and theory that would bring the price of
- 5:54Speaker 2: building down However, the government doesn't say at this point
- 5:58Speaker 2: by how much on average estimate, and they also haven't
- 6:01Speaker 2: released the list yet, so that won't happen until today. Curiously,
- 6:06Speaker 2: they made the announcement yesterday, but we won't actually know
- 6:09Speaker 2: what's products are on the list until sometime later today.
- 6:14Speaker 2: Fourteen minutes after five Ryan bred Sjordan and the UAE
- 6:18Speaker 2: have begun air drops into Gaza to deliver aid. It
- 6:21Speaker 2: comes after the Israeli military announced it'll open humanitarian codors
- 6:25Speaker 2: into the Strip and a tactical pause in military activity
- 6:30Speaker 2: in three specific areas. Jeffrey Miller is a geo geopolitical
- 6:35Speaker 2: analyst with US this morning. Jeffrey, good morning, Good morning Ryan.
- 6:38Speaker 2: Good to have you on the program. So is this
- 6:41Speaker 2: going to be enough do you think to address the
- 6:44Speaker 2: problem that is clearly happening in that starvation?
- 6:48Speaker 7: Well, look at something, Something is better than nothing. As
- 6:51Speaker 7: the UAE and Jordan dropped around twenty five tons of
- 6:55Speaker 7: aid into Gaza overnight. A look, that's a drop in
- 6:58Speaker 7: the ocean considered the scale of need. These two pauses,
- 7:04Speaker 7: so there's a ten hour pause of humanitarian pause or
- 7:08Speaker 7: tacticle pauses rail cause it in three areas of Gaza,
- 7:11Speaker 7: and then there's a seventeen hour window where it will
- 7:13Speaker 7: be a humanitarian corridor effectively allowed for the distribution of A.
- 7:17Speaker 7: I think both of those are going to be useful,
- 7:19Speaker 7: but in the end they only really will help if
- 7:22Speaker 7: Israel allows more A to come into Gaza, and that's
- 7:25Speaker 7: really where the hold up is. Around one hundred trucks
- 7:28Speaker 7: apparently went in from Egypt overnight, but they're being held
- 7:33Speaker 7: up at the border, held up at one of the checkpoints,
- 7:35Speaker 7: and Israel is being very very careful in what it
- 7:39Speaker 7: allows into Gaza, and that's really where the problem comes from.
- 7:43Speaker 7: There's a lot of aid that is held up at
- 7:46Speaker 7: the border, is already within Gaza and to some degree,
- 7:50Speaker 7: but is not being allowed for further distribution, and that's
- 7:52Speaker 7: what desperately is needed. Israel absolutely needs to allow that
- 7:56Speaker 7: A to reach the Palestinian people in Gaza because the
- 8:00Speaker 7: scale of suffering is just horrific at the moment.
- 8:02Speaker 2: Absolutely. It is one of the things that the IDEF
- 8:04Speaker 2: always talks about is Hummas and what their control of
- 8:09Speaker 2: aid centers or involvement with aid centers and distribution centers
- 8:11Speaker 2: could mean, and also what's potentially coming in across the border.
- 8:17Speaker 7: Yes, I mean that's always Israel's argument that Hammas controls
- 8:20Speaker 7: the food aid and that weapons are being smuggled in
- 8:23Speaker 7: with the AID, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But
- 8:26Speaker 7: I think we just need to take one look at
- 8:28Speaker 7: some of the horrific images that are coming out out
- 8:30Speaker 7: of Gaza and being shown on a nightly basis on
- 8:33Speaker 7: our TV screens around the world, and we look at
- 8:35Speaker 7: those calls from over one hundred AID organizations last week.
- 8:40Speaker 7: I think the calls really reached a crescendo last week.
- 8:42Speaker 7: In Israel is actually responding to the pressure there's been
- 8:46Speaker 7: placed in it from the international community and some of
- 8:49Speaker 7: the things that have been coming out, and in France's
- 8:51Speaker 7: recognition of a Palestinian state is another point of pressure.
- 8:56Speaker 7: So it is interesting that Israel is actually responding to
- 8:59Speaker 7: the pressure. And I think we need to keep the
- 9:01Speaker 7: pressure on. The international community needs to get the pressure
- 9:04Speaker 7: on because on Friday, the CEASEFIE negotiations and cut up
- 9:08Speaker 7: between Hamas and Israel and the United States collapse and
- 9:12Speaker 7: Israel and the United States expectively took peop ball and
- 9:15Speaker 7: went home. Steve wick Goff said Israel would now look
- 9:18Speaker 7: for alternative options to free the hostages. It didn't sound good.
- 9:22Speaker 7: And just within the last couple of hours, Ryan and
- 9:25Speaker 7: Donald Trump as set as Rael need to make a decision. Well,
- 9:27Speaker 7: that sounds quite ominous to me. So I think we
- 9:29Speaker 7: need to keep our eye on the bigger picture here,
- 9:32Speaker 7: which is those ceasefine negotiations. And I do think, you know,
- 9:35Speaker 7: if we're looking at New Zealand's perspective, new Zealand can
- 9:39Speaker 7: play a small part in all of that. Wist Peter
- 9:42Speaker 7: said that last week. He said that New Zealand can
- 9:45Speaker 7: and must play its part, and so I think New
- 9:47Speaker 7: Zealand needs to think about what it can do. And
- 9:49Speaker 7: I think New Zealand needs to also think about its
- 9:52Speaker 7: relations with countries in the Middle East. New Zealand has
- 9:54Speaker 7: good relations and with the Gulf States, the likes of
- 9:57Speaker 7: the United So I think we're he just needs to
- 10:00Speaker 7: be pulling on all the diplomatic leaders here.
- 10:02Speaker 2: Absolutely. I appreciate your time this morning. Jeffrey Miller, who's
- 10:05Speaker 2: a geopolitical analyst on the program this morning, just gone
- 10:07Speaker 2: eighteen minutes after five. Andrew Alison has been following the
- 10:10Speaker 2: f winnings with US next.
- 10:12Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge on early edition with X bowl insulation keeping
- 10:17Speaker 1: Kiwi homes warm and try this winter news talks.
- 10:20Speaker 2: It'd be very good morning to just gone twenty after five.
- 10:22Speaker 2: We'll get to the Seek employment report. This is for June.
- 10:25Speaker 2: We'll get to the new numbers on that just shortly.
- 10:27Speaker 2: But Andrew Allison here was sport now, who's been watching
- 10:29Speaker 2: a bit of F one.
- 10:30Speaker 4: Good morning greetings Ryan, Yes, so well Liam Lawson. For starters.
- 10:35Speaker 4: From the New Zealand perspective with racing, Bill's getting more
- 10:37Speaker 4: points finishing in eighth place, so four points for him,
- 10:42Speaker 4: best from his team. With Isaac Hadger out of the
- 10:44Speaker 4: race and well the weather in the end Oscar Pea Street,
- 10:49Speaker 4: he's extended his lead in the overall championship. The sixteen points.
- 10:52Speaker 4: I have a teammate Landa Lauris, I suppose more importantly
- 10:54Speaker 4: for McLaren a sixth one to two finish for the season.
- 10:58Speaker 4: So the dominant team in time, wet weather in the
- 11:01Speaker 4: Spa for the Belgian Grand Prix, but yeah, they are
- 11:04Speaker 4: able to just take it out pretty convincingly.
- 11:07Speaker 2: Over in France they've had a few crashes, but it's
- 11:09Speaker 2: about to wrap up. The tour to front.
- 11:11Speaker 4: France yet coming to an end. And yeah, today Pagarchia
- 11:15Speaker 4: is basically in command, I think, a lead of so
- 11:19Speaker 4: many four and a half minutes going into the final stage,
- 11:23Speaker 4: and it's just wonderful those scenes. The rain is coming
- 11:26Speaker 4: down and they're they're battling their way over the cobblestones
- 11:29Speaker 4: in the heart of Paris. But yeah, about to head
- 11:32Speaker 4: to the Chapsalisa shortly. But I think just last up
- 11:35Speaker 4: about twelve cas to go. Pagarchia in the at the
- 11:38Speaker 4: head of the course, still as he has been over
- 11:40Speaker 4: the course of the what three thousand, three hundred and
- 11:43Speaker 4: thirty eight, K's Ryan, it's on the pedals.
- 11:45Speaker 2: I was watching a little bit of the other day.
- 11:47Speaker 2: It's just incredible how close the spectators get to the riders,
- 11:52Speaker 2: and how many die every year. What's you know, spectators, it's.
- 11:56Speaker 4: An extraordin Yeah, they do what they do, approach and yeah,
- 12:00Speaker 4: and I suppose to dehydration various other bits and pieces,
- 12:03Speaker 4: but it's it's a brutal business out there in the
- 12:06Speaker 4: heat of the of the French sellar it is.
- 12:08Speaker 2: I think you're right. There's a few sherries that happened.
- 12:12Speaker 2: Other things yeah, yeah, Netbule last night the Tactics what
- 12:17Speaker 2: it Well, this is phenomenos and it did surprise me.
- 12:20Speaker 4: Actually, it's been one of those long lasting scenarios where
- 12:23Speaker 4: they'd never won a you know, an elite level competition
- 12:27Speaker 4: since the game went professional, et cetera. And the Tactics
- 12:30Speaker 4: have pulled off at last and a Donald Wilkins new
- 12:32Speaker 4: coach and they've made that change and been defending champion Mystics. Yeah,
- 12:35Speaker 4: convincing one of the end I think fifty eight to
- 12:37Speaker 4: forty six, But I think the key moment of that
- 12:39Speaker 4: game probably the seventeen to eight.
- 12:41Speaker 2: First quarter advantage they had.
- 12:43Speaker 4: They never relinquished that in a way they went so yeah,
- 12:46Speaker 4: it's it's yeah, but a history in the in the
- 12:48Speaker 4: netple at a time where Nepple needs some stories of that,
- 12:51Speaker 4: given that it's a difficult scenario at the moment with
- 12:54Speaker 4: no broadcast deal leading on from here and you know,
- 12:58Speaker 4: players potentially upping six and moving to Australia to play
- 13:01Speaker 4: or other parts of the world have had to change
- 13:03Speaker 4: the eligibility criteria for the Silver fans. But a good
- 13:07Speaker 4: news story.
- 13:07Speaker 2: Of Nipple wor bit of a crossroads, isn't it?
- 13:10Speaker 5: Is it really is?
- 13:11Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but more on that, I guess in the
- 13:13Speaker 4: coming weeks.
- 13:14Speaker 2: Absolutely, Andrew Ortison the sport for us this morning. Thanks Andrew,
- 13:16Speaker 2: He's right. Twenty three minutes after five, you're on News
- 13:19Speaker 2: Talks VB. I'll give you those employment numbers in just
- 13:21Speaker 2: a second. Also, we'll take a look at the road
- 13:23Speaker 2: cone directive. We've got a new one at the weekend
- 13:26Speaker 2: News Talk, said B.
- 13:27Speaker 1: The early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio, how It
- 13:31Speaker 1: by NEWSTALKSB News.
- 13:34Speaker 2: Talk, said B. It is twenty five minutes after five.
- 13:36Speaker 2: Welcome to you Monday morning. Chris Bishop says that we're
- 13:39Speaker 2: sick of this is us the public apparently sick of
- 13:42Speaker 2: over the top road cone use and expensive traffic management plans. Well, yes,
- 13:48Speaker 2: he'd be right. They are so annoying and often, at
- 13:51Speaker 2: least to my untrained eye, they're completely pointless. They take
- 13:54Speaker 2: a one hundred dollar job and they make it one
- 13:56Speaker 2: thousand dollar job. And for what So, why is this
- 14:00Speaker 2: still happening. We've had a hotline, we've had an election campaign,
- 14:04Speaker 2: we've had promises up the wazoo. Why are there still
- 14:07Speaker 2: cones everywhere all over the road when the government has
- 14:10Speaker 2: said that they've told ZTA to get rid of. And
- 14:14Speaker 2: this is apparently like the Devil's Playbook, NZTA's Code of
- 14:18Speaker 2: Practice for Traffic Management Risk Assessment, that apparently is the
- 14:23Speaker 2: document that has been doing our heads in and the
- 14:26Speaker 2: government's told ins NTA to basically get rid of that thing,
- 14:28Speaker 2: make it obsolete. While the problem apparently is that many
- 14:33Speaker 2: councils are still using the Devil's Workbook, the Devil's playbook,
- 14:37Speaker 2: this code of practice as the north Star. So as
- 14:39Speaker 2: a response the government's now threatening local council funding, you
- 14:44Speaker 2: have to literally threaten their funding to get them to
- 14:47Speaker 2: change their ways. And what this shows us is just
- 14:50Speaker 2: how far and deep the overtly cautious safety at any
- 14:55Speaker 2: cost mentality has gone. Also it shows you how scared
- 14:59Speaker 2: they are of work safe, coming in and going after
- 15:02Speaker 2: somebody should you know an injury happen. You have to
- 15:07Speaker 2: make sure people are safe, of course, especially when working
- 15:09Speaker 2: with dangers, but you can't keep everybody safe from all
- 15:12Speaker 2: harms in all places, at all times and for any reason.
- 15:16Speaker 2: Fencing every waterway is impractical, so is covering every street
- 15:20Speaker 2: in road cones. We need to find a sensible middle
- 15:24Speaker 2: ground and make sure the officials told to carry out
- 15:27Speaker 2: the changes actually do so. Ryan twenty seven, after five
- 15:32Speaker 2: news talks, he'd be Ryan. The predominant language in New
- 15:35Speaker 2: Zealand should take precedence on a passport, says Kevin. English
- 15:39Speaker 2: is the predominant language. My point, Kevin, is it's on
- 15:42Speaker 2: a passport. Who cares, you know, there are a thousand
- 15:44Speaker 2: languages on a thousand different passports with a thousand different flags.
- 15:47Speaker 2: The border guy's not going to care what comes first.
- 15:50Speaker 2: You know, if ever there was a place to have
- 15:53Speaker 2: lots of different languages, it would be a passport. Seek.
- 15:57Speaker 2: We've got the unemployment numbers for you, will talk about
- 15:59Speaker 2: them when we come back from news at half five.
- 16:02Speaker 2: Basically job ads, this is for June Seek. Job ads
- 16:05Speaker 2: are down three percent month on month and three percent
- 16:08Speaker 2: year on year. Applications per ad are also down about
- 16:13Speaker 2: two percent month on month. So this is the second
- 16:17Speaker 2: month in a row that job ads have dropped, falling
- 16:20Speaker 2: three percent month a month. The one percent is the trend.
- 16:23Speaker 2: The areas of parts of New Zealand. Three regions recorded
- 16:28Speaker 2: an increase in ad volumes. That's Gisbon up sixteen percent,
- 16:32Speaker 2: Marlborough sixteen percent, Southland one percent. Ad volumes have also
- 16:38Speaker 2: grown in wait for it, Wellington by four percent, and interestingly,
- 16:44Speaker 2: the increase the average for all industries was a seven percent, sorry,
- 16:48Speaker 2: a seven percent month on month decline. Job ads in
- 16:52Speaker 2: government and defense somehow, even though they say they're chopping
- 16:57Speaker 2: the hell out of the staff members at their bureaucrats,
- 17:01Speaker 2: government and defense grown by fifty one percent year on year.
- 17:05Speaker 2: Riddle me that are they getting rid of so many
- 17:08Speaker 2: people they need to advertise the jobs that they have recreated.
- 17:11Speaker 2: I don't know, but a fifty one percent increase in
- 17:15Speaker 2: your government and your defense jobs at a time when
- 17:18Speaker 2: private sectors going down doesn't look great for a government
- 17:20Speaker 2: of this color. Twenty nine minutes after five on your
- 17:23Speaker 2: Monday morning. We'll get to reporters after this and Gavin
- 17:26Speaker 2: Gray in.
- 17:27Speaker 8: The UK, all ahead, do.
- 17:42Speaker 9: No, I will carry you home.
- 17:46Speaker 5: Wellnight of fifty five years down the role, the.
- 17:51Speaker 1: News you need this morning and the in depth analysis
- 17:54Speaker 1: earlier edition with Ryan Branch and ex Bowl Insulation, keeping
- 17:58Speaker 1: Kiwi homes warm and it's ray this winter. News Talk saidb.
- 18:08Speaker 3: Good morning, it.
- 18:08Speaker 2: Is twenty four minutes away from six. News Talk said,
- 18:11Speaker 2: be welcome to you Monday. Great to have your company, Ryan,
- 18:13Speaker 2: they need to look at the stop go regulations as well.
- 18:16Speaker 2: This is from Steve. Not just the road cones, but
- 18:18Speaker 2: stop go regulations are absolutely ut off control, says Steve.
- 18:23Speaker 2: Sometimes there's just two or three cars a day and
- 18:26Speaker 2: they still have stopped go operating. This is in rural
- 18:28Speaker 2: areas of New Zealand. Very annoying. Hey, the Brits after
- 18:32Speaker 2: turning their backs on the tourists. This is the Spanish
- 18:35Speaker 2: in New Yorker Daily Mails run a piece today which
- 18:38Speaker 2: is quite well, I mean it's karma, isn't it. It's
- 18:41Speaker 2: what it is. It's karma. So you have the locals
- 18:43Speaker 2: come out and say, in Mi Yorca, bugger off tourists,
- 18:47Speaker 2: because we're flooded with you and your airbnb's are ruining
- 18:51Speaker 2: our rental market, and we'll squirt you with water guns.
- 18:54Speaker 2: Should you sit down at restaurants in our towns and cities?
- 18:59Speaker 2: Now York is basically empty, and the Restaurant Association has said,
- 19:04Speaker 2: well that'll be because we literally quote scared all the
- 19:08Speaker 2: visitors away. So if that's your strategy, I guess you
- 19:11Speaker 2: get what you want. You get what you paid for.
- 19:13Speaker 2: Twenty three away from six ran Bridge our reporters around
- 19:17Speaker 2: the country. Rosy Leishman is in Dunedin for us this morning. Rosie,
- 19:22Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. Today's the final day for people
- 19:25Speaker 2: to share their views on road changes around the hospital.
- 19:29Speaker 10: Yes, it is so. MZTA has been seeking feedback on
- 19:32Speaker 10: proposed changes to State Highway one, Cumberland Street and State
- 19:36Speaker 10: Highway eighty eight to Saint Andrew Street. Under the proposal
- 19:39Speaker 10: of the westbound right turn from St Andrew Street onto
- 19:42Speaker 10: Cumberland Street will be removed and Frederick Street will become
- 19:45Speaker 10: the new State Highway eighty eight. There will also be
- 19:48Speaker 10: a new barns dance and traffic light controlled crossings. The
- 19:52Speaker 10: changes aim to create a safe and efficient access to
- 19:55Speaker 10: the new hospital.
- 19:56Speaker 2: Rosy, how's your weather.
- 19:58Speaker 10: Cloudy periods today with some northern and a high of
- 20:00Speaker 10: fifteen degrees.
- 20:02Speaker 2: Thank you, clears and christ Church clear it's not outside
- 20:04Speaker 2: the hospital there that the concerns arefore, but it's inside
- 20:08Speaker 2: that's right.
- 20:08Speaker 11: Good morning. Look there's an alarming number of christ Church
- 20:11Speaker 11: Hospital departments now working at below full staffing levels. So
- 20:15Speaker 11: this comes from Health New Zealand figures which have been
- 20:17Speaker 11: released to our newsroom under the Official Information Act. They
- 20:21Speaker 11: reveal that as of May this year, thirty seven percent
- 20:24Speaker 11: of these seventy three departments at christ Church Hospital are
- 20:27Speaker 11: operating at less than ninety percent of fully staffed. Another
- 20:31Speaker 11: twelve percent are even worse, operating at less than eighty
- 20:34Speaker 11: percent staffed. Child Health, Oncology and Intensive Care Unit nursing
- 20:39Speaker 11: have around thirty full time equivalent vacancies, with two of
- 20:43Speaker 11: the three respectively having been at that level for more
- 20:46Speaker 11: than twelve months. Health New Zealand sayers are continuing to
- 20:49Speaker 11: face growing demand for services, coupled with some recruiting challenges.
- 20:53Speaker 2: Right. How's you weather, Claire, A bit frosty to.
- 20:55Speaker 11: Start in some areas. Otherwise a cloudy day, northeasterlies and
- 20:59Speaker 11: a high of fifteen.
- 21:00Speaker 2: Nice one and joy mex Is and Wellington hemes.
- 21:03Speaker 5: Good morning.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Your water loss is getting actually betcha in Wellington.
- 21:06Speaker 5: Yeah, Unfortunately, what we've become known for over the past
- 21:09Speaker 5: few years is this massive amount of water that escapes
- 21:13Speaker 5: out of old, rusty, leaky pipes. Good story in the
- 21:17Speaker 5: post this morning. It is getting better. Four billion liters
- 21:19Speaker 5: of water saved in Wellington over the past year compared
- 21:23Speaker 5: to last year, and that's eleven elitas a day worth
- 21:28Speaker 5: four Olympic sized swimming pools, roughly a day being saved.
- 21:31Speaker 2: We're getting better at fixing leaks.
- 21:33Speaker 5: Wellington Water is getting more efficient, which couldn't have been
- 21:35Speaker 5: very hard. The newest chief executive clearly doing a better
- 21:39Speaker 5: job than the last predecessor. We're not the clear though,
- 21:42Speaker 5: of course, tens of millions of liters still being lost daily.
- 21:46Speaker 5: Wellington Water Board chair Nick Leggett at one time himself
- 21:50Speaker 5: under immense pressure. Of course, he says we're still only
- 21:52Speaker 5: applying band aid solutions. So all of these mayoral and
- 21:56Speaker 5: council candidates they know there's still a lot of value
- 21:59Speaker 5: in campaigning on to spend water investment. That's what people want.
- 22:02Speaker 5: The key thing is though we are getting better.
- 22:05Speaker 2: Well, that's at least something next. And the weather.
- 22:08Speaker 5: It should be fine today with fresh northerlyes fourteen the
- 22:10Speaker 5: high central.
- 22:11Speaker 2: Nice. Thank you neighbors here in the studio. Good morning morning.
- 22:15Speaker 2: An update on the busiest road in the North Shore.
- 22:17Speaker 12: That's right, so Auckland Transport. It's moving to ease congestion
- 22:21Speaker 12: on or near a road. Now this road sees about
- 22:24Speaker 12: thirty thousand vehicles traveling along and every day. So what's
- 22:27Speaker 12: happening is going to add broken yellow lines on both sides.
- 22:30Speaker 12: This is from Birkenhead Avenue to Lake Road, making it
- 22:33Speaker 12: a twenty four seven clear way. So this should be
- 22:36Speaker 12: quite good actually, because it's going to complement that the
- 22:38Speaker 12: other road layout changes new pedestrian crossing technology just outside
- 22:43Speaker 12: you know, Saint Mary's Church and Northcote College. Because it's
- 22:46Speaker 12: a real you know, delays, it's a real.
- 22:48Speaker 2: Problem, but so is the other one. If you go
- 22:51Speaker 2: the other way to Devenport. Yeah, we try that at
- 22:54Speaker 2: the weekend. You just just do not go to Devenport.
- 22:57Speaker 12: No, well that's that I avoid it in the weekend
- 22:59Speaker 12: during the week day because it's yeah, there's that bottlenecks.
- 23:02Speaker 12: So work is going to start later this year in
- 23:05Speaker 12: summer obviously when the schools are closed, and it should
- 23:07Speaker 12: be completed in time for the new school year.
- 23:09Speaker 2: Oh lovely, yes, yes time. How's our weather.
- 23:12Speaker 12: Today come out increasing, We've got a chance of a
- 23:13Speaker 12: show from afternoon strong winds northeasterlies rising to galegusting ninety
- 23:18Speaker 12: could be our warmer though seventeen high here in Auckland.
- 23:21Speaker 2: Neva, thank you very much for that. Neva ready money
- 23:23Speaker 2: with your news updated this morning, nineteen minutes away from
- 23:26Speaker 2: six lots to discuss before we get to six o'clock.
- 23:30Speaker 2: So the new numbers out today are just running through
- 23:32Speaker 2: them really quickly, a sixty six percent increase. They reckon
- 23:36Speaker 2: in prisoners asking so it's just their side of the
- 23:39Speaker 2: equation requesting segregation. I don't want to be near other
- 23:43Speaker 2: inmates because they're too dangerous. It's up from around seven
- 23:47Speaker 2: thousand to twelve thousand in the last four years. That's
- 23:51Speaker 2: a sixty six percent increase. Now you've got people against
- 23:55Speaker 2: prisons out here that are saying, well, our prisons are
- 23:58Speaker 2: dangerous places, and yes, they are dangerous places. And if
- 24:03Speaker 2: you are that dangerous that even fellow inmates don't want
- 24:05Speaker 2: to be living near you, then it's a good thing
- 24:08Speaker 2: you're in prison, do you know what I mean? Anyway,
- 24:11Speaker 2: we'll talk about that before six and Gavin Gray out
- 24:14Speaker 2: of the UK next on Trump's meeting in Scotland with vandaliin.
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- 25:22Speaker 1: Advice International Correspondence with ins and Eye Insurance. Peace of
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- 25:31Speaker 2: Fourteen minutes away from six and breaking news. The US
- 25:34Speaker 2: and the EU have reached a trade deal, at least
- 25:36Speaker 2: a framework for a trade deal, joining US this morning
- 25:39Speaker 2: to discuss. As Gavin Gray are UK europe correspondent, Gavin,
- 25:42Speaker 2: good morning, good evening to you, hither Rah. What do
- 25:45Speaker 2: we know?
- 25:47Speaker 13: Well, at the moment, the details are still really really
- 25:49Speaker 13: sketchy about what they've got to Donald Trump earlier said
- 25:52Speaker 13: there were twenty sticking points, but thought it was fifty
- 25:56Speaker 13: to fifty as to whether there'd be a deal today.
- 25:58Speaker 1: But yeah.
- 25:58Speaker 13: The announcement was made as the US President met the
- 26:02Speaker 13: European Commission chief Versus Levonda Lion at Turnary, one of
- 26:05Speaker 13: his golf resorts in Scotland. He claims that as part
- 26:09Speaker 13: of the deal, the European Union will make some six
- 26:12Speaker 13: hundred billion US dollars in US investments and by a
- 26:18Speaker 13: large amount of US energy and purchased military equipment. He
- 26:22Speaker 13: said always his main problem had been there was on
- 26:26Speaker 13: fairness because quite simply, the EU buys much less from
- 26:31Speaker 13: America than it sells, and because of the barriers to
- 26:35Speaker 13: US exports of cars and agriculture. So there was talk
- 26:39Speaker 13: of a thirty percent to have that looks like that's
- 26:41Speaker 13: been skipped, but Ryan, we'll wait. The major details about
- 26:45Speaker 13: what's going on here, because it is still very very
- 26:48Speaker 13: fresh off the press.
- 26:49Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, and their meeting in Scotland at the moment,
- 26:52Speaker 2: aren't they. So this is just a framework for a deal,
- 26:56Speaker 2: not an actual sign seal delivered deal.
- 27:00Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 27:00Speaker 13: And the deadline, of course, was due to be on Friday.
- 27:05Speaker 13: And we've had this kind of with the UK as
- 27:08Speaker 13: well though, haven't we. There was a big signing, but
- 27:10Speaker 13: actually it was the sort of framework for a much
- 27:13Speaker 13: larger deal rather than all the nuts and bolts. I
- 27:15Speaker 13: think the thing is that he's feeling time pressures. Obviously,
- 27:18Speaker 13: the EU is feeling time pressures because he put that
- 27:21Speaker 13: deadline on them, so they felt maybe coming up with
- 27:25Speaker 13: this framework is better than nothing. But let's see what
- 27:27Speaker 13: the detail is when we get there, and to see
- 27:30Speaker 13: how generous this is. Because some in Europe, including some
- 27:33Speaker 13: prominent members like Emmanual Macron in France, were saying we
- 27:36Speaker 13: should be absolutely on a level playing field here and
- 27:39Speaker 13: if we don't get a level playing field deal, we
- 27:41Speaker 13: should put retaliatory tariffs in straight away. Now that's called
- 27:47Speaker 13: pressure on the negotiations.
- 27:48Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, thanks so much for Thatkevin Gray are UK
- 27:51Speaker 2: europe correspondent with that breaking news that the US and
- 27:53Speaker 2: the EU have reached a framework. They're holding hands. That
- 27:57Speaker 2: lead's not quite hugging at the stage. News Talks Air B.
- 28:01Speaker 2: It is eleven away from six. Look this morning, what's
- 28:05Speaker 2: going inside our prisons? Figures released a News Talks THEIRB
- 28:08Speaker 2: show the number of approved requests for segregation hit more
- 28:12Speaker 2: than twelve thousand in the twenty three to twenty four
- 28:14Speaker 2: financial year. That's up sixty six percent from five years ago.
- 28:18Speaker 2: Add to that, the number of corrections directed segregations has
- 28:21Speaker 2: doubled in the same timeframe. Corrections Association President Floyd de
- 28:25Speaker 2: Pissi is with me this morning. Floyd, good morning, Good
- 28:28Speaker 2: morning Ryan. What sort of violence are your guys seeing?
- 28:33Speaker 9: The violence staff are seen within the prisons next has
- 28:37Speaker 9: extremely risen, So there's a lot more serious offending and
- 28:41Speaker 9: it's just outright at text on staff.
- 28:45Speaker 2: So punches to the face, I mean just literally just violence. Yes, the.
- 28:52Speaker 9: Type of violence varies quite drastically, but these assaults, assaults
- 28:57Speaker 9: by multiple prisoners on one staff member, assaults using weapons
- 29:02Speaker 9: that they've improved, that they've made, So it does vary
- 29:05Speaker 9: quite substantially. But the important thing is that a the
- 29:09Speaker 9: severity and the mere number of these instance, across the
- 29:15Speaker 9: year has drastically risen.
- 29:16Speaker 2: And so when somebody when you've got a sixty six
- 29:19Speaker 2: percent increase in four years on people asking for segregation,
- 29:23Speaker 2: what does that do for staffing levels? Like, if you
- 29:26Speaker 2: have lots of people wanting to be in segregated areas,
- 29:29Speaker 2: does that increase the number of people that you need.
- 29:34Speaker 7: It?
- 29:34Speaker 9: Does it correlate into actually having more staff? Unfortunately, no,
- 29:38Speaker 9: it doesn't. So the segregation numbers is making it very
- 29:42Speaker 9: hard to run the prisons. We've got a lot more
- 29:44Speaker 9: prisoners that are segregated and therefore have to be kept
- 29:47Speaker 9: separate from everyone else, and so that definitely does increase
- 29:51Speaker 9: the workload on staff.
- 29:53Speaker 2: You've got apparently two officers and a high security wing
- 29:57Speaker 2: of thirty inmates. What should that number be?
- 30:02Speaker 9: That's a piece of work that we're saying to the
- 30:04Speaker 9: government needs some serious research. We've looked at the likes
- 30:07Speaker 9: of you know, everyone mentions the Scander Navy and model
- 30:09Speaker 9: in prisons. We've spoken to the Norwegian prison officers and
- 30:13Speaker 9: spoken about how they operate. They run a model that
- 30:16Speaker 9: has one staff member to every two prisoners. Now that
- 30:20Speaker 9: on the extreme ends, but what they've clearly shared with
- 30:24Speaker 9: us is having far more staff gives you the ability
- 30:27Speaker 9: to do a lot more one on one intervention, a
- 30:29Speaker 9: lot more work and support, and so having something closer
- 30:33Speaker 9: to that end drastically increases the reduction in violence, and
- 30:38Speaker 9: more importantly, on the other end, it helps change these
- 30:42Speaker 9: people in a much better way. And so we're saying
- 30:45Speaker 9: two staff to thirty high sur prisoners is just not
- 30:48Speaker 9: good enough. We need more staff on the ground to
- 30:50Speaker 9: prevent these incidents and to help with better rehabilitation outcomes.
- 30:54Speaker 2: If they're one staff to every two inmates and we're
- 30:56Speaker 2: two for every thirty, we had a long way to go,
- 30:58Speaker 2: haven't we? Absolutely?
- 31:00Speaker 9: And that's that's the reality. Are we going to get
- 31:02Speaker 9: there today?
- 31:03Speaker 6: Though?
- 31:04Speaker 9: But let's start moving in that direction to start increasing safety.
- 31:09Speaker 2: Floyd dipluses the Corrections Association US on President Time. Now
- 31:12Speaker 2: is eight minutes away from six News Talk SEB.
- 31:15Speaker 1: The first Word on the News of the Day early
- 31:18Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and x Fole Insulation, Keeping Kiwi
- 31:22Speaker 1: Holmes warm and Drey This Winter News Talks ad B.
- 31:26Speaker 2: Good Morning. Lots of text about road cones as you
- 31:28Speaker 2: can imagine. So in future, this is how the government
- 31:30Speaker 2: is actually going to fix the problem. Apparently because you
- 31:33Speaker 2: can do a you know, a hotline where people can
- 31:36Speaker 2: ring in, and that's not going to do it. Apparently
- 31:38Speaker 2: that's not enough. You can tell the councils to do it,
- 31:41Speaker 2: they're not going to listen, so you actually have to
- 31:43Speaker 2: threaten to restrict funding. In future, the NZTA Board will
- 31:48Speaker 2: not approve funding unless councils use the new New Zealand
- 31:52Speaker 2: Guide to Temporary Traffic Management, which is the parent that's
- 31:56Speaker 2: the one they need to use. The one they're still
- 31:59Speaker 2: using is the old one, which is the Code of
- 32:02Speaker 2: Practice for Traffic Management Risk Assessment. That'll solve the problem.
- 32:08Speaker 2: Moment five or six. Graham Bridge, Good morning, Mike, morning.
- 32:12Speaker 2: I what would you have done?
- 32:14Speaker 14: How long have we got? Because I can't see a clock.
- 32:18Speaker 14: You're hopeless on time?
- 32:19Speaker 2: Three minutes?
- 32:19Speaker 14: Yeah, right, two or three minutes. I don't think that's true.
- 32:23Speaker 2: So I'm on the motor minutes.
- 32:25Speaker 14: I'm on the motorway the other day and so it's
- 32:28Speaker 14: three o'clock in the morning and I'm seeing on the
- 32:31Speaker 14: other side of the motorway there's road action. My side
- 32:34Speaker 14: of the motorway there are and I'm not kidding hundreds
- 32:37Speaker 14: of meters of road cones, hundreds of meters of them,
- 32:41Speaker 14: with no people there, no work going on, no nothing.
- 32:44Speaker 14: So I'm speeding along at one hundred ish and I'm
- 32:47Speaker 14: seeing these road cones and I'm thinking, wait a minute,
- 32:49Speaker 14: wait a minute, this is not happening. So your theory
- 32:53Speaker 14: versus reality, right, they make these big, grandiose announcements about
- 32:55Speaker 14: the rocone, but listens.
- 32:58Speaker 2: But also how much of it is to do with
- 33:00Speaker 2: work Safe because they're not pulling the dogs off the
- 33:03Speaker 2: leash at the other end. You know what I mean.
- 33:04Speaker 2: If you go ahead, okay, fine, let's take away all
- 33:07Speaker 2: the road cones and then someone dies, work Safe is
- 33:09Speaker 2: going to come after you.
- 33:09Speaker 14: No, but this is a motivate three o'clock in the morning.
- 33:12Speaker 14: There's a motivate State Highway one, multi lane highway, hundreds
- 33:16Speaker 14: of me.
- 33:16Speaker 2: Now my question was this, but is there a hole
- 33:18Speaker 2: that the cones are hole?
- 33:19Speaker 14: There's nothing, So my question is this, would you back up?
- 33:23Speaker 14: Because you can't turn around on the motorway going one way,
- 33:25Speaker 14: you can't.
- 33:26Speaker 8: Do a UI.
- 33:27Speaker 2: Would you back up?
- 33:28Speaker 14: Because this was my temptation. I was going to slam,
- 33:30Speaker 14: slam on the brakes, hit reverse, back, up and film
- 33:33Speaker 14: them and then send the film to the Prime Minister
- 33:37Speaker 14: and go what the hell is going on here?
- 33:39Speaker 2: Talk about it? But I don't know.
- 33:41Speaker 14: Yeah, but you need he'd go, I don't, but I
- 33:44Speaker 14: find that hard to believe.
- 33:44Speaker 2: The minute you hit reverse on a motorway, Well, that's
- 33:48Speaker 2: my question, do you think so well?
- 33:50Speaker 14: Not of the's note? Have you been on the motorway
- 33:51Speaker 14: three in the morning. There's no one there? Yeah, but
- 33:53Speaker 14: I mean I thought I needed proof. So I regret
- 33:55Speaker 14: now not doing it, okay, because I can only tell
- 33:58Speaker 14: the story and I've only got my credibility to unbelief you.
- 34:00Speaker 2: No one believes me.
- 34:01Speaker 14: But it was there, Honestly, it was there, all right.
- 34:04Speaker 2: I doubt that it'll be one for him this morning.
- 34:06Speaker 14: Prime Ministers with us after seven thirty.
- 34:08Speaker 2: Fore then, thank you seen him on. Everyone, have a
- 34:09Speaker 2: great day.
- 34:14Speaker 1: For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live
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