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Ryan Bridge: Nothing solves global conflict like a good UNGA session · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness. I'm so relieved, not only because it's Friday,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm also relieved because the UN General Assembly is
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  Speaker 1: underway in New York. Nothing solves global conflict like a
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  Speaker 1: good anger session. I've been to one of these before.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of sitting around and talking and listening, which,
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  Speaker 1: as Winston Peter's pointed out yesterday, is actually quite important.
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu is en route, Zelenski is there, martmudebas the Palestinian president,
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  Speaker 1: he's going Putin the Pariah obviously won't be there. But
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  Speaker 1: does anybody hold out any hope that the UN will
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  Speaker 1: fix the big issues, will magically solve all the walls
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  Speaker 1: and conflicts in the world. As we reported on yesterday's show,
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  Speaker 1: China's launching missiles into the South Pacific. A Japanese warship
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  Speaker 1: has just sailed through the Taiwan straight for the first
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  Speaker 1: time ever. That's new this morning. Israel's hammering Lebanon, not
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  Speaker 1: to mention Gaza, Putin's lowering the threshold for nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 1: Trump says Ukraine is dead, and delegates are talking over
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  Speaker 1: the top of Winston Peter's at the Security Council.
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  Speaker 2: What you mean when somebody's addressing you. The rest of
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  Speaker 2: the people in the room keep quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Some would say these challenges are ones that the world
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  Speaker 1: that we can all face together, united as one, united nations.
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  Speaker 1: But most of the time, if we're being real about it,
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  Speaker 1: it's about as useful as an ash tray on a motorbike.
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  Speaker 1: And most countries and their leaders know this, but off
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  Speaker 1: they go off to the big Apple to do their dance,
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  Speaker 1: to thump their fists, have their say, while the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world largely ignores and carries on business as usual.
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