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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge new
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's Furniture Vans and a play at store ustorgs.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be good morning, welcome to your Friday morning. It
is six half to five for coming up our lead
in view before six Ginny Anderson's foaming at the mouth
about this police recruitment target potentially not being met. But
what do the cops actually think about it? Vincent mcaviniy
is UK Europe today, Andrew Ellison is in Wellington, the
Black Cats versus England and Fonterra prophet down, but forecasts
(00:38):
for farm gate prices up. Will look at that just
before well actually we'll look at that in about ten
minutes time the agenda and it is Friday, sixth of December.
Looking at this killing, very public killing of the CEO
of United Healthcare in New York City. The murderer still
has not been identified, and the bullets that we used
(01:00):
to kill him apparently had the words deny, defend and
depose written on them.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Add to seeing we recover three live nine milimeters rounds
and three discharged nine milimeters shell casings.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The murder. For this murder currently is ann Apparently, his
wife said he had received death threats before he was killed,
and this happened a day before an investor meeting. Bitcoin's
surge is continuing, hitting a record one hundred thousand US
dollars for the first time. This is a forty percent
increase in value, so good on you if you bought
(01:32):
it after Trump came to power, forty percent increase in
value since he got in. It's risen four point three
percent just today overnight. Trump's election obviously a big signal
for this. The US, the crypto capital of the world,
is what he described as in the future. One analyst, though,
last week, said beware, is it actually a widely used
(01:55):
and usable product or is this just hype with bitcoin?
And who uses it? Drug dealers, terrorists, criminals, not US.
Syrian troops are withdrawing from Hamma as rebel forces surround
the city. Last week they captured Aleppo that continue to
make gain since then. This is a significant development because
it is on the road to Damascus. The main rebel.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Faction is an Islamist fundamentalist group, an offshoot of a
successor of Al Qaeda, but Turkey has been backing some
of these rebel groups for years, and that's one of
the reasons why these rebel groups have been successful. The
other reason is because Russia is partly overstretched by its
war in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We have a meeting taking place between our foreign and
defense ministers this New Zealand and Australia held in Auckland today.
Discussions will include how we can partner to respond to
growing instability and the Endo Pacific and we all know
what that is code for, at least in Judith Colin size,
and that is China firing a missile into the Pacific.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge you twenty twenty
four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
beds and a playing store, youth talks.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It'd be story of the morning for your Friday. I
we'll get to it a little later on. But it's
this Italian nun who's been arrested for links to the mafia. Yes,
holy hell right now though the big capacity. This is
another thing that's come out of Scrutiny Week, which by
the way, is turning out to be quite a productive
use of Parliament's time. Would we say, I think so? Anyway,
(03:28):
I think we've got a lot out of it. What
a great idea. So the big capacity this is that
our prisons across the country is projected to run out.
So in other words, we won't have any beds for
prisoners in twenty twenty seven. That is the best case scenario.
The worst June next year. I know, maybe we should
start a billeting system, you know, where if the prisons
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are full and the because the police are doing a
good job, they're going out and arresting the gangs, et cetera,
blah blah, just you know, let them at your house.
Apparently we will be saved, hopefully. And this is fingers
crossed by Waikerdia. There's an expansion project going on there.
Phase one is due to be completed by the middle
of next year. Now, due to be completed does not
mean it will be completed. And we've all seen what's
(04:14):
happening with infrastructure projects in this country, right, So fingers crossed, everybody,
Good luck everybody. How did we get here? Is the
interesting part of this from these scrutiny week the Corrections
boss says, because there was a reduction in the prison
population some you know, under the last government. Some facilities
were basically empty, they were taken out of use, and
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now they need to be updated. They need to be
upgraded in order that prisoners can go back into them.
And then of course you need to think about staffing
those prisons, those locations as well. So that is how
we got here, and hopefully it won't you know, we
won't end up with a prisoner at your place.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
After five, it is your Friday morning. Also today happening
actually in a few hours, Emmanuel Maholm is going to
address the French people. I'll run you through when we
get back. How we got here, how they got here.
Quite a mess there.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
In News and Views you trust to start your day,
it's early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture beds and a flying store.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
News talk said, be on bitcoin. Somebody says my elderly
sister uses bitcoin to buy groceries and in Vicargo, is
it a joke or can you actually do that? I'm
I would like to know. Another says in on Waikittya.
This is the prison numbers. Apparently we're going to run
out of beds by the middle of next year. Waikya
is three years behind time, and it's the same company
(05:53):
that built Transmission Gully. I'm picking twenty twenty six, fourteen
after five Ryan Bridge Bontira has lifted its forecast farm
eight milk prices too, between nine to fifty to ten
dollars fifty. The dairy cooperative says it's seeing increasing demand
from China and Southeast Asia. The move comes despite profits
falling from three hundred and forty six million to two
hundred and sixty three million. That's a thirty percent reduction
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on the same time last year. That's for quarter one.
Matt Montgomery is the Forsyth Bars senior analyst. Equities is
with us this morning. Matt, good morning, Good morning Ryan,
thanks having me had good great result about the well
if the result materializes about the forecast farm gate milk.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Prices, Yeah, no, indeed, I think if you look at
recent Glowood dry trade doctions have been strong and ten
dollars would be a record high if you look at
the midpoint in nominal terms. The previous high was nine
dollars thirty back in two So yeah, father.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
How high? How much high could it potentially go? I
mean I'm reading that this is all about China, in
particular stockpiling ahead of Christmas learning New Year? Is it
the does it taper OFFXT year?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Yeah, I mean I'm reluctant to forecast that, I must say.
I mean commodity places are inherently qualatile, but the China
demand has been fluggish for some time, so there's pleasing
could least see that they're returning.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
In some ways.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What about the profit for a quarter one miles houses
that was a strong result despite the thirty percent reduction.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Yeah. I think for Frottierra, you've got to consider that
when milk prices are high like they are, and that
often tends to mean that margins and their consumer and
food service businesses are slightly well good in their inability
to pass the higher prices on. So they reiterated their
(07:51):
full year earnings guidance yesterday for forty to sixty cents
this year. So I think that's the important thing to
consider where that that's exactly what they had been signaling
back in September when they reported their results, So it
shouldn't be any major surprises to to invest it all funners.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
They're also a business and transition, which is another thing
that Harrell spoke about you spoke about yesterday.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Yeah, No, there's there's been a lot of change in
the corp for a number of years now. So Darla
wouldn't say that it's reflective of thirty percent client. It's
more affliction of Haylo's. This is a volatile business and
it's thank move around prices and their last year was
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a very good year as well. I think that's important
to consider too.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Matt, thank you very much for that analysis. Really appreciated
this morning. Matt Montgomery for sith Bast Senior Analyst, Equities.
It is seventeen after five US Talk sed.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
B Ryan Bridge, New for twenty twenty four on early
edition with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture, Beds and a
playing Store.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
News Talks b nineteen after five on news Talk said,
so the French president Emmanuel Macron is going to address
the public in a couple of hours time. He has
to pick a new prime minister. Varna is see your
later mate, he's gone. Well, actually he's still there running
day to day issues, but he's basically gone. And then
they're basically back to square one. You know, let's not
(09:19):
forget and people are saying you need to pick a
new Prime minister quickly, but he should probably take just
a little bit more time, seen as how much they've
wasted already, you know, and get it right, because remember
it was Macron who called the snap election that led
to the hung parliament, that led to bargner, that led
to the budget bust up, that led to the collapse
(09:39):
of the government. And now they are back at square
one basically when we watched the Olympics. Remember they just
had three weeks prior they're elections. They're basically back there,
no budget and no Prime Minister. Bryan Bridge Wellington gearing
up to host the cricket this weekend. The black Caps
have selected an unchanged lineup for the second Test against
England at the Base from Reserve starts this morning. Andrew
(10:01):
Ordison is there news Talks. Heb's cricket correspondent, Andrew. Good morning, greetings, Ryan,
good to have you, Good to hear from you. Nice
to have you in the Capitol for us this morning.
So they've kept the faith with this team that lost
in christ Church. Have they made the right call? Do
you reckon?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think by a large yes. I mean I'm looking
at that pitch yesterday. It's going to be green and
seam options will come to the foe pretty early. I
would have thought if New Zealander's able to when the
task I think of Edisie wins a task, they're likely
to fields first and to make the best of those
bowling conditions. Just having a look looking back when there's
(10:40):
some talk you could have maybe used a spinner and
that's why Mitchell Sander was brought into the squad or
you know, the specialist spur of content Philips. They're all
ready but just looking there's been one first class game
there this season. Three wickets of the forty that we're
taken with to spin, not a whole lot. There was
an argument last season in said bry Becaus Nathan Line,
(11:00):
the Australian has been a top ten for the match,
that maybe they should introduce that option war but he's
inn sticking with the tribe that the key thing right
has been the catching and if the catchers has been
taken the first thing some christ, she could have been
a whole a lot different the situation he's in out
there practicing that catching. At Linked yesterday sort of players
lined up along the fence with Jacob Warren, the assistant
(11:24):
coach delivering the big hits and also Gary Stead feeding
the slip cording with the plumb trying to sharpen that up.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But it didn't look to be going very well from
what I saw, from what I saw on the news.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Andrew Yes, it's a sort of a scenario of yet
you have the tricky rehearsal if you like, before the
main events in theater they say break the.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Leg going like that anyway, We'll see how that goes.
But he's in the traditionally an excellent fielding site, so
that was one that was expect good with that performance.
Eight drop catches and the editings which really in five
in Harry Brooks innings alone, which really cost them the game.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
They are both out to both teams now out of
the World Test Championship running. Does that mean that they'll
be a bit looser, Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I mean he's given me crucially losing those points to
to the lack of overs in the day, to the
slow over rates, and there's been some dispute over that
where you get a lot more seamovers in the likes
and you get on in the Australian versus that the
spitting on the subcontinent. But yeah, I think you could
see a bit more. The prevare to throw causing to
(12:37):
the wind in that regard perhaps, But then again, most
teams then playing for results these days, by large's very
few draws, and particularly where this English side is involved,
and the likelihood is that you'll end up with a
match that's prince less than five days anyway, given the
tempo that they play at the.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Visitors Andrew, thank you, look forward to hearing you later
this morning. Appreciate your time in getting up early for us.
Andrew Ortison, zeb's cricket correspondent. It is twenty three minutes
half to five. You're on News TALKSB the.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
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Speaker 2 (13:12):
Five after five on News Talk BB. So it looks
like looks like police will miss the deadline of adding
five hundred extra sawn officers. What we were promised should
take two years will now in fact more likely according
to the top Brassit scrutiny week in Parliament this week
take two and a half years, So an extra six months.
Will anyone really care? Probably not? Should we care? Well?
(13:37):
When there are more bad guys out there doing bad things.
We should always care about how many good guys and
girls we have out there countering that. But on this
particular point of missing a target by one hundred and
eighty odd days, not really why. One. The target was
always described as highly ambitious, and that should be a
clue from a politician too. They may still make the deadline.
(13:58):
I mean that has not been discount at this point
and they are working hard to do that. Three. It
was only a target because it was included in a
coalition agreement with New Zealand. First, and clearly, if you
follow the public comments of Mark Mitchell through the past year,
even National has been skeptical about the timing of it.
And most importantly, not hitting five hundred by November next
(14:19):
year doesn't mean that we'll have zero extra cops on
the beat by that date. It means we'll probably have
a few hundred extra, with more coming in mid twenty
twenty six. The most reassuring thing about this whole debarcle
were the words from the new Commissioner, Richard Chambers yesterday,
who said, we are not going to compromise. So if
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it takes us a little bit of time to produce
the best quality officers. Then we'll take that and he
is right, of course, of course he's right, because we
need five hundred good cops, five hundred great cops, five
hundred excellent cops, well trained and well resourced, not five
hundred average cops. Brian Bridge, seven minutes after five on
(15:04):
news Talks. He'd be great to have your company. We
are going to speak to the Police Association about that,
coming up just before six this morning. That's our lead. Also,
we're going to go to the UK. Vincent mcavinie is
our UK europe correspondent. He'll talk obviously about Macron and
his speech and how the hell he's going to pick
a new prime minister and what that might look like,
but also Romania. And what's interesting here is they've had
(15:25):
an election where Russia cyber attacks have been and that's
no surprise, but they've been using TikTok so the Russians
going through the Chinese platform to get to the Romanians.
He'll break that down for us a little later on
as well. Now, this is the fun story for today,
this well, at least I think so. This is the
nun holy hell, good lord, what is happening in a
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prison in Italy and none has been arrested for her
links to the mafia. She was among twenty five people
that were arrested over the last couple of days. She
was apparently a go but between the criminal gangs on
the inside and the criminal gangs on the outside, and
she was caught up in a range of well, I
(16:09):
suppose a raft of arrests over the last couple of
days to do with establishment figures. There was a counselor
in Georgia Maloney's party. There was a former politician also
caught up in this, and they were accused of crimes
like extortion, arms and drugs, traffick like the worst you
could think of, money laundering, all that kind of stuff,
(16:30):
even vote buying. Some of them were hit with anyway,
and among the twenty five is none the nice, sweet
old nun. And the investigators said this is the best
part of the story. Investigators said her quote spiritual role
ensured connection with the prisoners and allowed her to have
free access to the penitentiary facilities. So she just if
(16:54):
you're a nun, you just what you've got your own
keys to the kingdom in the prison. Apparently N nine
two is the number to text I would love to
hear from you this morning. We're going to get to
Vincent mcavnie after our reporters, which comes after News, which
is next next to me. It's justice.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Drama, drama, the news you need this morning and the
in depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smitz
(17:44):
City New Zealand's furniture bids and applying store news talks.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
It'd be.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Good Morning New Zella. Twenty four away from six. It
is Friday, the sixth of December. I'm Ryan Bridge. Great
to have you with me this morning. Coming up. Vincent mcaviny,
a UK europe correspondent, is with us. Macron has to
pick a new prime minister. He's due to speak in
a couple of hours. Has he potentially done it already? Also,
the Police Association on the targets not being met, the
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extra five hundred cops that we need on the beat.
How they feeling about it? We'll ask them just before
six this morning. Mosquitos, if you're like me, you're one
of those people getting bitten a lot at the moment
and it's only going to get worse. Apparently it's one
of those years where there are lots of mosquitoes around
and there's an article that's sort of busting all the
myths around mosquitos, because there are a lot out there.
(18:39):
The gross part and if you are eating your breakfast,
maybe to stop for a second because this is quite
disgusting to think about. But it describes. This is an
article from the City Morning Herald describes what is happening
when a mosquito is biting you. They're female mosquito seeking
out a blood meal when they're ready to lay eggs.
(18:59):
First of all, that's disgusting. Using an arsenal of six
needles to saw into the skin, they inject an anti
clotting saliva. They then guzzle your blood, excreek the water,
harvest the protein to nourish their eggs, and off they go.
Disgusting anyway, if you want to avoid it, here are
(19:20):
some lies. Vitamin B patches don't work, Vegimite not a thing,
eating garlic not a thing. Diet in general not a thing.
The truth, they do love our breath, you know, we
admit CO two. They do love that, and they do
identify us by that. So if you could stop breathing,
that would help you wouldn't get bitten by mosquitoes. Apparently,
one thing that does work, according to research from Queensland,
(19:43):
is wearing darker colors, particularly if you're out in the bush.
Wear darker colors and they won't bite you as much apparently,
although I don't know how much that will help you
at nighttime while you're sleeping. Spray and Bridge twenty two
away from the six colored procticing and needing for us
this morning Colum good morning. The Uber Riders and Dunedin
are being given a gold staff for etiquette morning ryany.
(20:04):
This is one of these end of year lists.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Uber the rides Here apps unwrapped its annual rider ratings
to figure out which town's are naughty or nice. Once again,
Daneed and Uber Riders have come out on top for
the second year in a row as the best behaved
in the country. Dannedan came in with an average rider
rating of four point nine to three, which is pretty
good apparently compared to the lowest score in Auckland of
(20:26):
four point eight seven. Queenstown and Wellington riders are pretty
bad as well. Their way down the Lisz Palmes the
North second, New Plymouth was third, and naturally Ryan Uber's
encouraging all passengers to be mindful of their etiquette and
managed during this busy festive season, and to keep things
merry and considerate.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
That is good advice. How's the weather, colum.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
One or two late afternoon showers possibly heavy for Daneda.
We've still got that fresh south wester the heights to
day twenty brilliant.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Thank you Jamie Cunningham and christ Jamie. The crews working
through the night to fight that large fire.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
Ye, so just eleven homes and Castle Hill Village remain
occupied as fire An emergency encourages self evacuation from the
blaze near Lake Pearson. It says those remaining must be
ready to leave at short notice should they need to
escape the five hundred and thirty five hectare fire. Three
scool camps were evacuated yesterday, while a community meeting is
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scheduled for one pm at the Tarwater Memorial Hall in Springfield.
But there's some relief for firefighters today, as Meat Service
says the area is heading into a cooler day with
lighter winds and isolated showers are also forecast. State Highway
seventy three remains closed between Springfield and Arthur's Passed.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Okay, good to hear that wind is going to come
down the weather more generally for the region.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Yeah, in christ Church it's fine at first with cloud
increasing and a chance of an evening shower, but a
high of twenty one.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Brilliant. Thank you Jamie. Nice to have you on the show.
Max Tolls and Wellington as he always is, Max the
City to see Well, it's see you later for the
City to see bridge. It's been demolished, it's been designed.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Brilliant, that's right, a very recognizable Wellington landmark, a massive
structure that connects the waterfront and Civic Square. But it's
a quake risk and it would take eighty five million
dollars to repair. Bit of a no brainer for the
City Council to vote to demolish it. Coming in its
place likely a rather uninspiring option of a large pedestrian crossing.
(22:20):
A few people did try to save it at yesterday's meeting,
but it was pretty consensus that.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It needs to go as the City of Sea Bridge.
Speaker 11 (22:27):
If you've ever seen it or walked over it, or
huddled in one of its alcoves out of the wind
for a smoke or a chat. It's also a series
of timber artworks. Narrow Footbridges. I funnily enough, picked up
an old friend from the airport yesterday we passed pasted
long jervis Key. He said the bridge was one of
his favorite parts of Wellington, but unfortunately for him, it's
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just not built for this world.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
No well and also that's an indictment on Wellington. Hey,
how's your weather in the capital today?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Max?
Speaker 11 (22:57):
Yeah, not bad for the first day of the test.
Should be vain bit of morning clouds. Southerly's bringing a
little cooler temperature at seventeen the high in the city.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Brilliant. Thank you, enjoy your day. And are you Are
you gonna go down to the cricket I suppose you
can so.
Speaker 11 (23:09):
Certainly, as soon as that twelve o'clock bulletin's over, I'll
venture down.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Good on your Max. Neva's an Oakland, Hey, Neva, he.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Should just pre record that bulletin, that midday bulletin, Max,
and get out early and go down there.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
He's got important news to report.
Speaker 12 (23:24):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Bridge has been demolished. Do you know how much I
think it was going to cost one hundred and twenty
million dollars to reinforce that bridge. It's just a footbridge.
Speaker 12 (23:32):
It is a footbridge. And I've never seen anyone on there.
I mean, not that I go down there all the time,
but every time I look up and gaze at it,
it's always you.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Know, it's always used on the weekends normally. But yeah,
it's a very expensive for sure, replace which is why
they're getting rid of it. Anyway. In Auckland, the recognition
for the bravery of those during the Newland supermarket attack.
Speaker 12 (23:51):
Yes, now the bravery awards are round and Steve Brody
he's one of those being recognized. And as you say,
in that twenty twenty one new Land supermarket attack, so
he and staff members they barricaded doors of a room
that people were hiding, and apparently Brody pushed against the
doors and this was as the offender, you know, partially
opened him and swung a knife at him. So Steve
(24:12):
Brody said, look, prior to the attack, he'd read a
Bible verse about fearing no evil, and throughout the ordeal
he had peace and no fear. So good on him.
I mean, I often think what would I be like
in a situation like that. I'd be terrible.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Actually, I think you'd be quite good. Actually, I think
that the sad thing about this was that happened during
that was during the lockdown, wasn't it, remember, And everybody
was so sort of distracted and this awful thing happened.
Speaker 12 (24:35):
And of course in the supermarket they were the busiest
places during that time, and so there were.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Good It's good that it's being that they are being
recognized for their bravery. How's the weather in.
Speaker 12 (24:44):
Auckland, Well, the weather but a ted tad caller that
it has been in the last couple of days, which
is probably I think everyone will be happy about our
highest twenty two as opposed to the twenty six degrees
that we've had. Pretty warm now and still cloudy but
no rain.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Brilliant never Thank you, lo see you as always enjoy
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A lot Heppning and France. Today, we've got Trump on
the way for the opening of the Notre Dame. We've
got the Eurozone worried about they did, and we've got
Macron about to speak because they need a new Prime Minister.
Vincent Meca and he's a UK europe correspondent, Vincent Has
he picked anyone yet do we know?
Speaker 13 (26:35):
No, he hasn't. Emmanuel Macron has been locked away in
the Elise Palace. He is going to address the French
nation tonight on television to speak to them. It was
months between Gabrielle Atto, the last Prime minister, and the
appointment of Michelle Varnier because Macron had called that snap
election which fully divided the French Parliament between his interests
(26:57):
the left and then Marine la Penn sort of far right.
Michelle Barnier was someone that Marine Napenn, the leader and
sort of longtime rival of Macrol, said that she could
do business with. But the whole thing has collapsed, and
it's all to do with the rising French debt. They're
sort of debt to GDP ratio. They now have more
debt than their annual GDP, breaking several EU rules on this,
(27:21):
and so Michelle Barnier was trying to bring in a
budget which would start to address this and it was
rejected by the House. So it's causing real problems for
President Macroll. Questions whether or not he can survive to
the end of his term in twenty twenty seven because
he doesn't have a prime minister and he doesn't have
a government at the moment, they can't have fresh parliamentary
elections until next summer, so real questions over his position tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, just madness really when you think about it, when
we watch the Olympics. So basically back to the States,
you know, no government, no prime minister, and no budget passed.
Romania has revealed it's been hit with an election in
experience very quickly involves TikTok.
Speaker 13 (27:57):
Yeah, unsurprisingly it seems to be coming from Russia, a
sort of cyber attacks and then trying to influence on
TikTok that's been ahead of their presidential elections this weekend,
where a far right NATO skeptic candidate who has praised
Putin before and has said he will end all aid
and assistance to Ukraine. So no wonder Vladimir Putin wants
(28:19):
to maybe try and help this guy into office.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
This is Klin Giorgescu.
Speaker 13 (28:24):
He is now a running and the Romanian government and
intelligence sources are saying that there has been a lot
of paid support for this candidate on TikTok using the
algorithm and also cyber attacks to try and benefit him
as well. So it seems like the usual hybrid warfare
tactics from Russia against Europe.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Vincent, thank you for that. Vincent mcavini are UK and
Europe correspondent. It is ten away from six.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Ryan Bridge police.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Officials are warning that they might not be able to
make the government's election promise to train five hundred new
officers by the two year deadline, which is No. Twenty
seventh next year. The Police Commissioner, Richard Chambers told parliaments
Justice Select Committee he's refusing to lower the quality of
training just to meet the target. Chris Carhill is the
Police Association Prison he's with us this morning. Chris, good morning,
(29:10):
Good morning Ryan. How do you feel that? To me,
sounds like a reasonable response. I won't do this, rush
this and get just any cop on the beat.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Yeah. Well, at least he's been honest for a change.
We've always said it's going to be an incredibly big ask.
We didn't think they could do it. You need to
recruit five hundred officers a year just to maintain the
status quoe, just to deal with the numbers that are leading.
So this was going to require seven hundred and fifty
a year to get to that level. We said we
(29:40):
couldn't do it. Police said during especially during pay round negotiations,
they could. And so at least he's been honest and
we certainly agree you shouldn't lower the standards.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Does it matter if they miss it by six months?
Speaker 7 (29:53):
It does effect in that they've already moved staff into
new roles such as the beat staff New Zealand, and they've
had to come from other roles that now aren't getting done.
So it does hurt other parts of policing. But I'd
still rather wait for six months they get low standard
and recruits, yeah, yeah, longer in consequences.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Exactly and undermine all cops, you know what I mean.
Some funding apparently has gone to that was meant to
go to the recruitment has gone towards the York and
Central station. Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 7 (30:24):
Well, not one. It shouldn't because one should be recruits.
That's personnal budget. Now there should be capital expenditure. So
we're disappointing that that has happened. But if they have
funded some of the new roles so that they could
backfl some of the others, that would be valuable, but
there's a lot of issues with money in police and building,
(30:46):
so I think it's going to take a lot more
than just a few recruits to fund the building problems
in New Zealand. Police.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Chris, thank you very much for your time. I always appreciated.
Chris can't help Police Association President on News that the government, well,
they may still meet the deadline. Police they say they
are going helpful leather to try and do that, but
there is a probably more substantial chance they will miss
it by at least six months. It is eight away
from six News Talks.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
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Speaker 2 (31:24):
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I recommend to you if you haven't got a Christmas
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your family members, The Child Cancer Foundation has tetails that
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They are beautifully designed and they've got blue daisies on
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(31:45):
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order those. Ryan Bridge five from six and Mike is
here for our final little chat for this year, because
you are off Mike for a break and I am
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off to drive for a couple of weeks before going
on my Christmas break too. Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 14 (32:12):
Have you done your Spotify rap?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I have?
Speaker 14 (32:15):
What's the how many minutes?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I have to see it?
Speaker 14 (32:19):
Because here's the thing, I'm four and a half thousand minutes?
And because I play no music, I don't play a
lot of music, and all the music in our house
is driven by my wife's phone. So I can't wait
to find out how many minutes hers is.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You're a podcast podcaster?
Speaker 14 (32:33):
No, I don't listen to many podcasts either, but it
was interesting sort of. It told me what it's quite
fun is what I'm saying. I'm not into tech and
all that sort of stuff, but as far as this
thing is concerned, it's quite cool.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
It is quite cool. Would you see what the article
about Chris Luxon and an Now that's a fraud getting
stick for posting there. What's a fraud, Well, it's for he.
Speaker 14 (32:55):
Was voted in as prime minister in this country. Luxon
based on the fact he's the country music fan. That's
what I'm but I thought it was entirely based on that.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I thought that's why I won a cowboy way.
Speaker 14 (33:07):
You look at his top five, there's barely a country
artist in the so you know, so you busted, aren't you,
Whereas if you look at mine, it came out exactly
as I would have predicted. My number one artist for
the year was Luke, Colmbs, Bob Dylan was in there,
Paul Simon was in there, Greg Johnson was in there.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Just for you know who was in Beyonce and the
Finger Boys.
Speaker 14 (33:26):
You see that doesn't surprise me, and that I wouldn't
have said that publicly. And on that note, very Christmas.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be good morning, welcome to your Friday morning. It
is six half to five for coming up our lead
in view before six Ginny Anderson's foaming at the mouth
about this police recruitment target potentially not being met. But
what do the cops actually think about it? Vincent mcaviniy
is UK Europe today, Andrew Ellison is in Wellington, the
Black Cats versus England and Fonterra prophet down, but forecasts
(00:38):
for farm gate prices up. Will look at that just
before well actually we'll look at that in about ten
minutes time the agenda and it is Friday, sixth of December.
Looking at this killing, very public killing of the CEO
of United Healthcare in New York City. The murderer still
has not been identified, and the bullets that we used
(01:00):
to kill him apparently had the words deny, defend and
depose written on them.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Add to seeing we recover three live nine milimeters rounds
and three discharged nine milimeters shell casings.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The murder. For this murder currently is ann Apparently, his
wife said he had received death threats before he was killed,
and this happened a day before an investor meeting. Bitcoin's
surge is continuing, hitting a record one hundred thousand US
dollars for the first time. This is a forty percent
increase in value, so good on you if you bought
(01:32):
it after Trump came to power, forty percent increase in
value since he got in. It's risen four point three
percent just today overnight. Trump's election obviously a big signal
for this. The US, the crypto capital of the world,
is what he described as in the future. One analyst, though,
last week, said beware, is it actually a widely used
(01:55):
and usable product or is this just hype with bitcoin?
And who uses it? Drug dealers, terrorists, criminals, not US.
Syrian troops are withdrawing from Hamma as rebel forces surround
the city. Last week they captured Aleppo that continue to
make gain since then. This is a significant development because
it is on the road to Damascus. The main rebel.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Faction is an Islamist fundamentalist group, an offshoot of a
successor of Al Qaeda, but Turkey has been backing some
of these rebel groups for years, and that's one of
the reasons why these rebel groups have been successful. The
other reason is because Russia is partly overstretched by its
war in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We have a meeting taking place between our foreign and
defense ministers this New Zealand and Australia held in Auckland today.
Discussions will include how we can partner to respond to
growing instability and the Endo Pacific and we all know
what that is code for, at least in Judith Colin size,
and that is China firing a missile into the Pacific.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge you twenty twenty
four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
beds and a playing store, youth talks.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It'd be story of the morning for your Friday. I
we'll get to it a little later on. But it's
this Italian nun who's been arrested for links to the mafia. Yes,
holy hell right now though the big capacity. This is
another thing that's come out of Scrutiny Week, which by
the way, is turning out to be quite a productive
use of Parliament's time. Would we say, I think so? Anyway,
(03:28):
I think we've got a lot out of it. What
a great idea. So the big capacity this is that
our prisons across the country is projected to run out.
So in other words, we won't have any beds for
prisoners in twenty twenty seven. That is the best case scenario.
The worst June next year. I know, maybe we should
start a billeting system, you know, where if the prisons
(03:51):
are full and the because the police are doing a
good job, they're going out and arresting the gangs, et cetera,
blah blah, just you know, let them at your house.
Apparently we will be saved, hopefully. And this is fingers
crossed by Waikerdia. There's an expansion project going on there.
Phase one is due to be completed by the middle
of next year. Now, due to be completed does not
mean it will be completed. And we've all seen what's
(04:14):
happening with infrastructure projects in this country, right, So fingers crossed, everybody,
Good luck everybody. How did we get here? Is the
interesting part of this from these scrutiny week the Corrections
boss says, because there was a reduction in the prison
population some you know, under the last government. Some facilities
were basically empty, they were taken out of use, and
(04:36):
now they need to be updated. They need to be
upgraded in order that prisoners can go back into them.
And then of course you need to think about staffing
those prisons, those locations as well. So that is how
we got here, and hopefully it won't you know, we
won't end up with a prisoner at your place.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
After five, it is your Friday morning. Also today happening
actually in a few hours, Emmanuel Maholm is going to
address the French people. I'll run you through when we
get back. How we got here, how they got here.
Quite a mess there.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
In News and Views you trust to start your day,
it's early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
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Speaker 2 (05:31):
News talk said, be on bitcoin. Somebody says my elderly
sister uses bitcoin to buy groceries and in Vicargo, is
it a joke or can you actually do that? I'm
I would like to know. Another says in on Waikittya.
This is the prison numbers. Apparently we're going to run
out of beds by the middle of next year. Waikya
is three years behind time, and it's the same company
(05:53):
that built Transmission Gully. I'm picking twenty twenty six, fourteen
after five Ryan Bridge Bontira has lifted its forecast farm
eight milk prices too, between nine to fifty to ten
dollars fifty. The dairy cooperative says it's seeing increasing demand
from China and Southeast Asia. The move comes despite profits
falling from three hundred and forty six million to two
hundred and sixty three million. That's a thirty percent reduction
(06:14):
on the same time last year. That's for quarter one.
Matt Montgomery is the Forsyth Bars senior analyst. Equities is
with us this morning. Matt, good morning, Good morning Ryan,
thanks having me had good great result about the well
if the result materializes about the forecast farm gate milk.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Prices, Yeah, no, indeed, I think if you look at
recent Glowood dry trade doctions have been strong and ten
dollars would be a record high if you look at
the midpoint in nominal terms. The previous high was nine
dollars thirty back in two So yeah, father.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
How high? How much high could it potentially go? I
mean I'm reading that this is all about China, in
particular stockpiling ahead of Christmas learning New Year? Is it
the does it taper OFFXT year?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Yeah, I mean I'm reluctant to forecast that, I must say.
I mean commodity places are inherently qualatile, but the China
demand has been fluggish for some time, so there's pleasing
could least see that they're returning.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
In some ways.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What about the profit for a quarter one miles houses
that was a strong result despite the thirty percent reduction.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Yeah. I think for Frottierra, you've got to consider that
when milk prices are high like they are, and that
often tends to mean that margins and their consumer and
food service businesses are slightly well good in their inability
to pass the higher prices on. So they reiterated their
(07:51):
full year earnings guidance yesterday for forty to sixty cents
this year. So I think that's the important thing to
consider where that that's exactly what they had been signaling
back in September when they reported their results, So it
shouldn't be any major surprises to to invest it all funners.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
They're also a business and transition, which is another thing
that Harrell spoke about you spoke about yesterday.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Yeah, No, there's there's been a lot of change in
the corp for a number of years now. So Darla
wouldn't say that it's reflective of thirty percent client. It's
more affliction of Haylo's. This is a volatile business and
it's thank move around prices and their last year was
(08:36):
a very good year as well. I think that's important
to consider too.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Matt, thank you very much for that analysis. Really appreciated
this morning. Matt Montgomery for sith Bast Senior Analyst, Equities.
It is seventeen after five US Talk sed.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
B Ryan Bridge, New for twenty twenty four on early
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playing Store.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
News Talks b nineteen after five on news Talk said,
so the French president Emmanuel Macron is going to address
the public in a couple of hours time. He has
to pick a new prime minister. Varna is see your
later mate, he's gone. Well, actually he's still there running
day to day issues, but he's basically gone. And then
they're basically back to square one. You know, let's not
(09:19):
forget and people are saying you need to pick a
new Prime minister quickly, but he should probably take just
a little bit more time, seen as how much they've
wasted already, you know, and get it right, because remember
it was Macron who called the snap election that led
to the hung parliament, that led to bargner, that led
to the budget bust up, that led to the collapse
(09:39):
of the government. And now they are back at square
one basically when we watched the Olympics. Remember they just
had three weeks prior they're elections. They're basically back there,
no budget and no Prime Minister. Bryan Bridge Wellington gearing
up to host the cricket this weekend. The black Caps
have selected an unchanged lineup for the second Test against
England at the Base from Reserve starts this morning. Andrew
(10:01):
Ordison is there news Talks. Heb's cricket correspondent, Andrew. Good morning, greetings, Ryan,
good to have you, Good to hear from you. Nice
to have you in the Capitol for us this morning.
So they've kept the faith with this team that lost
in christ Church. Have they made the right call? Do
you reckon?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think by a large yes. I mean I'm looking
at that pitch yesterday. It's going to be green and
seam options will come to the foe pretty early. I
would have thought if New Zealander's able to when the
task I think of Edisie wins a task, they're likely
to fields first and to make the best of those
bowling conditions. Just having a look looking back when there's
(10:40):
some talk you could have maybe used a spinner and
that's why Mitchell Sander was brought into the squad or
you know, the specialist spur of content Philips. They're all
ready but just looking there's been one first class game
there this season. Three wickets of the forty that we're
taken with to spin, not a whole lot. There was
an argument last season in said bry Becaus Nathan Line,
(11:00):
the Australian has been a top ten for the match,
that maybe they should introduce that option war but he's
inn sticking with the tribe that the key thing right
has been the catching and if the catchers has been
taken the first thing some christ, she could have been
a whole a lot different the situation he's in out
there practicing that catching. At Linked yesterday sort of players
lined up along the fence with Jacob Warren, the assistant
(11:24):
coach delivering the big hits and also Gary Stead feeding
the slip cording with the plumb trying to sharpen that up.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But it didn't look to be going very well from
what I saw, from what I saw on the news.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Andrew Yes, it's a sort of a scenario of yet
you have the tricky rehearsal if you like, before the
main events in theater they say break the.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Leg going like that anyway, We'll see how that goes.
But he's in the traditionally an excellent fielding site, so
that was one that was expect good with that performance.
Eight drop catches and the editings which really in five
in Harry Brooks innings alone, which really cost them the game.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
They are both out to both teams now out of
the World Test Championship running. Does that mean that they'll
be a bit looser, Yeah, it could be.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
I mean he's given me crucially losing those points to
to the lack of overs in the day, to the
slow over rates, and there's been some dispute over that
where you get a lot more seamovers in the likes
and you get on in the Australian versus that the
spitting on the subcontinent. But yeah, I think you could
see a bit more. The prevare to throw causing to
(12:37):
the wind in that regard perhaps, But then again, most
teams then playing for results these days, by large's very
few draws, and particularly where this English side is involved,
and the likelihood is that you'll end up with a
match that's prince less than five days anyway, given the
tempo that they play at the.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Visitors Andrew, thank you, look forward to hearing you later
this morning. Appreciate your time in getting up early for us.
Andrew Ortison, zeb's cricket correspondent. It is twenty three minutes
half to five. You're on News TALKSB the.
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Five after five on News Talk BB. So it looks
like looks like police will miss the deadline of adding
five hundred extra sawn officers. What we were promised should
take two years will now in fact more likely according
to the top Brassit scrutiny week in Parliament this week
take two and a half years, So an extra six months.
Will anyone really care? Probably not? Should we care? Well?
(13:37):
When there are more bad guys out there doing bad things.
We should always care about how many good guys and
girls we have out there countering that. But on this
particular point of missing a target by one hundred and
eighty odd days, not really why. One. The target was
always described as highly ambitious, and that should be a
clue from a politician too. They may still make the deadline.
(13:58):
I mean that has not been discount at this point
and they are working hard to do that. Three. It
was only a target because it was included in a
coalition agreement with New Zealand. First, and clearly, if you
follow the public comments of Mark Mitchell through the past year,
even National has been skeptical about the timing of it.
And most importantly, not hitting five hundred by November next
(14:19):
year doesn't mean that we'll have zero extra cops on
the beat by that date. It means we'll probably have
a few hundred extra, with more coming in mid twenty
twenty six. The most reassuring thing about this whole debarcle
were the words from the new Commissioner, Richard Chambers yesterday,
who said, we are not going to compromise. So if
(14:40):
it takes us a little bit of time to produce
the best quality officers. Then we'll take that and he
is right, of course, of course he's right, because we
need five hundred good cops, five hundred great cops, five
hundred excellent cops, well trained and well resourced, not five
hundred average cops. Brian Bridge, seven minutes after five on
(15:04):
news Talks. He'd be great to have your company. We
are going to speak to the Police Association about that,
coming up just before six this morning. That's our lead. Also,
we're going to go to the UK. Vincent mcavinie is
our UK europe correspondent. He'll talk obviously about Macron and
his speech and how the hell he's going to pick
a new prime minister and what that might look like,
but also Romania. And what's interesting here is they've had
(15:25):
an election where Russia cyber attacks have been and that's
no surprise, but they've been using TikTok so the Russians
going through the Chinese platform to get to the Romanians.
He'll break that down for us a little later on
as well. Now, this is the fun story for today,
this well, at least I think so. This is the
nun holy hell, good lord, what is happening in a
(15:48):
prison in Italy and none has been arrested for her
links to the mafia. She was among twenty five people
that were arrested over the last couple of days. She
was apparently a go but between the criminal gangs on
the inside and the criminal gangs on the outside, and
she was caught up in a range of well, I
(16:09):
suppose a raft of arrests over the last couple of
days to do with establishment figures. There was a counselor
in Georgia Maloney's party. There was a former politician also
caught up in this, and they were accused of crimes
like extortion, arms and drugs, traffick like the worst you
could think of, money laundering, all that kind of stuff,
(16:30):
even vote buying. Some of them were hit with anyway,
and among the twenty five is none the nice, sweet
old nun. And the investigators said this is the best
part of the story. Investigators said her quote spiritual role
ensured connection with the prisoners and allowed her to have
free access to the penitentiary facilities. So she just if
(16:54):
you're a nun, you just what you've got your own
keys to the kingdom in the prison. Apparently N nine
two is the number to text I would love to
hear from you this morning. We're going to get to
Vincent mcavnie after our reporters, which comes after News, which
is next next to me. It's justice.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Drama, drama, the news you need this morning and the
in depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smitz
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Speaker 7 (17:48):
It'd be.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Good Morning New Zella. Twenty four away from six. It
is Friday, the sixth of December. I'm Ryan Bridge. Great
to have you with me this morning. Coming up. Vincent mcaviny,
a UK europe correspondent, is with us. Macron has to
pick a new prime minister. He's due to speak in
a couple of hours. Has he potentially done it already? Also,
the Police Association on the targets not being met, the
(18:16):
extra five hundred cops that we need on the beat.
How they feeling about it? We'll ask them just before
six this morning. Mosquitos, if you're like me, you're one
of those people getting bitten a lot at the moment
and it's only going to get worse. Apparently it's one
of those years where there are lots of mosquitoes around
and there's an article that's sort of busting all the
myths around mosquitos, because there are a lot out there.
(18:39):
The gross part and if you are eating your breakfast,
maybe to stop for a second because this is quite
disgusting to think about. But it describes. This is an
article from the City Morning Herald describes what is happening
when a mosquito is biting you. They're female mosquito seeking
out a blood meal when they're ready to lay eggs.
(18:59):
First of all, that's disgusting. Using an arsenal of six
needles to saw into the skin, they inject an anti
clotting saliva. They then guzzle your blood, excreek the water,
harvest the protein to nourish their eggs, and off they go.
Disgusting anyway, if you want to avoid it, here are
(19:20):
some lies. Vitamin B patches don't work, Vegimite not a thing,
eating garlic not a thing. Diet in general not a thing.
The truth, they do love our breath, you know, we
admit CO two. They do love that, and they do
identify us by that. So if you could stop breathing,
that would help you wouldn't get bitten by mosquitoes. Apparently,
one thing that does work, according to research from Queensland,
(19:43):
is wearing darker colors, particularly if you're out in the bush.
Wear darker colors and they won't bite you as much apparently,
although I don't know how much that will help you
at nighttime while you're sleeping. Spray and Bridge twenty two
away from the six colored procticing and needing for us
this morning Colum good morning. The Uber Riders and Dunedin
are being given a gold staff for etiquette morning ryany.
(20:04):
This is one of these end of year lists.
Speaker 9 (20:06):
Uber the rides Here apps unwrapped its annual rider ratings
to figure out which town's are naughty or nice. Once again,
Daneed and Uber Riders have come out on top for
the second year in a row as the best behaved
in the country. Dannedan came in with an average rider
rating of four point nine to three, which is pretty
good apparently compared to the lowest score in Auckland of
(20:26):
four point eight seven. Queenstown and Wellington riders are pretty
bad as well. Their way down the Lisz Palmes the
North second, New Plymouth was third, and naturally Ryan Uber's
encouraging all passengers to be mindful of their etiquette and
managed during this busy festive season, and to keep things
merry and considerate.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
That is good advice. How's the weather, colum.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
One or two late afternoon showers possibly heavy for Daneda.
We've still got that fresh south wester the heights to
day twenty brilliant.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Thank you Jamie Cunningham and christ Jamie. The crews working
through the night to fight that large fire.
Speaker 10 (20:59):
Ye, so just eleven homes and Castle Hill Village remain
occupied as fire An emergency encourages self evacuation from the
blaze near Lake Pearson. It says those remaining must be
ready to leave at short notice should they need to
escape the five hundred and thirty five hectare fire. Three
scool camps were evacuated yesterday, while a community meeting is
(21:20):
scheduled for one pm at the Tarwater Memorial Hall in Springfield.
But there's some relief for firefighters today, as Meat Service
says the area is heading into a cooler day with
lighter winds and isolated showers are also forecast. State Highway
seventy three remains closed between Springfield and Arthur's Passed.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Okay, good to hear that wind is going to come
down the weather more generally for the region.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
Yeah, in christ Church it's fine at first with cloud
increasing and a chance of an evening shower, but a
high of twenty one.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Brilliant. Thank you Jamie. Nice to have you on the show.
Max Tolls and Wellington as he always is, Max the
City to see Well, it's see you later for the
City to see bridge. It's been demolished, it's been designed.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Brilliant, that's right, a very recognizable Wellington landmark, a massive
structure that connects the waterfront and Civic Square. But it's
a quake risk and it would take eighty five million
dollars to repair. Bit of a no brainer for the
City Council to vote to demolish it. Coming in its
place likely a rather uninspiring option of a large pedestrian crossing.
(22:20):
A few people did try to save it at yesterday's meeting,
but it was pretty consensus that.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It needs to go as the City of Sea Bridge.
Speaker 11 (22:27):
If you've ever seen it or walked over it, or
huddled in one of its alcoves out of the wind
for a smoke or a chat. It's also a series
of timber artworks. Narrow Footbridges. I funnily enough, picked up
an old friend from the airport yesterday we passed pasted
long jervis Key. He said the bridge was one of
his favorite parts of Wellington, but unfortunately for him, it's
(22:47):
just not built for this world.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
No well and also that's an indictment on Wellington. Hey,
how's your weather in the capital today?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Max?
Speaker 11 (22:57):
Yeah, not bad for the first day of the test.
Should be vain bit of morning clouds. Southerly's bringing a
little cooler temperature at seventeen the high in the city.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Brilliant. Thank you, enjoy your day. And are you Are
you gonna go down to the cricket I suppose you
can so.
Speaker 11 (23:09):
Certainly, as soon as that twelve o'clock bulletin's over, I'll
venture down.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Good on your Max. Neva's an Oakland, Hey, Neva, he.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Should just pre record that bulletin, that midday bulletin, Max,
and get out early and go down there.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
He's got important news to report.
Speaker 12 (23:24):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Bridge has been demolished. Do you know how much I
think it was going to cost one hundred and twenty
million dollars to reinforce that bridge. It's just a footbridge.
Speaker 12 (23:32):
It is a footbridge. And I've never seen anyone on there.
I mean, not that I go down there all the time,
but every time I look up and gaze at it,
it's always you.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Know, it's always used on the weekends normally. But yeah,
it's a very expensive for sure, replace which is why
they're getting rid of it. Anyway. In Auckland, the recognition
for the bravery of those during the Newland supermarket attack.
Speaker 12 (23:51):
Yes, now the bravery awards are round and Steve Brody
he's one of those being recognized. And as you say,
in that twenty twenty one new Land supermarket attack, so
he and staff members they barricaded doors of a room
that people were hiding, and apparently Brody pushed against the
doors and this was as the offender, you know, partially
opened him and swung a knife at him. So Steve
(24:12):
Brody said, look, prior to the attack, he'd read a
Bible verse about fearing no evil, and throughout the ordeal
he had peace and no fear. So good on him.
I mean, I often think what would I be like
in a situation like that. I'd be terrible.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Actually, I think you'd be quite good. Actually, I think
that the sad thing about this was that happened during
that was during the lockdown, wasn't it, remember, And everybody
was so sort of distracted and this awful thing happened.
Speaker 12 (24:35):
And of course in the supermarket they were the busiest
places during that time, and so there were.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Good It's good that it's being that they are being
recognized for their bravery. How's the weather in.
Speaker 12 (24:44):
Auckland, Well, the weather but a ted tad caller that
it has been in the last couple of days, which
is probably I think everyone will be happy about our
highest twenty two as opposed to the twenty six degrees
that we've had. Pretty warm now and still cloudy but
no rain.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Brilliant never Thank you, lo see you as always enjoy
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A lot Heppning and France. Today, we've got Trump on
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got the Eurozone worried about they did, and we've got
Macron about to speak because they need a new Prime Minister.
Vincent Meca and he's a UK europe correspondent, Vincent Has
he picked anyone yet do we know?
Speaker 13 (26:35):
No, he hasn't. Emmanuel Macron has been locked away in
the Elise Palace. He is going to address the French
nation tonight on television to speak to them. It was
months between Gabrielle Atto, the last Prime minister, and the
appointment of Michelle Varnier because Macron had called that snap
election which fully divided the French Parliament between his interests
(26:57):
the left and then Marine la Penn sort of far right.
Michelle Barnier was someone that Marine Napenn, the leader and
sort of longtime rival of Macrol, said that she could
do business with. But the whole thing has collapsed, and
it's all to do with the rising French debt. They're
sort of debt to GDP ratio. They now have more
debt than their annual GDP, breaking several EU rules on this,
(27:21):
and so Michelle Barnier was trying to bring in a
budget which would start to address this and it was
rejected by the House. So it's causing real problems for
President Macroll. Questions whether or not he can survive to
the end of his term in twenty twenty seven because
he doesn't have a prime minister and he doesn't have
a government at the moment, they can't have fresh parliamentary
elections until next summer, so real questions over his position tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, just madness really when you think about it, when
we watch the Olympics. So basically back to the States,
you know, no government, no prime minister, and no budget passed.
Romania has revealed it's been hit with an election in
experience very quickly involves TikTok.
Speaker 13 (27:57):
Yeah, unsurprisingly it seems to be coming from Russia, a
sort of cyber attacks and then trying to influence on
TikTok that's been ahead of their presidential elections this weekend,
where a far right NATO skeptic candidate who has praised
Putin before and has said he will end all aid
and assistance to Ukraine. So no wonder Vladimir Putin wants
(28:19):
to maybe try and help this guy into office.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
This is Klin Giorgescu.
Speaker 13 (28:24):
He is now a running and the Romanian government and
intelligence sources are saying that there has been a lot
of paid support for this candidate on TikTok using the
algorithm and also cyber attacks to try and benefit him
as well. So it seems like the usual hybrid warfare
tactics from Russia against Europe.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Vincent, thank you for that. Vincent mcavini are UK and
Europe correspondent. It is ten away from six.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Ryan Bridge police.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Officials are warning that they might not be able to
make the government's election promise to train five hundred new
officers by the two year deadline, which is No. Twenty
seventh next year. The Police Commissioner, Richard Chambers told parliaments
Justice Select Committee he's refusing to lower the quality of
training just to meet the target. Chris Carhill is the
Police Association Prison he's with us this morning. Chris, good morning,
(29:10):
Good morning Ryan. How do you feel that? To me,
sounds like a reasonable response. I won't do this, rush
this and get just any cop on the beat.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Yeah. Well, at least he's been honest for a change.
We've always said it's going to be an incredibly big ask.
We didn't think they could do it. You need to
recruit five hundred officers a year just to maintain the
status quoe, just to deal with the numbers that are leading.
So this was going to require seven hundred and fifty
a year to get to that level. We said we
(29:40):
couldn't do it. Police said during especially during pay round negotiations,
they could. And so at least he's been honest and
we certainly agree you shouldn't lower the standards.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Does it matter if they miss it by six months?
Speaker 7 (29:53):
It does effect in that they've already moved staff into
new roles such as the beat staff New Zealand, and they've
had to come from other roles that now aren't getting done.
So it does hurt other parts of policing. But I'd
still rather wait for six months they get low standard
and recruits, yeah, yeah, longer in consequences.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Exactly and undermine all cops, you know what I mean.
Some funding apparently has gone to that was meant to
go to the recruitment has gone towards the York and
Central station. Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 7 (30:24):
Well, not one. It shouldn't because one should be recruits.
That's personnal budget. Now there should be capital expenditure. So
we're disappointing that that has happened. But if they have
funded some of the new roles so that they could
backfl some of the others, that would be valuable, but
there's a lot of issues with money in police and building,
(30:46):
so I think it's going to take a lot more
than just a few recruits to fund the building problems
in New Zealand. Police.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Chris, thank you very much for your time. I always appreciated.
Chris can't help Police Association President on News that the government, well,
they may still meet the deadline. Police they say they
are going helpful leather to try and do that, but
there is a probably more substantial chance they will miss
it by at least six months. It is eight away
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here for our final little chat for this year, because
you are off Mike for a break and I am
(32:08):
off to drive for a couple of weeks before going
on my Christmas break too. Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 14 (32:12):
Have you done your Spotify rap?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
I have?
Speaker 14 (32:15):
What's the how many minutes?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I have to see it?
Speaker 14 (32:19):
Because here's the thing, I'm four and a half thousand minutes?
And because I play no music, I don't play a
lot of music, and all the music in our house
is driven by my wife's phone. So I can't wait
to find out how many minutes hers is.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You're a podcast podcaster?
Speaker 14 (32:33):
No, I don't listen to many podcasts either, but it
was interesting sort of. It told me what it's quite
fun is what I'm saying. I'm not into tech and
all that sort of stuff, but as far as this
thing is concerned, it's quite cool.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
It is quite cool. Would you see what the article
about Chris Luxon and an Now that's a fraud getting
stick for posting there. What's a fraud, Well, it's for he.
Speaker 14 (32:55):
Was voted in as prime minister in this country. Luxon
based on the fact he's the country music fan. That's
what I'm but I thought it was entirely based on that.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I thought that's why I won a cowboy way.
Speaker 14 (33:07):
You look at his top five, there's barely a country
artist in the so you know, so you busted, aren't you,
Whereas if you look at mine, it came out exactly
as I would have predicted. My number one artist for
the year was Luke, Colmbs, Bob Dylan was in there,
Paul Simon was in there, Greg Johnson was in there.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Just for you know who was in Beyonce and the
Finger Boys.
Speaker 14 (33:26):
You see that doesn't surprise me, and that I wouldn't
have said that publicly. And on that note, very Christmas.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
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