July 7, 2026 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Wednesday the 8th of July 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky's urging allies to get more air defence systems to Ukraine as Russian attacks escalate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
early edition with Spark for business technology that keeps business moving,
news talks.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
There'd be had a very good morning in a six
after five grade to have your company will head to
Turkey where the NATO Summits being held. Gavin is in
London for us we'll talk parage, massive TV deal for
the NROL, biggest in Australian sporting history plus Sky TV here.
It is also today Global Dairy Trade Day and OCR Day.
The agenda say the eighth of July up to his
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neck in Sleees. That's how Stan is describing Farage. Didn't
declare the gifts from the rich people and now he
is taking the narrative back is old Farage. He has
resigned as MP for Clacton. There'll be a by election.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
This will be a people versus the establishment by election.
It's a chance to stick two fingers up to the
entire establishment to frankly tell them where to go. And
that is why I will be putting my name forward
to stand in this by election. I will fight to win.
(01:05):
I will fight to continue the political revolution. That reform
has stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You got to hand it to the guy. He has
stamina if nothing else. And NATO summit underway in Turkey's
Lensky pleading for more e defenses.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
While this war continues. Please help us get more ear
defense missiles.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
This is our top priority right now. We are capable
of doing everything else ourselves, but when it comes to
ear defense, we need our partner's determination. Maybe Trump wants
a bit of territory. Where could he possibly be talking
about starts with g.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
That's what hurt my relationship with NATO because Greenland doesn't
help Denmark. Denmark doesn't spend money to really help Greenland,
but it's an important part for the United States. And
when they wouldn't go along with it, and with all
the money we spend to help them with Russia and
we don't have to spend any money, we could remove
all of our soldiers out of Europe.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Big day for the hard ride. Actually in Paris, you
know Marine le Penn, former president of the far right
Prince National Rally Party. Well, the court has found it
was an appeals court found that her guilty of misusing
EU funds. Has reinforced that sentence but shortened it by
a few years. That means that she can run in
the presidential election next year.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
What she has said before today was that in the
event of her being eligible but prevented by other circumstances
i e. An electronic bracelet from doing the job of
being a candidate properly, she would not run. So on
the face of it, it looks like she should be
saying I'm not going to run now because I'm going
to have this electronic bracelet. But there is a possibility
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that this year of the brecelet might be reduced with
good behavior two several months, in which case she wouldn't
be able to yes.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
The new far right fashion accessory of next season is
an ankle bracelet. She's going to hold a press confidence
in the next hour to tell us whether she will
run with the bracelet or whether she won't run with
the bracelet. True story. Finally, this morning, Prince Harry's arrived
in the UK some unwelcome news on landing. He's lost
his High Court case against the Daily Mail and the
publishers of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday,
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not enough evidence to prove them.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
It's the best result I think the Daily Mail could
have imagined. Ninety seven counts of illegal news gathering have
all been dismissed. So it's a complete and catastrophic defeat
for Prince Harry and the other claimants.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and Spark for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 2 (03:41):
Be nine two. The number of text always love hearing
from you just gone ten minutes half to five. That
court case, the loss of that court case could be catastrophic.
I think there's seven in total, including Harry. You've got
David Furnish, You've got Elton John, You've got Liz Hurley,
a whole bunch of them. Because the Daily Mail might
go after legal costs, which apparently now after all said
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and done, fifty pounds not an insignificant sum, even for
the likes of Prince Harry now, so they will probably
try and go after and that, by the way they
reckon is that that Now it's got to this point
quite an emphatic ruling will likely signal the end of
new litigation over the whole phone hacking scandal era, so
(04:25):
we can put that to bed finally. Now is amazing numbers.
The NRL deal that's been done, the Australasian NRL deal
that's been done five point three billion. That's Aussie across
seven years for Foxtail and for Nine over in Australia.
It is the richest sports broadcast deal in Australian history.
Here SkyTV has won the rights for another seven years.
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Good on them. They've got the rugby, they don't have
the netball yet. We're gonna talk to Shane Curry about this,
but what it tells you is that this competition and
competition pushes prices up. Amazon has been wanting the deal
the rights over in Australia. Seven has been wanting them.
The free network Ten has been wanting them as well.
They've been plotting to get a slice of the pie,
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but clearly haven't, which means that Nine and Foxtail have
had to pay and I'm on a leg to get them.
But it's worth it for them. Here, Sky and TV
Insead have been battling it out. Nine basically had no choice.
They Reckon doesn't have the cricket, doesn't have the AFL.
They're the other two big sports in Australia. Had no choice.
The only thing really that limits you, you know, if
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you're a Foxtail, if you're a Sky, the Sky is
the limit in terms of how much you pay for
something like that because of the eyeballs that it brings
to you. However, there is a limit to how much
you pay and that's how much we are willing to
pay in subs to actually watch the thing. Shane Curry
with us in about ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Ryan Bridge job.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
After five, Nice to have your company. Next we'll do
the ocr it is ocr Day today. Do we start hiking? Well,
we're split the.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
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Speaker 2 (06:08):
Moving US talks B five fourteen. So the Tories have
just announced they're not going to stand anyone and for
Rger's by election. We're not going to get dirty and
play that game. So the calls will grow for people
not stand anyway. We'll head to Gavin Gray in London
just before six this morning. Global Dairy Trade Action out
overnight down almost five percent four point nine. Been coming
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down from high's earlier in the year. March is when
it peaked a third option. Now in a row where
it's come down and the stuff we really care about,
of course is the skim milk powder. Well, the powders
skim milk down seven percent, whole milk down four point four,
so that's going in the wrong direction. Cheddar is actually
up twelve point three, buttered down five percent. Anyone putting
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that on their toast this morning. The question is will
any of this move the milk price forecast or not?
For that we will have to wait and see. Caught
a past Ryan Bridge our decision to anyone's guests. Really,
minetary policy committee was split almost down the middle on
a holder were raised last time. In fact it was
the middle and then Bremens decked it in with a
casting vote and held the banks for their money. A
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n z and beans reckon we'll get a high quarter
of cents two and a half asb Westpac Kiwi bank
they say will hold. Tin Huang is in Zidi, a
senior economist with us this morning, Good morning, good morning,
So what do you reckon?
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Thank you? So our latest INSIDAIA monetary policy shadow board
actually also show the spirit of FEUs regarding whether the
USIA should be at the July meeting today. But the
balance of strands of view the shadow boards recommended the
Central Bank the US are and hold out two point
two five percent today.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And why is that because the risk if you raise
it now of crippling the economy even further is too high.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Sure so, although although on balance of strands of view
at the shadow Board recommended the how to keep on
hold that two point five two percent, but actually of
the other results reflect our Lineboard co in terms of
whether the result banks should keep the AUCA unchanged or
race it by twenty five basis points. And the rising
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inflation was actually, in fact was the key reason for
those shadow Board members who were in favor for the
OUTHR to move towards the neutral rate sooner rather than later.
And this is actually in line with our view at
end IR.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Good to have you on the show. Tin Kwan INSI
a senior economists this morning. That'll come out today and
may come down to Bremen having the casting vote once again.
Sixteen after five Brian Bridge over in America. No funny
things happen over there, and other things happen overnight. So
there's a guy in Internet sensation. They call him an
Internet personality called sneak Ode. This is when Egypt the
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football game between Egypt and Australia and the Egyptians won,
and there was huge celebrations in the streets of New York.
And this guy was there streaming live streaming onto his
social media and he said something that has angered well
pretty much everyone in America. And you'll know why when
I play this, but including the navy seal who killed
(09:17):
a sum and Bin Laden. He's come out on it.
Musk has come out on it, unsurprisingly. Alec Jones has
come out on it. This is what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
This is man's Mormon Republic of the rochestant This Lam
will be an every household and so there's Muslim welcome.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Tom Donies do not now. This guy apparently supported Bernie
Sanders back in twenty sixteen, converted to Islam in twenty
twenty three. Musk wants him deported. Alex Jones wants him deported.
Rob O'Neil, the Navy seal who killed some and Bin
Louden tweeted, these guys sound way different when you wake
them up at two am, because he mean, obviously they
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shot has Bin Louden early in the morning. That's what
that references to. However, the I didn't say, and this
is America, remember, and free speech nation. The guy didn't
say anything that was inciting violence. The guy didn't say
anything that was you know, sounded even remotely like there
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was violent or a violent intention. Basically just that he
wanted more people to mean Muslim now and it country
like America. There is nothing wrong with saying that. Five eighteen,
The Early.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
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Speaker 2 (10:44):
News Talks AB Quite a funny one from the Post
this morning, five twenty on News Talks at B and
this is about to Party Marti in their website. If
you've ever visited their adut many if you have, but
if you had visited there, you would have seen a
huge photo of Party Marty MP's on the front page
of the well that if you click on it, if
you go to the Party Marti website. As of yesterday morning,
(11:05):
if you clicked on that image on the main page,
it would take you to Ricky Casino. Now, Ricky Casino
is a gambling website registered in Costa Rica. It's actually
aimed at us. It's aimed at Aussies and kiwis and
the url Altro altroho dot co dot nz was the
domain name. It was first linked to Party Malti during
(11:28):
their campaign in twenty three. So they set up this
website and it was a place where you go and
it's meant to emulate the hospitality of a Maria this
website somehow. Anyway, what's happened is they've to Party Marti said, oh,
look this is someone's exploiting our website. But actually what
happened is that the domain registration lapsed, they failed to
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renew it. Someone else steps in, presumably a casino out
of Costa Rica and so when you click on that
photo takes you straight to a gambling site. Twenty two
after five, Bryan breed the Wars and NRL staying on
Sky TV here in New Zealand. Seven year deal Sky Sports,
Sky Sport now free to air, options to come. Rumored
sixty million dollars a year. Big deal across the Tasman too.
(12:11):
Shane Curry, the Herald's media inside with us this morning. Shane,
good morning, good morning Ryan. Very important for Sky to
keep this right.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Oh hugely. I mean what they've done essentially now is
wrapped up the top three sports for at least five years.
So you know, this new NRL deal one of the
biggest attractions for Saphie millennium, the Sky Team was the
length of it seven years. Normally these deals are kind
of sort of two three, five years, so taking it
out to two thousand and thirty four wraps up the NRL.
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So they've got rugby to the end of the two
thousand and thirty one and they've got cricket in two
thousand and thirty two. So you know, these are all
leaks and deals now for those early fan engage in sports,
and it's kind of going to leave TAVSS scrambling to
pick up whatever it can in terms of its legling
digital subscription model that we're starting to see with the
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Football World Company.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
How much more do they pay for it this time
than they did last time? And is it? Do we
know for sure or are we getting well.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
I've told the market that the price is commercially sensitive.
My sources and Australian media are reporting that it's Australian
fifty million dollars a year, so that equates to around
sixty one million New Zealand dollars and if that's the case,
that's around fifteen to twenty million dollars more a year.
So that's hefty, But there's a couple of really interesting
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sort of balances to that. Sky of course has just
lost HBO Max entertainment content that's around that contract. They
were paying around twenty to thirty million dollars a year
for that, so they may have dipped into some of
that entertainment funding to help pay for the NRL. But
the other thing Ryan, of course, is that they could
recoup some of that and most analysts are expecting them
to recoup it from you and I are from customers
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probably around I mean, we've seen some steady increases in
Sky Sports subscriptions over the last few years, around sort
of ten ten percent. I would expect a similar increase,
much more than CPI, for instance, so you'd probably be
looking at increases of five to ten percent a year.
But that's the thing about Live Sport, you know, that
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is the one and why the Australian broadcasters have paid
so much for those content is that you just cannot
replicate it anywhere else. A lot of the entertainment content,
a lot of the movies you can get on different
stringing platforms.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Of course there are. It's always exclusive entertainment content that
live sport, which especially that you knowl which is on
such a high at the moment, is just so attractive
for these broadcasts one.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Hundred percent its must watch local television in a way,
isn't it. Shane Curry. Appreciate your time, Herald's Media Insider.
It is twenty four after five brand Bridge, so there's
a bit of an interest to code Insteaded this Morning
has a great piece Hail Mary. You know the economic
refugees who are fleeing New Zealand or Worthly in New Zealand.
Luxt And says that some of them back, but real
estate dot co dot z they reckon they're seeing more
(15:04):
properties coming on the market for rent. And anecdotally it's
families leaving for overseas that don't want to sell because
they reckon they want a bolt hole when they return.
They don't want to sell their home in Auckland or
Rallington or whatever, and they're fleeing overseas. Now, that's one
theory and that is anecdotal. But the other more likely
reason is the fact that they don't want to sell
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now because the prices aren't quite what they were, so
they might be locking in a loss or a lower
price and they are on a hope and a prayer,
Hail Mary, going to wait and try and get more.
We did point out the other day consensor up migration
is well not going anywhere in a hurry, so what's
going to happen to prices? Twenty five after five News
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Talk ZB will do the under sixteen social media ban.
Next News talk zeb it is twenty seven minutes half
to five. Where is National's social media bill at? We
know that Seymour doesn't like it, Winston is apparently having
about the wording of it, so Labor might need to
step in and save the day by supporting it. From
across the aisle. In Australia, half the kids who were
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on the social media's are still on the social media's here.
There's no shortage of famous and even big money backers
behind a ban. Erica Stamford's of course in charge of it.
Yesterday Jim and mccau was the latest coming out saying
she was in support of that part of that group
that's wanting a band. Personally, I don't think social media
is a net positive for society. I think it's probably
on balance as a bad thing, but I don't think
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we'll ever get rid of it completely. Either doesn't happen
really happens. Look at booze, look at cigarettes. You don't
ever really get rid of stuff, do you. And it
won't happen with social media either, which is not a
reason not to do it, of course, but it does
seem like Nationals having a hard time getting it across
the line, which Luxon won't like. Of course, he wants
it wrapped up in a bow by election time so
he can go to parents and say your kids will
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be saved from the perils of the Internet. So the
ball really is in Hipkins court. Does he help Luxon
out and make himself look more prime ministerial above the fray,
as Key did with Helen Clark over the anti smacking wall.
Remember that probably depends on the actual wording of the bill,
doesn't it, which we haven't seen yet, because you can't
back something that won't work or doesn't make sense, no
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matter how morally or politically worthy it might be. Ryan
Bread nine after five key questions this morning, Will Labor
UK run against Farage in the by election? Will the
pen run with an ankle bracelet? Will Trump give Turkey
or sell Turkey fighter jets? All those questions answered. We're
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in London and we're an anchor. Next News Talks at.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
B the Early edition Full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio.
Power by News Talks at B. Hearritt first, Ryan Bridge
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on Early Edition with sparks for Business Technology, the Key,
It's business movie.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
News TALKSB twenty four away from six year on News SALTZMB.
The psychodrama do we call it the soap opera that
is UK politics continues. It's like Coronation Street. The thing
just never ends. Forage as quick as an MP. There
will be a by election in Clacton. We'll head to
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our reporter in London. We'll also go to our reporter
in Turkey. For NATO summit. Trump is apparently going to
turn the tap back on for Turkey. On defense, he
is going to apparently support selling F thirty five fighter
jets to them again. Is there hosting them in his
big palace. Palace is massive, by the way, It's got
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like a thousand rooms. Cost six hundred million dollars back
in twenty four to bill a thing is impressive anyway,
All the cars are pulling up, all the leaders are arriving,
and Trump is apparently going to gift a little gesture
for one on arrival. Of course, he banned selling them
anything to do with defense about seven years ago because
they bought a bunch of stuff from the Russians. Well,
that seems to hatchet seems to have been buried. Twenty
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three to six, Bryan Bridge, Let's go to odd our reporters.
They Cullum and dened Collen. Good morning morning, Ryan. We've
got some numbers on Otago UNI doing well.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:14):
Look, Otago continues its long run as New Zealand's number
one university and more students ran are sticking at their
degrees across the board. We have new Tertiary Education Commission
data out. It shows first year attention reached to a
decade high of eighty three point three percent. Nationally last year,
Lincoln University recorded the biggest lift, while Otago here led
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the country for qualification completions for a tenth year in
a row. So Vice Chancelly Here Grunt Robinson says the
consistency comes down to.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Strong pastor or care.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
He says more than eighty five percent of students here
come from outside of Dunedin and so they work hard
to support them.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
He says.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
The scrapping of fees free though, could put these games
at risk. He says, it remains to see just how
significant those impacts will be.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Clearly not yet, Callum, how's your weather?
Speaker 10 (20:02):
Another heavy rain watch here? Which is an ideal heavy
rain developing this morning, easy as though this afternoon suddenly
strong at times the hyder state, Thank.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You very much, clear than christ it this morning, Claire,
Good morning, North Canterbury. Kill the cats, kill the cats.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Well, this cat killing competition is once again causing a
stir in North Canterbury. It is, of course the North
Canterbury Hunting competition. They have a category in there to
kill the most feral cats and it was scrapped in
previous years. It is back, but animal welfare advocates are
not happy about it. Let's say that much. They have
got a last minute plea to cull this category from
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the comp and of course raises money for Rotherham's School.
So where it gets messy is that the group has
issued a formal liability notice to the Schools Board claiming
that it's support for the competition is what's raising animal
welfare and child safeguarding concerns. This is a competition that
has been embroiled in controversy for years. They did scrap
the category in twenty twenty three, but at the end
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of the day, the organizer, Matt Bailey says the hunters
about help control the country's growing feral cat problem and
that critics just simply don't understand rural New Zealand and
how it works and farming kids often see animals being killed.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, I agree with the latter. As for the domestic cats.
You know they're saying, oh, well, what if you kill
a domestic cat, We'll keep your cat under control in
your house anyway. How's your wedther clip cloudy.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
There is some occasional rain around southerly is developing this
morning and we'll make eleven degrees last one.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Thank you to Best in Wellington. Morning to best morning right.
Speaker 12 (21:28):
No rugby this weekend, No rugby across Wellington this weekend,
So management from Wellington Rugby they were back in meetings
with the Referee Association last night. This is in the
cases of referee abuse that we're seeing. So the association
decided to withdraw its services from controlling all club rugby
across the capital this weekend. There's been nineteen reported incidents
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of verbal abuse towards referees this season. Already three of
those incidents we were just last weekend. So the meeting
last night was to discuss further options to align efforts
across all the clubs in the capitol for the future.
We're not sure where they are with that at the moment,
haven't heard, but we do know that the All Blacks
are the only action you'll catch this weekend in Wellington.
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All scheduled fixtures will be recorded as a match not
played and both teams will receive three points each. Wellington
Rugby yes, still discussing options for the remainder of the season,
but say all clubs are unanimous in their support of
zero tolerance towards referee abuse. As your weather to bez
heavy rain Southerlys gusting up to one hundred kilometers now
today eleven degrees in Wellington.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Nice one, Thank you never, good morning, good morning. You
got the latest on the firefighter strikes yet?
Speaker 13 (22:38):
Yes, Now, look some volunteer firefighters here in Auckland. They
are no longer willing to be the backup during professional
firefighters strikes. So fire. An emergency's main contingency plan for
emergencies during the prolonged industry election has been to rely
on the nearly six hundred volunteer firefighters nationwide, but our
newsroom understands it at least one volunteer brigade has officially
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raised the decision not to respond outside the area during strikes,
while some have made themselves unofficially unavailable.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Unofficially unavailable, Does that mean that they're doing that because
they want to support the professional ones or they're just
sick and tired of being the backup? Yeah, I guess
we'll find out.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
We will.
Speaker 13 (23:19):
Has our weather fine, apart from a few showers early morning.
Sixteen is a high here in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Have a great there. It is eighteen minutes away from
six year on news talks there. But by the way,
the Russians are probably going to turn out in their
hundreds athletes. This is for the Olympics in La. The
International Olympic Committee overnight has lifted the suspension on the Russians.
It was imposed after they invaded while Putin invaded Ukraine.
So could they make a full comeback in La. Well,
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it's entirely on the possibility list. Now whether they do
it under their own flag and under their own anthem, well,
that's a question for another day. We are in London
next international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business and it's called sex more
off to NATO and Turkey in a sick and first
(24:03):
given gray are UK euro correspondent Faraj has resigned there given.
Speaker 14 (24:08):
He has indeed run yes dramatic announcement about four hours
ago in which Nigel Farah said, right, I resign, but
I am going to restand as an MP in Clacton
in Essex in southeast England, so a by election will
be held and he is standing and he says, really
this is voters against bureaucracy. And what he means is
(24:30):
that effectively he is saying, I have now been accused
of two different instances by the authorities, by the media
where I have accepted money and they're saying that I
have should basically have told the authorities about this money
that I received for security and is saying, look, you know,
I've done nothing wrong. And to prove he's done nothing wrong,
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he's going back to the electorate and saying, right, vote
for me. Again and we will show all the bureaucrats
what is what now. This is going to cost roughly
half a million New Zealand dollars to hold another by election,
and he is saying I will pay for it. He
is determined, I think, to show that he is popular.
He's not going to take this nonsense any further, and
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he has, in his own words says it's nonsense. Is
really really putting his neck on the line here. But
he's very popular in Essex. It's likely he will win
the revote and therefore consequently he will come out of
this I think stronger.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
At least that is his aim.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Let's go to France, the farm right there having problems. Well,
Marine Lapin, actually it's sort of good news. The quarters
upheld the decision about her problems. Who many problems with
the EU. However, the question now is bracelett or no bracelet.
Speaker 14 (25:43):
Yeah, it's really complicated this story, but in essence, Marine
Lapin was accused of running a group within her party,
the National Rally Party, a right wing party in France,
of ripping off the European Commission by claiming her staff
working for them, whereas in fact they were working for
her own domestic party. So she received a sentence which
(26:05):
was non custodial. It was staying at home in electronic
tag and was told that she couldn't run for office
for five years. Now. She has appealed that because early
April next year will be the French elections and she
is front runner. And today at the appeal court they said, okay,
you're not going to be acquitted, but we will reduce
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that time that we are not allowing you to run
for office, and that means she will be allowed to
run from office for this election just under the year time.
The difference being Ryan that she is being told that
she will have to wear a tag, and she has
said in the past, if I have to wear an
electronic tag, how can I possibly stand for election. She's
(26:47):
due to be on live French television in quarter of
an hour and we're expecting a decision as to whether
she will run for that next presidential election, where at
the moment she is the favorite in the polls.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Bracelet well, no, brace that, thank you so much for that.
That is Gavin gray Are UK europe correspondent. It is
twelve minutes away from six Bridge to Turkey and NATO's
summit taking place there, Trump telling the Europeans, you need
me more than I need you.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
We did something in Iran. We don't need anybody's help.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I didn't even want their help.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
But before I asked, they said they wouldn't be there.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And in a way, I was testing people.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I was testing to see whether or not they'd be there,
because as long said that, we help them, but I'm
not sure that they'd be there for us.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
All right, let's go to Ruth Michaelson, who is a
Turkey based journalist for The Guardian at the summit with us.
Nice to have you on the program. Ruth, how's the
reaction been so far of what Trump's been saying?
Speaker 15 (27:44):
Well, I mean, I think it's probably fair to say
that a lot of this summit is that the mood
is very much it's about keeping gone with Trump happy
one way or another, whether it's the very very warm
welcome that he received from the Turkish president. Reget Type
aired on and you know all the statements we've heard
coming from the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter about his
(28:08):
sort of excitement to show Trump the progress towards three
point five percent GDP on defense spending for NATO members
that progress that he wants to show Trump since the
last summit. Obviously, as we're starting to see some reactions
from Trump's rather well from some of the statements that
(28:28):
we had from Donald Trump when he was sitting next
to erdu One at a press conference where he began
talking about Greenland and his desire to take control of Freeland. Again,
some statements from the Danish leadership basically objecting to what
Trump was saying, asking that allies respect Danish sovereignty, saying
(28:52):
that Greenland does not for sale. But in terms of
the rather warm statements that Trump has made about in
his compared to as rather cold statements about later as
a whole, I think a lot of the world leaders
who are here at the summit have rather christ some
of this in.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And some of the sentiment is it going to be
backed up by action? In other words, is Trump going
to sell fire digits to Turkey? That's what someone was
riding in the Times this morning reporting that he's going
to do. Is it true?
Speaker 15 (29:26):
Well, he said during this press conference that he would
consider selling the S thirty five to Turkey, but that
was also couched within a lot of very warm promises
on also saying, we don't think that from the Turkey's
point of view, they don't think that this is going
to be an issue. So Trump certainly did everything that
he could in public to say that he would move
(29:51):
to have sanctions that have been in place on Turkey
since twenty twenty. This is for Turkey's purchase as a
Russian the cell system that is, from the US perspective,
incompatible with obtaining a plane right there thirty five. Trump
has said that he will despite the objections of Congress,
he will work to have those sanctions lifted. So certainly
(30:13):
everything that he said would indicate that that he wants
that sale to go ahead. Whether Congress and Washington will
allow that is really another question.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Ruth Michaelson, that is our journalist at NATO in Turkey
for the Guardian. It is nine minutes away from six
Ryan Bridge. A couple of quick numbers for you. This
is reform and forage in the seat of Clacton, where
there'll be a by election. They reckon could be August,
could be early September. Sky is saying probably more likely
early September. Whichever party holds the seat gets to decide
(30:44):
when the by election is held. Of course that is reformed,
so therefore it's in Farage's hands. But the results from
the last time, this is the twenty four general election
in Clacton reform forty six percent almost half the vote.
Conservatives got twenty seven labor down on sixteen, so he's
going to win it. The question is how much damage
does it do to his party vote. It is eight two.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
The first word on the News of the Day earlier
edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business technology that
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Speaker 2 (31:18):
Is six away from six. If you're following the feet
of World Cup Round of sixteen Argentina Egypt games still underway.
Eighty eighth minute, very close, still a chance for Messi
here scores to nil. Morning Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 16 (31:30):
Good to see you, Good to see you too, See
you good Messi is his goal? Is It's worth even
if you have no interest in football, it's worth watching
His goal just happened a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
He's incredible. Hey, speaking of sport yesterday, the NRL deal
talking about endlessly fascinating.
Speaker 16 (31:47):
I watched the Blandes thing. Did you have they had
this press conference and because Foxdale won it they ran
it live, blah blah blah. Yeah, the Channel nine guy
who hits you and I, he looked like he'd been
in the garden and they gone like, we've done the deal,
so can you just stick it?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I thought, what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Mate?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Everyone's dressed up properly.
Speaker 16 (32:05):
We're announcing a six and a half billion.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Dollar deal, biggest written, richest sporting deal in Australian history.
Speaker 16 (32:13):
Beats the AFL, which is quite something. And that's that's
that's the Landy's he's he's like bordering on being a genius.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Fascinating, because what do you do without the right day?
Like nine apparently ten was coming for them. Everyone wanted them.
This is the problem with the problem, it's the fascinating
thing is sort of ties and knitball in this country.
So nitball in Australia has gone to free to wear
because there's a competitive landscape and the free to wear
television market saying where is here there.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Is to know?
Speaker 16 (32:41):
So they've got trouble. Whereas if you look at these
situation here, TOD TV and Z go hard for the NRL.
You know, rumors are they had a crack, but you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
But well to push the price up, I mean, you
need competition, don't you did something?
Speaker 16 (32:54):
Having said that, the numbers i'm hearing around sky here,
I mean the real actions overseas. But what's really interesting
from the valandis point of view, As he was binging
on about design, So you've got Foxtel nine US here,
but Dezionne has got four hundred million subscribers globally, and
so he's looking to push the game internationally. How he's
going to do that, I don't know because league's always
(33:15):
been to me a very.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Regone foxtail, don't they.
Speaker 16 (33:19):
Yes, So they're getting it out and he's seeing this
Vegas thing is a big deal, and he's going to
have a team from America and he's going to he's
going global.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well, I like the Amber and we don't know it's real.
This leg's getting more teams, isn't it? And the other
three is that yeah, well, well we are.
Speaker 16 (33:34):
But the twentieth is the key because the by twenty
twenty nine we're looking for a twentieth team. Where's that
twentieth team. The hope, of course is christ and if
it's not, then it could be Queensland. And so you
know there's a lot to play for, but anyway we.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Talk, I just find it fascinating numbers involved and how
many broadcasters lives depend on it very much so well.
Speaker 16 (33:55):
They asked the Foxtel guy about that yesterday and he goes, look,
it's amazing. Every time we do a deal, you go,
how can you forward it? And every time we can
and we didn't. And it's all about growth.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Anyway.
Speaker 16 (34:04):
She's Sophie Maloney who runs Sky is on the program
This Morne.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
You're on News Talk Seed be Mike Next.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
There'd be had a very good morning in a six
after five grade to have your company will head to
Turkey where the NATO Summits being held. Gavin is in
London for us we'll talk parage, massive TV deal for
the NROL, biggest in Australian sporting history plus Sky TV here.
It is also today Global Dairy Trade Day and OCR Day.
The agenda say the eighth of July up to his
(00:31):
neck in Sleees. That's how Stan is describing Farage. Didn't
declare the gifts from the rich people and now he
is taking the narrative back is old Farage. He has
resigned as MP for Clacton. There'll be a by election.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
This will be a people versus the establishment by election.
It's a chance to stick two fingers up to the
entire establishment to frankly tell them where to go. And
that is why I will be putting my name forward
to stand in this by election. I will fight to win.
(01:05):
I will fight to continue the political revolution. That reform
has stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You got to hand it to the guy. He has
stamina if nothing else. And NATO summit underway in Turkey's
Lensky pleading for more e defenses.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
While this war continues. Please help us get more ear
defense missiles.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
This is our top priority right now. We are capable
of doing everything else ourselves, but when it comes to
ear defense, we need our partner's determination. Maybe Trump wants
a bit of territory. Where could he possibly be talking
about starts with g.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
That's what hurt my relationship with NATO because Greenland doesn't
help Denmark. Denmark doesn't spend money to really help Greenland,
but it's an important part for the United States. And
when they wouldn't go along with it, and with all
the money we spend to help them with Russia and
we don't have to spend any money, we could remove
all of our soldiers out of Europe.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Big day for the hard ride. Actually in Paris, you
know Marine le Penn, former president of the far right
Prince National Rally Party. Well, the court has found it
was an appeals court found that her guilty of misusing
EU funds. Has reinforced that sentence but shortened it by
a few years. That means that she can run in
the presidential election next year.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
What she has said before today was that in the
event of her being eligible but prevented by other circumstances
i e. An electronic bracelet from doing the job of
being a candidate properly, she would not run. So on
the face of it, it looks like she should be
saying I'm not going to run now because I'm going
to have this electronic bracelet. But there is a possibility
(02:44):
that this year of the brecelet might be reduced with
good behavior two several months, in which case she wouldn't
be able to yes.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
The new far right fashion accessory of next season is
an ankle bracelet. She's going to hold a press confidence
in the next hour to tell us whether she will
run with the bracelet or whether she won't run with
the bracelet. True story. Finally, this morning, Prince Harry's arrived
in the UK some unwelcome news on landing. He's lost
his High Court case against the Daily Mail and the
publishers of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday,
(03:11):
not enough evidence to prove them.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
It's the best result I think the Daily Mail could
have imagined. Ninety seven counts of illegal news gathering have
all been dismissed. So it's a complete and catastrophic defeat
for Prince Harry and the other claimants.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and Spark for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 2 (03:41):
Be nine two. The number of text always love hearing
from you just gone ten minutes half to five. That
court case, the loss of that court case could be catastrophic.
I think there's seven in total, including Harry. You've got
David Furnish, You've got Elton John, You've got Liz Hurley,
a whole bunch of them. Because the Daily Mail might
go after legal costs, which apparently now after all said
(04:03):
and done, fifty pounds not an insignificant sum, even for
the likes of Prince Harry now, so they will probably
try and go after and that, by the way they
reckon is that that Now it's got to this point
quite an emphatic ruling will likely signal the end of
new litigation over the whole phone hacking scandal era, so
(04:25):
we can put that to bed finally. Now is amazing numbers.
The NRL deal that's been done, the Australasian NRL deal
that's been done five point three billion. That's Aussie across
seven years for Foxtail and for Nine over in Australia.
It is the richest sports broadcast deal in Australian history.
Here SkyTV has won the rights for another seven years.
(04:47):
Good on them. They've got the rugby, they don't have
the netball yet. We're gonna talk to Shane Curry about this,
but what it tells you is that this competition and
competition pushes prices up. Amazon has been wanting the deal
the rights over in Australia. Seven has been wanting them.
The free network Ten has been wanting them as well.
They've been plotting to get a slice of the pie,
(05:08):
but clearly haven't, which means that Nine and Foxtail have
had to pay and I'm on a leg to get them.
But it's worth it for them. Here, Sky and TV
Insead have been battling it out. Nine basically had no choice.
They Reckon doesn't have the cricket, doesn't have the AFL.
They're the other two big sports in Australia. Had no choice.
The only thing really that limits you, you know, if
(05:29):
you're a Foxtail, if you're a Sky, the Sky is
the limit in terms of how much you pay for
something like that because of the eyeballs that it brings
to you. However, there is a limit to how much
you pay and that's how much we are willing to
pay in subs to actually watch the thing. Shane Curry
with us in about ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Ryan Bridge job.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
After five, Nice to have your company. Next we'll do
the ocr it is ocr Day today. Do we start hiking? Well,
we're split the.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio. How it
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Speaker 2 (06:08):
Moving US talks B five fourteen. So the Tories have
just announced they're not going to stand anyone and for
Rger's by election. We're not going to get dirty and
play that game. So the calls will grow for people
not stand anyway. We'll head to Gavin Gray in London
just before six this morning. Global Dairy Trade Action out
overnight down almost five percent four point nine. Been coming
(06:28):
down from high's earlier in the year. March is when
it peaked a third option. Now in a row where
it's come down and the stuff we really care about,
of course is the skim milk powder. Well, the powders
skim milk down seven percent, whole milk down four point four,
so that's going in the wrong direction. Cheddar is actually
up twelve point three, buttered down five percent. Anyone putting
(06:50):
that on their toast this morning. The question is will
any of this move the milk price forecast or not?
For that we will have to wait and see. Caught
a past Ryan Bridge our decision to anyone's guests. Really,
minetary policy committee was split almost down the middle on
a holder were raised last time. In fact it was
the middle and then Bremens decked it in with a
casting vote and held the banks for their money. A
(07:10):
n z and beans reckon we'll get a high quarter
of cents two and a half asb Westpac Kiwi bank
they say will hold. Tin Huang is in Zidi, a
senior economist with us this morning, Good morning, good morning,
So what do you reckon?
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Thank you? So our latest INSIDAIA monetary policy shadow board
actually also show the spirit of FEUs regarding whether the
USIA should be at the July meeting today. But the
balance of strands of view the shadow boards recommended the
Central Bank the US are and hold out two point
two five percent today.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And why is that because the risk if you raise
it now of crippling the economy even further is too high.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Sure so, although although on balance of strands of view
at the shadow Board recommended the how to keep on
hold that two point five two percent, but actually of
the other results reflect our Lineboard co in terms of
whether the result banks should keep the AUCA unchanged or
race it by twenty five basis points. And the rising
(08:16):
inflation was actually, in fact was the key reason for
those shadow Board members who were in favor for the
OUTHR to move towards the neutral rate sooner rather than later.
And this is actually in line with our view at
end IR.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Good to have you on the show. Tin Kwan INSI
a senior economists this morning. That'll come out today and
may come down to Bremen having the casting vote once again.
Sixteen after five Brian Bridge over in America. No funny
things happen over there, and other things happen overnight. So
there's a guy in Internet sensation. They call him an
Internet personality called sneak Ode. This is when Egypt the
(08:56):
football game between Egypt and Australia and the Egyptians won,
and there was huge celebrations in the streets of New York.
And this guy was there streaming live streaming onto his
social media and he said something that has angered well
pretty much everyone in America. And you'll know why when
I play this, but including the navy seal who killed
(09:17):
a sum and Bin Laden. He's come out on it.
Musk has come out on it, unsurprisingly. Alec Jones has
come out on it. This is what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
This is man's Mormon Republic of the rochestant This Lam
will be an every household and so there's Muslim welcome.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Tom Donies do not now. This guy apparently supported Bernie
Sanders back in twenty sixteen, converted to Islam in twenty
twenty three. Musk wants him deported. Alex Jones wants him deported.
Rob O'Neil, the Navy seal who killed some and Bin
Louden tweeted, these guys sound way different when you wake
them up at two am, because he mean, obviously they
(09:54):
shot has Bin Louden early in the morning. That's what
that references to. However, the I didn't say, and this
is America, remember, and free speech nation. The guy didn't
say anything that was inciting violence. The guy didn't say
anything that was you know, sounded even remotely like there
(10:16):
was violent or a violent intention. Basically just that he
wanted more people to mean Muslim now and it country
like America. There is nothing wrong with saying that. Five eighteen,
The Early.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
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Speaker 2 (10:44):
News Talks AB Quite a funny one from the Post
this morning, five twenty on News Talks at B and
this is about to Party Marti in their website. If
you've ever visited their adut many if you have, but
if you had visited there, you would have seen a
huge photo of Party Marty MP's on the front page
of the well that if you click on it, if
you go to the Party Marti website. As of yesterday morning,
(11:05):
if you clicked on that image on the main page,
it would take you to Ricky Casino. Now, Ricky Casino
is a gambling website registered in Costa Rica. It's actually
aimed at us. It's aimed at Aussies and kiwis and
the url Altro altroho dot co dot nz was the
domain name. It was first linked to Party Malti during
(11:28):
their campaign in twenty three. So they set up this
website and it was a place where you go and
it's meant to emulate the hospitality of a Maria this
website somehow. Anyway, what's happened is they've to Party Marti said, oh,
look this is someone's exploiting our website. But actually what
happened is that the domain registration lapsed, they failed to
(11:49):
renew it. Someone else steps in, presumably a casino out
of Costa Rica and so when you click on that
photo takes you straight to a gambling site. Twenty two
after five, Bryan breed the Wars and NRL staying on
Sky TV here in New Zealand. Seven year deal Sky Sports,
Sky Sport now free to air, options to come. Rumored
sixty million dollars a year. Big deal across the Tasman too.
(12:11):
Shane Curry, the Herald's media inside with us this morning. Shane,
good morning, good morning Ryan. Very important for Sky to
keep this right.
Speaker 8 (12:18):
Oh hugely. I mean what they've done essentially now is
wrapped up the top three sports for at least five years.
So you know, this new NRL deal one of the
biggest attractions for Saphie millennium, the Sky Team was the
length of it seven years. Normally these deals are kind
of sort of two three, five years, so taking it
out to two thousand and thirty four wraps up the NRL.
(12:41):
So they've got rugby to the end of the two
thousand and thirty one and they've got cricket in two
thousand and thirty two. So you know, these are all
leaks and deals now for those early fan engage in sports,
and it's kind of going to leave TAVSS scrambling to
pick up whatever it can in terms of its legling
digital subscription model that we're starting to see with the
(13:04):
Football World Company.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
How much more do they pay for it this time
than they did last time? And is it? Do we
know for sure or are we getting well.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
I've told the market that the price is commercially sensitive.
My sources and Australian media are reporting that it's Australian
fifty million dollars a year, so that equates to around
sixty one million New Zealand dollars and if that's the case,
that's around fifteen to twenty million dollars more a year.
So that's hefty, But there's a couple of really interesting
(13:33):
sort of balances to that. Sky of course has just
lost HBO Max entertainment content that's around that contract. They
were paying around twenty to thirty million dollars a year
for that, so they may have dipped into some of
that entertainment funding to help pay for the NRL. But
the other thing Ryan, of course, is that they could
recoup some of that and most analysts are expecting them
to recoup it from you and I are from customers
(13:56):
probably around I mean, we've seen some steady increases in
Sky Sports subscriptions over the last few years, around sort
of ten ten percent. I would expect a similar increase,
much more than CPI, for instance, so you'd probably be
looking at increases of five to ten percent a year.
But that's the thing about Live Sport, you know, that
(14:16):
is the one and why the Australian broadcasters have paid
so much for those content is that you just cannot
replicate it anywhere else. A lot of the entertainment content,
a lot of the movies you can get on different
stringing platforms.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
Of course there are. It's always exclusive entertainment content that
live sport, which especially that you knowl which is on
such a high at the moment, is just so attractive
for these broadcasts one.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Hundred percent its must watch local television in a way,
isn't it. Shane Curry. Appreciate your time, Herald's Media Insider.
It is twenty four after five brand Bridge, so there's
a bit of an interest to code Insteaded this Morning
has a great piece Hail Mary. You know the economic
refugees who are fleeing New Zealand or Worthly in New Zealand.
Luxt And says that some of them back, but real
estate dot co dot z they reckon they're seeing more
(15:04):
properties coming on the market for rent. And anecdotally it's
families leaving for overseas that don't want to sell because
they reckon they want a bolt hole when they return.
They don't want to sell their home in Auckland or
Rallington or whatever, and they're fleeing overseas. Now, that's one
theory and that is anecdotal. But the other more likely
reason is the fact that they don't want to sell
(15:24):
now because the prices aren't quite what they were, so
they might be locking in a loss or a lower
price and they are on a hope and a prayer,
Hail Mary, going to wait and try and get more.
We did point out the other day consensor up migration
is well not going anywhere in a hurry, so what's
going to happen to prices? Twenty five after five News
(15:46):
Talk ZB will do the under sixteen social media ban.
Next News talk zeb it is twenty seven minutes half
to five. Where is National's social media bill at? We
know that Seymour doesn't like it, Winston is apparently having
about the wording of it, so Labor might need to
step in and save the day by supporting it. From
across the aisle. In Australia, half the kids who were
(16:06):
on the social media's are still on the social media's here.
There's no shortage of famous and even big money backers
behind a ban. Erica Stamford's of course in charge of it.
Yesterday Jim and mccau was the latest coming out saying
she was in support of that part of that group
that's wanting a band. Personally, I don't think social media
is a net positive for society. I think it's probably
on balance as a bad thing, but I don't think
(16:28):
we'll ever get rid of it completely. Either doesn't happen
really happens. Look at booze, look at cigarettes. You don't
ever really get rid of stuff, do you. And it
won't happen with social media either, which is not a
reason not to do it, of course, but it does
seem like Nationals having a hard time getting it across
the line, which Luxon won't like. Of course, he wants
it wrapped up in a bow by election time so
he can go to parents and say your kids will
(16:49):
be saved from the perils of the Internet. So the
ball really is in Hipkins court. Does he help Luxon
out and make himself look more prime ministerial above the fray,
as Key did with Helen Clark over the anti smacking wall.
Remember that probably depends on the actual wording of the bill,
doesn't it, which we haven't seen yet, because you can't
back something that won't work or doesn't make sense, no
(17:10):
matter how morally or politically worthy it might be. Ryan
Bread nine after five key questions this morning, Will Labor
UK run against Farage in the by election? Will the
pen run with an ankle bracelet? Will Trump give Turkey
or sell Turkey fighter jets? All those questions answered. We're
(17:31):
in London and we're an anchor. Next News Talks at.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
B the Early edition Full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio.
Power by News Talks at B. Hearritt first, Ryan Bridge
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on Early Edition with sparks for Business Technology, the Key,
It's business movie.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
News TALKSB twenty four away from six year on News SALTZMB.
The psychodrama do we call it the soap opera that
is UK politics continues. It's like Coronation Street. The thing
just never ends. Forage as quick as an MP. There
will be a by election in Clacton. We'll head to
(18:22):
our reporter in London. We'll also go to our reporter
in Turkey. For NATO summit. Trump is apparently going to
turn the tap back on for Turkey. On defense, he
is going to apparently support selling F thirty five fighter
jets to them again. Is there hosting them in his
big palace. Palace is massive, by the way, It's got
(18:42):
like a thousand rooms. Cost six hundred million dollars back
in twenty four to bill a thing is impressive anyway,
All the cars are pulling up, all the leaders are arriving,
and Trump is apparently going to gift a little gesture
for one on arrival. Of course, he banned selling them
anything to do with defense about seven years ago because
they bought a bunch of stuff from the Russians. Well,
that seems to hatchet seems to have been buried. Twenty
(19:05):
three to six, Bryan Bridge, Let's go to odd our reporters.
They Cullum and dened Collen. Good morning morning, Ryan. We've
got some numbers on Otago UNI doing well.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:14):
Look, Otago continues its long run as New Zealand's number
one university and more students ran are sticking at their
degrees across the board. We have new Tertiary Education Commission
data out. It shows first year attention reached to a
decade high of eighty three point three percent. Nationally last year,
Lincoln University recorded the biggest lift, while Otago here led
(19:36):
the country for qualification completions for a tenth year in
a row. So Vice Chancelly Here Grunt Robinson says the
consistency comes down to.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Strong pastor or care.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
He says more than eighty five percent of students here
come from outside of Dunedin and so they work hard
to support them.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
He says.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
The scrapping of fees free though, could put these games
at risk. He says, it remains to see just how
significant those impacts will be.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Clearly not yet, Callum, how's your weather?
Speaker 10 (20:02):
Another heavy rain watch here? Which is an ideal heavy
rain developing this morning, easy as though this afternoon suddenly
strong at times the hyder state, Thank.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You very much, clear than christ it this morning, Claire,
Good morning, North Canterbury. Kill the cats, kill the cats.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Well, this cat killing competition is once again causing a
stir in North Canterbury. It is, of course the North
Canterbury Hunting competition. They have a category in there to
kill the most feral cats and it was scrapped in
previous years. It is back, but animal welfare advocates are
not happy about it. Let's say that much. They have
got a last minute plea to cull this category from
(20:36):
the comp and of course raises money for Rotherham's School.
So where it gets messy is that the group has
issued a formal liability notice to the Schools Board claiming
that it's support for the competition is what's raising animal
welfare and child safeguarding concerns. This is a competition that
has been embroiled in controversy for years. They did scrap
the category in twenty twenty three, but at the end
(20:57):
of the day, the organizer, Matt Bailey says the hunters
about help control the country's growing feral cat problem and
that critics just simply don't understand rural New Zealand and
how it works and farming kids often see animals being killed.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, I agree with the latter. As for the domestic cats.
You know they're saying, oh, well, what if you kill
a domestic cat, We'll keep your cat under control in
your house anyway. How's your wedther clip cloudy.
Speaker 11 (21:20):
There is some occasional rain around southerly is developing this
morning and we'll make eleven degrees last one.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Thank you to Best in Wellington. Morning to best morning right.
Speaker 12 (21:28):
No rugby this weekend, No rugby across Wellington this weekend,
So management from Wellington Rugby they were back in meetings
with the Referee Association last night. This is in the
cases of referee abuse that we're seeing. So the association
decided to withdraw its services from controlling all club rugby
across the capital this weekend. There's been nineteen reported incidents
(21:51):
of verbal abuse towards referees this season. Already three of
those incidents we were just last weekend. So the meeting
last night was to discuss further options to align efforts
across all the clubs in the capitol for the future.
We're not sure where they are with that at the moment,
haven't heard, but we do know that the All Blacks
are the only action you'll catch this weekend in Wellington.
(22:14):
All scheduled fixtures will be recorded as a match not
played and both teams will receive three points each. Wellington
Rugby yes, still discussing options for the remainder of the season,
but say all clubs are unanimous in their support of
zero tolerance towards referee abuse. As your weather to bez
heavy rain Southerlys gusting up to one hundred kilometers now
today eleven degrees in Wellington.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Nice one, Thank you never, good morning, good morning. You
got the latest on the firefighter strikes yet?
Speaker 13 (22:38):
Yes, Now, look some volunteer firefighters here in Auckland. They
are no longer willing to be the backup during professional
firefighters strikes. So fire. An emergency's main contingency plan for
emergencies during the prolonged industry election has been to rely
on the nearly six hundred volunteer firefighters nationwide, but our
newsroom understands it at least one volunteer brigade has officially
(23:01):
raised the decision not to respond outside the area during strikes,
while some have made themselves unofficially unavailable.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Unofficially unavailable, Does that mean that they're doing that because
they want to support the professional ones or they're just
sick and tired of being the backup? Yeah, I guess
we'll find out.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
We will.
Speaker 13 (23:19):
Has our weather fine, apart from a few showers early morning.
Sixteen is a high here in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Have a great there. It is eighteen minutes away from
six year on news talks there. But by the way,
the Russians are probably going to turn out in their
hundreds athletes. This is for the Olympics in La. The
International Olympic Committee overnight has lifted the suspension on the Russians.
It was imposed after they invaded while Putin invaded Ukraine.
So could they make a full comeback in La. Well,
(23:43):
it's entirely on the possibility list. Now whether they do
it under their own flag and under their own anthem, well,
that's a question for another day. We are in London
next international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business and it's called sex more
off to NATO and Turkey in a sick and first
(24:03):
given gray are UK euro correspondent Faraj has resigned there given.
Speaker 14 (24:08):
He has indeed run yes dramatic announcement about four hours
ago in which Nigel Farah said, right, I resign, but
I am going to restand as an MP in Clacton
in Essex in southeast England, so a by election will
be held and he is standing and he says, really
this is voters against bureaucracy. And what he means is
(24:30):
that effectively he is saying, I have now been accused
of two different instances by the authorities, by the media
where I have accepted money and they're saying that I
have should basically have told the authorities about this money
that I received for security and is saying, look, you know,
I've done nothing wrong. And to prove he's done nothing wrong,
(24:52):
he's going back to the electorate and saying, right, vote
for me. Again and we will show all the bureaucrats
what is what now. This is going to cost roughly
half a million New Zealand dollars to hold another by election,
and he is saying I will pay for it. He
is determined, I think, to show that he is popular.
He's not going to take this nonsense any further, and
(25:13):
he has, in his own words says it's nonsense. Is
really really putting his neck on the line here. But
he's very popular in Essex. It's likely he will win
the revote and therefore consequently he will come out of
this I think stronger.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
At least that is his aim.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Let's go to France, the farm right there having problems. Well,
Marine Lapin, actually it's sort of good news. The quarters
upheld the decision about her problems. Who many problems with
the EU. However, the question now is bracelett or no bracelet.
Speaker 14 (25:43):
Yeah, it's really complicated this story, but in essence, Marine
Lapin was accused of running a group within her party,
the National Rally Party, a right wing party in France,
of ripping off the European Commission by claiming her staff
working for them, whereas in fact they were working for
her own domestic party. So she received a sentence which
(26:05):
was non custodial. It was staying at home in electronic
tag and was told that she couldn't run for office
for five years. Now. She has appealed that because early
April next year will be the French elections and she
is front runner. And today at the appeal court they said, okay,
you're not going to be acquitted, but we will reduce
(26:26):
that time that we are not allowing you to run
for office, and that means she will be allowed to
run from office for this election just under the year time.
The difference being Ryan that she is being told that
she will have to wear a tag, and she has
said in the past, if I have to wear an
electronic tag, how can I possibly stand for election. She's
(26:47):
due to be on live French television in quarter of
an hour and we're expecting a decision as to whether
she will run for that next presidential election, where at
the moment she is the favorite in the polls.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Bracelet well, no, brace that, thank you so much for that.
That is Gavin gray Are UK europe correspondent. It is
twelve minutes away from six Bridge to Turkey and NATO's
summit taking place there, Trump telling the Europeans, you need
me more than I need you.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
We did something in Iran. We don't need anybody's help.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I didn't even want their help.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
But before I asked, they said they wouldn't be there.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And in a way, I was testing people.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
I was testing to see whether or not they'd be there,
because as long said that, we help them, but I'm
not sure that they'd be there for us.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
All right, let's go to Ruth Michaelson, who is a
Turkey based journalist for The Guardian at the summit with us.
Nice to have you on the program. Ruth, how's the
reaction been so far of what Trump's been saying?
Speaker 15 (27:44):
Well, I mean, I think it's probably fair to say
that a lot of this summit is that the mood
is very much it's about keeping gone with Trump happy
one way or another, whether it's the very very warm
welcome that he received from the Turkish president. Reget Type
aired on and you know all the statements we've heard
coming from the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter about his
(28:08):
sort of excitement to show Trump the progress towards three
point five percent GDP on defense spending for NATO members
that progress that he wants to show Trump since the
last summit. Obviously, as we're starting to see some reactions
from Trump's rather well from some of the statements that
(28:28):
we had from Donald Trump when he was sitting next
to erdu One at a press conference where he began
talking about Greenland and his desire to take control of Freeland. Again,
some statements from the Danish leadership basically objecting to what
Trump was saying, asking that allies respect Danish sovereignty, saying
(28:52):
that Greenland does not for sale. But in terms of
the rather warm statements that Trump has made about in
his compared to as rather cold statements about later as
a whole, I think a lot of the world leaders
who are here at the summit have rather christ some
of this in.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
And some of the sentiment is it going to be
backed up by action? In other words, is Trump going
to sell fire digits to Turkey? That's what someone was
riding in the Times this morning reporting that he's going
to do. Is it true?
Speaker 15 (29:26):
Well, he said during this press conference that he would
consider selling the S thirty five to Turkey, but that
was also couched within a lot of very warm promises
on also saying, we don't think that from the Turkey's
point of view, they don't think that this is going
to be an issue. So Trump certainly did everything that
he could in public to say that he would move
(29:51):
to have sanctions that have been in place on Turkey
since twenty twenty. This is for Turkey's purchase as a
Russian the cell system that is, from the US perspective,
incompatible with obtaining a plane right there thirty five. Trump
has said that he will despite the objections of Congress,
he will work to have those sanctions lifted. So certainly
(30:13):
everything that he said would indicate that that he wants
that sale to go ahead. Whether Congress and Washington will
allow that is really another question.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Ruth Michaelson, that is our journalist at NATO in Turkey
for the Guardian. It is nine minutes away from six
Ryan Bridge. A couple of quick numbers for you. This
is reform and forage in the seat of Clacton, where
there'll be a by election. They reckon could be August,
could be early September. Sky is saying probably more likely
early September. Whichever party holds the seat gets to decide
(30:44):
when the by election is held. Of course that is reformed,
so therefore it's in Farage's hands. But the results from
the last time, this is the twenty four general election
in Clacton reform forty six percent almost half the vote.
Conservatives got twenty seven labor down on sixteen, so he's
going to win it. The question is how much damage
does it do to his party vote. It is eight two.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
The first word on the News of the Day earlier
edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business technology that
keeps business moving news talks that'd be chime.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Is six away from six. If you're following the feet
of World Cup Round of sixteen Argentina Egypt games still underway.
Eighty eighth minute, very close, still a chance for Messi
here scores to nil. Morning Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 16 (31:30):
Good to see you, Good to see you too, See
you good Messi is his goal? Is It's worth even
if you have no interest in football, it's worth watching
His goal just happened a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
He's incredible. Hey, speaking of sport yesterday, the NRL deal
talking about endlessly fascinating.
Speaker 16 (31:47):
I watched the Blandes thing. Did you have they had
this press conference and because Foxdale won it they ran
it live, blah blah blah. Yeah, the Channel nine guy
who hits you and I, he looked like he'd been
in the garden and they gone like, we've done the deal,
so can you just stick it?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I thought, what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Mate?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Everyone's dressed up properly.
Speaker 16 (32:05):
We're announcing a six and a half billion.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Dollar deal, biggest written, richest sporting deal in Australian history.
Speaker 16 (32:13):
Beats the AFL, which is quite something. And that's that's
that's the Landy's he's he's like bordering on being a genius.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Fascinating, because what do you do without the right day?
Like nine apparently ten was coming for them. Everyone wanted them.
This is the problem with the problem, it's the fascinating
thing is sort of ties and knitball in this country.
So nitball in Australia has gone to free to wear
because there's a competitive landscape and the free to wear
television market saying where is here there.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Is to know?
Speaker 16 (32:41):
So they've got trouble. Whereas if you look at these
situation here, TOD TV and Z go hard for the NRL.
You know, rumors are they had a crack, but you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
But well to push the price up, I mean, you
need competition, don't you did something?
Speaker 16 (32:54):
Having said that, the numbers i'm hearing around sky here,
I mean the real actions overseas. But what's really interesting
from the valandis point of view, As he was binging
on about design, So you've got Foxtel nine US here,
but Dezionne has got four hundred million subscribers globally, and
so he's looking to push the game internationally. How he's
going to do that, I don't know because league's always
(33:15):
been to me a very.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Regone foxtail, don't they.
Speaker 16 (33:19):
Yes, So they're getting it out and he's seeing this
Vegas thing is a big deal, and he's going to
have a team from America and he's going to he's
going global.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well, I like the Amber and we don't know it's real.
This leg's getting more teams, isn't it? And the other
three is that yeah, well, well we are.
Speaker 16 (33:34):
But the twentieth is the key because the by twenty
twenty nine we're looking for a twentieth team. Where's that
twentieth team. The hope, of course is christ and if
it's not, then it could be Queensland. And so you
know there's a lot to play for, but anyway we.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Talk, I just find it fascinating numbers involved and how
many broadcasters lives depend on it very much so well.
Speaker 16 (33:55):
They asked the Foxtel guy about that yesterday and he goes, look,
it's amazing. Every time we do a deal, you go,
how can you forward it? And every time we can
and we didn't. And it's all about growth.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Anyway.
Speaker 16 (34:04):
She's Sophie Maloney who runs Sky is on the program
This Morne.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
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