March 8, 2026 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Monday the 9th of March 2025, Washington Bureau Chief for the Guardian David Smith shares the latest on the conflict in the Middle East.
Health New Zealand will now become the direct employer for all first-year GP trainees, Health Minister Simeon Brown tells Ryan how this will benefit new trainees.
Andrew Alderson has the latest on the weekend's sport.
Plus, UK/Europe Correspondent Gavin Grey has the latest on Trump telling Starmer he doesn't need his assistance of an aircraft carrier to fight Iran as the war has already been won and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has been the latest to call for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to be removed from the royal line of succession.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
early edition with One Room Love, Where You Live News Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Sa'd be good morning, Welcome to Monday six after five
coming up, we'll head to Washington. The US says to Iranians,
this is in the last couple of minutes. Stay at home.
They're use in crowded areas there to launch attack, so
you could become a target. We're here to London as well.
Gavin Gray with us this morning. Andrew was sport if one.
Obviously the cricket not going fantastically. We'll update you on that.
(00:31):
And Simon Brown here on junior doctors. The agenda. Monday,
the ninth of March. Jurand's Assembly of Experts has reportedly
decided on a new leader, new Supreme Leader. Trump wants
to be involved in all of this.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Course, we don't want to come back every five years
or every ten years to do this, so we want
to pick a president that are going to be leading
their country into a war.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Israel's president has called on Iranians to rise up.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
An opportunity for them.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
This is the big test, this is the big historical
moment that's real faced with.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And we've just heard from the UK Foreign second the
last three while on the Trump Starman drama.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Of course we have a long, deep, important security partnership
with the United States, but we also have some issues
where we disagree.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Look in the British and another news drama mess at
the Formula one in Melbourne, which we were expecting, weren't
we given all the changes they've made. Mercedes took to
the top two spots. Liam Lawson slipped back to thirteenth
after battery issues hit him, and Rating champ Oscar Pistree
crashed in the warm up.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Oscar ps three on the lapse of a grit has.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Lost it or we've not seen anything on the data
so far, you saying anything on the radio, So we'll
do a first mortem after the race and see what happened.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and one roof Love.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Where you live news talks. It'd be N nine two
great to heavy company this morning. So India thrashing the
black Caps. You might have heard the update from Andrew
They're India thrashing the black Caps in the two twenty
World Cup, posting two five five for five. New Zeala
needs two hundred and nine runs and ninety one balls
to win. Now, so the Indians are thrashing us in
the cricket. Is Luxean's caucus going to thrash him over
(02:19):
that poll last week? Probably not. Let's be honest. He's
not going to go far, is he. So he's sitting
on national twenty eight point four percent. Winston and Seymour
will like it, by the way, because a week at
National Party means more votes for them to gobble up,
more power that they could get. And you don't want
anyone who's too good to be leader of the National
Party because then you don't get to run rings around them,
(02:40):
do you. So from their perspective, it's good to keep
him on board and the party's not going to if
you look, if you look, if the recovery was happening
and there was no war in Iran then and you
were sitting in the back benches and you were agitated,
then you might go, you let's roll them. But who
wants to take on the role now where you potentially
(03:01):
have a you know, inflation coming, oil price going up.
Look at Goldman Sacks, gold and Sacks overnight and they're
the ones who know about oil. So I mean this
thing just needs to end for anyone who drives a car,
anyone who buys something at the grocery shop. You just
want this thing to be bloody over with, don't you,
Because our inflation's going to spike, and then the RBNZ
(03:24):
comes along and then it's all, you know, consumer confidence,
et cetera. But Goldman Sacks, so they look at the
global oil price one hundred bucks. They reckon within days.
Remember where we were last week, we were down at
well a couple of weeks ago, it's seventy four odd,
then eighty four odd, and then they reckon within a
couple of days, one hundred by the end of the month,
one hundred and fifty. They're predicting, and gold and Sacks
(03:48):
know a thing or two about what they're talking about.
They thought that production and going through the strait of
her moves would go down to fifteen percent. It's actually
gone down the trade to ten percent, worse than they thought.
They looked at the trade flows and they said the
impact was seventeen times larger than the peak April twenty
twenty two hit to Russia production after they went into Ukraine,
(04:12):
and that pushed to the oil price to one hundred
and ten dollars a barrel. In summary, things don't look
great on the world front and that may in some
perverse way shelter luxen on the domestic front. Bryan Bridge
after five, we have simm And Brown, the Health Minister
on the show. Next to News Talk said be on.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Your radio and online on Iheard Radio Early edition with
Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you live News
Talk sadb.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
FI point thirteen on your Monday morning. Fonterra has confirmed
that the sale of its consumer groups to the French
is happening. It's now unconditional. All the regulatory approvals, everything,
all that stuff has been stamped. So good it's being done.
You'll remember they said to be a capital return of
two bucks to shared to shareholders and they have now
given some dates. So Fonterra can today advised that it
(05:00):
expects the record date to be eligible for capital return
to be the ninth of April. Payment date fourteen April
twenty twenty sixth Now that is based off the transaction
being completed at the end of March. It is till
thirteen after five.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Braham Bridge.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Changes are coming to boost the primary healthcare workforce health
new Zealand will now become the direct employer for all
first year GP trainees. Move means trainee doctors can keep
their leave, their pay and their continuity. This is all
apparently very important. Simmon Brown is a health minster with
us this morning. Minister, good morning, good morning. Good Have
you on the show had any conversations at the weekend
(05:39):
about your boss?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Now, we're completely behind Chris Luxen, very focused on winning
in November and making sure that New Zealanders are reminded
that the challenges we're facing today are a direct result
of the decisions made by Chris Hipkins and the later party,
and that we need to continue on the plan that
we've got by re electing a national lead government led
by Christopher Luxen, who we the National Party caucus is
(06:03):
in complete resupport of our leader. You've a focused on
winning in November.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Have you all had a group convo?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Look, ultimately, we are focused on winning in November. The
caucuses behind out our leader, behind our prime Minister. Well,
the reality is we accept there are challenges facing New
Zealanders and many of those challenges are a direct result
of the decisions made by the previous government.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
We focused on lasuring I don't want to spend too
long on this, Minister, because we've got actually, you know,
important stuff to talk about. But I just want to know,
how do you know that the entire caucus backs well.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
We're focused on winning in November. We're not focused on
polls come and go. The reality is the only pole
that matters is the one in November, and that's the
one that is where the team focused on winning.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
All right, Hey, the doctors, what's happening here?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Well, Health New Zealand has agreed to be the employer
effect effectively, to continue being the employer for first year
GPEP doctors, which is the first year of general practice training.
It's been one of the barriers to encouraging doctors to
consider specializing as general practitioners because effectively they become employees
(07:18):
of the Royal College, they lose their leaf balances and
other conditions, and that can be a challenge in terms
of recruiting the number of general practitioners that we need
as a country. So the agreements we made that Health
New Zealand will continue employing our doctors as they start
their specialization as general practitioners and effectively this has been
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something which has been recommended for some time and as
part of our plan to grow the number of gps
that we have in New Zealand, which is as everyone knows,
an area which is needing significant investment, which we're.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Cost us any more money to do it that way,
or are you just rejigging them not.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Ready effectively rejigging what's currently Why.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Has no one done it then? I mean you said
that it's been on the books for aight.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
It was, it was recommended, I think back in twenty
twenty two. There was a report done back then. Ultimately
we've got round and done it. There's been a number
of other changes we've also made to try and encourage
further GP specialization. Another one I announced last year which
was that we would cover the fees for general practitioners
(08:24):
for their training and exams through for the full three years,
something that was done for other specialist special specializations but
not for general practitioners. So effectively, we want to see
general practitioners seen as a key specialty.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
We want to.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Encourage young doctors, new doctors to take up under practitioning
as a practice as a key specialty. And this is
another part of that. Another part of that plan.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Stuff Hey, appreciate your time this morning, minister, thanks very
much for being with me. Thank you Siming Brown Health Minister.
Time is five to seventeen. We'll get an update from
Andrew on the cricket in the SEC.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And views you trust to start your day. It's earlier
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Speaker 2 (09:08):
That'd been nineteen minutes after five on your Monday morning.
Great to have your company. Not so great to be
a black cat right now. I would have thought things
aren't going smashingly for them, Andrew.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
They're going pretty smashingly for India with two hundred and
fifty five for five on the board, h Ryan. Yeah,
just a seamless highlights for real, really for them with
the bat given them the opportunity, they decided to field first,
just preps having for a bit of dew on the
field later on into the evening at Armadabad. But yeah,
it's going to be a struggle from here.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I think.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
Just last I saw as I came in, I think
seventy one for four New Zealand in the eighth over.
But it's going to be a battle. It's yeah that Yeah,
they just really struggled with the ball and the opposit
to the extra pace bowler. But yeah, I think maybe
just taking the pace off it may have made a difference.
But very easy in hindsight to say, but New Zealand
are going to struggle here.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I think, Okay, all right, we'll keep watching brief and
you keep us updated through the morning, and we will
do now that If one will worry is great, if
one is if something positive, yeah, let's go Warriors first.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Then yeah with the w as my children say. Yeah,
so they've produced a really convincing performance against the rus
is what forty two eighteen. I tuned into it of
that on Friday, and oh, it's just a really impressive
start to the season. Just uplifting the crowds in there.
It mounts smart and I think too. I don't know,
(10:31):
is it just an instinct for me, but the better
Warrior seasons start when there's less hype and less about
keeping the faith and it's our year, et cetera, et cetera.
Doesn't it doesn't feel like there's been as much of
that this time around.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So well that's good. Yeah, I was really impressed. So yeah,
now what to do we have to do? How to
treat them top notch. The Formula one jeez, sounds a
little bit mess all over the place.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Yeah, well, especially with now that they're moving to these
well electric versus a combustion engine.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
There's a lot of talk about how safe that is.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
I think I saw from me in deefending champion now
Landon Lorris, but also past Jimi MaTx with Stubb and
talking about that and worried that with the extra power
as well, that it's going to be a situation where
there could be wherese accidents and therefore be safety is
at risk. But disappointment for the Australian fans too. Oscar
Piastree out even before getting to the starting line and
(11:25):
Liam Lawson with his thirteenth place finish so disappointed to
be out of the points for him to start off
with racing balls.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Leave it there, Andrew, thank you very much and we
will look forward to those crooked updates throughout the show.
This morning twenty two after five Andrew orders in the
Sport Ryan Bridge. A couple of things to note from
the weekend. You might have seen the Iranian president come
out and say, ah, We're sorry to the Golf States
because they're hitsing the Golf States, not just military but
US military basis and the Golf States. But they're also
(11:53):
heading civilian targets, you know, hotels and stuff like that.
It's like, what are you doing? So the Iranian president
comes out and see, oh, I'm sorry about that, not
just not not like a sorry, not sorry, which is
what they normally might do, you know, you know, something
much more timid like we you know, express regret. One
(12:14):
of those they actually said, we're sorry and we will
stop doing it. I mean they haven't stopped doing it,
but what happened was once you take out and the
Americans took out the top brass, military, top brass, over
and around, then you have a fire at will command.
And that's what you've seen is you've just seen kamikazi
drones just everywhere. So they come out, they say sorry,
and then you think, well, what is this? Is this
(12:35):
a strategy? Are you just trying to appease them? But
since they have said sorry and we won't do it again,
we've seen strikes on Kata, the uae Qh, Bahrain. They're
even going after water desalination plants in Bahrain. And if
you want to drink water, and bah Rain. It's got
to come from a de cell plant, so things not
looking great there. Also, this is just one to watch
from last night. This is an Oslo, Norwegian capital at
(13:00):
the US embassy and they are looking into it as
an act of terrorism. Nothing major, like a bit of
glass falling on the snow because obviously it's winter. There
explosion at the public entrance to the building, but they're
just not quite sure why at this point, suspecting or
at least investigating as possible terrorism. Twenty three after five
(13:20):
News Talk VB. Fines and Parking next the early.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
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Talks v News TALKSB twenty five after five on your
Monday morning, This country's fines. You've probably noticed this make
very little sense. You can get seventy bucks for parking
for a few minutes over in the wrong spot in
a CBD area. One hundred and fifty dollars for driving
in a bus lane, which is a massive really, that's
a big fine by comparison, and that is the exact
(13:51):
same amount you can get for texting while driving, an
act which could in theory distract you enough to kill
somebody on the road, So that kind of makes no sense.
So what gives you can get thirty bucks for going
a few k's over one hundred on a main road.
Anyone who's been to Australia, those things are very different.
They're way harsher. People generally follow the rules of the road.
(14:11):
As a result. You might have seen that if you're
driven over an oz, but that doesn't mean that no
one's crashing there and no one's dying on their roads either,
does it. The problem is revenue gathering. As you well know,
if you actually set the fines based on the potential
damage that an action may cause, we'd have a totally
different system and set of punishments. But you would also
(14:33):
have councils and cops who take the mickey and go
revenue grab speeding cameras in areas where no one's seen
a crash in decades. That kind of thing. That's basically
why we are who we are. There is one change, though,
that I think we can make, one that I support,
Wait for it, free parking for those over the age
(14:54):
of eighty, get rid of the parking charges all together. Therefore,
get rid of the fines. For gore already does this,
Congratulations Gore, welcome to the party, or Amadu is looking
at doing this at the moment. They've got new parking
meters installed in town you see happen in December. And
apparently this is according to age concern making the elderly
(15:17):
very anxious because they're digital. So you get two hours free,
but then you have to enter your details of your
car for a third hour, and they're very anxious about
doing this in a digital way, and so they say
the fear of getting a seventy dollars ticket is so
much so great that they just don't go into town.
(15:37):
I mean, isn't that's seriously sad. I think a massive
setback for an older person. You're not going in there
chatting to people in the mall, to the shop owners,
to the cafe owners. It's less socializing, less practical, losing
your independence for fear of a fine. I think it's unfair.
If you've made it to eighty, you deserve to go
to town in your own car without being worried of half
(15:59):
your pension flying out the window and fines. Shall I
support you, Amdu. I hope that you give the big
tick as Gore has done. Right. It is twenty eight
minutes after five. Let's talk a little bit about the
price of stuff that's going up, because there's a bunch
of releases came out over the weekends, so retailing z
retailers say, oh, we're monitoring the situation in the Middle East.
(16:21):
We may need to increase our prices if the unrest
in the Middle East Middle East continues. That's Carolyn Young.
Transport operators, they've put that one out too. Transport of
prices operators must pass on the substantial fuel price increases
resulting from the Iran conflicts, as the National Road Carriers Association,
(16:43):
so prices a hike, price hikes are coming. I mean
we've been telling you this for a couple of weeks
now that what are we entering our second week of this.
But I think you just got to now say we
need a time limit on this, please, Donald Trump. You
know we're not We're not kicking up, but we just
need to time limit. Please. We need to know by
when that straight is going to open, things can unblock
(17:06):
and unclog and we can get on with our business
news talks. B We'll head to the US and the
UK before top of the hour for an update on
the aforementioned News Talks Bare State.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Root Love
Where You Live News Talks b.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Twenty four Away from six news Talks were head to
Washington on the Wall before six o'clock. We'll also head
to the UK. Canada is saying they want changes to
the line of succession rules. We will go to Gavin
and the UK on that shortly. Get to our reporters
in the Sex. A couple of your texts this morning,
Ryan totaling a city is ruined after they brought in
the meters for parking in the city. Nobody goes to
(18:08):
town now there's a seventy dollar fine there. Also if
you go over the limits, everybody's too scared. Same with
the bus lanes. No one uses a bus lane. Even
because bus lanes are timed. You can use a bus
lane or for most of them outside certain hours. But
if you drive anywhere there's a bus lane, no matter
what time of day, no one is using it for fear.
(18:29):
Everybody is too frightened getting one hundred and fifty dollars fine. Ryan.
The Palmerston North City Council has a deal for local
resident gold Hards gold cards. I should say, I like
this under this ten dollars a year free parking on
meeted parks nine to three Monday to Friday. Good on you,
Palm North, Ryan Bridge, jamiens Aneta and Jamie good morning,
(18:50):
Good morning Ryan. Now you want the gold mine going
cranking because you want the young people coming back to
high paying jobs. Well, that is right.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Australian Mining NIS Santana has acquired the Bendigo of Fair
site and is seeking fast track consents for exploration. It
says the proposed gold mine could create more than eight
hundred and sixty jobs over fourteen years, and it believes
locals can fill them. Local councilors Duughe Duncan says Central
Otago has plenty of work, but many young people have
(19:19):
gone overseas for better pay. He says the mind may
slow that down, but he adds it would be great
if you still go overseas but can settle in the
region after getting that experience. Duncan says there's a wave
of new business growth in the region with other mines,
solar farms and agriculture on the rise.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
All right, how's the weather?
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Cloudy periods with a few showers, easing late morning, then
clearing this evening, cold southerlyes in a high of fourteen.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Thanks Jamie, Good morning, Claire, good morning. Now the hospital,
they're the dialysis unit bit of a crisis point.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
Yeah, well, our hospital has been at a near crisis
point for some time, but this in particular is quite concerning,
given the kidney patients who are being told that they
have to have their dialysis rationed because of a lack
of both staff and physical space in the dialysis unit.
The nurses organization members raised some concerns to leadership about
(20:11):
this last month, saying that there were threats to patient
safety and staff well being. The CEO, Paul Gulter says
the urgent the unit rather urgently needs more staff as
a first move, but he says it's also not fit
for purpose anyway. He says the space is a too narrow,
there's issues with mold leaks. There's also a lack of privacy.
Health Minister Simeon Brown has ordered some more staff following
(20:34):
media reports late last week. Health New Zealand says the
advertising for urgent recruitment recruitment begins early this week, but
Galter says it should never have taken news coverage for
the minister to act, given the issues have been around
and flagged for some time.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
All right, how's your weather? More rain about.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
CHRISTI today should ease towards the evening, cold southwesterlies and
a higher fourteen.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
All right, Max and Mallings and morning Max, Good morning.
So counsel wants some more money out of the crown. Yeah, exactly, say.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Much of the property owned by central government, like schools, hospitals,
is exempt from paying rates. Local government generally speaking doesn't
like it. Wayne Brown says the government's getting a free ride.
Auckland Council could be making forty million dollars more. There,
Wellington's mayor now echoing that, saying he's going to join
this lobby train, trying to encourage changes to the Local
(21:24):
Government Act, obviously doing anything he can to stem these
absurd rates rises in the capitol labor opened to the
idea local government. Minister Simon Wat's much less so, he says,
the government already pays for kind of order administrative buildings,
emergency like police courts, corrections, fire, et cetera. Little's best
bet probably a change of.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Government, right yeah, Wi Dovey hoping will happen very soon.
How's you with that?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, cloudy with the odd shower northerly is turning southerly seventeen.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Good morning, thank you, Max, Good morning Labor, good morning.
Great to see you as always a universe. Sorry sorry.
Aukland University with record student enrollments.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Yes, very positive today. So more people enrolled at Auckland
UNI at the start of semester one than ever before.
Total enrollments, they've surpassed forty seven thousand. That's roughly the
population of Invercargoll, up eight percent. This is from around
forty three thousand at the same point last year. Undergraduate
numbers have driven much of this growth, rising ten percent
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or nearly three thousand students competed with last year. And also,
you know, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Education Sarah Young Say's immigration,
the higher unemployment rate, new transnational agreements all key factors
behind this search fantastic.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
How's our weather fine?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Passing afternoon cloud another good one for Auckland. Twenty three is.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
A high fantastic never thank you. It is nineteen minutes
away from six here on news Talk ZEBB. A little
update from Bunning's actually yesterday so Bunning, you know, a
bunch of supermarkets have already done this, but they're doing
the in store facial recognition technology because otherwise people come
into their stores and well they don't even need to
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bring their crowbars and their hammers because they can just
get those off the shelves at Bunnings, can't they and
start going to town on the poor people working there.
So they have announced that they are going to introduce
facial recognition technology at Bunning stores to combat retail crime
in stores across New Zealand to protect their team members.
Now what's interesting about this release from Bunnings is they
(23:25):
say that we have consulted with customers, team members and
community as well as Mardi sovereignty experts. This engagement will
continue as the technology rolls out nationally. Tea Kang and
Mardi principles have been considered and built into their approach.
I mean, what does that even mean to me? Just
from a pr perspective, that sounds to me like sometimes
(23:48):
our facial recognition technology actually cocks it up, stuffs up
and blames the wrong person. So we're going to cover
our ass by talking about a Tea Kuger Principal expert
eighteen to six News Talk CB it is quartered to six.
Great to heavy company this morning. Not so great for
the cricket if you're just joining US India threshing the
(24:09):
black Caps in the T twenty World Cup final posting
two hundred and fifty five for five. So New Zealand
this is the latest. Now needs one hundred and twenty
four runs in thirty eight balls to win.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
International correspondence with ins and eye insurance, peace of mind
for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Kevin Gray, UK correspondent with US this morning, Gavin, good morning,
good evening to you. So we got Trump telling the
UK actually we don't need you, We're already winning this thing.
Speaker 11 (24:35):
Yes, And the war of words across the Atlantic continues
between our premiere, our Prime Minister, Sekir Starmer and Donald Trump.
So it's being reported that one of the UK's two
aircraft carriers is placed on advanced readiness. What does that mean, Well,
basically that the crew and all the operational matters have
got to be ready to go in a matter of
(24:58):
a few days. Where are they going, we think into
the oceans around the Middle East to strengthen what little
UK armory there is on site. How was this met
by Donald Trump. Well, he said effectively that it was
too little, too late. He said, we don't need countries
who join wars after we've already won. The actual quote
(25:18):
in full, and how's this for a real put down?
The United Kingdom, our once great ally maybe the greatest
of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending
two aircraft carries to the Middle East. Writing on Social
made Trump social, he said, that's okay, Prime Minister Starmer,
we don't need them any longer, but we will remember.
So a real threat there from Donald Trump. I think
(25:38):
about what's been going on, lots of opposition MPs and
indeed members of the public saying we should have joined
this earlier. Secure Starmer's decision was not to join and
not allow America to use the Air Force baces in
the UK, and it's one on Diego Garcia for America
to land long flights. However, he's changed his mind, saying
they can use them if it's defensive action.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Now Canada is getting involved in the succession for the
former Prince Andrew, saying basically we want them gone from
the line of succession altogether.
Speaker 11 (26:11):
Yes, of course, Christopher Luxon has already gone, along with
the call from Australia which I think started this whole thing,
Anthony Albinisi saying that mount Batten Windsor, the former Prince Andrew,
should be removed from the line of succession. He is
eighth in line. It's extremely unlikely he would ever get
his chance. But it's not that it's the principle of
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the thing. And certainly Christopher Luxon's words have been echoed
now by Canada the Prime Minister there Mark Carney saying
that Andrew mount Batten Winsor must not really be allowed
in the line of succession. Of course, Mount Baton Winsor
was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office last month.
He's accused of sharing confidential information with the late pedophile
(26:54):
financier Jeffrey Epstein. We must stress, though, RN, that Andrew
has long denied had any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.
But this has certainly been a terrible, terrible few months
for the monarchy here in the UK, and I think
although it's going to require law and everyone's agreement around
the Commonwealth, I think this is very very sensible.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
STAB all right, thanks so much for that, Gavin Gray
are UK europe correspondent, just gone twelve minutes away from six.
Very quickly, people, Ryan, we've been asking about the stop
piles of the US weapons. What are they going to
know when do they run out of them? I can
tell you they use two thousand munitions in the first
one hundred hours. This is the Americans of the war.
And a lot of those are bombs, things that are
(27:37):
plan to fall, easy to replace. But they also include
some high end missiles that aren't. And then everyone's going, well,
what about China? Are you taking your eye off the
real ball here? And that is China moving a lot
of assets from this region to that one. More on
that shortly, right, it is eleven away from six. Now
let's go to the latest on the war. David Smith,
Washington Bureau chief that the Guardian joins me live. Good morning, David,
(28:01):
good morning. So we're hearing more and more that Iran
is going after Golf, the golf state Saudi Arabia in
the last few minutes apparently said that he's been two dead,
twelve wounded and they are attacking. This is Iran attacking
the diplomatic quarter in Riads. So what's the latest here?
What are we what's going on?
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Yeah, it's a great question, because Iran seems to have
been giving conflicting signals on that. There was a statement
from the President yesterday suggesting that they would no longer
go after countries in the Golf region, but it did
seem to have a little bit of ambiguity that that
would only be the case if the implication was those
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countries were no longer backing the US attack. And of course,
you know, the US does have military bases in almost
all of those countries, and so it would appear Iran
is still attacking on that pretext, and it's a very
high risk strategy for them. I mean, I think some
of the view of some in Washington is that it's
(29:02):
going to backfire. It just alienates the region, It makes
those countries even more likely to collaborate with the US.
You know, some of those critics would say Iran is
just kind of lashing out here almost indiscriminately, and there
appears to be kind of no let up in that happening,
(29:23):
And it does obviously carry that risk of just a
wider conflagration, of this war really spreading in a dangerous
way and airlines having to cancel flights and people desperate
to get out and pressure on the US to provide
the passage for them. It sort of feels like the
war is escalating and widening rather than the opposite.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah, and because they're in a perverse kind of way,
get it over with quicker. I know, you know, there's
obviously going to be casualties, is going to be bad
things that come from that. But I think a lot
of people, including in America as you'll know, as saying, well,
we don't want this pushing price up. Yeah, that's right, because.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Clearly oil in a simple word, is one of the
key factors here. And we're already seeing the oil price
go up because of the strait of her moves in
Iran are being affected and these other countries as well,
and that will increase global pressure. And already we're seeing
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here in the US petrol price is affected as a consequence,
Maybe not as dramatically as some fear, because the US
itself has become a massive oil and gas producer, partly
through fracking, to provide some insulation precisely for this kind
of global turbulence, but even so, it is a potential negative,
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especially for Donald Trump and Republicans politically going forward to
the mid term elections in November, and so yes, I
think there is something in that theory that, you know,
the wider this war goes, the quicker it might be
over because because of those pressures and because you know,
golf countries have a motivation to join the battle against
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their own.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
David, appreciate your analysis this morning. David Smith, Washington Bureau
chief for The Guardian, Your Own News talksb.
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Speaker 2 (31:29):
Talksb Bister six. On News TALKSB, I mentioned that Iran
had hit this desalination plant, and it's interesting because so
much of the water that you drink in well, the
Gulf States, in this area in the Middle East, you'd
come from desalination plants. In fact, in bar Rain where
this one in particular has been hit, drinking water for
the population almost one hundred percent dependent on desalination plants,
(31:53):
and it's about ninety percent for Q eight for their
water needs met by desalination. So once you start hitting
these plants on people run out of water, and that
gets people angry and the whole thing becomes a lot
more complicated, isn't it? Ryan Bridge, Good morning, Mike, Good
morning Ryan. How are you for a Monday morning.
Speaker 12 (32:10):
I'm absolutely fantastic, apart from the cricket we've been keeping.
And I wasn't overly interested in the cricket, to be honest.
I watched the F one. I thought the IF one
was fantastic. You see the one?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Well, I didn't watch it, but I've been talking to
Andrew about it this morning and he's been telling me
that the things that are going a bit of rye
because they're too fast because of the batteries.
Speaker 12 (32:28):
Mist reporting it was. It went fine generally speaking. There's
a couple of teething problems. Piastre was a teething problem.
For stapping and qualifying, there was a teething problem. But
the race was good, and say it is as fast
as there's four fast teams. You didn't get there to
do to was there was a bit of a battery surge.
Those sort of things I'll sort out in Aston Martin.
It's got all sorts of troubles exactly. But I mean
(32:50):
the whole new reing is like when you buy a
UK you know you don't know where the windscreen wipers
are you don't know how to pop your petrol cap?
You know, you spend a bit of time exactly right,
Prime Minister, What a beat it wasn't Friday one of
the great beat ups of all time?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Was it?
Speaker 12 (33:05):
It started out he was quote unquote considering his position. Right,
turns out not to be true.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Who said that that.
Speaker 12 (33:12):
Was through every story throughout Friday? He was quote unquote
considering you go back to look at the Herald, look
at stuff, considering.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
It was on air as it was happening. We went
certainly went saying that where I was.
Speaker 12 (33:25):
We'll have a look at those sites. Considering his position
was the phrase used? And then under increasing pressure? Who
said he was under increasing pressure?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Well, I mean he is under increasing pressure. No, who
said that? Well the journal was it you? So they
made it Up's what they do.
Speaker 12 (33:41):
He comes so he comes out of five past five
and he goes, what, No, I don't know, and.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That that what you probably could do is acknowledge a
little more just how much people don't particularly warm to him.
Speaker 12 (33:53):
Here's the thing, and we'll talk about it this morning.
And you're voting for him, and you're voting for an
economic turnaround. That's what the election's about. You be to
the economy run yes or no? Simple so anyway as well,
that's up to sitting.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Very good. Have a great Monday. Everyone, to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Sa'd be good morning, Welcome to Monday six after five
coming up, we'll head to Washington. The US says to Iranians,
this is in the last couple of minutes. Stay at home.
They're use in crowded areas there to launch attack, so
you could become a target. We're here to London as well.
Gavin Gray with us this morning. Andrew was sport if one.
Obviously the cricket not going fantastically. We'll update you on that.
(00:31):
And Simon Brown here on junior doctors. The agenda. Monday,
the ninth of March. Jurand's Assembly of Experts has reportedly
decided on a new leader, new Supreme Leader. Trump wants
to be involved in all of this.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Course, we don't want to come back every five years
or every ten years to do this, so we want
to pick a president that are going to be leading
their country into a war.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Israel's president has called on Iranians to rise up.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
An opportunity for them.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
This is the big test, this is the big historical
moment that's real faced with.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And we've just heard from the UK Foreign second the
last three while on the Trump Starman drama.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Of course we have a long, deep, important security partnership
with the United States, but we also have some issues
where we disagree.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Look in the British and another news drama mess at
the Formula one in Melbourne, which we were expecting, weren't
we given all the changes they've made. Mercedes took to
the top two spots. Liam Lawson slipped back to thirteenth
after battery issues hit him, and Rating champ Oscar Pistree
crashed in the warm up.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Oscar ps three on the lapse of a grit has.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Lost it or we've not seen anything on the data
so far, you saying anything on the radio, So we'll
do a first mortem after the race and see what happened.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and one roof Love.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Where you live news talks. It'd be N nine two
great to heavy company this morning. So India thrashing the
black Caps. You might have heard the update from Andrew
They're India thrashing the black Caps in the two twenty
World Cup, posting two five five for five. New Zeala
needs two hundred and nine runs and ninety one balls
to win. Now, so the Indians are thrashing us in
the cricket. Is Luxean's caucus going to thrash him over
(02:19):
that poll last week? Probably not. Let's be honest. He's
not going to go far, is he. So he's sitting
on national twenty eight point four percent. Winston and Seymour
will like it, by the way, because a week at
National Party means more votes for them to gobble up,
more power that they could get. And you don't want
anyone who's too good to be leader of the National
Party because then you don't get to run rings around them,
(02:40):
do you. So from their perspective, it's good to keep
him on board and the party's not going to if
you look, if you look, if the recovery was happening
and there was no war in Iran then and you
were sitting in the back benches and you were agitated,
then you might go, you let's roll them. But who
wants to take on the role now where you potentially
(03:01):
have a you know, inflation coming, oil price going up.
Look at Goldman Sacks, gold and Sacks overnight and they're
the ones who know about oil. So I mean this
thing just needs to end for anyone who drives a car,
anyone who buys something at the grocery shop. You just
want this thing to be bloody over with, don't you,
Because our inflation's going to spike, and then the RBNZ
(03:24):
comes along and then it's all, you know, consumer confidence,
et cetera. But Goldman Sacks, so they look at the
global oil price one hundred bucks. They reckon within days.
Remember where we were last week, we were down at
well a couple of weeks ago, it's seventy four odd,
then eighty four odd, and then they reckon within a
couple of days, one hundred by the end of the month,
one hundred and fifty. They're predicting, and gold and Sacks
(03:48):
know a thing or two about what they're talking about.
They thought that production and going through the strait of
her moves would go down to fifteen percent. It's actually
gone down the trade to ten percent, worse than they thought.
They looked at the trade flows and they said the
impact was seventeen times larger than the peak April twenty
twenty two hit to Russia production after they went into Ukraine,
(04:12):
and that pushed to the oil price to one hundred
and ten dollars a barrel. In summary, things don't look
great on the world front and that may in some
perverse way shelter luxen on the domestic front. Bryan Bridge
after five, we have simm And Brown, the Health Minister
on the show. Next to News Talk said be on.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Your radio and online on Iheard Radio Early edition with
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Talk sadb.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
FI point thirteen on your Monday morning. Fonterra has confirmed
that the sale of its consumer groups to the French
is happening. It's now unconditional. All the regulatory approvals, everything,
all that stuff has been stamped. So good it's being done.
You'll remember they said to be a capital return of
two bucks to shared to shareholders and they have now
given some dates. So Fonterra can today advised that it
(05:00):
expects the record date to be eligible for capital return
to be the ninth of April. Payment date fourteen April
twenty twenty sixth Now that is based off the transaction
being completed at the end of March. It is till
thirteen after five.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Braham Bridge.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Changes are coming to boost the primary healthcare workforce health
new Zealand will now become the direct employer for all
first year GP trainees. Move means trainee doctors can keep
their leave, their pay and their continuity. This is all
apparently very important. Simmon Brown is a health minster with
us this morning. Minister, good morning, good morning. Good Have
you on the show had any conversations at the weekend
(05:39):
about your boss?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Now, we're completely behind Chris Luxen, very focused on winning
in November and making sure that New Zealanders are reminded
that the challenges we're facing today are a direct result
of the decisions made by Chris Hipkins and the later party,
and that we need to continue on the plan that
we've got by re electing a national lead government led
by Christopher Luxen, who we the National Party caucus is
(06:03):
in complete resupport of our leader. You've a focused on
winning in November.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Have you all had a group convo?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Look, ultimately, we are focused on winning in November. The
caucuses behind out our leader, behind our prime Minister. Well,
the reality is we accept there are challenges facing New
Zealanders and many of those challenges are a direct result
of the decisions made by the previous government.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
We focused on lasuring I don't want to spend too
long on this, Minister, because we've got actually, you know,
important stuff to talk about. But I just want to know,
how do you know that the entire caucus backs well.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
We're focused on winning in November. We're not focused on
polls come and go. The reality is the only pole
that matters is the one in November, and that's the
one that is where the team focused on winning.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
All right, Hey, the doctors, what's happening here?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Well, Health New Zealand has agreed to be the employer
effect effectively, to continue being the employer for first year
GPEP doctors, which is the first year of general practice training.
It's been one of the barriers to encouraging doctors to
consider specializing as general practitioners because effectively they become employees
(07:18):
of the Royal College, they lose their leaf balances and
other conditions, and that can be a challenge in terms
of recruiting the number of general practitioners that we need
as a country. So the agreements we made that Health
New Zealand will continue employing our doctors as they start
their specialization as general practitioners and effectively this has been
(07:39):
something which has been recommended for some time and as
part of our plan to grow the number of gps
that we have in New Zealand, which is as everyone knows,
an area which is needing significant investment, which we're.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Cost us any more money to do it that way,
or are you just rejigging them not.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Ready effectively rejigging what's currently Why.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Has no one done it then? I mean you said
that it's been on the books for aight.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
It was, it was recommended, I think back in twenty
twenty two. There was a report done back then. Ultimately
we've got round and done it. There's been a number
of other changes we've also made to try and encourage
further GP specialization. Another one I announced last year which
was that we would cover the fees for general practitioners
(08:24):
for their training and exams through for the full three years,
something that was done for other specialist special specializations but
not for general practitioners. So effectively, we want to see
general practitioners seen as a key specialty.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
We want to.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Encourage young doctors, new doctors to take up under practitioning
as a practice as a key specialty. And this is
another part of that. Another part of that plan.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Stuff Hey, appreciate your time this morning, minister, thanks very
much for being with me. Thank you Siming Brown Health Minister.
Time is five to seventeen. We'll get an update from
Andrew on the cricket in the SEC.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
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Speaker 2 (09:08):
That'd been nineteen minutes after five on your Monday morning.
Great to have your company. Not so great to be
a black cat right now. I would have thought things
aren't going smashingly for them, Andrew.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
They're going pretty smashingly for India with two hundred and
fifty five for five on the board, h Ryan. Yeah,
just a seamless highlights for real, really for them with
the bat given them the opportunity, they decided to field first,
just preps having for a bit of dew on the
field later on into the evening at Armadabad. But yeah,
it's going to be a struggle from here.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I think.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
Just last I saw as I came in, I think
seventy one for four New Zealand in the eighth over.
But it's going to be a battle. It's yeah that Yeah,
they just really struggled with the ball and the opposit
to the extra pace bowler. But yeah, I think maybe
just taking the pace off it may have made a difference.
But very easy in hindsight to say, but New Zealand
are going to struggle here.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I think, Okay, all right, we'll keep watching brief and
you keep us updated through the morning, and we will
do now that If one will worry is great, if
one is if something positive, yeah, let's go Warriors first.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Then yeah with the w as my children say. Yeah,
so they've produced a really convincing performance against the rus
is what forty two eighteen. I tuned into it of
that on Friday, and oh, it's just a really impressive
start to the season. Just uplifting the crowds in there.
It mounts smart and I think too. I don't know,
(10:31):
is it just an instinct for me, but the better
Warrior seasons start when there's less hype and less about
keeping the faith and it's our year, et cetera, et cetera.
Doesn't it doesn't feel like there's been as much of
that this time around.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So well that's good. Yeah, I was really impressed. So yeah,
now what to do we have to do? How to
treat them top notch. The Formula one jeez, sounds a
little bit mess all over the place.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Yeah, well, especially with now that they're moving to these
well electric versus a combustion engine.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
There's a lot of talk about how safe that is.
Speaker 8 (11:02):
I think I saw from me in deefending champion now
Landon Lorris, but also past Jimi MaTx with Stubb and
talking about that and worried that with the extra power
as well, that it's going to be a situation where
there could be wherese accidents and therefore be safety is
at risk. But disappointment for the Australian fans too. Oscar
Piastree out even before getting to the starting line and
(11:25):
Liam Lawson with his thirteenth place finish so disappointed to
be out of the points for him to start off
with racing balls.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Leave it there, Andrew, thank you very much and we
will look forward to those crooked updates throughout the show.
This morning twenty two after five Andrew orders in the
Sport Ryan Bridge. A couple of things to note from
the weekend. You might have seen the Iranian president come
out and say, ah, We're sorry to the Golf States
because they're hitsing the Golf States, not just military but
US military basis and the Golf States. But they're also
(11:53):
heading civilian targets, you know, hotels and stuff like that.
It's like, what are you doing? So the Iranian president
comes out and see, oh, I'm sorry about that, not
just not not like a sorry, not sorry, which is
what they normally might do, you know, you know, something
much more timid like we you know, express regret. One
(12:14):
of those they actually said, we're sorry and we will
stop doing it. I mean they haven't stopped doing it,
but what happened was once you take out and the
Americans took out the top brass, military, top brass, over
and around, then you have a fire at will command.
And that's what you've seen is you've just seen kamikazi
drones just everywhere. So they come out, they say sorry,
and then you think, well, what is this? Is this
(12:35):
a strategy? Are you just trying to appease them? But
since they have said sorry and we won't do it again,
we've seen strikes on Kata, the uae Qh, Bahrain. They're
even going after water desalination plants in Bahrain. And if
you want to drink water, and bah Rain. It's got
to come from a de cell plant, so things not
looking great there. Also, this is just one to watch
from last night. This is an Oslo, Norwegian capital at
(13:00):
the US embassy and they are looking into it as
an act of terrorism. Nothing major, like a bit of
glass falling on the snow because obviously it's winter. There
explosion at the public entrance to the building, but they're
just not quite sure why at this point, suspecting or
at least investigating as possible terrorism. Twenty three after five
(13:20):
News Talk VB. Fines and Parking next the early.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
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Talks v News TALKSB twenty five after five on your
Monday morning, This country's fines. You've probably noticed this make
very little sense. You can get seventy bucks for parking
for a few minutes over in the wrong spot in
a CBD area. One hundred and fifty dollars for driving
in a bus lane, which is a massive really, that's
a big fine by comparison, and that is the exact
(13:51):
same amount you can get for texting while driving, an
act which could in theory distract you enough to kill
somebody on the road, So that kind of makes no sense.
So what gives you can get thirty bucks for going
a few k's over one hundred on a main road.
Anyone who's been to Australia, those things are very different.
They're way harsher. People generally follow the rules of the road.
(14:11):
As a result. You might have seen that if you're
driven over an oz, but that doesn't mean that no
one's crashing there and no one's dying on their roads either,
does it. The problem is revenue gathering. As you well know,
if you actually set the fines based on the potential
damage that an action may cause, we'd have a totally
different system and set of punishments. But you would also
(14:33):
have councils and cops who take the mickey and go
revenue grab speeding cameras in areas where no one's seen
a crash in decades. That kind of thing. That's basically
why we are who we are. There is one change, though,
that I think we can make, one that I support,
Wait for it, free parking for those over the age
(14:54):
of eighty, get rid of the parking charges all together. Therefore,
get rid of the fines. For gore already does this,
Congratulations Gore, welcome to the party, or Amadu is looking
at doing this at the moment. They've got new parking
meters installed in town you see happen in December. And
apparently this is according to age concern making the elderly
(15:17):
very anxious because they're digital. So you get two hours free,
but then you have to enter your details of your
car for a third hour, and they're very anxious about
doing this in a digital way, and so they say
the fear of getting a seventy dollars ticket is so
much so great that they just don't go into town.
(15:37):
I mean, isn't that's seriously sad. I think a massive
setback for an older person. You're not going in there
chatting to people in the mall, to the shop owners,
to the cafe owners. It's less socializing, less practical, losing
your independence for fear of a fine. I think it's unfair.
If you've made it to eighty, you deserve to go
to town in your own car without being worried of half
(15:59):
your pension flying out the window and fines. Shall I
support you, Amdu. I hope that you give the big
tick as Gore has done. Right. It is twenty eight
minutes after five. Let's talk a little bit about the
price of stuff that's going up, because there's a bunch
of releases came out over the weekends, so retailing z
retailers say, oh, we're monitoring the situation in the Middle East.
(16:21):
We may need to increase our prices if the unrest
in the Middle East Middle East continues. That's Carolyn Young.
Transport operators, they've put that one out too. Transport of
prices operators must pass on the substantial fuel price increases
resulting from the Iran conflicts, as the National Road Carriers Association,
(16:43):
so prices a hike, price hikes are coming. I mean
we've been telling you this for a couple of weeks
now that what are we entering our second week of this.
But I think you just got to now say we
need a time limit on this, please, Donald Trump. You
know we're not We're not kicking up, but we just
need to time limit. Please. We need to know by
when that straight is going to open, things can unblock
(17:06):
and unclog and we can get on with our business
news talks. B We'll head to the US and the
UK before top of the hour for an update on
the aforementioned News Talks Bare State.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Root Love
Where You Live News Talks b.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Twenty four Away from six news Talks were head to
Washington on the Wall before six o'clock. We'll also head
to the UK. Canada is saying they want changes to
the line of succession rules. We will go to Gavin
and the UK on that shortly. Get to our reporters
in the Sex. A couple of your texts this morning,
Ryan totaling a city is ruined after they brought in
the meters for parking in the city. Nobody goes to
(18:08):
town now there's a seventy dollar fine there. Also if
you go over the limits, everybody's too scared. Same with
the bus lanes. No one uses a bus lane. Even
because bus lanes are timed. You can use a bus
lane or for most of them outside certain hours. But
if you drive anywhere there's a bus lane, no matter
what time of day, no one is using it for fear.
(18:29):
Everybody is too frightened getting one hundred and fifty dollars fine. Ryan.
The Palmerston North City Council has a deal for local
resident gold Hards gold cards. I should say, I like
this under this ten dollars a year free parking on
meeted parks nine to three Monday to Friday. Good on you,
Palm North, Ryan Bridge, jamiens Aneta and Jamie good morning,
(18:50):
Good morning Ryan. Now you want the gold mine going
cranking because you want the young people coming back to
high paying jobs. Well, that is right.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Australian Mining NIS Santana has acquired the Bendigo of Fair
site and is seeking fast track consents for exploration. It
says the proposed gold mine could create more than eight
hundred and sixty jobs over fourteen years, and it believes
locals can fill them. Local councilors Duughe Duncan says Central
Otago has plenty of work, but many young people have
(19:19):
gone overseas for better pay. He says the mind may
slow that down, but he adds it would be great
if you still go overseas but can settle in the
region after getting that experience. Duncan says there's a wave
of new business growth in the region with other mines,
solar farms and agriculture on the rise.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
All right, how's the weather?
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Cloudy periods with a few showers, easing late morning, then
clearing this evening, cold southerlyes in a high of fourteen.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Thanks Jamie, Good morning, Claire, good morning. Now the hospital,
they're the dialysis unit bit of a crisis point.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
Yeah, well, our hospital has been at a near crisis
point for some time, but this in particular is quite concerning,
given the kidney patients who are being told that they
have to have their dialysis rationed because of a lack
of both staff and physical space in the dialysis unit.
The nurses organization members raised some concerns to leadership about
(20:11):
this last month, saying that there were threats to patient
safety and staff well being. The CEO, Paul Gulter says
the urgent the unit rather urgently needs more staff as
a first move, but he says it's also not fit
for purpose anyway. He says the space is a too narrow,
there's issues with mold leaks. There's also a lack of privacy.
Health Minister Simeon Brown has ordered some more staff following
(20:34):
media reports late last week. Health New Zealand says the
advertising for urgent recruitment recruitment begins early this week, but
Galter says it should never have taken news coverage for
the minister to act, given the issues have been around
and flagged for some time.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
All right, how's your weather? More rain about.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
CHRISTI today should ease towards the evening, cold southwesterlies and
a higher fourteen.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
All right, Max and Mallings and morning Max, Good morning.
So counsel wants some more money out of the crown. Yeah, exactly, say.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Much of the property owned by central government, like schools, hospitals,
is exempt from paying rates. Local government generally speaking doesn't
like it. Wayne Brown says the government's getting a free ride.
Auckland Council could be making forty million dollars more. There,
Wellington's mayor now echoing that, saying he's going to join
this lobby train, trying to encourage changes to the Local
(21:24):
Government Act, obviously doing anything he can to stem these
absurd rates rises in the capitol labor opened to the
idea local government. Minister Simon Wat's much less so, he says,
the government already pays for kind of order administrative buildings,
emergency like police courts, corrections, fire, et cetera. Little's best
bet probably a change of.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Government, right yeah, Wi Dovey hoping will happen very soon.
How's you with that?
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, cloudy with the odd shower northerly is turning southerly seventeen.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Good morning, thank you, Max, Good morning Labor, good morning.
Great to see you as always a universe. Sorry sorry.
Aukland University with record student enrollments.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Yes, very positive today. So more people enrolled at Auckland
UNI at the start of semester one than ever before.
Total enrollments, they've surpassed forty seven thousand. That's roughly the
population of Invercargoll, up eight percent. This is from around
forty three thousand at the same point last year. Undergraduate
numbers have driven much of this growth, rising ten percent
(22:25):
or nearly three thousand students competed with last year. And also,
you know, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Education Sarah Young Say's immigration,
the higher unemployment rate, new transnational agreements all key factors
behind this search fantastic.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
How's our weather fine?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Passing afternoon cloud another good one for Auckland. Twenty three is.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
A high fantastic never thank you. It is nineteen minutes
away from six here on news Talk ZEBB. A little
update from Bunning's actually yesterday so Bunning, you know, a
bunch of supermarkets have already done this, but they're doing
the in store facial recognition technology because otherwise people come
into their stores and well they don't even need to
(23:04):
bring their crowbars and their hammers because they can just
get those off the shelves at Bunnings, can't they and
start going to town on the poor people working there.
So they have announced that they are going to introduce
facial recognition technology at Bunning stores to combat retail crime
in stores across New Zealand to protect their team members.
Now what's interesting about this release from Bunnings is they
(23:25):
say that we have consulted with customers, team members and
community as well as Mardi sovereignty experts. This engagement will
continue as the technology rolls out nationally. Tea Kang and
Mardi principles have been considered and built into their approach.
I mean, what does that even mean to me? Just
from a pr perspective, that sounds to me like sometimes
(23:48):
our facial recognition technology actually cocks it up, stuffs up
and blames the wrong person. So we're going to cover
our ass by talking about a Tea Kuger Principal expert
eighteen to six News Talk CB it is quartered to six.
Great to heavy company this morning. Not so great for
the cricket if you're just joining US India threshing the
(24:09):
black Caps in the T twenty World Cup final posting
two hundred and fifty five for five. So New Zealand
this is the latest. Now needs one hundred and twenty
four runs in thirty eight balls to win.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
International correspondence with ins and eye insurance, peace of mind
for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Kevin Gray, UK correspondent with US this morning, Gavin, good morning,
good evening to you. So we got Trump telling the
UK actually we don't need you, We're already winning this thing.
Speaker 11 (24:35):
Yes, And the war of words across the Atlantic continues
between our premiere, our Prime Minister, Sekir Starmer and Donald Trump.
So it's being reported that one of the UK's two
aircraft carriers is placed on advanced readiness. What does that mean, Well,
basically that the crew and all the operational matters have
got to be ready to go in a matter of
(24:58):
a few days. Where are they going, we think into
the oceans around the Middle East to strengthen what little
UK armory there is on site. How was this met
by Donald Trump. Well, he said effectively that it was
too little, too late. He said, we don't need countries
who join wars after we've already won. The actual quote
(25:18):
in full, and how's this for a real put down?
The United Kingdom, our once great ally maybe the greatest
of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending
two aircraft carries to the Middle East. Writing on Social
made Trump social, he said, that's okay, Prime Minister Starmer,
we don't need them any longer, but we will remember.
So a real threat there from Donald Trump. I think
(25:38):
about what's been going on, lots of opposition MPs and
indeed members of the public saying we should have joined
this earlier. Secure Starmer's decision was not to join and
not allow America to use the Air Force baces in
the UK, and it's one on Diego Garcia for America
to land long flights. However, he's changed his mind, saying
they can use them if it's defensive action.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Now Canada is getting involved in the succession for the
former Prince Andrew, saying basically we want them gone from
the line of succession altogether.
Speaker 11 (26:11):
Yes, of course, Christopher Luxon has already gone, along with
the call from Australia which I think started this whole thing,
Anthony Albinisi saying that mount Batten Windsor, the former Prince Andrew,
should be removed from the line of succession. He is
eighth in line. It's extremely unlikely he would ever get
his chance. But it's not that it's the principle of
(26:33):
the thing. And certainly Christopher Luxon's words have been echoed
now by Canada the Prime Minister there Mark Carney saying
that Andrew mount Batten Winsor must not really be allowed
in the line of succession. Of course, Mount Baton Winsor
was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office last month.
He's accused of sharing confidential information with the late pedophile
(26:54):
financier Jeffrey Epstein. We must stress, though, RN, that Andrew
has long denied had any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.
But this has certainly been a terrible, terrible few months
for the monarchy here in the UK, and I think
although it's going to require law and everyone's agreement around
the Commonwealth, I think this is very very sensible.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
STAB all right, thanks so much for that, Gavin Gray
are UK europe correspondent, just gone twelve minutes away from six.
Very quickly, people, Ryan, we've been asking about the stop
piles of the US weapons. What are they going to
know when do they run out of them? I can
tell you they use two thousand munitions in the first
one hundred hours. This is the Americans of the war.
And a lot of those are bombs, things that are
(27:37):
plan to fall, easy to replace. But they also include
some high end missiles that aren't. And then everyone's going, well,
what about China? Are you taking your eye off the
real ball here? And that is China moving a lot
of assets from this region to that one. More on
that shortly, right, it is eleven away from six. Now
let's go to the latest on the war. David Smith,
Washington Bureau chief that the Guardian joins me live. Good morning, David,
(28:01):
good morning. So we're hearing more and more that Iran
is going after Golf, the golf state Saudi Arabia in
the last few minutes apparently said that he's been two dead,
twelve wounded and they are attacking. This is Iran attacking
the diplomatic quarter in Riads. So what's the latest here?
What are we what's going on?
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Yeah, it's a great question, because Iran seems to have
been giving conflicting signals on that. There was a statement
from the President yesterday suggesting that they would no longer
go after countries in the Golf region, but it did
seem to have a little bit of ambiguity that that
would only be the case if the implication was those
(28:42):
countries were no longer backing the US attack. And of course,
you know, the US does have military bases in almost
all of those countries, and so it would appear Iran
is still attacking on that pretext, and it's a very
high risk strategy for them. I mean, I think some
of the view of some in Washington is that it's
(29:02):
going to backfire. It just alienates the region, It makes
those countries even more likely to collaborate with the US.
You know, some of those critics would say Iran is
just kind of lashing out here almost indiscriminately, and there
appears to be kind of no let up in that happening,
(29:23):
And it does obviously carry that risk of just a
wider conflagration, of this war really spreading in a dangerous
way and airlines having to cancel flights and people desperate
to get out and pressure on the US to provide
the passage for them. It sort of feels like the
war is escalating and widening rather than the opposite.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah, and because they're in a perverse kind of way,
get it over with quicker. I know, you know, there's
obviously going to be casualties, is going to be bad
things that come from that. But I think a lot
of people, including in America as you'll know, as saying, well,
we don't want this pushing price up. Yeah, that's right, because.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Clearly oil in a simple word, is one of the
key factors here. And we're already seeing the oil price
go up because of the strait of her moves in
Iran are being affected and these other countries as well,
and that will increase global pressure. And already we're seeing
(30:28):
here in the US petrol price is affected as a consequence,
Maybe not as dramatically as some fear, because the US
itself has become a massive oil and gas producer, partly
through fracking, to provide some insulation precisely for this kind
of global turbulence, but even so, it is a potential negative,
(30:52):
especially for Donald Trump and Republicans politically going forward to
the mid term elections in November, and so yes, I
think there is something in that theory that, you know,
the wider this war goes, the quicker it might be
over because because of those pressures and because you know,
golf countries have a motivation to join the battle against
(31:14):
their own.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
David, appreciate your analysis this morning. David Smith, Washington Bureau
chief for The Guardian, Your Own News talksb.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
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Speaker 2 (31:29):
Talksb Bister six. On News TALKSB, I mentioned that Iran
had hit this desalination plant, and it's interesting because so
much of the water that you drink in well, the
Gulf States, in this area in the Middle East, you'd
come from desalination plants. In fact, in bar Rain where
this one in particular has been hit, drinking water for
the population almost one hundred percent dependent on desalination plants,
(31:53):
and it's about ninety percent for Q eight for their
water needs met by desalination. So once you start hitting
these plants on people run out of water, and that
gets people angry and the whole thing becomes a lot
more complicated, isn't it? Ryan Bridge, Good morning, Mike, Good
morning Ryan. How are you for a Monday morning.
Speaker 12 (32:10):
I'm absolutely fantastic, apart from the cricket we've been keeping.
And I wasn't overly interested in the cricket, to be honest.
I watched the F one. I thought the IF one
was fantastic. You see the one?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Well, I didn't watch it, but I've been talking to
Andrew about it this morning and he's been telling me
that the things that are going a bit of rye
because they're too fast because of the batteries.
Speaker 12 (32:28):
Mist reporting it was. It went fine generally speaking. There's
a couple of teething problems. Piastre was a teething problem.
For stapping and qualifying, there was a teething problem. But
the race was good, and say it is as fast
as there's four fast teams. You didn't get there to
do to was there was a bit of a battery surge.
Those sort of things I'll sort out in Aston Martin.
It's got all sorts of troubles exactly. But I mean
(32:50):
the whole new reing is like when you buy a
UK you know you don't know where the windscreen wipers
are you don't know how to pop your petrol cap?
You know, you spend a bit of time exactly right,
Prime Minister, What a beat it wasn't Friday one of
the great beat ups of all time?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Was it?
Speaker 12 (33:05):
It started out he was quote unquote considering his position. Right,
turns out not to be true.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Who said that that.
Speaker 12 (33:12):
Was through every story throughout Friday? He was quote unquote
considering you go back to look at the Herald, look
at stuff, considering.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
It was on air as it was happening. We went
certainly went saying that where I was.
Speaker 12 (33:25):
We'll have a look at those sites. Considering his position
was the phrase used? And then under increasing pressure? Who
said he was under increasing pressure?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Well, I mean he is under increasing pressure. No, who
said that? Well the journal was it you? So they
made it Up's what they do.
Speaker 12 (33:41):
He comes so he comes out of five past five
and he goes, what, No, I don't know, and.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That that what you probably could do is acknowledge a
little more just how much people don't particularly warm to him.
Speaker 12 (33:53):
Here's the thing, and we'll talk about it this morning.
And you're voting for him, and you're voting for an
economic turnaround. That's what the election's about. You be to
the economy run yes or no? Simple so anyway as well,
that's up to sitting.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Very good. Have a great Monday. Everyone, to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
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