May 14, 2025 • 33 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Thursday 15th of May 2025, Putin still hasn't confirmed he'll turn up to a meeting with Zelensky in Turkey, BBC Senior Russia Reporter Olga Ivshina has the latest.
The privileges committee has suspended the Te Pāti Māori Co-leaders and MP for Hauraki-Waikato Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke for the haka in Parliament.
According to a Unicef report New Zealand has around three times the average rate for youth suicide - the worst out of 36th high-income countries, Unicef Director of Communications Tania Sawicki Mead shares her thoughts.
Plus US Correspondent from Feature Story News Toni Waterman has the latest on The possible release of the Menendez brothers and Trump announcing deals with Qatar.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the ins and the inside. Ryan Bridge on
early edition with one roof make your property search simple
news dogs.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning, Welcome to your Thursday. Parliament is
an absolute shambles. We've got the C word, we've got
the one gun salute from Debbie and now a three
week suspension. We go to someone sensible in times like these,
don't we? So lockwood Smith joins us first up and live.
We are looking at the suicide stance. We're looking at
(00:31):
the migration numbers. Putin is leaving. Zelensky on Red won't
reply to his request for a meeting. He's just sitting
there waiting. We'll head to the US as well. And
we've got an update on the working for the work
from home things still dragging on. I'll update you on
that a little later in the program. It is seven
after five the agenda, Thursday, the fifteenth of May. Trump's
(00:54):
hop from Saudi Arabia to Read and Kata. Another day,
another deal, this one for Boeing jets.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's the largest order of jets in the history of Boeing.
That's pretty good. Get those planes out there.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Get them out there. We told you he lifted sanctions
on Syria yesterday, well overnight he's met with its interim leader.
He's shaking hands with the guy and this is Ahmid alstra.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
This is a big breakthrough for Syria and for Syrian
President Ahmed al Strada, who is still on the terrorist
list of the United States. Meeting with the US president
give him a recognition by the international community. But also,
you know, lifting sanctions on Syria is going to help
him work on the promises that he gave to the
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Syrian people.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yes, so he's a terrorist and Trump said something funny
about him. I'llpli it for you later. That did he
trial The ex girlfriend Cassey Venture is giving evidence.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
That's something that.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
The defense in this case was actually hoping to address.
They asked the judge of it if they could have
the witness referring to Cassie Venture at the time in
the witness box before the jury was brought in so
they could avoid the jury seeing her with her did
belly saying that pregnancy is a beautiful thing, but it
could also create feelings of sympathy.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yes, so that was referring to the fact she was
pregnant now across the coast in California. But then there
is the Menindas brothers famous case killed their parents with
a shotgun in their living room in Beverly Hills. If
you've seen a Netflix special, A judge has reduced their sentence.
They're now going to be eligible for parole.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, we heard from family members. We heard from a
cousin who said that the family now has universally forgiven
the brothers. The family says thirty five years behind bars
is enough. They have paid their debt and they deserve
a second chance at life.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
These guys could be out as early as next month.
Nine Ouster five the first.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Word on the News of the Day Early edition with
Ryan Bridge and One Room to make your Property search symbol,
News Talk Zippy.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
So we've got a response from the Privileges Committee to
all of this. Debid Arwity and Hannah from Departy Marti
will miss the budget. Debbie and Albiti get three weeks suspension.
Hannah gets seven days. This has taken ages to get
through the Privileges Committee. Six months. It has taken them
and part of the problem is the fact that they
didn't turn up. So they made all these claims in
(03:20):
the media about you know, colonization or we're not being
given due process. There's double Jeffarty because Hannah had already
been censured with that double jeopety doesn't exist with the
Privileges Committee. It's not a court anyway. So finally we
have a result from the Privileges Committee. And to be clear,
DeBie wasn't given the boot because she performed a hakker.
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It was because, and this is what Judith Collins said,
who held a presser at Parliament last night, it was
because she intimidated or had the effect of intimidating other
MPs in their workplace.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
As Narivapaka approached the front of the act Party desks
and while performing the harker, pointed at act Party members
using a hand gesture similar to a finger gun. At
the conclusion of the harker, Miss Naripaka repeated the gesture
and simulating a firing motion, said and no will sit down.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Now, Judy's been around a while, she reconciates seeing nothing
like it.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Make no mistake, this was a very serious incident and
the likes of which I have never seen before in
my twenty three years in debating chamber. I am a
robust debater, as many of you will know, but I
follow the rule of the Institution. I'm a proud member
of and I appreciate and accept that my views are
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not those of all in the House. That is why
we are a House of Representatives. We cannot bring this
House into disrepute by ignoring those rules, especially if that
results in other members being intimidated or maybe being intimidated.
And that is exactly what happened on November fourteenth, twenty
twenty four two questions.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Do they get full pay while they're off? No, they
won't get any pay. Has this happened before? Yes, Lockwood
Smith knows all about it. He's with us live next.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
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Speaker 2 (05:21):
Be don't worry. We'll get to the migration numbers, and
we'll also get to the Green Party's what do you
even call that? The communist manifesto as Winston would put it.
We'll get to that in just a few moments. Right now,
thirteen minutes after five so three weeks suspension from parliament
without pay for arbit again, Debbie Hanna gets seven days.
They'll miss the budget and last night the Malori Party
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posted on their social media and this is part of
the problem that for to party Marti, when you lose,
you actually win. I mean, they're not ashamed by any
of this they have posted on their social media. This
is the worst punishment handed down ever in our history.
The worst on record was three days when Tangata Fenua
resist colonial powers reached for maximum penalty. This is a
(06:05):
warning shot to all of us to fall in line. Lockwoodsmith,
Sir Lockwoodsmith is the former Speaker of the House with
me this morning, Sir lockwood Good morning.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Right is this a fair punishment you reckon?
Speaker 8 (06:18):
Well, you know it's not up to me to comment
on whether it's fair or not. But you know, Parliament
has to maintain its procedures because it is a control
and control of its own law, its own rules, if
you like. The privileges that Parliament has are really really important.
They make it possible for the lawmakers to do their
work and to intimidate another member of the House in
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the process of carrying out their duties in the House.
There's a serious issue and it can't just be taken lightly.
So you know, suspension from the service of the House
is one of the outcomes the Privileges Committee has a
penalty it has to invoke. It can actually imprison people.
You know, I don't think. I don't think the Privilegeous
Committee or the Parliament New Zealand has ever imprisoned someone
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for a contempt of the House. But it does have
that power. It is the power to find people and
the power to imprison people. But this suspension from the
service is the reasonably effective, hopefully reasonably effective effective deterrent.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Is this the worst punishment? I mean, are they right
when they say it's the worst punishment that's ever been
handed down? And what about missing the budget?
Speaker 8 (07:30):
Yeah? Well, I think, you know, people members of the
House need to think a little bit before they ignore
the rules of the House. I mean, it's for members
of the party, Maria, I see no reason why when
they're called on to speak. They have freedom of speech
and they can express their views in you know, in
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ways there that they considered culturally appropriate. But to interfere
with the voting procedure in the and seet to intimidate
the member promoting a bill in the House is quite
a serious issue. And as I say, I don't think
the Privileges Committee has ever imprisoned anyone, and so this
is a pretty pretty severe penalty. Three weeks suspension and
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missing the budget parts of the budget debate. I think
hopefully we'll make some people take notice.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
It's interesting because the stunt in parliament. You can do
stunts in Parliament and we've all seen them. And we
had the c word yesterday from Brook van Valden, which
I'm sure you've seen, but that was a stunt that
was planned like to party Maldis. But Brooke went to
the clerk's office and said, can I say, you know,
basically ask permission to do the stunt first and therefore
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avoid censure.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
I think that's a good point Ryan, that you know,
a speaker wants the House fell to proceed in a
way that works for members and had to Artie Maori
gone to the speaker and said, you know, it would
there be a time when we could express our view
in an appropriate way with a haka. I can't believe
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something couldn't have been worked out that would have been acceptable,
but just to interrupt the voting, the voting procedure on
a bill, and it passed through my mind. Had I
been the speaker, I probably would have simply having called
on them to express their vote recorded they hadn't voted,
(09:34):
and that Pardi Mari failed to vote against the treaty
Principal's bill and cleared the galleries. And I wouldn't have
suspended the House, so I would have kept the House going.
Keeping Parliament going is terribly important. But that's just my
personal view, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I appreciate your time this morning. So lot with Smith's
former Speaker of the House. It's just gone eighteen minutes
half to five year on News Talks. Here'd be Boris Johnson. Interestingly,
before he left. Had he not left, he was going
to be suspended for ninety days the Privileges Committee in
the UK, and that would force a by election, which
is a much obviously bigger deal, more severe deal. Eighteen
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after five News Talks said B. We'll get to those
migration numbers and a sad stat this morning on suicide.
It's all ahead news.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And views you trust to start your day's early editioned
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News Talks.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
V we'll talk potins Zelenski just before six this morning.
Five twenty now, so we've got a union. The report
out and it's a pretty grim reading. If you're talking
about youth suicide in New Zealand compared to the rest
of the world, compared to rich countries and the rest
of the world anyway. So what it says is pre
COVID we had a rate of fourteen point nine per
one hundred thousand people. This is for fifteen to nineteen
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year olds. After COVID it increased to seventeen point one,
which means we were the highest in the developed world
and almost three times higher than the average the high
income countries. Tanya Siwicky Mead is from UNIS with me
this morning. Tanya, good morning, Good morning. What do you
think pushed that up during COVID.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Yeah, Look, what we did see is that across a
lot of the countries analyzed in this report that you
said wealthy countries or we set e countries, there was
quite a significant decrease in life satisfaction for young people.
And you know, we could attribute some of that, fascertain
to the COVID pandemic, the disruption that that had on
everyone's lives, but particularly the disruption that it had on
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young people's lives. So school being disrupted, routines being upended,
the uncertainty, the fear, but you know the impact of
that really significant period of time. But for New Zealand,
you know, as you as you mentioned in your introduction,
we have this really staggeringly high by psuicide rate for
young people when compared to other countries, and that hasn't
(11:54):
significantly shifted over the period pre or post COVID, but
enough to really make it then in the horrific statistics
that we have. So there are many other factors I
think going on there as to why New Zealand's use
suicide rates remain so stubbornly high.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And these numbers are just up to twenty twenty two, right,
but we have seen although we don't know for sure,
but potentially those numbers coming down over the last couple
of years.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Yes, So how suicide reporting works is that there are
confirmed data. So that's where the coroner has confirmed that
our death was a suicide, and it takes quite a
while for that data essentially to catch up to the
present day. So what we have is confirmed data in
New Zealand for up to twenty twenty two, and this report,
because it's trying to compare like for like with all
these different countries, uses data that aggregates a little earlier
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than that's more like up to twenty twenty one. And
so what we do see in New Zealand's own data
that it collects on suicide is that there may be
some small improvements, but not enough to actually shift the
facts that we are still an outline when we compared
to those other countries. It's still it may be making
small importments, but it's still far too high.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
All right, Tony, really appreciate your time this morning. Tanya
Sawaki meet from UNISEEF. It is twenty three minutes after five.
You're on news talks. He be Clive says, I'm pleased
that the Privileges Committee has finally handed down some consequence
for t Parti Mari. They are radical, their behaviorshould be yeah,
And this is the thing they are out there running
around saying this is because we performed a hakker, that
(13:27):
we're getting the boot from parliament and you know, this
is the white man coming down on us. This is
the line that they're running. But it's not true. I mean,
Debbie Nadiva Paka was not suspended from parliament because she
did a hacker. She was suspended from parliament because her
behavior I doing the gun salute was seen as intimidating
to other members in the House. Twenty four minutes after five,
(13:51):
the early edition.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
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News Talks A B it Is twenty six minutes after five.
I've a few sea words for you for your Thursday
morning Communist coalition and crash. I'm not going to do
the other one crash, because that's what would happen to
the economy if we lived in this green utopia, complete
with the eighty eight billion dollar tax grab announced yesterday.
(14:18):
A coalition because that is what you would get if labor,
not if really, but when labor shacks up with its
neighbors on the far left. Hipkins yesterday first claimed not
to have read the manifesto, which no one believes. This
is the manifesto of a party he could well be
sitting around the cabinet table within a year from now.
He then refused to rule out anything in it. Won't
(14:40):
rule out the hammer, won't rule out the sickle. The Greens,
and this is what this shows us, once again, are
by far and away Hipkins's biggest achilles heel, and therefore
Luxeon's greatest strength. Remember the hit that they took in
the polls. This is labor over the defunded police thing.
Here's the thing about New Zealand And is your middle
voters that they want these bigger parties. We may not
(15:04):
right now be affected by the inheritance tax or the
wealth tax that they're talking about and proposing, the higher
income taxes, the company tax hikes which would put them
amongst the highest in the developed world. But the problem
for Hipkins and co Is that we would like to
be Kiwi. Families would like to start a business and
(15:25):
create a life for their families, an asset and income,
a future. They dream of working their way up the
latter at work, get that better salary, get into that
better house that they've been saving to own. They don't
think it's fear for part of mum and Dad's life,
work and savings to be stolen and taken from them
by the state at their end. The election of John
(15:47):
Key showed us that families are ambitious in New Zealand.
They believe in themselves to do better. They're quite motivated
and they are ready for this recession to be over
so that basically we can all just get on with it.
I've never doubted that spirit in New Zealand. That spirit
hasn't left for Australia. It's just been hiding under a
rock for six years. And yes there are social problems
(16:09):
here in New Zealand too, But what we learned from
the fading days of Hipkin's reign is that voters don't
trust that if they give up their hard earned money
and assets, that the state has the ability, all the
wherewithal to change any of this, to fix any of it.
They're like the TMU versions of a Michael Joseph Savage.
(16:31):
Many of the houses he built still stand. Building never
started on most of Chippy's. And that brings us to
the final Seaward communists, because I don't know what else
do you call them. The Greens are planning a road
show after this pre budget announcement that they've done. My
only question for Chloe Mademer and the rest of them,
(16:52):
will you be traveling to these towns and cities by
bicycle or what? Will you be flying on.
Speaker 10 (16:59):
An Arab.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Bryan Bridge?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I think we all know the answer to that, don't we.
How many times have you been on a flight to
Wellington and seen a Green Imp twenty nine after five
News Talk zib we'll talk Putin and Zolensky coming up
before sex and get to our reporters around the country.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Sometimes I just can't.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Bryan Bridge on the edition with one roof make your
property surge, simple news Talk, Zibby.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Give these twenty four minutes away from sexyer on news Talks.
B We're gonna get to our reporters around the country.
We're going to get to the US, and before sex,
will speak to a Russia reporter about what the Kremlin
does now that Zelensky is calling us bluff and has
turned up for Turkey. Why we play this song because
did you see yesterday? So Trump's doing his big Middle
East tour and he's at this Saudi investment summit and
(18:08):
they play him. I mean, the Crown Prince is there,
Mohammad and summons there, They're all standing around, all these
guys standing around him, their thobes and filming Trump and
they play this song. It's I mean, it's not the
most progressive country, is it, Saudi Arabia? So I know,
do they know it's a gay anthem? I don't know,
but it's quite a funny sight. Anyway. On Syria, overnight,
(18:31):
Trump met with Ahmad al Shabat. Now he's a terrorist.
The US lists him as a terrorist. He is the
interim leader of Syria. And we told you yesterday that
he had stopped the sanctions against Syria, he'd basically go
for it, start becoming a prosperous nation. This guy is
still technically listed as a terrorist according to America. He
(18:54):
has literally had a pr makeover, started wearing suits, changed
his name. This is al shah now, the interim leader
of Syria. Trump met him, shook his hand. First US
president in twenty five years to meet a Syrian leader.
And he comes out of this meeting and readd He
gets on Air Force one. Somebody asks him what did
(19:14):
you make of this guy? And Trump says, oh, he's
he's attractive.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
How did you find the Syrian president?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Ray?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I think very good, young, attractive, yay, tough guy. Stromp
Pass a stromp Pass.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Fighter, certainly was a fighter. He's, according to your own government,
a terrorists. But he's attractive, so that's okay. Twenty two
minutes away from sex News talks, ev Ryan Bridge, Colum Procter,
and Denedin for US this morning Colum, Good morning to you.
If it's underway to make the gas Works Museum chimney safe.
What's not safe about it?
Speaker 11 (19:51):
Well, it's threatening to topple over Ryan and it's a
pretty impressive Structure's been around since eighteen sixty three, this
brick chimney twenty five meters high. But the heritage site
was closed last month after structural changes were noticed in
the chimney during routine inspections, and engineers have now found
the situation has worsened and so supports will be installed.
(20:13):
In addition to the cracks and movement that they already
know about. This damage and the upper section of the
chimney that poses a risk of collapse.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
So the city council says.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
The focus for them will be on ensuring a safety
construction of the chimney. The plan is to bring the
bricks down one by one so it can possibly be
rebuilt in the future.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
All right, And how's your weather? Morning?
Speaker 11 (20:34):
Frost for some parts here, but otherwise fine day head
high cloud westerlies and eighteen.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Today brilliant, Thanks Callum. Claire is the christ Church Claire,
good morning she and christ Church. Yes I'm here, we are, Hey,
Claire so you've got a music festival moving closer.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
Yes, well this is about Rolling Meadows Ryan. This is
the festival that has been based in wyp Pitter since
twenty twenty one. The organizers not long ago announced a
move to come closer to christ Church to Bottle Lake
Forest this New Years. But today New Stalk seed Be
can reveal they don't have consent to do that just yet.
There has been some talk on our local show on
zb this week. Basically some of the neighbors are pretty unhappy.
(21:13):
They're against the idea of a festival in their area.
The organizers did come on air and said, you know,
they've done all the things. They've offered alternative accommodation for
neighbors because of the noise concerns, they've got plans for
rubbish collection. Now there's a stir though about whether or
not they have consent, and it turns out they don't.
The application for the consent was received by city Council
(21:34):
but then withdrawn. A festival spokesperson says council told them
to do that. They are confident their second application, which
they reportedly did overnight, will be accepted with some minor changes.
They do say tickets won't go and sale until the
consent has sorted.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Okay, do you know, Clear, I've noticed the theme you bring.
You make me want to live in christ Church. I
mean only a little bit, but you might want to
live in christ because you're talking about, you know, the
cathedral's opening, We've got the stadium coming, We've got electric avenue, now,
we got rolling meadows. I mean, what's not to like?
Speaker 12 (22:03):
I know, Ryan, Look, we had it pretty rough for
a long long time, so now it's the place to be.
The trouble is we don't want you all moving here
because it's too busy.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well will the weather put us off?
Speaker 12 (22:13):
No, Well, it is a bit frosty and cold to start. Otherwise,
clearing to a fine day with some high cloud northwesterlies
and seventeen.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Brilliant Thanks clear, Max, and Wellington makes six men vying
to be Meya.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
Yeah, I suppose I must be the opposite to that.
These are the six likely lads. Andrew Little number one
content says Wellington has a crisis of confidence and the
first step is to rebuild trust in the council. Center left.
He describes himself as we interviewed. Ray Young flat out
says the capital dying. He believes better spending be a
(22:44):
value for rate payers as needed. Wants to stand apart
from party politics. There's this slightly out there social media
guy Graham Bloxham says he can bring audiences together cost cutting.
Describes himself as green, center left, cafe, ice, businessman, cartiff
and bar again rates debt, Kelvin hasty, He's a predator,
free champion, history in it and conservation, former copp and
(23:07):
soldier Rob Golden works and security centrist. Infrastructure top of
the to do list. And you can read these six
profiles on the Herald website.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I can't wait.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
It is.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I think we should move you and clear so that
you're not buttered up against each other, because it is.
It is a hard gear. It's like going from a
birthday to a funeral very quickly.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Well, I am from christ It obviously, I've been driven
into despair.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Living in Wellington makes move home. Hey, how's it with today?
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Mainly fine, funnily enough fresh Norwesterly is thirteen the high central.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Brilliant, heavy good one. Neighbors are not navor good morning.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
They creaked me up. Funny so funny.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Auckland Council we're sort of middle of the road here
in Auckland, but we've got recent criminal punshment punishments for
dog attacks years now.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Look, the council says this is going to serve as
a wake up call to owners about these recent criminal punishments.
So we know that in March last year there was
a young boy he was mauled by two American bulldogs,
suffering multiple serious injuries. Now the dog's owner was recently
sentenced to fifty hours community work, ordered to pay two
thousand in emotional harm reparation to the victim's family. Then
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just last week a woman received a similar sentence. This
is after her dog seriously attacked a visitor, and not
forgetting the little wee girl that was left scarred after
she was a TechEd in a park and techy dungy
last month, you know, one of those off leash dogs.
So yeah, so it's just that reminder. I'm not a
dog person. Well no, I'm not a dog. I shouldn't
say that.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You don't hate them, I don't hate you, you just don't
love them, correct, That's all right, Yes, people need to
be respectful of that as well. And when I take
my dog to the park. I know there are some people.
If she's off leash, I'll grab it because there's some
people who's uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
And I think dogs sense my fair. Oh you've got
a lovely little wee dog. See those little ones they
don't bother me?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, well, I mean they what do you think this?
I just would never trust a dog, no matter how cute.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
It los okay because they can still buy checking.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
The still got teeth and then the specially of these
kids around.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Hey, weather well.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Partly cloudy conditions, A chance of a morning shower. Eighteen
is a high here in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Never good to see you're happy Thursday everyone. We'll get
to the US next, and we are talking about the
Kremlin's next move on Ukraine. Before six.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business fourteen to six.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Is the Lenski about to get stood up in Turkey?
We'll talk Russia in just a second right now. The
Menindias Brothers is a famous case in America. They may
be released from prison, could be within the next few weeks.
Tony Waterman, US correspondent, Feature story News with Me This morning, Tony,
Good morning.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
So how has this come about. Why has the judge
decided to reduce this sentence.
Speaker 13 (25:54):
Well, this judge resentenced them to life in prison with
the possibility of so this is going to really pave
the way for them to be released. The judge didn't
outright say that the brothers should be released. That is
a decision that's going to be left up for California's
governor and the parole board, but he did say that
after thirty five years behind bars, that they did deserve
(26:18):
a chance to get out. This is really a case
that has gripped the United States for decades. It's been
the saga that has been playing out, and there have
been a number of these docu series, particularly this one
that came out last year on Netflix, that have been
done on them, which has really brought the story to
a younger generation. They have been behind bars essentially since
(26:41):
nineteen eighty nine, that is when they were convicted of
killing their parents inside their ritzy Beverly Hills mansions and
the brother the brothers have always maintained that they killed
their parents because they feared their parents were going to
kill them first. After years of really horrible sexual ab
you set the hands of their father, something that they
(27:02):
claim their mother was aware of and that they were
trying to keep a secret. So that has always been
their claim. Over the years, their family members have come
out and advocated for them, including before this decision came down.
And as you mentioned, they're going to be potentially could
be released as soon as June thirteen, that is when
they are scheduled to appear before the Board.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Of Paroles and very quickly, Tony, the two hundred and
ten Boeing aircraft that Kasan airwise is going to get
us part of this deal with Trump.
Speaker 13 (27:33):
Yeah, so this is actually the biggest Boeing order ever,
two hundred and ten Boeing airplanes that was signed as
Donald Trump is taking this trip across the Middle East
in Kata earlier today. You know, there was another thing
that they signed. This is a statement of intent that
could lead to thirty eight billion dollars in investments at
(27:54):
Qatar's Al Ubi Airbase, which is this vital US military
hub in the Middle East.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
One they they.
Speaker 13 (28:00):
Didn't talk about it least publicly, is this very controversial
offer by Kuta to donate a four hundred million dollar
luxury Boeing jet to be the next air Force one,
which of course has led to a raft of conflict
of interest concerns and foreign's foreign influence concerns, because don't forget,
this is the same Kuta where the Trump family business
(28:22):
has just struck a deal to build a Trump branded
luxury golf resort and villain. And he's been his family
has been striking deals like this all across the Middle
East right now, his first foreign trip vice president to
that very region.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, big deals, tiny, Thanks for you, Tom Tony Wildeman,
US correspondent figure Story and news tanaway from.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Six Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Posen's still leaving Zelensky on rid Orsain, still no replies
Zelenski and Turkey basically waiting for him to turn up.
He now sees he won't meet with anyone butts Posin
Babyca senior Russia reporter Olga. If Shana is with us
this morning, thank you for being with me. Do you
think it's Likelyay Poten will turn up in the fleesh?
Speaker 14 (29:02):
Well, that's the biggest question now, right And if I knew,
if anyone could read put in his mind, for probably
that person would be one of the most differential and
important people in the world right now. So the trouble
with Putting is he follows his own logic, which we
have seen precisely in the past three ten years. So yeah,
(29:22):
it's quite unpredictable. Russian Russian officials are keeping the polls,
that's not not releasing much information. There is an interesting
sign that today Brazilian president made a stopover in Moscow
and didn't meet with Putting, but it's probably too far
to say that. So there is a sign of possibly
(29:43):
him Putting preparing for something big, But it's it's it's still.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Ago. We've lost you. No, I think we've lost Olga. Unfortunately,
it just gone nine minutes away from six Olga you're there. No,
we've lost it. We'll have to leave it there. Unfortunately,
it was interesting what she had to say anyway. So
the problem, I mean, what he will be weighing up,
what the Kremlin will be weighing up, is how does
it look to the rest of the world if I
don't turn up. How does it look to America in particular,
(30:15):
if I don't turn up, does that make it look
like I'm not keen on a deal?
Speaker 8 (30:18):
You know?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
These are the calculations the Kremlin will be making Alg's
back with us. I think, Olga, that'll be presumably what
the Kremlin's weighing up.
Speaker 14 (30:27):
Yes, in a way, kremlinly is enjoying this ex tension,
as was exactly their strategy for many years now, to
keep the tension as much as possible in order to
try to provoke cares, provoke confrontation, provoke doubts and discussions
within the allies in Europe, in the United States, between
Ukraine and the United States, for example. So the tension
(30:48):
is actually favorable to Moscow, so we have to wait
until tomorrow to get the answers. But Kremlin is enjoying
that tension and possible disruptions which it may bring.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Aga really appreciate your time. Thank you with the dodgy
line for US. BBC senior Russia reporter Olga if Shiner,
on whether Putin will turn up in the flesh to
meet with the Ntski says, I'm not meeting with lamb Rob.
I'm not meeting with anyone else except for Putin. It
has just gone eight minutes away from six news talks.
Here be MICA's with us.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
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Speaker 2 (31:27):
He'd be first to six. You're on news talks, you'd
be I promised i'd get to the net migration thing
very quickly, and I'm a man of my word, so
I will net migration gain twenty six four hundred in
the year ended March. That's the lowest since twenty twenty two.
I mean not surprising because we've seen them trending down.
But seventy thousand kiwis left in the March twenty twenty
five year, two thirds of them headed for Australia. Basically,
(31:49):
migrants don't want to move here anymore, and Kiwis are
leaving in their drives. And the Greens say this is
because we need to tax everything more, we need to
become a socialist state and then everyone will return to utopia,
which is nonsense, because the reason they're fleeing here is
for higher wages. People. They want to be paid more,
not taxed more, which is what would happen. We basically
just need some more ocr cuts, according to the economists.
(32:11):
Five away from six Bryan Bridge there, Mike, good morning morning.
What I no you carryten to your show? The other day. Well,
that's the that's why we were just talking about that.
Speaker 15 (32:22):
You're off there. What you said was, I don't normally listen.
I happen to be driving to the city.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I don't normally listen at that time, so I would
listen time. Do you listen on my way home from here? Well,
what's ten minutes? Six minutes? Yeah, Max, exactly, But I
don't normally listen in this in the last half hour
of your show, and it just struck me that there's
just a.
Speaker 16 (32:43):
Lot of Mike Smack talking for basically then tell you what,
tell you what I can do, and you can get
some tips for your show office, because after after sixteen
slash seventeen years, the numbers don't lie, my friend, whether
in revenue or awards or ratings.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
So people, the Smack people love a bit of me.
Speaker 15 (33:02):
Mate.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I said to him every day, I say what's on
your show? And he always just is me. It's like, well,
what is there's something more interesting happening?
Speaker 15 (33:10):
There is nothing more interesting than me, Ryan. I mean,
let's call it the way it is. Actually Bill Foley's
on This Morning. Bill Foley owns the Vegas Black Knight's
ice hockey team, who are in the playoff game today.
Also owns more importantly for US Auckland FC and is
one of the great success stories on how to build
a team, a winning side and all that sort of stuff.
They go to the playoffs this weekend, so he's joining
(33:31):
us from the States for a bit of an insight.
He also runs a lot of hospital here in the country,
does a lot of wine, so he's a billionaires.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Great success for US.
Speaker 15 (33:39):
Anyways, US after.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
It, Mike and a really rich guy coming up next
News Tom CB whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning, Welcome to your Thursday. Parliament is
an absolute shambles. We've got the C word, we've got
the one gun salute from Debbie and now a three
week suspension. We go to someone sensible in times like these,
don't we? So lockwood Smith joins us first up and live.
We are looking at the suicide stance. We're looking at
(00:31):
the migration numbers. Putin is leaving. Zelensky on Red won't
reply to his request for a meeting. He's just sitting
there waiting. We'll head to the US as well. And
we've got an update on the working for the work
from home things still dragging on. I'll update you on
that a little later in the program. It is seven
after five the agenda, Thursday, the fifteenth of May. Trump's
(00:54):
hop from Saudi Arabia to Read and Kata. Another day,
another deal, this one for Boeing jets.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's the largest order of jets in the history of Boeing.
That's pretty good. Get those planes out there.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Get them out there. We told you he lifted sanctions
on Syria yesterday, well overnight he's met with its interim leader.
He's shaking hands with the guy and this is Ahmid alstra.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
This is a big breakthrough for Syria and for Syrian
President Ahmed al Strada, who is still on the terrorist
list of the United States. Meeting with the US president
give him a recognition by the international community. But also,
you know, lifting sanctions on Syria is going to help
him work on the promises that he gave to the
(01:34):
Syrian people.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yes, so he's a terrorist and Trump said something funny
about him. I'llpli it for you later. That did he
trial The ex girlfriend Cassey Venture is giving evidence.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
That's something that.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
The defense in this case was actually hoping to address.
They asked the judge of it if they could have
the witness referring to Cassie Venture at the time in
the witness box before the jury was brought in so
they could avoid the jury seeing her with her did
belly saying that pregnancy is a beautiful thing, but it
could also create feelings of sympathy.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yes, so that was referring to the fact she was
pregnant now across the coast in California. But then there
is the Menindas brothers famous case killed their parents with
a shotgun in their living room in Beverly Hills. If
you've seen a Netflix special, A judge has reduced their sentence.
They're now going to be eligible for parole.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, we heard from family members. We heard from a
cousin who said that the family now has universally forgiven
the brothers. The family says thirty five years behind bars
is enough. They have paid their debt and they deserve
a second chance at life.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
These guys could be out as early as next month.
Nine Ouster five the first.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Word on the News of the Day Early edition with
Ryan Bridge and One Room to make your Property search symbol,
News Talk Zippy.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
So we've got a response from the Privileges Committee to
all of this. Debid Arwity and Hannah from Departy Marti
will miss the budget. Debbie and Albiti get three weeks suspension.
Hannah gets seven days. This has taken ages to get
through the Privileges Committee. Six months. It has taken them
and part of the problem is the fact that they
didn't turn up. So they made all these claims in
(03:20):
the media about you know, colonization or we're not being
given due process. There's double Jeffarty because Hannah had already
been censured with that double jeopety doesn't exist with the
Privileges Committee. It's not a court anyway. So finally we
have a result from the Privileges Committee. And to be clear,
DeBie wasn't given the boot because she performed a hakker.
(03:42):
It was because, and this is what Judith Collins said,
who held a presser at Parliament last night, it was
because she intimidated or had the effect of intimidating other
MPs in their workplace.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
As Narivapaka approached the front of the act Party desks
and while performing the harker, pointed at act Party members
using a hand gesture similar to a finger gun. At
the conclusion of the harker, Miss Naripaka repeated the gesture
and simulating a firing motion, said and no will sit down.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Now, Judy's been around a while, she reconciates seeing nothing
like it.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Make no mistake, this was a very serious incident and
the likes of which I have never seen before in
my twenty three years in debating chamber. I am a
robust debater, as many of you will know, but I
follow the rule of the Institution. I'm a proud member
of and I appreciate and accept that my views are
(04:41):
not those of all in the House. That is why
we are a House of Representatives. We cannot bring this
House into disrepute by ignoring those rules, especially if that
results in other members being intimidated or maybe being intimidated.
And that is exactly what happened on November fourteenth, twenty
twenty four two questions.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Do they get full pay while they're off? No, they
won't get any pay. Has this happened before? Yes, Lockwood
Smith knows all about it. He's with us live next.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with
Ryan Bridge and one roof Make your property search simple
if you talk said.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Be don't worry. We'll get to the migration numbers, and
we'll also get to the Green Party's what do you
even call that? The communist manifesto as Winston would put it.
We'll get to that in just a few moments. Right now,
thirteen minutes after five so three weeks suspension from parliament
without pay for arbit again, Debbie Hanna gets seven days.
They'll miss the budget and last night the Malori Party
(05:43):
posted on their social media and this is part of
the problem that for to party Marti, when you lose,
you actually win. I mean, they're not ashamed by any
of this they have posted on their social media. This
is the worst punishment handed down ever in our history.
The worst on record was three days when Tangata Fenua
resist colonial powers reached for maximum penalty. This is a
(06:05):
warning shot to all of us to fall in line. Lockwoodsmith,
Sir Lockwoodsmith is the former Speaker of the House with
me this morning, Sir lockwood Good morning.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Right is this a fair punishment you reckon?
Speaker 8 (06:18):
Well, you know it's not up to me to comment
on whether it's fair or not. But you know, Parliament
has to maintain its procedures because it is a control
and control of its own law, its own rules, if
you like. The privileges that Parliament has are really really important.
They make it possible for the lawmakers to do their
work and to intimidate another member of the House in
(06:45):
the process of carrying out their duties in the House.
There's a serious issue and it can't just be taken lightly.
So you know, suspension from the service of the House
is one of the outcomes the Privileges Committee has a
penalty it has to invoke. It can actually imprison people.
You know, I don't think. I don't think the Privilegeous
Committee or the Parliament New Zealand has ever imprisoned someone
(07:09):
for a contempt of the House. But it does have
that power. It is the power to find people and
the power to imprison people. But this suspension from the
service is the reasonably effective, hopefully reasonably effective effective deterrent.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Is this the worst punishment? I mean, are they right
when they say it's the worst punishment that's ever been
handed down? And what about missing the budget?
Speaker 8 (07:30):
Yeah? Well, I think, you know, people members of the
House need to think a little bit before they ignore
the rules of the House. I mean, it's for members
of the party, Maria, I see no reason why when
they're called on to speak. They have freedom of speech
and they can express their views in you know, in
(07:53):
ways there that they considered culturally appropriate. But to interfere
with the voting procedure in the and seet to intimidate
the member promoting a bill in the House is quite
a serious issue. And as I say, I don't think
the Privileges Committee has ever imprisoned anyone, and so this
is a pretty pretty severe penalty. Three weeks suspension and
(08:19):
missing the budget parts of the budget debate. I think
hopefully we'll make some people take notice.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
It's interesting because the stunt in parliament. You can do
stunts in Parliament and we've all seen them. And we
had the c word yesterday from Brook van Valden, which
I'm sure you've seen, but that was a stunt that
was planned like to party Maldis. But Brooke went to
the clerk's office and said, can I say, you know,
basically ask permission to do the stunt first and therefore
(08:48):
avoid censure.
Speaker 8 (08:51):
I think that's a good point Ryan, that you know,
a speaker wants the House fell to proceed in a
way that works for members and had to Artie Maori
gone to the speaker and said, you know, it would
there be a time when we could express our view
in an appropriate way with a haka. I can't believe
(09:12):
something couldn't have been worked out that would have been acceptable,
but just to interrupt the voting, the voting procedure on
a bill, and it passed through my mind. Had I
been the speaker, I probably would have simply having called
on them to express their vote recorded they hadn't voted,
(09:34):
and that Pardi Mari failed to vote against the treaty
Principal's bill and cleared the galleries. And I wouldn't have
suspended the House, so I would have kept the House going.
Keeping Parliament going is terribly important. But that's just my
personal view, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I appreciate your time this morning. So lot with Smith's
former Speaker of the House. It's just gone eighteen minutes
half to five year on News Talks. Here'd be Boris Johnson. Interestingly,
before he left. Had he not left, he was going
to be suspended for ninety days the Privileges Committee in
the UK, and that would force a by election, which
is a much obviously bigger deal, more severe deal. Eighteen
(10:10):
after five News Talks said B. We'll get to those
migration numbers and a sad stat this morning on suicide.
It's all ahead news.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
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Speaker 2 (10:27):
V we'll talk potins Zelenski just before six this morning.
Five twenty now, so we've got a union. The report
out and it's a pretty grim reading. If you're talking
about youth suicide in New Zealand compared to the rest
of the world, compared to rich countries and the rest
of the world anyway. So what it says is pre
COVID we had a rate of fourteen point nine per
one hundred thousand people. This is for fifteen to nineteen
(10:49):
year olds. After COVID it increased to seventeen point one,
which means we were the highest in the developed world
and almost three times higher than the average the high
income countries. Tanya Siwicky Mead is from UNIS with me
this morning. Tanya, good morning, Good morning. What do you
think pushed that up during COVID.
Speaker 9 (11:11):
Yeah, Look, what we did see is that across a
lot of the countries analyzed in this report that you
said wealthy countries or we set e countries, there was
quite a significant decrease in life satisfaction for young people.
And you know, we could attribute some of that, fascertain
to the COVID pandemic, the disruption that that had on
everyone's lives, but particularly the disruption that it had on
(11:32):
young people's lives. So school being disrupted, routines being upended,
the uncertainty, the fear, but you know the impact of
that really significant period of time. But for New Zealand,
you know, as you as you mentioned in your introduction,
we have this really staggeringly high by psuicide rate for
young people when compared to other countries, and that hasn't
(11:54):
significantly shifted over the period pre or post COVID, but
enough to really make it then in the horrific statistics
that we have. So there are many other factors I
think going on there as to why New Zealand's use
suicide rates remain so stubbornly high.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And these numbers are just up to twenty twenty two, right,
but we have seen although we don't know for sure,
but potentially those numbers coming down over the last couple
of years.
Speaker 9 (12:21):
Yes, So how suicide reporting works is that there are
confirmed data. So that's where the coroner has confirmed that
our death was a suicide, and it takes quite a
while for that data essentially to catch up to the
present day. So what we have is confirmed data in
New Zealand for up to twenty twenty two, and this report,
because it's trying to compare like for like with all
these different countries, uses data that aggregates a little earlier
(12:44):
than that's more like up to twenty twenty one. And
so what we do see in New Zealand's own data
that it collects on suicide is that there may be
some small improvements, but not enough to actually shift the
facts that we are still an outline when we compared
to those other countries. It's still it may be making
small importments, but it's still far too high.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
All right, Tony, really appreciate your time this morning. Tanya
Sawaki meet from UNISEEF. It is twenty three minutes after five.
You're on news talks. He be Clive says, I'm pleased
that the Privileges Committee has finally handed down some consequence
for t Parti Mari. They are radical, their behaviorshould be yeah,
And this is the thing they are out there running
around saying this is because we performed a hakker, that
(13:27):
we're getting the boot from parliament and you know, this
is the white man coming down on us. This is
the line that they're running. But it's not true. I mean,
Debbie Nadiva Paka was not suspended from parliament because she
did a hacker. She was suspended from parliament because her
behavior I doing the gun salute was seen as intimidating
to other members in the House. Twenty four minutes after five,
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Speaker 1 (13:52):
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News Talks A B it Is twenty six minutes after five.
I've a few sea words for you for your Thursday
morning Communist coalition and crash. I'm not going to do
the other one crash, because that's what would happen to
the economy if we lived in this green utopia, complete
with the eighty eight billion dollar tax grab announced yesterday.
(14:18):
A coalition because that is what you would get if labor,
not if really, but when labor shacks up with its
neighbors on the far left. Hipkins yesterday first claimed not
to have read the manifesto, which no one believes. This
is the manifesto of a party he could well be
sitting around the cabinet table within a year from now.
He then refused to rule out anything in it. Won't
(14:40):
rule out the hammer, won't rule out the sickle. The Greens,
and this is what this shows us, once again, are
by far and away Hipkins's biggest achilles heel, and therefore
Luxeon's greatest strength. Remember the hit that they took in
the polls. This is labor over the defunded police thing.
Here's the thing about New Zealand And is your middle
voters that they want these bigger parties. We may not
(15:04):
right now be affected by the inheritance tax or the
wealth tax that they're talking about and proposing, the higher
income taxes, the company tax hikes which would put them
amongst the highest in the developed world. But the problem
for Hipkins and co Is that we would like to
be Kiwi. Families would like to start a business and
(15:25):
create a life for their families, an asset and income,
a future. They dream of working their way up the
latter at work, get that better salary, get into that
better house that they've been saving to own. They don't
think it's fear for part of mum and Dad's life,
work and savings to be stolen and taken from them
by the state at their end. The election of John
(15:47):
Key showed us that families are ambitious in New Zealand.
They believe in themselves to do better. They're quite motivated
and they are ready for this recession to be over
so that basically we can all just get on with it.
I've never doubted that spirit in New Zealand. That spirit
hasn't left for Australia. It's just been hiding under a
rock for six years. And yes there are social problems
(16:09):
here in New Zealand too, But what we learned from
the fading days of Hipkin's reign is that voters don't
trust that if they give up their hard earned money
and assets, that the state has the ability, all the
wherewithal to change any of this, to fix any of it.
They're like the TMU versions of a Michael Joseph Savage.
(16:31):
Many of the houses he built still stand. Building never
started on most of Chippy's. And that brings us to
the final Seaward communists, because I don't know what else
do you call them. The Greens are planning a road
show after this pre budget announcement that they've done. My
only question for Chloe Mademer and the rest of them,
(16:52):
will you be traveling to these towns and cities by
bicycle or what? Will you be flying on.
Speaker 10 (16:59):
An Arab.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Bryan Bridge?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I think we all know the answer to that, don't we.
How many times have you been on a flight to
Wellington and seen a Green Imp twenty nine after five
News Talk zib we'll talk Putin and Zolensky coming up
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Speaker 4 (17:25):
Sometimes I just can't.
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Speaker 2 (17:46):
Give these twenty four minutes away from sexyer on news Talks.
B We're gonna get to our reporters around the country.
We're going to get to the US, and before sex,
will speak to a Russia reporter about what the Kremlin
does now that Zelensky is calling us bluff and has
turned up for Turkey. Why we play this song because
did you see yesterday? So Trump's doing his big Middle
East tour and he's at this Saudi investment summit and
(18:08):
they play him. I mean, the Crown Prince is there,
Mohammad and summons there, They're all standing around, all these
guys standing around him, their thobes and filming Trump and
they play this song. It's I mean, it's not the
most progressive country, is it, Saudi Arabia? So I know,
do they know it's a gay anthem? I don't know,
but it's quite a funny sight. Anyway. On Syria, overnight,
(18:31):
Trump met with Ahmad al Shabat. Now he's a terrorist.
The US lists him as a terrorist. He is the
interim leader of Syria. And we told you yesterday that
he had stopped the sanctions against Syria, he'd basically go
for it, start becoming a prosperous nation. This guy is
still technically listed as a terrorist according to America. He
(18:54):
has literally had a pr makeover, started wearing suits, changed
his name. This is al shah now, the interim leader
of Syria. Trump met him, shook his hand. First US
president in twenty five years to meet a Syrian leader.
And he comes out of this meeting and readd He
gets on Air Force one. Somebody asks him what did
(19:14):
you make of this guy? And Trump says, oh, he's
he's attractive.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
How did you find the Syrian president?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Ray?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I think very good, young, attractive, yay, tough guy. Stromp
Pass a stromp Pass.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Fighter, certainly was a fighter. He's, according to your own government,
a terrorists. But he's attractive, so that's okay. Twenty two
minutes away from sex News talks, ev Ryan Bridge, Colum Procter,
and Denedin for US this morning Colum, Good morning to you.
If it's underway to make the gas Works Museum chimney safe.
What's not safe about it?
Speaker 11 (19:51):
Well, it's threatening to topple over Ryan and it's a
pretty impressive Structure's been around since eighteen sixty three, this
brick chimney twenty five meters high. But the heritage site
was closed last month after structural changes were noticed in
the chimney during routine inspections, and engineers have now found
the situation has worsened and so supports will be installed.
(20:13):
In addition to the cracks and movement that they already
know about. This damage and the upper section of the
chimney that poses a risk of collapse.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
So the city council says.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
The focus for them will be on ensuring a safety
construction of the chimney. The plan is to bring the
bricks down one by one so it can possibly be
rebuilt in the future.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
All right, And how's your weather? Morning?
Speaker 11 (20:34):
Frost for some parts here, but otherwise fine day head
high cloud westerlies and eighteen.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Today brilliant, Thanks Callum. Claire is the christ Church Claire,
good morning she and christ Church. Yes I'm here, we are, Hey,
Claire so you've got a music festival moving closer.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
Yes, well this is about Rolling Meadows Ryan. This is
the festival that has been based in wyp Pitter since
twenty twenty one. The organizers not long ago announced a
move to come closer to christ Church to Bottle Lake
Forest this New Years. But today New Stalk seed Be
can reveal they don't have consent to do that just yet.
There has been some talk on our local show on
zb this week. Basically some of the neighbors are pretty unhappy.
(21:13):
They're against the idea of a festival in their area.
The organizers did come on air and said, you know,
they've done all the things. They've offered alternative accommodation for
neighbors because of the noise concerns, they've got plans for
rubbish collection. Now there's a stir though about whether or
not they have consent, and it turns out they don't.
The application for the consent was received by city Council
(21:34):
but then withdrawn. A festival spokesperson says council told them
to do that. They are confident their second application, which
they reportedly did overnight, will be accepted with some minor changes.
They do say tickets won't go and sale until the
consent has sorted.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Okay, do you know, Clear, I've noticed the theme you bring.
You make me want to live in christ Church. I
mean only a little bit, but you might want to
live in christ because you're talking about, you know, the
cathedral's opening, We've got the stadium coming, We've got electric avenue, now,
we got rolling meadows. I mean, what's not to like?
Speaker 12 (22:03):
I know, Ryan, Look, we had it pretty rough for
a long long time, so now it's the place to be.
The trouble is we don't want you all moving here
because it's too busy.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well will the weather put us off?
Speaker 12 (22:13):
No, Well, it is a bit frosty and cold to start. Otherwise,
clearing to a fine day with some high cloud northwesterlies
and seventeen.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Brilliant Thanks clear, Max, and Wellington makes six men vying
to be Meya.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
Yeah, I suppose I must be the opposite to that.
These are the six likely lads. Andrew Little number one
content says Wellington has a crisis of confidence and the
first step is to rebuild trust in the council. Center left.
He describes himself as we interviewed. Ray Young flat out
says the capital dying. He believes better spending be a
(22:44):
value for rate payers as needed. Wants to stand apart
from party politics. There's this slightly out there social media
guy Graham Bloxham says he can bring audiences together cost cutting.
Describes himself as green, center left, cafe, ice, businessman, cartiff
and bar again rates debt, Kelvin hasty, He's a predator,
free champion, history in it and conservation, former copp and
(23:07):
soldier Rob Golden works and security centrist. Infrastructure top of
the to do list. And you can read these six
profiles on the Herald website.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I can't wait.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
It is.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I think we should move you and clear so that
you're not buttered up against each other, because it is.
It is a hard gear. It's like going from a
birthday to a funeral very quickly.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Well, I am from christ It obviously, I've been driven
into despair.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Living in Wellington makes move home. Hey, how's it with today?
Speaker 10 (23:40):
Mainly fine, funnily enough fresh Norwesterly is thirteen the high central.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Brilliant, heavy good one. Neighbors are not navor good morning.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
They creaked me up. Funny so funny.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Auckland Council we're sort of middle of the road here
in Auckland, but we've got recent criminal punshment punishments for
dog attacks years now.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Look, the council says this is going to serve as
a wake up call to owners about these recent criminal punishments.
So we know that in March last year there was
a young boy he was mauled by two American bulldogs,
suffering multiple serious injuries. Now the dog's owner was recently
sentenced to fifty hours community work, ordered to pay two
thousand in emotional harm reparation to the victim's family. Then
(24:18):
just last week a woman received a similar sentence. This
is after her dog seriously attacked a visitor, and not
forgetting the little wee girl that was left scarred after
she was a TechEd in a park and techy dungy
last month, you know, one of those off leash dogs.
So yeah, so it's just that reminder. I'm not a
dog person. Well no, I'm not a dog. I shouldn't
say that.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You don't hate them, I don't hate you, you just don't
love them, correct, That's all right, Yes, people need to
be respectful of that as well. And when I take
my dog to the park. I know there are some people.
If she's off leash, I'll grab it because there's some
people who's uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
And I think dogs sense my fair. Oh you've got
a lovely little wee dog. See those little ones they
don't bother me?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, well, I mean they what do you think this?
I just would never trust a dog, no matter how cute.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
It los okay because they can still buy checking.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
The still got teeth and then the specially of these
kids around.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Hey, weather well.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Partly cloudy conditions, A chance of a morning shower. Eighteen
is a high here in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Never good to see you're happy Thursday everyone. We'll get
to the US next, and we are talking about the
Kremlin's next move on Ukraine. Before six.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business fourteen to six.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Is the Lenski about to get stood up in Turkey?
We'll talk Russia in just a second right now. The
Menindias Brothers is a famous case in America. They may
be released from prison, could be within the next few weeks.
Tony Waterman, US correspondent, Feature story News with Me This morning, Tony,
Good morning.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
So how has this come about. Why has the judge
decided to reduce this sentence.
Speaker 13 (25:54):
Well, this judge resentenced them to life in prison with
the possibility of so this is going to really pave
the way for them to be released. The judge didn't
outright say that the brothers should be released. That is
a decision that's going to be left up for California's
governor and the parole board, but he did say that
after thirty five years behind bars, that they did deserve
(26:18):
a chance to get out. This is really a case
that has gripped the United States for decades. It's been
the saga that has been playing out, and there have
been a number of these docu series, particularly this one
that came out last year on Netflix, that have been
done on them, which has really brought the story to
a younger generation. They have been behind bars essentially since
(26:41):
nineteen eighty nine, that is when they were convicted of
killing their parents inside their ritzy Beverly Hills mansions and
the brother the brothers have always maintained that they killed
their parents because they feared their parents were going to
kill them first. After years of really horrible sexual ab
you set the hands of their father, something that they
(27:02):
claim their mother was aware of and that they were
trying to keep a secret. So that has always been
their claim. Over the years, their family members have come
out and advocated for them, including before this decision came down.
And as you mentioned, they're going to be potentially could
be released as soon as June thirteen, that is when
they are scheduled to appear before the Board.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Of Paroles and very quickly, Tony, the two hundred and
ten Boeing aircraft that Kasan airwise is going to get
us part of this deal with Trump.
Speaker 13 (27:33):
Yeah, so this is actually the biggest Boeing order ever,
two hundred and ten Boeing airplanes that was signed as
Donald Trump is taking this trip across the Middle East
in Kata earlier today. You know, there was another thing
that they signed. This is a statement of intent that
could lead to thirty eight billion dollars in investments at
(27:54):
Qatar's Al Ubi Airbase, which is this vital US military
hub in the Middle East.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
One they they.
Speaker 13 (28:00):
Didn't talk about it least publicly, is this very controversial
offer by Kuta to donate a four hundred million dollar
luxury Boeing jet to be the next air Force one,
which of course has led to a raft of conflict
of interest concerns and foreign's foreign influence concerns, because don't forget,
this is the same Kuta where the Trump family business
(28:22):
has just struck a deal to build a Trump branded
luxury golf resort and villain. And he's been his family
has been striking deals like this all across the Middle
East right now, his first foreign trip vice president to
that very region.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, big deals, tiny, Thanks for you, Tom Tony Wildeman,
US correspondent figure Story and news tanaway from.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Six Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Posen's still leaving Zelensky on rid Orsain, still no replies
Zelenski and Turkey basically waiting for him to turn up.
He now sees he won't meet with anyone butts Posin
Babyca senior Russia reporter Olga. If Shana is with us
this morning, thank you for being with me. Do you
think it's Likelyay Poten will turn up in the fleesh?
Speaker 14 (29:02):
Well, that's the biggest question now, right And if I knew,
if anyone could read put in his mind, for probably
that person would be one of the most differential and
important people in the world right now. So the trouble
with Putting is he follows his own logic, which we
have seen precisely in the past three ten years. So yeah,
(29:22):
it's quite unpredictable. Russian Russian officials are keeping the polls,
that's not not releasing much information. There is an interesting
sign that today Brazilian president made a stopover in Moscow
and didn't meet with Putting, but it's probably too far
to say that. So there is a sign of possibly
(29:43):
him Putting preparing for something big, But it's it's it's still.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Ago. We've lost you. No, I think we've lost Olga. Unfortunately,
it just gone nine minutes away from six Olga you're there. No,
we've lost it. We'll have to leave it there. Unfortunately,
it was interesting what she had to say anyway. So
the problem, I mean, what he will be weighing up,
what the Kremlin will be weighing up, is how does
it look to the rest of the world if I
don't turn up. How does it look to America in particular,
(30:15):
if I don't turn up, does that make it look
like I'm not keen on a deal?
Speaker 8 (30:18):
You know?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
These are the calculations the Kremlin will be making Alg's
back with us. I think, Olga, that'll be presumably what
the Kremlin's weighing up.
Speaker 14 (30:27):
Yes, in a way, kremlinly is enjoying this ex tension,
as was exactly their strategy for many years now, to
keep the tension as much as possible in order to
try to provoke cares, provoke confrontation, provoke doubts and discussions
within the allies in Europe, in the United States, between
Ukraine and the United States, for example. So the tension
(30:48):
is actually favorable to Moscow, so we have to wait
until tomorrow to get the answers. But Kremlin is enjoying
that tension and possible disruptions which it may bring.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Aga really appreciate your time. Thank you with the dodgy
line for US. BBC senior Russia reporter Olga if Shiner,
on whether Putin will turn up in the flesh to
meet with the Ntski says, I'm not meeting with lamb Rob.
I'm not meeting with anyone else except for Putin. It
has just gone eight minutes away from six news talks.
Here be MICA's with us.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Next, the News you Need this morning and the in
depth Analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof
make your Property Search Simple, News Talks.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
He'd be first to six. You're on news talks, you'd
be I promised i'd get to the net migration thing
very quickly, and I'm a man of my word, so
I will net migration gain twenty six four hundred in
the year ended March. That's the lowest since twenty twenty two.
I mean not surprising because we've seen them trending down.
But seventy thousand kiwis left in the March twenty twenty
five year, two thirds of them headed for Australia. Basically,
(31:49):
migrants don't want to move here anymore, and Kiwis are
leaving in their drives. And the Greens say this is
because we need to tax everything more, we need to
become a socialist state and then everyone will return to utopia,
which is nonsense, because the reason they're fleeing here is
for higher wages. People. They want to be paid more,
not taxed more, which is what would happen. We basically
just need some more ocr cuts, according to the economists.
(32:11):
Five away from six Bryan Bridge there, Mike, good morning morning.
What I no you carryten to your show? The other day. Well,
that's the that's why we were just talking about that.
Speaker 15 (32:22):
You're off there. What you said was, I don't normally listen.
I happen to be driving to the city.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I don't normally listen at that time, so I would
listen time. Do you listen on my way home from here? Well,
what's ten minutes? Six minutes? Yeah, Max, exactly, But I
don't normally listen in this in the last half hour
of your show, and it just struck me that there's
just a.
Speaker 16 (32:43):
Lot of Mike Smack talking for basically then tell you what,
tell you what I can do, and you can get
some tips for your show office, because after after sixteen
slash seventeen years, the numbers don't lie, my friend, whether
in revenue or awards or ratings.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
So people, the Smack people love a bit of me.
Speaker 15 (33:02):
Mate.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I said to him every day, I say what's on
your show? And he always just is me. It's like, well,
what is there's something more interesting happening?
Speaker 15 (33:10):
There is nothing more interesting than me, Ryan. I mean,
let's call it the way it is. Actually Bill Foley's
on This Morning. Bill Foley owns the Vegas Black Knight's
ice hockey team, who are in the playoff game today.
Also owns more importantly for US Auckland FC and is
one of the great success stories on how to build
a team, a winning side and all that sort of stuff.
They go to the playoffs this weekend, so he's joining
(33:31):
us from the States for a bit of an insight.
He also runs a lot of hospital here in the country,
does a lot of wine, so he's a billionaires.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Great success for US.
Speaker 15 (33:39):
Anyways, US after.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
It, Mike and a really rich guy coming up next
News Tom CB whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
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