July 24, 2024 • 34 mins
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The Kiwi E-Sports team are heading to Saudi Arabia next year for the first Olympic competition. They're currently competing in the World championships.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture beds and a play at store.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
News Talks.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
He'd be good morning, it is six after five. You're
on News Talks. He'd be with me, Ryan Bridge. Great
to have your company this morning. Welcome to your Thursday
coming up on the show. How much time will those
raised pedestrian crossings in Wellington add to your ambulance journey?
You don't want that to be too long to you
Callan Clark has penned an opinion piece for the Telegraph
(00:36):
in the UK. It's an odd pairing for her. Elton
John is the co author of this opheed. We'll tell
you more about that soon. Plus two bizarre stories today.
One a plane crash in Nepal, eighteen dead, one survives
spoiler alert, it's the pilot. Also a shark attack in Australia.
All to come seven after five.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Who's say the fifth of July? A fresh update on
those spying allegations at the Olympics. Canada's football team has
sent its assistant coach and an analyst home after using
a drone to spy on the Kiwi team twice. The
head coach has also removed herself from coaching the game
between New Zealand and Canada on Friday morning. Come on,
(01:21):
you can't see that footage? Is that fair? And did
the team see it too? Anyway? Meanwhile, the Kiwi football team,
Theyolli Whites, have taken on Guinea in their first Olympic games.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Garbett breaking forward and latching onto a pass malthew garbagecores
for New Zealand a minute.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
After missing from the penalty spot.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Brilliant game and I can tell you that we won
two to one in the last few minutes. We've also
in the sevens, the men's sevens beaten Japan forty twelve
and we'll play South Africa at seven thirty this morning
to the US. Now, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Natanya, who
is in Washington, d C. Said to give a speech
to Congress at six am our time. Eighty House Democrats
(02:01):
and six Senators aren't attending the speech, including Vice President
Karmala Harris. Harris, I should say, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I'm not going because Benjamin Natanyahoo has led that region
into a complete humanitarian disaster.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The first word on the News of the Day early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture,
Beds and a playing Store.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
News Talk Sidy now eight up to five. Karmala Harris
is talking to a college, a traditional black college in
the United States right now. Actually she's giving an address
to them. I'm wondering whether she's going to change up
her speeches. You might have noticed she did the exact
same speech yesterday that she did the day before. I mean,
I know it's early days in the campaign, but here
in New Zealand, small businesses are holding on for dear life.
(02:54):
And you can see it when you, I mean you
will know this. You walk down the street. You know
how bad it is. There's a magazine shop I was
reading about yes which is just up the road from me. Normally,
well this is you know, and when we weren't in
a cost of living crisis and being squeezed by interest rates,
they would have seventy to eighty people a day through
this through the shop and a conversion rate of sixty
to seventy percent, So sixty to seventy percent of those
(03:16):
people would buy something. Now they're lucky to get fifteen
people a day in the shop, and they reckon turn
over is thirty percent of what it was eight years ago.
I mean, that's devastating, isn't it? And so how long
can small businesses hold on? Interesting new numbers this morning
Zero's Small Business Insights reporters out for GOM quarter sales
are down one and a half percent year on year,
(03:36):
No surprise there. For May it was two zero point
four percent, a June was eight point three percent. So
you've now had three consecutive months of falls. However, jobs
are up and wages are up as well, so they
think this is a sign that businesses are slightly optimistic
about conditions getting better. But the sales are dropping, and
if they continue to drop, the question then becomes how
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long can they actually hold on? Ray and Bridge ten
after five. So this plane crash in the pool. I mean,
usually no one survives a plane crash. It's pretty devastating,
is that in terms of loss of life. However, this
plane takes off from the airport, hits the ground soon
after take off, burst into flames. Eighteen people dead. This
is just in the last to twenty four hours. Eighteen
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people dead, but one person survives, it's the pilot. Can
you imagine the survivor's guilt that this pilot is going
to be going through. So the plane takes off, apparently
turns the wrong way when it took off, was meant
to go left and went right instead. Falls to that
the crashes into the ground, burst into flames. The pilot
is rescued from this burning wreckage. He's got non fatal injuries.
(04:42):
He's going to be okay. But the other eighteen on
board all dead, devastating the airport. Interestingly, because you know
this airport's in Nepal are quite notorious for plane crashes.
This is this is not particularly unusual. But what I
found interesting is the airport closed for a few hours
to the story and then reopen. Just got eleven after
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five year on news Talk said be.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
applying store News Talk said be.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Thirsting after five great to have your company this morning.
The Transport Coalition is calling for Wellington Council to rethink
the raised crossings that they're proposing for Thornton Key that
get this five raised crossings in a one point seven
kilometer stretch of road. The coalition says that the crossings
can cause damage to large passenger vehicles and freight vehicles
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and an increased risk for delays and disruptions for your
emergency services. That's your ambulances and your fire service. Dom
Klasi is the interim CEO of Transporting New Zealand, they
look after road freight. He's with me this morning. Dom.
How slow would a truck have to have to slow
down to to get over one of these things?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
What city council is saying is they want vehicles to
slow down to about thirty kilometers an hour. They're actually
going to put signs up to sew there.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Right and will trucks have to go even slower than that,
you know big ones?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Yeah, Look, particularly if they've got fragile cargo on board.
You know, every time you go over a sharp bump
then you do need to slow down otherwise you can
damage the cargo.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So we're talking like five crossings, five raised crossings. You'd
be going ten k's over these crossings or something like that.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
If you've got that would make it comfortable. And we're
just carrying freight think about all the people and buses
and ambulances and ambulances. You know, people could be on
their way to hospital and they're going over these bumps.
It's not very nice.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
No, And also, I mean foreign emergency is said that
it could add fifty to sixty seconds delayed to their
response time, which may not sound like much, but in
a life or death situation, and you're tak into account
that their target is eight minutes to get to an event.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Absolutely end. I think you might be aware fends they
get involved in providing CPR when ambulance can't, so you
know that's even more critical.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Is this in terms of FRAID, because that's your area
of expertise. Is this a busy road?
Speaker 7 (07:14):
It is?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
And look, if I understand the typically there's about eleven
thousand vehicles going down there each day, and I suspect
about sixteen percent of those, so it's somewhere around the
eighteen hundred vehicles a day are freight vehicles that would
have to slow down five times, regardless of whether they've
got right of way through the site, very through the signals.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Is counsel listening to you, guys, Do you think that
there's a chance they'll change things.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Well, we're spoked. Actually, the mayor wrote to our coalition
yesterday acknowledging that there needs to be a balance of
all factors when considering these sorts of thing. So we're
looking forward to that discussion.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Better late than never, I suppose, Don, thank you very
much for your time. That's Don Caliesi who with the
Transport group, sorry, the coalition, i should say, group of
transport representatives who aren't basically saying this is going to
slow us down too much. He's in from CEO of
Transporting New Zealand. It's just gone sixteen o five listening.
(08:18):
At least they're listening. That's good news. Hey, you remember
the crowd strike global tech meltdown from last Friday. They
have finally identified fingered, you could say, what caused the
outages for all of those Microsoft Windows users. It was
a bug. This is the official It's a bug in
(08:39):
a quality control tool it uses to check system updates
for mistakes allowed, which allowed the critical flaw to be
pushed to users machines. Honestly, that means nothing to me.
You know you sort of you just ring it, don't you,
and they tell you to turn it back on, turn
it off and turn it on. It means nothing to me.
But basically they had a whoopsie and they figured out
(08:59):
what the whoopsie was. Interesting. So it's tens of thousands
of flights were affected, delayed or canceled. It affected businesses,
It affixed financial institutions, it affix government agencies. It affects
medical centers, school districts all over the world. And the
CEO has now been summoned to test FI in front
of lawmakers in the States. And you saw what happened
(09:20):
to the Secret Service lady. She got well, she didn't
get fired, but she was forced to resign. So good luck, buddy.
It is seventeen after five.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture beds and a flying store.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
News Talk said, be nineteen after five this morning. Great
to have you with me if you're just joining the program.
Tesla stocks are down there have fallen eight percent on
poor quarter two numbers. I'll have more detail on that.
Plus also his this is Elon Musk, the you know,
the man who owns the company. His promise to give
(09:58):
forty five million dollars Trump per month. Fake news. I'll
tell you more about that in a second. Right now,
we have the all Blacks, but have you heard of
the e Blacks? Here we e sports athletes are going
to be heading to Saudi Arabia next year to compete
in the first ever Olympic Esports Games. The International Olympic
Committee voted unanimously for Saudi Arabia to host them. The
decision comes as Read hosts the Esports World Cup, a
(10:22):
two month event drawing two and a half thousand gamers competing.
Forget this, one hundred million New Zealand dollars in prize money.
It's massive. Connor English is the president of New Zealand
Esports and he's with me now, Connor, good morning, a
good So is this going to be like an official
Olympics endorsed thing.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Yes it is.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Yeah, it's a whole new Olympic competition that's been created.
So you'll have the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics, and
then the Esports Olympics and they're likely to be in
rotation over the four years.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
What do we like at esports? How many you know,
full time athletes do we have? If any?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
We don't have a lot of full time athletes, but
we do have some very good athletes. Esports as a
sort of structured sport if you like, is you know,
it's a growing area of sports in New Zealand and
we're getting as the New Zealand Esports Federation. We've been
putting in frames, for example, across the schools to help
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have integrity and the competitions and to build pathways for
athletes to progress. And now that we've got this Olympic
Games opportunity, then we'll be looking at how we build
pathways towards the Olympic Games for athletes.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It must be one of the sports that has flushed
with money, is it. I mean, it just seems every
time we talk about esports, it's always something one hundred
million dollars.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Yeah, Well, I think what we know is that, you know,
gaining in esports has really grown, and you're seeing a
lot of movies now turning into esports games and often
there's more money in the gaming than what there is
in the movies, So there is a lot of money
in the sector. We also know that the participation rates
are growing very substantially and very quickly. If you talk
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to anyone younger than you and I Ryan. A lot
of those people have been playing gaming in some shape
or form, so participation is very high. And now we're
just moving through to having more structured competitions, so there
is a lot of money in that, because there is
a lot of money in gaming.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Connor, thanks for your time this morning, and good luck
with the Olympics. That's kind of English. President of New
Zealand Esports twenty two after five. Coming up next, Well,
we've still got Mitch McCann to get through before six
o'clock this morning. He's out of the States with the
latest on the race for president. Also, Jason Walls will
run us through what the government is preparing in its
(12:56):
response to that report. Yesterday, the Royal Commission into Abuse
steak here all.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Ahead, separating the fact from the fiction. Kid's Filly edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds and Appliant store.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
News Talk said b twenty five after five, News Talk said,
be shock, horror and online hate this week for that
American who came here, the reality TV show contestant who
came here and murdered one of our native birds and
then ate it. I have a confession for you. It
was a weker that he did, that he killed and ate.
I have a confession, I too have killed and eaten weker. Yes,
(13:34):
but it was buff wecker on the Chatteram Islands and
you're allowed to. It's the only place you can do
it in New Zealand. And it's delicious, I have to confess.
It tasted like a cross between chicken and pork, quite greasy,
but really delicious. And you go over there. I went
there to film for a TV show. You sit in
the ute in the evening drinking whiskey with the local guys.
(13:58):
The dogs go out, get them, bring them to the
window of the ute, they snap the neck, throw them
on the back of the tray. They said that sometimes
they could get hundreds in a night, and they're a
pest over there, so they would run rampant and take
over the island. And the other thing is they eat
native bird eggs, so they're double bad anyway. So there
(14:18):
we are over there eating weicker, having a great time.
And Roger Beatty is a conservationist and an entrepreneur who
was there with us, and he reckons we should farm
worker on the mainland. He says, no farmed species has
ever died out. Currently it's illegal to sell weicker, so
you can't in New Zealand. Doc is dead against it.
(14:40):
But Roger says, we farm plenty of other species in
New Zealand, shellfish trees, so why not birds. It's an
interesting take. He's a bit of a radical, this guy.
Doc says that predator free sanctuaries are the way to go,
and they're working. I mean they are working. You look
at Wellington for example, that is working and they're dead
against farming of any speed. But I kind of think
(15:01):
all options should be on the table. Eighty two percent
of bird species are currently threatened with extinction or at
risk of becoming threatened. So can we really be that
picky or fussy If we're serious about saving them, it's
at least worth a wee. Look see, I would have
thought twenty seven after five Bray.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
And Bridge twenty seven half to five.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
So why are we playing? Alton John Well He has penned,
co authored and op ed in the Telegraph with none
other than New Zealand's Helen Clark. They've penned an article
about condemning the war on drugs. Basically, Helen Clark is
obviously the chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy,
and Elton John Well I still has had some experience
with drugs in his use. So they've written an article
(15:58):
together in the Telegraph basically saying the war on drugs
hasn't worked and we need a health approach rather than
a criminal approach to those who are addicted to drugs. Gosh,
strange week, couple of weeks for Halling Clark. Isn't it
to go from co authoring an opied with Don Brash
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to co authoring a opied with Elton John I mean
you couldn't get You couldn't get further ends of the
spectrum in terms of males, could you? Anyway there would go?
It's on the Telegraph in the UK today twenty eight
minutes after five. Mitch McCann is with us just before
six o'clock with news out of the States. Jason Walls
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will be closer to six and more on Elon Musk.
His stocks and Tesla are down eight percent on poor numbers,
but also that donation forty five million dollars a month
that he was rumored to be giving to Trump's campaign
apparently fake news. More on that soon as well. Are
twenty nine after five.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Bids and Appliance Store
News Talk Sidby.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Good Morning New Zealand, twenty four minutes away from six
yer on News Talk sai'd be I'm Rhyan Bridge. Great
to have you with me this morning. In the Diary today,
Joe Biden is going to speak for the first time
publicly for the first time from the podium at the
White House to address why he quit the race. He
also needs to prove that he can actually run the
joint till January. As well the Olympics. We've got the
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men's sevens in contention this morning versus South Africa at
seven thirty am. Benjamin Netanya, who is speaking at six
am our time in Congress. Over in the States, Karmala
Hallis Harris, I should say, speaking at a rally as well.
So lot's happening, which Mike will keep you updated with
throughout his show this morning as well. Tesla stocks are
(18:46):
down slightly on quarter two numbers. That's news out of
the States. And I always found it strange that Elon
Musk was reportedly going to give forty five million dollars
a month to Donald Trump's campaign. Given what Donald Trump
says about EV's he hates them, you know, why would
you pay? It turns out it was fake news. Elon
(19:07):
Musk has moved to clarify. He says he won't be
donating forty five million dollars, nothing near forty five million
dollars a month. He will donate some money to Donald
Trump's Pack Super Pack campaign. Just gone twenty three away
from six Cranbridge and we'll get to that surface story
out of Australia shortly. It's incredible. First though, Come and
(19:28):
Proctor is with us in the need and gang tensions
at Otago Prison. Come, yeah, morning, Ryan.
Speaker 10 (19:33):
It's certainly the case. Has been recent attacks on staff
at the prison near Milson. The Department of Corrections confirming
a prisoner struck a staff member on the head at
the facility on Monday. That staff member needed hospital treatment.
It's the third attack on an Otago prison officer since April.
We've spoken with the general manager, Dave Miller. He says
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the perpetrators were from the same gang, but there's no
evidence to suggest the assaults are linked. Says gaging tensions
are constantly monitored there, and Corrections has invested in tools
to keep their staff safe. All right, Colen did it
in weather today you find for danneed and today Ryan
apart from morning cloud nor westerlies and sixteen the high brilliant.
Thank you, Blake, Benny's and christ Church for us an
(20:15):
update on those welfare issues that are ran a wildlife park.
Speaker 11 (20:19):
Yes, while there's plans to move forward at the christ
Church Zoo following the investigation into poor welfare claims. As
previously reported, more than twenty current and former staffers detailed
multiple animal deaths to One News earlier this week. Now
MPI has confirmed found no immediate signs of any animal
welfare or staffing issues and a rapid assessment over two
days in which every animal was checked. Board member Ken
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Huey is confident in the zoo will bounce back from
the allegations and headlines. He acknowledges IRANA is not perfect,
but it works hard to remain transparent and investigates any
concerns that are raised.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Blake, how's the weather today.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
Be a nice clear day in christ Church with some
light wins and a higher fifteen brilliant.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Thank you, Mex tools and Wellington. An update on the
additiery the theory.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, so obviously this is the inter island the ferry
that ran aground near pickt In just over a month ago.
It has been gradually returning to service freight first. The
biggest step now confirmed within a few days the Aditi
will be taking passengers again. The reason at ran aground
we still don't exactly know why, not a picture book
of transparency into island or KiwiRail. It took New Zealand
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first publicly posting its own theory to eventually reveal a
leaked memo that stated the autopilot had been mistakenly turned
on and couldn't be turned off. But we still don't
know exactly why that happened, if it's even true, was
it mechanical? And yet on Sunday several hundred passengers crew
brave souls will hop on board and venture across the
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Cook Strait.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
That's mate. It is annoying, isn't it that they don't
tell us exactly what's happening and we have to wait
for a report and by then no one cares. And
mex with the weather today in the Capitol.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Mainly fine after a cold start for team the High Central.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Thank you. Neither Riddy Marne was with me in Auckland.
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 12 (22:04):
Sorry, I just walked in. I was too busy chit
chading to your producer. Well, I was having a bit
of a laugh. I know it was very slack. I thought,
what is my job? But I was just saying that overnight.
You know, Tim Beveridge was on and you know, obviously
with the Olympics now starting, he had the TV channel
on the well, it was on the wrong TV channel
when he was watching the football, the live football giving
(22:25):
the update no New Zealand playing Guineing and obviously we
won two one, but it was the delayed coverage. So
just before you came on, just before five years go oh,
and it was only like half time when it was
really finishing. You know, I was waving going, he was saying,
it's one all, but it was the game was over
and we won.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Do you know when I worked on that morning TV show,
people would watch the hour delayed you know, the Plus
one channel, Yes, and they wouldn't know they were watching it.
And the biggest complaint we would get on that program
was you guys are channing the wrong time. It's like
it's not us, it's you. Anyway, we digress the heritage buildings.
Speaker 12 (23:04):
This is great. Now Auckland Council's locked in earthquake strengthening
for four heritage buildings. So that's the Nathan Homestead and Mondal.
There were the Remuera building. Oh, the library I should
say rather tetid only War Memorial Hall and library and
the Lee's Institute Library and gymnasium. Now those four buildings
that's going to cost about twenty two million dollars. Funding
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package that's expected to be approved at the Council's Planning
Environment in Parks Committee, which is happening their meeting today.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Brilliant. Neither of the weather in Auckland cloudy.
Speaker 12 (23:34):
We've got isolated showers this morning, clearing though this evening
a little bit warmer for us sixteens to high have lots.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Of rain showers, such sunshowers. Sunshowers, I should say at
the moment, I don't like those. I'd like it to
be pick a sidon, stick.
Speaker 12 (23:49):
To it exactly. That's when we've got to take our brawlly,
you know, just in case.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
All Right, eighteen minutes away from six still to come.
The incredible surfer shark story out of Australia, which we'll
get to next though Mitch McCann is in the US.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge you for twenty
twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture beds and a playing store. News Talk said be.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Mitch McCann standing by in the US will be with
him in a second. First though, this incredible and bizarre
story out of Australia. So a twenty three year old
surfer is having a great time catching waves. This is
in Port mcquarie, and then a shark attacks and he
tries to fight off the shark. He sort of half
does that, but severs his right leg off completely and
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he's bleeding heavily. Amazingly, he manages to catch a wave
while he's bleeding profusely catches a wave back into the beach.
Retired cop on the beach gets his dog lead, does
a torniquet around the leg, gets him to hospital. Then
this is where it gets really weird. The leg washes
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up on a way the leg surfs to the beach,
so he's been rushed to hospital. The people who are
left on the beach see this leg washed up in
the wave and put it on ice and rush that
to the hospital hoping they can reattach it anyway. This
poor guy. He's in a stable condition now, which is
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really good. No update on what has happened with the leg,
but some very quick acting members of the public there
who were there to help. Just gone fourteen minutes away from.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Six International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
mind for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Mitch McCants with us this morning. Benjamin Nittanya, who's going
to speak to Congress.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, that's Ryan, Good morning, Ryan. Benjaminina who is in
Washington today. He's addressing Congress on the ongoing war in
Gaza and the waning support for Israel in parts of
the US. NTNA who was invited the Speaker of the House,
Mike Johnson, and on the plane over to America he
wore a hat with the words total victory emblazoned across
the top of it. And despite that invitation from the Speaker,
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at least thirty Democratic lawmakers will not be attending, including
Bernie Sanders, Ryan who described ETNA who as a war criminal,
presiding over an extreme white ring, right winging government and
We've also seen large protests across Washington, DC today, with
an estimated five thousand people taking to the streets.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
That's so he's inter provoking them too with that hat.
By the sounds of it, Biden is going to address
the country for the first time about his decision not
to run for reelection.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Obviously.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
That decision came on the weekend, after weeks of escalating
pressure after that June debate. A social media message he posted,
Joe Biden conceded it was in his parties and the
country's best interests for him not to seek reelection, and
the same message he said he would speak in greater
detail later in the week. Now that's happening today around
two pm New Zealand time. It's taking place in the
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Oval Office of the White House. These are rare presidential addresses,
but it's actually the second one he's made in a
couple of weeks. The first one was, of course, after
the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. It's reported that Joe
Biden and a close aid began writing this speech almost
immediately after his decision was made public. As well as
explaining his reasoning, Joe Biden is expected to detail what
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his priorities are for the remainder of his term just
a few months.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, and I guess the other thing, Mitch is he
has to show that he's up to doing the job
through till January. Mitch, thank you very much for your time.
Mitch mccannon, our US correspondent. It's just gone twelve minutes
away from six Ryan Bridge. The government's preparing its response
to the Royal Commission into Abuse in State Care report,
which was released yesterday. You would have heard about this
more than its six hundred thousand in care. Two hundred
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thousand were abused. That's one in three. There are one
hundred and thirty eight recommendations in this report, so a
lot to respond to. News talks here be Political editor
Jason Walls is with us this morning. Good morning, Derek
Chang and the Hill did a great peace on this.
Many of these recommendations seem to fly in the face
of the government's policy platform or agenda.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
Yes, good morning. There are a number of things that
were recommended in the report that do overlap in some
ways with what the government is doing today in terms
of what its policy agenda is. For example, I mean
a few people have made the point that the abuse
in state care, you know, it outlines a number of
what happens in state care. And then this weekend the
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government is launching its military youth academies, which some people
have actually drawn a comparison to, and other things to
do with the Treaty of Waitangi and whatnot. So it's
an interesting piece. I would say that, yes, you can
see why some people might be making these arguments, but
at the same time, I mean arguments around gangs. I
think that it's a hard comparison to make at the
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best time there. But in terms of the for example,
this weekend, in terms of the the military academy, I
think the government will be arguing that they'll be using
the report to learn lessons about what happened in the past,
so it can't happen again. They've made the case for
these academies quite clearly, and I don't think because of
the report that they're going to go away. So you
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can understand why some people are making these comparisons, and
I do think that that's why some people that were
in the public garalery yesterday yelled shame as Karen Shaw
started talking in the House yesterday during her speech.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, I saw that many gang members were in state here.
Not all of them, and not everyone who was in
state here went on to be a gang member, but
many gang members were in state here. Is it going
to be politically difficult for the government to pay compensation
to people if they are currently in a gang.
Speaker 13 (29:47):
I think there are a number of hoops that the
government has to jump through here and it's not going
to be easy by any means. It was hard to
pin the Prime Minister down on this question yesterday in
terms of the financial compensation. Obviously it's going to cost
a lot of money. He didn't have an estimate on
how much, and he said, frankly, it doesn't matter at
this stage. The government was willing to do that. But
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the idea of doing that, I mean, I think that
the government will be able to separate the person from
the gang when it comes to the sort of situation
and be able to look at what happened in the
past and be able to move forward in a way.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Jason, thank you for that. Jason Walls News Talks eb's
political editor out of Wellington this morning, just gone nine
minutes away from six still to come. Where you will
look at some new data out of Australia on air fares.
Airfares are falling international affairs. That is you might notice
if you daydream like I do sometimes and go online,
it's cheaper to flighter London than it is to christ Church.
(30:44):
I exaggerate, but you know what I mean. Nine nine
two is the number to text great to have your
company this morning. We'll be back in just a second.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and fis City, New
Zealand's Furniture Beds and apply Store.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
News Talks. Sai'd be six away from six on news
Talk said, being new data out of Australia. This is
about from Flight Center on international prices. Airfares in the
first six months of the year, they were down six percent,
that's the prices of the affairs, and in Australia in
particular they were down double that thirteen percent. International affairs
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reduced in the last six months and the volumes went up,
so obviously that compensates for the dropping price for people
like quantas. But it's interesting that people are still traveling
even though we have a cost of living crisis that
Australia has the same cost of living crisis well similar,
and people are still traveling. And we were talking. I
was talking about this yesterday with my partner. We have
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friends who are going to Europe in the winter, and
basically you will eat cardboard until you go. You know,
like you spend, You stop going to restaurants, you stop
getting coffees out at the cafe because you know you've
got this holiday coming. So I think people prioritize those
trips over you know, the odd restaurant meal or the
odd coffee out. It's five minutes away from six and
(32:06):
Mike Costing gets next he with us.
Speaker 14 (32:07):
Do you know the hardest seek to get on a
plane these days? Business front of the plane really can't
get on because everyone's got well why is every well?
Because rich people still have money. Because if you don't
have debt. I think the thing we've learned out of
all of this, if you don't have debt, then you
find because most people have got a job, and if
you've got a job plus you don't have debt, that's
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why you're in Europe in July. See, I could name you,
I could name you, and I don't hang out with
the wealthy people per se, but I could name you. Well,
my daughter's in Tuscany as we speak, at a wine
tasting dinner. She's twenty three years old, So you know,
go figure, and you and I are sitting here working
out exactly Lester leave you this morning for you Lester
live in that what's interesting about this whole health thing
(32:51):
is there is an accusation Will suggesting this morning that
this blowout one hundred and thirty million dollars a month
is largely due to the fact that they've been fan
fantastically successful in hiring nurses. So the impression you got
from Shane Retty the other day is out of nowhere,
it's a billion dollars plus a year, and oh my god,
we didn't see this coming and what a disaster and
what we're going to have to do about it. So
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we'll sack the board and put Lester in. But the
new suggestion is that they went to recruit all the
nurses which we need, which is frontline as opposed to
back office, and they got so many nurses and they
have to pay these people, of course, and all of
a sudden, you know, you're spending more money than your thoughts.
So I can't quite work out what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Were they not meant to cut the back office? Well
that was the theory.
Speaker 14 (33:30):
Yeah, there doesn't seem And then there's another there's another
article in the Herald this morning with Andrew Little of
all people, irony of irony, saying that this shouldn't be
as hard as it is. Yet he would, you could argue,
was the person who cocked it up in the first place.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
So anyway, we'll try and weighe our way through.
Speaker 14 (33:44):
All this with Les Leby, and we'll also of course
look at yesterday's Royal Commissioner. How hell you unravel that
and what the bill for that is?
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I don't know exactly. Mike Costing with you next. Great
to have you with me this morning. Thank you for
your company. See you tomorrow Friday News Talks.
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News Talks.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
He'd be good morning, it is six after five. You're
on News Talks. He'd be with me, Ryan Bridge. Great
to have your company this morning. Welcome to your Thursday
coming up on the show. How much time will those
raised pedestrian crossings in Wellington add to your ambulance journey?
You don't want that to be too long to you
Callan Clark has penned an opinion piece for the Telegraph
(00:36):
in the UK. It's an odd pairing for her. Elton
John is the co author of this opheed. We'll tell
you more about that soon. Plus two bizarre stories today.
One a plane crash in Nepal, eighteen dead, one survives
spoiler alert, it's the pilot. Also a shark attack in Australia.
All to come seven after five.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The agenda.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Who's say the fifth of July? A fresh update on
those spying allegations at the Olympics. Canada's football team has
sent its assistant coach and an analyst home after using
a drone to spy on the Kiwi team twice. The
head coach has also removed herself from coaching the game
between New Zealand and Canada on Friday morning. Come on,
(01:21):
you can't see that footage? Is that fair? And did
the team see it too? Anyway? Meanwhile, the Kiwi football team,
Theyolli Whites, have taken on Guinea in their first Olympic games.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Garbett breaking forward and latching onto a pass malthew garbagecores
for New Zealand a minute.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
After missing from the penalty spot.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Brilliant game and I can tell you that we won
two to one in the last few minutes. We've also
in the sevens, the men's sevens beaten Japan forty twelve
and we'll play South Africa at seven thirty this morning
to the US. Now, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Natanya, who
is in Washington, d C. Said to give a speech
to Congress at six am our time. Eighty House Democrats
(02:01):
and six Senators aren't attending the speech, including Vice President
Karmala Harris. Harris, I should say, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I'm not going because Benjamin Natanyahoo has led that region
into a complete humanitarian disaster.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The first word on the News of the Day early
edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture,
Beds and a playing Store.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
News Talk Sidy now eight up to five. Karmala Harris
is talking to a college, a traditional black college in
the United States right now. Actually she's giving an address
to them. I'm wondering whether she's going to change up
her speeches. You might have noticed she did the exact
same speech yesterday that she did the day before. I mean,
I know it's early days in the campaign, but here
in New Zealand, small businesses are holding on for dear life.
(02:54):
And you can see it when you, I mean you
will know this. You walk down the street. You know
how bad it is. There's a magazine shop I was
reading about yes which is just up the road from me. Normally,
well this is you know, and when we weren't in
a cost of living crisis and being squeezed by interest rates,
they would have seventy to eighty people a day through
this through the shop and a conversion rate of sixty
to seventy percent, So sixty to seventy percent of those
(03:16):
people would buy something. Now they're lucky to get fifteen
people a day in the shop, and they reckon turn
over is thirty percent of what it was eight years ago.
I mean, that's devastating, isn't it? And so how long
can small businesses hold on? Interesting new numbers this morning
Zero's Small Business Insights reporters out for GOM quarter sales
are down one and a half percent year on year,
(03:36):
No surprise there. For May it was two zero point
four percent, a June was eight point three percent. So
you've now had three consecutive months of falls. However, jobs
are up and wages are up as well, so they
think this is a sign that businesses are slightly optimistic
about conditions getting better. But the sales are dropping, and
if they continue to drop, the question then becomes how
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long can they actually hold on? Ray and Bridge ten
after five. So this plane crash in the pool. I mean,
usually no one survives a plane crash. It's pretty devastating,
is that in terms of loss of life. However, this
plane takes off from the airport, hits the ground soon
after take off, burst into flames. Eighteen people dead. This
is just in the last to twenty four hours. Eighteen
(04:18):
people dead, but one person survives, it's the pilot. Can
you imagine the survivor's guilt that this pilot is going
to be going through. So the plane takes off, apparently
turns the wrong way when it took off, was meant
to go left and went right instead. Falls to that
the crashes into the ground, burst into flames. The pilot
is rescued from this burning wreckage. He's got non fatal injuries.
(04:42):
He's going to be okay. But the other eighteen on
board all dead, devastating the airport. Interestingly, because you know
this airport's in Nepal are quite notorious for plane crashes.
This is this is not particularly unusual. But what I
found interesting is the airport closed for a few hours
to the story and then reopen. Just got eleven after
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five year on news Talk said be.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
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Speaker 3 (05:17):
Thirsting after five great to have your company this morning.
The Transport Coalition is calling for Wellington Council to rethink
the raised crossings that they're proposing for Thornton Key that
get this five raised crossings in a one point seven
kilometer stretch of road. The coalition says that the crossings
can cause damage to large passenger vehicles and freight vehicles
(05:38):
and an increased risk for delays and disruptions for your
emergency services. That's your ambulances and your fire service. Dom
Klasi is the interim CEO of Transporting New Zealand, they
look after road freight. He's with me this morning. Dom.
How slow would a truck have to have to slow
down to to get over one of these things?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
What city council is saying is they want vehicles to
slow down to about thirty kilometers an hour. They're actually
going to put signs up to sew there.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Right and will trucks have to go even slower than that,
you know big ones?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Yeah, Look, particularly if they've got fragile cargo on board.
You know, every time you go over a sharp bump
then you do need to slow down otherwise you can
damage the cargo.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So we're talking like five crossings, five raised crossings. You'd
be going ten k's over these crossings or something like that.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
If you've got that would make it comfortable. And we're
just carrying freight think about all the people and buses
and ambulances and ambulances. You know, people could be on
their way to hospital and they're going over these bumps.
It's not very nice.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
No, And also, I mean foreign emergency is said that
it could add fifty to sixty seconds delayed to their
response time, which may not sound like much, but in
a life or death situation, and you're tak into account
that their target is eight minutes to get to an event.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Absolutely end. I think you might be aware fends they
get involved in providing CPR when ambulance can't, so you
know that's even more critical.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Is this in terms of FRAID, because that's your area
of expertise. Is this a busy road?
Speaker 7 (07:14):
It is?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
And look, if I understand the typically there's about eleven
thousand vehicles going down there each day, and I suspect
about sixteen percent of those, so it's somewhere around the
eighteen hundred vehicles a day are freight vehicles that would
have to slow down five times, regardless of whether they've
got right of way through the site, very through the signals.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Is counsel listening to you, guys, Do you think that
there's a chance they'll change things.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Well, we're spoked. Actually, the mayor wrote to our coalition
yesterday acknowledging that there needs to be a balance of
all factors when considering these sorts of thing. So we're
looking forward to that discussion.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Better late than never, I suppose, Don, thank you very
much for your time. That's Don Caliesi who with the
Transport group, sorry, the coalition, i should say, group of
transport representatives who aren't basically saying this is going to
slow us down too much. He's in from CEO of
Transporting New Zealand. It's just gone sixteen o five listening.
(08:18):
At least they're listening. That's good news. Hey, you remember
the crowd strike global tech meltdown from last Friday. They
have finally identified fingered, you could say, what caused the
outages for all of those Microsoft Windows users. It was
a bug. This is the official It's a bug in
(08:39):
a quality control tool it uses to check system updates
for mistakes allowed, which allowed the critical flaw to be
pushed to users machines. Honestly, that means nothing to me.
You know you sort of you just ring it, don't you,
and they tell you to turn it back on, turn
it off and turn it on. It means nothing to me.
But basically they had a whoopsie and they figured out
(08:59):
what the whoopsie was. Interesting. So it's tens of thousands
of flights were affected, delayed or canceled. It affected businesses,
It affixed financial institutions, it affix government agencies. It affects
medical centers, school districts all over the world. And the
CEO has now been summoned to test FI in front
of lawmakers in the States. And you saw what happened
(09:20):
to the Secret Service lady. She got well, she didn't
get fired, but she was forced to resign. So good luck, buddy.
It is seventeen after five.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture beds and a flying store.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
News Talk said, be nineteen after five this morning. Great
to have you with me if you're just joining the program.
Tesla stocks are down there have fallen eight percent on
poor quarter two numbers. I'll have more detail on that.
Plus also his this is Elon Musk, the you know,
the man who owns the company. His promise to give
(09:58):
forty five million dollars Trump per month. Fake news. I'll
tell you more about that in a second. Right now,
we have the all Blacks, but have you heard of
the e Blacks? Here we e sports athletes are going
to be heading to Saudi Arabia next year to compete
in the first ever Olympic Esports Games. The International Olympic
Committee voted unanimously for Saudi Arabia to host them. The
decision comes as Read hosts the Esports World Cup, a
(10:22):
two month event drawing two and a half thousand gamers competing.
Forget this, one hundred million New Zealand dollars in prize money.
It's massive. Connor English is the president of New Zealand
Esports and he's with me now, Connor, good morning, a
good So is this going to be like an official
Olympics endorsed thing.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Yes it is.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Yeah, it's a whole new Olympic competition that's been created.
So you'll have the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics, and
then the Esports Olympics and they're likely to be in
rotation over the four years.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
What do we like at esports? How many you know,
full time athletes do we have? If any?
Speaker 8 (11:02):
We don't have a lot of full time athletes, but
we do have some very good athletes. Esports as a
sort of structured sport if you like, is you know,
it's a growing area of sports in New Zealand and
we're getting as the New Zealand Esports Federation. We've been
putting in frames, for example, across the schools to help
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have integrity and the competitions and to build pathways for
athletes to progress. And now that we've got this Olympic
Games opportunity, then we'll be looking at how we build
pathways towards the Olympic Games for athletes.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
It must be one of the sports that has flushed
with money, is it. I mean, it just seems every
time we talk about esports, it's always something one hundred
million dollars.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Yeah, Well, I think what we know is that, you know,
gaining in esports has really grown, and you're seeing a
lot of movies now turning into esports games and often
there's more money in the gaming than what there is
in the movies, So there is a lot of money
in the sector. We also know that the participation rates
are growing very substantially and very quickly. If you talk
(12:17):
to anyone younger than you and I Ryan. A lot
of those people have been playing gaming in some shape
or form, so participation is very high. And now we're
just moving through to having more structured competitions, so there
is a lot of money in that, because there is
a lot of money in gaming.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Connor, thanks for your time this morning, and good luck
with the Olympics. That's kind of English. President of New
Zealand Esports twenty two after five. Coming up next, Well,
we've still got Mitch McCann to get through before six
o'clock this morning. He's out of the States with the
latest on the race for president. Also, Jason Walls will
run us through what the government is preparing in its
(12:56):
response to that report. Yesterday, the Royal Commission into Abuse
steak here all.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Ahead, separating the fact from the fiction. Kid's Filly edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds and Appliant store.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
News Talk said b twenty five after five, News Talk said,
be shock, horror and online hate this week for that
American who came here, the reality TV show contestant who
came here and murdered one of our native birds and
then ate it. I have a confession for you. It
was a weker that he did, that he killed and ate.
I have a confession, I too have killed and eaten weker. Yes,
(13:34):
but it was buff wecker on the Chatteram Islands and
you're allowed to. It's the only place you can do
it in New Zealand. And it's delicious, I have to confess.
It tasted like a cross between chicken and pork, quite greasy,
but really delicious. And you go over there. I went
there to film for a TV show. You sit in
the ute in the evening drinking whiskey with the local guys.
(13:58):
The dogs go out, get them, bring them to the
window of the ute, they snap the neck, throw them
on the back of the tray. They said that sometimes
they could get hundreds in a night, and they're a
pest over there, so they would run rampant and take
over the island. And the other thing is they eat
native bird eggs, so they're double bad anyway. So there
(14:18):
we are over there eating weicker, having a great time.
And Roger Beatty is a conservationist and an entrepreneur who
was there with us, and he reckons we should farm
worker on the mainland. He says, no farmed species has
ever died out. Currently it's illegal to sell weicker, so
you can't in New Zealand. Doc is dead against it.
(14:40):
But Roger says, we farm plenty of other species in
New Zealand, shellfish trees, so why not birds. It's an
interesting take. He's a bit of a radical, this guy.
Doc says that predator free sanctuaries are the way to go,
and they're working. I mean they are working. You look
at Wellington for example, that is working and they're dead
against farming of any speed. But I kind of think
(15:01):
all options should be on the table. Eighty two percent
of bird species are currently threatened with extinction or at
risk of becoming threatened. So can we really be that
picky or fussy If we're serious about saving them, it's
at least worth a wee. Look see, I would have
thought twenty seven after five Bray.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
And Bridge twenty seven half to five.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
So why are we playing? Alton John Well He has penned,
co authored and op ed in the Telegraph with none
other than New Zealand's Helen Clark. They've penned an article
about condemning the war on drugs. Basically, Helen Clark is
obviously the chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy,
and Elton John Well I still has had some experience
with drugs in his use. So they've written an article
(15:58):
together in the Telegraph basically saying the war on drugs
hasn't worked and we need a health approach rather than
a criminal approach to those who are addicted to drugs. Gosh,
strange week, couple of weeks for Halling Clark. Isn't it
to go from co authoring an opied with Don Brash
(16:19):
to co authoring a opied with Elton John I mean
you couldn't get You couldn't get further ends of the
spectrum in terms of males, could you? Anyway there would go?
It's on the Telegraph in the UK today twenty eight
minutes after five. Mitch McCann is with us just before
six o'clock with news out of the States. Jason Walls
(16:39):
will be closer to six and more on Elon Musk.
His stocks and Tesla are down eight percent on poor numbers,
but also that donation forty five million dollars a month
that he was rumored to be giving to Trump's campaign
apparently fake news. More on that soon as well. Are
twenty nine after five.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Bids and Appliance Store
News Talk Sidby.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Good Morning New Zealand, twenty four minutes away from six
yer on News Talk sai'd be I'm Rhyan Bridge. Great
to have you with me this morning. In the Diary today,
Joe Biden is going to speak for the first time
publicly for the first time from the podium at the
White House to address why he quit the race. He
also needs to prove that he can actually run the
joint till January. As well the Olympics. We've got the
(18:26):
men's sevens in contention this morning versus South Africa at
seven thirty am. Benjamin Netanya, who is speaking at six
am our time in Congress. Over in the States, Karmala
Hallis Harris, I should say, speaking at a rally as well.
So lot's happening, which Mike will keep you updated with
throughout his show this morning as well. Tesla stocks are
(18:46):
down slightly on quarter two numbers. That's news out of
the States. And I always found it strange that Elon
Musk was reportedly going to give forty five million dollars
a month to Donald Trump's campaign. Given what Donald Trump
says about EV's he hates them, you know, why would
you pay? It turns out it was fake news. Elon
(19:07):
Musk has moved to clarify. He says he won't be
donating forty five million dollars, nothing near forty five million
dollars a month. He will donate some money to Donald
Trump's Pack Super Pack campaign. Just gone twenty three away
from six Cranbridge and we'll get to that surface story
out of Australia shortly. It's incredible. First though, Come and
(19:28):
Proctor is with us in the need and gang tensions
at Otago Prison. Come, yeah, morning, Ryan.
Speaker 10 (19:33):
It's certainly the case. Has been recent attacks on staff
at the prison near Milson. The Department of Corrections confirming
a prisoner struck a staff member on the head at
the facility on Monday. That staff member needed hospital treatment.
It's the third attack on an Otago prison officer since April.
We've spoken with the general manager, Dave Miller. He says
(19:54):
the perpetrators were from the same gang, but there's no
evidence to suggest the assaults are linked. Says gaging tensions
are constantly monitored there, and Corrections has invested in tools
to keep their staff safe. All right, Colen did it
in weather today you find for danneed and today Ryan
apart from morning cloud nor westerlies and sixteen the high brilliant.
Thank you, Blake, Benny's and christ Church for us an
(20:15):
update on those welfare issues that are ran a wildlife park.
Speaker 11 (20:19):
Yes, while there's plans to move forward at the christ
Church Zoo following the investigation into poor welfare claims. As
previously reported, more than twenty current and former staffers detailed
multiple animal deaths to One News earlier this week. Now
MPI has confirmed found no immediate signs of any animal
welfare or staffing issues and a rapid assessment over two
days in which every animal was checked. Board member Ken
(20:41):
Huey is confident in the zoo will bounce back from
the allegations and headlines. He acknowledges IRANA is not perfect,
but it works hard to remain transparent and investigates any
concerns that are raised.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Blake, how's the weather today.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
Be a nice clear day in christ Church with some
light wins and a higher fifteen brilliant.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Thank you, Mex tools and Wellington. An update on the
additiery the theory.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, so obviously this is the inter island the ferry
that ran aground near pickt In just over a month ago.
It has been gradually returning to service freight first. The
biggest step now confirmed within a few days the Aditi
will be taking passengers again. The reason at ran aground
we still don't exactly know why, not a picture book
of transparency into island or KiwiRail. It took New Zealand
(21:26):
first publicly posting its own theory to eventually reveal a
leaked memo that stated the autopilot had been mistakenly turned
on and couldn't be turned off. But we still don't
know exactly why that happened, if it's even true, was
it mechanical? And yet on Sunday several hundred passengers crew
brave souls will hop on board and venture across the
(21:47):
Cook Strait.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
That's mate. It is annoying, isn't it that they don't
tell us exactly what's happening and we have to wait
for a report and by then no one cares. And
mex with the weather today in the Capitol.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Mainly fine after a cold start for team the High Central.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Thank you. Neither Riddy Marne was with me in Auckland.
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 12 (22:04):
Sorry, I just walked in. I was too busy chit
chading to your producer. Well, I was having a bit
of a laugh. I know it was very slack. I thought,
what is my job? But I was just saying that overnight.
You know, Tim Beveridge was on and you know, obviously
with the Olympics now starting, he had the TV channel
on the well, it was on the wrong TV channel
when he was watching the football, the live football giving
(22:25):
the update no New Zealand playing Guineing and obviously we
won two one, but it was the delayed coverage. So
just before you came on, just before five years go oh,
and it was only like half time when it was
really finishing. You know, I was waving going, he was saying,
it's one all, but it was the game was over
and we won.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Do you know when I worked on that morning TV show,
people would watch the hour delayed you know, the Plus
one channel, Yes, and they wouldn't know they were watching it.
And the biggest complaint we would get on that program
was you guys are channing the wrong time. It's like
it's not us, it's you. Anyway, we digress the heritage buildings.
Speaker 12 (23:04):
This is great. Now Auckland Council's locked in earthquake strengthening
for four heritage buildings. So that's the Nathan Homestead and Mondal.
There were the Remuera building. Oh, the library I should
say rather tetid only War Memorial Hall and library and
the Lee's Institute Library and gymnasium. Now those four buildings
that's going to cost about twenty two million dollars. Funding
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package that's expected to be approved at the Council's Planning
Environment in Parks Committee, which is happening their meeting today.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Brilliant. Neither of the weather in Auckland cloudy.
Speaker 12 (23:34):
We've got isolated showers this morning, clearing though this evening
a little bit warmer for us sixteens to high have lots.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Of rain showers, such sunshowers. Sunshowers, I should say at
the moment, I don't like those. I'd like it to
be pick a sidon, stick.
Speaker 12 (23:49):
To it exactly. That's when we've got to take our brawlly,
you know, just in case.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
All Right, eighteen minutes away from six still to come.
The incredible surfer shark story out of Australia, which we'll
get to next though Mitch McCann is in the US.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge you for twenty
twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture beds and a playing store. News Talk said be.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Mitch McCann standing by in the US will be with
him in a second. First though, this incredible and bizarre
story out of Australia. So a twenty three year old
surfer is having a great time catching waves. This is
in Port mcquarie, and then a shark attacks and he
tries to fight off the shark. He sort of half
does that, but severs his right leg off completely and
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he's bleeding heavily. Amazingly, he manages to catch a wave
while he's bleeding profusely catches a wave back into the beach.
Retired cop on the beach gets his dog lead, does
a torniquet around the leg, gets him to hospital. Then
this is where it gets really weird. The leg washes
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up on a way the leg surfs to the beach,
so he's been rushed to hospital. The people who are
left on the beach see this leg washed up in
the wave and put it on ice and rush that
to the hospital hoping they can reattach it anyway. This
poor guy. He's in a stable condition now, which is
(25:21):
really good. No update on what has happened with the leg,
but some very quick acting members of the public there
who were there to help. Just gone fourteen minutes away from.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Six International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
mind for New Zealand Business.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Mitch McCants with us this morning. Benjamin Nittanya, who's going
to speak to Congress.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, that's Ryan, Good morning, Ryan. Benjaminina who is in
Washington today. He's addressing Congress on the ongoing war in
Gaza and the waning support for Israel in parts of
the US. NTNA who was invited the Speaker of the House,
Mike Johnson, and on the plane over to America he
wore a hat with the words total victory emblazoned across
the top of it. And despite that invitation from the Speaker,
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at least thirty Democratic lawmakers will not be attending, including
Bernie Sanders, Ryan who described ETNA who as a war criminal,
presiding over an extreme white ring, right winging government and
We've also seen large protests across Washington, DC today, with
an estimated five thousand people taking to the streets.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
That's so he's inter provoking them too with that hat.
By the sounds of it, Biden is going to address
the country for the first time about his decision not
to run for reelection.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Obviously.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
That decision came on the weekend, after weeks of escalating
pressure after that June debate. A social media message he posted,
Joe Biden conceded it was in his parties and the
country's best interests for him not to seek reelection, and
the same message he said he would speak in greater
detail later in the week. Now that's happening today around
two pm New Zealand time. It's taking place in the
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Oval Office of the White House. These are rare presidential addresses,
but it's actually the second one he's made in a
couple of weeks. The first one was, of course, after
the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. It's reported that Joe
Biden and a close aid began writing this speech almost
immediately after his decision was made public. As well as
explaining his reasoning, Joe Biden is expected to detail what
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his priorities are for the remainder of his term just
a few months.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, and I guess the other thing, Mitch is he
has to show that he's up to doing the job
through till January. Mitch, thank you very much for your time.
Mitch mccannon, our US correspondent. It's just gone twelve minutes
away from six Ryan Bridge. The government's preparing its response
to the Royal Commission into Abuse in State Care report,
which was released yesterday. You would have heard about this
more than its six hundred thousand in care. Two hundred
(27:48):
thousand were abused. That's one in three. There are one
hundred and thirty eight recommendations in this report, so a
lot to respond to. News talks here be Political editor
Jason Walls is with us this morning. Good morning, Derek
Chang and the Hill did a great peace on this.
Many of these recommendations seem to fly in the face
of the government's policy platform or agenda.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
Yes, good morning. There are a number of things that
were recommended in the report that do overlap in some
ways with what the government is doing today in terms
of what its policy agenda is. For example, I mean
a few people have made the point that the abuse
in state care, you know, it outlines a number of
what happens in state care. And then this weekend the
(28:32):
government is launching its military youth academies, which some people
have actually drawn a comparison to, and other things to
do with the Treaty of Waitangi and whatnot. So it's
an interesting piece. I would say that, yes, you can
see why some people might be making these arguments, but
at the same time, I mean arguments around gangs. I
think that it's a hard comparison to make at the
(28:54):
best time there. But in terms of the for example,
this weekend, in terms of the the military academy, I
think the government will be arguing that they'll be using
the report to learn lessons about what happened in the past,
so it can't happen again. They've made the case for
these academies quite clearly, and I don't think because of
the report that they're going to go away. So you
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can understand why some people are making these comparisons, and
I do think that that's why some people that were
in the public garalery yesterday yelled shame as Karen Shaw
started talking in the House yesterday during her speech.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, I saw that many gang members were in state here.
Not all of them, and not everyone who was in
state here went on to be a gang member, but
many gang members were in state here. Is it going
to be politically difficult for the government to pay compensation
to people if they are currently in a gang.
Speaker 13 (29:47):
I think there are a number of hoops that the
government has to jump through here and it's not going
to be easy by any means. It was hard to
pin the Prime Minister down on this question yesterday in
terms of the financial compensation. Obviously it's going to cost
a lot of money. He didn't have an estimate on
how much, and he said, frankly, it doesn't matter at
this stage. The government was willing to do that. But
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the idea of doing that, I mean, I think that
the government will be able to separate the person from
the gang when it comes to the sort of situation
and be able to look at what happened in the
past and be able to move forward in a way.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Jason, thank you for that. Jason Walls News Talks eb's
political editor out of Wellington this morning, just gone nine
minutes away from six still to come. Where you will
look at some new data out of Australia on air fares.
Airfares are falling international affairs. That is you might notice
if you daydream like I do sometimes and go online,
it's cheaper to flighter London than it is to christ Church.
(30:44):
I exaggerate, but you know what I mean. Nine nine
two is the number to text great to have your
company this morning. We'll be back in just a second.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and fis City, New
Zealand's Furniture Beds and apply Store.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
News Talks. Sai'd be six away from six on news
Talk said, being new data out of Australia. This is
about from Flight Center on international prices. Airfares in the
first six months of the year, they were down six percent,
that's the prices of the affairs, and in Australia in
particular they were down double that thirteen percent. International affairs
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reduced in the last six months and the volumes went up,
so obviously that compensates for the dropping price for people
like quantas. But it's interesting that people are still traveling
even though we have a cost of living crisis that
Australia has the same cost of living crisis well similar,
and people are still traveling. And we were talking. I
was talking about this yesterday with my partner. We have
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friends who are going to Europe in the winter, and
basically you will eat cardboard until you go. You know,
like you spend, You stop going to restaurants, you stop
getting coffees out at the cafe because you know you've
got this holiday coming. So I think people prioritize those
trips over you know, the odd restaurant meal or the
odd coffee out. It's five minutes away from six and
(32:06):
Mike Costing gets next he with us.
Speaker 14 (32:07):
Do you know the hardest seek to get on a
plane these days? Business front of the plane really can't
get on because everyone's got well why is every well?
Because rich people still have money. Because if you don't
have debt. I think the thing we've learned out of
all of this, if you don't have debt, then you
find because most people have got a job, and if
you've got a job plus you don't have debt, that's
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why you're in Europe in July. See, I could name you,
I could name you, and I don't hang out with
the wealthy people per se, but I could name you. Well,
my daughter's in Tuscany as we speak, at a wine
tasting dinner. She's twenty three years old, So you know,
go figure, and you and I are sitting here working
out exactly Lester leave you this morning for you Lester
live in that what's interesting about this whole health thing
(32:51):
is there is an accusation Will suggesting this morning that
this blowout one hundred and thirty million dollars a month
is largely due to the fact that they've been fan
fantastically successful in hiring nurses. So the impression you got
from Shane Retty the other day is out of nowhere,
it's a billion dollars plus a year, and oh my god,
we didn't see this coming and what a disaster and
what we're going to have to do about it. So
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we'll sack the board and put Lester in. But the
new suggestion is that they went to recruit all the
nurses which we need, which is frontline as opposed to
back office, and they got so many nurses and they
have to pay these people, of course, and all of
a sudden, you know, you're spending more money than your thoughts.
So I can't quite work out what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Were they not meant to cut the back office? Well
that was the theory.
Speaker 14 (33:30):
Yeah, there doesn't seem And then there's another there's another
article in the Herald this morning with Andrew Little of
all people, irony of irony, saying that this shouldn't be
as hard as it is. Yet he would, you could argue,
was the person who cocked it up in the first place.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
So anyway, we'll try and weighe our way through.
Speaker 14 (33:44):
All this with Les Leby, and we'll also of course
look at yesterday's Royal Commissioner. How hell you unravel that
and what the bill for that is?
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I don't know exactly. Mike Costing with you next. Great
to have you with me this morning. Thank you for
your company. See you tomorrow Friday News Talks.
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