September 24, 2024 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Wednesday 25th of September, could facial recognition help reduce retail crime? Foodstuffs North Island’s trial of the technology has just ended, and they say it's helped. First Retail Groups Managing Director Chris Wilkinson speaks to Ryan about what this could mean for retailers.
Conflict is continuing to escalate between Israel and Hezbollah. International Relations expert Stephen Hoadley joins the show to talk about the reasons behind the conflict.
A new aggravating factor for offences against public transport works has been introduced, as well as new funding for security measures. Tramways Union President Gary Froggatt speaks to Ryan.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
News Talk said, be good morning at a six half
to five year on. News Talk said the early edition
coming up on the show Facial Recognition Technology. Why it's
probably coming to a new world near you in the
next half hour. Why a ground war between Israel and
his Buller is unlikely? Toper sentences for bus driver Bashes
Good and Gavin Gray's in the UK.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It is Wednesday, the twenty fifth September. Israel is claiming victory,
claiming to have killed a senior his Billa commander overnight.
The death toll now five hundred and fifty thousands are
fleeing southern Lebanon. Residents from there say a response from
his Villa will be strong In this.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
War, you can't win every day.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Let Israel wait and see what.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Our response will be.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
We are strong feet.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But Biden has spoken at the UN overnight.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
Full scale war is not in anyone's interesting.
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Even a situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Staying in the United states early voting. There is tricking
in in the United States election, the male voting, that is,
postal voting. The Democrats usually dominate this, but the edge
has shrunk in favor of the Republicans save US so
slightly in key states including Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
One thing that Democrats have done really well over the
last couple of cycles is basically understanding who's voting, when
they're voting, and how they're voting, and then as campaign
cycle gets, you know, closer and closer in November, knocking
them off their voteral list.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
More than sixteen hundred seriously ill prisoners have been freed
from the Mcala Prison and the Democratic Republic of Congo
to help ease overcrowding issues. The prison has a capacity
and get this, you thought we had a problem with
overcrowding in prisons, has a capacity of fifteen hundred people
but has been holding twelve thousand. Earlier in the month,
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one hundred and twenty nine prisoners died while attempting to escape.
Here in New Zealand, can we signists have discovered a
new species of ghost shark. The narrow nosed spookfish lives
in depths of up to two thousand, six hundred meters.
Was once thought to be part of a globally distributed species,
but new research shows it's genetically different. Newas's ghost sharks habits, sorry, habitats,
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can make them difficult to study and monitor.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
We know where it lives, but we know a little
bit about what it eats, but we have no idea
how long they live. We have no idea what their
population side is.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Like the news you need this morning and the in
depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Sis City,
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Speaker 2 (02:49):
Talk said, be hence the ghost part of it. I
suppose if you have been sitting back in your comfortable
lounge chair laughing at the Wellington meres and competition, that
her arrogance over the last couple of weeks since she
took office, really laugh no more. This is not a
Wellington problem. She and Wellington City Council are also our problem.
(03:12):
There's Treasury advice that says this applies to all councils,
but it gets specific about Wellington. In a second Treasury
advice says that councils, including Wellington's, represent a large contingent
liability on the Crown's balance sheet. That means they are
our problem in the event of a natural disaster. And
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this is specifically talking about the airport, the airport shares.
Obviously they're making a decision shortly on whether they should
sell them or keep them it. Wellington City Council has
around seven hundred and twenty five million dollars of insurance
protection for assets. The replacement value is around seventeen billion dollars.
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The maximum probable loss is somewhere between five billion and
seventeen billion dollars. The advice secifically sites the risk created
by Wellington City Council's airport shares. It says Wellington Airport's value,
for example, will deteriorate after a natural disaster, the same
point at which Wellington City Council may wish to draw
down on its balance sheets. So basically we would have
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to pick up the tab, wouldn't we? And how are
they going to vote on this? We have no idea.
Who knows, They're all over the place, don't know if
the Arthur or Martha. So if basically, if Wellington is
hit by a natural disaster other than Torrey Faro they're
up shit creek and we're left holding the paddle.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Raymbridge Life.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Just gone ten minutes after five year on News Talks.
There'd be some good news for you this morning out
of China. Obviously, we need a strong China. We need
a strong Chinese consumer because we sell them a lot
of stuff. China is fighting back against their downturn. They're
pulling out the big guns. The People's Bank of China
governor has announced plans. They're cutting the amount of cash
that banks have to have on reserve, freeze up money
(05:01):
for them to land, which should hopefully kickstart the economy
a little bit. They're also cutting interest rates on existing
mortgages to try and help as the struggling property sector.
So that is good news for us this morning. Eleven
minutes after five, we're talking Hiszbula and Israel next.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
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 play at store News Talks.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It'd be thirteen after five News Talks. It'd be great
to have your company. Nine two ninety two is the
number to text. We'd love to hear from you. This morning,
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Traders warning Kiwis to
leave Lebanon now if they haven't already. It comes as
the fighting continues between Israel and Hezbila, and more than
five hundred and fifty people, including fifty children, according to
(05:53):
the Lebanese Health Ministry, have died just this week. I'm
joined now by Stephen Hoadley, retired professor of International Relations.
Good morning, Stephen, thanks for being with me.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Good morning, Marian.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Let's start with this attack overnight. Israel claims to have
killed a senior commander, a senior Hezbola commander in charge
of their missile systems. They've dropped two thousand weapons on
fifteen hundred targets inside Lebanon just in the last day.
And what do you make of those developments.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
Well, this is all part of Israel's attempt to stop
the missiles firing into Israel. Israel is fighting an existential
war that means a war for its very existence against
the surrounding Arab hostel, Iranian backed opponents that are trying
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to eliminate that Israel from the map. So Israel, it
takes the view that these civilian casualties are unfortunate, but
necessary in an all out war against those who would
do is harm. Now, I was glad to hear that
you said, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health about
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the five hundred casualties, what you could also have said
the Hesbellah dominated ministry of Health. I've got an article
in front of me from the Washington Post. It says
Israel's military targeted a school in Gaza. What it didn't
say is that it targeted a Hesbelah command headquarters that
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had taken over a school in Gaza. And this is
I think the bias of the news media that it's
easy to report on the casualties, the women and children,
the collapsed buildings, the explosions. What is more difficult to
report is what are the reasons behind this? Why is
Israel doing these things? And Israel does have a point
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of view that I believe the media are not presenting
as fully as they are presenting the victimhood of those casualties.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And as Ntinnya who said overnight, anyone who has a
missile in their living room or a rocket in their
garage will not have a home, making the point that
he's not going after Lebanon he's going after Hezbolah.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Yeah, a very good point. And also, as you well know,
Israel issues boardings tells people that they know there's a
Hezbola facility nearby, a rocket launching facility, a command post,
a cache of weapons, to keep their distance because they're
very likely to be a target of an airstrike. And
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that's exactly what Israel is doing. This is within the
guidelines of the laws of war. They're targeting military assets
of Hebelah. They're not targeting civilians. And I think this
is not well appreciated in the way the media is
covering this particular contract.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But you have to be the attacks on the walkie
talkies stuff, You're obviously going to hit civilians in the process,
aren't you.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
No, not at all. The walkie talkies and the hit
pagers were specifically given to Habila operatives, but some of them.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Went off in supermarkets. I mean, you can't stop the
children getting the fruit in the aisles from being hit too,
can you.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Yeah, that's right. And many of the were given by
the operatives to their sons and daughters to play with,
which was against the rules of their own organization. In
the case, a kind of casual corruption of their use
of their assets, and yes there are incidental Servilian casualties,
but again the target, the intent was military assets.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Stephen, where does this go next? Because there's an interesting
piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning talking about
the fact that Israel won't go on a ground offensive
into Lebanon. They it was basically a draw a stalemate
last time in two thousand and six, and that there
are some pretty intense weaponry on the side of the
Lebanese courtesy of Iran. They won't go in. There is
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the scene.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
What happens next, Well, it depends a little bit on
the United States. The United States is urging calm and
negotiations and obviously urging Israel not to escalate, but at
at the same time quietly replenishing Israel's arsenal. And so
Israel does have the weapons, but does it have the manpower?
(10:28):
Does it have the morale? The army is tired, their reservists,
The economy of Israel is difficult because people are away
from their normal professions. Can Israel sustain a ground offensive,
which would be the most efficient way of moving the
Hezbola rockets back to the north past the Litani River?
(10:51):
In accordance with United Nations Resolution seventeen oh one. But
there are doubts that Israel has the capacity to do that.
I expect the grounded, the error attacks will continue, the
artillery attacks will continue. Hopefully Hisbola will be degraded Israel
and their rocket attacks on Israel will will stop, and
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consequently there will be a lull. But it's very possible
that in another year or two will see a repeat
of this cycle of silance.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, and unfortunately that seems to be a recurring in
common theme. Stephen Hoadley, a retired professor of international relations
with US just gone nineteen minutes after five Briana.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
That Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Journal article really interesting. So it says that they have
been given this is via via Iran, an arsenal of rockets, drones,
and anti tank missiles that they can deploy to counter
in Israeli advance among its most dangerous new weapons. So
this is weapons they have received since two thousand and six,
the last time there was a ground offensive. Is an
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Iranian made guided anti tank missile called Almus, the Persian
word for diamond, which gives has Bill a much higher
agree of precision in its strikes than when it last fought.
There was a US intelligence officer who said telling Israel
to go back into Lebanon would be like saying to
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the United States in nineteen eighty, do you want to
go back to Vietnam?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
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 2 (12:27):
Be Sweden's brassed offer I Ran, I'll tell you why
that's coming up just before six this morning, Right now
though twenty two after five, the government's introducing a new
aggravating factor for his fences against public transport workers. This
is after attax on bus drivers and passengers on the
buses as well has left them bashed and bloodied and bruised.
Gary Froget is with us. He's the Tramways Union president. Gary.
(12:49):
Good morning, Good morning, Ryan, Thanks for being with me.
Tell me, do you think this aggravating factor for offenses
is going to help? Is going to two people who
do this?
Speaker 8 (13:03):
Well, I guess it's another weapon in the armory against
this type of crime. It will help make some passengers
think again before assaulting a bus driver. However, it's not
going to be a solution on its own. The quicker
at can install the promise safety screens would be a
much better solution.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I think yeah, and there is money, they say, money
coming for that. Why do they generally attack bus drivers?
What sets it off?
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Well, mainly it's over fears. When the driver questions why
their hot card doesn't work, they get aggravated. The driver
usually tells them to take a seat. But in the
last four instances, in the last two weeks, we've discovered
that the passengers come down the aisle and then whack
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the driver while he's actually driving the bus. We don't
know what triggers that off. Maybe they don't like authority
being asked to pay their fare. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So what are you What are the drivers told to
do in that situation? Are they told to tell them
to sit down? Or what's the rule?
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Well? Often Transportive in this particular case, all Can Transportive
now agree that bus drivers are no longer required to
monitor the fair cards all and the drivers have been
told not to question the passengers, just to let them
take a seat. It's better lose a couple of dollars
(14:34):
than have a bus driver off work for three months
or so.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I can see the logic. But man, it's a sad
day when you have to just let them run a mark,
isn't it?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Yes, it is. It's not acceptable, But I don't have
a solution. We can't have a police officer on every bus, unfortunately,
and we really don't want that. And the old days,
of course, there was a conductor who collected the fares
and they did. There's a type of security.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Gary. What about slamming on the brakes.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Well, that has happened on occasions. One of our drivers
did that. Unfortunately, the bus company didn't like it, and
when he tried to kick the passenger off the bus,
they got upset and tried to threaten him with penalty. So, yeah,
your dad, it's a difficult situation.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It is rocking a hard place. Gary, thanks very much
for being with me. Hopefully the new aggravating factor might
make some difference. That's Gary Frogett. He's the Tramways union president.
Twenty five minutes after five the Early.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Edition Full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio. How It by
News Talks AB.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You're on Early Edition News Talk ZB. Just gone twenty
seven after five. It's time I reckon. We started sending
bills to those protesters for wasting police time and resources.
I watched yesterday with growing anger as a couple of
greenpiece people climbed on top of an awning on the
terrace just one floor up, stood there looking like numpties
(16:01):
with their overalls and their helmets on. Nothing wrong with protesting,
but there were eight first responders on the scene, at
least three police cars, a fire truck. They even had
to use their cherry picket to get these guys off
the roof. The cars were at a standstill. Instead of
solving crime, a poor cot was marshaling traffic to allow
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the fire truck to position itself in place. What a
waste of time. Just hang your banner and piss off. Please,
don't waste any more of our time. It's like those
crazy ones that used to block the motorways and willing
to remember that. Thank goodness, they seem to have given
up and gone away. Good riddance. They made people the
motorway ones. They made people late for their cancer appointments.
(16:42):
I do hope they're ashamed of themselves for that. This slot, though,
on the terrace, they can just jog on the courts
if there are courts. Initial reaction to the motorway ones
was anything to go by it. You can expect another,
you know, slap on the wrist with a wet bus
ticket for this lot. I say send them the bill
for the police, the use of the police cars, the
(17:02):
communications center, the fire truck fee, the cherry pecker fee,
the firefighters charge out rate, double it and make them
pay it. And if the individuals won't pay for that,
then send the build a green piece. Twenty nine after
five Bryan Bridge, Lots more to come on News Talk SEB.
We're going to talk to First Retail Group about the
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facial recognition technology. They've done a trial and lots of
the supermarkets and the results are out. We'll have those
for you shortly.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
You are reminding you of your daddy in my.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Laborodor hanging out the passenger door.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
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. News Talk ZB.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Good morning, it is twenty four away from six. Welcome
to Early Edition. You're on News Talk, said Bee. Coming
up inside the next half hour. Justin Trudeau. They're trying
to get rid of him. I'll tell you how and
whether it'll work. Also, we've sent six Defense Force members
to try and get rid of the hooty attacks in
the Red Sea. Is it working. We'll look at that. Also,
(18:26):
we're going to look at Gavin Gray in the UK.
We'll not look at him, but listen to him. We're
also going to talk about the food stuffs push for
facial recognition technology. They're currently doing a trial and they
are expected to roll it out across all of the
North London stores, so we'll tell you about that too.
I don't really care if they take a photo. I
mean you sort of assume when you go into a
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store these days that someone is filming you, or watching
you or something, don't you. A lot of people upset
about the fact that we've just heard from the Tramways
union that bus drivers in Auckland probably everywhere, are being
told if someone doesn't pay their fair don't ask any questions.
Least they bash you over the head. Ryan, Why should
I pay for the bus when the criminals don't have to? Ryan?
(19:09):
Modern society is pretty disappointing. You don't pay your bus
fare because you're a thug, while Laura, abiding citizens pay
as they rightly should. Ryan Another says Hi Ran a
lack of respect for public transport drivers and the new
rules coming in probably won't make much of a difference.
That's from Craig nine. Two ninety two is the number
to text twenty three to.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Six, Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
We're going to our reporters right around the country, Cluen
proctors and Dnedian someone and Calumny Deneen High School students
who were sent home after the threat yesterday or told
to duck and cover. What was the threat do we know?
Speaker 10 (19:45):
Well, we understand it was a bomb threat, Ryan, that
was emailed to Bayfield High School. This is what forced
the shutdown initially and then it was closed for the day.
Police escorting the five hundred and fifty students out of
the school premises after this threatening email was sent. Since then,
a sixteen year old has been arrested in relation. He'll
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appear in the Duaneedan youth caught tomorrow. It caused significant
disruptions as you can imagine, this lockdown to roads around
the school, compounded by parents rushing to pick up their children.
Acting principal Mike Beagley's told us the school will open
as normal today after getting the all clear from police. Remember,
the school also went into lockdown, a two hour lockdown
last November following a similar online threat.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oh goodness for me, so yeah. I did wonder whether
it was one of those international threats, but it sounds
like it's a local boy. How's your weather today.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Colum fine, cloud increasing, westerly's turn northerly and fourteen today brilliant.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Thank you have a great one, Claire shewarods and christ
Church clear, you're already going and talking about next year's
rates in christ Church.
Speaker 11 (20:49):
Yes, that's the case here in christ Church, Ryan. The
first public briefing on the annual plan for twenty twenty
five twenty six was held yesterday. Counselors had their first
discussions about next year's raids. The rates increase which they've
set out in the long term Plan has it sitting
at about eight point four to five percent, although it's
not looking hopeful. It's already being signaled that the recent
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official forecasts on inflation are higher than the forecasts they
used to form that eight point four five percent figure.
Council's General Manager of Finance, Risk and Performance B Karen
says that counselors and staff are now working together over
several months to refine the figure and drive it as
low as possible. They do have some further briefings planned
for October, November and December.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
All right, clear, thank you.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
The weather today a bit frosty to start, Otherwise clearing
to find with some evening high cloud at southwesterlies and
a high of thirteen.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Nice one, have a good day there, max Is and
Wellington Hamax the mayor the latest.
Speaker 12 (21:47):
Yes well surely after she was interviewed for TV, which
had Sunday toy Fino went on a very obscure podcast
for an hour long interview exactly exactly the same length
of interview she does for Newstalk ZB which she been bemoaning,
only this one didn't have breaks, which is odd then
that she would blame exhaustion for her TV interview a
quote not going well, that the interviewer asked hard questions,
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but also generally speaking, she doesn't think the level of
criticism she's been getting lately is normal and rather because
she is a progressive woman much like Jacinda Ardurn. She
told this podcast that coming into the job should assumed
mayors flew under the radar a bit more, and that
the new side of things completely blindsided her and it's
been a massive learning curve. Also that the criticism that
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she's been receiving from the so called privileged who are
against her push for progressive change, many of whom are
anti Cycleway. She's also been looking for whatever way she
can to get out of a Mildi Ward referendum and
is keen to break the law if she and the
council can.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Can you tell what do people really think about this?
In Wellington?
Speaker 12 (22:55):
I can tell you that even the people who have
defended her term are turning again against her and you'll
find it hard to find a defender of her and
her comments lately.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
All right, thanks so much. Oh you're weather today, Max,
She'll be fine. Southerly's fourteen, Thank you very much. Neva's
and Auckland, Hey, Neva, good morning. Tell us about Sale GP.
Speaker 13 (23:15):
Yes, well this is positive because thousands of spectators now
they're likely to arrive here in Auckland for Sale GP.
Now this event will be making its debut in January
next year and the tickets they go on sale today.
So of course the organizers they withdrew their bid to
host the race against again rather in christ Church's Littleton Harbor.
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Remember that was a decision when the marine was impacted.
You know the events the dolphins. So I don't think
there'll be any dolphins here, you know their waterfront, surely not.
Nick hel the Tatucki, Auckland Unlimited chief executive. He said,
this is great news for Auckland. You know, he's going
to boost GDP by at least five million dollars and
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they're really really excited about this. So, as I said before,
tickets go on sale today and hopefully fingers crossed that
when you'd caught a footbridge will be fir You'd have.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
To think so, wouldn't you? Because does this kickoff? Is
it this summer?
Speaker 13 (24:09):
Yeap, this summer, so this will kick off in January.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, it'll be cool.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Oh it'd be.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
Great and hopefully well I think the footbridge should be
fixed by December. They need some business going their way.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
They do.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
All it will take them neither is one dead dolphin
and it's all over. They'll send it somewhere else. They
didn't even there were they weren't even you're right, you
know what I mean. There weren't even any dead dolphins
in christ and they lost it.
Speaker 13 (24:35):
Jim Jinxon, Now I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Has the weather today never fine?
Speaker 13 (24:39):
Fine apart from warning cloud high sixteen. Is it a
good day for a dolphin to be, you know, smimming.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Around here to be killed? It's ever a good day
for a dolphin to be killed? Neither, thank you. It's
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UK Europe correspondent Gvin. Sweden is upset with Iranian intelligence.
What's going on?
Speaker 14 (26:17):
Yes, you may remember the story about twelve months ago
when fifteen thousand texts were sent to different Swedes basically
saying that they wanted revenge against Koran burners. Now, what
had happened was that Sweden's government condemned a number of
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people burning the Quran and police tried to ban them,
but the courts allowed the burning of Kuran in Sweden
under freedom of expression laws. Lots of Muslims were not happy. Indeed,
Sweden's embassy in Iraq were set alight by protesters. Then
all these texts started arriving in people's emails on people's
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phones rather saying that they should consider revenge against the
Koran burners. Well, now, after all this work, Sweden's security
service SAPO said these texts were sent by the Iranian
intelligence service connected to the Revolutionary Guards and they had
basically managed it in some way to get hold of
the Swedish company's SMS service, takeover passwords, usernames and other
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tools before sending a message to private individuals, and the
message was quote those who insulted the Quran must be
punished for their work. Can the Swedes do anything about it? No,
because although they think they know who was behind it,
I'm afraid there is no extradition treaty, so there won't
be any punishment for those they suspect.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Gevin, we have a brief moment to talk about the
police in Switzerland making a couple of erasi in relation
to a suicide pod.
Speaker 14 (27:48):
Yes, very unusual. So this suicide pod is basically one
which allows people to operate it on their own and
end their own life without medical super You basically step
into this pod and it will kill you. As I said,
without medical supervision, you can do it all on your own. Now,
Switzerland does allow assisted dying, but there has been a
(28:11):
lot of debate about the Sarco pod. Indeed, some say
it's not safe. The design of it almost glamorizes suicide.
But now we learn there has been what we think
is the first suicide in a Sarco pod on the
border of the Switzerland, and it is being said that
could be the very very first case of its kind.
We're not yet being told the identity of the person
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that's believed to take in their own life.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
All right, Devin, thank you for Thatkevin Gray are UK
europe correspondent just gone eleven minutes away from.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Six Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Foodstuffs has found that facial recognition technology has reduced serious
harm and retail crime and its stores. It's been trialing
them in twenty five stores. They say it's avoided an
estimated one hundred and thirty serious harmful incidents like assault
and verbal abuse. The total retail crime down eight percent
quarter on quarter four thy seven hundred incidents still between
(29:03):
April and during though Chris Wilkinson is the first retail group,
it's a retail consultancy. Chris, good morning. Heure Ryan, are
we sure that it's the facial recognition that's behind the drop?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Look, there are multiple factors. We've got a new police minister,
there's a letter of expectation with the police, there's more
determination around the sector and that's had a ripple effect
through New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So positively, the camera recognizes somebody and goes, oh, I
remember you, you were a bad egg, and then what happens, Well.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
That lets the staff know in the stores and then
they can take action so they can make sure that
there are more people on the floor to protect those
that are vulnerable, to protect the customers. You know, this
is all about being proactive in stopping these potential risks
to firstly people in terms of safety, but then also
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that loss. So safety is the key aspect here.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
What do they actually do because up until now, it
was my understanding the security guards couldn't really force anyone
out of the store. So if you're trying to deal
with somebody physically who hasn't even committed a crime yet,
how do you deal with that?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Well, the likelihood Ryan is that people have been trespassed
from those premises, so lugally they shouldn't be here. No,
there won't be that physical altercation. That's the time when
police need to be called in. But again we've got
much more responsiveness to this now with police because of
that letter of expectation.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
It's interesting, So the government's rhetorical messaging is actually having
an impact.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
You reckon, very significant impact.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Okay, interesting, Chris, Thank you very much for your time.
Chris Wilkinson, First Retail Group managing director. It sounds like
Foodstuffs is liking the cut of this jib and they'll probably,
I reckon roll it out into other stores. Just gone
nine away from six Bryan Bridge. Thank you for all
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of your chicks and your feedback this morning. Sorry I
haven't got to all of it. Here is one from Delia.
Delia says, good morning, Ryan, loving your show. Thanks Delia,
that's lovely to hear. Just on the subject of buses,
we were talking about assaults on bus drivers, etc. Last
Friday afternoon, I witnessed three Westlake girls board the bus
via the back door and not pay a cent when
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they got off, they said, beat beep to the scanning machine.
Very disappointing to see this reflected on the school. So
am I Delia. By the way, we asked Tory Fano
on the show. We've been asking her for a while.
I know it's early, so I do understand. But Leo,
our producer lee, I've lost the piece of paper. But
basically he said, we can do any day in the
(31:48):
next two weeks or the next week, at least in
the next few weeks. Any pre recorded time, any live time, anyone.
She's not available at any time of the day or night.
Probably a good thing for her, I would think. Eight
Away from six News Talks mb.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
A fine, Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on
early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds and
a playing Store. News TALKSB.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Five away from six News Talks, heb quick update. We've
sent some Defense Force members to go and help the
US and the UK try and get the HOOTI rebels.
The leader of Yemen says it's not working. What they're
doing is not reducing the huties' military capabilities. Also in Canada,
justin Trudeau, they're going to try and get rid of
him this week. This is the Conservative Party. He's been
(32:41):
in power for almost ten years. It's not going to work,
but there will be election held by mid next year,
five away from six now, and Mike's in the studio.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Good morning, morning, Andrew Costa. This morning, let me ask
you this question. So the management of this company come
to you and they go, look, Ryan, we want you
to do a bit of this and a bit of that.
And you're thinking to yourself, that's not really going to work,
and it's not who I am.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Would you do.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
It depends how desperate you are for a job.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Well, see that's so you look at Costa.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Costa was appointed by adourn as being a sort of
a liberal type operator, so he seemed comfortable in that role,
and he took all the heat for it. And then
a new government comes in and they tell him to
do something else. So he's one of those guys who
just does what he's told. So I want you to
police hard, I want you to police soft, and he
seems sort of comfortable.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
It's a weird job. I couldn't do.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
It, but that is the point of the public service
meant to be chameleons.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
I guess it is I guess.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
It's it's but I mean, when it comes to policing
and you're an it and you've been in the police
force your whole life, you must know what's right and
wrong and works and doesn't, which.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Is why the front line used to hate him so viscerally, right,
because that's like that, that is not what we're here
to do.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
And then so part of your job would be to
go to a season copy and he goes, Andrew, you
know full well this is bollocks, and he'd go, what
do I do?
Speaker 6 (33:57):
You see what I mean?
Speaker 7 (33:58):
We're in a position a anyway, So he's off to
do social investment whatever that is.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Anyway, he's with us. He's with us after seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Sounds good. Yeah, alright, Mic is with you next. I
will see you tomorrow. Have a great.
Speaker 11 (34:09):
Day of the Nutty.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
For more from News Talks at b listen live on
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
News Talk said, be good morning at a six half
to five year on. News Talk said the early edition
coming up on the show Facial Recognition Technology. Why it's
probably coming to a new world near you in the
next half hour. Why a ground war between Israel and
his Buller is unlikely? Toper sentences for bus driver Bashes
Good and Gavin Gray's in the UK.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It is Wednesday, the twenty fifth September. Israel is claiming victory,
claiming to have killed a senior his Billa commander overnight.
The death toll now five hundred and fifty thousands are
fleeing southern Lebanon. Residents from there say a response from
his Villa will be strong In this.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
War, you can't win every day.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Let Israel wait and see what.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Our response will be.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
We are strong feet.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But Biden has spoken at the UN overnight.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
Full scale war is not in anyone's interesting.
Speaker 7 (01:07):
Even a situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Staying in the United states early voting. There is tricking
in in the United States election, the male voting, that is,
postal voting. The Democrats usually dominate this, but the edge
has shrunk in favor of the Republicans save US so
slightly in key states including Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
One thing that Democrats have done really well over the
last couple of cycles is basically understanding who's voting, when
they're voting, and how they're voting, and then as campaign
cycle gets, you know, closer and closer in November, knocking
them off their voteral list.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
More than sixteen hundred seriously ill prisoners have been freed
from the Mcala Prison and the Democratic Republic of Congo
to help ease overcrowding issues. The prison has a capacity
and get this, you thought we had a problem with
overcrowding in prisons, has a capacity of fifteen hundred people
but has been holding twelve thousand. Earlier in the month,
(02:07):
one hundred and twenty nine prisoners died while attempting to escape.
Here in New Zealand, can we signists have discovered a
new species of ghost shark. The narrow nosed spookfish lives
in depths of up to two thousand, six hundred meters.
Was once thought to be part of a globally distributed species,
but new research shows it's genetically different. Newas's ghost sharks habits, sorry, habitats,
(02:30):
can make them difficult to study and monitor.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
We know where it lives, but we know a little
bit about what it eats, but we have no idea
how long they live. We have no idea what their
population side is.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Like the news you need this morning and the in
depth analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Sis City,
New Zealand's furniture beds and a plying store, news.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Talk said, be hence the ghost part of it. I
suppose if you have been sitting back in your comfortable
lounge chair laughing at the Wellington meres and competition, that
her arrogance over the last couple of weeks since she
took office, really laugh no more. This is not a
Wellington problem. She and Wellington City Council are also our problem.
(03:12):
There's Treasury advice that says this applies to all councils,
but it gets specific about Wellington. In a second Treasury
advice says that councils, including Wellington's, represent a large contingent
liability on the Crown's balance sheet. That means they are
our problem in the event of a natural disaster. And
(03:33):
this is specifically talking about the airport, the airport shares.
Obviously they're making a decision shortly on whether they should
sell them or keep them it. Wellington City Council has
around seven hundred and twenty five million dollars of insurance
protection for assets. The replacement value is around seventeen billion dollars.
(03:53):
The maximum probable loss is somewhere between five billion and
seventeen billion dollars. The advice secifically sites the risk created
by Wellington City Council's airport shares. It says Wellington Airport's value,
for example, will deteriorate after a natural disaster, the same
point at which Wellington City Council may wish to draw
down on its balance sheets. So basically we would have
(04:15):
to pick up the tab, wouldn't we? And how are
they going to vote on this? We have no idea.
Who knows, They're all over the place, don't know if
the Arthur or Martha. So if basically, if Wellington is
hit by a natural disaster other than Torrey Faro they're
up shit creek and we're left holding the paddle.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Raymbridge Life.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Just gone ten minutes after five year on News Talks.
There'd be some good news for you this morning out
of China. Obviously, we need a strong China. We need
a strong Chinese consumer because we sell them a lot
of stuff. China is fighting back against their downturn. They're
pulling out the big guns. The People's Bank of China
governor has announced plans. They're cutting the amount of cash
that banks have to have on reserve, freeze up money
(05:01):
for them to land, which should hopefully kickstart the economy
a little bit. They're also cutting interest rates on existing
mortgages to try and help as the struggling property sector.
So that is good news for us this morning. Eleven
minutes after five, we're talking Hiszbula and Israel next.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
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 play at store News Talks.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It'd be thirteen after five News Talks. It'd be great
to have your company. Nine two ninety two is the
number to text. We'd love to hear from you. This morning,
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Traders warning Kiwis to
leave Lebanon now if they haven't already. It comes as
the fighting continues between Israel and Hezbila, and more than
five hundred and fifty people, including fifty children, according to
(05:53):
the Lebanese Health Ministry, have died just this week. I'm
joined now by Stephen Hoadley, retired professor of International Relations.
Good morning, Stephen, thanks for being with me.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Good morning, Marian.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Let's start with this attack overnight. Israel claims to have
killed a senior commander, a senior Hezbola commander in charge
of their missile systems. They've dropped two thousand weapons on
fifteen hundred targets inside Lebanon just in the last day.
And what do you make of those developments.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
Well, this is all part of Israel's attempt to stop
the missiles firing into Israel. Israel is fighting an existential
war that means a war for its very existence against
the surrounding Arab hostel, Iranian backed opponents that are trying
(06:45):
to eliminate that Israel from the map. So Israel, it
takes the view that these civilian casualties are unfortunate, but
necessary in an all out war against those who would
do is harm. Now, I was glad to hear that
you said, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health about
(07:06):
the five hundred casualties, what you could also have said
the Hesbellah dominated ministry of Health. I've got an article
in front of me from the Washington Post. It says
Israel's military targeted a school in Gaza. What it didn't
say is that it targeted a Hesbelah command headquarters that
(07:28):
had taken over a school in Gaza. And this is
I think the bias of the news media that it's
easy to report on the casualties, the women and children,
the collapsed buildings, the explosions. What is more difficult to
report is what are the reasons behind this? Why is
Israel doing these things? And Israel does have a point
(07:51):
of view that I believe the media are not presenting
as fully as they are presenting the victimhood of those casualties.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And as Ntinnya who said overnight, anyone who has a
missile in their living room or a rocket in their
garage will not have a home, making the point that
he's not going after Lebanon he's going after Hezbolah.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Yeah, a very good point. And also, as you well know,
Israel issues boardings tells people that they know there's a
Hezbola facility nearby, a rocket launching facility, a command post,
a cache of weapons, to keep their distance because they're
very likely to be a target of an airstrike. And
(08:36):
that's exactly what Israel is doing. This is within the
guidelines of the laws of war. They're targeting military assets
of Hebelah. They're not targeting civilians. And I think this
is not well appreciated in the way the media is
covering this particular contract.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But you have to be the attacks on the walkie
talkies stuff, You're obviously going to hit civilians in the process,
aren't you.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
No, not at all. The walkie talkies and the hit
pagers were specifically given to Habila operatives, but some of them.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Went off in supermarkets. I mean, you can't stop the
children getting the fruit in the aisles from being hit too,
can you.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Yeah, that's right. And many of the were given by
the operatives to their sons and daughters to play with,
which was against the rules of their own organization. In
the case, a kind of casual corruption of their use
of their assets, and yes there are incidental Servilian casualties,
but again the target, the intent was military assets.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Stephen, where does this go next? Because there's an interesting
piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning talking about
the fact that Israel won't go on a ground offensive
into Lebanon. They it was basically a draw a stalemate
last time in two thousand and six, and that there
are some pretty intense weaponry on the side of the
Lebanese courtesy of Iran. They won't go in. There is
(10:07):
the scene.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
What happens next, Well, it depends a little bit on
the United States. The United States is urging calm and
negotiations and obviously urging Israel not to escalate, but at
at the same time quietly replenishing Israel's arsenal. And so
Israel does have the weapons, but does it have the manpower?
(10:28):
Does it have the morale? The army is tired, their reservists,
The economy of Israel is difficult because people are away
from their normal professions. Can Israel sustain a ground offensive,
which would be the most efficient way of moving the
Hezbola rockets back to the north past the Litani River?
(10:51):
In accordance with United Nations Resolution seventeen oh one. But
there are doubts that Israel has the capacity to do that.
I expect the grounded, the error attacks will continue, the
artillery attacks will continue. Hopefully Hisbola will be degraded Israel
and their rocket attacks on Israel will will stop, and
(11:13):
consequently there will be a lull. But it's very possible
that in another year or two will see a repeat
of this cycle of silance.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, and unfortunately that seems to be a recurring in
common theme. Stephen Hoadley, a retired professor of international relations
with US just gone nineteen minutes after five Briana.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
That Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Journal article really interesting. So it says that they have
been given this is via via Iran, an arsenal of rockets, drones,
and anti tank missiles that they can deploy to counter
in Israeli advance among its most dangerous new weapons. So
this is weapons they have received since two thousand and six,
the last time there was a ground offensive. Is an
(11:52):
Iranian made guided anti tank missile called Almus, the Persian
word for diamond, which gives has Bill a much higher
agree of precision in its strikes than when it last fought.
There was a US intelligence officer who said telling Israel
to go back into Lebanon would be like saying to
(12:12):
the United States in nineteen eighty, do you want to
go back to Vietnam?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
a Flying Store News Talk z'd.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Be Sweden's brassed offer I Ran, I'll tell you why
that's coming up just before six this morning, Right now
though twenty two after five, the government's introducing a new
aggravating factor for his fences against public transport workers. This
is after attax on bus drivers and passengers on the
buses as well has left them bashed and bloodied and bruised.
Gary Froget is with us. He's the Tramways Union president. Gary.
(12:49):
Good morning, Good morning, Ryan, Thanks for being with me.
Tell me, do you think this aggravating factor for offenses
is going to help? Is going to two people who
do this?
Speaker 8 (13:03):
Well, I guess it's another weapon in the armory against
this type of crime. It will help make some passengers
think again before assaulting a bus driver. However, it's not
going to be a solution on its own. The quicker
at can install the promise safety screens would be a
much better solution.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I think yeah, and there is money, they say, money
coming for that. Why do they generally attack bus drivers?
What sets it off?
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Well, mainly it's over fears. When the driver questions why
their hot card doesn't work, they get aggravated. The driver
usually tells them to take a seat. But in the
last four instances, in the last two weeks, we've discovered
that the passengers come down the aisle and then whack
(13:54):
the driver while he's actually driving the bus. We don't
know what triggers that off. Maybe they don't like authority
being asked to pay their fare. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So what are you What are the drivers told to
do in that situation? Are they told to tell them
to sit down? Or what's the rule?
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Well? Often Transportive in this particular case, all Can Transportive
now agree that bus drivers are no longer required to
monitor the fair cards all and the drivers have been
told not to question the passengers, just to let them
take a seat. It's better lose a couple of dollars
(14:34):
than have a bus driver off work for three months
or so.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I can see the logic. But man, it's a sad
day when you have to just let them run a mark,
isn't it?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Yes, it is. It's not acceptable, But I don't have
a solution. We can't have a police officer on every bus, unfortunately,
and we really don't want that. And the old days,
of course, there was a conductor who collected the fares
and they did. There's a type of security.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Gary. What about slamming on the brakes.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Well, that has happened on occasions. One of our drivers
did that. Unfortunately, the bus company didn't like it, and
when he tried to kick the passenger off the bus,
they got upset and tried to threaten him with penalty. So, yeah,
your dad, it's a difficult situation.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It is rocking a hard place. Gary, thanks very much
for being with me. Hopefully the new aggravating factor might
make some difference. That's Gary Frogett. He's the Tramways union president.
Twenty five minutes after five the Early.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Edition Full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio. How It by
News Talks AB.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You're on Early Edition News Talk ZB. Just gone twenty
seven after five. It's time I reckon. We started sending
bills to those protesters for wasting police time and resources.
I watched yesterday with growing anger as a couple of
greenpiece people climbed on top of an awning on the
terrace just one floor up, stood there looking like numpties
(16:01):
with their overalls and their helmets on. Nothing wrong with protesting,
but there were eight first responders on the scene, at
least three police cars, a fire truck. They even had
to use their cherry picket to get these guys off
the roof. The cars were at a standstill. Instead of
solving crime, a poor cot was marshaling traffic to allow
(16:21):
the fire truck to position itself in place. What a
waste of time. Just hang your banner and piss off. Please,
don't waste any more of our time. It's like those
crazy ones that used to block the motorways and willing
to remember that. Thank goodness, they seem to have given
up and gone away. Good riddance. They made people the
motorway ones. They made people late for their cancer appointments.
(16:42):
I do hope they're ashamed of themselves for that. This slot, though,
on the terrace, they can just jog on the courts
if there are courts. Initial reaction to the motorway ones
was anything to go by it. You can expect another,
you know, slap on the wrist with a wet bus
ticket for this lot. I say send them the bill
for the police, the use of the police cars, the
(17:02):
communications center, the fire truck fee, the cherry pecker fee,
the firefighters charge out rate, double it and make them
pay it. And if the individuals won't pay for that,
then send the build a green piece. Twenty nine after
five Bryan Bridge, Lots more to come on News Talk SEB.
We're going to talk to First Retail Group about the
(17:25):
facial recognition technology. They've done a trial and lots of
the supermarkets and the results are out. We'll have those
for you shortly.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
You are reminding you of your daddy in my.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Laborodor hanging out the passenger door.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
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. News Talk ZB.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Good morning, it is twenty four away from six. Welcome
to Early Edition. You're on News Talk, said Bee. Coming
up inside the next half hour. Justin Trudeau. They're trying
to get rid of him. I'll tell you how and
whether it'll work. Also, we've sent six Defense Force members
to try and get rid of the hooty attacks in
the Red Sea. Is it working. We'll look at that. Also,
(18:26):
we're going to look at Gavin Gray in the UK.
We'll not look at him, but listen to him. We're
also going to talk about the food stuffs push for
facial recognition technology. They're currently doing a trial and they
are expected to roll it out across all of the
North London stores, so we'll tell you about that too.
I don't really care if they take a photo. I
mean you sort of assume when you go into a
(18:47):
store these days that someone is filming you, or watching
you or something, don't you. A lot of people upset
about the fact that we've just heard from the Tramways
union that bus drivers in Auckland probably everywhere, are being
told if someone doesn't pay their fair don't ask any questions.
Least they bash you over the head. Ryan, Why should
I pay for the bus when the criminals don't have to? Ryan?
(19:09):
Modern society is pretty disappointing. You don't pay your bus
fare because you're a thug, while Laura, abiding citizens pay
as they rightly should. Ryan Another says Hi Ran a
lack of respect for public transport drivers and the new
rules coming in probably won't make much of a difference.
That's from Craig nine. Two ninety two is the number
to text twenty three to.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Six, Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
We're going to our reporters right around the country, Cluen
proctors and Dnedian someone and Calumny Deneen High School students
who were sent home after the threat yesterday or told
to duck and cover. What was the threat do we know?
Speaker 10 (19:45):
Well, we understand it was a bomb threat, Ryan, that
was emailed to Bayfield High School. This is what forced
the shutdown initially and then it was closed for the day.
Police escorting the five hundred and fifty students out of
the school premises after this threatening email was sent. Since then,
a sixteen year old has been arrested in relation. He'll
(20:06):
appear in the Duaneedan youth caught tomorrow. It caused significant
disruptions as you can imagine, this lockdown to roads around
the school, compounded by parents rushing to pick up their children.
Acting principal Mike Beagley's told us the school will open
as normal today after getting the all clear from police. Remember,
the school also went into lockdown, a two hour lockdown
last November following a similar online threat.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oh goodness for me, so yeah. I did wonder whether
it was one of those international threats, but it sounds
like it's a local boy. How's your weather today.
Speaker 10 (20:35):
Colum fine, cloud increasing, westerly's turn northerly and fourteen today brilliant.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Thank you have a great one, Claire shewarods and christ
Church clear, you're already going and talking about next year's
rates in christ Church.
Speaker 11 (20:49):
Yes, that's the case here in christ Church, Ryan. The
first public briefing on the annual plan for twenty twenty
five twenty six was held yesterday. Counselors had their first
discussions about next year's raids. The rates increase which they've
set out in the long term Plan has it sitting
at about eight point four to five percent, although it's
not looking hopeful. It's already being signaled that the recent
(21:09):
official forecasts on inflation are higher than the forecasts they
used to form that eight point four five percent figure.
Council's General Manager of Finance, Risk and Performance B Karen
says that counselors and staff are now working together over
several months to refine the figure and drive it as
low as possible. They do have some further briefings planned
for October, November and December.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
All right, clear, thank you.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
The weather today a bit frosty to start, Otherwise clearing
to find with some evening high cloud at southwesterlies and
a high of thirteen.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Nice one, have a good day there, max Is and
Wellington Hamax the mayor the latest.
Speaker 12 (21:47):
Yes well surely after she was interviewed for TV, which
had Sunday toy Fino went on a very obscure podcast
for an hour long interview exactly exactly the same length
of interview she does for Newstalk ZB which she been bemoaning,
only this one didn't have breaks, which is odd then
that she would blame exhaustion for her TV interview a
quote not going well, that the interviewer asked hard questions,
(22:10):
but also generally speaking, she doesn't think the level of
criticism she's been getting lately is normal and rather because
she is a progressive woman much like Jacinda Ardurn. She
told this podcast that coming into the job should assumed
mayors flew under the radar a bit more, and that
the new side of things completely blindsided her and it's
been a massive learning curve. Also that the criticism that
(22:33):
she's been receiving from the so called privileged who are
against her push for progressive change, many of whom are
anti Cycleway. She's also been looking for whatever way she
can to get out of a Mildi Ward referendum and
is keen to break the law if she and the
council can.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Can you tell what do people really think about this?
In Wellington?
Speaker 12 (22:55):
I can tell you that even the people who have
defended her term are turning again against her and you'll
find it hard to find a defender of her and
her comments lately.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
All right, thanks so much. Oh you're weather today, Max,
She'll be fine. Southerly's fourteen, Thank you very much. Neva's
and Auckland, Hey, Neva, good morning. Tell us about Sale GP.
Speaker 13 (23:15):
Yes, well this is positive because thousands of spectators now
they're likely to arrive here in Auckland for Sale GP.
Now this event will be making its debut in January
next year and the tickets they go on sale today.
So of course the organizers they withdrew their bid to
host the race against again rather in christ Church's Littleton Harbor.
(23:36):
Remember that was a decision when the marine was impacted.
You know the events the dolphins. So I don't think
there'll be any dolphins here, you know their waterfront, surely not.
Nick hel the Tatucki, Auckland Unlimited chief executive. He said,
this is great news for Auckland. You know, he's going
to boost GDP by at least five million dollars and
(23:57):
they're really really excited about this. So, as I said before,
tickets go on sale today and hopefully fingers crossed that
when you'd caught a footbridge will be fir You'd have.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
To think so, wouldn't you? Because does this kickoff? Is
it this summer?
Speaker 13 (24:09):
Yeap, this summer, so this will kick off in January.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Yeah, it'll be cool.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
Oh it'd be.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
Great and hopefully well I think the footbridge should be
fixed by December. They need some business going their way.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
They do.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
All it will take them neither is one dead dolphin
and it's all over. They'll send it somewhere else. They
didn't even there were they weren't even you're right, you
know what I mean. There weren't even any dead dolphins
in christ and they lost it.
Speaker 13 (24:35):
Jim Jinxon, Now I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Has the weather today never fine?
Speaker 13 (24:39):
Fine apart from warning cloud high sixteen. Is it a
good day for a dolphin to be, you know, smimming.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Around here to be killed? It's ever a good day
for a dolphin to be killed? Neither, thank you. It's
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Fortunately in the.
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Way, Sex, We're talking facial recognition technology and your supermarket
in a sick and right now. Devin Gray is our
UK Europe correspondent Gvin. Sweden is upset with Iranian intelligence.
What's going on?
Speaker 14 (26:17):
Yes, you may remember the story about twelve months ago
when fifteen thousand texts were sent to different Swedes basically
saying that they wanted revenge against Koran burners. Now, what
had happened was that Sweden's government condemned a number of
(26:38):
people burning the Quran and police tried to ban them,
but the courts allowed the burning of Kuran in Sweden
under freedom of expression laws. Lots of Muslims were not happy. Indeed,
Sweden's embassy in Iraq were set alight by protesters. Then
all these texts started arriving in people's emails on people's
(26:59):
phones rather saying that they should consider revenge against the
Koran burners. Well, now, after all this work, Sweden's security
service SAPO said these texts were sent by the Iranian
intelligence service connected to the Revolutionary Guards and they had
basically managed it in some way to get hold of
the Swedish company's SMS service, takeover passwords, usernames and other
(27:23):
tools before sending a message to private individuals, and the
message was quote those who insulted the Quran must be
punished for their work. Can the Swedes do anything about it? No,
because although they think they know who was behind it,
I'm afraid there is no extradition treaty, so there won't
be any punishment for those they suspect.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Gevin, we have a brief moment to talk about the
police in Switzerland making a couple of erasi in relation
to a suicide pod.
Speaker 14 (27:48):
Yes, very unusual. So this suicide pod is basically one
which allows people to operate it on their own and
end their own life without medical super You basically step
into this pod and it will kill you. As I said,
without medical supervision, you can do it all on your own. Now,
Switzerland does allow assisted dying, but there has been a
(28:11):
lot of debate about the Sarco pod. Indeed, some say
it's not safe. The design of it almost glamorizes suicide.
But now we learn there has been what we think
is the first suicide in a Sarco pod on the
border of the Switzerland, and it is being said that
could be the very very first case of its kind.
We're not yet being told the identity of the person
(28:33):
that's believed to take in their own life.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
All right, Devin, thank you for Thatkevin Gray are UK
europe correspondent just gone eleven minutes away from.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Six Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Foodstuffs has found that facial recognition technology has reduced serious
harm and retail crime and its stores. It's been trialing
them in twenty five stores. They say it's avoided an
estimated one hundred and thirty serious harmful incidents like assault
and verbal abuse. The total retail crime down eight percent
quarter on quarter four thy seven hundred incidents still between
(29:03):
April and during though Chris Wilkinson is the first retail group,
it's a retail consultancy. Chris, good morning. Heure Ryan, are
we sure that it's the facial recognition that's behind the drop?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Look, there are multiple factors. We've got a new police minister,
there's a letter of expectation with the police, there's more
determination around the sector and that's had a ripple effect
through New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So positively, the camera recognizes somebody and goes, oh, I
remember you, you were a bad egg, and then what happens, Well.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
That lets the staff know in the stores and then
they can take action so they can make sure that
there are more people on the floor to protect those
that are vulnerable, to protect the customers. You know, this
is all about being proactive in stopping these potential risks
to firstly people in terms of safety, but then also
(29:59):
that loss. So safety is the key aspect here.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
What do they actually do because up until now, it
was my understanding the security guards couldn't really force anyone
out of the store. So if you're trying to deal
with somebody physically who hasn't even committed a crime yet,
how do you deal with that?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Well, the likelihood Ryan is that people have been trespassed
from those premises, so lugally they shouldn't be here. No,
there won't be that physical altercation. That's the time when
police need to be called in. But again we've got
much more responsiveness to this now with police because of
that letter of expectation.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
It's interesting, So the government's rhetorical messaging is actually having
an impact.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
You reckon, very significant impact.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Okay, interesting, Chris, Thank you very much for your time.
Chris Wilkinson, First Retail Group managing director. It sounds like
Foodstuffs is liking the cut of this jib and they'll probably,
I reckon roll it out into other stores. Just gone
nine away from six Bryan Bridge. Thank you for all
(31:05):
of your chicks and your feedback this morning. Sorry I
haven't got to all of it. Here is one from Delia.
Delia says, good morning, Ryan, loving your show. Thanks Delia,
that's lovely to hear. Just on the subject of buses,
we were talking about assaults on bus drivers, etc. Last
Friday afternoon, I witnessed three Westlake girls board the bus
via the back door and not pay a cent when
(31:26):
they got off, they said, beat beep to the scanning machine.
Very disappointing to see this reflected on the school. So
am I Delia. By the way, we asked Tory Fano
on the show. We've been asking her for a while.
I know it's early, so I do understand. But Leo,
our producer lee, I've lost the piece of paper. But
basically he said, we can do any day in the
(31:48):
next two weeks or the next week, at least in
the next few weeks. Any pre recorded time, any live time, anyone.
She's not available at any time of the day or night.
Probably a good thing for her, I would think. Eight
Away from six News Talks mb.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
A fine, Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on
early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds and
a playing Store. News TALKSB.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Five away from six News Talks, heb quick update. We've
sent some Defense Force members to go and help the
US and the UK try and get the HOOTI rebels.
The leader of Yemen says it's not working. What they're
doing is not reducing the huties' military capabilities. Also in Canada,
justin Trudeau, they're going to try and get rid of
him this week. This is the Conservative Party. He's been
(32:41):
in power for almost ten years. It's not going to work,
but there will be election held by mid next year,
five away from six now, and Mike's in the studio.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Good morning, morning, Andrew Costa. This morning, let me ask
you this question. So the management of this company come
to you and they go, look, Ryan, we want you
to do a bit of this and a bit of that.
And you're thinking to yourself, that's not really going to work,
and it's not who I am.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Would you do.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
It depends how desperate you are for a job.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Well, see that's so you look at Costa.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Costa was appointed by adourn as being a sort of
a liberal type operator, so he seemed comfortable in that role,
and he took all the heat for it. And then
a new government comes in and they tell him to
do something else. So he's one of those guys who
just does what he's told. So I want you to
police hard, I want you to police soft, and he
seems sort of comfortable.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
It's a weird job. I couldn't do.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
It, but that is the point of the public service
meant to be chameleons.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
I guess it is I guess.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
It's it's but I mean, when it comes to policing
and you're an it and you've been in the police
force your whole life, you must know what's right and
wrong and works and doesn't, which.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Is why the front line used to hate him so viscerally, right,
because that's like that, that is not what we're here
to do.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
And then so part of your job would be to
go to a season copy and he goes, Andrew, you
know full well this is bollocks, and he'd go, what
do I do?
Speaker 6 (33:57):
You see what I mean?
Speaker 7 (33:58):
We're in a position a anyway, So he's off to
do social investment whatever that is.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Anyway, he's with us. He's with us after seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Sounds good. Yeah, alright, Mic is with you next. I
will see you tomorrow. Have a great.
Speaker 11 (34:09):
Day of the Nutty.
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