November 21, 2024 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast for Monday 22nd of November, the US Business Summit is on in Auckland today, and Donald Trump's second term as US president will be a big talking point with possible tariffs on the way. Fran O'Sullivan joins the show ahead of the summit.
How do we fund local government and reduce its reliance on ratepayers? Hauraki District Mayor Toby Adams speaks to Ryan about possible funding fixes.
And should police be armed? With a new Commissioner starting next week, Ryan argues for the move.
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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 Vents and a play at store US Dogs.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be good morning, welcome to the start of the
end of your week. It's great to have your company
so early this morning. Coming up on the program, our
lead interviews on puberty blockers, the new rules, what do
they actually mean? Vincent mcavinnie's in the UK, Netanya, Who's
a wanted man? Trump's tariffs are they just a negotiating tactic.
There's a US business conference in Auckland today. We'll speak
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to fran O'Sullivan about that, and what did the Pope
say to Angela Merkle about Donald Trump. It's not a joke.
She's got a new memoir out and we'll talk about
that too. The agenda Ukraine, the back and forth continues,
but with bigger weapons. Kiev says, Russia lobbed and intercontinental
ballistic missile at it for the first time during this war.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Some of the Western officials that that I've been talking
to say they are not sure about this. They think
it could be another sort of ballistic missile. Russia has
of course, used many ballistic missiles in its war against Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Meanwhile, there's a Russian spokesperson. She was on Live Telly
in front of a podium speaking to the media. Well,
if you can call it media over in Russia anyway,
she gets a phone call mid press conference telling her
keep quiet, we're not talking about that launch. All caught
on a hot mic that.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Shatyrmau. The International Criminal Court NITTNYA who he's a wanted man.
They issue a warrant to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister,
along with his former defense minister and the military leader
of Hamas.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
The ICC says, the Chamber considered that there are reasonable
groans to believe that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprive
the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival,
including food, water, medicine, and medical supplies, as well as
fuel and electricity.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The catch, though, is whether that will actually be enforced,
and the one hundred and twenty four member countries have
yet to decide whether to do that. Another blow for
Justin Trudeau. While number one, you know he's polling so
low he'll trip over them. Number two he's got an
election next year, which he's probably going to lose. And
now one of his cabinet ministers resigning because of dodgy
business dealings and apparently faking his indigenous heritage, the two
(02:34):
of which it seems are bizarrely linked. We know he.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Falsely claimed he was indigenous in order to so this
company could steal resources that were meant for real Indigenous people.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
In the US, applications for employment benefits have fallen to
a seven month low in what could mark a turn
around for the jobs market. We've been following that. This week,
two hundred and thirty thousand people file applications. That's a
drop of six thousand from the previous week, in seven
thousand lower than forecast.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
The News you Need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture beds and a flying Store News Talks.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It'd be good morning everyone, Love to hear from you.
Nine two ninety two is the number to text. Almost
seventy percent of cops want to be armed, and I say,
who the hell are we to get in their way?
The new Commission has come in and he's been more
gung ho on this idea of regular arming of our
police force than any of his predecessors. The fact is
they're on the front line, aren't they. Last year there
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was a nine percent increase in tactical operations interactions. That
means basically the bad ones. That's up more than seven
two more than seven thousand.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The number of cops physically attack doubled from twenty twenty
two to twenty twenty three. It's dangerous. We're not the
ones going out on the streets, aren't we. We're tucked
up in bed with moral superiorities saying no, we don't
like the idea of you guys being armed. I prefer
you pulled the gang member over. Please take your chances.
It's a little bit sanctimonious from us, don't you think
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if they feel it would make their situations safer, then
I trust them to make that call. Of course, you'll
always have mistakes and chaos price The shooting clearly shouldn't
have happened, and they say they're working further at training,
et cetera to make that all better. But we can't
sit here tacked up in our beds at night, all judgey,
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when we're not the ones out there and the dead
of the night, facing more violence, guns and crime.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Just gone ten minutes after five year old news Talks.
He'd be we're talking local government funding in a second.
By the way, there's a banana that's gone for sale
at an auction in New York. You know, the taped
banana that was taped to a wall. Anyway, got ten
million New Zealand dollars. Guess who bought it? Your guess.
It's one of those cryptocurrency people, the weirdos. Anyway, he's
apparently going to eat it as part of a I
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don't even know. It's already been eaten twice. It's not
even this same banana anyway. Ten million dollars, it's about
what you pay for six of them at countdown anyway.
Eleven after five Daza.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Das 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.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Zai'd be thirteen minutes after five year on news talk,
said be. Someone says, Ryan, if I put two bananas
in a small frame, where I get twenty million dollars?
This after the one banana got ten million overnight in
New York. Some auction, some art auction. We're going to
talk to fran O'Sullivan shortly about the tariff and the
United States. There's a conference on in Auckland today, but
I just wanted to quickly get to this. Jan Toinetti
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and Erica Stanford in the House yesterday and I was
just watching the dance. How are these guys going to
report on what was said in parliament? This is what
Janetti said about it first.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
So she said stupid bitch to me, except.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The word I love that she has to clarified she
obviously she didn't spell it out. She said the word anyway.
Bennett Collins on TV one went all in. There are
often robust exchanges, but then this the issue of calling
your political opponent a stupid bitch, Bryan Bridge, it shouldn't
be funny, should it right? The average rates shot up
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fifteen percent this year. Councils are struggling to pay for infrastructure,
they're struggling to pay for services, et cetera. So local
government New Zealand's come up with a list of twenty
five financing tools to try and help reduce the pressure
on ratepayers to fund local councils. A lot of them
we heard of before, you know, the GST sharing on
new builds, congestion charging etc. We're joined this morning by
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the Hodaki district mayor, Toby Adams, who's with me. Toby,
good morning, good morning, ran for you very well, thank you.
Obviously everyone knows the problem. I think local councils don't
have enough money and you don't have enough ways of
getting it. Which of these twenty five would suit a
council like yours? Which would you? Because I don't think
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congestion charging will be up here ally would it?
Speaker 7 (07:11):
No, congestion charging wouldn't work. And that's why it is
twenty five different ones because you know, in local government
not one size fits all obviously, so you've got to
have a vast range of different ones. But a GSD
share would work in our council, a little bit of
a share of royalties. We've got a large mine in
our district, so if we had a share of royalties,
they'll make a huge difference in the amount of infrastructure
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that we could get done with just a little bit
of extra out without having to put rates up incredible amounts.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, I was going to ask about the mining WORYLDTI
is given your location. Is the government open to that?
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Lots of government say that they're open to it, but
I mean this has been gone for a long time.
We've never really had the conversation and they've said, you
know what, well, we'll definitely do it.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Can you explain to me why is it so expensive
for councils to get stuff done? You know? And why
do we never have enough infrastructure? Is it literally because
the costs go up and you cannot charge the rate
payers we don't have enough people to fund it.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Yeah, I mean we've got You always have a small base,
and rates is your only real tool to collect revenue.
You're always mindful of not putting the rates up too
high for various reasons, and a lot of it's not
normally political. It's just about hearing from your community that
they can't afford you. Rate rises and infrastructure just costs
an absolute fortunate at the moment, like for our small council,
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the powerball win up six hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
that's just to keep the lights going in your main
streets and your pumps running. So that's an increase of
sixty six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so totally over
a year. It's now two million dollars a year just
without and.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
That jumps six fifteen one year, yep.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
One under. So those are the kind of cost councils
we're facing in this last sort of economic crisis that
we're in, and that's why rates with us so much.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Toby, thanks for your time, Toby Adams, the Hodaki District mayor.
They've got a conference going on and local government New
Zealand calling for more levers to pull to get cash
in the door for councils. Seventeen after five, nine to
nine two the number to text.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Said b nineteen after five News Talk said, be I
don't know if you've been following this, but it's getting
very messy and I think Mark Mitchell needs to clean
it up a little bit. This is the police checks
on gun rangers. The current bill will limit the number
of checks that would happen. And Nicole McKee's the one
pushing this of course. Now Ginny Anderson has come out
and said that Mark Mitchell was briefed that gang members, Yes,
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gang members were using gun ranges as target practice. I
mean that doesn't sound good, does it. And surely that
would be enough for you to say as policeman as
to hey, we should probably not go ahead with that more,
you know, the loosening of restrictions and the cops are
warning you as minister not to do it as well,
surely you would be speaking up. Your whole shtick is
(10:10):
tough on gangs, and you should, you know, stamp out
any potential perceptions to the contrary like a flame kill it.
They may be only small, isolated examples, but I don't
think it really matters. You're going to get on top
of stuff like that. Just gone twenty after five, Rainbridge.
The United States Business Summit is taking place in Auckland
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today and boys at timely Trump obviously on his way
in tariff's looming and the US overtaking the Aussies as
our second largest export market worth more than fourteen billion dollars.
Fran O'Sullivan is the US Business Summit CoA chair. She's
with us this morning. Frian, lovely to have you on
the show. Oh thank you tell me what's your pack
on this, on this whole tariff business. Is this a
(10:53):
negotiating tactic from Trump? Do you think he's actually going
to go ahead with them in any you know the
numbers that they're talking about.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Oh, there will be an element of negotiation about it.
And I think you only have to look to his
pickers Commerce secretary, who is a billionaire, Harold Lutnik, who
was also co chair of his campaign. He has been
on record talking about tariff all the way through the
campaign himself. He's also you know, the boss of brokerage
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firm Cantor in the United States, So I mean he's
a man with considerable sway. But what he has also
suggested that there will be an element of negotiation around
some of these and that in fact he is wanting
to get obviously people back into and companies back manufacturing
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in the United States. But however, there won't be blanket
tariffs on everything, so punitive language all the rest. But
part of that is you know, perhaps the first steps
in a pretty high stakes poker game.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah. I saw his commentation in the Wall Street Journal overnight,
and you know he's talking about countries will have to
make concessions, you know what's correct. What sort of concessions
do we make?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Well, could have been a bit of pressure. Well that
may or may not be a priority for the incoming administration.
I mean it's not it wasn't initiated by them. I
think at the moment, you know, we have ponied up
and become much more in tune with the United States,
particularly in the Pacific, and I think there'll be an
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expectation that we continue to do that. And when you
look at the leverage that's been applied in the past,
for instance by President Trump and Trump one point zero iteration,
I mean at that time he did put considerable pressure
on NATO, for instance, to step up its defense spend.
I think we will come under pressure to do more
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of that. But that's happening anyway. The big, big areas
where the government will be wanting to you know, can't
spell out to themstration. And I think some of this
was probably also covered in the conversation that the Prime
Minister had with Donald Trump several days after he was
he became president elect. So you know, there are commonalities,
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there are areas where we are working with the United
States strategically, and he will want to keep emphasizing that,
but you know it's going to be interesting. And of course,
of China takes a major hit, that's a major trading
partner of New Zealand, and so if it's economy takes
a hit, people won't want to pay quite the same
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prices they're paying now for new feel and goods. So
you know, the world could get quite a slap. And
that is something that you're seeing, for instance at the
D twenty just in previous days, much more circling around Jjenping.
He's become a very powerful player as well in all
of this.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Absolutely, and still waiting to see quite how big that
stimulus might be from Basing as well. Friend, fascinating and
excellent analysis. Always enjoyed the summit today, Thank you very much,
Thank you friend of Sullivan who is the New Zealand
business sorry, the US business summit coach. Here that's on
in Auckland today, just gone twenty four minutes after five.
You're on news Talks EB the.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
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Speaker 2 (14:22):
You're on news Talks HEB. It's twenty six minutes after five.
Everybody loves a bargain. This is not a warehouse ad.
By the way, It's Black Friday today, Yay, the Friday
after Thanksgiving in the United States, the start of the
shopping season and during a cost of living crisis. People
could do with a bargain, couldn't they. Apparently a lot
of us are planning to buy. Fifty percent of us
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planning to buy something today. That compares to thirty five
percent of us back in twenty twenty three. So big day.
And is there a greater thrill than the feeling of
getting forty or fifty or sixty percent off something? God,
it feels good. The trick is not like many things
in life. I suppose not to overdo it. My mum
is one of these people. She would buy a lamp
shade with no lamp just because it's a bargain. Oh darling,
(15:05):
could I I'm like, what for what are you doing
with that? But I reckon the thrill of a bargain
is not quite what it was. A lot of stuff
these days is so damn cheap. Anyway. You can get
tea mood toilet paper for a cent, and you can
get a shiny new outfit on sheen for less than
the prices of a big mac combo. Yes, it's bad
(15:25):
for the planet, but no one cares because it's cheap,
it's fun and you need news stuff. Throw it out
and get another one. That's what we say. There was
a time when people had one thing for their entire life,
and I can't even imagine that. You know, one coat,
one good winter coat, one pair of boots. But we've
come to expect so much from life where consumerous little creatures.
(15:47):
It's like food and obesity. Too much food, we'll eat it,
Will it kill us? Yes? Too many things to buy online.
Let's we'll buy them. They're there. This is what we do.
Knock the price down, will swoop like seagulls on fish
and chips at the beach. And then there's the stuff
that's not made in China that even when you do
get half off, it feels like you're still been robbed anyway.
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The flutter of a bargain I think may not be
what it once was, but that shouldn't stop you enjoying
your shopping. And you're half off today it is twenty
eight minutes after five.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Brian Bridge.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I'd love to hear from people if they've been online
already what bargains you're seeing because the people who would
have been up at the stroke of midnight. Vincent macavinie
is with us Next Day UK Europe correspondent. The International
Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Benjaminette and
Yahoo also Puberty Blockers is our lead interview this morning,
just before six. News Talk se'd be.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
News and views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture bids at a flying store Youth Talk zib B.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Good Morning New Zealand, twenty four minutes away from the
six year on News Talk, said Vincent mcavnie out of
the UK. Next Nittanya, who's a wanted man the International
Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant for him. We'll ask him.
Who's actually going to listen. We're going to talk to
Dame Sue Bagshaw just before six. This is about the
puberty block is issue. New guidelines out this morning, and
I have to confess that I'm totally numpty. I'm an
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indiot because I just did a whole editorial. I'm talking
about Black Friday, the day where there are huge sales
and it's next week as everyone is texting in to
the show, thank you. I appreciate that. Yes, I got
it wrong. It was very, very stupid of me. I
was having a do you say blonde moment? Anymore? Probably not.
(18:35):
I was having a ditsy moment and I got my
week smuddled up. Okay, So I apologize about that. The
only thing half off was my brain. This morning, twenty
three away from six Bridge, let's go to our more
informed reporters around the country. Calum Proctor is with us
in Dunedin this morning. Calum, some deep earthquakes have been
discovered there.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Yeah, morning, Ryan, and this is in one of the
country's least so mcley active regions, Southland. Otiga University research
has recorded these quakes buried up to forty kilometers around Southland,
and they've uncovered evidence of hidden faults. Researchers say most
of the shakes were too small to feel, but give
them hints about future quakes in the area. They say
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findings will be incorporated into hazard models that will predict
the likelihood of any major shaking in Southland. They can't
determine where one will occur, but it gives them an
idea of how often quakes may happen.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
All right, And how's your weather today?
Speaker 9 (19:31):
Come partly cloudy but otherwise find few showers this evening
for Daned in the high sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Thank you, and she was such a good opinion piece
as well, and a good editorial. I was thinking, you
know you've really nailed that. Got the date wrong? What
an idiot? Anyway, Leo, who's our producer? Let's just save that,
put it online next Friday and no one will know
why waste a good editorial. Twenty two away from six
Let's go to clear. Who's in christ? It's clear? One
last tango for the Court Theater at its temporary home there. Yeah,
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we'll call.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
It black Friday here for your sake, Ryan, The last
tango for the Court Theatre's post quake the Shed at
Addington is strictly ballroom the musical. It gets other way
tonight before the theater will move to a new home
on Gloucester Street, just up the roads from us. Here
at ends in me next year. Now. The show runs
until February, while the Court's new building will open its
doors in May.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
To stick.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Director Allison Walls says heaps of thought has gone into
choosing the final show for this important part of the
Court Theatre's history. It's all about having some celebration. She
wanted something that felt like a party, she says. The
show set designer has paid tribute to their temporary home,
the Shed, with its iconic red corrugated steel, making an appearance.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
How's your wea U today, Claire?
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Well Cloud clearing becoming fine this morning, A few showers
by evening, easterlyes and sixteen brilliant.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Thank you max Is and Wellington max A new setback
for the new Crown Observer.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
There, Yeah, Wellington City Council's new Crown Observer is out
of action at the moment. He's come down with COVID
just days.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Before a cruet.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
Yeah, the cursed City Council Lindsay McKenzie. Appointed by the government,
of course, as the council reworks its long term plan.
Travel delays had already forced him to miss his first
official day last week. A council spokesperson says he has
been attending meetings and meeting councilors face to face in
the past few days and now as they prepare to
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vote on Tuesday on what projects to cut what to keep,
he has called COVID. He spoke to us directly. He
says he is optimistic he'll be back in time for
that vote, but who knows. Last month, incidentally, met Torrifino
took her time off work with apparently her fourth about
of COVID in just thirteen months. The city council apparently
(21:45):
a hotbed for the virus.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, what cursed is the right word. Next? How's you
wear there? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (21:51):
Mostly fine?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Today?
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Some cloud Southerley's sixteenth Central.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Thank you neighbors and Auckland.
Speaker 12 (21:57):
Hey, Neiver, I am laughing because you're talking about Black Friday,
and I've got to be honest, I thought it was
now too good because and do you know why we're
so confused with it? I think this is the problem.
There have been ads running but for the last two
or three weeks, and a friend of mine reading me
yesterday and she goes, right, you know, I said, what
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a shame, it's not pay Friday.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
But let's go.
Speaker 12 (22:20):
Let's go and you know, like get some sales and
get some bargains. And then when I know it's next.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Friday Friday, it's a lot of people are texting him
to say they thought it was tomorrow as well. Just
the sheer number of emails and advertisements at we're getting.
But that is no excuse.
Speaker 12 (22:34):
No, I think you should put that editorial towards the
radio award.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
All right, neither the to the weather in Auckland this morning?
Speaker 12 (22:43):
Now are we looking well, mainly fine this morningday Black
Friday Friday. It's right not We could have been lying,
we could have been in a queue and it wouldn't
have been raining. But however, let's wait for next Friday.
Nineteenth is the high happy Friday.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Someone says, Ryan, your mum now has another week to
save up for a lamp. Nineteen away from six News TALKSI.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Big international correspondence with insign Eye Insurance peace of mind
for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It is sixteen away from six News TALKSIB Binyamin Nitya
who has been issued well an risked warrant has been
issued for him from the International Criminal Court, but he's
not aligned. Vincent Mekabinnie as a UK europe correspond Vincent,
what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Well?
Speaker 13 (23:27):
The International Criminal Court a few hours ago issued these
arrest warrants for three individuals, one of them the Israeli
Prime Minster Binyamin Netanyahu, and also the former Defence secretary
You've Golant, as well as Mohammad d'ief of Hamas, although
Israel says that he was killed in an air strike
in July. The judges said in their statement there was
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reasonable grounds that the three men wore criminal responsibility for
alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war
between Israel and Hamas. But both Israel and Hamas have
rejected these allegations.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
All right, and what are these claims that Russia has
used an intercontinental ballistic missile against Ukraine? Is this being confirmed?
Speaker 13 (24:12):
Yeah, there is some confusion around this claim. The Ukrainian
President Zelenski has come forward and said that the new
rocket was used and says that their intelligence says to
have the characteristics of an ICBM, So that is an
inter continental ballistic missile, the kind of missile that you
would attach a nuclear warhead to and fire it thousands
(24:34):
of kilometers. That would be a new move by Russia.
There's no claim that there was a nuclear warhead attached,
but the Ukrainian Foreign Mindustry is sharing the details and
intelligence they've got on the missile with partners so that
they can ascertain what exactly it was. The US is
disputing this, Russia is saying nothing at the moment. It comes,
(24:54):
of course, with an escalation this week, the attack of
missiles being provided by the US being given approval for
them to fire into Russian territory. These long range missiles
and the UK's storm shadowy missiles similarly also now being
allowed by the British Prime Minister Sikirstama to be allowed
to be shot further into Russia. We know that Russia
(25:16):
updated its nuclear doctrine earlier in the week. That was
seen as a bit of saber rattling. But if they
are using ICBMs, perhaps it is a sign that things
are getting even more tense in the region.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, what's your statesmans, And is it that things are
getting more tints in the region, which I mean obviously
they are, But is it just posturing a head of
Trump coming in and potential deal making. What's your scenes?
Speaker 13 (25:40):
It does feel like posturing. But at all times, you know,
this could be this kind of situation could go incredibly wrong.
I mean that there are you know, new Ukraine. We
know it has you know, the like social novel, it
has other nuclear plants as well. If they're using these
kinds of weapons, if they go off site because you've
shot them down or something, it could cause damage to
(26:01):
infrastructure like that. I mean, it is an alarming because
one mistake one this calculation. If they do fire an
actual ICBM, how has anyone to know if they track
it on a satellite and it's moving, whether or not
it does have a nuclear warhead attached to it or not.
So it does feel like quite a tense moment.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, absolutely, all right, Vincent, thank you very much for that.
Vincent mcavinie, who's our UK europe correspondent, just gone thirteen
minutes away from six rain Bridge. Let's talk about this morning,
including this report from some economists about the state of
our economy and the government's intervention and what they need
to do. Blah blah, blah blah. You would have seen
it probably on our inz yesterday. It was put around
(26:39):
the Herald as well. We'll get to that in a second.
Those terrible cases of poisonings alcohol poisonings over in laos
So at least four people have now died. A further
eleven tourists are in hospital. It's pretty bad and it
all happened at the hostel and the hostel manages as well.
There were one hundred people having these so called vodka shots,
(27:01):
one hundred of them and only a few of them
got sick. And he said he bought the alcohol from
a certified distributor and said he didn't do anything to it,
so he didn't tamper with it, which I guess you
would say. But though investigating that one at the moment.
And Angela Merkele has a memoir coming out and in
it she reveals the advice that the Pope gave her
(27:23):
to deal with Donald Trump, which sounds interesting. You've got
Angela Merkele, you've got the Pope, and you've got Trump.
Apparently his advice was when dealing with Trump, bend, bend, bend,
but to make sure it doesn't break, whatever that means. Anyway,
She said it was a good chat that she had,
but that it was very, very difficult dealing with Donald Trump.
(27:46):
I'll be interested to read that men, while it's coming
out soon. Apparently eleven minutes away from six on news
Talk said b we're going to talk bitcoin and one
man's quest to get it out of the ground in
the UK. It's coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Ryan Bridge new for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
News talks. That'd be nine to six news talks. They'd
be great to have your company this morning. You might
have seen this new advice come out from the Ministry
of Health finally releasing its position on the use of
puberty blockers for kids in New Zealand. The cash report
that came out from the UK was very controversial and
said that the research was not there, it wasn't sufficient,
et cetera. So our brief, this is our Ministry of
(28:30):
Health brief says it's found significant limitations in the quality
of evidence for either the benefits or risks or lack thereof,
of the use of puberty blockers. This means there is
insufficient basis to say that puberty blockers are safe, or
that they are reversible or not so. In other words,
we just really have no idea that's for its use
(28:53):
as an intervention for gender dysphoria and adolescents. So the
upside of this is basically we are no wiser than
we were before the report was written, and they need
more research done. It's just gone eight minutes away from
six Bryan Bridge, Right, does everybody know who Carpenter is?
Sabrina Carpenter. She's a New ash musicians of their song.
(29:21):
So she went to film a music video for one
of her new songs and this was in a church,
of all places, and it was quite provocative. This is
in New York. And the New York priests who let
Sabrina Carpenter film the provocative scenes for her music video
inside his church, Well, he's been sacked for obvious reasons.
It's a church. Apparently it showed a crucifix with profanity
(29:44):
printed on it. And also she was dancing on the
altar in a short black dress. Does it sounds very
doesn't sound very church like? Very congregation friendly? Does it
a seven minutes away from six News Talks?
Speaker 6 (29:54):
He'd beg, Bryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Mike is here with us. He is up next, Mike,
Good morning to you. Good morning Ryan.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
How are we feeling this today? But I'm feeling pretty
good actually as life wild turn out. Yeah, I'm looking
outsides of clear blue sky. Weekend is calling. I know
how much you like the weekend, so I just want
to build you up to it.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Not not Black Friday, though, as I have claimed earlier
on saying.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
You made a bit of a dick of yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
What happened to well, I don't know what happened actually, So.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
You claimed it was Blacky.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I said it was black Friday. I did what I
thought was a really good editorial, Mike. And you know
the feeling when you do a good one.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
A lot of people talk about your editorialism, how good
they are. Generally there's a lot of buzz around the usual.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It's bad as much buzz as yours. I'd say, no,
I got more bus Tell me, tell me do you
even shop? Whether shop? No shop period? No, you don't
buy your own clothes. You don't buy your own once.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
No, here's here's the thing. So what happens once once
a year. I go out to see my friend and
I say, I need some of those those those and
then I'm about to do it actually be part of
the consultant, like a consult, shopping consult And I go,
I need some of those, get me some of those,
and then they arrivee and that that's my shopping for
the The only thing I buy on a regular basis
(31:04):
is petrol. Oh yeah, if you look at my if
you look at my credit card, it's got about two
statements per month.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
What about wine or oh you know restaurants or no.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
We don't get out, don't you know? I don't eat
it and I buy a little bit of wine involved.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
So you basically you wouldn't know. You wouldn't care if
there's a sale. One doesn't because I love that feeling
of sale when you get when you can say I've
got seventy percent of something.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
When was the last time you got seventy percent? See
that was about to say one of the problems that
overseas is a big sale thing in New Zealand, it's
you saved gst.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
But have you heard of a place called Brisco's? Probably not.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I don't play your elitist game with me.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I have I have been.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
I have been to Brisco's and how long it was
like the early nineties. I went to rest Goes and
I saw some stuff there that was on sale. Right,
But to be fair, Risk Goes, I don't think they're
real sales.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
No, it's a it's a it's a gimmick, isn't it.
But it actually is one that works well for them.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
You look at their Yeah, they're a very successful company.
But I'm talking about your your genuine sales where you
save fifty or sixty percent genuinely. Actually, I'll tell you
what I bought recently, Smith and Coey.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, club closing downside.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
They're closing downside.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
What did you I bought it, not the whole story, no,
because I'll tell you what he had.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
They had some genuine bargains on some stuff that I like,
and I know what it normally costs, and I know
what I paid, and we went crazy.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Do you know where you can get some really nice
cologne for cheap? Is the chist? It's the chemist Warehouse?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Yes, I do know that. Have you got the d
C ten? I've got the d C ten. Everyone's got them.
What about the new Missy? The new Missy makes mus
smell like a man with integrity? Apparently it's got am
But notes d C ten Dan Carter when he was
on the show, I said, he came in and I said,
(33:15):
didn't you bring any d C ten and with you?
And he goes and he went rid in the face,
and he went, I actually have it in the car,
but I was too embarrassed to bring it up here
and get Yeah, come keep back down there. And give
me some DC.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Oh, very good. Well we've achieved nothing, but that's that's that.
It was fun. That's fun. I reckon. It was highlight
of the show.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Certainly better than an editorial, a.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Lot more factual than the editorial at half five. Have
a fantastic day, everyone, enjoy Black Friday. Next Friday, Mike's Next.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
For more from early edition with Ryan's Bridge, some live
to news talks. It'd be from five am weekdays, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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 Vents and a play at store US Dogs.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be good morning, welcome to the start of the
end of your week. It's great to have your company
so early this morning. Coming up on the program, our
lead interviews on puberty blockers, the new rules, what do
they actually mean? Vincent mcavinnie's in the UK, Netanya, Who's
a wanted man? Trump's tariffs are they just a negotiating tactic.
There's a US business conference in Auckland today. We'll speak
(00:36):
to fran O'Sullivan about that, and what did the Pope
say to Angela Merkle about Donald Trump. It's not a joke.
She's got a new memoir out and we'll talk about
that too. The agenda Ukraine, the back and forth continues,
but with bigger weapons. Kiev says, Russia lobbed and intercontinental
ballistic missile at it for the first time during this war.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Some of the Western officials that that I've been talking
to say they are not sure about this. They think
it could be another sort of ballistic missile. Russia has
of course, used many ballistic missiles in its war against Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Meanwhile, there's a Russian spokesperson. She was on Live Telly
in front of a podium speaking to the media. Well,
if you can call it media over in Russia anyway,
she gets a phone call mid press conference telling her
keep quiet, we're not talking about that launch. All caught
on a hot mic that.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Shatyrmau. The International Criminal Court NITTNYA who he's a wanted man.
They issue a warrant to arrest the Israeli Prime Minister,
along with his former defense minister and the military leader
of Hamas.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
The ICC says, the Chamber considered that there are reasonable
groans to believe that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprive
the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival,
including food, water, medicine, and medical supplies, as well as
fuel and electricity.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The catch, though, is whether that will actually be enforced,
and the one hundred and twenty four member countries have
yet to decide whether to do that. Another blow for
Justin Trudeau. While number one, you know he's polling so
low he'll trip over them. Number two he's got an
election next year, which he's probably going to lose. And
now one of his cabinet ministers resigning because of dodgy
business dealings and apparently faking his indigenous heritage, the two
(02:34):
of which it seems are bizarrely linked. We know he.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Falsely claimed he was indigenous in order to so this
company could steal resources that were meant for real Indigenous people.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
In the US, applications for employment benefits have fallen to
a seven month low in what could mark a turn
around for the jobs market. We've been following that. This week,
two hundred and thirty thousand people file applications. That's a
drop of six thousand from the previous week, in seven
thousand lower than forecast.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
The News you Need this morning and the in depth
analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
Zealand's furniture beds and a flying Store News Talks.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It'd be good morning everyone, Love to hear from you.
Nine two ninety two is the number to text. Almost
seventy percent of cops want to be armed, and I say,
who the hell are we to get in their way?
The new Commission has come in and he's been more
gung ho on this idea of regular arming of our
police force than any of his predecessors. The fact is
they're on the front line, aren't they. Last year there
(03:33):
was a nine percent increase in tactical operations interactions. That
means basically the bad ones. That's up more than seven
two more than seven thousand.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The number of cops physically attack doubled from twenty twenty
two to twenty twenty three. It's dangerous. We're not the
ones going out on the streets, aren't we. We're tucked
up in bed with moral superiorities saying no, we don't
like the idea of you guys being armed. I prefer
you pulled the gang member over. Please take your chances.
It's a little bit sanctimonious from us, don't you think
(04:03):
if they feel it would make their situations safer, then
I trust them to make that call. Of course, you'll
always have mistakes and chaos price The shooting clearly shouldn't
have happened, and they say they're working further at training,
et cetera to make that all better. But we can't
sit here tacked up in our beds at night, all judgey,
(04:24):
when we're not the ones out there and the dead
of the night, facing more violence, guns and crime.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Just gone ten minutes after five year old news Talks.
He'd be we're talking local government funding in a second.
By the way, there's a banana that's gone for sale
at an auction in New York. You know, the taped
banana that was taped to a wall. Anyway, got ten
million New Zealand dollars. Guess who bought it? Your guess.
It's one of those cryptocurrency people, the weirdos. Anyway, he's
apparently going to eat it as part of a I
(04:55):
don't even know. It's already been eaten twice. It's not
even this same banana anyway. Ten million dollars, it's about
what you pay for six of them at countdown anyway.
Eleven after five Daza.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Das 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.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Zai'd be thirteen minutes after five year on news talk,
said be. Someone says, Ryan, if I put two bananas
in a small frame, where I get twenty million dollars?
This after the one banana got ten million overnight in
New York. Some auction, some art auction. We're going to
talk to fran O'Sullivan shortly about the tariff and the
United States. There's a conference on in Auckland today, but
I just wanted to quickly get to this. Jan Toinetti
(05:51):
and Erica Stanford in the House yesterday and I was
just watching the dance. How are these guys going to
report on what was said in parliament? This is what
Janetti said about it first.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
So she said stupid bitch to me, except.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
The word I love that she has to clarified she
obviously she didn't spell it out. She said the word anyway.
Bennett Collins on TV one went all in. There are
often robust exchanges, but then this the issue of calling
your political opponent a stupid bitch, Bryan Bridge, it shouldn't
be funny, should it right? The average rates shot up
(06:26):
fifteen percent this year. Councils are struggling to pay for infrastructure,
they're struggling to pay for services, et cetera. So local
government New Zealand's come up with a list of twenty
five financing tools to try and help reduce the pressure
on ratepayers to fund local councils. A lot of them
we heard of before, you know, the GST sharing on
new builds, congestion charging etc. We're joined this morning by
(06:48):
the Hodaki district mayor, Toby Adams, who's with me. Toby,
good morning, good morning, ran for you very well, thank you.
Obviously everyone knows the problem. I think local councils don't
have enough money and you don't have enough ways of
getting it. Which of these twenty five would suit a
council like yours? Which would you? Because I don't think
(07:08):
congestion charging will be up here ally would it?
Speaker 7 (07:11):
No, congestion charging wouldn't work. And that's why it is
twenty five different ones because you know, in local government
not one size fits all obviously, so you've got to
have a vast range of different ones. But a GSD
share would work in our council, a little bit of
a share of royalties. We've got a large mine in
our district, so if we had a share of royalties,
they'll make a huge difference in the amount of infrastructure
(07:33):
that we could get done with just a little bit
of extra out without having to put rates up incredible amounts.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, I was going to ask about the mining WORYLDTI
is given your location. Is the government open to that?
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Lots of government say that they're open to it, but
I mean this has been gone for a long time.
We've never really had the conversation and they've said, you
know what, well, we'll definitely do it.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Can you explain to me why is it so expensive
for councils to get stuff done? You know? And why
do we never have enough infrastructure? Is it literally because
the costs go up and you cannot charge the rate
payers we don't have enough people to fund it.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Yeah, I mean we've got You always have a small base,
and rates is your only real tool to collect revenue.
You're always mindful of not putting the rates up too
high for various reasons, and a lot of it's not
normally political. It's just about hearing from your community that
they can't afford you. Rate rises and infrastructure just costs
an absolute fortunate at the moment, like for our small council,
(08:33):
the powerball win up six hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
that's just to keep the lights going in your main
streets and your pumps running. So that's an increase of
sixty six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so totally over
a year. It's now two million dollars a year just
without and.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
That jumps six fifteen one year, yep.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
One under. So those are the kind of cost councils
we're facing in this last sort of economic crisis that
we're in, and that's why rates with us so much.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Toby, thanks for your time, Toby Adams, the Hodaki District mayor.
They've got a conference going on and local government New
Zealand calling for more levers to pull to get cash
in the door for councils. Seventeen after five, nine to
nine two the number to text.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
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.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Said b nineteen after five News Talk said, be I
don't know if you've been following this, but it's getting
very messy and I think Mark Mitchell needs to clean
it up a little bit. This is the police checks
on gun rangers. The current bill will limit the number
of checks that would happen. And Nicole McKee's the one
pushing this of course. Now Ginny Anderson has come out
and said that Mark Mitchell was briefed that gang members, Yes,
(09:49):
gang members were using gun ranges as target practice. I
mean that doesn't sound good, does it. And surely that
would be enough for you to say as policeman as
to hey, we should probably not go ahead with that more,
you know, the loosening of restrictions and the cops are
warning you as minister not to do it as well,
surely you would be speaking up. Your whole shtick is
(10:10):
tough on gangs, and you should, you know, stamp out
any potential perceptions to the contrary like a flame kill it.
They may be only small, isolated examples, but I don't
think it really matters. You're going to get on top
of stuff like that. Just gone twenty after five, Rainbridge.
The United States Business Summit is taking place in Auckland
(10:31):
today and boys at timely Trump obviously on his way
in tariff's looming and the US overtaking the Aussies as
our second largest export market worth more than fourteen billion dollars.
Fran O'Sullivan is the US Business Summit CoA chair. She's
with us this morning. Frian, lovely to have you on
the show. Oh thank you tell me what's your pack
on this, on this whole tariff business. Is this a
(10:53):
negotiating tactic from Trump? Do you think he's actually going
to go ahead with them in any you know the
numbers that they're talking about.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
Oh, there will be an element of negotiation about it.
And I think you only have to look to his
pickers Commerce secretary, who is a billionaire, Harold Lutnik, who
was also co chair of his campaign. He has been
on record talking about tariff all the way through the
campaign himself. He's also you know, the boss of brokerage
(11:24):
firm Cantor in the United States, So I mean he's
a man with considerable sway. But what he has also
suggested that there will be an element of negotiation around
some of these and that in fact he is wanting
to get obviously people back into and companies back manufacturing
(11:44):
in the United States. But however, there won't be blanket
tariffs on everything, so punitive language all the rest. But
part of that is you know, perhaps the first steps
in a pretty high stakes poker game.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah. I saw his commentation in the Wall Street Journal overnight,
and you know he's talking about countries will have to
make concessions, you know what's correct. What sort of concessions
do we make?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Well, could have been a bit of pressure. Well that
may or may not be a priority for the incoming administration.
I mean it's not it wasn't initiated by them. I
think at the moment, you know, we have ponied up
and become much more in tune with the United States,
particularly in the Pacific, and I think there'll be an
(12:30):
expectation that we continue to do that. And when you
look at the leverage that's been applied in the past,
for instance by President Trump and Trump one point zero iteration,
I mean at that time he did put considerable pressure
on NATO, for instance, to step up its defense spend.
I think we will come under pressure to do more
(12:51):
of that. But that's happening anyway. The big, big areas
where the government will be wanting to you know, can't
spell out to themstration. And I think some of this
was probably also covered in the conversation that the Prime
Minister had with Donald Trump several days after he was
he became president elect. So you know, there are commonalities,
(13:14):
there are areas where we are working with the United
States strategically, and he will want to keep emphasizing that,
but you know it's going to be interesting. And of course,
of China takes a major hit, that's a major trading
partner of New Zealand, and so if it's economy takes
a hit, people won't want to pay quite the same
(13:36):
prices they're paying now for new feel and goods. So
you know, the world could get quite a slap. And
that is something that you're seeing, for instance at the
D twenty just in previous days, much more circling around Jjenping.
He's become a very powerful player as well in all
of this.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Absolutely, and still waiting to see quite how big that
stimulus might be from Basing as well. Friend, fascinating and
excellent analysis. Always enjoyed the summit today, Thank you very much,
Thank you friend of Sullivan who is the New Zealand
business sorry, the US business summit coach. Here that's on
in Auckland today, just gone twenty four minutes after five.
You're on news Talks EB the.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio powered by News
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Speaker 2 (14:22):
You're on news Talks HEB. It's twenty six minutes after five.
Everybody loves a bargain. This is not a warehouse ad.
By the way, It's Black Friday today, Yay, the Friday
after Thanksgiving in the United States, the start of the
shopping season and during a cost of living crisis. People
could do with a bargain, couldn't they. Apparently a lot
of us are planning to buy. Fifty percent of us
(14:43):
planning to buy something today. That compares to thirty five
percent of us back in twenty twenty three. So big day.
And is there a greater thrill than the feeling of
getting forty or fifty or sixty percent off something? God,
it feels good. The trick is not like many things
in life. I suppose not to overdo it. My mum
is one of these people. She would buy a lamp
shade with no lamp just because it's a bargain. Oh darling,
(15:05):
could I I'm like, what for what are you doing
with that? But I reckon the thrill of a bargain
is not quite what it was. A lot of stuff
these days is so damn cheap. Anyway. You can get
tea mood toilet paper for a cent, and you can
get a shiny new outfit on sheen for less than
the prices of a big mac combo. Yes, it's bad
(15:25):
for the planet, but no one cares because it's cheap,
it's fun and you need news stuff. Throw it out
and get another one. That's what we say. There was
a time when people had one thing for their entire life,
and I can't even imagine that. You know, one coat,
one good winter coat, one pair of boots. But we've
come to expect so much from life where consumerous little creatures.
(15:47):
It's like food and obesity. Too much food, we'll eat it,
Will it kill us? Yes? Too many things to buy online.
Let's we'll buy them. They're there. This is what we do.
Knock the price down, will swoop like seagulls on fish
and chips at the beach. And then there's the stuff
that's not made in China that even when you do
get half off, it feels like you're still been robbed anyway.
(16:10):
The flutter of a bargain I think may not be
what it once was, but that shouldn't stop you enjoying
your shopping. And you're half off today it is twenty
eight minutes after five.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Brian Bridge.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I'd love to hear from people if they've been online
already what bargains you're seeing because the people who would
have been up at the stroke of midnight. Vincent macavinie
is with us Next Day UK Europe correspondent. The International
Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Benjaminette and
Yahoo also Puberty Blockers is our lead interview this morning,
just before six. News Talk se'd be.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
News and views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture bids at a flying store Youth Talk zib B.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Good Morning New Zealand, twenty four minutes away from the
six year on News Talk, said Vincent mcavnie out of
the UK. Next Nittanya, who's a wanted man the International
Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant for him. We'll ask him.
Who's actually going to listen. We're going to talk to
Dame Sue Bagshaw just before six. This is about the
puberty block is issue. New guidelines out this morning, and
I have to confess that I'm totally numpty. I'm an
(18:12):
indiot because I just did a whole editorial. I'm talking
about Black Friday, the day where there are huge sales
and it's next week as everyone is texting in to
the show, thank you. I appreciate that. Yes, I got
it wrong. It was very, very stupid of me. I
was having a do you say blonde moment? Anymore? Probably not.
(18:35):
I was having a ditsy moment and I got my
week smuddled up. Okay, So I apologize about that. The
only thing half off was my brain. This morning, twenty
three away from six Bridge, let's go to our more
informed reporters around the country. Calum Proctor is with us
in Dunedin this morning. Calum, some deep earthquakes have been
discovered there.
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Yeah, morning, Ryan, and this is in one of the
country's least so mcley active regions, Southland. Otiga University research
has recorded these quakes buried up to forty kilometers around Southland,
and they've uncovered evidence of hidden faults. Researchers say most
of the shakes were too small to feel, but give
them hints about future quakes in the area. They say
(19:18):
findings will be incorporated into hazard models that will predict
the likelihood of any major shaking in Southland. They can't
determine where one will occur, but it gives them an
idea of how often quakes may happen.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
All right, And how's your weather today?
Speaker 9 (19:31):
Come partly cloudy but otherwise find few showers this evening
for Daned in the high sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Thank you, and she was such a good opinion piece
as well, and a good editorial. I was thinking, you
know you've really nailed that. Got the date wrong? What
an idiot? Anyway, Leo, who's our producer? Let's just save that,
put it online next Friday and no one will know
why waste a good editorial. Twenty two away from six
Let's go to clear. Who's in christ? It's clear? One
last tango for the Court Theater at its temporary home there. Yeah,
(20:00):
we'll call.
Speaker 10 (20:01):
It black Friday here for your sake, Ryan, The last
tango for the Court Theatre's post quake the Shed at
Addington is strictly ballroom the musical. It gets other way
tonight before the theater will move to a new home
on Gloucester Street, just up the roads from us. Here
at ends in me next year. Now. The show runs
until February, while the Court's new building will open its
doors in May.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
To stick.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Director Allison Walls says heaps of thought has gone into
choosing the final show for this important part of the
Court Theatre's history. It's all about having some celebration. She
wanted something that felt like a party, she says. The
show set designer has paid tribute to their temporary home,
the Shed, with its iconic red corrugated steel, making an appearance.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
How's your wea U today, Claire?
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Well Cloud clearing becoming fine this morning, A few showers
by evening, easterlyes and sixteen brilliant.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Thank you max Is and Wellington max A new setback
for the new Crown Observer.
Speaker 11 (20:53):
There, Yeah, Wellington City Council's new Crown Observer is out
of action at the moment. He's come down with COVID
just days.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Before a cruet.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
Yeah, the cursed City Council Lindsay McKenzie. Appointed by the government,
of course, as the council reworks its long term plan.
Travel delays had already forced him to miss his first
official day last week. A council spokesperson says he has
been attending meetings and meeting councilors face to face in
the past few days and now as they prepare to
(21:24):
vote on Tuesday on what projects to cut what to keep,
he has called COVID. He spoke to us directly. He
says he is optimistic he'll be back in time for
that vote, but who knows. Last month, incidentally, met Torrifino
took her time off work with apparently her fourth about
of COVID in just thirteen months. The city council apparently
(21:45):
a hotbed for the virus.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, what cursed is the right word. Next? How's you
wear there? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (21:51):
Mostly fine?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Today?
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Some cloud Southerley's sixteenth Central.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Thank you neighbors and Auckland.
Speaker 12 (21:57):
Hey, Neiver, I am laughing because you're talking about Black Friday,
and I've got to be honest, I thought it was
now too good because and do you know why we're
so confused with it? I think this is the problem.
There have been ads running but for the last two
or three weeks, and a friend of mine reading me
yesterday and she goes, right, you know, I said, what
(22:17):
a shame, it's not pay Friday.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
But let's go.
Speaker 12 (22:20):
Let's go and you know, like get some sales and
get some bargains. And then when I know it's next.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Friday Friday, it's a lot of people are texting him
to say they thought it was tomorrow as well. Just
the sheer number of emails and advertisements at we're getting.
But that is no excuse.
Speaker 12 (22:34):
No, I think you should put that editorial towards the
radio award.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
All right, neither the to the weather in Auckland this morning?
Speaker 12 (22:43):
Now are we looking well, mainly fine this morningday Black
Friday Friday. It's right not We could have been lying,
we could have been in a queue and it wouldn't
have been raining. But however, let's wait for next Friday.
Nineteenth is the high happy Friday.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Someone says, Ryan, your mum now has another week to
save up for a lamp. Nineteen away from six News TALKSI.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Big international correspondence with insign Eye Insurance peace of mind
for New Zealand business.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It is sixteen away from six News TALKSIB Binyamin Nitya
who has been issued well an risked warrant has been
issued for him from the International Criminal Court, but he's
not aligned. Vincent Mekabinnie as a UK europe correspond Vincent,
what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Well?
Speaker 13 (23:27):
The International Criminal Court a few hours ago issued these
arrest warrants for three individuals, one of them the Israeli
Prime Minster Binyamin Netanyahu, and also the former Defence secretary
You've Golant, as well as Mohammad d'ief of Hamas, although
Israel says that he was killed in an air strike
in July. The judges said in their statement there was
(23:49):
reasonable grounds that the three men wore criminal responsibility for
alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war
between Israel and Hamas. But both Israel and Hamas have
rejected these allegations.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
All right, and what are these claims that Russia has
used an intercontinental ballistic missile against Ukraine? Is this being confirmed?
Speaker 13 (24:12):
Yeah, there is some confusion around this claim. The Ukrainian
President Zelenski has come forward and said that the new
rocket was used and says that their intelligence says to
have the characteristics of an ICBM, So that is an
inter continental ballistic missile, the kind of missile that you
would attach a nuclear warhead to and fire it thousands
(24:34):
of kilometers. That would be a new move by Russia.
There's no claim that there was a nuclear warhead attached,
but the Ukrainian Foreign Mindustry is sharing the details and
intelligence they've got on the missile with partners so that
they can ascertain what exactly it was. The US is
disputing this, Russia is saying nothing at the moment. It comes,
(24:54):
of course, with an escalation this week, the attack of
missiles being provided by the US being given approval for
them to fire into Russian territory. These long range missiles
and the UK's storm shadowy missiles similarly also now being
allowed by the British Prime Minister Sikirstama to be allowed
to be shot further into Russia. We know that Russia
(25:16):
updated its nuclear doctrine earlier in the week. That was
seen as a bit of saber rattling. But if they
are using ICBMs, perhaps it is a sign that things
are getting even more tense in the region.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, what's your statesmans, And is it that things are
getting more tints in the region, which I mean obviously
they are, But is it just posturing a head of
Trump coming in and potential deal making. What's your scenes?
Speaker 13 (25:40):
It does feel like posturing. But at all times, you know,
this could be this kind of situation could go incredibly wrong.
I mean that there are you know, new Ukraine. We
know it has you know, the like social novel, it
has other nuclear plants as well. If they're using these
kinds of weapons, if they go off site because you've
shot them down or something, it could cause damage to
(26:01):
infrastructure like that. I mean, it is an alarming because
one mistake one this calculation. If they do fire an
actual ICBM, how has anyone to know if they track
it on a satellite and it's moving, whether or not
it does have a nuclear warhead attached to it or not.
So it does feel like quite a tense moment.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, absolutely, all right, Vincent, thank you very much for that.
Vincent mcavinie, who's our UK europe correspondent, just gone thirteen
minutes away from six rain Bridge. Let's talk about this morning,
including this report from some economists about the state of
our economy and the government's intervention and what they need
to do. Blah blah, blah blah. You would have seen
it probably on our inz yesterday. It was put around
(26:39):
the Herald as well. We'll get to that in a second.
Those terrible cases of poisonings alcohol poisonings over in laos
So at least four people have now died. A further
eleven tourists are in hospital. It's pretty bad and it
all happened at the hostel and the hostel manages as well.
There were one hundred people having these so called vodka shots,
(27:01):
one hundred of them and only a few of them
got sick. And he said he bought the alcohol from
a certified distributor and said he didn't do anything to it,
so he didn't tamper with it, which I guess you
would say. But though investigating that one at the moment.
And Angela Merkele has a memoir coming out and in
it she reveals the advice that the Pope gave her
(27:23):
to deal with Donald Trump, which sounds interesting. You've got
Angela Merkele, you've got the Pope, and you've got Trump.
Apparently his advice was when dealing with Trump, bend, bend, bend,
but to make sure it doesn't break, whatever that means. Anyway,
She said it was a good chat that she had,
but that it was very, very difficult dealing with Donald Trump.
(27:46):
I'll be interested to read that men, while it's coming
out soon. Apparently eleven minutes away from six on news
Talk said b we're going to talk bitcoin and one
man's quest to get it out of the ground in
the UK. It's coming up in just a few minutes.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Ryan Bridge new for twenty twenty four on early edition
with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
News talks. That'd be nine to six news talks. They'd
be great to have your company this morning. You might
have seen this new advice come out from the Ministry
of Health finally releasing its position on the use of
puberty blockers for kids in New Zealand. The cash report
that came out from the UK was very controversial and
said that the research was not there, it wasn't sufficient,
et cetera. So our brief, this is our Ministry of
(28:30):
Health brief says it's found significant limitations in the quality
of evidence for either the benefits or risks or lack thereof,
of the use of puberty blockers. This means there is
insufficient basis to say that puberty blockers are safe, or
that they are reversible or not so. In other words,
we just really have no idea that's for its use
(28:53):
as an intervention for gender dysphoria and adolescents. So the
upside of this is basically we are no wiser than
we were before the report was written, and they need
more research done. It's just gone eight minutes away from
six Bryan Bridge, Right, does everybody know who Carpenter is?
Sabrina Carpenter. She's a New ash musicians of their song.
(29:21):
So she went to film a music video for one
of her new songs and this was in a church,
of all places, and it was quite provocative. This is
in New York. And the New York priests who let
Sabrina Carpenter film the provocative scenes for her music video
inside his church, Well, he's been sacked for obvious reasons.
It's a church. Apparently it showed a crucifix with profanity
(29:44):
printed on it. And also she was dancing on the
altar in a short black dress. Does it sounds very
doesn't sound very church like? Very congregation friendly? Does it
a seven minutes away from six News Talks?
Speaker 6 (29:54):
He'd beg, Bryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Mike is here with us. He is up next, Mike,
Good morning to you. Good morning Ryan.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
How are we feeling this today? But I'm feeling pretty
good actually as life wild turn out. Yeah, I'm looking
outsides of clear blue sky. Weekend is calling. I know
how much you like the weekend, so I just want
to build you up to it.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Not not Black Friday, though, as I have claimed earlier
on saying.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
You made a bit of a dick of yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
What happened to well, I don't know what happened actually, So.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
You claimed it was Blacky.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I said it was black Friday. I did what I
thought was a really good editorial, Mike. And you know
the feeling when you do a good one.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
A lot of people talk about your editorialism, how good
they are. Generally there's a lot of buzz around the usual.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It's bad as much buzz as yours. I'd say, no,
I got more bus Tell me, tell me do you
even shop? Whether shop? No shop period? No, you don't
buy your own clothes. You don't buy your own once.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
No, here's here's the thing. So what happens once once
a year. I go out to see my friend and
I say, I need some of those those those and
then I'm about to do it actually be part of
the consultant, like a consult, shopping consult And I go,
I need some of those, get me some of those,
and then they arrivee and that that's my shopping for
the The only thing I buy on a regular basis
(31:04):
is petrol. Oh yeah, if you look at my if
you look at my credit card, it's got about two
statements per month.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
What about wine or oh you know restaurants or no.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
We don't get out, don't you know? I don't eat
it and I buy a little bit of wine involved.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
So you basically you wouldn't know. You wouldn't care if
there's a sale. One doesn't because I love that feeling
of sale when you get when you can say I've
got seventy percent of something.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
When was the last time you got seventy percent? See
that was about to say one of the problems that
overseas is a big sale thing in New Zealand, it's
you saved gst.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
But have you heard of a place called Brisco's? Probably not.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
I don't play your elitist game with me.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I have I have been.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
I have been to Brisco's and how long it was
like the early nineties. I went to rest Goes and
I saw some stuff there that was on sale. Right,
But to be fair, Risk Goes, I don't think they're
real sales.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
No, it's a it's a it's a gimmick, isn't it.
But it actually is one that works well for them.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
You look at their Yeah, they're a very successful company.
But I'm talking about your your genuine sales where you
save fifty or sixty percent genuinely. Actually, I'll tell you
what I bought recently, Smith and Coey.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, club closing downside.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
They're closing downside.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
What did you I bought it, not the whole story, no,
because I'll tell you what he had.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
They had some genuine bargains on some stuff that I like,
and I know what it normally costs, and I know
what I paid, and we went crazy.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Do you know where you can get some really nice
cologne for cheap? Is the chist? It's the chemist Warehouse?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Yes, I do know that. Have you got the d
C ten? I've got the d C ten. Everyone's got them.
What about the new Missy? The new Missy makes mus
smell like a man with integrity? Apparently it's got am
But notes d C ten Dan Carter when he was
on the show, I said, he came in and I said,
(33:15):
didn't you bring any d C ten and with you?
And he goes and he went rid in the face,
and he went, I actually have it in the car,
but I was too embarrassed to bring it up here
and get Yeah, come keep back down there. And give
me some DC.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Oh, very good. Well we've achieved nothing, but that's that's that.
It was fun. That's fun. I reckon. It was highlight
of the show.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Certainly better than an editorial, a.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Lot more factual than the editorial at half five. Have
a fantastic day, everyone, enjoy Black Friday. Next Friday, Mike's Next.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
For more from early edition with Ryan's Bridge, some live
to news talks. It'd be from five am weekdays, or
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