June 24, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Wednesday the 15th of June 2025, Trump's ceasefire deal between Iran and Israel has fallen apart, Washington Post Columnist Henry Olsen has the latest.
The number of students being disciplined for using or having a weapon at school has more than doubled, PPTA President Chris Abercrombie shares his thoughts.
From February GPs will be able diagnose and treat ADHD, Darrin Bull ADHD New Zealand Spokesperson, shares what a difference it will make.
Plus, UK/ Europe Correspondent Gavin grey has the latest on the ‘Historic’ NATO summit beginning in The Hague.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
an early edition with ex pole insulation. Keeping Kimi Holmes
warm and try this winter news talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning. It is six a half to five.
Nice to have your company this morning. We'll go to
Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen before six. They're worried about
the potential terror attacks on US soil after all this
news out of the Middle East. Gavin Graham the UK
for US this morning. A great story actually about a
Cinderella crook. That's what the tabloids are calling him. He's
(00:31):
been caught phone thief and they never catch these guys.
Bone thief lost his shoe in the robbery. DNA has
tracked him down here in New Zealand. Five hundred kids
last year brought weapons to school. How do we define
a weapon? And ADHD GPS can now diagnose it? Why
is everyone suddenly getting ADHD? What's up with that? We'll
(00:52):
asked that question shortly. It's seven after five. The agenda
and Wednesday, the twenty fifty June. Trump not happy with
a run in Israel. He's accused them both of reaching
the ceasefire.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm not happy with Israel. I'm not happy with the
run either.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
We have two countries that have been fighting so long
and so hard that they don't know what the they're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Anyway, the ceasefire is back on, thankfully, after a brief interlude. Meanwhile,
the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter seems to be buttering
up Trump ahead of his arrival in the Hague for
this year's NATO summit. Trump shared a screenshot of a
message that he claims came from Rutta.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Sir Donald, congratulations and thank you for your decisive action
in Iran. That was truly extraordinary and something no one
else dared to do. It makes us all safer. You're
flying into another big success in the Hague, the Segney.
It was not easy. We've got them all signed onto
five percent.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah. So whether that text was actually from him or not,
we'll find out. I suppose once somebody asked them. Rutteris's
NATO allies have agreed to spend five percent on GDP
on defense, something Trump's been pushing for.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
African General stelling me place not yes, that I'm right,
that's still that has come to war. Affare the beast
is stock bowls of ammunition, ammunition, ammunition, and yes there
we also need, of course the drones and AI and
all the new technology.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
There you go, Trump Juda land there in a couple
of hours. It's two after Sorry, I'm eight minutes after five.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge at expol Insulation keeping Kiwi
homes warm and dry.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
This winter news talk, sa'd be so basically great start
to your morning. Trump's fixed everything while we were sleeping,
isn't that fantastic? Middle East is great again. The ceasefire
broke for a little bit, but back together nitt Ya
who even turned some planes around. Trump was on the
flower to him and he's now on his way to NATO.
As I mentioned, he's made NATO great again. You know,
(02:54):
five percent is the new three percent. We thought we
were doing our bit with getting our defense spending to
two percent. I know we're not in NATO, but five
is the new three, which was the new two. So
we're way behind anyway, all of this happening around the world.
In America, all they're talking about actually is a heat
(03:14):
wave in New York City right now. It is thirty
eight degrees feels like forty one degrees, so you can
understand why they're talking about that and not much anything else.
They're running out of electricity because of the ac luxein's
in the Hague. He's met with Dick Schuff, which is
a mouthful, the last name, not the first part. That's
the Dutch prime minister. Had a little croissant with him,
(03:37):
had a little bun with him, had a little musely
with him last night. So breakfast their time. And if
Luxan does get a meeting with Trump at the NATO summit,
it'll be a big deal. They haven't had a meeting
in person yet the IP four they call them, which
is the end of Pacific four. That chat was supposed
to happen, but then we've seen, as I mentioned yesterday,
Albanese is not going, Japan's prime minister not going, so
(04:00):
Luxon's the only one there. So would the meeting happen
if it was just him, probably not, But if he
gets it, it'll be a big deal. Here we will
continue arguing. I'm sure about Iran, but is anyone actually
listening to us and our parliamentarians probably not. Just gone
ten minutes after five good Ryan Bridge on News Talk
said B Coming up next, we're going to talk about
well X five twenty. We're going to talk to the
(04:22):
PPTA because kids are bringing weapons to school and the
numbers sound really alarming, like five hundred kids a year
are bringing weapons to school? What exactly do they mean
by weapons? Next, it's ADHD and are we over diagnosing
and going to make that problem worse by letting nurse
practitioners do the diagnosing.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis earlier this year with Ryan Bridge and ex Bowl
Insulation keeping Kiwi homes warm and dry this winter news talks,
he'd be.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Five point thirteen on News Talk SEB. We've got the
SEKH Employment report for May. Basically demands up, the job
suppliers down, lot of competition out there, job ads falling
five percent for the month. That's thirty percent lower year
on year as well. This is after the seventh consecutive
month of demand increasing steadily increasing four jobs that's the
(05:14):
number of applications per job. Regions Tartanaki one of the
only ones to record a rise three percent. The West
Coast thirty nine percent increase in job ads, so they
must have been from a low base. Industries down construction sector,
not surprising, engineering roles leading the drop twelve percent month
on month, up call centers two percent and sales one
(05:37):
percent thirteen After five ban from February, GPS and nurse
practitioners will be able to diagnose and treat eighty HD.
So should save people one hundreds of dollars and clear
a backlog of waiting to see a psychiatrist to get
that diagnosis. But the question is do you run the
risk of over diagnosing ADHD. Darren Bill is the ADHD
(05:59):
New Zealand spokesperson on us this morning. Darren, good morning, good.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Morning, How are you doing good?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Thank you? So how long is the backlog? How long
does it take to see a psychiatrist to get your diagnosis?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
At the moment, it depends where you live in New Zealand.
We've had reports anywhere for six months in Auckland to
eighteen months in the South Islands. But it very much
depends where you live.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And the people going to a psychiatrist saying I think
I've got ADHD. Can you diagnose me?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Sometimes that is the starting of the conversation. Other times
is broader mental health issues or other issues they want
to seek helpful.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Do you think this will mean more people get ADHD medication?
I suppose that'll be the logical outcome.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Yes, it is the logical outcome. Access for our community
to get the help and the support will mean that
some will get more medication and it'll be a greater
access to medication. But putting in context though, the number
of people who have been diagnosed in New Zealand compared
to OC standards, according to a Tiger University last year,
is at least half. So we have a massive undiagnosis
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issue here.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
What's what's the percentage of the population overseas that has
ADHD or has been diagnosed with ADHD.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Statistically and I'm rounding, it's you know, four to five
percent and in New Zealand it's around two to two
point two percent of the population.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Okay. And the fact that we've had a tenfold increase
in prescriptions over fifteen odd years is that because people
weren't diagnosed or have we got a whole bunch of
people who are now suddenly ADHD got ADHD? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Look, that's a question I asked most often. It is
the tenfold increase is to be celebrated because it means
people who have ADHD are getting their assistance and care
that they need. In addition, the science around ADHD has
improved remarkably. You know, if you go back, you know,
even fifteen years ago, iheard of that females to get ADHD,
(08:06):
for example, and yet they are exactly they are disposed
or predisposed to ADHD like anybody else in terms of
percentage of population.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
What do you say to people who think this is
all a bit of a myth, you know, people who
say I'm a little bit ADHD and they then they
get it, you know, get it medication, and it's like
you do you actually have ADHD? You know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Yeah, ADHD is not as easy as that. It is
a complicated diagnosis, which is why trained medical professionals are
required to do it and not TikTok or not a
quick online survey. And it has a lot of comorbidity
such as learning disorders, social anxiety and things like that,
so it's not just a simple diagnosis.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Is it kind of annoying that you have all those
TikTok kids going I've got ADHD and they have no prescription,
no diagnosis, and they're just trying to be I don't know,
it's almost trendy to be you know this touch of that.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Yeah, well if I find TikTok annoying full stop. But
it is really annoying and it is also dangerous because
it creates a trend and overseas highlights. Research in the
US highlights how dangerous that can be.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Darren, appreciate your time this morning, Darren Ball ADHD, New
Zealand Spokesperson seventeen after five news talks, there'd be kids
and weapons at school.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Next, the first word on the News of the Day
Early edition with Ryan Bridge and x Bowl Insulation keeping
Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This winter news talk sa'd.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Be Henry Olsen, the Washington Post colonists is very good
on the show. Just before six. How's the politics of
what's happening in the Middle East affecting Trump in the
United States? We'll ask that question Ryan. What rubbish this
is on ADHD. This is from Kirston because now GPS
and nurse practitioners can diagnose it. Almost anyone, says Kirsten,
with anything hard going on in their lives is getting
(09:59):
di nose with ADHD. It's definitely the new trendy thing
to have. Yeah. I think that's true. But they think
there are also people with a genuine ADHD who probably
are on the same waiting list as the trendy ones
who aren't getting seen to Ryan. And this is from Christian,
So Kirsten and Christian Ryan. How's that if you've got ADHD?
Probably quite difficult. Ryan ask if the pills are good
(10:22):
for ADHD please or aren't they a bit like taking meth? Well,
I don't really know. I don't take ADHD medication, but
one would assume it's it's not meth I think we
can safely say that it's five twenty news talks. He'd
be Bryan Bridge. So, kids and weapons coming to classrooms.
This is new information from their official information at request.
(10:45):
The Herald's got its hands on it. Five hundred and
twenty six students have been stood down, suspended or excluded
for having a weapon at school, an eighty percent increase
on numbers recorded in twenty eighteen. A third from Auckland.
Sixty from Hamilton. Chris Abercrombie, the PPTA president, with me
this morning. Chris, good morning, good morning. No definition of
(11:05):
what a weapon is? What are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I mean it could be anything. From a knife or
cases like bbguns, those kinds of things there. But you say,
there's there's no definition for the ministry about what a
weapon is, so it's left that big school to decide what.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Are we talking serious? Like BB guns, knives, what guns?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
So my understanding, there's been no guns, but there's definitely
been knives, bbguns, those kinds of things.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
There.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Could be bringing a chain to school, you know, like
a proper chain, you know, So there's lots of there's
lots of things that could be no definition of what
a weapon.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is, or knuckle dusters kids used to bring to school.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It could absolutely be those kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, so are we how are we finding them? Are
kids braindishing them or are people searching bags? Teach of
what's going on.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Most times, from our experience, what we've been told and
personal experiences other students tell us that so and so
has got a knife, you know, so and so bought
something there tends to be the experience of most people
find in it or a teacher sees it. But it's
very very rare that it's a bag surch or anything
like that.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Okay, we got five h and twenty six students last
year that's an eighty percent increase on five years prior.
I mean we will have had population increase as well.
Kids aren't exactly getting stabbed at school or shot at school?
Is this Did the numbers sound more alarming than they,
you know, than the reality.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I mean, it is a concern. It is a real
concern because you never know what's going to happen. So
people aren't getting sad. You know, it's very rare. It's
wolf shot and it's incredibly rare. But it is a
concern that these things are happening, you know, and it's
definitely an increasing trend. We hear this from teachers and
principles all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Chris. Great to Havevy on the show as always. Chris Abercrombie,
the PPTA president, on kids bringing weapons to school. When
I was at school there, it was knuckle dusters, was
a kind of trendy thing, and never saw a kid
with a gun. You'll be pleased to know. But then
I don't think any student in New Zealand would have
seen a kid bring a gun to school. Would they
maybe a pocket knife? But I don't know. To me,
(13:08):
I mean, it sounds alarming, doesn't it. It sounds alarming, but
I just don't know that it necessarily means that kids
are in any greater danger than they were yesterday. Twenty
three minutes after five. You're on news Talk, so be
coming up next. Just a few things that are outraging
people in New Zealand got everyone quite exercised over the
last week. We'll talk about those next. Also Gavin Gray
(13:29):
in the UK, so we'll get to our reporters after
news at five point thirty and Gavin Gray in the
UK on a great little well. He'll talk about NATO.
All the leaders are arriving en mass as we speak.
Luxeon's already there. Trump's on his way obviously, got Wi
Fi on Air Force one because he's tweeting up a storm.
(13:49):
So we'll talk to Gavin Gray out of the UK
and what's happening at NATO, but also the story about
the cinder Ralla thief in London.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
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Speaker 2 (14:04):
News Talks MB twenty six minutes after five. It's just
amazing the sheer breadth and diversity of things that people
get outraged by in any given week in New Zealand.
Brian tammocky at the weekend, who, after literally decades taking
to the streets and stirring the pot nobody should be
outraged by. But here we are. Yesterday it was a
bunch of chicks in bikinis rolling around in cow's milk,
(14:28):
trying to make a buck on OnlyFans. Did you see
this story? The police were called. Somebody called the police. Yes,
I kid you not. Couple of lasses bikini clad making
some wholesome down on the farm country style content and
safe gets involved. There's your first problem. Then MPI gets
(14:48):
involved and MPI contacts police. What on earth are the
police going to do with two girls one cow? Who
on earth would they arrest anyway? Some might say the
cow was lucky to be milked. Besides, what is more indecent,
girls in bikinis or the naked cow? The answer, of course,
(15:09):
is rather simple. Police will do nothing. MPI will do
nothing because there's actually nothing to do anything about. Same
goes for Brian and his gang of thugs to be
fear to him and to them. I didn't pay much
attention and fat didn't pay any attention to them at
the weekend because I was enjoying my long weekend too
busy having a good time. But from what I've read,
(15:30):
we had some flags burnt, we had signs waved about.
People are calling for hate speech, laws and restrictions on speech,
all sorts of stuff. Guess what. That also won't happen,
and nor should it. The bar for criminal charges is
rightly high in a situation like this. People must be
free to air the views, no matter how distasteful or
(15:51):
wrong they might be. Boils must be lanced, so long
as they lanced peacefully. Besides, you don't have to look
far into the World section of your newspaper this morning
for a glimpse of why we should value freedom of expression. Russia, Iran, anybody.
As for the other story, as long as as the
(16:11):
cows not being misteated, I'm here for it and bread
bred blighter bomb twenty eight minutes after five and talk send.
We're going to get to our reporters around the country shortly,
and we will also speak to Gavin Gray, who's in
the UK for US, and we'll speak to our Washington
Post columnist Henry Olsen. We've had him on the show before.
He is quite good, has some pretty good insights into
(16:34):
what's happening in American politics. Are they actually paying attention?
Do they care what's going on in the Middle East?
Because I turned on a couple of networks this morning,
American networks, and they're talking about the weather. To be fair,
there is a heat wave. It is hot there, but
they're not so much talking well, certainly not talking as
(16:54):
much about it. What's happening in the Middle East as
we have been over the last couple of days. And
the toilet and Wellington. We spoke about this briefly yesterday,
but two point three million dollars and people wonder why
Wellington is the laughing stock of New Zealand right now?
Two point three million dollars for a toilet. Go and
have a look at the Herald today and you can
(17:15):
see the photo. Is it worth it? Apparently this is
being designed by an architect. It looks like a box
to me, a box somewhere you go and do your
business like any old toilet. Us talk ZIB.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and Expole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry.
This Winter News Talks AB.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Ten seven True Nobody Knows.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Good Morning twenty four Away from six News Talks AB
We're going to get to a Washington Post on the
Henry Olsten before six this morning. Gavin Gray out of
the UK for US as NATO kicks off. Trump on
his way there right now.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
By the way, the price of oil continuing to drop,
and S and P five hundred now approaching a record high.
So stocks are back, baby. How quickly we get over
things while investors get over things, I should say. And
maybe we're used to stuff, you know now in the
Trump era where everything is up and then it's down,
and it's sideways and then it's you don't know which
(18:26):
way is up. You know, the fate of the world
hangs on every tweet or truth social post. Maybe there's
a bit of resilience, a bit of tolerance in the
markets because they bounce back pretty quickly. They did after
the tariff tariff wars, trade wars, which by the way,
is still happening apparently, and they have a matter of
(18:47):
hours after ceasefire in the Middle East which is still
holding despite a few incursions here and there. Twenty three
away from six Ryan Bred reporters around the country, and
we're starting to need this morning with Colum Colum Good
morning morning, right now You've got a couple of changes
to public transport there.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Yeah, look, changes that are proposed by the regional Council.
They'll decide today whether to discontinue free children's bus fares,
increase adult fares, amongst other changes at a meeting today.
This report by a hearings panel recommends raising the adult
fair from two dollars to two dollars fifty. Council will
also consider adding new services connecting Wonica and Upper Klufa,
(19:28):
Wonica and Queenstown, Omoru and Dunedin, but despite community interest
in rail solutions, the panels decided there's not enough evidence
to include rail in this plan, and any changes to
public transport in the region will be implemented in September.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
All right, how's the weather column?
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Frosty start for some sheltered places again this morning, but
fine today, cloud increasing and sixteen.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Today A nice to have a good one, Collum, Thank you,
clais Than christ Church clear, good morning, Good morning Selwyn district,
go and grow and growing and growing quite from. Strated
with the government over lack of money for infrastructure.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Yeah well.
Speaker 11 (20:03):
Mayor Sam Broughton says a lack of health funding is
the biggest challenge for the region. The population of Salwyn
is about eighty five thousand, although that's expected to double
within the next thirty years. Sam Broughton says the recent
one hundred and eight million dollars boost for schools in
the area is really good, but they do need more investment,
particularly in areas like healthcare. He says, for example, thirty
(20:24):
percent of Salwyn residents have to travel outside of the
district for a GP. He thinks people should be able
to see a GP in their own township, but the
weightlists are in the hundreds and sometimes the weightlists wait
times rather are weeks. Transport's also failing to keep pace
with the growth there.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
He says.
Speaker 11 (20:41):
The recent one hundred and twenty five million dollars for
State Highway one through Rolliston is just simply not enough.
He says they were counting on NZTA to co fund
some other projects as well, and wants the thirty million
dollars to be reinvested there.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
All right, how's your weather fine?
Speaker 11 (20:57):
With high cloud today northeasterly strengthening those seventeen degrees roy.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Clear, Thank you mix and Wellington home X. Good morning
now at Faro Bay, this bones or body that was
remains discovered in someone's backyard.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Yeah, rather shocking discovery in or feed or bay in
the last few days. That's the suburb close to the
Southern coast along the well rather ironically named Happy Valley Road.
On a Sunday, the homeowner doing a bit of gardening
clearly made something of a concerning discovery. Bones you'd assume
police were called in on Monday. Forensic experts were digging
(21:31):
up the soil. A lot of people driving past noticed this,
and a word began to spread. A little a week
called wind, called police, and then by lunchtime yesterday it
was confirmed as human remains. How old they are, who why,
we don't know yet. They could have been there one
hundred years or ten. The locals we've spoken to, though,
are understandably shocked and just have questions at the moment, Hey, did.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You go and use the toilet? You know, the two
point three million dollar toilet? Did you go and check
it out?
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Mix a nice conversation start. I've will past them. I
haven't been in, thankfully, I suppose. But the light show
is rather flashy.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Sure, yeah, you'd want the light show being the flashy
thing at the toilet's putting you.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Want attention drawn to you as you go use the facilities.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Can you just pop in there, have a little just
check it out, make sure they're clean, and just report
back to us tomorrow or the next They're like Hunter S.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Thompson, Sure, yeah, cool, thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
How's you with them?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
But cloudy with drizzle, drizzle and strong winds today fourteen
the high central.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Nice one, thank you, have a good day. And NIVA's
here in Auckland. Hey, Neva, good morning. Now the Ikea
store that is coming here? When is it coming? Must
be so nice?
Speaker 12 (22:42):
Well, yes, it's apparently it's going to be opening later
this year. They see late twenty twenty five, so yeah,
sometime soon.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
And lots of jobs, lots of jobs.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
Look, fifteen thousand people applied for jobs. Now this is
the first store in New Zealand Ikea Sylvia Park. Ikea
is now hiring five hundred stuff So the Swedish retailer
originally planned to hire four hundred workers, but that's now
going to be expanded. Yeah, that's what they're saying. Is
going to be open later this year. So far they've
(23:12):
employed sixty six people. Fifteen thousand applicants. Mind you that's
not a surprise, so.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Really given, no, not when you're many people and people
do like the brand, yes, and the job market the
way it is at the moment. You know, we saw
those sick numbers this morning, so that kind of tallies up,
doesn't it.
Speaker 12 (23:29):
Absolutely? And look, employees, they will have access to fifteen
percent discount on Ikea products and get a load of
this five weeks of paid and you'll leave.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's pretty good. That is really good in a way.
When it's built. We all work for IQA, don't we.
Because you have to pull your stuff together yourself.
Speaker 12 (23:49):
I used to go overseas, this is years ago, and
I'd bring back, you know, the flat packs and things
like that and my suitcase. Yes, and then I would,
you know, like have drinks at my and then I
just you know, say to my friends, come over, come over,
come and have some drinks. And then they turn up
and then I'd say, look at these flat packs, come
and join me, Come and pull up some of these
(24:10):
things for me.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And they did.
Speaker 12 (24:12):
Mind you over a few drinks.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You know, it can be fun. It can be fun. Yes,
So to the fourteen and a half thousand people about
to miss out on a job, at Aikia. Don't worry.
Neva's got one for you. How's our weather?
Speaker 12 (24:25):
Here is a morning foul good news. So there's going
to clear rap to fine spell seventeen the high here
in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Nice one, thanks Neva. It is seventeen minutes away from
six News Talks. Here'd be Gavin Gray and the UK
for US. Next the Cinderella thief story, which I quite
like out of London because everyone you know in London
they steal your phones. The thieves run along, grab your
phone and then run off and normally no one catches them.
Well someone's been caught.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
International Correspondence with ends and eye insurance, Peace of mind
for New Zealand Business New Talks.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
There'll be fourteen minutes away from six and in Amsterdam
Air Force one and just touchdown. Trump about to stiff
out of the plane and hit to NATO. It's a
historic medding course. A lot on the agenda. You've got
defense spending. They're up on debts, Ukraine, Gaza, Israel around,
I mean, you name it, it's on the list. Kevin
Gray are UK Europe correspondent. Gavin Goods. Morning, good evening
to you, hither Rod.
Speaker 13 (25:18):
Yeah, it's certainly going to be an important meeting. It's
the first Trump NATO summit since twenty nineteen, and he's
going to be delighted, I think, with what he sees
because it looks like all thirty two leaders are set
to commit to spending five percent of national output on
defense and related infrastructure. At least that is the hope,
because there are some that are going to really try
(25:38):
and wriggle out of this. Spain incidentally one of them.
Spain spends very little of its gross domestic product. It's
at the bottom of the list when it comes to
defense spending, and it's trying to wiggle out, saying, well,
it can't afford it. It'll have to cut back on
pensions and benefits as well. But there's definitely pressure on
Spain to get back in, and Belgium too, apparently showing
(25:59):
some regal room with that, but also ringing Donald Trump's
ears or well not quite, because it was posted by
Donald Trump. Is a private message that the NATO Secretary
General Mark Rutter has sent him in a pre summit
message lavishing praise on his handling of the Western Alliance,
and it says, and I quote, you're flying into another
big success in the Hague this evening. It was not easy,
(26:21):
but we got them all signed up to five percent.
He's congratulated Trump on his quote decisive action in Iran
that was truly extraordinary in something no one else dared
to do. It makes us safer. Asked whether he was
embarrassed at this private message had been made public, he
said not at all. Other people will be deeply embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I mean, you've got if you're going to send the
ticks to Donald Trump, you've got to expect that it's
gonna end up or potentially end up on the public domain.
Don't you say you can't be too surprised. Hey, I
love the story the Cinderella crooking in the UK.
Speaker 13 (26:54):
Yeah, an amazing story. This so a man who was
basic cle riding on an e bike suddenly snatched the
phone out of somebody's hand in East London on la
Gate Hill back in August of last year. Now he
was tackled by members of the public, having stolen the
handset from the victim's hand, and in the struggle to
(27:17):
get back on the bike, this man, a twenty eight
year old, lost a trainer one of his shoes. Now
he continued, however, wearing one shoe and managed to get away. However, yes,
you guessed it. DNA analysis now looked at the single shoe,
the so called Cinderella shoe, and matched the DNA on it.
(27:37):
They found there was just enough DNA on the shoe.
Found there was just enough to match it to an
existing profile of a thief on the national database. And
a twenty eight year old man has now been found
guilty at that and he's now going to be sentenced
in a couple of months time. The forensic marinager of
the City of London Police said, this really is a
(28:00):
Cinderella story. This slipper fitted our Cinderella and we produced
a hit to a man who has profile had previously
been up to loaded with those in criminal activity.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Good good, it's good to hear that one of them
is finally being courts. Thanks so much for that, Kevin
grat UK, you're correspondent. It's eleven away from six Bryan Bridge.
So the ceasefire that Trump declared the creed is currently holding,
but was broken for a moment while we slept last
night and led to this outburst from Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I'm not happy with Israel. I'm not happy with the
run either.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
We have two countries that have been.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Fighting so long and so hard that they.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Don't know what the they're doing.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So since then Nitnya, who was sending warplanes, they've been
turned around. There were a few bombs dropped, but it
seems that they've come back from the brink. So as
Trump is about to step out of Air Force one
at Amsterdam Airport and go to Nate, he does he
have the wind that his backside to speak. Henry Elsen
(29:04):
is a columnist in the United States and is with
us this morning. Henry, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
We thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
How do Americans feel about Trump getting involved? You know,
are they paying attention to this in the way that
the rest of the world is.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
He's paying a lot of attention to it, you know.
The pole suggests that the people who didn't like Trump
coming in don't approve of his action with respect to Iran,
but his base does, and his party does. The fact
is that Republicans and people who voted for him overwhelmingly
support him, and that's really what he needs. He also
has a lot of understanding and praise for at least
(29:43):
brokering a ceasefire and for ending what every administration going
back thirty years has said is an unacceptable threat that
Iron holds nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
If you, I suppose that you can come away with
setting the nuclear program back a couple of years, if
you can come away with Israel feeling got about themselves
and with no further US involvement in the region, then
that is a massive win for US president, right, It would.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Be a massive win. The question, though, is if all
you do is kick the program back a couple of years,
then you still have a question that it's unacceptable to
the United States that are on possess a nuclear weapon.
If all you do is kick the nuclear program into
low gear, then the next president is going to have
to make a difficult decision as to what to do,
(30:33):
and may have to make the same decision the President
Trump did. But at the at least in the medium
in short term, this appears to be a huge win
both the United States sent to the President.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Hey, Henry, big heat wave heading the States. At the
moment I was looking in New York, it was felt
like forty one degrees celsius to us.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
Very hot for you guys, very and it's a primary
election day. For the New York Democratic mayoral primary. We'll
see whether enough people decide to stay home rather than
go out in such a heat, hot and humid weather.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see what happens with Kumo
having a second bite of the cherry. Eight minutes away
from eight. That's Henry Olsen, who's an American columnist with
us this morning Trump. By the way, he's just got
off his plane off Air Force One. He's wearing a
cap that's his USA, and he's getting into his what
do they call it, the monster, his his limo and
(31:28):
heading to NATO. Now, it's eight minutes to six NEWSTALKSB.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Mike Next on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early
Edition with Ryan Bridge and x Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi
Holmes warm and dry this Winter News TALKSB.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Six away from Sex News Talk B, and Mike is
in the studio. He's with us next, Mike, Good morning.
Speaker 14 (31:51):
So I took to school. My granddad used to work
for farmers co Op back when it was a grain
and seed thing.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
And God, they're going back we are.
Speaker 14 (32:03):
They used to travel to far flung places in the
days when traveling to far flong places was like you know,
you just Australia was like as good as it got.
But my granddaddy went to like Mongolia and China and Mauritius.
And each time they'd go away, they go, what would
you like us to bring you back as a gift?
(32:23):
And so I came up with increasingly random things. And
so one year they were going to Finland, and so
I looked up what does Finland do that they could bring?
And I see, get me a sheath knife. And you
took it to school and I took it to school.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Did you get in trouble?
Speaker 14 (32:39):
Not particularly?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Do you think kids are taking I mean when they
say weapons, I'm a little That's what I'm saying a
little skeptical of the story this morning. If you're just
catching up an eighty percent increase, gosh, it sounds shocking.
But since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 14 (32:53):
Exactly, it's over a long period of time. There's a
couple of hundred cases. And there's probably some kids whose
grandparents went to Finland and they said, here's your sheath knife,
and you take it along to school and you go, look, guys,
look what I've got.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Now.
Speaker 14 (33:05):
There was no intent, there was no drama, there was
no nothing.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Well, no one's been stabbed, are they. We're not getting
here nines about kids being stabbed at school. But when
I was a kid, it was knuckle dusters. Did you
have those?
Speaker 14 (33:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, Well I didn't personally have no knuckle dusters,
but you had the knuckle dusters and the other thing.
I mean, in all seriousness, the worst case of it.
It was a primary school. A kid attacked another kid
with a hammer.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
So this is a.
Speaker 14 (33:26):
Woodwork So when after with a hammer got them in
the head and primary school it's at Alban's primary so
the ambulance was called, the police were involved. We were
like ten year olds. We'd never seen anything like it.
The kid we never saw them again. But I mean,
you know, they was in the woodwork class, for goodness sake, So.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Which goes to show that anything can be a weapon too.
Speaker 14 (33:43):
Everything anything can be what you don't want is nutty kids,
No exactly. So I mean, do we have a story
here this morning or what is it a sheath knife?
Is it a hammer?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I think it's a non starter. We'll see your next
Mike and see you tomorrow. I'm don't away got no
reason not to celebrate it, baby, I'm just learn away.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live
to news talks it'd be from five am weekdays, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
an early edition with ex pole insulation. Keeping Kimi Holmes
warm and try this winter news talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be good morning. It is six a half to five.
Nice to have your company this morning. We'll go to
Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen before six. They're worried about
the potential terror attacks on US soil after all this
news out of the Middle East. Gavin Graham the UK
for US this morning. A great story actually about a
Cinderella crook. That's what the tabloids are calling him. He's
(00:31):
been caught phone thief and they never catch these guys.
Bone thief lost his shoe in the robbery. DNA has
tracked him down here in New Zealand. Five hundred kids
last year brought weapons to school. How do we define
a weapon? And ADHD GPS can now diagnose it? Why
is everyone suddenly getting ADHD? What's up with that? We'll
(00:52):
asked that question shortly. It's seven after five. The agenda
and Wednesday, the twenty fifty June. Trump not happy with
a run in Israel. He's accused them both of reaching
the ceasefire.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm not happy with Israel. I'm not happy with the
run either.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
We have two countries that have been fighting so long
and so hard that they don't know what the they're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Anyway, the ceasefire is back on, thankfully, after a brief interlude. Meanwhile,
the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter seems to be buttering
up Trump ahead of his arrival in the Hague for
this year's NATO summit. Trump shared a screenshot of a
message that he claims came from Rutta.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Sir Donald, congratulations and thank you for your decisive action
in Iran. That was truly extraordinary and something no one
else dared to do. It makes us all safer. You're
flying into another big success in the Hague, the Segney.
It was not easy. We've got them all signed onto
five percent.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah. So whether that text was actually from him or not,
we'll find out. I suppose once somebody asked them. Rutteris's
NATO allies have agreed to spend five percent on GDP
on defense, something Trump's been pushing for.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
African General stelling me place not yes, that I'm right,
that's still that has come to war. Affare the beast
is stock bowls of ammunition, ammunition, ammunition, and yes there
we also need, of course the drones and AI and
all the new technology.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
There you go, Trump Juda land there in a couple
of hours. It's two after Sorry, I'm eight minutes after five.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge at expol Insulation keeping Kiwi
homes warm and dry.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
This winter news talk, sa'd be so basically great start
to your morning. Trump's fixed everything while we were sleeping,
isn't that fantastic? Middle East is great again. The ceasefire
broke for a little bit, but back together nitt Ya
who even turned some planes around. Trump was on the
flower to him and he's now on his way to NATO.
As I mentioned, he's made NATO great again. You know,
(02:54):
five percent is the new three percent. We thought we
were doing our bit with getting our defense spending to
two percent. I know we're not in NATO, but five
is the new three, which was the new two. So
we're way behind anyway, all of this happening around the world.
In America, all they're talking about actually is a heat
(03:14):
wave in New York City right now. It is thirty
eight degrees feels like forty one degrees, so you can
understand why they're talking about that and not much anything else.
They're running out of electricity because of the ac luxein's
in the Hague. He's met with Dick Schuff, which is
a mouthful, the last name, not the first part. That's
the Dutch prime minister. Had a little croissant with him,
(03:37):
had a little bun with him, had a little musely
with him last night. So breakfast their time. And if
Luxan does get a meeting with Trump at the NATO summit,
it'll be a big deal. They haven't had a meeting
in person yet the IP four they call them, which
is the end of Pacific four. That chat was supposed
to happen, but then we've seen, as I mentioned yesterday,
Albanese is not going, Japan's prime minister not going, so
(04:00):
Luxon's the only one there. So would the meeting happen
if it was just him, probably not, But if he
gets it, it'll be a big deal. Here we will
continue arguing. I'm sure about Iran, but is anyone actually
listening to us and our parliamentarians probably not. Just gone
ten minutes after five good Ryan Bridge on News Talk
said B Coming up next, we're going to talk about
well X five twenty. We're going to talk to the
(04:22):
PPTA because kids are bringing weapons to school and the
numbers sound really alarming, like five hundred kids a year
are bringing weapons to school? What exactly do they mean
by weapons? Next, it's ADHD and are we over diagnosing
and going to make that problem worse by letting nurse
practitioners do the diagnosing.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The news you need this morning and the in depth
analysis earlier this year with Ryan Bridge and ex Bowl
Insulation keeping Kiwi homes warm and dry this winter news talks,
he'd be.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Five point thirteen on News Talk SEB. We've got the
SEKH Employment report for May. Basically demands up, the job
suppliers down, lot of competition out there, job ads falling
five percent for the month. That's thirty percent lower year
on year as well. This is after the seventh consecutive
month of demand increasing steadily increasing four jobs that's the
(05:14):
number of applications per job. Regions Tartanaki one of the
only ones to record a rise three percent. The West
Coast thirty nine percent increase in job ads, so they
must have been from a low base. Industries down construction sector,
not surprising, engineering roles leading the drop twelve percent month
on month, up call centers two percent and sales one
(05:37):
percent thirteen After five ban from February, GPS and nurse
practitioners will be able to diagnose and treat eighty HD.
So should save people one hundreds of dollars and clear
a backlog of waiting to see a psychiatrist to get
that diagnosis. But the question is do you run the
risk of over diagnosing ADHD. Darren Bill is the ADHD
(05:59):
New Zealand spokesperson on us this morning. Darren, good morning, good.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Morning, How are you doing good?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Thank you? So how long is the backlog? How long
does it take to see a psychiatrist to get your diagnosis?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
At the moment, it depends where you live in New Zealand.
We've had reports anywhere for six months in Auckland to
eighteen months in the South Islands. But it very much
depends where you live.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
And the people going to a psychiatrist saying I think
I've got ADHD. Can you diagnose me?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Sometimes that is the starting of the conversation. Other times
is broader mental health issues or other issues they want
to seek helpful.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Do you think this will mean more people get ADHD medication?
I suppose that'll be the logical outcome.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Yes, it is the logical outcome. Access for our community
to get the help and the support will mean that
some will get more medication and it'll be a greater
access to medication. But putting in context though, the number
of people who have been diagnosed in New Zealand compared
to OC standards, according to a Tiger University last year,
is at least half. So we have a massive undiagnosis
(07:07):
issue here.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
What's what's the percentage of the population overseas that has
ADHD or has been diagnosed with ADHD.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Statistically and I'm rounding, it's you know, four to five
percent and in New Zealand it's around two to two
point two percent of the population.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Okay. And the fact that we've had a tenfold increase
in prescriptions over fifteen odd years is that because people
weren't diagnosed or have we got a whole bunch of
people who are now suddenly ADHD got ADHD? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Look, that's a question I asked most often. It is
the tenfold increase is to be celebrated because it means
people who have ADHD are getting their assistance and care
that they need. In addition, the science around ADHD has
improved remarkably. You know, if you go back, you know,
even fifteen years ago, iheard of that females to get ADHD,
(08:06):
for example, and yet they are exactly they are disposed
or predisposed to ADHD like anybody else in terms of
percentage of population.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
What do you say to people who think this is
all a bit of a myth, you know, people who
say I'm a little bit ADHD and they then they
get it, you know, get it medication, and it's like
you do you actually have ADHD? You know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Yeah, ADHD is not as easy as that. It is
a complicated diagnosis, which is why trained medical professionals are
required to do it and not TikTok or not a
quick online survey. And it has a lot of comorbidity
such as learning disorders, social anxiety and things like that,
so it's not just a simple diagnosis.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Is it kind of annoying that you have all those
TikTok kids going I've got ADHD and they have no prescription,
no diagnosis, and they're just trying to be I don't know,
it's almost trendy to be you know this touch of that.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Yeah, well if I find TikTok annoying full stop. But
it is really annoying and it is also dangerous because
it creates a trend and overseas highlights. Research in the
US highlights how dangerous that can be.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Darren, appreciate your time this morning, Darren Ball ADHD, New
Zealand Spokesperson seventeen after five news talks, there'd be kids
and weapons at school.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Next, the first word on the News of the Day
Early edition with Ryan Bridge and x Bowl Insulation keeping
Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This winter news talk sa'd.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Be Henry Olsen, the Washington Post colonists is very good
on the show. Just before six. How's the politics of
what's happening in the Middle East affecting Trump in the
United States? We'll ask that question Ryan. What rubbish this
is on ADHD. This is from Kirston because now GPS
and nurse practitioners can diagnose it. Almost anyone, says Kirsten,
with anything hard going on in their lives is getting
(09:59):
di nose with ADHD. It's definitely the new trendy thing
to have. Yeah. I think that's true. But they think
there are also people with a genuine ADHD who probably
are on the same waiting list as the trendy ones
who aren't getting seen to Ryan. And this is from Christian,
So Kirsten and Christian Ryan. How's that if you've got ADHD?
Probably quite difficult. Ryan ask if the pills are good
(10:22):
for ADHD please or aren't they a bit like taking meth? Well,
I don't really know. I don't take ADHD medication, but
one would assume it's it's not meth I think we
can safely say that it's five twenty news talks. He'd
be Bryan Bridge. So, kids and weapons coming to classrooms.
This is new information from their official information at request.
(10:45):
The Herald's got its hands on it. Five hundred and
twenty six students have been stood down, suspended or excluded
for having a weapon at school, an eighty percent increase
on numbers recorded in twenty eighteen. A third from Auckland.
Sixty from Hamilton. Chris Abercrombie, the PPTA president, with me
this morning. Chris, good morning, good morning. No definition of
(11:05):
what a weapon is? What are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I mean it could be anything. From a knife or
cases like bbguns, those kinds of things there. But you say,
there's there's no definition for the ministry about what a
weapon is, so it's left that big school to decide what.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Are we talking serious? Like BB guns, knives, what guns?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
So my understanding, there's been no guns, but there's definitely
been knives, bbguns, those kinds of things.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
There.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Could be bringing a chain to school, you know, like
a proper chain, you know, So there's lots of there's
lots of things that could be no definition of what
a weapon.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Is, or knuckle dusters kids used to bring to school.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It could absolutely be those kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, so are we how are we finding them? Are
kids braindishing them or are people searching bags? Teach of
what's going on.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Most times, from our experience, what we've been told and
personal experiences other students tell us that so and so
has got a knife, you know, so and so bought
something there tends to be the experience of most people
find in it or a teacher sees it. But it's
very very rare that it's a bag surch or anything
like that.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Okay, we got five h and twenty six students last
year that's an eighty percent increase on five years prior.
I mean we will have had population increase as well.
Kids aren't exactly getting stabbed at school or shot at school?
Is this Did the numbers sound more alarming than they,
you know, than the reality.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I mean, it is a concern. It is a real
concern because you never know what's going to happen. So
people aren't getting sad. You know, it's very rare. It's
wolf shot and it's incredibly rare. But it is a
concern that these things are happening, you know, and it's
definitely an increasing trend. We hear this from teachers and
principles all the time.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Chris. Great to Havevy on the show as always. Chris Abercrombie,
the PPTA president, on kids bringing weapons to school. When
I was at school there, it was knuckle dusters, was
a kind of trendy thing, and never saw a kid
with a gun. You'll be pleased to know. But then
I don't think any student in New Zealand would have
seen a kid bring a gun to school. Would they
maybe a pocket knife? But I don't know. To me,
(13:08):
I mean, it sounds alarming, doesn't it. It sounds alarming, but
I just don't know that it necessarily means that kids
are in any greater danger than they were yesterday. Twenty
three minutes after five. You're on news Talk, so be
coming up next. Just a few things that are outraging
people in New Zealand got everyone quite exercised over the
last week. We'll talk about those next. Also Gavin Gray
(13:29):
in the UK, so we'll get to our reporters after
news at five point thirty and Gavin Gray in the
UK on a great little well. He'll talk about NATO.
All the leaders are arriving en mass as we speak.
Luxeon's already there. Trump's on his way obviously, got Wi
Fi on Air Force one because he's tweeting up a storm.
(13:49):
So we'll talk to Gavin Gray out of the UK
and what's happening at NATO, but also the story about
the cinder Ralla thief in London.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
The early edition full the show podcast I Am Radio
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Speaker 2 (14:04):
News Talks MB twenty six minutes after five. It's just
amazing the sheer breadth and diversity of things that people
get outraged by in any given week in New Zealand.
Brian tammocky at the weekend, who, after literally decades taking
to the streets and stirring the pot nobody should be
outraged by. But here we are. Yesterday it was a
bunch of chicks in bikinis rolling around in cow's milk,
(14:28):
trying to make a buck on OnlyFans. Did you see
this story? The police were called. Somebody called the police. Yes,
I kid you not. Couple of lasses bikini clad making
some wholesome down on the farm country style content and
safe gets involved. There's your first problem. Then MPI gets
(14:48):
involved and MPI contacts police. What on earth are the
police going to do with two girls one cow? Who
on earth would they arrest anyway? Some might say the
cow was lucky to be milked. Besides, what is more indecent,
girls in bikinis or the naked cow? The answer, of course,
(15:09):
is rather simple. Police will do nothing. MPI will do
nothing because there's actually nothing to do anything about. Same
goes for Brian and his gang of thugs to be
fear to him and to them. I didn't pay much
attention and fat didn't pay any attention to them at
the weekend because I was enjoying my long weekend too
busy having a good time. But from what I've read,
(15:30):
we had some flags burnt, we had signs waved about.
People are calling for hate speech, laws and restrictions on speech,
all sorts of stuff. Guess what. That also won't happen,
and nor should it. The bar for criminal charges is
rightly high in a situation like this. People must be
free to air the views, no matter how distasteful or
(15:51):
wrong they might be. Boils must be lanced, so long
as they lanced peacefully. Besides, you don't have to look
far into the World section of your newspaper this morning
for a glimpse of why we should value freedom of expression. Russia, Iran, anybody.
As for the other story, as long as as the
(16:11):
cows not being misteated, I'm here for it and bread
bred blighter bomb twenty eight minutes after five and talk send.
We're going to get to our reporters around the country shortly,
and we will also speak to Gavin Gray, who's in
the UK for US, and we'll speak to our Washington
Post columnist Henry Olsen. We've had him on the show before.
He is quite good, has some pretty good insights into
(16:34):
what's happening in American politics. Are they actually paying attention?
Do they care what's going on in the Middle East?
Because I turned on a couple of networks this morning,
American networks, and they're talking about the weather. To be fair,
there is a heat wave. It is hot there, but
they're not so much talking well, certainly not talking as
(16:54):
much about it. What's happening in the Middle East as
we have been over the last couple of days. And
the toilet and Wellington. We spoke about this briefly yesterday,
but two point three million dollars and people wonder why
Wellington is the laughing stock of New Zealand right now?
Two point three million dollars for a toilet. Go and
have a look at the Herald today and you can
(17:15):
see the photo. Is it worth it? Apparently this is
being designed by an architect. It looks like a box
to me, a box somewhere you go and do your
business like any old toilet. Us talk ZIB.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
Bridge and Expole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry.
This Winter News Talks AB.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Ten seven True Nobody Knows.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Good Morning twenty four Away from six News Talks AB
We're going to get to a Washington Post on the
Henry Olsten before six this morning. Gavin Gray out of
the UK for US as NATO kicks off. Trump on
his way there right now.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
By the way, the price of oil continuing to drop,
and S and P five hundred now approaching a record high.
So stocks are back, baby. How quickly we get over
things while investors get over things, I should say. And
maybe we're used to stuff, you know now in the
Trump era where everything is up and then it's down,
and it's sideways and then it's you don't know which
(18:26):
way is up. You know, the fate of the world
hangs on every tweet or truth social post. Maybe there's
a bit of resilience, a bit of tolerance in the
markets because they bounce back pretty quickly. They did after
the tariff tariff wars, trade wars, which by the way,
is still happening apparently, and they have a matter of
(18:47):
hours after ceasefire in the Middle East which is still
holding despite a few incursions here and there. Twenty three
away from six Ryan Bred reporters around the country, and
we're starting to need this morning with Colum Colum Good
morning morning, right now You've got a couple of changes
to public transport there.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Yeah, look, changes that are proposed by the regional Council.
They'll decide today whether to discontinue free children's bus fares,
increase adult fares, amongst other changes at a meeting today.
This report by a hearings panel recommends raising the adult
fair from two dollars to two dollars fifty. Council will
also consider adding new services connecting Wonica and Upper Klufa,
(19:28):
Wonica and Queenstown, Omoru and Dunedin, but despite community interest
in rail solutions, the panels decided there's not enough evidence
to include rail in this plan, and any changes to
public transport in the region will be implemented in September.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
All right, how's the weather column?
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Frosty start for some sheltered places again this morning, but
fine today, cloud increasing and sixteen.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Today A nice to have a good one, Collum, Thank you,
clais Than christ Church clear, good morning, Good morning Selwyn district,
go and grow and growing and growing quite from. Strated
with the government over lack of money for infrastructure.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Yeah well.
Speaker 11 (20:03):
Mayor Sam Broughton says a lack of health funding is
the biggest challenge for the region. The population of Salwyn
is about eighty five thousand, although that's expected to double
within the next thirty years. Sam Broughton says the recent
one hundred and eight million dollars boost for schools in
the area is really good, but they do need more investment,
particularly in areas like healthcare. He says, for example, thirty
(20:24):
percent of Salwyn residents have to travel outside of the
district for a GP. He thinks people should be able
to see a GP in their own township, but the
weightlists are in the hundreds and sometimes the weightlists wait
times rather are weeks. Transport's also failing to keep pace
with the growth there.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
He says.
Speaker 11 (20:41):
The recent one hundred and twenty five million dollars for
State Highway one through Rolliston is just simply not enough.
He says they were counting on NZTA to co fund
some other projects as well, and wants the thirty million
dollars to be reinvested there.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
All right, how's your weather fine?
Speaker 11 (20:57):
With high cloud today northeasterly strengthening those seventeen degrees roy.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Clear, Thank you mix and Wellington home X. Good morning
now at Faro Bay, this bones or body that was
remains discovered in someone's backyard.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
Yeah, rather shocking discovery in or feed or bay in
the last few days. That's the suburb close to the
Southern coast along the well rather ironically named Happy Valley Road.
On a Sunday, the homeowner doing a bit of gardening
clearly made something of a concerning discovery. Bones you'd assume
police were called in on Monday. Forensic experts were digging
(21:31):
up the soil. A lot of people driving past noticed this,
and a word began to spread. A little a week
called wind, called police, and then by lunchtime yesterday it
was confirmed as human remains. How old they are, who why,
we don't know yet. They could have been there one
hundred years or ten. The locals we've spoken to, though,
are understandably shocked and just have questions at the moment, Hey, did.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You go and use the toilet? You know, the two
point three million dollar toilet? Did you go and check
it out?
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Mix a nice conversation start. I've will past them. I
haven't been in, thankfully, I suppose. But the light show
is rather flashy.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Sure, yeah, you'd want the light show being the flashy
thing at the toilet's putting you.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Want attention drawn to you as you go use the facilities.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Can you just pop in there, have a little just
check it out, make sure they're clean, and just report
back to us tomorrow or the next They're like Hunter S.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Thompson, Sure, yeah, cool, thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
How's you with them?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
But cloudy with drizzle, drizzle and strong winds today fourteen
the high central.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Nice one, thank you, have a good day. And NIVA's
here in Auckland. Hey, Neva, good morning. Now the Ikea
store that is coming here? When is it coming? Must
be so nice?
Speaker 12 (22:42):
Well, yes, it's apparently it's going to be opening later
this year. They see late twenty twenty five, so yeah,
sometime soon.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
And lots of jobs, lots of jobs.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
Look, fifteen thousand people applied for jobs. Now this is
the first store in New Zealand Ikea Sylvia Park. Ikea
is now hiring five hundred stuff So the Swedish retailer
originally planned to hire four hundred workers, but that's now
going to be expanded. Yeah, that's what they're saying. Is
going to be open later this year. So far they've
(23:12):
employed sixty six people. Fifteen thousand applicants. Mind you that's
not a surprise, so.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Really given, no, not when you're many people and people
do like the brand, yes, and the job market the
way it is at the moment. You know, we saw
those sick numbers this morning, so that kind of tallies up,
doesn't it.
Speaker 12 (23:29):
Absolutely? And look, employees, they will have access to fifteen
percent discount on Ikea products and get a load of
this five weeks of paid and you'll leave.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's pretty good. That is really good in a way.
When it's built. We all work for IQA, don't we.
Because you have to pull your stuff together yourself.
Speaker 12 (23:49):
I used to go overseas, this is years ago, and
I'd bring back, you know, the flat packs and things
like that and my suitcase. Yes, and then I would,
you know, like have drinks at my and then I
just you know, say to my friends, come over, come over,
come and have some drinks. And then they turn up
and then I'd say, look at these flat packs, come
and join me, Come and pull up some of these
(24:10):
things for me.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And they did.
Speaker 12 (24:12):
Mind you over a few drinks.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You know, it can be fun. It can be fun. Yes,
So to the fourteen and a half thousand people about
to miss out on a job, at Aikia. Don't worry.
Neva's got one for you. How's our weather?
Speaker 12 (24:25):
Here is a morning foul good news. So there's going
to clear rap to fine spell seventeen the high here
in Auckland.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Nice one, thanks Neva. It is seventeen minutes away from
six News Talks. Here'd be Gavin Gray and the UK
for US. Next the Cinderella thief story, which I quite
like out of London because everyone you know in London
they steal your phones. The thieves run along, grab your
phone and then run off and normally no one catches them.
Well someone's been caught.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
International Correspondence with ends and eye insurance, Peace of mind
for New Zealand Business New Talks.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
There'll be fourteen minutes away from six and in Amsterdam
Air Force one and just touchdown. Trump about to stiff
out of the plane and hit to NATO. It's a
historic medding course. A lot on the agenda. You've got
defense spending. They're up on debts, Ukraine, Gaza, Israel around,
I mean, you name it, it's on the list. Kevin
Gray are UK Europe correspondent. Gavin Goods. Morning, good evening
to you, hither Rod.
Speaker 13 (25:18):
Yeah, it's certainly going to be an important meeting. It's
the first Trump NATO summit since twenty nineteen, and he's
going to be delighted, I think, with what he sees
because it looks like all thirty two leaders are set
to commit to spending five percent of national output on
defense and related infrastructure. At least that is the hope,
because there are some that are going to really try
(25:38):
and wriggle out of this. Spain incidentally one of them.
Spain spends very little of its gross domestic product. It's
at the bottom of the list when it comes to
defense spending, and it's trying to wiggle out, saying, well,
it can't afford it. It'll have to cut back on
pensions and benefits as well. But there's definitely pressure on
Spain to get back in, and Belgium too, apparently showing
(25:59):
some regal room with that, but also ringing Donald Trump's
ears or well not quite, because it was posted by
Donald Trump. Is a private message that the NATO Secretary
General Mark Rutter has sent him in a pre summit
message lavishing praise on his handling of the Western Alliance,
and it says, and I quote, you're flying into another
big success in the Hague this evening. It was not easy,
(26:21):
but we got them all signed up to five percent.
He's congratulated Trump on his quote decisive action in Iran
that was truly extraordinary in something no one else dared
to do. It makes us safer. Asked whether he was
embarrassed at this private message had been made public, he
said not at all. Other people will be deeply embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I mean, you've got if you're going to send the
ticks to Donald Trump, you've got to expect that it's
gonna end up or potentially end up on the public domain.
Don't you say you can't be too surprised. Hey, I
love the story the Cinderella crooking in the UK.
Speaker 13 (26:54):
Yeah, an amazing story. This so a man who was
basic cle riding on an e bike suddenly snatched the
phone out of somebody's hand in East London on la
Gate Hill back in August of last year. Now he
was tackled by members of the public, having stolen the
handset from the victim's hand, and in the struggle to
(27:17):
get back on the bike, this man, a twenty eight
year old, lost a trainer one of his shoes. Now
he continued, however, wearing one shoe and managed to get away. However, yes,
you guessed it. DNA analysis now looked at the single shoe,
the so called Cinderella shoe, and matched the DNA on it.
(27:37):
They found there was just enough DNA on the shoe.
Found there was just enough to match it to an
existing profile of a thief on the national database. And
a twenty eight year old man has now been found
guilty at that and he's now going to be sentenced
in a couple of months time. The forensic marinager of
the City of London Police said, this really is a
(28:00):
Cinderella story. This slipper fitted our Cinderella and we produced
a hit to a man who has profile had previously
been up to loaded with those in criminal activity.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Good good, it's good to hear that one of them
is finally being courts. Thanks so much for that, Kevin
grat UK, you're correspondent. It's eleven away from six Bryan Bridge.
So the ceasefire that Trump declared the creed is currently holding,
but was broken for a moment while we slept last
night and led to this outburst from Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I'm not happy with Israel. I'm not happy with the
run either.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
We have two countries that have been.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Fighting so long and so hard that they.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Don't know what the they're doing.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So since then Nitnya, who was sending warplanes, they've been
turned around. There were a few bombs dropped, but it
seems that they've come back from the brink. So as
Trump is about to step out of Air Force one
at Amsterdam Airport and go to Nate, he does he
have the wind that his backside to speak. Henry Elsen
(29:04):
is a columnist in the United States and is with
us this morning. Henry, welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
We thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
How do Americans feel about Trump getting involved? You know,
are they paying attention to this in the way that
the rest of the world is.
Speaker 7 (29:20):
He's paying a lot of attention to it, you know.
The pole suggests that the people who didn't like Trump
coming in don't approve of his action with respect to Iran,
but his base does, and his party does. The fact
is that Republicans and people who voted for him overwhelmingly
support him, and that's really what he needs. He also
has a lot of understanding and praise for at least
(29:43):
brokering a ceasefire and for ending what every administration going
back thirty years has said is an unacceptable threat that
Iron holds nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
If you, I suppose that you can come away with
setting the nuclear program back a couple of years, if
you can come away with Israel feeling got about themselves
and with no further US involvement in the region, then
that is a massive win for US president, right, It would.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Be a massive win. The question, though, is if all
you do is kick the program back a couple of years,
then you still have a question that it's unacceptable to
the United States that are on possess a nuclear weapon.
If all you do is kick the nuclear program into
low gear, then the next president is going to have
to make a difficult decision as to what to do,
(30:33):
and may have to make the same decision the President
Trump did. But at the at least in the medium
in short term, this appears to be a huge win
both the United States sent to the President.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Hey, Henry, big heat wave heading the States. At the
moment I was looking in New York, it was felt
like forty one degrees celsius to us.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
Very hot for you guys, very and it's a primary
election day. For the New York Democratic mayoral primary. We'll
see whether enough people decide to stay home rather than
go out in such a heat, hot and humid weather.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see what happens with Kumo
having a second bite of the cherry. Eight minutes away
from eight. That's Henry Olsen, who's an American columnist with
us this morning Trump. By the way, he's just got
off his plane off Air Force One. He's wearing a
cap that's his USA, and he's getting into his what
do they call it, the monster, his his limo and
(31:28):
heading to NATO. Now, it's eight minutes to six NEWSTALKSB.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Mike Next on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early
Edition with Ryan Bridge and x Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi
Holmes warm and dry this Winter News TALKSB.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Six away from Sex News Talk B, and Mike is
in the studio. He's with us next, Mike, Good morning.
Speaker 14 (31:51):
So I took to school. My granddad used to work
for farmers co Op back when it was a grain
and seed thing.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
And God, they're going back we are.
Speaker 14 (32:03):
They used to travel to far flung places in the
days when traveling to far flong places was like you know,
you just Australia was like as good as it got.
But my granddaddy went to like Mongolia and China and Mauritius.
And each time they'd go away, they go, what would
you like us to bring you back as a gift?
(32:23):
And so I came up with increasingly random things. And
so one year they were going to Finland, and so
I looked up what does Finland do that they could bring?
And I see, get me a sheath knife. And you
took it to school and I took it to school.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Did you get in trouble?
Speaker 14 (32:39):
Not particularly?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Do you think kids are taking I mean when they
say weapons, I'm a little That's what I'm saying a
little skeptical of the story this morning. If you're just
catching up an eighty percent increase, gosh, it sounds shocking.
But since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 14 (32:53):
Exactly, it's over a long period of time. There's a
couple of hundred cases. And there's probably some kids whose
grandparents went to Finland and they said, here's your sheath knife,
and you take it along to school and you go, look, guys,
look what I've got.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Now.
Speaker 14 (33:05):
There was no intent, there was no drama, there was
no nothing.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Well, no one's been stabbed, are they. We're not getting
here nines about kids being stabbed at school. But when
I was a kid, it was knuckle dusters. Did you
have those?
Speaker 14 (33:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, Well I didn't personally have no knuckle dusters,
but you had the knuckle dusters and the other thing.
I mean, in all seriousness, the worst case of it.
It was a primary school. A kid attacked another kid
with a hammer.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
So this is a.
Speaker 14 (33:26):
Woodwork So when after with a hammer got them in
the head and primary school it's at Alban's primary so
the ambulance was called, the police were involved. We were
like ten year olds. We'd never seen anything like it.
The kid we never saw them again. But I mean,
you know, they was in the woodwork class, for goodness sake, So.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Which goes to show that anything can be a weapon too.
Speaker 14 (33:43):
Everything anything can be what you don't want is nutty kids,
No exactly. So I mean, do we have a story
here this morning or what is it a sheath knife?
Is it a hammer?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I think it's a non starter. We'll see your next
Mike and see you tomorrow. I'm don't away got no
reason not to celebrate it, baby, I'm just learn away.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
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