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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister is jetting off on a diplomatic mission

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Speaker 1: this week, heading into a decidedly undiplomatic world. Israel and

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Speaker 1: Irana hammer and Tong's Netanya, who says Tehan is close

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Speaker 1: to producing a nuclear weapon. As the missiles and the

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Speaker 1: drones fly across the Middle East, talks of a nuclear

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Speaker 1: deal in Oman are on hold, the UK's mobilizing fighter

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Speaker 1: jets in the region as Iran warns it'll strike the

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Speaker 1: Western targets if they dare to support Tel Aviv. Israel's

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Speaker 1: blockade of Gaza continues. That's despite protests from this country

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Speaker 1: and most others through the UN and sanctions talks in

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Speaker 1: Turkey to when the war in Ukraine haven't stopped the violence.

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Speaker 1: Diplomacy has so far failed. China continues buying all from

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Speaker 1: Russia and tacitly, keeping its war in Europe alive. The

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Speaker 1: US continues supporting Israel, keeping its wars in Gaza and

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Speaker 1: on Iran alive. China and the US themselves are doing

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Speaker 1: direct battle of a different on trade. We've got politically

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Speaker 1: motivated assassinations in America, Marines and National Guard troops on

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Speaker 1: the streets of Los Angeles. All this as the global

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Speaker 1: economy splutters along under the weight of it all. And

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Speaker 1: I haven't even mentioned Pakistan and India. Thank god they

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Speaker 1: sorted their stuff out a couple of weeks ago. As

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Speaker 1: luxA prepares to meet with Shujinping and then attend a

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Speaker 1: NATO leaders meeting in the Netherlands, the big question is

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Speaker 1: not what to do, but where to start. New Zealand's

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Speaker 1: influence in all of this is, of course limited. Most

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Speaker 1: of these conflicts date back further than the birth of

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Speaker 1: our nation. We rely on the United Nations, whose P

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Speaker 1: five veto power renders it about as useful as an

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Speaker 1: ashtray on a motorbike, utterly useless. This is not the

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Speaker 1: first time the world has faced a collision of crises

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Speaker 1: involving wars backed by competing global superpowers. While diplomacy has

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Speaker 1: failed to prevent them, the history tells us it's also

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Speaker 1: the best and only way to eventually solve them. For

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