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Speaker 1: Thank goodness. I'm so relieved, not only because it's Friday,

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Speaker 1: but I'm also relieved because the UN General Assembly is

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Speaker 1: underway in New York. Nothing solves global conflict like a

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Speaker 1: good anger session. I've been to one of these before.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of sitting around and talking and listening, which,

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Speaker 1: as Winston Peter's pointed out yesterday, is actually quite important.

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Speaker 1: Netanyahu is en route, Zelenski is there, martmudebas the Palestinian president,

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Speaker 1: he's going Putin the Pariah obviously won't be there. But

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Speaker 1: does anybody hold out any hope that the UN will

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Speaker 1: fix the big issues, will magically solve all the walls

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Speaker 1: and conflicts in the world. As we reported on yesterday's show,

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Speaker 1: China's launching missiles into the South Pacific. A Japanese warship

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Speaker 1: has just sailed through the Taiwan straight for the first

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Speaker 1: time ever. That's new this morning. Israel's hammering Lebanon, not

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Speaker 1: to mention Gaza, Putin's lowering the threshold for nuclear weapons.

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Speaker 1: Trump says Ukraine is dead, and delegates are talking over

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Speaker 1: the top of Winston Peter's at the Security Council.

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Speaker 2: What you mean when somebody's addressing you. The rest of

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Speaker 2: the people in the room keep quiet.

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Speaker 1: Some would say these challenges are ones that the world

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Speaker 1: that we can all face together, united as one, united nations.

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Speaker 1: But most of the time, if we're being real about it,

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Speaker 1: it's about as useful as an ash tray on a motorbike.

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Speaker 1: And most countries and their leaders know this, but off

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Speaker 1: they go off to the big Apple to do their dance,

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Speaker 1: to thump their fists, have their say, while the rest

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Speaker 1: of the world largely ignores and carries on business as usual.

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