1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: International correspondence with insign Eye Insurance Peace of Mind for 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: New Zealand business. Vincent's with us now, Vincent, good morning. 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 1: We have a pope. I didn't quite catch as his 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: papal name. What are we calling him? 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 2: No, we haven't had it come out yet. On the wise, 6 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 2: I think it was Leoniin, but his name before life 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 2: as a pope now was Robert Prevost. He will become 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 2: the very first ever American pope. He is a surprise contender. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 2: He was in all of the shortlists for the position, 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 2: but he was not seen at all as a front runner. 11 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 2: He is only sixty nine years old, which is quite 12 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 2: young for the position. He served as the head of 13 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 2: Lake Pope Parantis' main advisory group on picking new bishops 14 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 2: and have sort of broad name recognition because of that, 15 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 2: and especially with the sort of large group of papal 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 2: electors which have made up this conclave over the past 17 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 2: few days. He was born in Chicago to a family 18 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 2: with Italian, French and Spanish roots. He trained in the 19 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 2: Vatican with the late Pope Francis and spent most of 20 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 2: his career working in Peru. He actually has joint Peruvian citizenship. 21 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 2: He's described as the least American American and someone who 22 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: was seen as a bit of a reformer. 23 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: Potentially Leo the fourteenth is his papal name. We've just 24 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: been told Leo the fourteenth is the new pope. Interesting 25 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: that he's American. Trump will be happy with that. But 26 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 1: you mentioned he's a reformer in what way? I mean, 27 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: what direction? Do we know this will tag the Catholic churchen? 28 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean obviously Donald Trump a you know, truth 29 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 2: doubt a picture of himself using AI as pope, but 30 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 2: that was pretty unlikely. But yeah, I think he will 31 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 2: be pretty delighted at something else that he can trumpet 32 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 2: as an achievement under his watch, getting the first American pope. 33 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 2: There had traditionally, of course, been a reluctance to have 34 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 2: an American pope, or indeed a pope from Russia. The 35 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 2: idea was that you didn't want to have a pope 36 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 2: from the superpower that those nations already played large enough 37 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 2: on the world stage, and of course China now as 38 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 2: well that you wouldn't want someone from there. But that 39 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 2: is what this conclave has decided. He's being described as 40 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 2: someone who is not a showboat. He's been described by 41 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,679 Speaker 2: colleagues as being very calm, extremely intelligent, and very compassionate. 42 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 2: And it sounds like he is looking to be progressive 43 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 2: on many social issues. Some see him as a centrist, 44 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 2: but he's apparently, according to these reports coming out now, 45 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 2: as someone who a lot of Catholics would see, is 46 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 2: wanting to carry on the work that Pope Francis has 47 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 2: done over his time, which was sort of shifting the 48 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 2: church away from the sort of high church trapped in 49 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 2: very much sort of all Nate traditions. And you know, 50 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 2: we know that Pope Francis, for instance, wore simple robes, 51 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 2: wanted things lived very simply, wanted things that were sort 52 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 2: of reaching out from the church, being internal, wanting to 53 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 2: make sure they engage with the people that needed the 54 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 2: church most, the global poor, wanting to do more work 55 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 2: in the global South. And it sounds like this new 56 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 2: Pope is someone who wants to carry on that work 57 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 2: that Pope France has started. 58 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, we have a new pope, 59 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: the US Cardinal Robert Francis Privost has been revealed as 60 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: Pope Leo the fourteenth. Then we're talking to Vincent mcavini, 61 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: who's our UK europe correspondent. Also, we should touch on 62 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: this UK US trade deal which has been announced this 63 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: morning as well. And it's not a deal that gets 64 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: them back to, you know, a great position, but it's 65 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: a better position than yesterday, I suppose. 66 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not as good as we had this time 67 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 2: last year, for instance, but it's better than we had 68 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 2: over the past couple of weeks. And whilst the America 69 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 2: is calling it a trade deal, we here in the 70 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 2: UK are actually calling it just a tariff's deal because 71 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 2: it is not the sort of all around, all encompassing 72 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 2: trade deal that's Fraxiteers, for instance, have tried to claim 73 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 2: that the UK could get for the last decade or so. 74 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 2: This is a deal which sort of removes that extra 75 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 2: twenty five percent on steel, aluminium and cars that America 76 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 2: had imposed. We've got that down to just ten percent, 77 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 2: so still you know a little chunk there. But they 78 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 2: are the cars that the UK makes, and the UK 79 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 2: actually has a surprisingly large car industry. Now they are 80 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 2: the high end cars, so you're Bentley's just sort of 81 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 2: rolls Royces Aston Martins, the kind of customer base that 82 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 2: really having ten more percent on it won't really mean 83 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 2: too much for them, to be honest, but some of 84 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 2: those companies had for the time stopped actually exporting into 85 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 2: America and then for everything else the but that's just 86 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 2: only the first one hundred thousand vehicles. Only one hundred 87 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 2: and one thousand were exported last year, so it means 88 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 2: that we can't really grow the market in America much. 89 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 2: In return, the UK government says it's removing the tariff 90 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 2: on ethanol fe US goods and agrees sort of reciprocal 91 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 2: markets access for certain products, including beef, and that's going 92 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 2: to be quite controversial because the US uses things like 93 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 2: hormones and antibiotics which British farmers are not allowed to 94 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 2: use on their beef. Here, we have sort of much 95 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 2: higher standards when it comes to agricultural products, and so 96 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 2: there is a question mark over that. Now what that 97 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 2: means for our farming industry here, whether there might even 98 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 2: be a grassroots or of campaign to simply just not 99 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 2: buy American agriculture products in order to protect our farmers 100 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 2: and also because of that what's deemed a sort of 101 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 2: more chemical quality produce. 102 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: Really appreciate your time, Vincent Vincent Mecavinny UK Europe correspondent 103 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: just gone twenty five minutes after five. I'm just looking 104 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: at some live pictures from Vatican, the Vedican Balcony. The 105 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: new Pope, Leo the fourteenth has got tears and designs 106 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: is He's obviously been overwhelmed by the occasion. Forty thousand 107 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: Catholics in Saint Peter's Square Right now, we have a 108 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: new pope. 109 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 2: For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge. 110 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: Listen live to news Talks it'd be from five am weekdays, 111 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.