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Speaker 1: Sorry, We're going to Jason Wolves, who is an rpre now. Jason,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning Ryan, thanks for being with me. Hey,

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Speaker 1: luxan'ce met with Starma. Anything interesting from.

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Speaker 2: That, oh, listen. It was a lot of the usual

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Speaker 2: sort of what we call gripping grin conversations when they

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Speaker 2: get in front of the camera and talk about how

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Speaker 2: much the two countries mean to each other. There was

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Speaker 2: a bit of banter about the America's Cup. Of course,

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Speaker 2: it was Team New Zealand victorious over the Brits, and

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Speaker 2: so Luxon has a bit of a habit of doing

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Speaker 2: this when he meets world leaders. He always brings up

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Speaker 2: little sporting events because, of course, as you know, punches

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Speaker 2: well above its weight when it comes to that area.

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Speaker 2: But apart from that, listen, No, it was the first

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Speaker 2: time the pair had actually meant in a bilateral setting.

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Speaker 2: They've had a couple of little meetings since Starmer was

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Speaker 2: elected in various different either over the phone or in person,

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Speaker 2: but this is the first time they actually sat down

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Speaker 2: to talk in a bilateral setting. They talked about the

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Speaker 2: UK's placed in the Pacific and the Commonwealth at various

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Speaker 2: other things about the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine,

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Speaker 2: but nothing in terms of any big announceables between the

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Speaker 2: two countries.

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Speaker 1: Did I hear yesterday in that press conference fifteen million

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Speaker 1: dollars we go to support Sama holding Chogham fifteen Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's correct, cheapers, that's a lot of money.

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Speaker 2: It is a lot of money. I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 2: quite a big event. I mean, this whole place is

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Speaker 2: just a buzz with activity right now. There were I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: the UK press pack here apparently is about forty to

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Speaker 2: sixty people alone, so there's a lot of people that

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Speaker 2: are coming over here for this event. And at the

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Speaker 2: moment I'm actually staying on a cruise ship because there

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Speaker 2: weren't enough hotels within Samoa for us to be housed at.

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Speaker 2: So it's absolutely massive. And that was the whole reason

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Speaker 2: the Manawanui was over here. It was helping support Chogham,

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Speaker 2: It was doing some surveying activity before it ran aground.

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Speaker 2: So it's a huge event. In New Zealand has been

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Speaker 2: helping with financially and with about five hundred or so

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Speaker 2: News Island personnel over here as well, so it's a

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Speaker 2: really big.

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Speaker 1: Effort and no talk of compensation yet for that. I

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Speaker 1: mean they probably have to figure out first with the

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Speaker 1: Monanui how bad it is, what damage there is, before

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Speaker 1: they can even decide on something like that exactly.

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Speaker 2: And I think, you know, it might be, as the

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister said, a little bit too premature for those

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Speaker 2: sorts of conversations. He was really playing down any impact

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Speaker 2: or any concerns about the environmental impact, saying that you know,

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Speaker 2: there was some initial estimates that about two hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: letters of diesel could be leaking out into the ocean,

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Speaker 2: but those estimates were way way off, the Prime Minister said,

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Speaker 2: and actually there's been little to no pollution and no

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Speaker 2: damage to marine life. So at this stage they're not

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Speaker 2: actually sure what sort of damage there has been, but

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Speaker 2: they're just kind of a weight and see mode. But

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Speaker 2: Luxelan was praise for the mono when the WE task

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Speaker 2: force over here, saying that they're doing a terrific job

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Speaker 2: and they're representing the best of New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: All right, Jason, good luck, don't get norovirus on the

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Speaker 1: cruise ship, Jason Walls, Our news talks had been politically

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