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Speaker 1: So you might have seen an announcement yesterday on building products.

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Speaker 1: Sounds great and there's a lot of builders I know

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Speaker 1: who are excited about this. This is where we will

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Speaker 1: basically follow international standards on products like plasterboard and cladding

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Speaker 1: and windows and external doors, all sorts of stuff which

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Speaker 1: should bring the price of them down. Mean that we

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Speaker 1: have more choice, more options. In theory that would bring

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Speaker 1: the price of building down. However, the government doesn't say

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Speaker 1: at this point by how much on average they estimate,

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Speaker 1: and they also haven't released the list yet, so that

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Speaker 1: won't happen until today. Curiously, they made the announcement yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but we won't actually know what's products are on the

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Speaker 1: list until sometime later today. Fourteen minutes after five, Ryan

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Speaker 1: bred Shordan and the UAE have begun air drops into

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Speaker 1: Gaza to deliver aid. It comes after the Israeli military

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Speaker 1: announced it'll open humanitarian corridors into the Strip and a

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Speaker 1: tactical pause in military activity in three specific areas. Jeffrey

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Speaker 1: Miller is a geo geopolitical analyst with US this morning. Jeffrey,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Good to have you on

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Speaker 1: the program. So is this going to be enough? Do

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Speaker 1: you think to address the problem that is clearly happening

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Speaker 1: in that starvation, well, look at something.

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Speaker 2: Something is better than nothing. As the UAE and Jordan

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Speaker 2: dropped around twenty five tons of aid into Gaza overnight,

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Speaker 2: a look, that's a drop in the ocean considering the

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Speaker 2: scale of need. These two pauses, so there's a ten

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Speaker 2: hour pause of humanitarian pause or tactical pauses. W I'll

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Speaker 2: cause it in three areas of Gaza, and then there's

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Speaker 2: a seventeen hour window where it will be a humanitarian

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Speaker 2: corridor effectively allowed for the distribution of A. I think

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Speaker 2: both of those are going to be useful, but in

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Speaker 2: the end they only really will help if Israel allows

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Speaker 2: more A to come into Gaza. And that's really where

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Speaker 2: the hold up is. Around one hundred trucks apparently went

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Speaker 2: in from Egypt overnight, but they're being held up at

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Speaker 2: the border, held up at one of the checkpoints in

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Speaker 2: Israel is being very very careful in what it allows

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Speaker 2: into Gaza, and that's really where the problem comes from.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of aid that is held up at

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Speaker 2: the border, is already within Gaza and to some degree,

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Speaker 2: but is not being allowed for further distribution and that's

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Speaker 2: what desperately is needed. Israel absolutely needs to allow that

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Speaker 2: aid to reach the Palestinian people in Gaza because the

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Speaker 2: scale of suffering is just horrific at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. It is one of the things that the IDEAF

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Speaker 1: always talks about is Hummas and what their control of

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Speaker 1: aid centers or involvement with aid centers and distribution centers

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Speaker 1: could mean, and also what's potentially coming in across the border.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, that's always Israel's argument that Hammas controls

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Speaker 2: the food aid and that weapons are being smuggled in

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Speaker 2: with the aid, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But

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Speaker 2: I think we just need to take one look at

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Speaker 2: some of the horrific images that are coming out out

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Speaker 2: of Gaza, being shown on a nightly basis on our

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Speaker 2: TV screens around the world, and we look at those

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Speaker 2: calls from over one hundred eight organizations last week. I

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Speaker 2: think the calls really reached a crescendo last week in

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Speaker 2: Israel is actually responding to the pressure there's been placed

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Speaker 2: in it from the international community and some of the

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Speaker 2: things that have been coming out. I mean, France's recognition

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Speaker 2: of a Palestinian state is another point of pressure. So

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Speaker 2: it is interesting that Israel is actually responding to the pressure.

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Speaker 2: And I think we need to keep the pressure on.

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Speaker 2: The international community needs to keep the pressure on. Because

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Speaker 2: on Friday, the ceasefire negotiations and cut up between Hamas

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Speaker 2: and Israel and the United States. That collapsed and Israel

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Speaker 2: and the United States effectively took Peo ball and went home.

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Speaker 2: Steve Wikoff said Israel would now look for alternative options

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Speaker 2: to free the hostages. It didn't sound good, and just

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Speaker 2: within the last couple of hours, Ryan and Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: is said Israel need to make a decision. Well, that

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Speaker 2: sounds quite ominous to me. So I think we need

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Speaker 2: to keep our eye on on the bigger picture here,

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Speaker 2: which is those Ceasepine negotiations. And I do think, you know,

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Speaker 2: if we're looking at New Zealand's perspective, new Zealand can

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Speaker 2: play a small part in all of that. Wiston Peter

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Speaker 2: said that last week he said that New Zealand can

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Speaker 2: and must play its part. And so I think New

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Speaker 2: Zealand needs to think about what it can do. And

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Speaker 2: I think New Zealand needs to also think about its

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Speaker 2: relations with countries in the Middle East. New Zealand has

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Speaker 2: good relations in with the Gulf States alikes of the

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Speaker 2: United so I think Wiston Peters needs to be pulling

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Speaker 2: on all the diplomatic leaders here.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I appreciate your time this morning, Jeffrey Miller, who's

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Speaker 1: a geopolitical analyst.

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