A 53-year-old Royal Marine will appear in court following the Liverpool Football Club parade crash.

Paul Doyle from Liverpool has been charged with seven offences relating to the crash in the city on Monday.

He's a father of three and a local business man.

Seventy-nine people were injured in the event.

UK Correspondent Gavin Grey talks to Heather du Plessis-Allan about the incident, potential water shortages in the UK and France's new smoking ban.

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China’s offering the Pacific Island’s increased support.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has committed economic support in the Pacific’s fight against climate change.

He says over the next three years, China will undertake 100 projects in parts of the region that have ties to China.

Asia Business Correspondent Peter Lewis talks to Heather du Plessis-Allan about the commitment.

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Newstalk ZB’s Sport Director Clay Wilson and News Editor Elliott Smith join Heather du Plessis-Allan for The Huddle.

‘Run It Straight' has everyone talking this week after a teenager died while playing the game with friends. Should it be made illegal?

What does The Huddle make of Andrew Webster’s call to remove the State of Origin from happening in the middle of the NRL season?

What chance do the Warriors have this week?

The Huddle discusses all this and more.

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This weekend marks the last day of Winnie and the first day of David Seymour as the Deputy Prime Minister.

Now, mostly I don't actually care.

I mean, I largely agree with Jim Bolger's assessment and, and obviously, happy 90th birthday to Jim for tomorrow.

The role doesn't actually mean very much.

It's symbolic.

It doesn't carry any particular power other than really just letting you know who's second in command.

But it feels like an appropriate time just to take a moment to acknowledge, because we don't do this very often, that it's actually very nice, isn't it, to have both of these two men in government right now, if only to give the Nats a little bit of a push along, you know, to actually do things from time to time.

Winston strikes me right now as the right man for the right job for right now.

Don't you think?

With all this nutty stuff that's going on in the world, his huge previous experience as a foreign minister, I think, is reassuring.

I feel like it's not going overboard to say that I trust his instincts in the job.

When he gets angry with Israel, you know, it's not for politics, it's not for performance.

It's because he's actually angry with Israel.

Given his experience, that would be warranted.

On David Seymour, if there's one thing that we can truly thank him for right now, it's shifting the Overton window so that we can, and now do debate things like the treaty principles.

The Overton window is the available, is the, it covers the stuff that we feel comfortable talking about in the media and in society.

He has shifted that, so principles are now firmly within the Overton window and we talk about it, and we should be able to debate it, because they should not be taboo.

Things that have as much impact on our economy and our society and our lives as treaty principles, and as on our private property as well, should be up for discussion without critics of those things being labelled racist.

And it is squarely because of ACT's policies that those discussion, those discussions are now out in the open.

Now, I don't really expect very much to change after the weekend other than maybe we'll see more of both men, more of David Seymour because he'll be the deputy, and more of Winston because he'll not be the deputy, which means that he can act up a little bit, maybe.

But either way, I think it's not a bad thing to have both of them in there at the moment, is it?

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Political Editor Jason Walls talks to Heather du Plessis-Allan about the week that was.

This week an internal police memo was leaked, which explained their plan to cease investigations on shoplifting allegations below $500.

Have we got to the bottom of it?

Winston Peters "permanently" ruled out working with Labour leader Chris Hipkins. Jason Walls explains how Peters left himself some "wiggle room" in doing so.

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The Government’s defending their move to change a law which protects Australian banks from Kiwi customers.

More than 15,000 mortgage holders could miss out on hundreds of millions in compensation for mistakes made by ANZ and ASB.

Commerce Minister Scott Simpson talks to Heather du Plessis-Allan about the proposal.

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lawyer on the proposed changes to NZ lending laws and the ensuing lawsuit

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A New Zealand foreign minister’s visited Nepal for the first time, more than 70 years since our countries were linked following the ascent of Mt Everest.

Winston Peters flew from Kathmandu to the Everest region on Thursday, where he toured a school and a hospital created by the charity Sir Edmund Hillary founded in the 1960s.

Sir Edmund Hillary’s grandson Alexander Hillary joined him and he speaks with Heather du Plessis-Allan now.

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