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Gavin Grey: Europe Correspondent on Ukraine hitting a bridge connecting Russia and the Crimean Peninsula · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Now Gavin gray are UK europe correspondent, Good morning, given
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  Speaker 1: hither right now Hurt Builders. This is the far right leader.
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  Speaker 1: He's pulled out of the Dutch governments now collapsed.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was always a rather fractious coalition and what
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  Speaker 2: had been going on was an increasing sort of a
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  Speaker 2: split between those different government parties and I'm afraid many
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  Speaker 2: were not surprised by what we're now getting. So we're
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  Speaker 2: likely to get a snap election in the Netherlands. What
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  Speaker 2: was happening was that the far right Dutch leader, Hurt
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  Speaker 2: Builders put in ten additional asylum measures, that's what he
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  Speaker 2: had asked for for the rest of the coalition to
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  Speaker 2: vote for. That included a freeze on asylum applications, halting
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  Speaker 2: the construction of reception centers, and limiting family reunification, by
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  Speaker 2: which I mean one person gets into the Netherlands and
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  Speaker 2: then they are allowed to invite the rest of their
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  Speaker 2: family in. Now the others it seems we're never going
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  Speaker 2: to agree to this. They didn't, and then Builders has
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  Speaker 2: walked out and as the largest party, his anti immigration
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  Speaker 2: far right PVV party has now left the coalition. That
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  Speaker 2: looks very likely now we're going to get this snap election. Some, however,
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  Speaker 2: critics are pointing to the fact that in opinion polls
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  Speaker 2: the PBB party is losing support. Some would say, and
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  Speaker 2: perhaps this is an attempt to gain that support back.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting a little too close to the center for
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  Speaker 1: the voters lacking. Let's go to Ukraine. I mean another
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  Speaker 1: incredible military feat for them. They have blown up a
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  Speaker 1: bridge connecting Russia and Crimea.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so, just twenty four hours after the so called
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  Speaker 2: Spider's Web operation in which one hundred smuggled drones hit
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  Speaker 2: a third of Russia's bomber planes deep in the country,
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  Speaker 2: today an attack on Crimea's Kirch Bridge. Now to be clear,
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  Speaker 2: this is the bridge that connects Russia to Crimea, Crimea
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  Speaker 2: which used to be part of Ukraine, and it is
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  Speaker 2: absolutely hated. It's a hated symbol for Ukrainian The bridge
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  Speaker 2: opened to much fanfare by Vladimir Putin in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: and it has been attacked several times. In October three
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  Speaker 2: years ago, a fire broke out on the bridge where
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  Speaker 2: a truck loaded with a bomb exploded. In July twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, Vladimir Putin vowed to respond when two people
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  Speaker 2: were killed when Ukraine hit the bridge with drones. Now
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  Speaker 2: it would appear that some divers have attached underwater explosives
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  Speaker 2: to the foundations. Their pretty dramatic footage has been circulated.
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  Speaker 2: There was an initial explosion, there was a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of assessment, and then Russia reopened it to Russian traffic,
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  Speaker 2: which is instrumental incidentally in rearming and restocking supplies for
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  Speaker 2: the attacking force in Ukraine. But no sooner had the
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  Speaker 2: traffic been opened up again, there was another explosion, and
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  Speaker 2: this one seemed to cause more damage. However, just said
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  Speaker 2: that we now believe that the bridge is back reopen,
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  Speaker 2: just hours after those two attacks on the foundations.
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  Speaker 1: Gavin, thank you very much for that. Gavin Gray are
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  Speaker 1: UKA Europe correspondent. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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