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Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on British police arresting five near RAF base on terror suspicions · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: International Correspondence with NZI Insurance. Peace of mind for New
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  Speaker 1: Zealand business.
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  Speaker 2: Quarter to six, we'll get to Labour and their student
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  Speaker 2: loan policy in a second. First, Gavin Gray, our UK-Europe correspondent.
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  Speaker 2: You've got five men arrested. You've got a major counter-terrorism
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  Speaker 2: operation underway at the moment outside an air force base. Gavin,
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  Speaker 2: what do we know about potential links to the Iranians?
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  Speaker 3: Well, at the moment, it's all rather sort of up
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  Speaker 3: in the air. But it is thought that the Iranians
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  Speaker 3: could be behind this potential attack. Police were called by
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  Speaker 3: a local resident, apparently, just after midnight, saying there was
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  Speaker 3: some suspicious activity in the village, which is next to
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  Speaker 3: RAF Fairford, which is to the west of London in Gloucestershire. Now,
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  Speaker 3: it is an RAF base, but the US Air Force
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  Speaker 3: has used the base to launch attacks against Iran since March.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, Iran's foreign ministry back in July did
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  Speaker 3: say that any party in any manner participating in military
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  Speaker 3: aggression against Iran will bear responsibility for the consequences and repercussions.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why people are thinking this is Iran. We
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  Speaker 3: don't know anything about the five men who have been arrested,
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  Speaker 3: but they are, as you say, being arrested on suspicion
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  Speaker 3: of committing offenses under the Explosives Act. and also being
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  Speaker 3: questioned by counter-terrorism police. US President Donald Trump, just in
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  Speaker 3: the last few minutes, telling reporters the men arrested were
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  Speaker 3: looking to do big damage. He said, quote, we had
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  Speaker 3: them under investigation. They were looking to do big damage
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  Speaker 3: to our fort, and working with the British worked out great.
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  Speaker 3: He continued, it may be Scotland Yard, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: We've worked them with a lot. We've had them under
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  Speaker 3: review for a long time, and we've got them. It
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  Speaker 3: was fantastic. So we'll wait to see more details as
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  Speaker 3: they emerge, Ron.
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  Speaker 2: Thank goodness for the nosy parker neighbours near the airfield base.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and it rather contradicts what Donald Trump's just said
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  Speaker 3: about we had them under scrutiny, under investigation. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: whether it was a neighbour or whether they were being followed, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: quite a catch, so close to the base, just a
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  Speaker 3: matter of a couple of hundred metres away and a
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  Speaker 3: 400 metre cordon now in place, 85 homes evacuated.
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  Speaker 2: Manchester City, what's the scandal?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Manchester City are really debating, I think, what to do.
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  Speaker 3: It looks almost certain they are going to appeal against
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  Speaker 3: this ruling, which found the club guilty of breaking the
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  Speaker 3: Premier League's financial rules. Manchester City are accused of a
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  Speaker 3: huge breach, but they mostly centre around claims that they
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  Speaker 3: inflated sponsorship revenue from connected companies and made other, quote,
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  Speaker 3: off-the-books payments to circumnavigate financial regulations. Now, spending by Premier
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  Speaker 3: League clubs and football clubs in the UK, very heavily regulated.
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  Speaker 3: The allegation is that on the 115 charges brought against them,
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  Speaker 3: Manchester City have been found guilty against the vast majority
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  Speaker 3: of them. Now, their chairman, Khaldun al-Mubarak, says he's confident
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  Speaker 3: of proving the club's innocence. He said they are almost
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  Speaker 3: certainly going to appeal. But here's the rub with this rhyme.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine if you lost a place going to European football
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  Speaker 3: because of Manchester City, when now it's been ruled that
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  Speaker 3: they have in some way. cheated, allegedly. And imagine if
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  Speaker 3: you've been relegated because you lost one space. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: a relegation is said to be worth roughly eight million
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand dollars in the season, but missing out on
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  Speaker 3: a place in Europe, potentially 20 million New Zealand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: So this is big money. And I can see other
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  Speaker 3: Premier League clubs coming forward now to try and possibly
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  Speaker 3: launch compensation claims.
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Gray, our UK Europe correspondent.
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