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UK Column News - 5th September 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the fifth of September twenty twenty five, just
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Speaker 2: out to one o'clock. Welcome UK CON News. I'm your host,
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Speaker 2: Mike Robinson. My host today is Brian Gerrish once again
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Speaker 2: this week. This is amazing Brian.
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Speaker 3: It's a delight and a pleasure to be here.
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Speaker 4: Mike.
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Speaker 2: Joining us via live link is Mark Anderson from the
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Speaker 2: United States. Later in the program, Mark's going to be
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Speaker 2: reporting on the litters from the Global Parliament of Mayors
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Speaker 2: and I'm going to be taking a look at the
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Speaker 2: expansion of AI driven surveillance in the UK and globally.
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Speaker 2: But we'll begin today with well Tony Radikin are x
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Speaker 2: i X Chief of the Defense Staff?
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Speaker 1: What man? This is correct?
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Speaker 3: And I suppose I should apologize to the audience because
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Speaker 3: it's a bit like putting Tony Blair up on the screen.
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Speaker 3: But of course this is the man of the moment.
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Speaker 3: I just wanted to recap the BBC's now grabbing him
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Speaker 3: because he's out to the job and we want to
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Speaker 3: do some analysis on his comments. But first of all,
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Speaker 3: this is telegraph od I think this is twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: one where it says Tony bradikin the state school educated boy.
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Speaker 3: That's an appropriate word from Oldham, who has quote changed
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Speaker 3: how the Navy works. Now we've already covered this in
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Speaker 3: other UK column news editions, and that is that, of
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Speaker 3: course the rn suffering absolutely critical breakdown, shortage of ships,
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Speaker 3: and the ships that have got many of them can't
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Speaker 3: go to sea. And yet that this man is being
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Speaker 3: praised and fated as effectively the man who's been running
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Speaker 3: the war in Ukraine single handedly in his very clean
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Speaker 3: combat gear.
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Speaker 2: So he changed how the Navy works by making it
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Speaker 2: not work anymore.
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Speaker 3: That is how it appears to me, or at least
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Speaker 3: if we say, well, it wasn't all his fault that
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Speaker 3: the Navy wasn't working. When he was in the most
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Speaker 3: powerful position, did he focus on the Navy and getting
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Speaker 3: it working? Absolutely not, Because he's been parading on the
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Speaker 3: international stage in his combat gear, supposedly making out that
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Speaker 3: he knows how to run a war on the scale
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Speaker 3: that's going on in Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: What did he do to get those medals?
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Speaker 3: Brian I note, well, I do know he's been in
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Speaker 3: a job where he's been interfacing with the right people,
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Speaker 3: and the courses widely rumored that his friendship with Boris
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Speaker 3: Johnson helped him actually get into the senior post itself.
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Speaker 3: So I'm going to say in the right place, at
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Speaker 3: the right time, and then you get the medals because
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Speaker 3: clearly he's never put his life on the line in
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Speaker 3: a combat zone.
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Speaker 1: So we didn't get them from the charity shop.
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Speaker 3: Possibly, possibly, let's have a look at this short interview
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Speaker 3: with the BBC, and we're going to make quite a
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Speaker 3: long comment on it.
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Speaker 5: This war has been a disaster for Russia. Putin wanted
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Speaker 5: less NATO, He's got more NATO. We've grown from thirty
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Speaker 5: nations to thirty teen nations. Putin originally thought that he
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Speaker 5: was subjugating Ukraine in days, if not weeks. That's clearly
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Speaker 5: not the case. It's a facile description, but it's a
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Speaker 5: really important one. If a snail had left Rostov on
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Speaker 5: Don in Russia on the twenty fourth of February twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty two, by now it would have crossed all the
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Speaker 5: way through Ukraine and it will be halfway through Poland.
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Speaker 5: That's how difficult Russia is finding it just to get
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Speaker 5: those four roblasts. If Russia carries on at the pace
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Speaker 5: that it currently is, it will take it four point
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Speaker 5: four years to get the remaining territory in those four roblasts,
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Speaker 5: and having lost a million people killed and wounded, it
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Speaker 5: will lose a further two million people killed and wounded.
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Speaker 5: So this is about Ukraine's bravery, Ukraine's courage, our support
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Speaker 5: to Ukraine to keep them in the fight.
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Speaker 3: I find this absolutely shocking, Mike, this man is puerile.
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Speaker 3: He's also not giving the public the truth. Maybe he
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Speaker 3: doesn't know, but essentially these little stories we've shown previous
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Speaker 3: video clips of him playing with colored pencils and maps
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Speaker 3: on the wall. Apparently this gets him very excited to
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Speaker 3: do with the trade routes around the globe, and now
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Speaker 3: he's talking about snails. This man is not in the
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Speaker 3: real world. So let's just pop a little bit of
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Speaker 3: hard comment up on screen, because this is where he
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Speaker 3: started off with in the interview. This war has been
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Speaker 3: a disaster from Russia. Putin wanted less NATO. He has
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Speaker 3: got more NATO. Well, of course, the reality is somewhat different.
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Speaker 3: We've got NATO that's a complete broken mess at the moment.
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Speaker 3: So the UK and the EU component are begging for
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Speaker 3: continued US support and commitment because the truth has always
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Speaker 3: been that without the Americans there's no effective NATO, and
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Speaker 3: this is freely available. This fact is freely available if
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Speaker 3: you look at comment in the UK and the American
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Speaker 3: and the Western press. So this is pure propaganda. The's
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Speaker 3: pointing out that he's starting with. But let's have a
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Speaker 3: look in a bit more detail at key points, and
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Speaker 3: as I've just said, there's quite a few of these,
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Speaker 3: but I think it's worth going through in some detail.
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Speaker 3: So at no stage did Russia declare or plan for
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Speaker 3: an invasion, a full invasion of Ukraine with a view
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Speaker 3: to occupy in the whole country in days or weeks.
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Speaker 3: This is a comment that's been made by the West,
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Speaker 3: which Radikan is repeating. There is absolutely no substance for it,
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Speaker 3: and of course basic evidence is that the size of
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Speaker 3: Ukraine indicates that this was never the case. So if
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Speaker 3: we just put that one across, Mike, thank you. Ukraine
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Speaker 3: is a vast land mass, average size, depending what source
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Speaker 3: you go to, six hundred and three thousand square kilometers,
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Speaker 3: and in twenty twenty two, Russia simply did not have
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Speaker 3: the troops to fully invade Ukraine. So it's nonsense to
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Speaker 3: state this, and the Russians didn't.
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Speaker 1: Sorry.
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Speaker 3: In contrast, the Russians did state and actually enact the
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Speaker 3: objective of military intervention into Ukraine to demonstrate its intent
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Speaker 3: to counter Ukraine attacks on Russian speaking people in the Dombas,
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Speaker 3: and the continued NATO plans to integrate Ukraine into NATO itself.
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Speaker 3: And of course it was Boris Johnson who was one
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Speaker 3: of the key figures that disrupted the peace discussions in
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Speaker 3: Istanbul in order to make sure that this war continued.
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Speaker 3: So of course Rudikan doesn't want to tell the public
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Speaker 3: about any of these things. If we go on, Russia
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Speaker 3: has successfully mobilized what was a small defensive western army,
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Speaker 3: because of course, remember that Russia has to deal with
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Speaker 3: its western borders and its eastern borders. That army two hundred,
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Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty thousand now increased to what many
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Speaker 3: believers around eight hundred thousand. It's done all this while
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Speaker 3: fighting the war in Ukraine, which is not against the Ukrainians,
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Speaker 3: because of course it's a war that's backed fully by
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Speaker 3: the US, the EU, NATO, etc. This is a tremendous
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Speaker 3: achievement in its own right, and if we go on
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Speaker 3: through this, we've got that Russia has already defeated too
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Speaker 3: Western trained and equipped Ukrainian armies and defeated a major
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Speaker 3: Western backed Ukrainian offensive. This is all factual information that
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Speaker 3: I'm giving you, and for people who do their own research,
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Speaker 3: you will be able to find this quite easily. Much
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Speaker 3: of it has been reported in Western press and UK
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Speaker 3: press itself, but of course much of it hidden in
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Speaker 3: plain sight. We'll also say that Russia has taken control
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Speaker 3: of twenty percent of Ukraine. That equates to about one
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Speaker 3: hundred and fourteen thousand of one hundred and fourteen five
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Speaker 3: hundred thousand square kilometers, and that equates to fifty percent
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Speaker 3: of the total land area of uk Plus they're gaining
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Speaker 3: ground every day, so this is on a vast, vast scale.
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Speaker 3: The West hasn't seen warfare like this really since the
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Speaker 3: Second World War, possibly the Korean War, but what the
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Speaker 3: Russians have been doing on the ground is truly remarkable. Now,
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Speaker 3: we will go on to say that Russia's continue to
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Speaker 3: outproduce the Ukraine, US, UK, EU and NATO in shells, bombs, missiles,
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Speaker 3: and other musician munitions. Baby Pardon and the claims that
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Speaker 3: were made, including I believe by Radikin himself that Russia
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Speaker 3: was going to run shorter of munitions. This never materialized
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Speaker 3: because basically they were untrue. And then we've got the
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Speaker 3: technology that the Russians are employing on the battlefield, So
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Speaker 3: we've got new missile systems, including hypersonic missiles, and the
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Speaker 3: West has no defense against these missiles whatsoever. And of course,
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Speaker 3: the failings of the UK, the West, and indeed the
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Speaker 3: US military system to develop these systems themselves and the
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Speaker 3: countermeasures means that there's a lot of absolutely false threats
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Speaker 3: coming out of the West because they cannot deal with
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Speaker 3: the technology that Russia is operating with on the ground. Now,
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Speaker 3: if we come on a slightly different area of weapons
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Speaker 3: systems themselves, Russia at the moment is using high numbers
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Speaker 3: of highly accurate aviation dropped heavy glide bombs. That's up
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Speaker 3: to three thousand kilograms worth of bombs being used in
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Speaker 3: vast numbers, and these weapons are be used to successfully
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Speaker 3: destroy the Ukrainian front line. So Ukrainian troops are being
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Speaker 3: killed by blast in their bunkers or underground command shelters.
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Speaker 3: They have no defense against what's being used against them.
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Speaker 3: And if they assemble troops in numbers. The Russians are
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Speaker 3: taking out those true assembly points with either missiles or
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Speaker 3: these very heavy bombs. So this is the reality which
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Speaker 3: is very different from what Radikin is trying to tell us.
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Speaker 3: And if we add to that, of course, Russia has
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Speaker 3: developed highly accurate drones for not only wide battlefield surveillance
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Speaker 3: but also coordinated strategic attacks across Ukraine, both Eastern Ukraine
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Speaker 3: and Western Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: And again the.
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Speaker 3: Majority of these attacks absolutely getting through Ukrainians largely Western
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Speaker 3: provided missile defenses. So failure on the ground at every
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Speaker 3: stage direct contrasts to these wild and puerile claims that
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Speaker 3: Radikin has been making. And in addition, we can go
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Speaker 3: on because Russia has developed the ability to completely restructure
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Speaker 3: its approached warfare in a battlefield which is totally dominated
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Speaker 3: by surveillance, not only by long range surveillance by the
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Speaker 3: US and the UK in particular, but also satellite surveillance
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Speaker 3: and then local surveillance by drones on the ground. Despite
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Speaker 3: all of this, which makes it very difficult for even
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Speaker 3: individual soldiers or small groups of soldiers to move, Russia
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Speaker 3: has still been moving forward. And we've got to recognize
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Speaker 3: that there has been an impressive use of command and
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Speaker 3: control and coordination. That's the C three between the Russian
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Speaker 3: troops on the ground plus information from drones. And this
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Speaker 3: has been backed by heavy weapons support, which does include
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Speaker 3: long range of artillery, but it also includes the glide
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Speaker 3: bombs and tactical missiles. This is a new form of
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Speaker 3: warfare that Russia has been dragged into, and at the
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Speaker 3: moment Russia is clearly demonstrating that they can fight this
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Speaker 3: type of warfare and win not only against Ukraine but
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Speaker 3: also NATO itself.
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Speaker 2: I not, as you've said on there, this is new warfare.
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Speaker 2: But we were told by Radigan, by his predecessor Nikartera,
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Speaker 2: and people around the Joint chiefs that new warfare was
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Speaker 2: going to be all about cyber and spears.
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Speaker 1: This is a complete misreading of the reality, a.
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Speaker 3: Complete misreading, Mike. And of course, the thing is now
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Speaker 3: that the Russians have many, many thousands of extremely highly
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Speaker 3: trained and experience. These are hardened battlefield troops in this
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Speaker 3: type of warfare. So the idea that the West has
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Speaker 3: the ability to step in and fight the Russians is
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Speaker 3: actually law fooble at the moment. So where do we
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Speaker 3: go from this? Let's move on through because Russia's ability
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Speaker 3: to win on the battlefield has also been completely unaffected
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Speaker 3: by the hyped Western wonder weapons which we had. So
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Speaker 3: we had the Abrahams challenger in Leopard tanks, Bradley infantry
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Speaker 3: fighting vehicles, these very expensive units millions of dollars each.
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Speaker 3: These have been destroyed in huge numbers by very cheap
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Speaker 3: Russian attack drones, and of course the F sixteens, which
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Speaker 3: we heard week after week after week, we're going to
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Speaker 3: change the whole battle. These barely got into the air
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Speaker 3: before they were destroyed the few that did fly, and
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Speaker 3: others were destroyed on the ground. So huge propaganda from
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Speaker 3: the West and.
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Speaker 1: The readA that was going to happen.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely I did, like, yeah, so let's have a look
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Speaker 3: at this. Russia has demonstrated really capable battlefield command and control.
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Speaker 3: And the other thing it's done is showing the ability
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Speaker 3: to give troops in platoon concentrations maybe ten men, the
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Speaker 3: ability to call in fire support not only for aviation
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Speaker 3: units but also from these long range missile defense systems.
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Speaker 3: This again is a unique change on the battlefield that
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Speaker 3: you're giving trust for individual soldiers or groups of soldiers
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Speaker 3: that they are going to use these very impressive weapons
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Speaker 3: systems from long range to do the job, maybe even
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Speaker 3: a few hundred meters in front of them. Now, at
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Speaker 3: the same time, we've been seeing more reports that the
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Speaker 3: Ukrainians have been uneasy at the advice being given by
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Speaker 3: what's clearly on the ground US UK weapons teams. There
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Speaker 3: have been a number of reports, certainly in Ukrainian press
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Speaker 3: Kiev independent posts for example, showing that the Ukrainians have
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Speaker 3: had less and less trust in the ability of the
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Speaker 3: West to advise on the war. And if we go
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Speaker 3: on through this is where it gets really serious, because
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Speaker 3: of course the West greatly underestimated Russia's ability to absorb
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Speaker 3: battlefield casualties. If you're dealing it up to thirty million
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Speaker 3: military and civilian casualties for Russia in the Second World War,
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Speaker 3: Russia knows how to play with battlefield casualties. The US
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Speaker 3: still frightened of its fifty eight thousand people killed in
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Speaker 3: Vietnam and that Radikan in the West simply dare not
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Speaker 3: talk about the Ukrainian casualties. Now on that subject, we've
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Speaker 3: got Radikan talking about a million plus casualties on the
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Speaker 3: Russian side. BBC Media Zoner if we choose that report
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Speaker 3: is talking about two hundred and twenty thousand Russian dead
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Speaker 3: to August twenty twenty five, but all of them measured.
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Speaker 3: Battlefield analysis demonstrates that Ukrainian casualties are two to three
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Speaker 3: times this figure, with an even higher proportion of injured
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Speaker 3: due to these weapons systems that the Russians are using,
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Speaker 3: which I've just described. So if we get to the
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Speaker 3: end of this, basically we've got the US and EU
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Speaker 3: sanctions on Russia as a strategic weapon, those have failed,
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Speaker 3: and we've also got the bizarre situation that through this war,
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Speaker 3: the EU has continued to take Russian oil. And the
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Speaker 3: statistics here that I've chosen to bring up is that
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Speaker 3: Russian earned some two hundred and thirty three billion from
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Speaker 3: fuel exports to the European Union in the three years
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Speaker 3: from the invasion until early twenty twenty five. And the
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Speaker 3: Guardian itself reports from February that from February twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: four to February twenty twenty five, EU imports of Russian
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Speaker 3: ornant gas were valued at twenty point twenty one point
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Speaker 3: nine billion euros. So rank hypocrisy that they are doing
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Speaker 3: something to actually sanction Russia. Well, we've got the European
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Speaker 3: Union still feeding off these supplies. So I'll end the
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Speaker 3: statement by saying that essentially just hypocrisy. What this man
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Speaker 3: is talking about Ukraine's bravery and courage, we are supporting
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Speaker 3: them to keep the fight going. The reality is this
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Speaker 3: is a proxy war which is going to be fought
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Speaker 3: to the last Ukrainian and radical and his colleagues are
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Speaker 3: never going to put themselves in harm's way. So I've
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Speaker 3: been quite hard on this man, and I think it's appropriate.
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Speaker 3: Shortly before he retired, he was here speaking on the
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Speaker 3: streets in Kiev and saying what a job he was
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Speaker 3: doing effectively for peace. But we know it's not going well.
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Speaker 3: And even on the American side advance here that he's
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Speaker 3: talking about pretty strange, strained relationships with the Ukrainians. So
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Speaker 3: overall like utter lies coming out of the UK government
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Speaker 3: and the Ministry of Defense. And if we take an
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Speaker 3: objective view of the war in Ukraine at the moment,
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Speaker 3: is no doubt that Russia has the upper hand, which
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Speaker 3: is why of course they don't want the fighting to stop.
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Speaker 2: Well, to follow on from that, then on Wednesday, our
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Speaker 2: illustrious Secretary of State for War John Hilly was in
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Speaker 2: Kiev once again, and during his visit he announced that
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Speaker 2: money raised from immobilized Russian assets, sorry he said, riised,
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Speaker 2: I say stolen, but that's beside the point, has paid
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Speaker 2: for more than one billion pounds worth of weapons and
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Speaker 2: military support purchased by the UK on behalf of Ukraine,
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Speaker 2: which has enabled, his words, enabled the delivery of hundreds
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Speaker 2: of thousands of rhynds of artillery ammunition, hundreds of air
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Speaker 2: defense missiles, spare part and news support contracts to help
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Speaker 2: maintain and repair its equipment and vehicles. Now it should
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Speaker 2: be pointed out, though that this came in the form
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Speaker 2: of a loan, of course, and so the question is
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Speaker 2: how does Ukraine expect to ever pay that back? But
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Speaker 2: in other words, based on what he's just said, he
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Speaker 2: has enabled keeping the body bags full. He also co
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Speaker 2: chaired a coalition of the Willing Virtual Meeting alongside Starmer
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Speaker 2: and quotes representatives from more than thirty countries to cement
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Speaker 2: further military contributions to a multinational force to be deployed
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Speaker 2: in Ukraine in the event of a peace deal. And
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Speaker 2: he told the virtual Meeting that the UK is reviewing
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Speaker 2: readiness levels of UK armed forces and accelerating funding to
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Speaker 2: be ready for any UK deployment to Ukraine. Ministers, he said,
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Speaker 2: are also discussing the composition of a multinational force as
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Speaker 2: well as a tactical detail relating how to to how
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Speaker 2: the deployment would be strengthened across the seas, skies and land.
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Speaker 2: We're going to have gear for that, and I'm not
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Speaker 2: sure that we do. But at the Coalition of the
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Speaker 2: Willing meeting, French President Macron said, we the Europeans are
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Speaker 2: ready to give security guarantees to Ukraine and Ukrainians on
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Speaker 2: the day when peace is signed, prepared to work is over.
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Speaker 2: And yet at the same time, a French official briefing
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Speaker 2: reporters declined to say which countries were ready to contribute
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Speaker 2: to Ukraine's security guarantees, including to the so called reassurance Force.
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Speaker 2: So the question is, I wonder what the Russian attitude
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Speaker 2: is to this. BBC stepped in here because they spoke
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Speaker 2: to Dmitri Peskov and that was on their website today.
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Speaker 2: So let's just have a brief look at what Peskov
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Speaker 2: was having to say.
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Speaker 4: As far as we can understand, they're speaking about ensuring
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Speaker 4: secure urity guarantees for Ukraine by deploying European forces, European
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Speaker 4: regiments in Ukraine. Thus there returning back to the main
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Speaker 4: reason of the conflict. The main reason of the conflict
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Speaker 4: was the attempt of NATO to infiltrate into Ukraine, thus
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Speaker 4: endangering our country. So we consider it a danger for
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Speaker 4: US presence of international forces or any foreign forces or
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Speaker 4: NATO country forces on the soil of Ukraine next to
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Speaker 4: our borders. So in our understanding, it will not help
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Speaker 4: us get closer to the solution of Ukraine. Will do
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Speaker 4: whatever is necessary to ensure our security, preferably, would like
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Speaker 4: to reach our goals by diplomatic and peaceful means. When
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Speaker 4: we don't have these possibilities, will continue special military operation.
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Speaker 1: So that's pretty clear, Brian.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I think Pascov comes across as being
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Speaker 2: a very reasonable person. These coming across very calmly there,
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Speaker 2: despite Steve Rosenberg from the BBCs sometimes questioning, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well this is the reason that there is
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Speaker 3: there is reasonable dialogue going Trump himself saying that in
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Speaker 3: dialogue within Putin's very softly spoken and being reasonable. But
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Speaker 3: of course Western press now absolutely censored, so the public
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Speaker 3: never gets to see what the other side is talking about.
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Speaker 3: And I would suggest that if we did get to
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Speaker 3: see what the other side, the Russians, are talking about,
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Speaker 3: the public at least in this country, would quickly be
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Speaker 3: moving to the point where let's get the fighting stopped
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Speaker 3: and engage the talking. But at the moment, we've just
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Speaker 3: got more military hardware being piled in to keep this
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Speaker 3: proxy wall going.
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Speaker 2: Well, we'll come on to that in a second. Let's
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Speaker 2: just listen to one other comment from pass.
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Speaker 4: We see the readiness of the Russian Federation for dialogue.
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Speaker 4: We see the readiness of the President of the Russian
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Speaker 4: Federation for any meetings, including meetings on the highest level,
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Speaker 4: but in advance they should be well prepared. Also, we
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Speaker 4: see the very constructive efforts by the President of the
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Speaker 4: United States in order to assist in the process of
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Speaker 4: settlement around Ukraine. And we see the outrageous efforts of
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Speaker 4: European countries to provoke continuation.
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Speaker 1: Of the war. I can't disagree with anything you said there.
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Speaker 3: Neither can eye by because we're watching that provocation on
23:44
Speaker 3: a daily basis, not only provocation but the weapons to
23:48
Speaker 3: follow it up. So it's clear what the West is doing.
23:52
Speaker 3: And no wonder that Trump's got wobbly at the moment
23:55
Speaker 3: because I think he's finally realizing that the European Union
23:59
Speaker 3: is not his friend.
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Speaker 2: So let's just look at the last fifty days of
24:03
Speaker 2: support to Ukraine. This is, according to the UK government,
24:07
Speaker 2: four point seven million runs of small arms ammunition for
24:10
Speaker 2: Ukrainian soldiers, sixty thousand artillery shells, rockets and missiles, two
24:15
Speaker 2: five hundred drones, more than two hundred electronic warfare systems.
24:20
Speaker 2: I wonder how long any of this is going to last.
24:22
Speaker 2: One hundred light weapons what's a light weapon in this
24:25
Speaker 2: context machine gun? Okay, thirty vehicles, additional kind of drone
24:30
Speaker 2: and air defense equipment. So that was what the Ministry
24:33
Speaker 2: Defense was bragging that they'd sent in the last fifty days.
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Speaker 3: So if it was sent in the last fifty days,
24:40
Speaker 3: it's probably all gone in the last fifty days.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, that was Wednesday, then yesterday following the announcement
24:51
Speaker 2: last week of the deal for Norway to buy naval
24:55
Speaker 2: ships from the UK. Try not to laugh when I
24:59
Speaker 2: say that Secretary of State for War John Healey again
25:03
Speaker 2: was in Norway yesterday to sign an historic agreement to
25:07
Speaker 2: exchange the strategic part sorry to enhance the strategic partnership
25:10
Speaker 2: between UK and Norway. So this Dale actually formalizes the
25:15
Speaker 2: deal for the ships. They claim strengthens netto in the
25:20
Speaker 2: region and provides more opportunities for joint training and personnel
25:24
Speaker 2: exchanges between Britain and Norway. And he claims that this
25:28
Speaker 2: is going to support four thousand jobs and be worth
25:30
Speaker 2: ten billion pounds to the UK. Now, he and his
25:34
Speaker 2: Norwegian counterpart discussed further joint operations through this agreement, so
25:40
Speaker 2: we'll see what comes of that. At the same time,
25:43
Speaker 2: then here is Starmer because he was visiting BAE Scottston
25:49
Speaker 2: to say thank you to all those who helped get
25:53
Speaker 2: the what he describes as huge contract pushed through. So
25:56
Speaker 2: there he was with some frigates. Do you think they'll
26:01
Speaker 2: operate in cold waters like the waters if the propellers
26:06
Speaker 2: or the screws that's the Navy would call them go round,
26:09
Speaker 2: which they often don't in the type forty fives, but
26:12
Speaker 2: hopefully they will be able to propel themselves in cold
26:15
Speaker 2: water as well. Okay, and then just to finish this segment,
26:18
Speaker 2: I just want to highlight this article from the Daily
26:22
Speaker 2: Telegraph following the reporting from Wednesday on the situation in
26:26
Speaker 2: China and the commemoration of the end of the Japanese
26:31
Speaker 2: defeat at the end of the war, and the various
26:34
Speaker 2: showing off material that China was doing during that particular commemoration.
26:39
Speaker 2: Here's the Daily Telegraph editorial team, and I think they
26:43
Speaker 2: probably need to be taken away by men and white
26:45
Speaker 2: coats because the headline here Britain must stand against She
26:49
Speaker 2: Shein Ping's disturbing, disturbing vision of the future. And they say,
26:53
Speaker 2: when mister she promises to build a community of common security,
26:57
Speaker 2: what he means is that no country should have any lies,
27:00
Speaker 2: leaving all but the strongest at China's mercy. And when
27:04
Speaker 2: he stresses the sovereign equality of states, he means that
27:07
Speaker 2: no one should interfere with the sovereign right of tyrants
27:10
Speaker 2: the murder, torture and oppress their own peoples. No one
27:14
Speaker 2: should doubt that the world re ordered by mister She
27:17
Speaker 2: would be a bleak and pitiless place. This kind of
27:20
Speaker 2: rhetoric coming from an organization that over the last few
27:25
Speaker 2: decades has supported interventionist conflicts run by Britain in the
27:30
Speaker 2: United states which have only brought disaster and misery to
27:33
Speaker 2: the countries that they're imposed upon. So the Telegraph then
27:39
Speaker 2: demands action against She's chilling dream. Does our government have
27:44
Speaker 2: a view on this? One hopes that Britain would stand
27:46
Speaker 2: with America and the Free world in opposing mister She's
27:49
Speaker 2: disturbing visions if that's in our intention, and one day
27:53
Speaker 2: a Prime minister should muster the courage to say so
27:55
Speaker 2: that it would make little sense to lie China to
27:58
Speaker 2: build our entire energy system or apply the electric cars
28:01
Speaker 2: that just about all of us will drive. Well, that
28:04
Speaker 2: may well be the case, that last point, but we've
28:08
Speaker 2: got to always keep in mind that systematically our governments
28:12
Speaker 2: in the West have destroyed our productive capability. This is
28:16
Speaker 2: why Russia and China are so far ahead and productively
28:20
Speaker 2: and economically. I think it's a shame that Russia and
28:24
Speaker 2: China are having to spend money developing their own defense
28:29
Speaker 2: firms when they could be doing, and they are doing
28:32
Speaker 2: in many other areas, so many more positive things for humanity,
28:37
Speaker 2: you know, on a broad scale. Of course, they're clearly
28:40
Speaker 2: feeling threatened, and is anybody expecting them to respond any
28:45
Speaker 2: other way?
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Speaker 3: Well, clearly the papers have stopped thinking, and papers that
28:51
Speaker 3: are supposed to be the papers for comment, particularly on
28:55
Speaker 3: matters overseas newspapers record, they just simply do not seem
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Speaker 3: to have the quality of journalists to comment on this properly.
29:03
Speaker 3: If we look at the West, it seems to me
29:05
Speaker 3: at the moment it's the United States that is the
29:09
Speaker 3: country which is telling everybody what to do. And unless
29:12
Speaker 3: it's done as the United States wants, we're all going
29:16
Speaker 3: to be sanctioned. Didn't to loin or bullied? Didn't a loin?
29:21
Speaker 1: Mark? Yeah?
29:22
Speaker 3: Sorry, I was looking at Mark coming up, so he
29:24
Speaker 3: might like to respond.
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Speaker 1: Mark, let me welcome you to the program. Bring us
29:28
Speaker 1: up to date.
29:29
Speaker 2: Then if we move to the United States now with
29:32
Speaker 2: what Trump has been doing, because of course I've been
29:34
Speaker 2: hearing quite a bit about the potential for deploying military
29:37
Speaker 2: on the streets.
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Speaker 6: Indeed, good day you guys and UK Colum viewers have
29:45
Speaker 6: been on a bit of a hiatus. It's great to
29:46
Speaker 6: be back. And yes, over the years, living near the
29:51
Speaker 6: border where I do, there have been troop deployments here
29:55
Speaker 6: and there's always been this conflict. When is it proper
29:58
Speaker 6: to use US troops in stic operations and when is
30:02
Speaker 6: it not? And I remember talking to a Kansas soldier
30:05
Speaker 6: out of Fort Riley and he was elated in his
30:08
Speaker 6: view about five six, seven years ago. It was during
30:11
Speaker 6: Trump's first term, to be clear, and he was elated
30:14
Speaker 6: that he was actually being used to guard the US border.
30:17
Speaker 6: Of all things, the troops were being used to guard
30:20
Speaker 6: the US itself. What a concept, he told me. Anyway,
30:23
Speaker 6: on this first slide, we're seeing some of the controversy.
30:27
Speaker 6: Federal ruling could restrict Trump on potential San Francisco troop deployment.
30:33
Speaker 6: Second to September out of the Axios News, and this
30:37
Speaker 6: is in the wake of Trump having deployed National Guard
30:41
Speaker 6: in Washington, d C. Now in Washington, d C. It's unique.
30:44
Speaker 6: Trump is the head of the DC National Guard, the
30:48
Speaker 6: DC being a federal city in that sense, So there
30:51
Speaker 6: was that deployment there to deal with what Trump is
30:55
Speaker 6: calling crime amid immigrations and customs enforcement. I see immigration
31:01
Speaker 6: arrests toward deportation as part of Trump's border agenda. And
31:06
Speaker 6: then Trump also had troops recently in Los Angeles, and
31:11
Speaker 6: of course there's still a presence in those cities as
31:13
Speaker 6: I understand it, and the main stated goal of Trump's deployments,
31:17
Speaker 6: besides aiding in the eventual deportation process, has been to
31:22
Speaker 6: guard federal property from what the administration is calling actual
31:26
Speaker 6: and potential rioting as people protest the deportations. And at
31:32
Speaker 6: any rate, we have a summary here on that Axios article.
31:36
Speaker 6: I'll look at that the California Attorney General Rob Bonta
31:40
Speaker 6: applauded a federal ruling that the Trump administration illegally deployed
31:45
Speaker 6: the National Guard to LA during anti ice protests going
31:50
Speaker 6: back to June. So there's been a court ruling what
31:53
Speaker 6: Trump has done in LA is being declared illegal. Trump
31:56
Speaker 6: is vowing to fight back, of course, and appeal the decision.
32:00
Speaker 6: District Judge Charles Brier's ruling only applies to California, however,
32:04
Speaker 6: but it may influence how federal troops are deployed in
32:07
Speaker 6: other places as Trump considers doing more of this. And
32:11
Speaker 6: those other places are potentially or actually San Francisco, Chicago,
32:16
Speaker 6: and Baltimore. So Trump's going to appeal the LA decision.
32:20
Speaker 6: What's he going to do about deployments and those cities
32:22
Speaker 6: that are based on the same reasons. Here we'll show
32:25
Speaker 6: some headlines that have been popping up lately on this.
32:28
Speaker 6: The New York Times San Francisco had avoided trump'shire until now,
32:33
Speaker 6: so the Times of saying that Trump's deployment to San Francisco,
32:38
Speaker 6: Frisco they call it for short, is fairly imminent, and
32:41
Speaker 6: the Chicago Tribune as Trump threatens more Guard troops in
32:44
Speaker 6: US cities, including Chicago and Baltimore. Here's what the law allows,
32:49
Speaker 6: and that could be quite a long thing. I studied
32:51
Speaker 6: a little bit of what the law allows, but what
32:54
Speaker 6: it boils down to is that right after the US
32:57
Speaker 6: so called Civil War, they passed the possible a Commatatis Act,
33:01
Speaker 6: and that forbade the use of federal troops in local
33:06
Speaker 6: law enforcement. Because when there was the reconstruction by the
33:10
Speaker 6: North against the South, there were a lot of abuses
33:13
Speaker 6: of the people's constitutional rights, some very egregious abuses. So
33:19
Speaker 6: the law, the Passe Comatatis Act that's Latin, is a
33:22
Speaker 6: logical law, but it's a little bit fuzzy in legal
33:25
Speaker 6: circles when it applies and when it doesn't. Many have
33:30
Speaker 6: claimed that it's improper to use federal troops or or
33:33
Speaker 6: activated federally activated National Guard troops. They've claimed they claim
33:37
Speaker 6: it's improper to use them to guard the border, but
33:40
Speaker 6: I would argue, and others I've talked to you have
33:42
Speaker 6: argued that guarding the border is a national largely a
33:46
Speaker 6: national responsibility, and they're oriented outward, they're guarding the perimeter,
33:51
Speaker 6: so that in many people's view, does not violate the
33:54
Speaker 6: Pase Comatatis Act. But these deployments in LA and DC
33:59
Speaker 6: and others, if it doesn't violate that act, it's pushing
34:03
Speaker 6: right up to the line, just very very close. Because
34:08
Speaker 6: they say they're guarding federal property from the protesters, and
34:11
Speaker 6: that's pretty much legitimate. But if they start making arrests
34:15
Speaker 6: for miscellaneous things that would best be done by local
34:18
Speaker 6: police officers, then you've got some issues that would violate
34:21
Speaker 6: that act. And so the overall situation is such where
34:29
Speaker 6: there's a lot to be seen, a lot remains to
34:31
Speaker 6: be seen. But that's some of the realities on the
34:33
Speaker 6: ground now. Under this report today, I'm doing Trump news
34:38
Speaker 6: on three topics. It's an approach I'm taking because there's
34:42
Speaker 6: so much coming out of the Trump White House in
34:44
Speaker 6: the press releases that I get, which is four or
34:47
Speaker 6: five or six a day, and all the other things
34:49
Speaker 6: going on. There has to be a way to distill
34:51
Speaker 6: this stuff down. So I've got a couple other quick
34:53
Speaker 6: topics on this next one, we'll look at this headline
34:56
Speaker 6: out of Fox US blocks Trump attempt to freeze more
35:01
Speaker 6: than two billion in Harvard funds sub had Trump officials,
35:04
Speaker 6: Judge said, are using anti semitism as a smoke screen
35:08
Speaker 6: to block off a little over two billion actually in
35:11
Speaker 6: federal funding to Harvard. What's going on there, essentially is
35:15
Speaker 6: that Harvard believes it's hiring and admissions policies are being
35:21
Speaker 6: infringed upon, and that it's improper for Trump to use
35:25
Speaker 6: anti semitism as an excuse to cut these over two
35:30
Speaker 6: billion in federal funding that funds scientific research at Harvard.
35:34
Speaker 6: Now you could almost go for that point of view
35:36
Speaker 6: one hundred percent, except for the fact that Harvard says
35:40
Speaker 6: it's a one hundred percent or pretty much out largely
35:43
Speaker 6: private university. But one of the things that makes a
35:47
Speaker 6: university private is not accepting much, if any, federal funding.
35:51
Speaker 6: Like Hillsdale College in south central Michigan takes no federal
35:55
Speaker 6: funding whatsoever, so they can truly call themselves private. But Harvard,
35:59
Speaker 6: being the wealthiest monetarily the wealthiest college in America wants
36:04
Speaker 6: billions of dollars of federal funding every year, but it
36:08
Speaker 6: wants all the advantages of being called a private university,
36:11
Speaker 6: so it wants to have its cake and eat it too.
36:14
Speaker 6: Trump claims that the besides anti Semitism and protests against
36:19
Speaker 6: Israeli policies in Palestine, Trump claims that the university is
36:23
Speaker 6: way too liberal and a lot of its governance and
36:28
Speaker 6: a lot of its content and things like that, and
36:31
Speaker 6: so he's using the cutting of the federal funds as leverage.
36:35
Speaker 6: And so that's what's going on with that. I need
36:39
Speaker 6: not get into a lot of the details that I
36:41
Speaker 6: included in the slides there. It's better to explain it.
36:43
Speaker 6: And lastly, this headline from American Free Press. President Trump
36:48
Speaker 6: is pushing for a ban of mail in ballots. And
36:52
Speaker 6: the interesting thing here is that with all the mail
36:55
Speaker 6: in ballots from the twenty twenty election, when a contact
36:58
Speaker 6: of mine, Garland Favrito, did factually prove that that election
37:03
Speaker 6: had a lot of very serious anomalies and evidently election theft,
37:07
Speaker 6: a lot of the reforms that Trump wants to enact
37:10
Speaker 6: do make sense, although Trump sometimes expresses them in ways
37:14
Speaker 6: that don't fully make sense. He needs to be more
37:17
Speaker 6: clear and principled on these things. These are longtime problems
37:21
Speaker 6: in the US electoral system. And here's a quote from
37:25
Speaker 6: Trump from the White House. We're going to start with
37:28
Speaker 6: an executive order that's being written right now by the
37:31
Speaker 6: best lawyers in the country to end mail in ballots
37:33
Speaker 6: because they're corrupt, at least in terms of the number
37:36
Speaker 6: of them. When they're used in massive amounts, they do
37:40
Speaker 6: invite corruption. And there's one other post from Trump's truth
37:44
Speaker 6: Social He's also saying voter ID must be part of
37:48
Speaker 6: every single vote to confirm who voters are and that
37:51
Speaker 6: they're eligible. He's saying no exceptions. He's calling for an
37:54
Speaker 6: executive order to that end. Again, no mail in ballot
37:57
Speaker 6: or no mail in ballots, And was interesting, gentlemen, And
38:01
Speaker 6: I'll conclude with this note. He's also calling for a
38:04
Speaker 6: hard look at whether we should use those electronic voting
38:07
Speaker 6: machines that have been rightly accused of counting the votes
38:12
Speaker 6: in secret, even though ballots are cast in public. So
38:15
Speaker 6: Trump is on the right track on that last one.
38:18
Speaker 6: But he needs to be much more clear and resolute
38:20
Speaker 6: on what his goals are and what the real problems
38:23
Speaker 6: are on the other two items. It's a little murky
38:26
Speaker 6: and a lot remains to be seen, but I'll be
38:28
Speaker 6: following those in the weeks ahead, so be back. We'll
38:30
Speaker 6: go back to you guys.
38:32
Speaker 1: Right, Thanks Mark, and we're going to come back onto
38:34
Speaker 1: the issue of.
38:34
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Speaker 3: I just want to remind people of this discussion that
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39:34
Speaker 3: who did a short analysis, a little mini documentary into
39:39
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Speaker 3: Brilliant I'd just like to give another shout out for
40:43
Speaker 3: public child protection whales kin issue, Wood and a team
40:47
Speaker 3: who at the end of this month will be going
40:49
Speaker 3: to Washington to meet with other groups. To Washington in
40:53
Speaker 3: the States to go to meet up with other groups.
40:56
Speaker 3: We're going to be challenging the World Health organ Visations
41:01
Speaker 3: CSE it's sexual grooming of very young children. So this
41:05
Speaker 3: battle has now gone from South Wales, it's gone globally.
41:08
Speaker 3: This is really fantastic news and I'd also like to
41:12
Speaker 3: just give the audience heads up. Very shortly, I'll have
41:15
Speaker 3: another interview out with a mum called Christine talking about
41:19
Speaker 3: the failings in children's services. There's a lot more to
41:22
Speaker 3: her story than we can cover in this first episode,
41:26
Speaker 3: but nevertheless, I want to keep the subject of childs
41:29
Speaker 3: stealing by the state in front of our audience. This
41:32
Speaker 3: is a very very serious thing happening in UK.
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Speaker 4: Mark.
41:37
Speaker 2: Let's come back to you then. And Global Parliament of
41:40
Speaker 2: Baris has been one of the institutions that's driving change
41:44
Speaker 2: in both the UK and the United States and most
41:46
Speaker 2: European countries as well.
41:48
Speaker 6: What's the litist, Well, this is interesting. Over the summer,
41:54
Speaker 6: of course, we've had Bilderberg and I reported on the
41:56
Speaker 6: Ditchley Foundation kind of a cousin of Trilabroom and a
42:00
Speaker 6: cousin of Trilateral and Bildeberg excuse me, And there's so
42:04
Speaker 6: many machinations going on. Weaponized neuroscience has been in the
42:07
Speaker 6: news here on UKC recently, but I got to look
42:11
Speaker 6: in at the Global Cities thing, and a quick announcement
42:14
Speaker 6: before we get into the GPM Global Parliament of Mayors
42:17
Speaker 6: is that the seminal annual conference, the Pritsker Global Cities
42:22
Speaker 6: Forum in Chicago that started in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen,
42:25
Speaker 6: and I was there right when it started, has been
42:28
Speaker 6: apparently ended. I think it just didn't go as viral
42:34
Speaker 6: as the former head of the Chicago Council and Global
42:36
Speaker 6: Affairs that was pushing it, Evil Dolder, as he wanted,
42:40
Speaker 6: and that has apparently died. When the Chatham House lady
42:45
Speaker 6: who's leading the Chicago Council came over to replace Dalder.
42:48
Speaker 6: As I've reported recently, there's no indication that she's continuing that.
42:52
Speaker 6: So that's a little bit of good news, you might say,
42:54
Speaker 6: given what we know about Global Cities now. On the
42:57
Speaker 6: Global Parliament of Mayors here, they met earlier in the
43:00
Speaker 6: summer and I discovered that as I was looking at
43:03
Speaker 6: all these other groups and trying to kind of distill
43:05
Speaker 6: all this and their annual sum At twenty twenty five,
43:09
Speaker 6: Ricardo Rio, the Mayor of Braga, Portugal, was big in
43:13
Speaker 6: the news. He's a major player here and we got
43:15
Speaker 6: a couple quotes from him. There was a recognition by
43:20
Speaker 6: the Global Parliament of Mayors about this gentleman's city. The
43:23
Speaker 6: Global Parliament of Mayors or GPM recognizes the path that Braga,
43:27
Speaker 6: Portugal has been forging via its internationalization strategy emphasis added.
43:33
Speaker 6: Internationalization strategy positioning Braga as a open, collaborative city, and
43:41
Speaker 6: that means in league with the global system, that engages
43:45
Speaker 6: with global networks, of course, and promotes democracy big word, inclusion,
43:50
Speaker 6: bigger word, and sustainable development massive concept, of course, and
43:56
Speaker 6: that ties to the United Nations. United Nations turned eighty
43:59
Speaker 6: this year, and then Mayor Ricardo Rio of Brago went
44:03
Speaker 6: on to say, and he's a member of the executive
44:05
Speaker 6: committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors. He went on
44:08
Speaker 6: to say this, these developments reflect our commitment to position
44:13
Speaker 6: Braga as an open and collaborative city emphasis added, one
44:17
Speaker 6: that actively engages with global networks and actively promotes democracy, inclusion, etc.
44:25
Speaker 6: So this is very clear language of what global cities
44:28
Speaker 6: are all about. That they kind of divorce themselves to
44:33
Speaker 6: a point from the nation state that they geographically inhabit,
44:37
Speaker 6: and they link up with other self declared global cities
44:40
Speaker 6: and they operate on a somewhat different legal and governance system.
44:45
Speaker 6: So it's almost like a form of mutiny, if you will.
44:47
Speaker 6: Maybe that's a strong concept, maybe a little too strong,
44:50
Speaker 6: but they're kind of bowing out of their nation state
44:53
Speaker 6: membership and adopting another kind of membership, localized globalism, also
44:58
Speaker 6: called globalism. We've mentioned that. Now this also came out
45:01
Speaker 6: as I was perusing this on a looks like an
45:06
Speaker 6: x post here. Nadia Vergie noted that there's a global
45:12
Speaker 6: or a Global Parliament of Mayor's related summit going on
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Speaker 6: the twenty seventh through the twenty ninth of October twenty
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Speaker 6: twenty five in Dubai that they're calling Expo City and
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Speaker 6: it's being it's involving the Asia Pacific Citi's Summit and
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Speaker 6: Mayor's Forum twenty twenty five bringing together cities from Asia, Africa,
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Speaker 6: the Middle East and beyond. And we have a little
45:36
Speaker 6: bit more on this we'll move on from there, and
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Speaker 6: this is the actual website the Asia Pacific City Summit
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Speaker 6: at Mayor's Forum, that's the main element at this new
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Speaker 6: GPM involved or GPM tied Expo City Dubai event in
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Speaker 6: latter October, So just to get that in the news here,
45:58
Speaker 6: to get that on the record to that events coming up.
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Speaker 6: We didn't have a lot of advanced notice about the
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Speaker 6: summer event by the Global Parliament of Mayor, so we
46:07
Speaker 6: want to make sure we get plenty of advanced news
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Speaker 6: on this one, so we're all aware. Maybe we can
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Speaker 6: talk about it in York a little bit on the side.
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Speaker 6: But here's some of the other things they're talking about
46:16
Speaker 6: with regards to that Dubai summit. This is just some
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Speaker 6: examples we'll show this and I'll just cherry pick it.
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Speaker 6: City leadership and economic development, city branding, and identity, city
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Speaker 6: diplomacy where cities set themselves up to have foreign policy
46:33
Speaker 6: functions and act like that they can get into foreign
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Speaker 6: policy diplomacy, which is really illegitimate and improper for any
46:41
Speaker 6: city to get into. And then digital transformation in urban futures,
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Speaker 6: they're looking at urban intelligence that no doubt involves AI
46:49
Speaker 6: probably in some ill advised ways new energy mission driven ecosystems.
46:55
Speaker 6: Some of this is clear, some of it's rather vague.
46:58
Speaker 6: Maybe not all of it bad. Point by point, and
47:01
Speaker 6: in this last item, this is just a reminder of
47:04
Speaker 6: the Urban seven and the Urban seven. I do have
47:07
Speaker 6: an article posted on UK column about the Urban seven
47:10
Speaker 6: from a year or two ago, and that is the
47:13
Speaker 6: city equivalent roughly of the G seven, showing how the
47:18
Speaker 6: cities view themselves as members of a global community, not
47:22
Speaker 6: so much members of their nation state. And the Urban seven,
47:26
Speaker 6: at a meeting in Japan in July twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 6: was consulted in the drafting of the G seven Sustainable
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Speaker 6: Urban Development Ministers Communique, which lays out the priorities and
47:38
Speaker 6: commitments of the ministers. So that definitely shows the concrete
47:42
Speaker 6: and tangible involvement of these mayors, I think in an
47:46
Speaker 6: ill advised and illegitimate way to get involved in these
47:48
Speaker 6: global affairs. So that's kind of the landscape for now, guys,
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Speaker 6: and the schedule.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Mark Well sticking with cities in the sense,
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Speaker 2: and also Marcus Toy about surveillance and AI. Let's bring
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Speaker 2: this on screen. So this is from the all Sourts
48:07
Speaker 2: Intelligence substock Exclusive Ice reactivated its two million dollar contract
48:13
Speaker 2: with Israeli spyware firm Paragon following its acquisition by US Capital.
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Speaker 1: So this is the.
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Speaker 2: Immigration agency, the agency that's deporting people from the United
48:26
Speaker 2: States at the moment, has begun once again using Paragon.
48:30
Speaker 2: So they have, I mean, this has been described as
48:35
Speaker 2: the most sophisticated hacking tool, and this is following the
48:39
Speaker 2: Trump's decision to renew the contract.
48:42
Speaker 1: We'll come on to that in a second. But this
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Speaker 1: is Paragon.
48:45
Speaker 2: They produce a spyware product called Graphite, developed by Paragon Solutions,
48:51
Speaker 2: which was established in twenty nineteen by a Hood well can.
48:57
Speaker 1: You pronounce that name?
48:58
Speaker 2: Sdrson, a formerer of Unit eighty two hundred, that's, of course,
49:03
Speaker 2: Israel's elite military intelligence unit effectively in military equivalent of
49:08
Speaker 2: the NSA or GCHQ, and also a founder is Thomas Barak,
49:13
Speaker 2: who's also got associations with Israeli intelligence circles. So Graphite
49:18
Speaker 2: is a military grade spyware tool capable of what are
49:22
Speaker 2: described as zero click infections, capable of exfiltrating data from phones.
49:27
Speaker 2: This mainly for mobile phones, also microphone and camera control
49:32
Speaker 2: and also stealth operations on smartphones and this includes iPhones
49:36
Speaker 2: and Android devices. Then began selling Graphite to US law
49:41
Speaker 2: enforcement agencies in twenty twenty one, and I signed the
49:44
Speaker 2: original contract with them in late twenty twenty four. At
49:48
Speaker 2: the beginning of this year, then WhatsApp discovered a global
49:52
Speaker 2: spyware campaign using Graphite that targeted ninety individuals, including journalists
49:56
Speaker 2: and activists, in more than twenty countries. Not long after
50:00
Speaker 2: that story broke, Citizen Lab confirmed that Paragon's Graphite was
50:04
Speaker 2: also used in Italy against journalists there, leading to the
50:08
Speaker 2: termination of the contract in Italy. So let's just put
50:13
Speaker 2: that on screen. So this is Reuters reporting Italy and
50:16
Speaker 2: is really Paragon part ways after spyware affair. So Graphits
50:23
Speaker 2: design uses what are described as stealth tactics, loading themselves
50:28
Speaker 2: itself into legitimate apps like WhatsApp to evade detection, making
50:35
Speaker 2: forensic detections highly challenging and most almost impossible for the
50:40
Speaker 2: average user to discover. It's easily installed in target phones
50:44
Speaker 2: and on including the latest iPhones, and that is confirmed
50:48
Speaker 2: in security weak if a headline here saying Paragon Graphit
50:52
Speaker 2: spyware linked to zero click hacks on newest iPhones, which
50:57
Speaker 2: should be no surprise because, as meant Press reported in July,
51:01
Speaker 2: with the dozens of former Unit eity two hundred staff
51:05
Speaker 2: now employed by Apple, and the question is to do
51:08
Speaker 2: what are they in fact there as legitimate employees or
51:13
Speaker 2: are they there to perhaps you know, manufacture into future
51:19
Speaker 2: Apple products. Plenty of attack vectors that allow this type
51:22
Speaker 2: of software to operate, So I think this is this
51:25
Speaker 2: is an important issue and something you know that we've
51:28
Speaker 2: we've been talking about UNIIT eighty two hundred for quite
51:30
Speaker 2: some time. We absolutely need to maintain focus on that
51:35
Speaker 2: and its role in finding many of the tech companies
51:38
Speaker 2: that we.
51:39
Speaker 1: Rely on day to day.
51:41
Speaker 2: And in the meantime, then social media yesterday was highlighting
51:47
Speaker 2: the case of Bayon Maval Walla, the second, who is
51:54
Speaker 2: a former Army sergeant US Army sergeant who served survived
51:58
Speaker 2: a roadside bomb blast on a special operations mission in Afghanistan.
52:02
Speaker 2: He's also son of a decorated US military intelligence officer.
52:06
Speaker 2: He was arrested by the FBI in July and charged
52:10
Speaker 2: with conspiracy to impede or injure officers following a scuffle
52:15
Speaker 2: with a well an ICE officer who was completely masked
52:19
Speaker 2: and not really identifiable as an ICE officer. At one
52:22
Speaker 2: of the protests, Mark was talking about a couple of
52:24
Speaker 2: minutes ago, so he was arrested. They protest itself took part,
52:30
Speaker 2: that took place about a month before the actual arrest
52:33
Speaker 2: took place. And now this is being described as many
52:36
Speaker 2: as an escalation of the Trump regimes attacks on First Amendment. Right,
52:40
Speaker 2: So we can talk about that in extra and I
52:44
Speaker 2: just want to mention that in an effort to sort
52:47
Speaker 2: of deal with the massive overreach of ICE agents apparent
52:51
Speaker 2: massive overreach at the moment, an application for the iPhone
52:55
Speaker 2: is being developed called ice Block, which allows people to
52:57
Speaker 2: log settings of ICE activity and learned others to that activity.
53:02
Speaker 2: Of course, it's not without limitations and flaws, but people
53:06
Speaker 2: really should probably be asking what has happened to the
53:09
Speaker 2: United States that this is even a thing any thoughts.
53:13
Speaker 3: I think it's immensely dangerous. The first level is that
53:17
Speaker 3: we've got one country. We've got Israel now burying itself
53:22
Speaker 3: not only inside the government systems of other countries, the
53:26
Speaker 3: US and the UK, but it's also buried itself inside
53:30
Speaker 3: the intelligence and the security services, so absolutely unaccountable to nobody,
53:37
Speaker 3: and now we're getting to the level of street arrests
53:41
Speaker 3: based on these sorts of partnerships. What's very dangerous, I
53:45
Speaker 3: think right.
53:46
Speaker 2: Well, here in the UK, well, here's the Plymouth Herald,
53:49
Speaker 2: because the civilian state rules out of pears. So the
53:51
Speaker 2: Herald here has published a report highlighting the use of
53:54
Speaker 2: AI parts to villance cameras and devon aquowall, which apparently
53:57
Speaker 2: cost ten thousand drivers being very naughty. Indeed, the cameras
54:01
Speaker 2: are supplied by this organization, acusensues. Now these systems can
54:07
Speaker 2: capture images showing the inside of your car, including the driver,
54:10
Speaker 2: passengers and children. And Acusensus claims that non infringing images,
54:16
Speaker 2: so anything that hasn't captured wrongdoing, we can be rest
54:20
Speaker 2: assured that these are deleted immediately and we believe that,
54:23
Speaker 2: of course, and privacy safeguards like data encryption and limited
54:27
Speaker 2: access are in place, is what they claim. Now another
54:31
Speaker 2: AI camera system gaining traction in the UK is from
54:35
Speaker 2: Flock and now these are also being rolled out in
54:38
Speaker 2: the EU and in the United States as well. And
54:41
Speaker 2: these are not just roadside cameras that searching for drivers
54:46
Speaker 2: using mobile phones. These are being deployed in place of
54:49
Speaker 2: standard c TV cameras all over the place. Now there's
54:53
Speaker 2: a website that I want to draw your attention to
54:55
Speaker 2: here called dflock. It's tracking the deployment of these cameras
55:00
Speaker 2: worldwide and they provide an interactive map so you can
55:03
Speaker 2: see exactly where they are now. There are huge numbers
55:06
Speaker 2: in the UK can relative to the number of CCDV
55:08
Speaker 2: cameras that we have in the country as yet, but
55:10
Speaker 2: you can see there's broad usage right across the country
55:14
Speaker 2: and actually the Midlands is probably the biggest user of
55:19
Speaker 2: these cameras yet at this point. So you know, this
55:23
Speaker 2: is a deployment that many people are unaware of and
55:29
Speaker 2: so on. So you know, we've got to consider this
55:31
Speaker 2: within the context of the whole AI agenda that the
55:34
Speaker 2: UK government is pushing out at the moment, and in
55:37
Speaker 2: order to encourage and exploit this kind of surveillance did
55:42
Speaker 2: the British government has published a new AI Assurance roadmap
55:47
Speaker 2: which they say will look to add billions of points
55:50
Speaker 2: to the economy and create scores of new jobs, scores
55:53
Speaker 2: of new jobs, so it's really worth the effort here.
55:55
Speaker 2: But anyway, AI assurance is all about assuring you and
55:59
Speaker 2: me that AI is to be trusted and that there's
56:02
Speaker 2: nothing at all to worry about.
56:04
Speaker 1: So the star.
56:05
Speaker 2: War government is pushing millions of pounds of taxpayers money into,
56:09
Speaker 2: for example, convening a UK consortium to work towards a
56:13
Speaker 2: future AI assurance profession and establishing a new forum from
56:17
Speaker 2: multi stakeholder collaboration.
56:19
Speaker 1: These are their words.
56:20
Speaker 2: Of course, this is going to be driven by the
56:23
Speaker 2: AI Assurance Innovation Fund, which is going to get an
56:26
Speaker 2: initial bang of eleven million pounds, with lots more cash
56:30
Speaker 2: to come in the future, and they also announced the
56:32
Speaker 2: government also announced the two point seven million pounds boost
56:35
Speaker 2: to develop a regulator capability, which, as we know from
56:38
Speaker 2: for example, from the MHRA, means an enabler capability. So
56:44
Speaker 2: to sort of demonstrate that this is a unit party issue,
56:47
Speaker 2: let's hear from a name that we possibly have tried
56:51
Speaker 2: to forget, and that's Rishi Sunac.
56:54
Speaker 7: Everyone's talking about the race to build AGI.
56:57
Speaker 8: AGI artificial general in.
57:01
Speaker 4: An AGI.
57:02
Speaker 3: How close are we to IDI?
57:05
Speaker 7: That matters, But it's not the only race we should
57:08
Speaker 7: care about. The real prize is everyday AI.
57:11
Speaker 4: We have given them brains, electronic brains.
57:14
Speaker 1: It's truth.
57:14
Speaker 9: The kind of computer to which you can give a
57:17
Speaker 9: problem and then leave.
57:18
Speaker 1: It to work out the answer all by itself.
57:20
Speaker 7: The countries that win won't just be the ones with
57:22
Speaker 7: the smartest AI, they'll be the ones adopting it fastest.
57:26
Speaker 7: Think about the electric dynamo. It only transformed industry when
57:30
Speaker 7: factories were redesigning around it, Or the Internet. It only
57:33
Speaker 7: changed our lives when businesses shape their sales and supply
57:36
Speaker 7: chains around it. AI is no different. If it's just
57:40
Speaker 7: locked away in the IT department, we'll only see a
57:43
Speaker 7: fraction of the benefits. We need business leaders and world.
57:46
Speaker 1: Leaders trained to use it.
57:48
Speaker 7: We need workers given the right skills now, not in
57:51
Speaker 7: ten years, and we need public services ready to use it.
57:55
Speaker 7: And that also means getting the regulation right, protecting against
57:58
Speaker 7: real risks like i OWE or cyber threat without burying
58:02
Speaker 7: people in rules that make using AI impossible. I'm working
58:05
Speaker 7: with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University to map out
58:09
Speaker 7: the practical steps the governments, businesses, and innovators can take
58:14
Speaker 7: to win the race to everyday AI. And to do that,
58:17
Speaker 7: I want your input in this early stage. Thousands have
58:20
Speaker 7: already had their say, but if you haven't yet clicked
58:23
Speaker 7: the link below to complete a short survey.
58:27
Speaker 3: So he's a hoover serviceman, yes, door to door vacuum cleaners.
58:32
Speaker 2: Anyway, let me just give you a very quick look
58:34
Speaker 2: at this survey that you need to click below to do.
58:38
Speaker 2: And as you can see there, you know, there's no
58:41
Speaker 2: option in the first question to say no way, Jose,
58:44
Speaker 2: I'm not having anything to do with this. You get
58:47
Speaker 2: the opportion to say you haven't Tuesday in the last
58:49
Speaker 2: thirty days, or maybe you're not sure in the same answer,
58:52
Speaker 2: but you know it is pathetic. But the point here is,
58:56
Speaker 2: you know, assuming anybody hasn't been physically ill to watch
59:00
Speaker 2: that here we have a former prime minister absolutely shilling
59:05
Speaker 2: for this industry.
59:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, just to throw away comment from me, of course,
59:10
Speaker 3: if you're a car driver, in your car you will
59:12
Speaker 3: have a sumdvisor, use your sun visor. It makes a
59:16
Speaker 3: big difference to what cameras can and cannot see.
59:20
Speaker 1: Mark.
59:21
Speaker 2: Just to conclude the program, back to you and what's
59:24
Speaker 2: been going on in the United States with RFK Junior.
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Speaker 6: More controversy is the short answer, Mike. Yesterday, the Committee
59:33
Speaker 6: on Finance yesterday morning, September four, held their President's twenty
59:39
Speaker 6: twenty six Healthcare Agenda hearing, and who other than RFK
59:44
Speaker 6: was the speaker? Who else could it be? And he
59:46
Speaker 6: was grilled intensely, especially by Bernie Sanders, who's kind of
59:50
Speaker 6: a grill master. You could put him in an apron
59:53
Speaker 6: with his spatula and he would be the definite grill
59:56
Speaker 6: master on the Senate side. ABC News headline, Real Quick,
59:59
Speaker 6: RFK Junior testifies before the Finance Committee amid CDC turmoil
1:00:04
Speaker 6: and vaccine changes. That's where the rub was and is.
1:00:08
Speaker 6: And really we can just get right to the videos.
1:00:12
Speaker 6: There's two. If you want to show both, that's fine.
1:00:14
Speaker 6: One now, one extra depending on the time. But here's
1:00:17
Speaker 6: Bernie Sanders in the first video, and we can discuss
1:00:21
Speaker 6: it after that.
1:00:23
Speaker 8: Secretary Kennedy, President Trump and the medical community, right or
1:00:28
Speaker 8: do you still believe that the COVID vaccine was quote
1:00:31
Speaker 8: the deadliest vaccine ever made. Oh?
1:00:34
Speaker 9: I know, first of all, I didn't say that. I
1:00:36
Speaker 9: said that in terms of airs reports a while ago.
1:00:42
Speaker 9: I've said today I think that President Trump should get
1:00:45
Speaker 9: the Nobel Brod.
1:00:45
Speaker 1: So who's right?
1:00:46
Speaker 6: Is Trump?
1:00:47
Speaker 8: Is the medical community writer?
1:00:48
Speaker 1: Are you right?
1:00:49
Speaker 9: President Trump? An extraordinary piece of leadership is.
1:00:54
Speaker 1: He right or wrong?
1:00:55
Speaker 8: Did COVID say millions of lives?
1:00:58
Speaker 9: As I said, he got Americans back to work at
1:01:01
Speaker 9: that time, that particular vaccine, which perfectly imagined the virus
1:01:04
Speaker 9: that was circulating that and I have no idea how
1:01:08
Speaker 9: many lives it say, but it saved quite a few.
1:01:15
Speaker 6: A lot of odd statements there. We can talk about
1:01:17
Speaker 6: it more an extra, but Kennedy definitely stammering and kind
1:01:21
Speaker 6: of waffling there, not unlike his inaugural comments when he
1:01:26
Speaker 6: was first nominated, and then Sanders saying, you know, how
1:01:30
Speaker 6: many did COVID save? Kind of he's kind of misspeaking.
1:01:34
Speaker 6: He meant to say COVID vaccine. So you've got one
1:01:37
Speaker 6: that's for the vaccine, which is pretty troubling, that being Sanders.
1:01:41
Speaker 6: And then you've got Kennedy not being clear about his
1:01:44
Speaker 6: stance and even trying to say that the vaccine initially
1:01:48
Speaker 6: was a success. One that's highly questionable, if not outright falls.
1:01:52
Speaker 6: So then we have the other video. If you'd like
1:01:54
Speaker 6: to show up, Mike, we can proceed from there.
1:01:56
Speaker 2: Well, well, look, Mark, if you don't mind, let's push
1:01:59
Speaker 2: out an extra. I actually want to draw some parallels
1:02:02
Speaker 2: here with what RFK has just said, and maybe something
1:02:07
Speaker 2: that's going on in the in the Kingdom around Jeremy Corman,
1:02:10
Speaker 2: because it's it's quite interesting how when people are pushed
1:02:13
Speaker 2: into a position that they where they feel like they
1:02:16
Speaker 2: need to say something that they don't really believe, it
1:02:19
Speaker 2: gets very tricky for them very quickly.
1:02:22
Speaker 6: Indeed, Yeah, he does look like he's he's giving a
1:02:27
Speaker 6: confession or saying something that he doesn't fundamentally believe. You
1:02:30
Speaker 6: can see the conflict in his body language. But that's fine, Mike.
1:02:33
Speaker 6: We'll go with what you said obviously, and so we're good.
1:02:37
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mark Okay and Brian. Just a couple of
1:02:40
Speaker 2: closing comments.
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