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Gavin Grey: Europe Correspondent on the UK imposing sanctions on extremist settler groups in Gaza · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The UK is hitting extremist settler groups in the Wist
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  Speaker 1: Bank with sanctions. Devin Gray's at UK You correspondent, Gavin
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  Speaker 1: what's this about?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just been announced Ran that the UK Foreign Minister
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  Speaker 2: David Lammy and this government here in the UK criticizing
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  Speaker 2: the inaction of the Israeli government. Is the quote for
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  Speaker 2: allowing impunity to flourish among the extremist settlers. What does
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  Speaker 2: this mean? Well, it means, of course, the settlers who
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  Speaker 2: are in the West Bank said to be conducting a
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  Speaker 2: campaign of violence against the Palestinian communities in the occupied
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  Speaker 2: territory and another quote from the speech henous abuses of
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  Speaker 2: human rights against those Palestinian communities. So several outposts within
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  Speaker 2: that area have been included in the sanctions, along with
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  Speaker 2: four organizations. These are a religious school known to promote
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  Speaker 2: violence against non Jews, a group which provides volunteers for
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  Speaker 2: illegal outposts, a registered charity which provides financial support to
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  Speaker 2: the settlements, and a construction company which is thought to
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  Speaker 2: be one of the main construction companies in those disputed territories. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: it comes as the former Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron
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  Speaker 2: revealed the previous government had also been preparing the sanction
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  Speaker 2: to Israeli ministers over comments encouraging blocking aid to Gaza
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  Speaker 2: very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: On this Novichok business, the Russian spy that the Russians
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  Speaker 1: were trying to former Russian spy, the Russians were trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill it in the UK twenty eighteen, that vial
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  Speaker 1: of nov chop the poison quite quite a lot in
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  Speaker 1: near by.
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  Speaker 2: The sounds of it, yeah, And it was left discarded
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  Speaker 2: in a perfume bottle and then left in a bin.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody picked it up and thought it was a very
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  Speaker 2: expensive perfume, put it on themselves and sadly died. And
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  Speaker 2: that's the inquiry that's going on at the moment now.
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  Speaker 2: On hearing from special chemists and from those in the
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  Speaker 2: field saying there was enough of this nerve agent Novichok
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  Speaker 2: to kill thousands of people. It really is quite something
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  Speaker 2: that masive take a deep breath, doesn't it the idea
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  Speaker 2: that enough was being brought into the country to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And in this terribly sad inquiry, her mother has described
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  Speaker 2: the victim as intelligent, extremely selfless and a very kind
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  Speaker 2: person and saying she took comfort from the fact nobody
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  Speaker 2: else died.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well absolutely, Gavin, thank you for that. Gavin Gray
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  Speaker 1: are UK europe correspondent. I suppose it's insurance, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It takes take enough to kill a thousand people and
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  Speaker 1: even though you only need get one or two For more.
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