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What's Going On?! (PARIS Under Siege & Everything Falling Apart FAST!!) · Neil McCoy-Ward Podcast

0:03
SPEAKER_00: What's going on?
0:05
SPEAKER_00: Paris is under siege right now and everything is falling apart very, very quickly indeed.
0:14
SPEAKER_00: We're also going to talk in today's stream, not just Paris but the wider area in France.
0:20
SPEAKER_00: We're going to talk about the Russian threats that have just been made.
0:26
SPEAKER_00: Almost unbelievable.
0:27
SPEAKER_00: We're going to talk about Kaliningrad, why that's a key region.
0:30
SPEAKER_00: We're going to talk about the European arms factories now that are going
0:34
SPEAKER_00: to be legitimate targets.
0:37
SPEAKER_00: Diesel export bans, the diesel spill that's just taken place conveniently in the UK.
0:43
SPEAKER_00: And the UK releasing prisoners early.
0:47
SPEAKER_00: All this to come and a lot more in today's stream.
0:51
SPEAKER_00: This is going to be an interesting one.
0:53
SPEAKER_00: So let's get into it and let's talk about what's happening in France.
0:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to show you the video clip in just a moment here.
1:01
SPEAKER_00: But over 440 people,
1:04
SPEAKER_00: these are mainly students,
1:07
SPEAKER_00: have been arrested and 76 injured,
1:11
SPEAKER_00: as well as almost 90 police officers injured in Paris.
1:16
SPEAKER_00: And this has happened, it sort of started with Paris, it spread to other cities.
1:21
SPEAKER_00: Dijon, Lyon, Strasbourg, Marseille.
1:26
SPEAKER_00: This is teenagers, by the way.
1:28
SPEAKER_00: I've got to Actually,
1:30
SPEAKER_00: the quote from the Education Minister,
1:32
SPEAKER_00: he said,
1:33
SPEAKER_00: while some of the students' demands are legitimate,
1:36
SPEAKER_00: he said he's absolutely shocked by the level of violence that he's seeing.
1:41
SPEAKER_00: He can't even fathom the level of violence.
1:44
SPEAKER_00: So let's go on to the shared screen here, and you can see what's going on.
1:50
SPEAKER_00: So this is absolutely unbelievable, the scenes.
1:56
SPEAKER_00: Fire trucks, police vehicles, Everything being just destroyed.
2:02
SPEAKER_00: This was the scene in the main city then.
2:10
SPEAKER_00: This was not the students because you've got four protests going on at exactly the same time.
2:18
SPEAKER_00: Four protests or demonstrations at the same time.
2:22
SPEAKER_00: But look at the students.
2:23
SPEAKER_00: Look what they have been doing.
2:25
SPEAKER_00: I want to show you the This is really crazy in a moment.
2:30
SPEAKER_00: I want to show you this video in a second.
2:33
SPEAKER_00: But look, they're just burning everything in sight.
2:37
SPEAKER_00: And here we go.
2:38
SPEAKER_00: This is the key one I want to show you.
2:40
SPEAKER_00: Now look at this.
2:41
SPEAKER_00: This is Bordeaux.
2:43
SPEAKER_00: I mean, listen to the sounds, but I want to show you this.
2:48
SPEAKER_00: If we look at the sky here, one fire, two fire, three fire.
2:53
SPEAKER_00: Let's keep it going.
2:54
SPEAKER_00: So we've got three fire.
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SPEAKER_00: Four, five, six.
3:01
SPEAKER_00: And that's just what we can see there.
3:04
SPEAKER_00: So you might be wondering what is on fire.
3:06
SPEAKER_00: This is schools and here's the people doing it.
3:12
SPEAKER_00: The students are burning down their own schools at the moment.
3:18
SPEAKER_00: It is all over the place.
3:21
SPEAKER_00: Look at this.
3:26
SPEAKER_00: Another school burning down.
3:32
SPEAKER_00: Looks like they've set the tree on fire here.
3:36
SPEAKER_00: So this is all over France right now.
3:41
SPEAKER_00: It is almost unbelievable what is going on.
3:45
SPEAKER_00: Just absolutely crazy.
3:48
SPEAKER_00: And this is just one story today.
3:50
SPEAKER_00: We've got a lot more to go over.
3:53
SPEAKER_00: But let me just tell you, this was over...
3:55
SPEAKER_00: There's government workers protesting over budget cuts.
3:58
SPEAKER_00: There's the students which are causing all the mayhem and the fires and attacking police.
4:04
SPEAKER_00: You've got the fuel prices and then you've got climate.
4:08
SPEAKER_00: So this is 400 schools right now that are,
4:15
SPEAKER_00: whatever you want to call it, demonstrating, rioting, burning the schools.
4:19
SPEAKER_00: Now, 400 schools.
4:22
SPEAKER_00: And it was difficult to get a number here,
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SPEAKER_00: but it says that,
4:26
SPEAKER_00: It's close to 100 police officers that have been injured now,
4:30
SPEAKER_00: and the media has been focused on opening inquiries into police violence
4:36
SPEAKER_00: against minorities, is what it says.
4:40
SPEAKER_00: This is the main focus.
4:42
SPEAKER_00: And I'm thinking, hold on, these people are burning the schools down, regardless of...
4:48
SPEAKER_00: What they look like.
4:49
SPEAKER_00: Why are you focusing on that?
4:51
SPEAKER_00: It's crazy.
4:52
SPEAKER_00: So the students have set out their demands and they've said that they're not happy
4:58
SPEAKER_00: that class sizes are 32 to 35 per class.
5:02
SPEAKER_00: Teacher and that the school days are running too long and the buildings are in poor shape.
5:09
SPEAKER_00: They said that there isn't good insulation or air conditioning in the schools.
5:15
SPEAKER_00: And one student said he saw a rat in the schools.
5:20
SPEAKER_00: I mean, is that really a reason to burn the school down and riot?
5:24
SPEAKER_00: I don't think so, but hey, it's been a long time since I was at school.
5:31
SPEAKER_00: So how many pupils have been disrupted then?
5:33
SPEAKER_00: It's somewhere between a quarter of a million and 450,000 pupils.
5:40
SPEAKER_00: And this is just as of right now.
5:42
SPEAKER_00: This is spreading right across the region.
5:47
SPEAKER_00: It's spreading.
5:48
SPEAKER_00: Now, I went on to the BBC here because I thought,
5:53
SPEAKER_00: wow, I need to grab an article so I can show everyone this is going on.
5:59
SPEAKER_00: What's the main...
6:01
SPEAKER_00: What's the main...
6:02
SPEAKER_00: I mean, this was a crazy story, I will say.
6:05
SPEAKER_00: This lady survived two lethal injections.
6:10
SPEAKER_00: How?
6:10
SPEAKER_00: I've never heard of that before.
6:12
SPEAKER_00: It's a crazy story, but where is all of this?
6:14
SPEAKER_00: And you start going a bit closer.
6:16
SPEAKER_00: Let's look on the UK news.
6:19
SPEAKER_00: No, this is all about the prisoners being freed, which we'll talk about because it's wild.
6:24
SPEAKER_00: Vape tax comes into effect.
6:26
SPEAKER_00: What is all this junk?
6:28
SPEAKER_00: AI could, where is the news of some of the shocking, crazy things that are going on today?
6:36
SPEAKER_00: This is why I don't watch or read the BBC, because it's just nonsense.
6:43
SPEAKER_00: Really big one.
6:43
SPEAKER_00: Let's get into the sort of war front now then.
6:45
SPEAKER_00: We'll move away from these riots and protests.
6:48
SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about what's happening with the European-Russia coming conflict.
6:54
SPEAKER_00: So this is out of the FT. Russia makes extreme threats against NATO countries over Kaliningrad.
7:00
SPEAKER_00: Now, usually I would say, well...
7:04
SPEAKER_00: Is this some sort of propaganda being put out?
7:06
SPEAKER_00: But this is actually legitimate and I've verified it all for you.
7:09
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7:12
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7:19
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7:21
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7:26
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7:28
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7:29
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7:31
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7:32
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7:36
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7:38
SPEAKER_00: The link is below in the description.
7:41
SPEAKER_00: Now, Russia then, what did they say?
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SPEAKER_00: They've threatened to use nuclear weapons against NATO.
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SPEAKER_00: This is legitimate, by the way.
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SPEAKER_00: They actually have said this.
7:56
SPEAKER_00: And this is all around Kaliningrad, which we'll talk about in a second.
8:00
SPEAKER_00: We've mentioned it once before, but I'll give you a bit of details on this today.
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SPEAKER_00: So Russia's now concerned that the NATO movements around Kaliningrad is looking like
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SPEAKER_00: a pincer movement.
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SPEAKER_00: It looks like they're going to try and Block off Russia from this region
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SPEAKER_00: and this region is really,
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SPEAKER_00: really crucial because it's their only really naval base on the Baltic Sea
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SPEAKER_00: and that's why it's so crucial and they have all their missiles there
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SPEAKER_00: that can actually launch into Europe.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a really crucial area.
8:31
SPEAKER_00: So I think that's why we're seeing all this very heavy rhetoric today.
8:35
SPEAKER_00: So let's see what they said.
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SPEAKER_00: Russia sent a document to NATO this week where they accused the alliance,
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SPEAKER_00: so NATO,
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SPEAKER_00: of taking a dangerous and reckless course towards Russia and its enclave,
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SPEAKER_00: Kaliningrad.
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SPEAKER_00: The official said it included a warning about high risks of the outbreak of
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SPEAKER_00: a direct armed conflict.
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SPEAKER_00: NATO responded by accusing Moscow of irresponsible nuclear rhetoric
9:03
SPEAKER_00: and said it posed no threat to Russia whatsoever.
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SPEAKER_00: Basically,
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SPEAKER_00: NATO has said the usual,
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SPEAKER_00: we haven't done anything,
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SPEAKER_00: we are not threatening you in any way whatsoever,
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SPEAKER_00: you're the one that's threatening us.
9:17
SPEAKER_00: And you've got to laugh at some of these claims going both ways.
9:21
SPEAKER_00: I always laugh when NATO says, we're not doing anything to threaten you.
9:27
SPEAKER_00: But at the same time, I laugh when Russia says some of their things.
9:30
SPEAKER_00: But it's just bizarre, the claims that are coming out here.
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SPEAKER_00: Moscow claimed NATO was preparing for potential military operations
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SPEAKER_00: to blockade Kaliningrad, which borders on Poland and Lithuania.
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SPEAKER_00: Citing the Defence Alliance's exercise in the region and the Baltic Sentry mission
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SPEAKER_00: to protect undersea infrastructure.
9:55
SPEAKER_00: Now let me just show you because you might be interested to actually see this region.
10:02
SPEAKER_00: So if you don't know where Kaliningrad is,
10:04
SPEAKER_00: this is quite an unusual region actually because it's not in mainland Russia.
10:11
SPEAKER_00: So here's your mainland Russia here and Russia's enormous.
10:15
SPEAKER_00: So I said this a while back and someone said, it's not that big, it's smaller than America.
10:20
SPEAKER_00: No, and the map isn't even right size anyway, but this is America.
10:24
SPEAKER_00: It's not as big as it looks on the map.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: This is Russia.
10:29
SPEAKER_00: Look at the size of Russia.
10:31
SPEAKER_00: It is absolutely enormous.
10:35
SPEAKER_00: So anyone who thinks Russia is going to be conquered...
10:39
SPEAKER_00: By a land invasion or something like that.
10:42
SPEAKER_00: I mean, how exactly you'd conquer that much land mass,
10:45
SPEAKER_00: if you know,
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SPEAKER_00: let me and all the military tactical gurus know, because we don't know either.
10:52
SPEAKER_00: So that's where Kaliningrad is.
10:56
SPEAKER_00: Let's get a bit closer.
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SPEAKER_00: So this is the region here.
11:02
SPEAKER_00: People think it's just this.
11:03
SPEAKER_00: No, this is the main town.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it's a town or city.
11:06
SPEAKER_00: This is just the main...
11:07
SPEAKER_00: This is the town within the region, but this is the whole region.
11:10
SPEAKER_00: I saw someone talking about, well, it's only this little dot here.
11:13
SPEAKER_00: No, this whole region is Kaliningrad.
11:16
SPEAKER_00: And then you have the Swalky Gap, which is this line here.
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SPEAKER_00: And that's in between Lithuania here to the north, Poland to the south.
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SPEAKER_00: But then it sort of goes with Belarus.
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SPEAKER_00: So this is why NATO is so concerned about this small gap.
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SPEAKER_00: About 65 kilometers at the most narrow.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a really,
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SPEAKER_00: really crucial area this is because this is where the Russian Navy,
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SPEAKER_00: this is their Baltic seaport.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's absolutely crucial.
11:47
SPEAKER_00: So if they get blocked off there,
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SPEAKER_00: they're in big trouble because then their Navy would be stuck in a way.
11:53
SPEAKER_00: And I think that's why NATO is planning something around this if we have any form of conflict.
12:00
SPEAKER_00: So hopefully that was helpful in explaining why this is such a key region here.
12:07
SPEAKER_00: So Russia said it will be ready to use the entire arsenal of forces and capabilities
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SPEAKER_00: at its disposal including nuclear weapons in order
12:16
SPEAKER_00: to defend its territory should NATO undertake any attempt aimed
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SPEAKER_00: at isolating Kaliningrad from the rest of Russia.
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SPEAKER_00: Such moves could result in Russian strikes against decision-making centers in
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SPEAKER_00: the alliance's member states right from the outset of the conflict.
12:35
SPEAKER_00: So they're talking about actually dropping bombs into European centers.
12:39
SPEAKER_00: The nuclear threats come as Belgium's defense minister warned of a dark winter ahead.
12:45
SPEAKER_00: He said everyone needs to prepare for a dark winter.
12:47
SPEAKER_00: Remember what that keyword means, because we've talked about that for three or four years now.
12:52
SPEAKER_00: Dark winter.
12:52
SPEAKER_00: Even Joe Biden said it, you remember.
12:55
SPEAKER_00: He talked about the dark winter plan.
12:58
SPEAKER_00: So the Belgium defence minister said it again,
13:02
SPEAKER_00: and he said there'll be more hybrid threat actions in the coming months.
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SPEAKER_00: It will be a dark winter for Europe, so everybody needs to prepare for this dark winter.
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SPEAKER_00: Said it five times, I think, in one.
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SPEAKER_00: The other main reason for Kaliningrad is that they've just
13:29
SPEAKER_00: NATO believes they've just upgraded the long-range missiles there.
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SPEAKER_00: So now they think they can reach much, much further.
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SPEAKER_00: And they've got their air defenses and coastal ship missiles and all sorts
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SPEAKER_00: of other equipment there.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's a really crucial region.
13:45
SPEAKER_00: Now, another one
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SPEAKER_00: that came out yesterday was Russia says European arms factories supplying Ukraine
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SPEAKER_00: are potential military targets for Moscow now.
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SPEAKER_00: They're saying that factories in Europe producing these arms are legitimate targets.
14:03
SPEAKER_00: This was the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman.
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SPEAKER_00: So I did actually get it translated.
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SPEAKER_00: It is correct, everything that's been said here.
14:14
SPEAKER_00: It is accurate.
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SPEAKER_00: So weapon factories in European countries that produce arms are now military targets for Russia.
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SPEAKER_00: And she said,
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SPEAKER_00: one should not assume that military factories outside Ukraine which produce weapons
14:30
SPEAKER_00: for the regime will be safe.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyone who thinks so is mistaken.
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SPEAKER_00: She went on to say, European countries are directly involved in the conflict.
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SPEAKER_00: They are not merely providing humanitarian aid.
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SPEAKER_00: By opening arms factories and joint ventures, they are fully involved.
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SPEAKER_00: And this only delays a resolution to the conflict rather than it bringing it closer,
14:53
SPEAKER_00: as some European forces keep saying.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: And you've got to be very careful now with even reading some of this stuff out.
15:01
SPEAKER_00: I saw that there's been some journalists have been sanctioned now,
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SPEAKER_00: investigative journalists for a number of outlets.
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SPEAKER_00: They've been sanctioned.
15:12
SPEAKER_00: These are Europeans, by the way, for...
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SPEAKER_00: Agreeing with anything that comes out from Russian media.
15:21
SPEAKER_00: They're saying that it's a, I can't remember the word, it says propagating propaganda.
15:26
SPEAKER_00: I think the term is what they were using.
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SPEAKER_00: So I've got to be very careful of what I say.
15:33
SPEAKER_00: Because if I agree with anything that comes out of Russia,
15:37
SPEAKER_00: even if it's completely logical and saying something like, Yes,
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SPEAKER_00: European countries are not sending humanitarian aids,
15:45
SPEAKER_00: they're sending weapons which are being used by Ukraine to strike Russia.
15:49
SPEAKER_00: That, if you read the new policies,
15:52
SPEAKER_00: that is classed as propagating propaganda And you can be sanctioned for it.
15:58
SPEAKER_00: And the sanctions are what you've seen.
16:00
SPEAKER_00: They're extreme.
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SPEAKER_00: Lose your bank account and all this other stuff.
16:04
SPEAKER_00: There's going to be even talk of prison sentences for this as well coming up.
16:09
SPEAKER_00: Wait till we get on to the prisons, the UK prisons.
16:13
SPEAKER_00: That's an interesting one.
16:15
SPEAKER_00: Next then, another one out of the FT today.
16:18
SPEAKER_00: Russia extends its diesel export ban.
16:21
SPEAKER_00: This is no surprise, really.
16:22
SPEAKER_00: I knew this was coming.
16:24
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, this is going to be hard hitting for Europe.
16:30
SPEAKER_00: It really is.
16:31
SPEAKER_00: And it's kind of interesting because the European leaders are saying,
16:37
SPEAKER_00: oh, we need all this diesel and we need Iran and other countries.
16:43
SPEAKER_00: We need all this to end.
16:45
SPEAKER_00: And yet they've caused a lot of this.
16:47
SPEAKER_00: This has now been extended, the diesel export ban for another month.
16:55
SPEAKER_00: Trump's been getting involved,
16:58
SPEAKER_00: but it's pretty obvious that Russia's not going to overturn this ban
17:03
SPEAKER_00: because they need the diesel for themselves.
17:06
SPEAKER_00: This is actually the worst fuel crisis in Russia now since the collapse of
17:12
SPEAKER_00: the Soviet Union, you could probably argue.
17:15
SPEAKER_00: So they've shipped about 4.6 million barrels of diesel so far this year,
17:20
SPEAKER_00: 40% less than last year.
17:24
SPEAKER_00: So the strikes have been hitting hard on refineries.
17:28
SPEAKER_00: Trump has spoken again to Zelensky to ask him to suspend the strikes against
17:33
SPEAKER_00: the Russian refineries,
17:35
SPEAKER_00: which he said are hurting the entire world by crippling diesel exports.
17:41
SPEAKER_00: Zelensky didn't, there's no response, we haven't got a response here that I'm reading.
17:48
SPEAKER_00: But what happened was Ukraine then launched another massive barrage
17:53
SPEAKER_00: of long-range missiles and drones at more diesel refineries.
17:58
SPEAKER_00: So he obviously didn't, I guess, take Trump seriously in his request.
18:04
SPEAKER_00: So it's anywhere up to 45% now of the capacity has been taken down.
18:11
SPEAKER_00: And you would think with all that going on the UK might have started to take some actions.
18:17
SPEAKER_00: Well no, here's out of the telegraph today.
18:19
SPEAKER_00: Diesel crisis deepens as UK's biggest refinery shuts for 10 weeks.
18:25
SPEAKER_00: Now this is a big one.
18:27
SPEAKER_00: This is going to be absolutely wild.
18:32
SPEAKER_00: Because it is going to deepen.
18:34
SPEAKER_00: It's not expected to deepen.
18:36
SPEAKER_00: It is going to deepen.
18:38
SPEAKER_00: Being closed for 10 weeks At the worst possible time is a recipe for disaster.
18:46
SPEAKER_00: So this is the Forley refinery in Hampshire.
18:48
SPEAKER_00: It will be closed until November for maintenance,
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SPEAKER_00: adding to fears about a squeeze on supplies across the country.
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SPEAKER_00: The site opened in 1951.
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SPEAKER_00: It's operated by ExxonMobil and it produces almost 20% of the fuel used on UK roads
19:06
SPEAKER_00: and the jet supplies for Heathrow Airport.
19:11
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
19:13
SPEAKER_00: Now, I thought this was really interesting, doing a bit of research here.
19:16
SPEAKER_00: The UK had 18 refineries previously.
19:20
SPEAKER_00: Did you know that they had 18 refineries?
19:23
SPEAKER_00: But now we have just four refineries.
19:27
SPEAKER_00: And even that is touch and go.
19:29
SPEAKER_00: Four refineries.
19:31
SPEAKER_00: Why?
19:31
SPEAKER_00: Why?
19:32
SPEAKER_00: Well,
19:32
SPEAKER_00: the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said it was the right thing to do
19:37
SPEAKER_00: to make a more equitable society and the shutdown was not a concern.
19:43
SPEAKER_00: What nonsense is this?
19:45
SPEAKER_00: As usual, talking absolute nonsense.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: As soon as I see net zero, I say right away, well, there's the cause.
19:54
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's like, what's an example here?
19:58
SPEAKER_00: You've basically got the person that's caused the problem by closing the refineries,
20:03
SPEAKER_00: the departments or whatever, saying it's nothing to do with us.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: It's Russia's fault or it's Iran's fault or it's someone else's fault.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: Nothing to do with this.
20:13
SPEAKER_00: Well, actually it is because if you still had the refineries open,
20:17
SPEAKER_00: you could at least import The oils and the heavy fuels that you need to refine
20:23
SPEAKER_00: into diesel and petrol.
20:25
SPEAKER_00: So they,
20:27
SPEAKER_00: and again,
20:27
SPEAKER_00: all they've done is they're proud that they've offset all of the carbon emissions.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: Well, the fuel's still being produced.
20:36
SPEAKER_00: It's just not being produced in the UK.
20:39
SPEAKER_00: So it's still being produced in the world.
20:42
SPEAKER_00: So do you see how, I was reading a really interesting book, um, Was it yesterday?
20:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was yesterday.
20:51
SPEAKER_00: And it sort of explained a few things that most of us are always frustrated by.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: And it's how common sense is just not very common anymore.
21:00
SPEAKER_00: Especially,
21:01
SPEAKER_00: and again,
21:02
SPEAKER_00: I'm not aiming at academia because a lot of you are academics that watch me
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SPEAKER_00: for my commentary.
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SPEAKER_00: But it was talking specifically about people who are going through academia
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SPEAKER_00: or universities and things like that.
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SPEAKER_00: And a lot of them have,
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SPEAKER_00: it was saying,
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SPEAKER_00: Some of the students,
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SPEAKER_00: not all,
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SPEAKER_00: but some of the students have lost that ability to think for themselves critically.
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SPEAKER_00: And I thought it was really interesting reading this guy's thesis on it all
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SPEAKER_00: and how they'll get a target in mind.
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SPEAKER_00: So some of these net zero heads, right?
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SPEAKER_00: They'll get this target in mind.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, we need to reduce our emissions.
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SPEAKER_00: But they don't realize that the emissions are just going to another country.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you ask them about that, it's like you're talking to a robot or an NPC or something.
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SPEAKER_00: They can't.
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SPEAKER_00: They can't grasp it.
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SPEAKER_00: They're like, but we're not producing it.
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SPEAKER_00: No, but if your goal is to reduce emissions and you're just passing it on
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SPEAKER_00: to someone else, they're still producing the emissions.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you not kind of get that?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but we're not producing it.
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SPEAKER_00: They just don't get it.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's kind of sad the way things are going, actually.
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SPEAKER_00: But yeah, getting back to this, Grangemouth and Lindsay last year...
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SPEAKER_00: We're closed.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they were the closures last year.
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SPEAKER_00: And that slashed UK refinery output by another third, 35%.
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SPEAKER_00: But yeah, they're saying they're not concerned.
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SPEAKER_00: Net Zero Council of the UK saying they're not concerned at all.
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SPEAKER_00: They actually think this is positive for emissions because they're dum-dums.
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SPEAKER_00: They don't know what they're talking about.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: The other one then.
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SPEAKER_00: Isn't this a coincidence, ladies and gents?
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SPEAKER_00: Do we believe in coincidences here on the channel?
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SPEAKER_00: Long stretch of M4 closed for most of the day after significant diesel spill.
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SPEAKER_00: Hmm, what a coincidence.
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SPEAKER_00: It wasn't anything else.
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SPEAKER_00: Of all the things that could have spilled, milk, could have been some seed oils.
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SPEAKER_00: Could have been some petrol.
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SPEAKER_00: No, it was diesel, a massive diesel spill.
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SPEAKER_00: What a coincidence, eh?
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SPEAKER_00: The things that happen on a day-to-day basis now.
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SPEAKER_00: This was a huge crash, huge massive spill of diesel.
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SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: The US sent the seller of Reuters here then.
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SPEAKER_00: The US has told France and Germany To release their diesel stocks now or face a US export ban.
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SPEAKER_00: So MERS and Macron have been pulling this off and deliberately,
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SPEAKER_00: they've got reserves,
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SPEAKER_00: but they've deliberately been putting pressure on the US to send them more fuels.
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SPEAKER_00: And Trump has just gotten really annoyed about this because when he got the stats
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SPEAKER_00: and he found out how much reserves they've got and they're not releasing them
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SPEAKER_00: and they keep trying to get reserves from other people,
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SPEAKER_00: other countries, He's obviously gotten really annoyed about that.
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SPEAKER_00: So he said, I mean, he's playing pretty hardball here.
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SPEAKER_00: He said,
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SPEAKER_00: Germany and France have to draw down
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SPEAKER_00: from their own emergency diesel inventories right now
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SPEAKER_00: to help ease global fuel prices or face US diesel export ban.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think that's fair enough, to be honest.
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SPEAKER_00: When you look at some of the reserves they've got of diesel,
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SPEAKER_00: They've got good reserves here.
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SPEAKER_00: So trying to get other people's reserves when other countries haven't got enough.
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SPEAKER_00: I think it's a fair comment.
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SPEAKER_00: The US has asked the EU to release 120 million barrels of diesel over the next six months.
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SPEAKER_00: We do have a chart here so you can actually see how much they've got there.
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SPEAKER_00: So this is Germany on the left here, and you can see they've got good reserves.
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SPEAKER_00: France, 8,200.
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SPEAKER_00: So they've actually got a lot of reserves here,
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SPEAKER_00: and they're trying to get reserves from other countries when they've got plenty
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SPEAKER_00: of it, especially France.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, France just...
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SPEAKER_00: Anyway, what can we say about Macron that we haven't already said?
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SPEAKER_00: Germany's economic ministry did not respond to a request for an answer.
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SPEAKER_00: France's energy ministry also declined to give an answer.
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SPEAKER_00: So I think we know what's coming.
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SPEAKER_00: We're going to see some hardball coming.
25:38
SPEAKER_00: Now we've got to talk as well about the crazy, crazy story from the UK today.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you ready for this?
25:47
SPEAKER_00: So while they're locking people up for slashing a dinghy in the middle of The sea
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SPEAKER_00: that doesn't belong to anyone and is empty until, I think he's locked up until 2027.
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SPEAKER_00: They're releasing prisoners who haven't even served most of their sentence.
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SPEAKER_00: So this actually begins today.
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SPEAKER_00: 1st of October, we've talked about this for over a year.
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SPEAKER_00: This now begins today.
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SPEAKER_00: And the numbers are staggering.
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SPEAKER_00: Why are they releasing all the prisoners?
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SPEAKER_00: Not all, but a lot of the prisoners.
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SPEAKER_00: Because they haven't got enough prison spaces.
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SPEAKER_00: I think I've got... Have I got the number?
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe not.
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SPEAKER_00: I thought I had the stats here.
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SPEAKER_00: But maybe I'll find it in a second.
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SPEAKER_00: But the jails are full.
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SPEAKER_00: The prisons are full.
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SPEAKER_00: They're at capacity.
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SPEAKER_00: So today, 700...
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SPEAKER_00: It says offenders will leave jails today and two and a half thousand are going
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SPEAKER_00: to be released before the end of the year and that's just the beginning.
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SPEAKER_00: There were 87,500 people in 120 jails with only about 1,200 to 1,500 available places.
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SPEAKER_00: They said at this rate there would be no spare cells by Christmas.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why they had to release prisoners.
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SPEAKER_00: This is...
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, just reading it,
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SPEAKER_00: I'm just in shock reading it, even though I've already read the article.
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SPEAKER_00: The same scheme applies to roughly 70,000 offenders who...
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SPEAKER_00: Expected to serve half their jail term, but now will leave after serving just one third.
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SPEAKER_00: So one third of their sentence.
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SPEAKER_00: The government says the probation service...
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this is in response to some of the criticisms.
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SPEAKER_00: They said...
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SPEAKER_00: You're releasing these offenders,
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SPEAKER_00: violent offenders and all sorts of people who have only served a short period
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SPEAKER_00: of time.
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SPEAKER_00: And the government actually said, well, we're using new AI.
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SPEAKER_00: I've got to show you this.
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SPEAKER_00: I've got to show you.
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SPEAKER_00: You're not going to believe it.
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SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
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SPEAKER_00: They said they're using new AI tools to help oversee this.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's how they said that they're managing it.
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SPEAKER_00: They're using AI tools to oversee the offenders.
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SPEAKER_00: What does that even mean?
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SPEAKER_00: And they said that if someone commits an offence, they'll be brought back to prison right away.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, good luck, if you can catch them.
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SPEAKER_00: 51,000 recalls took place in March alone, up 28% on the previous year.
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SPEAKER_00: The Prime Minister said this is the only option.
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SPEAKER_00: If the scheme is scrapped, the prisons would overflow.
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SPEAKER_00: And they wouldn't be able to sentence anyone else.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyone who gets sentenced to a year's prison won't go to prison anymore.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's just, it's shocking.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was reading about some of these poor women.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, gosh.
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SPEAKER_00: It goes on and on and on.
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SPEAKER_00: And there's all these letters.
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SPEAKER_00: They've been writing letters saying,
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SPEAKER_00: please do not release my You know,
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SPEAKER_00: ex-partner or whatever who was in prison for trying to kill me, basically.
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SPEAKER_00: And, you know, oh, he did this and all these.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of the stuff is crazy.
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SPEAKER_00: And these people are being released after not serving a lot of the sentence.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, ladies and gents, this is wild.
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SPEAKER_00: It truly is wild.
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SPEAKER_00: God bless.
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SPEAKER_00: Stay safe out there, ladies and gents, because it's going to get pretty wild.
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SPEAKER_00: This is just the beginning.
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SPEAKER_00: Bye for now.