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Vincent McAviney: UK Correspondent on the Russian submarines allegedly carrying out a covert operation in British waters · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So let's go to vincumca any a UK europe correspondent
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  Speaker 1: Vincent tell us about these three Russian subs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a story that's come out because the
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  Speaker 2: British government quite unusually frank about this. The Defense Secretary
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  Speaker 2: came out this morning and explained that over a month
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  Speaker 2: long operation, multiple British ships, international ships and aircraft were
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  Speaker 2: involved in the sort of cat and mouse game with
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  Speaker 2: three Russian subs. One of them was an attack sub
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  Speaker 2: and two were robotic research subs that were basically going
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  Speaker 2: around the North Atlantic examining it seems the UK's cable
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  Speaker 2: infrastructure that brings around about ninety percent of our Internet
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  Speaker 2: and then on passes it to the United States, to
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  Speaker 2: the Europe as well, and many of our energy cables.
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  Speaker 2: There are about sixty of those around the country. So
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  Speaker 2: basically this was a message to Russia saying that we
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  Speaker 2: know that a lot's going on in the least, but
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  Speaker 2: we're not distracted. We see what you're doing and we
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  Speaker 2: scared you away and we'll continue to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about the new exhibition at the King's Gallery,
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  Speaker 1: Buckingham pellas well.
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  Speaker 2: This is the summer exhibition at Buckingham Palace. So if
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  Speaker 2: any of the listeners are up in London over the summer,
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  Speaker 2: it's well worth checking out because you see not only
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  Speaker 2: the kind of grand state rooms in Buckingham Palace, but
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  Speaker 2: they always put on a special exhibit and this one
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  Speaker 2: is to mark one hundred years since the late Queen,
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  Speaker 2: Queen Elizabeth I's birth and it has over two hundred
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  Speaker 2: pieces including clothing, jewelry, hats, shoes, accessories that she wore
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  Speaker 2: during the decades of her reign. So it will be
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  Speaker 2: quite a walk through history through fashion in the twentieth century.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I covered royal events for many years
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  Speaker 2: while she was still alive, and she had a saying
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  Speaker 2: which was, you know, I have to be seen to
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  Speaker 2: be believed, and she would always turn up in some
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  Speaker 2: very bright, eye catching outfits and so I think there'll
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  Speaker 2: be quite a lot here to check out.
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  Speaker 1: Last one Vincent Vinceamecavinio, UK europe correspondent.
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