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UK Column News — 13th May 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, thirteenth of May twenty twenty sixth
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Well, welcome to UK called News
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Speaker 1: from your host Mike Rubinson. Joining me by video look
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Speaker 1: today are Charles Mallett and Vanessa Billy. Later in the program,
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Speaker 1: Charles will be reporting on BBC Verify, at least one
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Speaker 1: part of which seems to have been quietly shelved. Vanessa
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Speaker 1: will have an update on anti Semitism in the UK,
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Speaker 1: and I'll be reporting on the litst hantavirus news. But
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Speaker 1: we'll begin today with the King's Speech.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the image that's on screen now is from
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Speaker 1: the last King's Speech, which was in July twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 1: I think could be wrong about that, maybe it was
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Speaker 1: last year, but anyway, it doesn't matter. It's the same
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Speaker 1: old thing each time. It was very exciting, as I'm
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Speaker 1: sure everybody will appreciate. The King laid out the government's
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Speaker 1: agenda for the next this coming parliament and demonstrated what
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Speaker 1: a load of distraction for over whether or not Starmer's
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Speaker 1: going to continue as Prime Minister is. The King announced
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Speaker 1: thirty five bills and draft bills. So let's just have
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Speaker 1: a quick look at what's on the agenda then, So
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Speaker 1: first of all, reversing Brexit, that's absolutely part and parcel
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Speaker 1: of what's going on. Then of course using Ukraine and
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Speaker 1: Iran wars to double down on the net zero energy
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Speaker 1: policy because we need to be energy independent. Apparently, the
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Speaker 1: abolition of jury trials for more cases. We've been talking
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Speaker 1: about that for several months now, but that is absolutely
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Speaker 1: coming in this next parliamentary agenda. Strengthening the City mayor
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Speaker 1: agenda by abolishing police and Crime commissioners and moving that
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Speaker 1: function to mayors and crime and Policing boards. Reducing the
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Speaker 1: voting age to sixteen, forcing government to spend more money
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Speaker 1: with small and medium sized businesses because reliance on the
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Speaker 1: state has to be expanded. And increasing censorship under the
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Speaker 1: guys of protecting us all from stit threads and extreme
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Speaker 1: online content. And of course let's not forget the key
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Speaker 1: agenda item, which is Digital ID. That's just a stab
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Speaker 1: shot of some of the more significant items. Much more
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Speaker 1: is planned, Charles. This is the usual thing. Of course,
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Speaker 1: we have the King opening a new session of Parliament
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Speaker 1: and the leadis leged sort of agenda, lots to discuss
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Speaker 1: within it, which we will do over the coming days
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Speaker 1: and weeks, but no change is the key part of this.
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Speaker 3: Good afternoon all thanks Mike. Yes, no change. Also, it
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Speaker 3: seems I suspect that when we get beyond the point
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Speaker 3: at which these have to be delivered, there might turn
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Speaker 3: out to be significant rowing back. I think, particularly in
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Speaker 3: the area of the net zero renewable commitment and indeed
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Speaker 3: the decisions not to grant any more north sea oil
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Speaker 3: and gas licenses. But obviously we will have to see.
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Speaker 3: I do not have crystal ball, and I suppose, just
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Speaker 3: to remark on what's been said about Brexit, it is
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Speaker 3: perfectly astonishing. I mean, this does look exactly like it
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Speaker 3: is specifically there to divide, because, of course, the whole
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Speaker 3: point of a referendum was that it's not supposed to
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Speaker 3: be along political lines. It was supposed to be the
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Speaker 3: will of the people, regardless of their political persuasion. And
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Speaker 3: this demonstrates that there was absolutely nothing like that. And
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Speaker 3: in so far as jury trials are concerned, there are
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Speaker 3: no statistics to substantiate the points being made by Levison
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Speaker 3: and Lammy to say that dismissing juries, getting rid of
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Speaker 3: juries would actually make the system more efficient. The system
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Speaker 3: has been made deliberately inefficient, so that is another area
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Speaker 3: that is absolutely not being dealt with genuinely.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be very interested to see what comments
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Speaker 1: come out of Reform and Farage in the course of
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Speaker 1: the day and the coming days. As you know, because
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Speaker 1: Star has been talking had this move back towards a
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Speaker 1: European focus for quite some time, and there hasn't been
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Speaker 1: that much pushed back from any of the traditional or
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Speaker 1: the original exit campaigners that I've seen. So we'll see
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Speaker 1: what happens over the next coming days. But let's move
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Speaker 1: on then to the BBC Charles and BBC Verify. What
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Speaker 1: is going on here?
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Speaker 3: Well, I wouldn't want to be accused of making a
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Speaker 3: mountain out of a molehill, but I think this provides
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Speaker 3: us with a good opportunity to take a look at
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Speaker 3: something that has exactly, as you say, been quietly shelld Now.
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Speaker 3: BBC Verify, as many people will know, has been up
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Speaker 3: and running for a few years. But The Times have
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Speaker 3: just reported that a Verify blog that they started in
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Speaker 3: June of last year, twenty twenty five, has indeed been
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Speaker 3: kicked into the long grass. Now, what's interesting to note
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Speaker 3: about that of course is that it wasn't really widely publicized,
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Speaker 3: and we just go to the text from the Times
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Speaker 3: article which reports a member of staff saying it's ironic
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Speaker 3: because the Verify Live page was set up to be
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Speaker 3: more transparent. But now we're in a situation where a
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Speaker 3: pet project has been quietly wound down with no transparency,
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Speaker 3: and they ended up by saying and license fee payers
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Speaker 3: money has been seemingly wasted. And of course that is
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Speaker 3: an interesting point which we will return to. The article
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Speaker 3: concluded slightly mysteriously with a quote from another BBC employee
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Speaker 3: saying it doesn't diminish BBC Verify, which is growing in
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Speaker 3: so many other ways. Now exactly what that portends, I
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Speaker 3: wouldn't know, But what I will do is just show
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Speaker 3: you a video going back to the inauguration of Verify
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Speaker 3: itself back in twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 2: Are a team of investigative journalists here at the BBC.
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Speaker 2: We are also a new brand and we are a
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Speaker 2: physical location above the newsroom in London, and the point
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Speaker 2: of the team, as you said, is to verify video,
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Speaker 2: to fact check, to counter this information and to analyze
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Speaker 2: really complex stories so we can get to the truth
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Speaker 2: of what going on, Why does this matter? While mistruths
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Speaker 2: can cause really serious harm to society and to the
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Speaker 2: people in them, and so we want to show our
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Speaker 2: workings and really help you understand how we get to
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Speaker 2: the bottom of what's happening. And there are other ways
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Speaker 2: that we also are able to interrogate what's going on,
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Speaker 2: including on social media. I have some undercover accounts that
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Speaker 2: I've set up for the BBC's America's podcasts, and we
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Speaker 2: use these kinds of undercover accounts and these are the
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Speaker 2: characters that the accounts belong to to be able to
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Speaker 2: really understand polarization online and how what's happening on our
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Speaker 2: social media feeds and what we're being recommended and pushed
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Speaker 2: to us can affect all of us. And they don't
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Speaker 2: offer us a totally exhaustive insight into what's going on,
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Speaker 2: but they can help us understand just how social media works.
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Speaker 2: And then there's also investigating other mistruths and the real
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Speaker 2: world harm they can cause. At the moment, I'm investigating
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Speaker 2: the UK's conspiracy theory movement. I'm trying to understand more
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Speaker 2: about how it's evolved and intensified since the pandemic here
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Speaker 2: in the UK. I'm looking at the alternative media that
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Speaker 2: finds itself at the heart of this movement, and a
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Speaker 2: conspiracy theory newspaper that's a part of that as well.
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the way that alternative media is funded.
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at its impact on local communities. I'm looking
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Speaker 2: at its connections with far right figures and also its
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Speaker 2: foreign links. That's for a podcast series that will be
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Speaker 2: coming out in June. It's called Marianna in Conspiracy Land
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Speaker 2: and it will be available on BBC Sounds Radio four,
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Speaker 2: asking that question, could January the sixth or a German
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Speaker 2: coup attempt like we saw there ever happen here?
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Speaker 3: Hovi irony bites because of course, her throwaway remark there
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Speaker 3: about January the sixth was exactly what brought down Deborah Turness,
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Speaker 3: who had set up BBC Verify in the first place
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Speaker 3: as the chief executive of BBC News. She of course
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Speaker 3: fell on her sword sort of in December of twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty five. And that is one significant point that needs
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Speaker 3: to be made here, because of course it was the
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Speaker 3: panorama fabrication of what had exactly happened on January sixth
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Speaker 3: shook the well some of the foundations, at least of
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Speaker 3: the BBC. Now, the other thing she referred to there
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Speaker 3: was having set up fake accounts, and I'm certainly not
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Speaker 3: going to accuse either the BBC or Mariella Spring of
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Speaker 3: straying into criminality. But what this does present is an
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Speaker 3: opportunity to talk about the Online Safety Acts, which of
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Speaker 3: course came out in the same year, twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 3: And we're just going to look in particular at section
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Speaker 3: one seventy nine, which concerns false communication offenses. An offense
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Speaker 3: is committed if the person sends a message and the
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Speaker 3: message conveys information that the person knows to be false,
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Speaker 3: and the person intended the message or the information in
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Speaker 3: it to cause non trivial psychological or physical harm. Now,
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Speaker 3: for the sake of argument, had the BBC Verified team,
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Speaker 3: in order to establish what it is that they said
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Speaker 3: they were looking into, suggested things that had caused those effects,
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Speaker 3: then it is an incredible provision of the Act that
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Speaker 3: following section section one eighty contains exemptions from the offense,
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Speaker 3: and a recognized news publisher cannot commit an offense under
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Speaker 3: section one seventy nine. So hypothetically BBC Verify would not
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Speaker 3: have committed an offense, had they caused psychological harm in
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Speaker 3: what Marianna Spring, the disinformation correspondent, was describing as perpetuating
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Speaker 3: her investigations. Now, the other point to make, of course,
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Speaker 3: is that she referred there to investigating the polarizing of
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Speaker 3: society rather than perhaps more accurately describing the role that
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Speaker 3: the BBC has played in polarizing society, in particular BBC Verify.
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Speaker 3: And we're just going to take a slightly closer look
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Speaker 3: at Marianna Spring herself seen here wearing visor face mask
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Speaker 3: and rubber gloves, because you just can't be too careful,
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Speaker 3: especially when you've got some propaganda to disseminate to the population.
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Speaker 3: But she of course fell foul in a way her
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Speaker 3: own method of campaigning and so called investigative journalism, because
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Speaker 3: of course it was exposed fairly shortly after Verify had
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Speaker 3: been set up. She had fabricated her own CV in
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Speaker 3: order to get a job in Moscow. But less about that,
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Speaker 3: and more about what she did prior to Verify being established,
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Speaker 3: going back to one of the lockdown protests in London,
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Speaker 3: and in particular, listen to the language that she uses
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Speaker 3: about the messaging app Telegram.
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Speaker 4: Presumably this is not a legal gathering, a Marianna, how
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Speaker 4: are the police responding to it?
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Speaker 2: It's not and there's a very heavy police presence. There
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Speaker 2: are a number of protesters who are here, often from
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Speaker 2: anti lockdown groups. They've organized themselves on Telegram, which is
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Speaker 2: an encrypted messaging service, and a number of them have
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Speaker 2: been promoting conspiracy theories about the vaccine, suggesting that it's unsafe,
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Speaker 2: suggesting that the pandemic isn't real. Others are protesting for
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Speaker 2: their liberty.
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Speaker 3: So she'd lost her advisor and sadly her mask could slip,
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Speaker 3: but somehow she survived, and she survived to go on
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Speaker 3: to speak to a Ukrainian and talking about polarizing as
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Speaker 3: I did a moment ago. We just look at the
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Speaker 3: text on screen now, saying that she's speaking to a
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Speaker 3: celebrity influencer, Masha, to reveal how Ukrainian social media stars
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Speaker 3: are secret weapons. And this girl was recruited to post
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Speaker 3: patriotic content shared on Telegram, so of course, when it
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Speaker 3: suits BBC verified Telegram in actual fact is a good thing.
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Speaker 3: And we're just going to listen to Marianna promoting Masha
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Speaker 3: the Ukrainian as she did back then this week.
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Speaker 2: I've been looking at how social media influences are a
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Speaker 2: secret weapon in the information war around Ukraine. I spoke
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Speaker 2: to Masha, a Eurovision host and a social media star.
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Speaker 2: Just hours before Russia invaded Ukraine. She was posting about
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Speaker 2: dreams and cosmetics on her Instagram feed. Now she's sharing
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Speaker 2: updates about the war with millions of followers and countering
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Speaker 2: Russian propaganda.
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Speaker 5: I talk a lot with my audience.
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Speaker 2: I tried to calm them, motivate them, go to my bathroom,
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Speaker 2: try a lot, then sitting video on and making video messages.
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Speaker 2: My weapon is SMI lang, which my weapon is my voice.
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Speaker 3: Very interesting to see her using the word weapon when
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Speaker 3: describing the language, and of course telegram or as the
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Speaker 3: Home Office has tried to refer to it, terogram. Now
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Speaker 3: I'm just going to wrap up by, as I say,
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Speaker 3: not making a mountain out of a molehill. But with
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Speaker 3: the charter renewal coming up in twenty twenty seven, it's
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Speaker 3: very interesting to look at this piece by Cordbusters, effectively
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Speaker 3: suggesting that the BBC is heading in a very perilous
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Speaker 3: direction because not only are license fee holders dropping spectacularly
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Speaker 3: as the years go by, but also so are the
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Speaker 3: fines that the BBC are able to cover from those
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Speaker 3: they believe are not paying their license fee. And of
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Speaker 3: course the fact that the verified blog has been dispatched
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Speaker 3: because there's so little interest in it, I think does
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Speaker 3: spell BBC is definitely going in a direction they do
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Speaker 3: not want to be going in. I hope we can
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Speaker 3: talk about this more an extra.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Charles. I'll just say I deliberately didn't show King
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Speaker 1: Charles in my segment, and then you impose three sections
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Speaker 1: of very other spring on us. That's that's I think
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Speaker 1: we do need to discuss that an extra. That's going
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Speaker 1: to be some fun. Vanessa, let's move on to Iran and.
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Speaker 5: Straight Moose, I didn't realize how close she was to
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Speaker 5: being hit by a bus actually in that telegraph. But yes,
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Speaker 5: let's come on to Iran. And this was an article
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Speaker 5: very recently published in Washington Post. US intelligence says Iran
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Speaker 5: can outclass Trump's horns block for months. A confidential intelligence
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Speaker 5: community assessment delivered to the White House also finds that
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Speaker 5: Iran retains a substantial missile and drone arsenal. Of course,
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Speaker 5: this is why Trump is claiming that he's sunk and
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Speaker 5: destroyed absolutely everything in Iran, and according to the report,
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Speaker 5: they still have seventy five percent of pre war mobile launches. Goodness,
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Speaker 5: having that picture next to me while I'm talking is
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Speaker 5: very distracting, and seventy percent of their stockpile of missiles,
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Speaker 5: and they have prepared much of the underground missile city
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Speaker 5: and storage facilities. So then let's come on to Trump,
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Speaker 5: who posted on truth social following some of these reports.
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Speaker 5: When the fake news says that the Iranian enemy is
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Speaker 5: doing well militarily again, We've got capitals all over the
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Speaker 5: place against us. It's virtual treason in that it is
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Speaker 5: such a false and even preposterous statement. They are aiding
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Speaker 5: and abatting the enemy. All it does is to give
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Speaker 5: Iran false hope when none should exist should exist. Note
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Speaker 5: there are American cowards that are routing against our country.
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Speaker 5: Iran had one hundred and fifty nine ships in their navy.
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Speaker 5: Every single ship is now resting at the bottom of
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Speaker 5: the sea. So of course those that we're seeing hunting
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Speaker 5: down vessels that try and cross the hormones are Mirage.
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Speaker 5: They have no navy, their air force is gone, all
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Speaker 5: technology is gone, their leaders are no longer with us.
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Speaker 5: And the country is an economic disaster. Only losers, ingrates
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Speaker 5: and fools are able to make a case against American
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Speaker 5: President Donald J. Trump. Okay, so let's have a look
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Speaker 5: at this. So at the moment, of course, in negotiations,
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Speaker 5: Trump has basically rejected Iran's terms for discussion, which of
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Speaker 5: course have shelved any discussion on the nuclear issue until
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Speaker 5: the first terms are agreed to. So what has happened
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Speaker 5: Iran basically the Deputy commander of THEGC Navy. The area
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Speaker 5: of the Strait of Hormoose has become larger. In the past,
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Speaker 5: the Strait of horn Moose was defined as a limited
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Speaker 5: area around islands such as Hormus and Hangum. However, under
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Speaker 5: the new plan, the operational scope of the Strait of
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Speaker 5: Hormose has expanded significantly and is now defined as a
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Speaker 5: strategic zone stretching from the coasts of Jasque and Siri
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Speaker 5: to beyond the greater islands. In other words, the Strait
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Speaker 5: of Hormoose has become larger and has turned into a
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Speaker 5: vast operational region. So let's just have a quick look
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Speaker 5: at the map, which demonstrates now that a much larger
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Speaker 5: area of Hormones is now going to be used to
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Speaker 5: control the vessels transiting and also of course to extract
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Speaker 5: tolls from those countries using it. But then, very interestingly,
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Speaker 5: what is happening with Internet? Well, if we look at these,
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Speaker 5: those are basically the Internet cables passing through the Strait
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Speaker 5: of Hormuz, and what is Iran going to do? According
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Speaker 5: to multiple reports this was just one on x from
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Speaker 5: current report, Iran is considering taking control of undersea internet
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Speaker 5: cables passing through the Straight of Poor Mouth. According to
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Speaker 5: Fars media, Iran may force foreign cable companies to get permits,
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Speaker 5: pay fees and follow Iranian laws. The cables carry around
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Speaker 5: fifteen to twenty percent of global internet and financial data
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Speaker 5: traffic between Europe, the Gulf and Asia. So what this
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Speaker 5: might mean is that Iran will start charging annual license
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Speaker 5: fees and companies like Meta, Amazon, Microsoft will have to
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Speaker 5: operate under Iranian law. And at the same time, the
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Speaker 5: head of the National Security Commission for the Iranian Parliament
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Speaker 5: has said if they are further attacked, Iran will enrich
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Speaker 5: uranium to ninety percent. So punch for punch, I think
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Speaker 5: Iran is knocking out at the moment.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for that, Vanessa we'll stick with the straight and
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Speaker 1: foremus and John Haley posted this on X yesterday. The
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Speaker 1: crisis in the Middle East, he said, affects British families,
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Speaker 1: British companies and British economy. We must meet this moment.
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Speaker 1: We must have a hard focus on this crisis as
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Speaker 1: the months ahead will define the fortunes of our nation
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Speaker 1: over the next few years. And the image with the
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Speaker 1: post was of HMS Dragon, the ship which had been
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Speaker 1: heading to the Straight and Formos for the last two
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Speaker 1: months or so and never seems to get there now.
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Speaker 1: That post on X follows Hailey posting yet another meeting
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Speaker 1: on the Straight of Hormos' time cop chairing a meeting
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Speaker 1: of forty defense ministers too, as he says there build
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Speaker 1: support for the UK led mission to secure shipping through
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Speaker 1: the Straight of Homos and announced UK military contributions. We
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Speaker 1: must get on with the job, he said, restoring economic
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Speaker 1: security for families here at home. Well, that X post
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Speaker 1: was typical and this is the typical response that he got,
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Speaker 1: or at least it is indicative of the kind of
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Speaker 1: responsor the guards to the announcement. So we've got, for
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Speaker 1: those that aren't watching, a container of medicine there and
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Speaker 1: nabbled leveled inbicillan and it says take four times daily
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Speaker 1: to maintain cognitive dissonance, and I think that's absolutely appropriate response.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, let's just listen to the outcome of the meeting,
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Speaker 1: straight from the horse's mouth, delivered with a straight face.
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Speaker 1: It's quite amazing.
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Speaker 4: That UK will provide our destroyer HMSS Dragon, who is
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Speaker 4: sailing to the region now, will provide ref typhoons ready
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Speaker 4: to be retasked to fly defensive air patrols over the Strait,
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Speaker 4: over one hundred million pounds to accelerate our new hybrid navy,
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Speaker 4: including new drone boats and mine hunting systems, and advanced
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Speaker 4: Royal Navy mind clearance specialists who are preparing for mind
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Speaker 4: clearance operations. So the UK stepping up to secure the Strait.
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Speaker 4: We all have a national interest in the national responsibility
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Speaker 4: to do the same. And the purpose of this Defense
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Speaker 4: Minister's meeting is to strengthen the political endorsement of this
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Speaker 4: multinational mission and to encourage more nations to approve more
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Speaker 4: military commitments to that mission.
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Speaker 1: It's just quite amazing because it never really seems to
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Speaker 1: get started. But anyway, Let's not forget that the Royal
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Speaker 1: Nivy has withdrawn another ship from service, leaving itself just
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Speaker 1: five frigates. So this reward here from Nivy Lookout says
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Speaker 1: HMS Arn't Duke has been stripped of her weapons and
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Speaker 1: sensors and has not been the sea since October twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five, despite no formal decommissioning announcement being made or
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Speaker 1: withdrawal from active service less than three years after one
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Speaker 1: hundred and three million pound Refit raises uncomfortable questions about
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Speaker 1: the Royal Nivy's ability to sustain even it's much reduced
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Speaker 1: surface fleet. The current war agenda is, without diet, a
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Speaker 1: complete fraud. Now I'm calling it fraud, not because it's
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Speaker 1: not very real for the people on the receiving end
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Speaker 1: of the bombs and the bullets. It's very real for them.
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Speaker 1: I call it a fraud because there's no intention to
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Speaker 1: actually achieve any of the outcomes geopolitically that are being
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Speaker 1: described by our leaders here in the UK and the
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Speaker 1: EU or in the United States. It's all about creating
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Speaker 1: an environment where people accept a policy agenda that they
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Speaker 1: otherwise wouldn't. The UK and even the United states have
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Speaker 1: no weapons. They've spent them all killing people in Ukraine
21:36
Speaker 1: and Iran and through Israel, in fact, in Gaza and Lebanon,
21:42
Speaker 1: and through terrorist proxies in Syriasidan, Nigeria and Nijier, Chad Burkina. Fasoa.
21:47
Speaker 1: Could go on with the list, that's our tax money
21:50
Speaker 1: that's being used to kill people while psychological operations run
21:54
Speaker 1: on us to convince us that we must accept every
21:57
Speaker 1: tutalitarian agenda going to keep us safe. Charles, is time
22:01
Speaker 1: for us to stop falling for it.
22:04
Speaker 3: I think it is absolutely and just listening to John Heally,
22:06
Speaker 3: I can't believe many people curing up to buy a
22:08
Speaker 3: second hand car from him. He seems very much unconvincing.
22:12
Speaker 3: But also, you know, the adherence to this idea of
22:15
Speaker 3: the defensive posture. He's as though describing somebody popping the
22:18
Speaker 3: gloves on hopping into the ring for about of defensive boxing.
22:22
Speaker 3: It's just it is quite extraordinary to hear him using
22:24
Speaker 3: this sort of language. But actually the one bit that
22:27
Speaker 3: is true when he talks about the national interest. Of
22:30
Speaker 3: course he doesn't mean what I'm about to say, but
22:33
Speaker 3: he is absolutely talking about the financial commitment to it.
22:36
Speaker 3: And therefore the fact that we are, through our taxes,
22:39
Speaker 3: funding exactly what is going on. So there is no
22:43
Speaker 3: possible way in the way that he's describing it of
22:46
Speaker 3: achieving what he says is going to exactly like you say,
22:48
Speaker 3: and yet he will keep banging that same drum.
22:51
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24:33
Speaker 1: let's move on then to hantavirus and we'll bring Patrick's
24:37
Speaker 1: graphic on screen again for that. So this is the
24:41
Speaker 1: the latest update from the UK Health Security Agency to
24:43
Speaker 1: the hantavirus panic. Says that plans are underway to support
24:47
Speaker 1: those who will shortly return home to isolate following their
24:51
Speaker 1: time at Arrow Park. Now this refers to Arrow Park
24:53
Speaker 1: Hospital in the world, where public health specialists from UKHSA
24:58
Speaker 1: and Infectious Diseases specialists NHS have been assessing those affected,
25:03
Speaker 1: that's their words. NOHSA says that public health and clinical
25:08
Speaker 1: specialists have assessed each passenger's individual circumstances and where it's
25:12
Speaker 1: safe and possible, tailored support packages will be provided to
25:16
Speaker 1: enable people to isolate at home. So that's good. Over
25:20
Speaker 1: the coming days, the HSA, they say, will also support
25:24
Speaker 1: relocation of some contacts who are already isolating to places
25:27
Speaker 1: where they can safely self isolate with access to appropriate
25:31
Speaker 1: specialist medical services. And that includes ten people from the
25:35
Speaker 1: UK overseas territories of Saint Helena and Ascension Island who
25:39
Speaker 1: are going to be brought to the UK to complete
25:41
Speaker 1: their self isolation as a precautionary measure. So we'll just
25:45
Speaker 1: bring Handy on screen here because we must remember that
25:48
Speaker 1: this is the new brand that we're heading for here.
25:54
Speaker 1: And of course there are a small number of individuals
25:56
Speaker 1: who've been isolating at home or elsewhere in England. They
25:59
Speaker 1: are also going to be brought to Arrow Park for assessment.
26:03
Speaker 1: As I say, Hanti is lurking in all kinds of places.
26:06
Speaker 1: We don't have to worry. The timing is perfect because hantavirus,
26:10
Speaker 1: which is a high consequence infectious disease according to the
26:13
Speaker 1: uk HSA, well undoubtedly drive support for UK Gov's ongoing
26:19
Speaker 1: drive for Sovereign AI that we mentioned a few weeks ago. Now,
26:22
Speaker 1: the latest announcement from Liz Kendal, Secretary of State for Innovation,
26:27
Speaker 1: Tech Science Innovation Technology is a new bunk to another
26:31
Speaker 1: AI company, this time Isomorphic Labs. This is under the
26:35
Speaker 1: Sovereign AI brand. Isomorphic Labs is in London funded and
26:39
Speaker 1: headquartered company using AI to design and develop new medicines.
26:43
Speaker 1: Now admittedly not in the virology space in this case
26:45
Speaker 1: it's cancer and immunology. But don't worry. Dot UK has
26:50
Speaker 1: us all covered. They also announced a few days ago
26:54
Speaker 1: the Biosecurity Frontiers Competition I Challenge two of this competition
27:00
Speaker 1: is pretty explicit. The government is seeking industry support in
27:03
Speaker 1: harnessing AI to support the identification and development of diagnostic,
27:07
Speaker 1: therapeutic and vaccine candidates. This would focus likely focus on
27:11
Speaker 1: priority pathogens identified by the UK Health Security Agency and
27:16
Speaker 1: novel biological threats and the use of predictive AI for
27:19
Speaker 1: structure based diagnosis and DTV discovery and development. So HANTE
27:25
Speaker 1: is the as yet another gift to the sovereign AI
27:29
Speaker 1: defense AI agenda, which just keeps on giving. It will
27:32
Speaker 1: be used to justify increased spending of money the country
27:36
Speaker 1: doesn't have on projects that will have no positive impact
27:39
Speaker 1: on any of our lives. Both of these are sovereign
27:43
Speaker 1: AI projects, but only one is branded that way. The
27:46
Speaker 1: other one is branded absolutely as a national security issue
27:51
Speaker 1: and therefore a defense project, and we should not forget that.
27:54
Speaker 1: The West is a history of attempting to weaponize both
27:57
Speaker 1: virology and cancer, including the Special Virus Cancer program at
28:02
Speaker 1: the National Cancer Institute and the work related to that
28:05
Speaker 1: at for Dietrich. So you know this is absolutely being
28:11
Speaker 1: presented as or at least the hantavirus a sort of
28:17
Speaker 1: story is being used to wind up stress within the population.
28:22
Speaker 1: And of course they in the meantime are spending one
28:25
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of points on this stuff of taxpayers
28:28
Speaker 1: money to what end. It's not for our benefit, I
28:31
Speaker 1: don't believe, Charles. But let's move on to Africa.
28:38
Speaker 3: We will thank you, Mike. Yes, And I would just
28:42
Speaker 3: prefix this report by saying that although what I'm going
28:45
Speaker 3: to be talking about is actually physically taking place in Africa.
28:48
Speaker 3: I think I would invite you to look at it
28:50
Speaker 3: with a critical eye and think about how it pertains
28:53
Speaker 3: to wherever it is your living because despite the change
28:56
Speaker 3: of location, the themes are absolutely consistent with what we face,
29:00
Speaker 3: certainly here in the United Kingdom and I dare say
29:03
Speaker 3: in most countries on Earth. So with that in mind,
29:07
Speaker 3: I would introduce the Africa Forward Summits twenty twenty six,
29:11
Speaker 3: which has just concluded in Nairobi, hosted by the President
29:17
Speaker 3: there William Rutou, who was quoted as saying Africa must
29:22
Speaker 3: finance Africa. Now. Again, with that in mind, I think
29:28
Speaker 3: it's very interesting to point to the documentation that they
29:31
Speaker 3: published prior to the event and the voice is shaping
29:35
Speaker 3: Africa's future. The two most prominent on the bill were
29:38
Speaker 3: Ruto himself and behind the question mark, Emmanuel Macron, because
29:43
Speaker 3: of course this was a joint summit between France, or
29:46
Speaker 3: at least organized in the main by France, the first
29:50
Speaker 3: non Francophone country that France has attempted to conduct such
29:55
Speaker 3: an exercise in so that's very significant, but also, as
29:59
Speaker 3: I say, significant, that Ruto and Macron would be effectively
30:03
Speaker 3: both regarded on a par as being the voices that
30:06
Speaker 3: should shape Africa's future. Given the relationship between France and
30:11
Speaker 3: many of the Francophone countries in Africa and the deterioration
30:14
Speaker 3: of that relationship for very obvious reasons, it does seem
30:18
Speaker 3: strange that Macron himself would be touted as somebody that
30:22
Speaker 3: should speak for Africa or Africans. Now with regard to
30:26
Speaker 3: the amount of money flowing through the system, this of
30:29
Speaker 3: course should be noted as following on the heels of
30:33
Speaker 3: the Investor in Ethiopia meeting in recent months, which of
30:35
Speaker 3: course generates significant amount of investment from China, and it
30:40
Speaker 3: exposes the discrepancy between the policies of China and the
30:44
Speaker 3: United States. And indeed, we should consider that in light
30:47
Speaker 3: of Donald Trump's proposed visit or rather visit to China
30:51
Speaker 3: and the different approach where effectively America for years has
30:55
Speaker 3: been trying to acquire resources in Africa through the donation
31:01
Speaker 3: supposed donation of aid, whereas, of course the Chinese model
31:04
Speaker 3: and indeed the model of many others now the French
31:07
Speaker 3: is to invest in order to procure such resources. But
31:12
Speaker 3: just to further the point about is this really Africans
31:16
Speaker 3: speaking for Africa will now listen to Antonio Guitaris. Of course,
31:20
Speaker 3: it's the Secretary General for the United Nations.
31:32
Speaker 6: Let us be honest about what stands in Africa's way.
31:37
Speaker 6: A global system designed without Africa and still largely operating
31:41
Speaker 6: without Africa, perpetuating century old injustices. A continent of more
31:48
Speaker 6: than one and a half billion people with no permanent
31:52
Speaker 6: sits on the UN Security Council as well as referred
31:56
Speaker 6: by President William Rutul, without the vice, the representation and
32:02
Speaker 6: decision making power it deserves inside the international financial institutions
32:07
Speaker 6: that shape this economy. It's not Africa that loses, it's
32:12
Speaker 6: the world that loses.
32:21
Speaker 3: English is not Goodtari's first language, but to describe the
32:25
Speaker 3: situation as being the world losing is absolutely indicative of
32:30
Speaker 3: the flavor of all these sorts of summits, which are
32:32
Speaker 3: in effect designed in order that through the cooperation or
32:37
Speaker 3: at least supposedly bilateral agreements between in this instance France
32:41
Speaker 3: and Kenya to host the host the summit, it obviously
32:46
Speaker 3: brings in corporations who have the ability to therefore influence
32:50
Speaker 3: the situation to their own ends. And therefore it's of
32:53
Speaker 3: no great surprise to see that at the bottom of
32:56
Speaker 3: the list of faces, which were mostly dark skinned. There
33:01
Speaker 3: were a few others, notably Sanya Nishtar, Jerome Kim and
33:07
Speaker 3: Peter Sands, who respectively represent GAVE, the International Vaccine Institute
33:12
Speaker 3: and the Global Fund, which of course is also concerned
33:14
Speaker 3: with pharmaceuticals and health. So the exact model of getting
33:20
Speaker 3: testing out into remote African communities in order that a
33:24
Speaker 3: diagnosis can be made and medicines are therefore almost enforced
33:29
Speaker 3: on the population. And of course this is tied in
33:31
Speaker 3: with all the seven themes that have been running through
33:35
Speaker 3: this event, which are the industrialization or at least the
33:39
Speaker 3: greening of industrialization, AI, peace and security, health, the so
33:44
Speaker 3: called blue economy, agriculture and finance. So this has been
33:50
Speaker 3: happening on the eastern side of Africa, and we look
33:53
Speaker 3: to the west to see that. Just yesterday in Cote
33:57
Speaker 3: di Nois, the ID for Africa twenty twenty six summit
34:01
Speaker 3: started there. And to give you an idea of what
34:04
Speaker 3: that's all about. At the beginning of the explanatory text,
34:09
Speaker 3: digital identity is the cornerstone of digital transformation. So as
34:13
Speaker 3: I said at the outset, please don't consider this is
34:16
Speaker 3: just about Africa. This is absolutely about everywhere where this
34:21
Speaker 3: is being rolled out, and of course the advantage in
34:23
Speaker 3: Africa in some senses is that there is no legacy
34:26
Speaker 3: infrastructure in the way of rolling this kind of thing
34:29
Speaker 3: out from now into the future. Idea for Africa, of
34:33
Speaker 3: course has been running for some time again funded among
34:37
Speaker 3: others by the Gates Foundation, but this year really represents
34:41
Speaker 3: a sort of an uplift in what it is exactly
34:44
Speaker 3: that they're doing. So quite wordy, but there is a
34:46
Speaker 3: bit of text that describes that wanting to change their
34:50
Speaker 3: focus from the digital public infrastructure to the broader vision
34:53
Speaker 3: of digital public ecosystems dpes, and that it recognizes that
34:58
Speaker 3: sustainable digital transformation rests the interplay of human, legal, institutional,
35:02
Speaker 3: and sectoral dimensions. To most people will seem completely meaningless.
35:07
Speaker 3: The point of it is that what they're saying is
35:09
Speaker 3: this really is going to involve everything and everyone, and
35:12
Speaker 3: that by embracing an ecosystem approach, they acknowledge the diversity
35:15
Speaker 3: of assets, ensure interoperability across boundaries, and establish collective governance
35:19
Speaker 3: that fosters trust and resilience. That might sound like complete
35:23
Speaker 3: and utter nonsense to you, and nonsense it may be,
35:27
Speaker 3: but the point is that there are now a number
35:28
Speaker 3: of countries aligned with indeed the corporations that can conduct
35:32
Speaker 3: this stuff to foist it on Africans, and if it
35:35
Speaker 3: works there, it will be deemed to be working anywhere else.
35:39
Speaker 7: Now.
35:39
Speaker 3: Of course, similar to the faces that appeared at the
35:42
Speaker 3: bottom of the list on the Forward Summit, I'll just
35:45
Speaker 3: point you towards the patrons and partners, and of course
35:48
Speaker 3: among the headlines there we have the World Bank, co Develop,
35:52
Speaker 3: which is sort of an amalgam of philanthropists, and the
35:55
Speaker 3: Gates Foundation, so no particular surprise with that, and I
36:00
Speaker 3: think really this is more of the same insofar or
36:04
Speaker 3: as the modern day scramble for Africa is concerned. What
36:10
Speaker 3: Macron appears to be doing, certainly with the Forward Summit
36:12
Speaker 3: here is just putting things in slightly different terms. But
36:15
Speaker 3: it should be absolutely regarded as no coincidence that this
36:18
Speaker 3: does follow on the heels of the Ethiopian Summit, given
36:22
Speaker 3: Ethiopia's proximity to the Horn of Africa and how that
36:25
Speaker 3: pertains to the security situation in the wider Middle East,
36:29
Speaker 3: but also concerning the competition let's say between Russia, the
36:34
Speaker 3: United States and China. So, Mike, I don't know if
36:38
Speaker 3: you've got any particular comment on this or the way
36:40
Speaker 3: in which it looks like it's going. But as I
36:42
Speaker 3: say in my particular comment with considering not just what's
36:45
Speaker 3: going on in Africa, but how this is really speaking
36:48
Speaker 3: for the wider.
36:49
Speaker 1: Picture, it absolutely is. And of course the trouble that
36:54
Speaker 1: Africa has been fiercing for the last a lot of
36:57
Speaker 1: decades has been the heavy day dead burden that it's
37:01
Speaker 1: had to carry and the manipulation of that dead burden.
37:04
Speaker 1: But of course we're all becoming countries that are burdened
37:08
Speaker 1: by huge quantities of debt. But let's move to the
37:12
Speaker 1: Middle East again and Syria Vanessa and it also having
37:16
Speaker 1: its dead problems.
37:19
Speaker 5: Well, of course, it never really had debt problems pre
37:23
Speaker 5: twenty eleven. It had totally independent banking systems, and of course,
37:28
Speaker 5: for that is one of the reasons it was set
37:31
Speaker 5: up for destruction and destabilization. And so now, of course
37:37
Speaker 5: Syria under al Qaeda and President Joe Lani or Nadal
37:41
Speaker 5: Shadar as the West likes to rebrand him, Syria is
37:45
Speaker 5: now being pulled into the vortex of debt, slavery and
37:50
Speaker 5: now the entire digital AI probably eventually CBDC system. So
37:58
Speaker 5: what has been happening in the last couple of days
38:01
Speaker 5: Syria tests Visa and MasterCard payments after fifteen years because
38:07
Speaker 5: of course, pre twenty eleven Syria did have the ability
38:10
Speaker 5: to use credit cards and international monetary systems, but of
38:14
Speaker 5: course that was all taken away from them after the
38:18
Speaker 5: start of the regime change war. So what are they
38:20
Speaker 5: actually saying, so cooperation with Visa and MasterCard to develop
38:26
Speaker 5: digital infrastructure, and as Charles said, and after of course
38:30
Speaker 5: that entire infrastructure is currently missing to really impose any
38:34
Speaker 5: kind of digital tyranny. However, if if we actually look
38:40
Speaker 5: at what is going on, he said, the trial of
38:44
Speaker 5: the first system mark Syria's entry into the global digital
38:53
Speaker 5: payment system. So therefore they are heading into some kind
38:57
Speaker 5: of AI digital system now in the future. And in
39:02
Speaker 5: September twenty twenty five, the Central Bank of Syria also
39:06
Speaker 5: signed a memorandum of understanding with MasterCard International to cooperate
39:10
Speaker 5: on developing Syria's digital payment system. And of course this
39:13
Speaker 5: is heavily backed by the Gulf States, in PARTICULARA and
39:21
Speaker 5: to some degree cat Art. Now, initially this is partnering
39:25
Speaker 5: through a company called Paimera with Syrian banking institutions. But
39:31
Speaker 5: if you look at our mission, they're intending to extend
39:35
Speaker 5: this over cross border operations. And so, as I said,
39:41
Speaker 5: this is being heavily back particularly I would say, by
39:44
Speaker 5: Saudi Arabia to bring in not only this digital system
39:50
Speaker 5: but also a debt in slavery with a country which
39:54
Speaker 5: is already now well below the poverty line. And the
40:00
Speaker 5: way here is a video of Joe Lanni enjoying paying
40:05
Speaker 5: for his coffee with his brand new Master cold or Visa.
40:10
Speaker 5: Quite see what that is. But effectively what he's doing,
40:14
Speaker 5: of course, is steering the country, as I've said, into
40:17
Speaker 5: debt enslavement, while his mercenary forces of tax theory and
40:23
Speaker 5: were hobby terrorists are continuing to both kidnap, murder, assassinate, massacre,
40:30
Speaker 5: slaughter in prison, detained torture on a daily basis all communities.
40:36
Speaker 5: Now in Syria. It's not only focused on the ethnic
40:39
Speaker 5: minorities but across the board. And guess what now, what
40:43
Speaker 5: is arriving in Syria that some people are celebrating. It's
40:46
Speaker 5: McDonald's Kentucky Fried Chicken, Domino's Burger King so all of
40:51
Speaker 5: the disgusting American food is coming in to replace the
40:57
Speaker 5: Syrian fast food, which was known to be some of
40:59
Speaker 5: the healthiest and the best in the region. And then finally,
41:04
Speaker 5: this is again the Saudi influenced. This is a Mayaed mosque.
41:09
Speaker 5: Again it has been privatized. As we talked about Mount
41:13
Speaker 5: Cassun previously. You can see Katari and Saudi shakes there.
41:18
Speaker 5: This is the opening of a restaurant inside of my mosque.
41:22
Speaker 5: And here, of course, it's not only a Muslim place
41:25
Speaker 5: of pilgrimage, it's also a Catholic Christian place of pilgrimage
41:29
Speaker 5: because here there is the shrine of John the Baptist, where,
41:33
Speaker 5: according to historical documents, his head has been basically enshrined
41:41
Speaker 5: in Amiaed mosque. So Siriah slips further into a morass
41:48
Speaker 5: of debt, poverty, starvation, and saw on while Jilani uses
41:53
Speaker 5: his master God. All's good.
41:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, thank you for Anessa. And of course that's
41:59
Speaker 1: taring to the UK and the EU and the United
42:02
Speaker 1: States primarily Charles. Let's come back to you then, and well,
42:07
Speaker 1: has Russia developed a new weapon?
42:11
Speaker 3: Well, that's a good question, and I suppose one might
42:14
Speaker 3: say that it's not exactly new, but what will just
42:16
Speaker 3: prefixist by talking about what Vanessa showed with Trump talking
42:20
Speaker 3: about the Iranian navy being resting at the bottom of
42:23
Speaker 3: the sea, and this, that and the other. And I
42:24
Speaker 3: think just in considering what capabilities do exist around the world,
42:29
Speaker 3: it is interesting to observe that the way the Russians
42:31
Speaker 3: are treating, or at least dealing with the situation at
42:36
Speaker 3: hand and presenting the information is very different from the
42:40
Speaker 3: United Kingdom. Anything that John Heaty has to say, and
42:42
Speaker 3: indeed what you've just been talking about with the other
42:45
Speaker 3: retired frigate, this is the announcement yesterday that the Psalmat
42:51
Speaker 3: missile system has been successfully tested for the first time
42:56
Speaker 3: since they've been trying to do so in the last
43:00
Speaker 3: number of years. And we'll just look at that now.
43:02
Speaker 3: This has not come from a bond film. This was
43:05
Speaker 3: posted on Twitter by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Russia.
43:20
Speaker 3: Reads to John, there we go. That is the Sarmat
43:36
Speaker 3: referred to by Westerners as Satan two. It is reported
43:42
Speaker 3: at least on x by, as I said, by the
43:44
Speaker 3: Ministry of Foreign Affairs as having a range of thirty
43:48
Speaker 3: five thousand kilometers. Now, for those of you believing that
43:52
Speaker 3: you know the dimensions of the Earth, which has a
43:56
Speaker 3: circumference reported to Comforence of approximately forty thousand, one has
43:59
Speaker 3: to ask question, why does it need to go thirty
44:02
Speaker 3: five thousand kilometers? That could be a typo, I'm not
44:04
Speaker 3: quite sure, but the point is that it is an
44:07
Speaker 3: absolutely enormous weapon system with a payload that may be nuclear,
44:12
Speaker 3: we are told, and that presents me with the opportunity
44:15
Speaker 3: to point you towards a recent, very recent podcast that
44:19
Speaker 3: Germ conducted with Michael Palmer entitled all Nuclear Weapons Are Fake,
44:24
Speaker 3: and I would encourage you to listen to that because
44:26
Speaker 3: it does deal with the history of the threats of
44:30
Speaker 3: nuclear warfare nuclear bombs, and I think this is particularly
44:34
Speaker 3: pertinent given the threats of total annihilation that Donald Trump
44:38
Speaker 3: keeps issuing to Iran. So on the one hand, we've
44:41
Speaker 3: got Russia producing something that seems to be invincible at
44:46
Speaker 3: the moment, and less of course it's destroyed before it
44:48
Speaker 3: takes off. And on the other hand, we look to
44:51
Speaker 3: Plymouth Sound, where from the naval base in Devonport we
44:55
Speaker 3: have MOVEMN A ship is being escorted out into the
44:58
Speaker 3: Sound and it's lutely brand new, but the only thing
45:02
Speaker 3: is it's not British. This is then held a resupply
45:07
Speaker 3: ship Dutch and built recently by Dummon, just going undergoing
45:13
Speaker 3: final training out in the Sound. And the only thing
45:17
Speaker 3: really to report from Plymouth described here in Plymouth Class
45:20
Speaker 3: is that HMS Queen Elizabeth, the other aircraft carry have
45:23
Speaker 3: been keeping a rather low profile recently, has been dominating
45:26
Speaker 3: Plymouth Sound under tight security. But that apparently is all
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Speaker 3: she's really been up to. I thought I couldn't really
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Speaker 3: resitioning the photograph of the tight security and if you
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Speaker 3: can't see this, it is one mod police fan parked
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Speaker 3: up on the shore, presumably absolutely unable to do anything.
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Speaker 3: So that is the state of affairs that we're in
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Speaker 3: in comparison with Russia at the moment.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Charles Vanessa. Let's come back to you. And
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Speaker 1: of course last week we were focusing quite a bit
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Speaker 1: on the anti Semitism narrative that's being built by the
45:58
Speaker 1: British government at the moment was bist.
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Speaker 5: Well, of course, not only being built by the British
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Speaker 5: government but enshrined in the twenty thirty as well UK Roadmap.
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Speaker 5: So I just wanted to I know, Mike that you
46:12
Speaker 5: covered the attack on an anti war protester back in
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Speaker 5: the last week of April who was protesting the Israeli
46:21
Speaker 5: Zionist US. I won't include the UK because of course
46:25
Speaker 5: they're purely defensive, but the war against an aggression against Iran.
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Speaker 5: So let's just roll the video of the event itself.
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Speaker 1: Which all who ya man.
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Speaker 4: General Yata genoata happy.
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Speaker 5: Le So of course this was Mohammed Reso. He's a
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Speaker 5: father of two. He was protesting the aggression against Iran
47:15
Speaker 5: and he was allegedly stabbed by pro Parliavi pro regime
47:19
Speaker 5: change Iranians in the same protest. Let's have a look
47:23
Speaker 5: at how this was reported. So this was in the Standard.
47:26
Speaker 5: I actually struggled to find any detailed reports on it.
47:29
Speaker 5: Iranian national in custody after stabbing at Central London protests,
47:34
Speaker 5: so of course there is no context there at all.
47:37
Speaker 5: And then let's look for the context in the article itself.
47:41
Speaker 5: Metropolitan Police officers responded to reports of an altercation in
47:46
Speaker 5: Whitehall just before seven twenty pm on Wednesday evening, so
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Speaker 5: no terrorism there. The court heard a protest was taking
47:53
Speaker 5: place and counter protesters were also in attendance, the two
47:57
Speaker 5: parties being anti Iranian regime protesters and pro Iranian regime demonstrators,
48:05
Speaker 5: So again we're reducing Iran down to regime. There is
48:09
Speaker 5: no description of the fact that this was an unwarranted
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Speaker 5: attack and effectively terrorism to some degree. The ground says
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Speaker 5: that members of the public told police on the scene
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Speaker 5: that someone had been stabbed. Five people were arrested. His
48:25
Speaker 5: injuries and not believed to be life threatening or life
48:27
Speaker 5: changing odd freezing there and then I want to compare
48:32
Speaker 5: that to the BBC report, which was extremely lengthy on
48:37
Speaker 5: what we know about the Golders Green stabbings. Again, I
48:40
Speaker 5: know Mike has looked into the comparison here, but I
48:45
Speaker 5: just want to go through it again because of how
48:49
Speaker 5: this is being weaponized to raise a state of alarm
48:53
Speaker 5: in the UK about an alleged targeting of Jewish communities
48:58
Speaker 5: in the UK. So let's have a look at what
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Speaker 5: the BBC says in the article itself. Two Jewish men
49:05
Speaker 5: have been stabbed in gold as Green, North London, in
49:07
Speaker 5: an attack police have declared as a terrorist. Incident wasn't
49:11
Speaker 5: declared as such when an Iranian pro regime protester was
49:18
Speaker 5: pro government protester was attacked. The man, one in his
49:22
Speaker 5: seventies another in his thirties, remain in a stable condition
49:25
Speaker 5: in hospital. A forty five year old man has been arrested.
49:28
Speaker 5: It comes after a spate of arson attacks against Jewish
49:31
Speaker 5: property in London in recent weeks. Here is what we
49:34
Speaker 5: know so far, and they go on to say the
49:37
Speaker 5: suspect had a history of serious violence and mental health issues,
49:41
Speaker 5: but it's still terrorism. He added in a statement at
49:44
Speaker 5: the scene on Wednesday afternoon that Matt later said officers
49:47
Speaker 5: also carried out a search and that address in southeast
49:50
Speaker 5: London where detectives were investigating an incident that was reported
49:54
Speaker 5: to police, and is believed that the suspect is the
49:56
Speaker 5: same individual arrested in Golders Green. This is extraordinary. This
50:00
Speaker 5: was the first attack which was on a Muslim man
50:03
Speaker 5: and yet the BBC somehow manages to entirely admit that
50:07
Speaker 5: from the report itself. Why is that and then if
50:12
Speaker 5: we have a look at this is basically the reaction
50:17
Speaker 5: from everyone. There was very little, if any reaction to
50:20
Speaker 5: the stabbing of Mohammed Rasa, but here London Mayorcedic Clan
50:25
Speaker 5: said he was angry, appalled, and disgusted that Jewish people
50:28
Speaker 5: were living their lives frightened. We were deeply concerned by
50:34
Speaker 5: the attack. His thoughts and prayers are with the two individuals,
50:37
Speaker 5: not the three who were injured, and offers his heartfelt
50:40
Speaker 5: gratitude to those who so selflessly rushed to their aid,
50:44
Speaker 5: one of whom, by the way, said the attack was
50:49
Speaker 5: utterly appalling, adding attacks on our Jewish community, our attacks
50:53
Speaker 5: on Britain, but apparently attacks on attacks on Britain. Then
51:01
Speaker 5: this gets interesting. So now British police are probing a
51:05
Speaker 5: shadowy Islamic group amid arson spree at Jewish sites. Haye,
51:10
Speaker 5: I'm not going to read out the entire name that
51:13
Speaker 5: apparently has links to the Iranian IRGC, the military force
51:20
Speaker 5: in Iran. However, this is entirely spurious. This group came
51:28
Speaker 5: into existence around the beginning of March twenty twenty six,
51:32
Speaker 5: so a few days after the war against Iran was
51:36
Speaker 5: launched by the US and Israel with Britain as a
51:40
Speaker 5: defensive support. And I would urge everyone to read this
51:44
Speaker 5: incredibly well researched article by Professor David Miller, whom we
51:48
Speaker 5: all know how a fake Iranian terror group was invented
51:52
Speaker 5: to prescribe IRGC in Europe. The story of Aha Ayamin
51:57
Speaker 5: and what does David say? This investigation reveals that there
52:02
Speaker 5: is no such group. It appears to be a fictional cutout.
52:05
Speaker 5: Half of its reported activities simply didn't occur. The other
52:09
Speaker 5: half were so amateurish and inconsequential, with not a single injury.
52:14
Speaker 5: One theory is that they may have been messily undertaken
52:17
Speaker 5: by hired gig criminals and or incompetent Cyaneme, the name
52:22
Speaker 5: given to Mossad's network of helpers in countries all over
52:26
Speaker 5: the world. This analysis shows that even the Zionist regime
52:30
Speaker 5: and its assets and establishment think TACs acknowledge that so
52:33
Speaker 5: called gig criminals have been involved in a series of
52:36
Speaker 5: events in a striking parallel in Australia, fourteen of them
52:41
Speaker 5: between October twenty twenty four and January twenty twenty five,
52:45
Speaker 5: which was similarly low impact with no casualties, and were
52:49
Speaker 5: declared to be fake by Australian police in March twenty
52:53
Speaker 5: twenty five. And then if we look at David's conclusion here,
52:57
Speaker 5: which I totally agree with, aams of a coordinated campaign
53:02
Speaker 5: maybe shaping public perception, of course, to encourage war against Iran,
53:07
Speaker 5: fueling fears of rising anti Semitism, which will bring in
53:12
Speaker 5: surveillance and persecution of Muslim communities, particularly in the UK,
53:19
Speaker 5: calls for expanded security measures and proscribing the IOGC as
53:24
Speaker 5: a terrorist organization amid an illegal war, and of course
53:27
Speaker 5: by proscribing the IRGC, just as they did with Palestine
53:31
Speaker 5: Action and Hamas and Hezbola, it means that if somebody
53:35
Speaker 5: is protesting the Israeli aggressed that the Israeli aggression against Iran,
53:40
Speaker 5: which Britain is complicit with as it was complicit with
53:44
Speaker 5: the genocide against Garza and now West Bank, anyone protesting
53:48
Speaker 5: that is going to be considered supporting and promoting terrorism.
53:54
Speaker 1: Thank you for that, Vanessa, Thank you for that. Charles.
53:57
Speaker 1: Let's just finish off with the issue of fertilizer because
54:03
Speaker 1: of course what's going on in the Strait or Hornbooze
54:06
Speaker 1: is driving up fertilizer prices. We've talked about this over
54:09
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. What's the latest.
54:14
Speaker 3: Well, it is interesting how much can be said without
54:16
Speaker 3: actually saying it. The government to have put out or
54:19
Speaker 3: actually have updated a press release about regulations concerning fertilizer,
54:24
Speaker 3: and of course since the Iran conflict started in late February,
54:29
Speaker 3: there has been an outcry about fertilizer or the lack
54:32
Speaker 3: of synthetic fertilizer. Of course, nobody has really pointed out
54:36
Speaker 3: the enormous inconsistency between the government telling people that they
54:39
Speaker 3: may not use combustion engines because they use all derived products,
54:46
Speaker 3: and yet when that comes to fertilizer, it doesn't seem
54:48
Speaker 3: to make any difference. But the reason this is something
54:50
Speaker 3: worth reporting on now is because the deadline for a
54:53
Speaker 3: consultation has just been extended until the tenth June. And
54:59
Speaker 3: I just w take a look at the consultation itself,
55:04
Speaker 3: because of course anyone that has taken part in the
55:06
Speaker 3: consultation will know this to be the case. Up in
55:09
Speaker 3: the top left on the def RA page, you can
55:12
Speaker 3: see some small text which I will just enlarge, and
55:15
Speaker 3: it says on the right hand side, it says, we asked,
55:18
Speaker 3: you said we did. Now I find that two missing
55:22
Speaker 3: words had fallen off and I've included them. We asked
55:26
Speaker 3: you said, we did the opposite, Because that is pretty
55:29
Speaker 3: much the way that any consultation goes and of course,
55:31
Speaker 3: you'll note the path between saying that there's going to
55:34
Speaker 3: be additional regulation and then asking for a consultation, rather
55:39
Speaker 3: than it being the other way round, So the public
55:42
Speaker 3: obviously not being invited to give their view in any
55:44
Speaker 3: sort of meaningful way. Nonetheless, this is what they say
55:47
Speaker 3: about it. They say, reform of the Fertilizers legislation aims
55:50
Speaker 3: to support innovation in the fertilizer sector by smoothing the
55:53
Speaker 3: route to market for newer and novel fertilizing products which
55:56
Speaker 3: are less polluting to the environment or are less resource
56:00
Speaker 3: intensive in their creation. Effectively, this is a government and
56:03
Speaker 3: DEFRA in a panic because of the inability to convert
56:07
Speaker 3: liquid look fied natural gas into fertilizer in the way
56:11
Speaker 3: that it had been done, because obviously the prices have
56:13
Speaker 3: changed quite dramatically, and indeed there's an imbalance in the supply. Now,
56:18
Speaker 3: what I would like to do is set this alongside
56:21
Speaker 3: what else is going on. But before I do that,
56:24
Speaker 3: I we'll just point out that when we consider what
56:26
Speaker 3: might happen next, they're saying that they're planning to increase
56:31
Speaker 3: user confidence in a more diverse range of safe and
56:35
Speaker 3: effective fertilizing products, So I think one has to really
56:39
Speaker 3: consider in this whilst it might be applauded in many
56:43
Speaker 3: quarters that doing a way with synthetic fertilizer, which are
56:46
Speaker 3: of course ultimately very damaging and perpetuate a cycle of
56:50
Speaker 3: chemical introductions into the environment, into the soil, which frankly
56:56
Speaker 3: the soil would be far better off without. What is
56:58
Speaker 3: the alternative? So what I would do is just to
57:01
Speaker 3: conclude by pointing back to the Soil Association petition that
57:04
Speaker 3: I reported on last week, because there is definitely pushed
57:08
Speaker 3: back in this area, and I include the definite consultation
57:10
Speaker 3: in this. This petition is specifically about the use of
57:13
Speaker 3: glif state as a pre harvest drying agent, which was
57:16
Speaker 3: banned by the EU in twenty twenty three, and the
57:18
Speaker 3: government has a chance to do the same. Now there
57:21
Speaker 3: is a petition and the link will be in the
57:22
Speaker 3: show notes. But what I should point out is that
57:24
Speaker 3: since reporting on it last week, forty two thousand people
57:28
Speaker 3: have signed that petition, So I think it is really
57:30
Speaker 3: worth getting behind, not necessarily because I'm saying that it's
57:33
Speaker 3: going to have an outcome that changes the policy on
57:36
Speaker 3: its head, but it will be a significant indicator or
57:39
Speaker 3: first of all, people's awareness of this as being an issue,
57:41
Speaker 3: which of course so many aren't, but also that people
57:44
Speaker 3: do want it to change.
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Speaker 1: Charles, thank you. Let's just have a bit of an
57:50
Speaker 1: iron finally here and I, of course the huntavirus seems
57:56
Speaker 1: to it's being clearmed, has come from rats. But what
58:00
Speaker 1: we have a little bit of video here just introduce
58:02
Speaker 1: it for us.
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Speaker 8: Gorgeous, gorgeous girls get vaccinated, Gorgeous vaccinated girls get boosted,
58:13
Speaker 8: and gorgeous boosted girls get boosted again if you're eligible.
58:20
Speaker 8: I normally wouldn't make a video like this, but I
58:22
Speaker 8: feel like I need to say something, so I wrote
58:25
Speaker 8: a few things down. I am currently on board the
58:28
Speaker 8: m the hobbyists, and what's happening right now is.
58:31
Speaker 7: Very real for all of us here. We're not just
58:35
Speaker 7: a story. We're not just headlines. We're people, people with families,
58:42
Speaker 7: with lives, with people waiting for us at home.
58:49
Speaker 8: There's a lot of uncertainty, and that's the hardest part.
58:55
Speaker 8: All we want right now is to feel safe, to
58:59
Speaker 8: have clarity, and to get home. So if you're seeing
59:03
Speaker 8: coverage about this, just remember that there are real people
59:07
Speaker 8: behind it, and that this isn't something happening somewhere far away,
59:12
Speaker 8: It's happening to us right now. I'll share more when
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Speaker 8: I can, but for now, I just ask for your
59:19
Speaker 8: kindness and understanding.
59:24
Speaker 3: No, that was tantalizing, because of course what I was
59:27
Speaker 3: about to do was introduce it, because that might not
59:30
Speaker 3: have made sense totally. But that is a chap called
59:35
Speaker 3: Joel rosma In. Sorry Joel might not be quite the
59:38
Speaker 3: right first name. I forget his first name, but it
59:41
Speaker 3: is just absolutely remarkable given the optics on this rat virus,
59:46
Speaker 3: that yet again the right people seem to be in
59:50
Speaker 3: the right place at the right time. And the first
59:53
Speaker 3: clip was from twenty twenty two. He has a very
59:56
Speaker 3: public profile as a travel blogger, and he was hosting
1:00:00
Speaker 3: regularly about the amount of vaccines and boosters that he'd taken,
1:00:04
Speaker 3: and of course the encouragement for others to do so,
1:00:06
Speaker 3: as I say, in a very public setting. And lo
1:00:09
Speaker 3: and behold there he was speaking to the New York
1:00:12
Speaker 3: Post as one of the people interned on the rat chip.
1:00:15
Speaker 3: It is completely remarkable and the only question remaining to
1:00:18
Speaker 3: be asked is where is Rowland rat?
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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. That's where we'll leave it for
1:00:24
Speaker 1: today because we are absolutely out of time. Thanks to
1:00:27
Speaker 1: Charles Vanessa, thanks to everybody that's been watching. If your
1:00:30
Speaker 1: a UK COLU member, stay on the stream, we'll have
1:00:33
Speaker 1: some news extra for you in a couple of minutes time. Otherwise,
1:00:37
Speaker 1: Jem tonight, there'll be a review a discussion going on
1:00:40
Speaker 1: tomorrow at one pm, and then the news again on
1:00:43
Speaker 1: Friday at one pm as usual. We'll see then. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for joining us.
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