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UK Column News Podcast 22nd May 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the second of May twenty twenty four, just
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after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK Column News. I'm your host Mike
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Robinson joining me by video link. Today we have Vanessa Billy in Damascus and
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Charles Mallett. Welcome to the program. Both. We're going to get started
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today with the Infected Blood Inquiry report. And of course this came out on
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Monday and as I was driving home and Monday evening I had the delight of
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listening to Rishie Sunac's presentation in the House of Commons on this. This is
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the comment that Sir Brian Langstaff, the chair of the inquiry made release one
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of the comments that he made so he said that this was not an accident.
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He said it was a conspiracy, but not in the sense of a
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handful of people plotting in an orchestrated conspiracy to mislead, but in a way
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that was more subtle, more pervasive and more chilling at its implication. So,
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thirty thousand people across the UK infected with contaminated blood. More than three
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thousand people have died so far. Others heading in that direction. Sadly,
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the names and mid names for criticism here with Kenneth Clark. Of course,
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we should remember Kenneth Clark at the time was on the steering committee for the
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Builderberg Group. I'm not suggesting that that's related. I just that's just for
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background. We'll be talking about the Builderberg Group again a little bit later.
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He was Health Minister in Margaret Thatcher's government, and the Thatcher government itself heavily
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criticized as well. Traloor School criticized because they were hemophilicate. Children that were
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there were sent to the school that had an on site NHS clinic, and
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so they were supposed to be getting as near a normal childhood as possible,
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and then the NHS themselves receiving quite a bit of criticism. So now,
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as I said, I was listening to Richie Sinac on the way home on
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Monday evening, and I regret to say, I am going to play a
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little bit of this because well, I would suggest that his demeanor and his
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delivery could only be perhaps competed with by mad Hann Corklet's have a listen today.
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I want to speak directly to the victims and their families, some of
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whom are with us in the gallery I want to make a wholehearted and unequivocal
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apology for this terrible injustice. First, first to apologize for the failure in
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blood policy and blood products and the devastating and so often fatal impact has had
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on so many lives, including the impact of treatments that were known or proved
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to be contaminated, the failure to respond to the risk of imported concentrates,
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the failure to prioritize self sufficiency and blood the failure to introduce screening services sooner,
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and the mismanagement of the response to the emergence of AIDS and hepatitis viruses
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amongst infected blood victims. Second, to apologize for the repeated failure of the
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state and our medical professionals to recognize the harm caused. This includes the failure
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of previous payment schemes, the inadequate levels of funding made available, and the
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failure to recognize Hepatitis B victims. And third, to apologize for the institutional
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refusal to face up to these failings and worse, to deny an even attempt
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to cover them up. The dismissing of reports and campaigners detailed representations, the
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loss and destruction of key documents, including ministerial advice and medical records, and
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the appalling length of time it took to secure the public inquiry, which has
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delivered the full truth today, mister speaker, layer upon layer of hurt endured
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across decades. This is an apology from the state to every single person impacted
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by this scandal. It did not have to be this way. It should
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never have been this way, and on behalf of this and every government stretching
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back to the nineteen seventies, I am truly sorry. So I'm sorry to
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show so much of that, but keep those words in mind as we continue
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here. Now we have a bit of an exclusive because this is June Rine's
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comments from the MHRA board meeting yesterday. As you quite rightly say, this
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is the issue that is at the forefront of all our minds today and throughout
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the Infective blood inquiry. We have been listening carefully to the en enormously distressing
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experience of so many individuals and their families, and we offer our full and
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heartfelt sympathy to all of those who have suffered so much. We are absolutely
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determined to demonstrate that the healthcare product's regulatory system has learned from these individuals and
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their wholly unacceptable experiences. The Government will be studying the report and its recommendations
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in very great detail now before returning to Parliament with a full and considered response.
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I think what we need to say today is that patients and families can
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have confidence in today's rigorous regulatory standards and that the UK has one of the
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safest blood supply services in the world. Patient safety is our first priority,
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our highest priority. Well, no blood or blood product can ever be completely
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without risk. The stringent regulations that we have in place today are designed to
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prevent viruses being transmitted through blood or blood products. So the Board, as
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you say, will be returning in the future to this issue. So that
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is quite an incredible statement from June Rin because while she's saying that lessons have
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been learned and that it's not going to be repeated and we should have confidence
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in the regulatory regime, in the meantime, they're not testing blood for spike
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protein for example, And well we can go on with this. Here's Reschie
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Sunac again coming back to him. He went on to say, today their
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voices have finally been heard. The full truth stands for all to see.
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He used this term the full truth on multiple occasions, not just the truth,
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but the full truth, and we'll work together across government or health services
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and civil society ensure that nothing like this never happen in our country again.
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So the question is what is the MHRA doing to make sure that blood products
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are safe today? Because I suggest that they're not doing very much, certainly
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not with respect to potential contamination post vaccination. And then we have the issue
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of midaslam and morphine use. What's being done about that within the NHS and
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so on. So there are many, many questions about whether the government has
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actually learned any lessons here, whether there's any sincerity and anything that's been said
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by either Rishie Sunac or gin Rain. I suspect there is none, and
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I suspect that many of our viewers and listeners will agree with that statement.
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And we'll talk a little bit more about this in extra and have no doubt
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the Debbie will be wanting to say more about it on Friday. But let's
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move on. Vanessa, let me welcome you to the program. And of
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course, the other big news from the beginning of the week was the by
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the ICC prosecutor to bring charges against Benjamin then Yahoo at least to attempt too.
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Yes, so the request has been issued for warrants for Prime Minister Benjaminett
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and Yahome, Minister of for Yoav Gallan, and four members of Hamas leadership
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Yahya Sinwar, Mohammad diab Ibrahim al Masri and Ishmael Hanyek. Interesting that the
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pretext for the warrants with regards to the Israeli leadership does not mention genocide,
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and for the Hamas leadership it does mention the debunked claims of rape and torture
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on October the seventh. Now, I just want to show an interview that
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Chief Prosecutor Karying Khan had with the CNN in the last couple of days where
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he talks about threats that have been issued against him. This situation, unfortunately
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lies on the San Andreas fault of international politics and strategic interests. And of
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course I've had some elected leaders speak to me and be very blunt. This
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court is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin, was what one senior
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leader told me. We don't view it like that. This court is the
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legacy of Nuremberg. This court is a sad indictment of humanity. This court
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should be the triumph of law overpower and brute force. Grab what you can,
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take what you want, do what you will, and we're going to
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simply, We're not going to be dissuaded by threats. Quite extraordinary. I
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mean, this takes you back to when John Bolton threatened Jose Bustani the first
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OPCWG the Organization for the Prevention of Call Weapons prior to the two thousand and
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three Iraq illegal invasion by the United States, and then just moving on reported
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in Axios, House Speaker in the US Mike Johnson said Monday that the House
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may vote on sanctions against the International Criminal Court for issuing or seeking sorry an
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arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan Yahoo, and that has been supported
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by a number of bipartisan senators, including Tom Cotton, Senator for Arkansas,
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who went on Twitter saying equating Israel's democratically elected leaders with perpetrators of the worst
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attack on Jews since World War II shows what are fast The International Criminal Court
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is mister Khan's kangaroo court has no jurisdiction in Israel to pursue these anti semitic
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and politically motivated charges. My colleagues and I look forward to making sure neither
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and his associates all their families will ever set foot again in the United States.
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And then let's just roll an excerpt of a video interview with Tom Cotton
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when he's talking about imposing the sanctions. I do have legislation that would impost
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sanctions on this rogue prosecutor and those in his office who have not just targeted
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Prime Minister net and Yahoo now, but also in the past of targeted American
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soldiers as well. We're working with the Republican leadership in the House to try
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to pass that bill promptly and hopefully forced Chuck Schumer's hand to bring it up
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in the Senate because he also condemned the International Criminal Court today. But I
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would just say, the only reason we have to pursue this legislation is that
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Joe Biden reversed Donald Trump's decision to sanction this very office in this very court
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in the past. This is a rogue court that Congress has previously given the
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President power to stand up to. Joe Biden hasn't used that power. Donald
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Trump didn't extraordinary. I mean it wasn't a rogue court was successfully prosecuting Britain
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for war crimes in Ukraine. Well, yes, exactly. So it's incredible
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how it becomes a road court suddenly when it takes on Israel. And I
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have to say that right now, I have to make the statement that anybody
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that is denying genocide in Gaza and in Palestine as a whole, they've checked
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out of humanity. And I include among those Robert F. Kennedy Junior,
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who had this interview with The Hill only I think four days ago. So
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let's just play a section of that. You know, I don't believe that
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there's a genocide going on, and I don't think Israel's intention is genocide.
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I don't believe there's any evidence of genocide. There is genocide going on in
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the Mid East, but it's a genocide of Jews, and it's a genocide
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of Christians, and nobody's complaining about it for some reason. And they're much
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worse wars what's happening in Gaza right now, But for some reason, people
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don't want to complain unless it's Jews who are who can be blamed. The
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idea of saying that there's a genocide going on in Israel because people die in
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war. I do have to make the point that the ethnic cleansing of Christians
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in the region is largely down to the West sponsorship of the terrorist groups,
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particularly here in Syria. And I just wanted to show a very short exit
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of an eleven twelve minute report on the actual genocide in Gaza. And there's
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nothing distressing in it other than for me, of course, because han Unas
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is an area that I visited when I was in Gaza. It was one
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of the most vibrant areas of Grazia, the most fantastic fruit farms and agricultural
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areas. So let's just play this short section of the longer port that you
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can find on my telegram channel. Thanks mate. And as it's Sarah pertained
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cool and I'm a such a double shut that's nothing shadow for see, I'm
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going with the slag and then to the roofs of their home and they're going
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to show me a lot of things. As they said, to speak more
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the journey side. They were not able to see the sea, you know,
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everything is detroyed, so they can't see it. How you thought of
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that? I can get the like can get wait sure, yeah, thank
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you for that, Vanessa Charles. Let's come on to the UK and the
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International Criminal Court Act. Thanks Mike, good afternoon all. Yes, just
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a very brief addendum to Vanessa's excellent segment, and we see that we determined
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to push on with this, but just a reminder, really all recap.
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I have touched on this in the past, but the International Criminal Court Act
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two thousand and one on the UK Statute Book has within its section fifty two
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which refers to conduct ancillary to genocide and so forth. So essentially, when
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we consider all the statements made in Parliament and by various members of the government,
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it's worth bearing in mind that it is an offense against the law of
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England and Wales for a person to engage in conduct ancillary to an act which
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this section applies. So that goes through the various acts of side and war
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crimes, and it doesn't matter whether or not the act is committed within or
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without the United Kingdom. So I just wanted to sort of pop that up
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as a reminder now that the pressure is on internationally, there should be further
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scrutiny, which was of course missing at the time, on those that have
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said and done, acts and statements and the rest of it to support what
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Israel has done. And you know there'll be a significance, a greater deal
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of significance to this, bearing in mind what the ICC is now doing.
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Yes, thank you, Charles, Okay, staying with you. Then let's
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come back to the UK and farming. Yes, indeed, quite a bit
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to get through. So we'll start with the last week's unveiling of a package
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to support UK farmers. They're making a big sort of fanfare about this,
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but I think it's worth pointing out that at eighty million pounds, I know,
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it's sort of lifelike and comparison, but that amounts to less than ten
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percent of the funding commitment to Ukraine. Still, what sort of thing have
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they been talking about? Well, really it's all focused on sort of innovation
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and going to be putting up greenhouses, particularly the horticultural sector fruit and vegetables,
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and increasing yields and growing things out of season, and also particularly a
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focus on genetic engineering. And it's worth reminding viewers and listeners that the Precision
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Breeding Bill which came in last year had the very active support of the National
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Farmers' Union. So I think that's one of those things that should be considered.
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And of course there's no absolutely no content about nutrient density, about the
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stresses on the various plants in growing them out of season, and of course
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on the various requirements and chemical inducements that will be required to produce crops of
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this sort, So not just that, but also no mention of bioavailability,
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effectively the body's ability to actually recover nutrients from a particular food source. So
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really the focus is only on yield by volume by weight, which is a
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very clumsy mechanism when you're considering the health of the nation, which of course
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they are not particularly. The other thing, following great pressure from UK column
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is that they've introduced now a food security index, which will just take a
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quick look at. There's a started literally just now last week, and contained
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within this is a sort of a risk appraisal in which effectively what they're doing
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is setting the scene, or rather orchestrating a particular narrative so that everybody,
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butt defra is to blame when there is food shortage later on in the year.
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But you see here they're pointing towards international volatility, climate change and biodiversity
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loss, by which they mean arect economy through COVID policy, climate change based
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on no science tool, and biodiversity loss through poor farming practices and the introduction
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of chemicals and pharmaceutical products that shouldn't be there. But also they go on
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to talk about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which is a recurring theme, and
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just to point out the way in which this is being manipulated, we see
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here a graph pointing towards energy and fertilizer prices and how steeply they've risen,
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And of course Russia and Ukraine, or rather Russia in particular, always gets
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the blame for this. But note that the price increase has happened well before
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the beginning of twenty twenty two. This is actually stated, but I suppose
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they're sort of hoping that nobody's really going to fluff to it. So both
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electricity and gas prices climb significantly from mid twenty twenty onwards, doubling for electricity
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and nearly tripling for gas. Of course, suggesting that Russia was responsible for
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this entirely is disingenuous. And then they say that fertilizer prices also surge from
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mid twenty twenty now just to complicate matters even further. But again to go
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back to what UK column has been covering this year, solar projects must fit
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in with food security. So food security of course is now becoming a buzzy
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topic. And this again came out last week fifteenth, made just the day
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after the previous announcement, And they've been in hot water effectively because there've been
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accusations of solar farms being put in places that really food should be grown.
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But again they bang the same drum with growing geopolitical tension and solar continuing to
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play a key part in the government's plans for energy security and that zero and
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also that the planning authorities must now consider cumulative impacts where several proposals for solar
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projects come forward in the same area I've highlighted must consider because it doesn't go
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so far as to say that they actually need to do anything about it other
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than consider it. But what I want to lay alongside this is a statement
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made by John Pettigrew, the chief executive of the National Grid, who has
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posted on his LinkedIn page a talk that he gave about what he cause the
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SuperGrid. So effectively he's talking about overlaying a network onto the national grid to
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be able to significantly upscale the output from the National Grid. But interestingly,
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what he points to in particular is future growth in foundational technologies like artificial intelligence
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and quantum computing will mean larger scale, energy intensive computing infrastructure, and he
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goes on to say demand from commercial data centers will increase sixfold just in the
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next ten years. He goes on to talk about this being a pivotal moment
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and all the rest of it. But the point really to bear in mind
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is that whilst on the one hand, we've got the government insistence that we
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can meet an energy target which is going to be driven by renewable energy,
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and of course we know that when the sun doesn't shine in the wind doesn't
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play, or indeed the windblows too hard, we can't recover energy from those
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sources. But also the insistence that through innovation in farming and the use of
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AI, we will be able to do all these things at the same time.
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And yet we have the head of the National Grid telling us exactly why
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it's going to be very difficult to meet those shortfalls because of the increase in
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AI, which is demanding more and more and more power. So that's on
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the sort of defra what they're doing side. The other thing is we return
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to avian influenza and in particular the preparation for this autumn's pandemic. So again
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please stay tuned because this very very much refers to humans. The guidance on
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reporting dead birds has just been updated, which has happened very infrequently since it
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was first to introduce over a decade ago. But specifically they're saying, this
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is how you should use the service, and it'll help you to understand how
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diseases are spreading. So they'll ask you where you find the dead birds and
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all the rest of it. But the point of this is of course that
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they may be collected and tested for bird flu or another cause of death.
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Well, I can tell you absolutely for sure that they will only be testing
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for bird flu because that's all they want to find. They're not in the
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least bit interested in any other environmental factor. Because I wrote a freedomation request
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and had that in black and white. That is all they test for.
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So of course it's no great surprise to learn that they have a bird flu
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Vaccination task force. Now what do you think they're up to well the Health
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Security Agency are pushing the boundaries of vaccine research and development. Sounds a bit
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ominous, but what they say is that they have an agreement with CSL Sequorus,
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who will be on standby to produce over one hundred million influenza pandemic vaccines
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tailored to the specific strain of course, if needed. Now, where on
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Earth has this come from? And who are CSL What they describe themselves as
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being leaders in influenza, which could be interpreted in one of two ways.
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But they talk about considering pandemic preparedness, and the bit I want to draw
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your attention to is the highlighted text here really, which is saying that the
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current outbreak of H five N one that began in twenty one is the largest
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recorded in history and is causing concern due to the increased mammalian infections from infected
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birds. The recent zooosis of H five N one and death of a child
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from the disease in Cambodia is a stark reminder of the risk posed by an
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influenza pandemic. Now that is exactly how they are prefixing this, and so
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the whole world they are suggesting may be affected by something that they are stating
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has killed one child in the entire world. And I should just remind you
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also that this illness only exists in a laboratory. The testing can only operate
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in a laboratory, and so all of this is in effect an exercise in
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modeling and can to generated genetic sequences. But it absolutely looks like this is
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coming down the track for the autumn to be to be introduced into or at
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least the suggestion that it will be introduced into the poultry population. Of course
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this coincides with the registration of poultry for all keepers, but also the suggestion
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that you personally are so at risk. Charles, Thanks very much, many
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seeing you. So now let's move on then to Julian Nsanje. And of
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course on Monday it was announced that he was going to be given leave to
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appeal. If we can put that on screen, this is wiki leaks,
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an important if partial victory is how it was being described. So this is
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perhaps perhaps a positive development. I put that caveat on there because of course,
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what has been happening in the United States and partecular over the last couple
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of months is that people have been ramping up the pressure on Joe Biden to
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do something thing about assignage, to drop this entire thing before the election in
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the presidential election in the United States. Not only does this result effectively mean
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that Juliana Sanche has to spend another six months or so in prison before an
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appeal can be brought, because there has to be preparation for that appeal,
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but it is going to push the can down the road far enough that this
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probably will not be a major election event, which I think is unfortunate.
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Vanessa, what are your thoughts on this? Yeah, I know, I
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mean we talked about this last night and I totally agree with your reading of
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it. It's definitely you know, political motivation behind it and manipulation and it's
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horrible. Yes, okay, Well, sticking with you, then let's talk
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about this developments in Iran following the crash of the helicopter which killed the president.
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Yes, well, obviously yesterday was the actual funeral in Tabriz and Colm
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and today is the procession in Tehran. And I have to say, seeing
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the videos playing out on social media, particularly on telegram channels, there are
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millions on the streets. So I just wanted to have a quick look obviously
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at the context around when the helicopter crash happened. So it came almost concurrently
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with the Americans arrested after leading the coup to work to throw the government in
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Congo as the U as far as to co operate in investigation. Turkey's president
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holds emergency meeting, admits coup warning that was in the fifteenth of May.
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Macron is heading to New Caledonia as protests gather momentum, and there was an
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alleged assassination threat against President Buchch in Siberia, and of course we had the
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attempted assassination. He's still not fully out of the woods of Slovakia's Prime Minister
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Fico, and also the problems in Georgia that Alex has been reporting on.
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So then if we have a look at Sergey Labrov's statement, he's basically initially
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blaming US aviation sanctions, including against Iran ban on the supply of Square part
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put people at risk. US deliberately harmed ordinary citizens. So that's basically the
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sense that he's taking at the moment. Let's try to look at how Western
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media, which I have to say has been absolutely shameful in its reporting of
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this tragedy for Iranian people. Here's the BBC talking about fireworks in Tehran celebrating
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the death of President Rayc even before the death had actually been declared, and
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social media posts, and I have to say I saw the social media commentary
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and it's very similar to kind of the name post seventy seventh Brigade, the
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same tweet being tweeted out multiple times. Let's have a look. First of
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all, let's verify the BBC report on fireworks in Tehran. This is Abbas
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Juma, who is a journalist and historian who was in Tehran. And if
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we can just play the second clip also might because of course what they're also
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claiming is, you know, inflaming the entire women's rights issue. Also,
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so if we can play the two clips concurrently and simus Nasoneerazana and so there's
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no audio, So this is basically just demonstrating the fact that many of the
32:16
women that were in Tehran were not wearing hijab and were totally unmolested from being
32:23
without hit dab. And that's something that I also remarked on when I spent
32:28
two weeks in Iran in twenty twenty two. I wanted to have a lot
32:34
of the Western media is also talking about the fact that even Racey's replacement is
32:38
likely to continue the development of relations with the East, particularly China and Russia,
32:45
which of course is an absolute anatoma to Western global supremacy. But this
32:52
particular article caught my attention, which was in the Telegraph opinion section, The
32:59
West must strike now and collapse the Iranian regime. The vulnerabilities of the Ayotola
33:02
Aleamine succession plan are now on full display. So it's written by Mark Wallis
33:08
and Kestra Arab, So let's have a look at who they are. So
33:15
Ambassador markty Wallace is the CEO of United Against Nuclear Iran and a former Ambassador
33:21
to the United Nations. Rabi is director of IRGC Research at United Against Nuclear
33:29
Iran. So let's just have a quick look at what they're saying. This
33:32
is an opening that should be exploited. We must support the Iranian people's democratic
33:37
ambitions to bring an end to a regime that kills its own people, seeks
33:43
to eradicate the world's only Jewish states, and exports terror around the world.
33:49
Instead of offering condolences to the regime, as EU officials have shamelessly done,
33:54
the West should be focusing on the Iranian people and its public diplomacy. It
34:00
should be amplifying the cause of the Iranian people for an end to the Islamic
34:04
Republic. Simultaneously, the US government and its allies should consider covert operations,
34:09
both cyber and kinetic, to exacerbate the divisions within the regime's elite and in
34:15
Bolden the Iranian people against the regime. Make no mistake, the collapse of
34:21
the Islamic Republic will be the single most liberating event for the Iranian people.
34:27
So I think that's pretty clear in its gender. But let's have a look
34:30
at this organization, United against Nuclear Iran. It claims it's a nonprofit and
34:37
non partisan policy organization formed to combat the threats posed by the Islamic Republic Iran,
34:43
not mentioning, of course, the threat from a nuclear Israel. But
34:46
let's have a look at who's on the board. It's quite fascinating. It's
34:51
packed full of intel figures and personalities. Also might from the UK Ministry of
34:58
Defense and intel aigence agencies. But of course we have John Bolton that I
35:02
mentioned in the previous report, but Zoha Palti, who was a former director
35:08
of the spy agency Mossad, and if we go on, the original co
35:15
founders also include my Dagan, the former general director of MOSSAD, so I
35:22
think conflict of interest comes into play. I also wanted to play a section
35:28
of an interview between Sayed Mohammed Mirandi, a historian and professor in Tehran,
35:35
and with the awful Piers Morgan. I basically edited out Piers Morgan because I
35:40
don't want to inflict that on people. But this is a section of said
35:45
Mohammed Mirandi, basically schooling Piers Morgan, and there's very little that I can
35:50
disagree with in what he says. So let's play this. See what you're
35:55
saying is is inaccurate? To say the least, I would say the butchers
36:00
are in London, in Washington, the people who destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan,
36:06
Yemen during the disgraceful genocide there, the dirty warrants here, the destruction of
36:12
Libya, the sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba. I think that the real monsters
36:17
are actually much more closer to home. He wasn't executing people. He was
36:23
in the judiciary at the time. And the people who you're alluding to,
36:27
and the numbers are far less than what you claim they are. Actually this
36:30
is something that your government should be ashamed of. These are people who fought
36:35
against Iran, They fought for Saddam Hussein as foot soldiers. They betrayed the
36:38
country. They carried out bomb attacks in this country, killing up to seventeen
36:45
thousand people, including President, a prime minister, head of Judiciary, bomb
36:50
explosion near my house when I was a school student. I was getting ready
36:52
to go to school. It killed nine to eleven people, including an Armenian
36:57
family. Four. These are the people who you're saying they were murdered by
37:01
Iranians. No that in Iran, no one has any sympathy for them.
37:06
Ek Terras organization which today has a major base in Albania and it has offices
37:13
across Europe and North America. So it is your government that's supporting terrorism.
37:17
It is your government and your governments that are really the brutal regime. As
37:27
I said, I can't argue with anything that he said there. The entire
37:32
video, will interview will be in the show notes for people to watch Iranians
37:37
flood the streets in remembrance of Ibrahim Raisi and of course foreign Am Abdul Kayan
37:45
and the crew members that were also killed in the crash. And I have
37:51
to say again that the videos showing on social media today are quite extraordinary.
37:55
Millions have taken to the streets, not only in Tehran but in villages and
38:00
towns throughout Iran. Yesterday I attended a ceremony at the Iranian embassy, but
38:06
of course the consulate part was bombed by Israel last month's beginning of April.
38:12
There were many dignitaries present, including in the photo there his Excellency jose Bo
38:17
Morghi, the Ambassador of Venezuela and finally for impact on resistance access leaders.
38:28
Very sad news that the First Lady of Syria, Asthma al Asad, has
38:32
now having survived cancer and come back from that, she's now been diagnosed with
38:39
leukemia and is about to undergo some pretty heavy treatment. So we wish her
38:49
well. Thank you, Vanessa, thank you. Let's come to Europe again
38:54
and well. Klaus Schwab has said he's off well off, of course,
39:01
eighty five years old, the leader of the World Economic Form. Everybody knows
39:05
who he is. Well, he has decided that he will no longer be
39:08
the executive chairman. He will become a non executive chairman instead, so taking
39:15
a step back at least. So who's going to replace him? It looks
39:17
like it's not going to be Tony Blair after all, It's going to be
39:21
this guy, Borgie Brande, who is currently president of the World Economic Form
39:29
Executive Board, former Foreign Minister of Norway. He's going to take over from
39:32
Klauss. But who's this guy? Well, it turns out he is on
39:37
the steering committee of the Builderberg Group. So here's the current Builderberg meeting's website
39:42
and the current steering committee. Let's just bring a few names on screen.
39:45
It does include mister Brandy. Let's see who else is on here, Mark
39:50
Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, and current sort of climate
39:57
change Fishernado John Sores, the previous the prior c head of m I six
40:06
is on the steering committee of the Broderborg Group. So these are all colleagues,
40:09
and Peter Thiel is on there. I just chose a few names from
40:14
it. And of course, as I mentioned earlier, well his name escapes
40:21
me, so I'll pass over that particular comment. But anyway, just find
40:24
it extremely interesting that that particular person has been chosen to lead the World Economic
40:31
Forum. So Charles, let's come back to you and a little bit more
40:37
on weather modification. Thanks Mat. Yes, a topic that the sort of
40:44
lurks in the background in some way or other, and I want to introduce
40:50
this particular segment by talking about an organization that both Ben and Debbie have focused
40:55
on some degree in the last few months. And that is ARIA, or
41:00
at least I would pronounce it as Aria. Might be as pronounce as Aria.
41:05
But the Advanced Research and Invention Agency which has been given a whacking great
41:10
eight hundred million pounds by government to do essentially whatever it likes. But among
41:17
its chosen tasks are managing our climate and weather through responsible engineering. So just
41:24
to go back a little bit to what it is that spawned area, and
41:30
that's the Advanced Research and Invention Agency Act of twenty twenty two, just a
41:37
couple of sort of slightly unusual things in it may be able to do anything
41:42
that they like in the exercise of its functions. In particular, they may
41:45
borrow money, acquiring, dispose of land, form and participating partnerships and joint
41:50
ventures and form companies fair enough, but also they may accept gifts, which
41:52
seems an unusual power to have, if you can call it a power.
41:57
But also on the national security side, the Sector of State may give ARIA
42:01
directions as to the exercise of its functions if the Secretary of State considers it
42:06
necessary or expedient in the interests of national security. Now that I think is
42:09
worth concentrating on because of course, national security, when pushed can encompass almost
42:15
anything. But of course, the power to give directions under this section includes
42:19
power to vary or revoke a direction, and area must comply with a direction
42:23
given under this section. So I think that's one to consider for the future.
42:28
But back to weather modification, and Google have decided that they want to
42:34
weigh into this particular subject area with what they're calling Project Contrails. And what
42:40
exactly does that mean. Well, they're talking about yet another AI project,
42:45
using Google AI to help airlines prevent contrails. Well, why planes don't always
42:50
make contrails. Contrails only occur when planes fly through humid regions. If planes
42:54
intentionally avoid flying through these regions, then they can avoid creating warming contrails with
43:00
minimal impact on fuel usage. They go on to say, the challenge is
43:04
knowing where these regions will occur. By combining massive quantities of weather data AI
43:12
sorry, what's my place, they can create stated that the art predictions of
43:16
when and where contrails are likely to form. Pilots and dispatchers can then use
43:21
this information to adjust the altitudes of their flights. And finally, Google give
43:28
a little illustration here of what's in a contrail. When a plane flies through
43:31
the humid areas, the soot from the exhaust can sometimes nucleate small droplets and
43:37
form ice. Now, the reason I bring this up is that a few
43:40
weeks ago I spoke about the marine cloud brightening program being run by the University
43:45
of Washington off the west coast of the United States, and essentially there's just
43:51
seems to be an awful lot going on with very little information coming. What
43:54
we did find out from that was that the University of Exeter was involved,
44:00
albeit somewhat obliquely. But I want to point out now that the University of
44:05
Reading is pointing about is describing change climates and how they're pushing the boundaries of
44:10
understanding the atmosphere, and they go on to talk about pioneering the science behind
44:16
the weather. Again, I'm not quite sure how we're meant to interpret that,
44:21
but they show how humans are altering the climate, and also their discoveries
44:24
might one day help people to change the weather too, So they are sort
44:30
of pushing on with this agenda. And I would just sort of refer you
44:37
back to the Science and Technology Committee report from twentyd and nine to ten,
44:43
in which it was specified that in the definition of geoengineering, whether techniques such
44:47
as cloud seedings should not be included within the definition of geoengineering used for the
44:52
purposes of activities designed to affect a change in the global climate and so on.
44:58
Of course, in that same report they talk about their priority being to
45:00
tackle climate change at source, but they recognize, however, that geo engineering
45:06
might have a possible role to play. Of course, by that they appear
45:08
to mean things other than cloud seeding, but nonetheless public engagement they talk about
45:15
as being an important issue. And so I just want to round off by
45:19
pointing out that there is a petition open at the moment to government to make
45:23
all forms of geoengineering affecting the environment illegal. Now, I think this petition,
45:30
for the sake of simplicity, does include any form of weather modification.
45:34
And of course, as you'll be aware, even though the response is very
45:39
very rarely even adequate, if such a petition reaches one hundred thousand signatures,
45:45
it does have to be debated in Parliament. So whilst you might perceive that
45:50
petitions are in some way a futile exercise, they do at least create an
45:53
audit trail and they do create pressure where none prefocly existed. So I would
45:58
encourage you to take a look at that, look at that petition at least
46:01
well, I would say, Charles. I would add to that by saying,
46:06
they not only create an audit trail and an obligation on Parliament if the
46:09
target has met. They are useful in the sense of being an organizational tool.
46:15
So they can be used to promote a particular topic to people that may
46:20
not otherwise be engaged in that. So we shouldn't just write them off completely.
46:23
I mean, I appreciate that the principle of petitions and asking your captors
46:29
effectively or your farmers to do the right thing value isn't necessarily going to work,
46:35
but they have a use nonetheless, I don't know if you've got any
46:37
thoughts on that. Yeah, quite right now, I mean I would,
46:42
I would perfectly agree. And I think really the volume of literature now and
46:45
material on whether modification, I think does deserve more attention, but it needs
46:51
to be brought into the realms of the public debate. And I think that
46:54
you know, the central question really is if the government's claiming that it does
46:58
not have any intent to do any of these things, then why on earth
47:00
is it funding so many research projects that look into exactly this issue. Indeed,
47:07
well, look, I would like to just very quickly introduce everybody and
47:09
I to a slightly tongue in cheek thing in one sense but not in the
47:15
other, and that we've something we were deciding. We've decided to call UKC
47:20
verify and we're doing this really the pok a stick at the BBC. So
47:24
let's just bring the first example of this on. We're going to fact check
47:28
this article. So the tragic story that appeared yesterday of the flight to Singapore
47:37
where one pasture has passed away a guy called Jeff Kitchen as a result of
47:43
an aircraft flying through some pretty severe turbulence and he has apparently had a heart
47:49
attack. But a lot of other people on the aircraft were injured as a
47:52
result because they were not wearing seat belts or whatever. But quite in itself
48:00
a tragic event, but in the global scheme of things. It was surprising
48:05
to me last night because it happened to be in the car at seven pm
48:07
when the news came on. It surprised me that the BBC was leading with
48:10
this story. So it only surprised me, however, for about thirty seconds,
48:15
because of course, in the course of the story, they brought on
48:20
somebody that they described as an expert, who then told us that because of
48:24
a human created climate change, there were many more of these types of turbulence
48:31
events happening. So anyway, the BBC then followed up with this article today
48:37
what is flight turbulence and why does it happen? So they seem to have
48:42
been walking back slightly from their position here, so this is one of the
48:45
things they're saying. This means skies are busier, making a pilot's decision and
48:49
avoiding turbulence trickier as they have to maintain a safe minimum distance from aircraft in
48:54
the area. I'm going to say that that is I think that's possibly not
49:02
entirely accurate, but okay. They then went on to say that guy Gratton
49:07
suggests that we are encountering turbulence more, adding that other reasons for this may
49:13
be the fact that we are flying more. The other reasons that they mentioned
49:16
in this article being a scientific paper which suggests that there is more turbulence happening
49:22
as a result of man made global warming. But in fact, if you
49:28
go to the National Transport Safety Board. They have a document here preventing Turbulence
49:34
related injuries in their carrier operations conducted under Title fourteen, Code of Federal Regulations,
49:38
Part one twenty one, and they're very clear in this document that there
49:44
has been no change since nineteen eighty nine in this graph, so it says
49:49
here Figure six shows yearly trends in Part one twenty one accident rits from nineteen
49:53
eighty nine through twenty eighteen, after normalizing the data by annual flight rs so
49:59
that the scale on the y access is accidents per one hundred thousand flight hours.
50:05
So after normalizing the data by annual flight ours, there was no obvious
50:08
trend over time for turbulence related Part twenty one twenty one accidents during this period.
50:14
And you can see very clearly the dark blue line is basically horizontal all
50:17
the way across those years. So the suggestion that climate change is causing more
50:24
turbulence events is not borne out by the data. And for the BBC to
50:30
use this story in order to push a climate change agenda seems to be to
50:37
be a pretty cynical thing to do. So that will leave it that with
50:43
that that's the first ukc Verify report so far. There would be many more
50:47
coming in the days and weeks to follow. Charles. Let's move on to
50:53
Hansard and now and the Fetal Sentience Committee Bill. Thank you, Mike.
51:00
Yes, this is something I've spoken about briefly before. It was introduced to
51:04
the House of Lords by Lord Moylen, and his perception is that it's been
51:09
completely hijacked and effectively his bill, or at least his move on the bill,
51:15
has been used as a proxy for a debate really about abortion. And
51:22
so what we'll do is just go through a few of the tweets that he
51:27
sent out about this bill. He says that he's pretty gutted that his Private
51:32
member's bill has been wrecked by amendments tabled by Lady Thornton and Lady Liz Barker
51:37
on behalf of Labor and libden front benches. The amendment means there's no parliamentary
51:42
time to pass the bill bracket, which is their intention. The bill would
51:46
have set up an independent expert committee to examine evidence of human fetal sentience and
51:52
advise the government. It did nothing more than that. Debate at the second
51:57
reading fell well below the standard of the UK House of Law. With both
52:00
noble ladies making exaggerated claims about attacks on abortion rights, they were clear they
52:06
didn't want better scientific understanding in case it disturbed their ideological commitment. Even more
52:12
remarkably, neither noble lady was speaking in a personal capacity. Both were representing
52:16
their party on the front bench, and they have gone on to table wrecking
52:21
amendments, presumably also in their official party capacity. It's unusual for a private
52:24
member's bill to be wrecked in this way, since most expire of natural causes
52:30
without having to be torpedoed by amendments. So what does it say about putative
52:34
labor government that they seem to have officially gone out of their way to put
52:38
ideology before science on this most sensitive topic. So obviously Lord Moyland, they're
52:45
not minting his words, and we will have a look at exactly what it
52:49
is he's referring to, because these amendments were indeed put forward you see thereby
52:54
Baroness's Thornton, Barker and Deach, and specifically, as I said, the
52:59
refer to abortion. So clause one they want to insert offword knowledge and the
53:04
legal rights of women during pregnancy and birth, including but not limited to,
53:08
and in relation to abortion, medical decision making, and birth choices. And
53:14
also to insert the Committee may not provide advice which seek to alter or rely
53:19
upon altering abortion law, regulation, or practice. And to insert that the
53:24
Committee may not provide advice which seeks to limit or relies upon limiting women's existing
53:30
legal rights to decision making regarding their own healthcare and choices during pregnancy and birth.
53:38
Now finally to insert save that no response shall be provided regarding advice in
53:45
topic areas on which the government declines to take a policy position. So they've
53:52
pushed very hard to as he say, as he says, torpedo this bill.
53:58
And indeed the writing was on the wall from earlier on when debated back
54:02
in March, because it was Baroness Kennedy at that point, who we see
54:07
on screen here that spoke in that debate and said the following, When I
54:15
saw this bill on our prospectus, I was immediately suspicious. It follows close
54:20
on the heels of an effort during the Public Order bill to enable protests on
54:22
the doorstep of abortion clinics. Of course that's not accurate, but she goes
54:28
on happily that effort failed, and it was agreed that buffer zones were necessary.
54:31
The amendment would have allowed people who totally opposed the termination of a pregnancy
54:37
to harris women as they entered clinics for medical attention. While this is a
54:42
very very one sided view of what the Public Order Act either did do or
54:46
was going to do, and we've spoken at quite great length about the buffer
54:51
zones and the extraordinary raft of powers that local authorities are granted by them.
54:57
But nonetheless, she went on in her speech to say, why am I
55:01
concerned? The politics of the United States of America has rithen with divisions on
55:05
the issue of abortion for many decades. It has been weaponized by far right,
55:09
deeply misogynistic organizations calling themselves Christian, which opposed women's right to reproductive freedom.
55:16
I always say, follow the money. Dark money has surged into the
55:21
United Kingdom's anti abortion groups in recent years. Well, she really has not
55:30
left anybody in any doubt as to what she thought. But I have to
55:32
say that a lot of what she said is not very well substantiated, if
55:37
at all, particularly concerning the legislation surrounding the buffer zones that she refers to.
55:42
But just to look at the other side of the coin. On Twitter,
55:46
the Right for Right to Life UK has brought up the remarks of Lady
55:51
Lawler, saying that she reveals the real reason why the abortion lobby groups strongly
55:55
oppose the Fetal Sentence Committee Bill a sentience committee bill, sorry, opponents of
56:00
a committee and this is to quote her fear that it will, as the
56:04
science develops, find more and more evidence that fetuses, as they like to
56:09
regard them, are indeed pre natal babies, able to feel pain from an
56:15
early stage, and that abortion is merely premature infanticide. Yet, however strong
56:22
are their views, they should not try to bury evidence that goes against them.
56:25
They should be willing for the scientific picture to be fully understood and presented
56:30
in all its nuances to policy makers. So interesting to hear remarks given on
56:39
the other side of the debate. But of course, with the bill having
56:44
been hijacked by the abortion issue, which, of course, if we're to
56:51
take his word for it, was absolutely not at all the intention of Lord
56:53
Moylen, it does give us the chance to look at abortion in the United
56:59
Kingdom and the latest statistics that we can get hold of, which are now
57:06
in some way quite out of date, because I bring up here the fact
57:09
that in actual fact, the most recent statistics are now delayed from the twenty
57:15
second of June twenty twenty three until twenty third of May twenty twenty four.
57:19
Now, that is a significant delay, and they say that it's due to
57:22
form processing. But given what we know about the extraordinary advice given to pregnant
57:28
women and indeed women trying to conceive during the period where the COVID vaccines were
57:35
being rolled out, seems an extraordinary coincidence that there should be quite such a
57:38
delay in these source of statistical announcements. Nonetheless, working with what we do
57:45
have, we see that the graph going back to twenty twenty one points very
57:50
very sharply upwards, and indeed, partial statistics released last year going back for
57:55
twenty twenty two, the light green showing the figures by month for the year
58:01
twenty twenty two in comparison to the year before in twenty twenty one. Now,
58:07
Buronus Kennedy talks about dark money. Now, that was an interesting phrase
58:10
to use, but of course it's because she is effectively quoting from an article
58:15
in the Good Law Project dark Money Uncovered, in which they say spending in
58:20
the UK has surged from three hundred and ninety twenty twenty to seven hundred and
58:24
seventy in twenty twenty two. In recent months, the ADF have provided legal
58:29
support to protesters in Birmingham and Bournemouth arrested within buffer zones, which are designed
58:34
to protect vulnerable women when they're seeking abortion care. So just to remind you
58:37
if you're not completely ofay with the idea of the buffer zones, is effectively
58:43
where people have been arrested for praying silently in their heads outside abortion clinics.
58:51
And of course the law specifies that you're not to have a view one way
58:55
or the other, either in favor of or against. Now on the issue
59:02
of money, whilst they cite the amount of money that ADF has, it
59:07
suppose I tho it'd be interesting just to look at the good Law Project and
59:09
see that in actual fact they have five million pounds income in the last financial
59:14
Ye're down a bit from just over six million in twenty twenty two. But
59:17
also to point out that the good Law Project is well associated with Mermaids leading
59:24
UK LGBTQ plus charities and the good Law Project Appeal. The lgb Alliance charity
59:32
status. So in effect, this private member's bill, although not of very
59:38
great consequence in the scheme of parliamentary debate, in actual fact does bring out
59:44
some very very important issues concerning abortion, but also the enormous influences upon those
59:50
that are espousing in particular the pro choice views. Thanks Charles. Okay,
59:57
we're going to end very briefly with the latest fear porn from the British government
1:00:02
and because Oliver Didden is in the process of announcing this new website from golf
1:00:09
dot UK today. How would you prepare for an emergency? Emergency such as
1:00:15
flooding, fires and park cuts can affect us all their simple and effective steps
1:00:19
you can take to be more prepared, And of course one way that you
1:00:22
can be more prepared is to make sure that you've got your emergency alert switched
1:00:24
on on your mobile phones. But if we put that back on screen again
1:00:30
for a second, we can see that if an emergency did happen in your
1:00:34
area, how would you manage What about your relatives, friends, neighbors or
1:00:37
colleagues. Did you know anyone who might need some extra help or support.
1:00:42
They've got a prepper page here, Get Prepared for emergencies. Emergencies happen every
1:00:47
day apparently, But anyway, this is the kit that you need. So
1:00:52
you need a battery or wind up torch, you need portable power bank.
1:00:54
You need a battery or wind up radio. You need spare batteries. You
1:00:58
need a first aid kit. You need a hand sanitizer and wet weibes and
1:01:00
we know that's in case of novachok attack. You need bottled water, and
1:01:06
you need non perishable food. And finally you need baby supplies. It doesn't
1:01:09
specify that you only need those if you have a baby, but you certainly
1:01:14
need them a part according to this, and they say here, rather than
1:01:16
buying all the atoms at once, you could just add to your emergency kit
1:01:22
when you're able and build it up over time. So there you go,
1:01:25
get ready, get prepared. Emergencies are coming. And well we'll leave it
1:01:30
there. There's a whole website there for you to go and have a look
1:01:35
at. Okay, so we will leave it there for today. Thank you
1:01:37
very much to Charles Videss for joining you joining us, Thank you for watching.
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you access to the extra program that we produce every time we have a news
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program, so join us for that if you can see you there, but
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otherwise have a a great couple of days. We'll be back one pm as
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usual on Friday. Don't forget the interview one pm tomorrow. See then,
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bye bye.