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UK Column News — 25th March 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the twenty fifth of March twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six, just after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK
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Speaker 1: Column News. I'm your host Mike Rouminson. Joining me by
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Speaker 1: videoing today are Charles Mallett and Vanessa Billy. Later in
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Speaker 1: the program, we're going to have more on what we
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Speaker 1: were reporting on six years ago today on the COVID scam.
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Speaker 1: Vanessa is going to be covering her recent visit to
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Speaker 1: the war zone in Lebanon and also asks where did
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Speaker 1: that Telegraph article go? Charles and I are going to
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Speaker 1: be reporting on the continuing COVID like syop here in
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Speaker 1: the UK over ran and I will have the list
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Speaker 1: on the merger between Online Safety and Digital ID. But
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Speaker 1: we're going to begin today with some UK column news,
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Speaker 1: and that is that the long promised return to print
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Speaker 1: has happened at last with the launch of the Column
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Speaker 1: our new magazine. This is not a newspaper, It is
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Speaker 1: a magazine's one hundred and twenty eight pages and well
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Speaker 1: quite a bit of com and it's frankly worth the
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Speaker 1: cover of value alone, just for the caricatures of Brian Charles,
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Speaker 1: myself and one or two others but a host of
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Speaker 1: content here, Charles. This has been quite a while coming,
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Speaker 1: and we've been promised promising it for some time. It's
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Speaker 1: going to be quarterly, and well, what more can we say?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think we can describe it as being absolutely
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Speaker 2: worth the weight, and that will be a phrase worth
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Speaker 2: bearing in mind, of course, because it's going to be quarterly,
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Speaker 2: so once you've got your first issue, there will be
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Speaker 2: a bit of a wait until the next one. But
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Speaker 2: each time, I think that's a fantastic way to consider it.
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Speaker 2: It will be absolutely a collectible and it couldn't be
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Speaker 2: more opposite in terms of content in the way that
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Speaker 2: it reflects what's going on in the world now, but
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Speaker 2: particularly the background to that how we've got there. And
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Speaker 2: I think from the UK column side, we've been talking
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Speaker 2: a lot about expanding and about the way in which
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Speaker 2: we are using the support of the UK column membership,
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Speaker 2: and I think this is no finer demonstration of that,
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Speaker 2: because of course we've had to build our team, we've
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Speaker 2: built our capacity and capabilities. But now I think this is,
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Speaker 2: you know, yet another demonstration of how we're building our output.
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Speaker 2: And this is at a time where every form of
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Speaker 2: or rather every aspect of our lives is being pushed
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Speaker 2: into a sort of dreadful digital corridor. We we're producing
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Speaker 2: something in print, fantastically illustrated. We've seen that cover design
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Speaker 2: from Germ and so many other contributions, and I think
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Speaker 2: the you know, the array of everything that's covered in there,
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Speaker 2: and of course it's you know, wonderful that Vanessa has
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Speaker 2: also made a really significant contribution to that too. So
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Speaker 2: I'm I'm terrifically excited about it, and I hope other
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Speaker 2: people are. It is now on sales in the shop,
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Speaker 2: and yes we do ship overseas, so to all of
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Speaker 2: those people, you know, on various other sides of the world,
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Speaker 2: this can be in your hands too. I mean, it's
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Speaker 2: a it's a massive moment and I think a really
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Speaker 2: really significant time to be going into into print.
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Speaker 1: And it is just as well as quarterly, because there's
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Speaker 1: quite a lot to read, Charles.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there really is. There's a heck of a lot
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Speaker 2: to read. But I mean necessarily so. And I think
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Speaker 2: this is something that we hummed and hard about a
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Speaker 2: little bit, and you know, obviously there are there are
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Speaker 2: pros and cons to each approach. We had thought about
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Speaker 2: it being monthly, but I think the way in which
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Speaker 2: we've done this, and I think it reflects the way
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Speaker 2: in which UK Column does operate in that we like
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Speaker 2: to do our research in such a way that we
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Speaker 2: really know what's behind every layer of everything. And I
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Speaker 2: think to build up a picture from scratch and to
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Speaker 2: put that level of detail and analysis into a composite
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Speaker 2: piece that you know makes sense absolutely across the entire
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Speaker 2: publication means that quarterly has been the way to go.
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Speaker 1: And that's a'd be interesting to get your thoughts, because
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Speaker 1: obviously it was a little while ago that you wrote
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Speaker 1: your article. It is still absolutely more of it now
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Speaker 1: that it was possibly at the time. But nonetheless thank
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Speaker 1: you for your contribution. But this is going to be
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Speaker 1: fun moving forward with it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's fantastic.
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Speaker 4: I can't wait to see UK Column in doctor's Surgeries
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Speaker 4: and all over the place at airports people reading it.
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Speaker 4: And I hope you're going to provide a box at
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Speaker 4: the end of the first year.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now that means that the third issue will just
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Speaker 1: be just in time for the twentieth anniversary event in September,
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Speaker 1: of course, so we are looking forward to this and
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Speaker 1: I just want to say a massive thank you, of
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Speaker 1: course to Diane Rasmussen for being the commissioning editor on this,
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Speaker 1: but also to Tim Norman, who many of you will
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Speaker 1: know from the Scripple event that we held in November
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Speaker 1: last year as being one of the presenters at that.
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Speaker 1: He has done all the page layout and design for
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Speaker 1: the thing. It has been a fantastic effort by all concerns.
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Speaker 1: So I want to say thank you to those people.
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Speaker 1: So let's just bring this back on screen for a second,
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Speaker 1: because as Charles said, it is now on seal, it's
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Speaker 1: fifteen pounds, one hundred and twenty eight pages. It is
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Speaker 1: going to be extremely heavy in the hand, and you're
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Speaker 1: going to enjoy watching it. So I encourage as many
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Speaker 1: people as possible to get a copy, maybe even get
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Speaker 1: a couple of copies and leave one in your doctor's
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Speaker 1: surgery or your dentists wherever it happens to be. Charles,
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Speaker 1: let's leave that there and move over to you now.
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Speaker 1: And of course, the issue of Iran, and particularly the
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Speaker 1: way that Iran is the Iran situation is being portrayed
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Speaker 1: in this country.
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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, and I think this follows very well what
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Speaker 2: we've just been discussing with the publication of the magazine,
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Speaker 2: because it does give the context for the situation that
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Speaker 2: the United Kingdom confronts now in so far as this
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Speaker 2: absurd position of apparently maintaining a defensive posture in what
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Speaker 2: is quite clearly an offensive action. So what we're going
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Speaker 2: to do is we're going to start with a look
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Speaker 2: Steve Reid speaking on the BBC. If you're wondering why
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Speaker 2: we are yet again using a clip from the BBC,
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Speaker 2: it's because no government minister is yet brave enough to
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Speaker 2: talk to UK column. So here here is being grilled
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Speaker 2: by Laura Kunsberg.
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Speaker 5: I don't think it's a surprise this has happened. Iran
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Speaker 5: has been recklessly firing missiles around the region. It's why
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Speaker 5: the UK is taking part in the collective defense alongside
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Speaker 5: our allies to protect British interests, British nationals, and our
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Speaker 5: allies across the region.
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Speaker 6: But the detail of this is exact, is absolutely crucial here,
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Speaker 6: so diego Garcia. The base is just shy of four
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Speaker 6: thousand kilometers from Iran. London is just shy of five thousand.
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Speaker 6: So you say the missile fell short? How short?
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Speaker 5: Well, I can't share with you operational details like that.
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Speaker 5: It would help only the Iranians if I were to
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Speaker 5: do that. The point here is they didn't hit Diego Garcia.
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Speaker 5: We have the capabilities on the ground to intercept and
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Speaker 5: prevent what they are what they are doing.
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Speaker 6: This is an on the record quote from the Israeli
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Speaker 6: Defense Forces our allies, the Iranian terrorist regime poses a
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Speaker 6: global threat with missiles that can reach London, Paris or Berlin.
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Speaker 3: Is that true?
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Speaker 5: There is no specific assessment that the Iranians are targeting
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Speaker 5: the UK or even could if they wanted to. We
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Speaker 5: have the finest military in the world. We are perfectly
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Speaker 5: capable of protecting this country and keeping this country, whether
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Speaker 5: it's here at home, or whether it's our assets and
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Speaker 5: nationals across the region.
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Speaker 7: Well, you'd need to speak to the Israelis.
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Speaker 5: Whatever people might say, the UK is not going to
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Speaker 5: be dragged into this war, but we will take appropriate
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Speaker 5: collective defensive action to keep our nationals and our interests safe.
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Speaker 6: It's actually say everyone watching this morning will want to
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Speaker 6: know our use saying that it is not true that
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Speaker 6: Iran could hit European capitals Paris, Berlin, London.
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Speaker 5: I'm not aware of any assessment at all that they
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Speaker 5: are even trying to target Europe let alone, that they
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Speaker 5: could if they try.
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Speaker 2: Now he is therefore yet another person saying that we
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Speaker 2: will not be drawn into a wider war, as we
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Speaker 2: are quite clearly being drawn into a wider war. I
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Speaker 2: don't know which way up Laura Kunsberg has been holding
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Speaker 2: her map, but in actual fact, northwest Iran is only
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Speaker 2: three thy eight hundred kilometers from raf Fairford, which will
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Speaker 2: be a focus of the reporter as we progress through it.
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 2: One question of many that drops out of that is
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Speaker 2: are we sharing intelligence with Israel or are we not?
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Speaker 2: We are consistently told that they are an ally in
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Speaker 2: the strongest possible terms, and that there is a reciprocal
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Speaker 2: arrangement with regard to intelligent sharing. And yet he will
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Speaker 2: absolutely dodge the question as to whether something was fired
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Speaker 2: at Diego Garcia and what the effect of that was. Now,
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Speaker 2: of course, it has been suggested that that may have
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Speaker 2: been a false flag, and of course we should bear
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Speaker 2: in mind that the missile projectile launched at orif ATCRETII
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Speaker 2: some weeks ago was subsequently discovered to have been launched
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Speaker 2: from Lebanon.
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Speaker 7: So this confusion abounding.
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Speaker 2: What we'll look at now is the tweet from the
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Speaker 2: Israel Defense Forces which set off this controversy. Now they've
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Speaker 2: got a map, a ringed map there, which Kunsberg would
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Speaker 2: have done well to look at. But they say that
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Speaker 2: during Operation Rising Lion in twenty twenty five, the IDF
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Speaker 2: revealed that Iranian regime has intentions to develop missiles with
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Speaker 2: a range of four thousand kinometers. Now they're putting this
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Speaker 2: on Twitter. So if Steve Reid is not up to
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Speaker 2: speed on this, one must ask what exactly is going
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Speaker 2: on in government? And also we have to set this
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Speaker 2: alongside the background to all of this, and we look
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Speaker 2: back to February twenty twenty five when Hamish Fault, then
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Speaker 2: a well actually still a minister in the Foreign, Commonwealth
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Speaker 2: and Development Office stated on a debate about Iran, it
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Speaker 2: is regrettably true that Iran's nuclear program has never been
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Speaker 2: more advanced and it threatens international.
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Speaker 7: Peace and security.
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Speaker 2: Of course, straight out of the Nessagna Who script, and
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Speaker 2: he went on to say, we remain determined that Iran
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Speaker 2: must never develop a nuclear weapon, and we remain committed
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Speaker 2: to a diplomatic solution to achieve that. Well, not that committed,
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Speaker 2: It would seem also of course in October of last year,
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Speaker 2: and I've talked about this many times before. We have
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Speaker 2: Ken McCullum, the Director General of the Security Service MI five,
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Speaker 2: giving his threat update in which he set out data
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Speaker 2: on MI five's operation. Extends that worsening trend he's talking
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Speaker 2: about state threats. State threats are escalating. Five has tracked
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Speaker 2: more than twenty potentially lethal Iran backplot in just the
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Speaker 2: one year since I last stood on this podium. So
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Speaker 2: it is absolutely not adding up at all yet. Is
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Speaker 2: there a threat or is there not a threat? Ginsberg
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Speaker 2: then asked Steve Reid what role law and Parliament should
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Speaker 2: be playing in any of this process.
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Speaker 7: We'll just listen to that.
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Speaker 6: Now, isn't it time for a vote in Parliament on
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Speaker 6: what the UK is doing? Well?
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Speaker 5: It would be unprecedented to call a vote in Parliament
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Speaker 5: on defending British people, of people and British assets. That
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Speaker 5: is why we have security apparatus in place.
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Speaker 3: I remember that interviewing.
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Speaker 5: They did not take part in the initial offensive action
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Speaker 5: because we didn't see that there was the legal basis
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Speaker 5: for the UK to participate. There is no precedent for
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Speaker 5: a vote in Parliament for defending British people.
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Speaker 6: Someone wanted there to be a president. He was called
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Speaker 6: Keir Starmer when he was running for the leadership of
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Speaker 6: the Labor Party. He back then, I remember very clearly,
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Speaker 6: sat in an interview and said, if I'm leader, there'll
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Speaker 6: always be a vote on any military acts.
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Speaker 5: I don't think at any point the Prime Minister has
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Speaker 5: believed that there should be a vote on defending British
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Speaker 5: people who are under attack from a hostile state.
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Speaker 6: Where's HMS Dragon.
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Speaker 5: HMS Dragon will be on its way to region. What
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Speaker 5: happened there.
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Speaker 2: Again, confusion upon confusion. I would say the standout clause
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Speaker 2: from what he said is we didn't see there was
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Speaker 2: the legal basis for the UK to participate, of course,
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Speaker 2: talking about the offensive action that was going ahead and
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Speaker 2: making this absurd distinction between defensive and offensive actions in
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Speaker 2: precisely the same engagement. Now Laura Counsberg effectively ripping into
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Speaker 2: him about HMS Dragon, which of course was reported as
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Speaker 2: being sorted in six days, turned out not quite to
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Speaker 2: be the case. Role Navy, however, have announced that now
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Speaker 2: she has arrived in the Eastern Mediterranean and they've put
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Speaker 2: some text along this to a company she was rapidly
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Speaker 2: brought to readiness, although as it turns out not quite
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Speaker 2: so rapidly, and deployed from Portsmouth earlier this month and
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Speaker 2: will now play her full part in defending Cyprus and
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Speaker 2: the wider eastern Mediterranean. Well, how's that going to go.
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Speaker 2: She's equipped with the cutting edge CEA Vipers system. She
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Speaker 2: can tackle a eye range of threats, of course, worth
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Speaker 2: bearing in mind that these threats wouldn't exist if she
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Speaker 2: wasn't there on her way to the region. Her crew
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Speaker 2: have undertaken essential training to ready themselves for this mission.
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Speaker 7: Well, you would hope so.
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Speaker 2: Now in terms of where she is and how that
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Speaker 2: stacks up against what the Navy have said. According to
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Speaker 2: Marine Tracker, the position given yesterday was that Lime Bay,
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Speaker 2: and apologies for the slight confusion on this map, but
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Speaker 2: she is just west of Crete, which is actually really
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Speaker 2: not very close to Cyprus, and therefore the effect to
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Speaker 2: be delivered from such a position is going to be
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Speaker 2: limited or indeed negligible. Now, further to this, we've examined
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Speaker 2: all the sort of operational capabilities and we've got Michael
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Speaker 2: Rose General Sir Michael Rose, former Commander Field Army in
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Speaker 2: the spectator pointing out that as well as the decline
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Speaker 2: in numbers, resources kit and all the rest of it,
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Speaker 2: there is also a collapse of Lauran. He's written article
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Speaker 2: called how can the Army Rediscover its Fighting Spirit? So
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Speaker 2: with thanks to the UK column supporter that put me
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Speaker 2: onto this, he said, as one of the things that
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Speaker 2: sort of totally pushed sideways any notion of combat readiness.
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Speaker 2: He was asking about other issues, he said, I asked
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Speaker 2: how they debated diversity, equity and inclusion and was told
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Speaker 2: that it was forbidden to question mod policy on such matters.
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Speaker 2: Now that gives quite quite an insight into exactly how
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Speaker 2: it is that an armed force that is described by
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Speaker 2: Steve Reed as being the finest in the world has
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Speaker 2: actually got to the state that it has.
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Speaker 7: I should also.
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Speaker 2: Say, having talked about Dragon and Lime Bay, that you'll
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Speaker 2: remember the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales which was
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Speaker 2: detailed for an excursion up to the High North. Ad
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Speaker 2: Minister of Defense confirmed him in this morning it's not
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Speaker 2: really any progress on that. There's a bit of delay
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Speaker 2: and she probably will be going to the Arctic, but
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Speaker 2: they're not really sure blah blah, and the same sort
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Speaker 2: of well, you know, operational sensitive. Ultimately they don't know. Now,
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Speaker 2: next up we have to look at the way in
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Speaker 2: which the public's attitude is being presented by the media
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Speaker 2: and this is from the Wilson Gloss Standard. I went
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Speaker 2: to R Fairford, as you're aware, a couple weeks ago,
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Speaker 2: and the only thing to have come out of the
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Speaker 2: situation there, which is basically that a UK air base
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Speaker 2: is being used to strike Iran in what is being
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Speaker 2: described by inference as unlawful by Steve Reid. And here
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Speaker 2: we have a piece saying that plain spotters are causing
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Speaker 2: traffic chaos. That is the level of apparent attention that
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Speaker 2: the bombing of Iran from the United Kingdom has achieved.
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Speaker 2: Of course, is this actually the case? Well, what a
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Speaker 2: contrast when we cast our minds back, and with thanks
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Speaker 2: to the Tribune for writing this up last year in
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Speaker 2: an article entitled redkre and the Right to protest, if
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Speaker 2: we wind the clock back to the nineteen nineties, we
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Speaker 2: look at an instance whereby the Seeds of Hope activists,
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Speaker 2: this was to do with the sales of British Areas
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Speaker 2: base helicopters to Indonesia with which to target the East
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Speaker 2: team or people or the conflict that was going on there.
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Speaker 2: Kir Starmer represented Andrea Needham, one of the of Hope activists.
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Speaker 2: And again, further, amazingly ironically, this is with regard to
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Speaker 2: the Fairford five who had been arrested after breaking into
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Speaker 2: the base with the intention of setting far out of
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Speaker 2: the tires of B fifty two. So this was going
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Speaker 2: back to the Iraq conflict in two thousand and three.
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Speaker 2: Starmer again made legal representations and yet here here is
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Speaker 2: now facilitating the very activity that he was defending people
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Speaker 2: from trying to stop some years ago. Now for more
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Speaker 2: on this in terms of UK content, I can recommend
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Speaker 2: nothing more highly than the interview with Catherine Gunn the
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Speaker 2: Defense of Necessity describing her intervention back in two thousand
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Speaker 2: and three when she was working for GUCHQ and blew
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Speaker 2: the whistle on the NSA attempt to subvert the due
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Speaker 2: process leading up to the illegal war with or in Iraq. Further,
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Speaker 2: based on the experiences I had in Fairford a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks ago, I spoke to GERM which went out
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Speaker 2: last night, so we've got a German Warfare episode on that.
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Speaker 2: And then just in terms of what sort of in
16:59
Speaker 2: store for the UK population. And again with Mike's words
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Speaker 2: in mind about COVID, We've got the International Energy Agency
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Speaker 2: reporting on suggestions as to how the oil pressure could
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Speaker 2: be eased, and this is going to have a ring
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Speaker 2: of familiarity in road transport, a combination of behavioral, behavioral
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Speaker 2: and policy measures, and of course many of these have
17:19
Speaker 2: been implemented in the past, just haven't they just back
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty working from home where possible. Now does
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Speaker 2: the government have at its disposal power to deal with this?
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Speaker 2: Oh yes, it jolly well does the Civil Contingencies at
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Speaker 2: two thousand and four, which has basically been lying dormant
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Speaker 2: ever since it was put down on the Statute Book,
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Speaker 2: but under section twenty two Scope of Emergency Regulations, it says,
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Speaker 2: in particular, emergency regulations may make any provision which the
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Speaker 2: person making the regulations is satisfied is appropriate for the
17:49
Speaker 2: purpose of protecting or restoring a supply of money, food, water,
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Speaker 2: energy or fuel. So essentially this is pointing exactly back
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Speaker 2: to where we were six years ago, with measures that
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Speaker 2: are absolutely there waiting to disrupt our lives further due
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Speaker 2: to the actions in simple terms of Donald Trump Benjamin
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Speaker 2: Yahu and Kirst Armor.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Charles absolutely will be taking another
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Speaker 1: look at some stuff that was going on six years
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Speaker 1: ago in a few minutes time. But to follow on
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Speaker 1: from what Charles has just been reporting, yesterday, Energy Secretary
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Speaker 1: Ed Miliband introduced new rules requiring developers is housing developers
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Speaker 1: to install heat pumps and solar panels at all new
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Speaker 1: homes across England. This is called this is going to
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Speaker 1: be under the banner of the Future Home Standard. This
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Speaker 1: is a set of new build regulations which are going
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Speaker 1: to run from twenty twenty eight and it's going to
18:44
Speaker 1: establish requirements to ensure homes are built. These are their words.
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Speaker 1: Homes are built with on site renewable electricity generation, the
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Speaker 1: majority of which is expected to be provided by solar
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Speaker 1: power because the sun always shines here. The rules are
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Speaker 1: going to see homes built with low carbon such as
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Speaker 1: heat pumps and heat networks. Now, heat networks, for those
19:03
Speaker 1: who don't know, are where water is heated in it
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Speaker 1: from a central source and pumped into homes and businesses
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Speaker 1: the way that Soviet Russia and all the states of
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Speaker 1: the USSR did. And what was notable about the Soviet
19:15
Speaker 1: system was in the individual had no control over when
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Speaker 1: heat is switched on and switched off. So the UK
19:21
Speaker 1: government then has added that plug in solar panels, which
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Speaker 1: homeowners can install on balconies, are going to be available
19:28
Speaker 1: within the shops over the coming months. Now Ed said this,
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Speaker 1: the government is determined to fight people's corner in this crisis,
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Speaker 1: which is why we've acted to prevent unfair practices like
19:40
Speaker 1: price gaging. The Iran war has once again shown our
19:44
Speaker 1: drive for clean powers essential for our energy security, so
19:48
Speaker 1: we can escape the group of fossil fuel markets we
19:51
Speaker 1: don't control. And Vanessa just briefly, isn't it amazing agendas
19:57
Speaker 1: high agendas which have been in the works for years
20:00
Speaker 1: get new momentum when others a genders which have been
20:03
Speaker 1: in the works for years finally get going.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, we shouldn't be at all surprised by this. It's
20:10
Speaker 4: title opportunism on the back of the war that we're
20:14
Speaker 4: not involved in allegedly.
20:16
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, well, look let's come on to the war
20:19
Speaker 1: that we're not involved in allegedly and the continuing attacks
20:23
Speaker 1: on Lebanon. You visited the war zone a few days ago,
20:27
Speaker 1: so tell us what you saw.
20:31
Speaker 5: Yeah.
20:31
Speaker 4: I mean there are a number of war zones, of course,
20:33
Speaker 4: not only in the south but up the entire eastern
20:36
Speaker 4: border of Lebanon. And so when was it Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
20:40
Speaker 4: I was out basically in different areas of Lebanon. And
20:45
Speaker 4: the article that's just been published at UK column, of
20:48
Speaker 4: course I recommend everybody reads it was when I went
20:52
Speaker 4: to a very small town population of three thousand estimated.
20:57
Speaker 4: That was back in twenty fifteen. I would say it's
20:59
Speaker 4: a lot less now because everyone has actually evacuated under
21:03
Speaker 4: sustained bombardment from Israel since twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 3: Now.
21:10
Speaker 4: Basically, just to show you on the map where this is,
21:13
Speaker 4: it's in the western Becar. It's not very clear there,
21:16
Speaker 4: but yes, thank you. So there you can see it's
21:19
Speaker 4: about fifty kilometers from the border with Syria. So I
21:23
Speaker 4: could actually see the mountain range that divides Lebanon and
21:27
Speaker 4: Syria from where we were. Of course, it's relatively far
21:32
Speaker 4: from the south, but it is in fact on the
21:34
Speaker 4: Latani River, and I'll come onto that in a minute,
21:37
Speaker 4: which of course is the target now of the Zionist
21:40
Speaker 4: forces to not only create a buffer zone in the south,
21:43
Speaker 4: but also to extend that buffer zone up to the
21:46
Speaker 4: and controlling also the water source of the Latani River.
21:52
Speaker 4: And I just wanted to show this video and I'll
21:54
Speaker 4: walk over it, but just to give people an idea
21:57
Speaker 4: basically of the destruct This was one missile strike on
22:02
Speaker 4: one civilian house in Somore itself. In the article you'll
22:07
Speaker 4: see actual images of the around three meter deep crater,
22:11
Speaker 4: So this was a massive bombardment. The only inhabitant was
22:16
Speaker 4: an elderly woman, I think she was in her eighties,
22:20
Speaker 4: who was killed instantly. And in these very narrow streets
22:24
Speaker 4: you can see they're the houses around it. The subsequent
22:28
Speaker 4: damage to cars, to infrastructure is also devastating for the
22:34
Speaker 4: inhabitants that remain in these towns, and the majority of
22:36
Speaker 4: those are the elderly, of course, because the young have
22:40
Speaker 4: already been evacuated and are now trying to find homes
22:44
Speaker 4: here in Beirut. And I just wanted to show this
22:47
Speaker 4: map from nineteen seventy eight, so this was the original,
22:51
Speaker 4: not the original, but a version of Israel's plans to
22:55
Speaker 4: create the red striped buffer zone. The arrow there shows
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Speaker 4: the Latani River and that's where they now want to
23:02
Speaker 4: extend up to and if we look at the twenty
23:05
Speaker 4: twenty six map, in fact, it makes it very clear.
23:09
Speaker 4: The other area that I was in and I'll come
23:12
Speaker 4: on to reports about that in a minute, was Nabata,
23:14
Speaker 4: which you can see. We were actually trying to head
23:18
Speaker 4: to Tire. You can see they're on the coastal area
23:20
Speaker 4: or soar as it's known in Lebanon, but we were
23:24
Speaker 4: prevented by the severity of the bombardment. And you can
23:29
Speaker 4: see there that Israel is intending to expand up to
23:33
Speaker 4: and including the Latani River, and in fact statements have
23:36
Speaker 4: been put out as this one by Israel Katz very
23:40
Speaker 4: recently in the Jerusalem Post, basically saying that they will
23:44
Speaker 4: control the remaining bridges and the entire zone up to
23:48
Speaker 4: the Latani River.
23:50
Speaker 3: And of course we have to remember what.
23:52
Speaker 4: Is Israel appropriating in all of these land incursions, whether
23:56
Speaker 4: it's in Syria or in Lebanon or even previously of
24:01
Speaker 4: course in Palestine. They're securing water resources and that also
24:05
Speaker 4: includes Labanon, it includes Zurraq in the future, and in fact,
24:09
Speaker 4: Lebanese journalist Maru Osma and I asked her this morning
24:12
Speaker 4: to write an article for UK column on the importance
24:16
Speaker 4: of water for Israel now and in the future, and
24:21
Speaker 4: how that explains where and how it's expanding. Basically, when
24:26
Speaker 4: I was in Nabadir, they started bombing the bridges across
24:29
Speaker 4: the Latani River, therefore isolating the south from the north.
24:34
Speaker 4: This was one of the bombardments on Camsier Bridge. As
24:38
Speaker 4: you can see, they're using some fairly heavy warheads there
24:43
Speaker 4: to do so, and they have effectively now I think,
24:48
Speaker 4: destroyed five of the main bridges. This again is another targeting.
24:56
Speaker 4: This was the road that we were actually intending to take.
24:59
Speaker 4: If we can just but the video up on screen.
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Speaker 6: Do we have it?
25:15
Speaker 2: Further, rocket attacks were reported against Naharia in a minute.
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Speaker 3: And that was the targeting.
25:25
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if uk Kolama had already reported on
25:27
Speaker 4: that of Steve Sweeney reporting for Russia today. But just
25:31
Speaker 4: a demonstration of the danger of working in these zones.
25:35
Speaker 4: It's not like when I was in Syria and we
25:37
Speaker 4: were facing artillery fire from al Qaeda. This is constant
25:41
Speaker 4: bombardment by planes and totally indiscriminate. If we're in a
25:46
Speaker 4: car in the wrong place, we can be struck either
25:48
Speaker 4: by drones or by missiles from the planes that we
25:52
Speaker 4: can always hear above us. This was back in the
25:55
Speaker 4: Nabatier area, in a small village called Zahrani that had
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Speaker 4: been targeted I think the day before I went there.
26:03
Speaker 4: This was one house, one civilian house. From the outside
26:06
Speaker 4: it's not looking quite so bad. But this again was
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Speaker 4: a civilian. He works for the water board and he
26:14
Speaker 4: also drives the school bus.
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Speaker 3: This is the back of the house.
26:18
Speaker 4: Now quite extraordinarily, they were celebrating again. Sorry, you can
26:22
Speaker 4: see the massive greater there from the missile. The entire
26:26
Speaker 4: back of the house has been effectively obliterated. They were
26:31
Speaker 4: celebrating if or in fact d after Ramadan and all
26:36
Speaker 4: the family were at the front of the house and
26:39
Speaker 4: survived only with injuries. They weren't eliminated. But in the
26:44
Speaker 4: same attacks on this town, I think twenty civilians were injured.
26:51
Speaker 4: Just to give this just gives an indication of the
26:53
Speaker 4: brutality and savagery of the Zionist strokes. Now, this was
26:58
Speaker 4: an ambulance that has been targeted, and it's worth noting
27:03
Speaker 4: while I was in this area, I noticed that ambulances.
27:06
Speaker 4: Single ambulances were parked up in odd places like outside
27:11
Speaker 4: burger bars in the middle of the town square just
27:14
Speaker 4: parked up and the ambulance drivers or medics were sleeping inside.
27:19
Speaker 4: And what they've actually done, because since March the Second
27:24
Speaker 4: Israel has destroyed one hundred and twenty eight medical facilities
27:29
Speaker 4: and ambulances, killed forty healthcare workers and wounded many others.
27:36
Speaker 4: And of course at the same time they're targeting just
27:39
Speaker 4: as in Iran, just as they did in Syria, they're
27:41
Speaker 4: targeting scientists, professors, academics and so on. And so the
27:46
Speaker 4: ambulance were parked in these strange places to avoid them
27:50
Speaker 4: all being together at the ambulance center, so that they
27:54
Speaker 4: couldn't all be destroyed at the same time. And then finally,
27:59
Speaker 4: I don't I remember people remember from I think it
28:02
Speaker 4: was last week's report, this targeting in the southern suburbs
28:06
Speaker 4: of Bay Route of multi story apartment block that brought
28:11
Speaker 4: the entire apartment block down. Well, I managed to get
28:15
Speaker 4: back to that district, and in fact we drove through
28:19
Speaker 4: the whole of the Bay Root suburbs and again to
28:22
Speaker 4: give an indication of the devastation from just one strike,
28:26
Speaker 4: this was an entire multi story building reduced to rubble,
28:31
Speaker 4: and of course the loss of homes the loss of livelihood.
28:34
Speaker 4: There were cafes next to it that were also destroyed
28:38
Speaker 4: in the blast, and driving around the suburbs, the damage
28:44
Speaker 4: is just catastrophic. They're targeting gas pumps, fuel pumps, they're
28:50
Speaker 4: targeting residences, of course, civilian infrastructure, water.
28:58
Speaker 3: They're effectively making.
28:59
Speaker 4: The southern suburb of Beirut unlivable, and of course the
29:04
Speaker 4: center of Beirut is now facing a refugee crisis because
29:07
Speaker 4: there are now over a million displaced people from the
29:11
Speaker 4: south and the south of Beirut trying to find.
29:13
Speaker 3: Homes in Beirut.
29:16
Speaker 4: The government is of course stoking the sectarian divisions, and
29:19
Speaker 4: we're seeing now many, for example, of the Christians that
29:23
Speaker 4: are aligned with Israel, refusing to allow Muslims to stay
29:27
Speaker 4: in their homes or to rent apartments from them, because
29:30
Speaker 4: they're saying, well, if you come and stay, then the
29:32
Speaker 4: building's going to get targeted and we're not going to
29:35
Speaker 4: accept that. So we're seeing a deliberate stoking of division
29:40
Speaker 4: and tension also within Beirut itself.
29:45
Speaker 1: Vanessa, thank you very much for that for that report.
29:48
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. We will talk much more about this in
29:50
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31:21
Speaker 1: Now let's move on to the situations. First of all,
31:27
Speaker 1: a reminder of something that we were covering six years
31:31
Speaker 1: today on COVID, So let's bring this on screen. So
31:34
Speaker 1: this was the status of COVID nineteen. This was a
31:36
Speaker 1: story that the UK colum broke at the time because
31:39
Speaker 1: as of the nineteenth of March twenty twenty, COVID nineteen
31:43
Speaker 1: is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease.
31:47
Speaker 1: This was according to Public Health England eventually rebranded as
31:50
Speaker 1: the Health Security Agency, of course, but this statement went
31:54
Speaker 1: on to say the Four Nations Public Health HCID Group
31:58
Speaker 1: made an interim recommendation and in January twenty twenty to
32:01
Speaker 1: classify COVID nineteen as a high consequence infectious disease. This
32:05
Speaker 1: was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about
32:10
Speaker 1: the virus and the disease with information available during the
32:13
Speaker 1: early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known
32:16
Speaker 1: about COVID nineteen. The public Health bodies in the UK
32:19
Speaker 1: have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID
32:21
Speaker 1: nineteen against the UKHCID criteria. They have determined that several
32:26
Speaker 1: features of night change, in particular, more information is available
32:31
Speaker 1: about mortality rates brackets low overall. Now, remember this was
32:34
Speaker 1: the nineteenth of March twenty twenty, and there is now
32:38
Speaker 1: a greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test,
32:43
Speaker 1: the availability of which, the availability of which continues to increase.
32:47
Speaker 1: And they finished off by saying the Advisory Committee on
32:49
Speaker 1: Dangerous Pathogens is also of the opinion that the COVID
32:53
Speaker 1: nineteen should no longer be classified as an HCID. That's
32:57
Speaker 1: a high consequence infectious disease. We look, if we just
33:00
Speaker 1: put that back on screen, Chris for a second.
33:02
Speaker 7: Thanks.
33:02
Speaker 1: When we look at the graph showing mortality at that stage,
33:07
Speaker 1: this is from week one to week eleven of twenty twenty,
33:11
Speaker 1: we see that in fact there was no excess mortality
33:15
Speaker 1: at all, because the red line, which is the twenty
33:18
Speaker 1: twenty line, is in fact, for most of that time
33:22
Speaker 1: below the orange line, which was the average mortality all
33:26
Speaker 1: couset mortality in England wheels over the previous five years
33:29
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen to twenty nineteen. So that was the news
33:34
Speaker 1: of the day on the twenty fifth of March twenty
33:37
Speaker 1: twenty Charles. What we then saw, of course was excess mortality,
33:42
Speaker 1: which I think the UK column demonstrated over the following period.
33:48
Speaker 1: That was a consequence of the reaction to the absolutely
33:52
Speaker 1: unjustified reaction, bearing in mind what we had just had
33:56
Speaker 1: on screen to the outbreak in inverted commas, and not
34:01
Speaker 1: only the medical criteria the medical processes that were put
34:06
Speaker 1: in place, but then subsequently the vaccination program.
34:10
Speaker 2: Absolutely and I think the way that I frame the
34:14
Speaker 2: considerations around that is if we take a position that
34:19
Speaker 2: we did not have an emerging illness, so there was
34:23
Speaker 2: nothing different about the situation. If you are somebody or
34:28
Speaker 2: indeed a public health agency, a government, what do you
34:32
Speaker 2: think would happen if you stop the entire country from
34:34
Speaker 2: being able to go to work and go about their
34:36
Speaker 2: daily business. And if you prevented people who ordinarily receive
34:39
Speaker 2: care and human contact from receiving such, and you caused
34:44
Speaker 2: enormous economic disruption, and you prevented people from going outside
34:49
Speaker 2: and taking exercise, you created an environment of fear. What
34:54
Speaker 2: do you think would happen? Would the death rate go
34:56
Speaker 2: up or down? And I can't see that anybody would
34:59
Speaker 2: make case for that reducing the death rate. And of
35:02
Speaker 2: course that's well before exactly what we discussed before the program,
35:06
Speaker 2: which was the so called medical or at least pharmaceutical interventions,
35:10
Speaker 2: with madaz lam being the most obvious, but the absolutely
35:13
Speaker 2: insane procedure of supposedly ventilating people who were supposedly ill
35:18
Speaker 2: with a supposed virus. So there was just so much
35:21
Speaker 2: to it that was just absolutely utterly wrong, not in
35:27
Speaker 2: retrospect but at the time, and that would absolutely have
35:31
Speaker 2: been known to be wrong had it been discussed beforehand.
35:36
Speaker 1: And well, as you hinted that earlier on in the program,
35:39
Speaker 1: we're starting to see, just very briefly, starting to see
35:43
Speaker 1: a similar sort of how do we put this, a
35:46
Speaker 1: similar feeling within the news agenda that we're heading back
35:49
Speaker 1: in the same kind of direction using the Iran wars
35:52
Speaker 1: excuse for lockdown.
35:55
Speaker 7: Yeah, we are.
35:55
Speaker 2: I mean, this is exactly it. The presentation of an
35:58
Speaker 2: existential threat, either at the national level or at the
36:01
Speaker 2: individual level. And to continue on this theme, I'm going
36:06
Speaker 2: to show now really the start of what can be
36:10
Speaker 2: described as one of the most shameful episodes in policing
36:14
Speaker 2: in recent times. Now that's obviously up against some fairly
36:17
Speaker 2: stiff competition, and as I speak, I'm just going to
36:19
Speaker 2: run footage that was tweeted by Derbyshire Police back in
36:23
Speaker 2: twenty twenty after the first lot of restrictions had come
36:26
Speaker 2: in and we were all supposed to stay at home
36:29
Speaker 2: and not go out on all the rest of it.
36:32
Speaker 2: And if you can't see the screen then this is
36:35
Speaker 2: drone footage from the Peak district in Derbyshire in which
36:38
Speaker 2: they have effectively, not by name but certainly by image,
36:42
Speaker 2: they have shamed people who have gone out and about
36:45
Speaker 2: and enjoyed the countryside. And now, according to the threat
36:50
Speaker 2: as it was presented by the government, there is no
36:52
Speaker 2: possible way that this was contravening the health advice. And
36:56
Speaker 2: yet because it was apparently not to follow the rule
36:59
Speaker 2: of staying at home where supposedly you weren't meant to
37:01
Speaker 2: come into contact with anybody, this was considered to be
37:04
Speaker 2: an appropriate use of police resources and indeed messaging. Now
37:08
Speaker 2: it was sort of slapped down fairly shortly afterwards, but
37:11
Speaker 2: I think it does beg the question since the finish
37:14
Speaker 2: point for all of this was not essential, what from
37:18
Speaker 2: life or in life was considered essential at that point?
37:23
Speaker 2: And it is really repellent to many, both then and
37:27
Speaker 2: now that police were in any way involved in this.
37:30
Speaker 2: And I will substantiate what I mean by this and
37:33
Speaker 2: by the action that police took, because it was set
37:35
Speaker 2: out very very clearly in twenty twenty in a House
37:37
Speaker 2: of Commons library publication entitled Coronavirus Enforcing Restrictions, and the
37:42
Speaker 2: text states lockdown restriction enforcement was an operational matter for
37:47
Speaker 2: the police. This means police leaders, not national or local politicians,
37:53
Speaker 2: decided whether and how to deploy their officers to lockdown enforcement,
37:59
Speaker 2: which begs the question why did every single constabulary in
38:03
Speaker 2: the United Kingdom do exactly the same thing and where
38:06
Speaker 2: did operational independence disappear to well? We get an insight
38:10
Speaker 2: to that by looking at the minutes of the Chief
38:12
Speaker 2: Constable's Council meetings published by the National Police Chief Council,
38:17
Speaker 2: and in particular from Thursday the fourth of June twenty twenty,
38:20
Speaker 2: in which it stated that the current government is very
38:23
Speaker 2: closely engaged in policing and has a number of demands
38:27
Speaker 2: that they want policing to deliver on. Now, this was
38:29
Speaker 2: in the context of how the COVID response via Optala
38:34
Speaker 2: had been managed, and they went on to say the
38:36
Speaker 2: COVID requirements have demonstrated the necessity to work as a
38:39
Speaker 2: service to be able to respond swiftly. Policing needs to
38:42
Speaker 2: be in a position to respond to demands on a
38:46
Speaker 2: long term basis and be able to deliver these demands
38:49
Speaker 2: efficiently and effectively. Now, what they're talking about is a
38:52
Speaker 2: fundamental reframing of the relationship between the Home Secretary or
38:56
Speaker 2: the Home Office and the police. The police are supposed
38:59
Speaker 2: to have complete off racial independence. And if you're already stretched,
39:02
Speaker 2: under resourced, undermanned, underfunded, why on earth would you commit
39:05
Speaker 2: resources to what is being described as a public health
39:08
Speaker 2: emergency in which people could be frankly left to make
39:11
Speaker 2: up their own minds. Now, on the issue of undue influence,
39:16
Speaker 2: we need look no further than the Community Security Trust,
39:19
Speaker 2: who have just announced that the King is to become
39:23
Speaker 2: a patron. They say that at the annual dinner. This
39:26
Speaker 2: was just this week, at the annual dinner last night,
39:27
Speaker 2: we announced his majesty the King had accepted our invitation
39:30
Speaker 2: to become a patron of the Community's Security Trust. There's
39:33
Speaker 2: no mention of any others, but they've described him as
39:35
Speaker 2: being a patron, a powerful recognition of his long standing
39:38
Speaker 2: support for the Jewish community and the fight against anti Semitism. Now,
39:41
Speaker 2: if you're not necessarily clued up on the Community Security Trust,
39:45
Speaker 2: in effect, they own hate crime because of the relationship
39:47
Speaker 2: they struck up with the Home Office back in twenty eleven,
39:50
Speaker 2: and they have a data sharing agreement where they are
39:53
Speaker 2: permitted insight into Home Office data that is afforded to
39:57
Speaker 2: no other group pertaining or related to any other religious
40:01
Speaker 2: body in the United Kingdom. They also conduct joint patrols
40:05
Speaker 2: with the police for the benefit, perhaps not exclusively, but
40:09
Speaker 2: primarily for people of Jewish faith. Now, this presents a
40:14
Speaker 2: number of very very obvious issues. The Jewish Chronicle reporting
40:18
Speaker 2: this same story with a picture there of the King
40:21
Speaker 2: wearing a skull cap with the Chief Rabbi and Lord
40:24
Speaker 2: Finkelstein gave the address that sort of celebrated the King's patronage.
40:27
Speaker 2: We can see our enemies very clearly, Finkelstein went on,
40:30
Speaker 2: But let's not forget how many friends we have. We
40:33
Speaker 2: have the greatest ally in our king. Now that should
40:37
Speaker 2: be significant to people for many many reasons, not least
40:41
Speaker 2: because the king is not being seen as the allies
40:44
Speaker 2: of all people in the United Kingdom, but also because
40:48
Speaker 2: there is such a specified nature of there being enemies
40:52
Speaker 2: and essentially the idea that division is really the thing
40:55
Speaker 2: that needs to be concentrated on. And as if by
40:58
Speaker 2: miraculous coincidence, the Metropolitan Police published an appeal which of
41:03
Speaker 2: course is now slightly out of date because arrests have
41:05
Speaker 2: been made, but about what has been described as an
41:08
Speaker 2: anti Semitic arson attack on Jewish ambulances in Golders Green.
41:12
Speaker 2: How ambulance has become Jewish has not yet been explained,
41:15
Speaker 2: But the fact is that hat Zola, the charity here
41:20
Speaker 2: that exists effectively, has the same methodology as the Community
41:24
Speaker 2: Security Trust. And this totally contravenes the way that first
41:28
Speaker 2: aid or indeed health care should be set out, which
41:31
Speaker 2: is by the International Committee for the Red Cross, and
41:34
Speaker 2: it should be based solely on need. So the suggestion
41:37
Speaker 2: that there should be prioritization of certain people due to
41:40
Speaker 2: their faith again flies in the face of what might
41:43
Speaker 2: be described as British values. Now this leads on to
41:49
Speaker 2: other policing activities which are frankly not going as well
41:53
Speaker 2: as they should be, and we get to the very
41:56
Speaker 2: real issue and you will see how this is related
41:59
Speaker 2: of fraud. Now Operation Henhouse, the NCAA and the City
42:02
Speaker 2: of London Police have been boasting. I would say crowing
42:05
Speaker 2: if it weren't such a terrible pun but they've delivered
42:09
Speaker 2: their strongest results in a landmark saying they've claimed back
42:12
Speaker 2: more than eighteen point one million in cash and assets.
42:16
Speaker 2: Is now that might seem like a large amount of money,
42:18
Speaker 2: we only need look at the Seafast Fraudscape report from
42:21
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, in which they state that fraud now
42:23
Speaker 2: account it's almost forty four percent of all crime and
42:26
Speaker 2: that the cost each year is two hundred and nineteen billion.
42:30
Speaker 2: So boasting about eighteen million is really neither here nor there.
42:34
Speaker 2: Fraud is also increasingly digital and four in five scams
42:37
Speaker 2: and now digitally enabled. And of course the other thing
42:40
Speaker 2: to point out is that the use of synthetic identities
42:43
Speaker 2: is becoming industrialized, with criminals building convincing long term profiles
42:46
Speaker 2: that blur the lines between real users and AI generated imposters. Now,
42:50
Speaker 2: this has all been foisted upon the British population, one
42:53
Speaker 2: might say, as a direct result of what happened back
42:57
Speaker 2: in the early days of twenty twenty, when people were
42:59
Speaker 2: stopped from going about their daily business and everything went online,
43:03
Speaker 2: including crime. So the police inability to deal with the
43:07
Speaker 2: problem now goes right back to the actions that they
43:09
Speaker 2: conducted with no ground from twenty twenty onwards.
43:15
Speaker 1: Thank you for that, Charles, and again looking at things
43:19
Speaker 1: that were happening in twenty twenty and seemed to be
43:21
Speaker 1: still happening in twenty twenty six. Let's bring this on screen.
43:25
Speaker 1: This is doctor rama Ala Djuan saying, I named Jewish supremacy,
43:31
Speaker 1: I opposed genocide, and now they're changing the law to
43:34
Speaker 1: strip me off the medical register. This is what happens
43:36
Speaker 1: when the health secretary is controlled by the Zionist Jewish lobby.
43:40
Speaker 1: And she said Britain is an occupied state, a ps
43:43
Speaker 1: and Palestinian Semit. So this of course, in twenty twenty,
43:48
Speaker 1: if you remember, we were seeing pressure coming on doctors
43:52
Speaker 1: and other medical professionals who didn't want to submit to
43:55
Speaker 1: the vaccination regime or didn't want to submit to various
44:00
Speaker 1: mask wearing and other mandates, and pressure was on them
44:04
Speaker 1: at the time. Here we are six years later that
44:07
Speaker 1: now it's anti semitism is the excuse. But again we
44:10
Speaker 1: have people being put out of their jobs apparently, or
44:14
Speaker 1: attempts to put them out of their jobs because they
44:16
Speaker 1: have a different view than the prevailing lobby prefers people
44:21
Speaker 1: to have. So, you know, a massive censorship here once again.
44:27
Speaker 1: So let's then move on Charles back to you and
44:31
Speaker 1: a land grab.
44:34
Speaker 7: A land grab, and.
44:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry about that, right, Chris, Let's say just get
44:43
Speaker 1: Charles back on screen.
44:46
Speaker 7: There we'll go. A land grab.
44:47
Speaker 2: But absolutely related to the COVID period that we've been describing.
44:51
Speaker 2: I think that period was characterized by not just the
44:55
Speaker 2: British public, but also so called leaders simply rolling over
44:58
Speaker 2: and so I think instances of pushback and resistance should
45:02
Speaker 2: absolutely be acknowledged, celebrated, and learned from. So we go
45:05
Speaker 2: to Mason County in the United States, where we see
45:08
Speaker 2: a farmer's response to being offered twenty six million pounds
45:11
Speaker 2: to sell some of her land for an AI data center.
45:15
Speaker 3: It's my way.
45:16
Speaker 8: I'll stay in hold and feed a nation. Twenty six
45:19
Speaker 8: million doesn't mean anything.
45:21
Speaker 9: Some people might find it hard to understand how Delsia
45:24
Speaker 9: Bear can turn away a twenty six million dollar offer
45:27
Speaker 9: to buy some of her land until you spend a
45:29
Speaker 9: little time with her walking the dirt road she grew
45:32
Speaker 9: up on and in the house her daddy built.
45:34
Speaker 8: My grandfather and great grandfather and a whole bunch of
45:37
Speaker 8: family has all lived here for years, paid taxes on it,
45:41
Speaker 8: fed a nation off of it, even raised wheat through
45:45
Speaker 8: the depression, and kept the breadlines up in the United
45:48
Speaker 8: States of America when people didn't have anything else.
45:51
Speaker 9: Delcia is one of dozens of landowners approached by an
45:55
Speaker 9: anonymous buyer, one of the major players in artificial intelligence,
45:59
Speaker 9: likely Google or Meta or Amazon, to purchase.
46:02
Speaker 7: The because that was it's gone a little bit longer.
46:09
Speaker 2: But nonetheless we just it was going to end on
46:12
Speaker 2: the lady's mother driving the entire thing as being a scam.
46:15
Speaker 2: So two people who absolutely see it for what it is.
46:17
Speaker 2: And the reason that this is pertinent now was the
46:20
Speaker 2: Planning Infrastructure Bill received rale ascent at the end of
46:23
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, and related to this, we have to
46:26
Speaker 2: look at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology talking
46:30
Speaker 2: about the delivery of AI growth zones and essentially this
46:33
Speaker 2: is the way in which legislation has been crafted in
46:35
Speaker 2: order to they describe protect land but critically unblock planning
46:39
Speaker 2: decisions for AI growth zones through central government intervention. Now
46:43
Speaker 2: that's word soup for we will do what we like
46:46
Speaker 2: because we've legislated to be able to do so, invested
46:49
Speaker 2: in additional specialist AI data center planning capacity. So again
46:53
Speaker 2: the whole system's being rigged in order that AI can
46:57
Speaker 2: assume control of all the infrastructure and all the utilities.
47:01
Speaker 2: They'll update the national policy guidance in order to give
47:03
Speaker 2: strong support, so they'll skew it in favor of AI
47:06
Speaker 2: and away from people wanting to go about their business.
47:09
Speaker 2: They will further streamline consenting for nationally significant infrastructure projects.
47:13
Speaker 7: And this is the critical part.
47:14
Speaker 2: Now, this pertains exactly to what came out from the
47:17
Speaker 2: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and as I
47:20
Speaker 2: referred to early the planning and infrastructure built which course
47:22
Speaker 2: is now an act. They say that it aims to
47:26
Speaker 2: ensure the balance of fairness in the assessment of compensation
47:29
Speaker 2: between authorities and land owners is fully considered. Now what
47:32
Speaker 2: they're talking about is compulsory purchase orders in order to
47:34
Speaker 2: put up whatever it is they like, but they're talking
47:37
Speaker 2: about extending the power to remove hope value from compensation
47:42
Speaker 2: by directions introduced by the Leveling Up and Regeneration Act
47:45
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. So in fact this has been up
47:47
Speaker 2: armoured by the Planning and Infrastructure Act, where town, parish
47:51
Speaker 2: or community councils are compulsorily purchasing land. So this should
47:56
Speaker 2: be regarded with deep suspicion and contempt because not only
48:00
Speaker 2: is it setting the conditions for AI to be rolled
48:04
Speaker 2: out via the means of the data centers that the
48:06
Speaker 2: Americans that the Americans just shown there were refusing, but
48:10
Speaker 2: also although they set it out as being a positive outcome,
48:14
Speaker 2: what's described as the removal of hope value means that
48:17
Speaker 2: there's no developer's premium attached. So, for the sake of argument,
48:21
Speaker 2: if the AI company themselves or a developer had come
48:24
Speaker 2: to a landowner and said I will develop or purchase
48:27
Speaker 2: land off you, there would be a premium attached to it,
48:30
Speaker 2: approximately perhaps a million up to a million pounds an acre.
48:32
Speaker 2: In the United Kingdom, agricultural land, of course, is valued
48:35
Speaker 2: on average at about seven thousand pounds an acre, and
48:38
Speaker 2: the government have legislated in order that when land is
48:40
Speaker 2: purchased can pussorally that the lower figure, the agricultural value,
48:44
Speaker 2: is what is taken. So that is the level that
48:47
Speaker 2: the government has stooped to in order to roll like
48:49
Speaker 2: their plans destroying the countryside whilst they claim to be
48:54
Speaker 2: rejuvenating and regenerating it. The hypocrisy is, as Mike would say,
48:58
Speaker 2: off the chart, off.
49:00
Speaker 1: The charge, and of course not just destroying countryside and
49:04
Speaker 1: destroying people's lives effectively, but of course ultimately destroying everybody's
49:08
Speaker 1: life because this is building the panopticon that they're so
49:11
Speaker 1: they've acknowledged they're so desirous to see. Let's just related,
49:16
Speaker 1: I suppose in a sense, and move on to the
49:19
Speaker 1: censorship agenda. And well, let's this is OFFCOM and the
49:23
Speaker 1: Information Commissioner's Office. They've published a joint statement about the
49:27
Speaker 1: main areas of interactions. They describe it between online safety
49:30
Speaker 1: and data protection as they relate to age assurance. OFCOM
49:35
Speaker 1: and the Information Commissioner are working closely together on the
49:38
Speaker 1: what they say are there is their shared goal of
49:40
Speaker 1: protecting children from online harm. And this is a nonsense statement,
49:45
Speaker 1: as I've said many times, but The joint statement is
49:48
Speaker 1: aimed at service is likely to be accessed by children
49:50
Speaker 1: and in scope of the Online Safety Act and also
49:53
Speaker 1: the UK Data Protection legislation. It summarizes key aspects of
49:58
Speaker 1: existing ICO and ofcom age assurance policies in a practical way,
50:03
Speaker 1: they say, to help organizations comply with both the Online
50:06
Speaker 1: Safety and data protection obligations. So we'll just run through
50:12
Speaker 1: here what are considered to be highly effective in terms
50:16
Speaker 1: of age assurance, just to remind everybody, these are the
50:19
Speaker 1: types of things that the platforms can't implement in order
50:22
Speaker 1: to be falling within the remit of the regime. So
50:26
Speaker 1: credit card checks, open banking checks, photo ID matching, facial
50:32
Speaker 1: age estimation, mobile network operator age checks, digital identity services
50:38
Speaker 1: like Yote and the others, email based age estimation. These
50:43
Speaker 1: are the ones that are fall within the What are
50:46
Speaker 1: described as highly effective age assurance and not highly effective
50:50
Speaker 1: are things like self declarations, debit cards don't have an
50:55
Speaker 1: age limit on them so they're not counted, and any
50:58
Speaker 1: kind of general contractual restraints on the use of the
51:01
Speaker 1: service by children. In other words, when you sign up
51:04
Speaker 1: for Facebook, for example, it says you have to be
51:07
Speaker 1: over thirteen and of course, lots and lots of children
51:11
Speaker 1: sign up not being over the age of thirteen, so
51:15
Speaker 1: that's what they're saying there. Now say that they are
51:20
Speaker 1: united in their goal to protect children from harm online,
51:25
Speaker 1: as set out in this joint statement, you need to
51:27
Speaker 1: use age assurance to prevent children from encountering harmful content
51:30
Speaker 1: and data harms online. Of course, protecting children is not
51:34
Speaker 1: just about access to harmful content. The much bigger risk
51:38
Speaker 1: to children is grooming, and so we're banning roblocks and
51:40
Speaker 1: other social gaming platforms where adults often pose as children, except,
51:45
Speaker 1: of course that bit they didn't say, so we want
51:47
Speaker 1: to make that absolutely clear. They did not say that
51:50
Speaker 1: because they're not doing any of that. And that is
51:52
Speaker 1: the point that we've been making that none of these
51:55
Speaker 1: age assurance schemes do anything whatever to actually protect children.
52:00
Speaker 1: But you'll notice at the top of those graphics was
52:03
Speaker 1: this organization, the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum, And now this
52:08
Speaker 1: was established as a voluntary forum in twenty twenty. It
52:10
Speaker 1: brings together four UK regulators, that's the Competition and Markets Authority,
52:15
Speaker 1: the Financial Conduct Authority, the Information Commissioner's Office and OFFCOM.
52:19
Speaker 1: And the ICO and OFFCOM are definitely at the top
52:22
Speaker 1: of that particular pile and so on. So they formed
52:27
Speaker 1: the DRCF in July twenty twenty. The FCA, the Financial
52:32
Speaker 1: Conduct Authority, joined in the April twenty twenty one. But
52:35
Speaker 1: because it's a voluntary body, it has no statutory basis
52:39
Speaker 1: and therefore it basically has no accountability. In fact, there's
52:42
Speaker 1: currently no functional accountability framework for any of the regulators
52:46
Speaker 1: in the digital space, and therefore no parliamentary accountability. And
52:51
Speaker 1: of course what is this all about. Well, just as
52:54
Speaker 1: with the MHRA, this is about being an enabler, not
52:59
Speaker 1: being a regulator, and so we will keep pushing on this.
53:05
Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is they are doing
53:07
Speaker 1: nothing to protect children. The protection of children as being
53:11
Speaker 1: the excuse is being used as the excuse for rolling
53:14
Speaker 1: out digital ID in this country. Now, just slightly related
53:20
Speaker 1: to this, I just wanted to mention this story that
53:23
Speaker 1: the new Mexico Department of Justice has won a landmark
53:26
Speaker 1: verdict against Meta. This is I think three hundred million
53:32
Speaker 1: dollars or so, quite large amount of money, but of
53:35
Speaker 1: course very small compared to the one point whatever trillion
53:37
Speaker 1: that Facebook is work worth these days. They are calling
53:41
Speaker 1: it a historic victory. Meta, for their part, said we
53:45
Speaker 1: respectfully disagree with the verdict and will appeal. We work
53:49
Speaker 1: hard to keep people safe on our platforms and are
53:51
Speaker 1: clear about the challenges of identifying, removing bad actors or
53:54
Speaker 1: harmful content. But again, in the reporting of this, it's
53:58
Speaker 1: all about harmful content, and it's absolutely right that the
54:02
Speaker 1: jury find Meta guilty in this case. But of course
54:07
Speaker 1: nothing here. Age Assurance is at the center of this,
54:10
Speaker 1: but nothing about it is dealing with the grooming that's
54:13
Speaker 1: going on in these platforms. I focus on roadblocks, for sure,
54:17
Speaker 1: but Facebook and Instagram are similar in this respect, so
54:21
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be letting Meta off the hook. Vanessa. Let's
54:25
Speaker 1: come back to you now and the strange case of
54:28
Speaker 1: the missing Telegraph article.
54:32
Speaker 4: Yes, I was first well, I first picked up on
54:35
Speaker 4: it when I saw this post on X so we
54:39
Speaker 4: can just put this up.
54:40
Speaker 3: It actually says.
54:42
Speaker 4: The best headline ever Christians and hasbla unite against the
54:49
Speaker 4: Epstein Empire. And I mean, honestly, I did have a
54:52
Speaker 4: shop intake of breath at that point that the Telegraph
54:54
Speaker 4: would publish anything with such an a title, but it did.
54:59
Speaker 4: But unfortunately, when I clicked on the link, guess what
55:02
Speaker 4: I found four four Sorry page not found so obviously,
55:07
Speaker 4: within hours the article had been taken down by an
55:12
Speaker 4: editor that was not happy either with the title or
55:15
Speaker 4: the content. Unfortunately for the Telegraph, MSN had already republished
55:22
Speaker 4: the article, which can be found up on the MSN website.
55:26
Speaker 4: It hasn't yet been taken down, and I have saved
55:28
Speaker 4: the entire page in case it is so again, Christians
55:32
Speaker 4: and Hesbla, of course in Lebanon unite against the Epstein Empire.
55:37
Speaker 3: So let's have a look at part of the reporting.
55:41
Speaker 4: Basically what they're saying, so the complexity is they're talking
55:46
Speaker 4: about the complexity of Labanon. They're talking about going to
55:49
Speaker 4: a town called Adras Balbeg, which is a Catholic Christian
55:53
Speaker 4: town in the northern Becca Valley close to the borders
55:58
Speaker 4: with Syria that faced attacks both from Isis during the
56:05
Speaker 4: government of President Assad and the fourteen year regime change
56:10
Speaker 4: war against Syria, but also more recently from Jolani's al
56:15
Speaker 4: Qaeda forces leading border attacks. Now, the very interesting thing
56:20
Speaker 4: here is they talk about the relationship between the village,
56:23
Speaker 4: which is a Catholic Christian village, being stronger than even
56:28
Speaker 4: with the Pope with the Vatican because in their view
56:32
Speaker 4: Hasblah has been responsible very much for their protection and
56:36
Speaker 4: also for providing all sorts of amenities, particularly during the
56:41
Speaker 4: height of the regime change war in Syria. And so
56:45
Speaker 4: you can understand really why the telegraph was almost immediately
56:49
Speaker 4: told to take this down. This is a photo of
56:52
Speaker 4: the actual town itself, and in the background you can
56:55
Speaker 4: see the mountains, the Calamun Mountains that were actually used
57:00
Speaker 4: by the terrorist groups backed by the UK, Israel, Turkey
57:04
Speaker 4: and the US to train in these mountains and lead
57:08
Speaker 4: attacks both in Lebanon and on the other side into
57:13
Speaker 4: Syria and Christian towns also. And just a quick look
57:16
Speaker 4: at the map so people can see what I'm talking
57:19
Speaker 4: about here is the whole Balbank kind of region. Russell
57:22
Speaker 4: Balbik is one of those small Christian towns very close
57:27
Speaker 4: to the border. As I've said, but I remember in
57:30
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen going to another Christian town again Catholic further
57:35
Speaker 4: to the north called Alca, that had been targeted by extremists.
57:42
Speaker 4: Well I will call them refugees. They fled Saria and
57:45
Speaker 4: came into Lebanon around thirty thousand around the town itself,
57:50
Speaker 4: and they led two major suicide bombing attacks back in
57:55
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen, and I was on the ground at the time.
57:58
Speaker 4: I witnessed how Hesbla came to the protection of that
58:02
Speaker 4: Christian town also. And then I want to take another
58:06
Speaker 4: quote from the article. So this was re fatnas Rolla
58:11
Speaker 4: who told the Telegraph that how can we as Christians
58:15
Speaker 4: in this area not be with Hesblah. They protect our churches,
58:20
Speaker 4: they helped us to fight isis. They give us freak
58:23
Speaker 4: in their hospitals when there was no electricity, they gave
58:26
Speaker 4: us generators. And he goes on to explain that at
58:29
Speaker 4: Christmas time, Hesbala were bringing the Christmas trees and were
58:33
Speaker 4: actually sharing the celebration with them. Now, why would the
58:38
Speaker 4: Telegraph take this particular article down Because the narrative that
58:42
Speaker 4: has been spun in this region is that hes Bla
58:47
Speaker 4: and President has said all of the resistance states and
58:51
Speaker 4: non state actors were effectively persecuting the Christians in this area.
58:56
Speaker 4: And of course the opposite is very true. In Labanon,
58:59
Speaker 4: you have faction that are very much aligned with Washington
59:02
Speaker 4: and Israel, and yes they will tell you that they
59:05
Speaker 4: are being persecuted by Hezbola. This is obviously palpably untrue.
59:10
Speaker 4: It was untrue in Syria and now it's untrue here also.
59:14
Speaker 4: But the Telegraph back on the fifteenth of January was
59:17
Speaker 4: quite happy to publish this article, the unlikely Hesbala alliance
59:22
Speaker 4: that heralds a new era of terrorism. It's published, of course,
59:26
Speaker 4: from Israel in Jerusalem. And then let's have a look
59:30
Speaker 4: at what they're saying in here. So now they're quite
59:33
Speaker 4: happy to say that Hasbular is aligning itself with a
59:38
Speaker 4: Sunni Muslim brotherhood faction in Lubanon to defend the borders
59:44
Speaker 4: against the Zionist occupation and incursions. They're saying, basically, there
59:49
Speaker 4: is a potency of a tactical alliance between Hesbula and
59:53
Speaker 4: the Alfage. Some analysts see are worrying symbolism in the
59:56
Speaker 4: close cooperation between Sonny and Shiad. They call them Jihades,
1:00:00
Speaker 4: which of course is an insulting term. So what they're
1:00:04
Speaker 4: trying to say here, of course, they're they're lumping them
1:00:07
Speaker 4: together with Hamas. They're saying they're all terrorists, they're all
1:00:11
Speaker 4: a threat to our borders, when in reality they're defending Lebanon.
1:00:16
Speaker 4: But they're quite happy to present a pan Islamic alliance
1:00:21
Speaker 4: as being okay because they are effectively brainwashing people into
1:00:25
Speaker 4: thinking Muslims are a threat across the region. They're not
1:00:30
Speaker 4: happy to publish an article that is detailing an alliance
1:00:34
Speaker 4: and a friendship between Christian communities and the Haspla resistance
1:00:39
Speaker 4: fighters because that effectively destroys the edifice of their narratives
1:00:44
Speaker 4: that they've been.
1:00:45
Speaker 3: Running for the last few decades.
1:00:49
Speaker 4: Actually, because it's been involved also in Palestine, so very
1:00:54
Speaker 4: clear who the telegraph is working for here, or at
1:00:57
Speaker 4: least who it's being influenced by. I do intend to
1:01:01
Speaker 4: go to that town myself in the next few days
1:01:05
Speaker 4: to try and find the person or people that they
1:01:08
Speaker 4: spoke to and reiterate the story myself.
1:01:12
Speaker 1: Thank you for that, Vanessa. We're just going to end
1:01:15
Speaker 1: then with this ex post from George Galloway. The Brave
1:01:20
Speaker 1: is really Jue Mordecai Vanunu spent eighteen years in solitary
1:01:25
Speaker 1: for revealing a truth acknowledged finally, only this week, Israel
1:01:28
Speaker 1: has a secret, illegal mountain of nuclear weapons pointed at
1:01:32
Speaker 1: the world. Why am I mentioning this because at the
1:01:36
Speaker 1: back of the new magazine is an item from the
1:01:40
Speaker 1: archives and while I was looking for that item, we
1:01:44
Speaker 1: just put that back on screen. I came across this
1:01:47
Speaker 1: cartoon that we had included in a UK Column newspaper
1:01:51
Speaker 1: from twenty twelve, and this is from Khalil Bendieb. He
1:01:55
Speaker 1: originally created this in two thousand and four. But for
1:01:59
Speaker 1: those that are just listening and not watching, it has
1:02:02
Speaker 1: the USA people representing the USA, Europe and the UN
1:02:06
Speaker 1: large people staring through magnifying glasses at a tiny little
1:02:10
Speaker 1: missile that you can barely see labeled Iran, while Israel's
1:02:14
Speaker 1: nukes sit along the left hand side of the cartoon. Nothing,
1:02:20
Speaker 1: nothing has changed. It is quite incredible and we'll undoubtedly
1:02:25
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