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Vincent McAviney: UK Correspondent on the investment into training teachers to spot misogyny and radicalism early · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Vincent Mecaveny joins us now to talk about what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in the UK and Europe.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Vincent, Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: So Zelensky is and Brussels. He's urging the European Union
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  Speaker 1: leaders to release some of this money, that is this
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  Speaker 1: frozen Russian money to fund Ukraine's military and economic needs.
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  Speaker 1: I understand a lot of it is in Belgium and
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  Speaker 1: they're not hugely keen on releasing it for fear of repercussions.
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  Speaker 1: Where are they are.
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  Speaker 2: Well, This meeting is going on in Brussels with all
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  Speaker 2: the EU leaders and Zelensky, he is saying that the
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  Speaker 2: country will run out of money if they don't get
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  Speaker 2: a fresh injection because they're making a lot of their
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  Speaker 2: own drones and munitions to fight off Russia. Now two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and ten billion euros worth of Russian accets are
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  Speaker 2: currently being held in a Belgium based organization. The European
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  Speaker 2: nations have been saying for years that this money should
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  Speaker 2: be used to fund the war effort of Ukraine. Until now.
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  Speaker 2: Belgium has tried to sort of sort of not block this,
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  Speaker 2: but has been cautious this because they're saying that they're
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  Speaker 2: worried about the repercussions for them, but they're essentially saying, look,
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  Speaker 2: if the whole of the EU is on board with
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  Speaker 2: this and is willing to sort of take the risk
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  Speaker 2: with us, then we'll jump into the unknown and do this.
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  Speaker 2: But there are some in the EU, the likes of
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  Speaker 2: Victor Awband, the leader of Hungary, who is trying to
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  Speaker 2: potentially block this, but Urslvon de Lyon, who is the
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  Speaker 2: sort of European Commission chief, has said we're not leaving
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  Speaker 2: this summer until we've got a solution to funding this.
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  Speaker 2: So there could be some positive news for Ukraine in
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  Speaker 2: the next few hours after what has been a really
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  Speaker 2: difficult few months with the White House of drifting back
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  Speaker 2: into the more Russian perspective.
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  Speaker 1: Vincent's schools in England are trying to prevent the radicalization
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  Speaker 1: of young men and so teachers are now going to
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  Speaker 1: be given training to spot and tackle misogyny in the classroom.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is part of strategy to try to stop this,
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  Speaker 2: and particularly with the links to extreme pornography. So pornography
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  Speaker 2: here in the UK online has been put behind an
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  Speaker 2: age barrier. Basically you've seen a massive drop in young
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  Speaker 2: people being able to access it, so you have to
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  Speaker 2: have a valid ID showing that you're over eighteen. But
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  Speaker 2: another part of this has been an announcement today millions
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  Speaker 2: of pounds being spent to train teachers to spot the
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  Speaker 2: signs of misogyny in the classroom, particularly from the influence
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  Speaker 2: of the likes of Andrew Tait, and to try to
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  Speaker 2: course correct the behavior at a young age, but also
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  Speaker 2: if it's got more severe, special courses that young men
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  Speaker 2: can in particular can be sent on to try to
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  Speaker 2: sort of deradicalize them from these misogynist, extreme misogynist views.
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  Speaker 2: And this is part of a joined up strategy that
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  Speaker 2: the government's pursuing. This is a landmark strategy they're saying,
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  Speaker 2: eighteen months in the making since they came into government,
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  Speaker 2: which looks across department's education, health, other departments as well
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  Speaker 2: business to try to tackle violence against women. Two women
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  Speaker 2: a week are killed here in the UK because of
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  Speaker 2: domestic violence and this is something that the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: in the government here want to make their sort of
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  Speaker 2: landmark piece of legislation this year.
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  Speaker 1: Will be were very keen to see how that goes. Bencent,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time this morning. Have
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  Speaker 1: a Lovely Christmas.
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