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UK Column News - 8th October 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's just gone one o'clock on Wednesday, the
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Speaker 1: eighth of October twenty twenty five. Welcome to UK column News.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Charles Mallett, and joining me by livelink
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Speaker 1: from Lebanon is Vanessa Bailey. Now, amongst the things we'll
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Speaker 1: be looking at in today's program are the elections in Syria,
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Speaker 1: the continuation, if we might describe it as that of
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Speaker 1: the Gaza Peace Plan, the coincidence of renewable energy statistics
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Speaker 1: and indeed the steel industry, and what the Prime Minister
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Speaker 1: of Israel, Benjamin Manya, who is doing or at least
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Speaker 1: thinking of doing at the moment. And some news about
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Speaker 1: the censorship regime and the relationship with UK column that
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Speaker 1: that will follow at the end of the program. We're
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Speaker 1: going to start though, with the appointment of the one
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixth Archbishop of Canterbury, Dame Sarah Malally, and
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Speaker 1: the ripples that that has caused. Now, bearing in mind
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Speaker 1: the ignominious nature of Justin Welby's departure, it may come
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Speaker 1: as something of a surprise to learn that there could
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Speaker 1: have been a greater degree of controversy from this appointment.
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Speaker 1: But that is exactly what has happened, and I will
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Speaker 1: walk you through some of the steps that give rise
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Speaker 1: to this sort of sentiment. But first we'll listen to
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Speaker 1: Sarah Malali after being appointed and what she said about
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Speaker 1: her forthcoming ministry.
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Speaker 2: Washing feet has shaped my Christian vocation as a nurse,
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Speaker 2: then a priest, then a bishop. In the apparent chaos
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Speaker 2: which surrounds us in the midst of such profound global uncertainty,
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Speaker 2: the possibility of healing lies in acts of kindness and love.
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Speaker 2: With humility and grace, we uphold and support those in
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Speaker 2: need of our help. We do this to the best
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Speaker 2: of our ability, in small ways and bigs, according to
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Speaker 2: our own very particular gifts. That too, is a service
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Speaker 2: which I offer the church today.
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Speaker 1: Now this might seem unfair, but not necessarily the words
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Speaker 1: or intonation to inspire a nation, one might say. But
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Speaker 1: she does make a point of referring to chaos and uncertainty,
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Speaker 1: And whilst one may not be able to dispute that
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Speaker 1: those are indeed present elements, what is she going to
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Speaker 1: do in order to change that? And also it was
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Speaker 1: interesting to note her intonation of the words healing lies,
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Speaker 1: as though she might be suggesting something other than she
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Speaker 1: was apparently said saying no, it is again worth saying that,
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Speaker 1: in comparison with Justin Welby, even she doesn't necessarily look
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Speaker 1: like an outwardly muscular Christian, she's unlikely to set the
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Speaker 1: world on fire or indeed those that consider themselves part
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Speaker 1: of the Anglican community at the moment, sorry, the Anglican communion. Now.
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Speaker 1: What is very relevant, seemingly, even though it's relatively distant,
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Speaker 1: is that in nineteen ninety nine Sarah Malalley was appointed
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Speaker 1: by the government as the Chief Nursing Officer, post which
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Speaker 1: she held until two thousand and four. She was ordained
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and one, of course, the year of
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Speaker 1: the so called Fort and Mouth crisis in the United Kingdom,
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Speaker 1: and when she was Bishop of London in twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: This is what she had to say about the COVID injections.
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Speaker 1: She said, the relaxation of restrictions on Monday is only
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Speaker 1: possible because of the vaccination program, which has reduced the
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Speaker 1: percentage of those with COVID who became seriously ill or die.
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Speaker 1: We're indebted to all who've developed and administered the vaccines,
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Speaker 1: and we encourage anyone who has not yet done so
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Speaker 1: to take advantage of the protection they offer. No this
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Speaker 1: of course is relevant of the words used by Justin Welby,
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Speaker 1: who I paraphrase said that Jesus would have got jabbed,
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Speaker 1: which seems incredibly unlikely. Taking personal responsibility, she went on
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Speaker 1: to say, means responsibility for our neighbor, not just for ourselves,
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Speaker 1: and taking precautions to protect those more vulnerable than we
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Speaker 1: consider ourselves to be. So she went on in this
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Speaker 1: sort of vein, effectively foretelling exactly the direction that not
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Speaker 1: to she, but the Church of England is likely to
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Speaker 1: continue to go in with regard to towing the line
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Speaker 1: in so far as the official narrative concerning frankly anything
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Speaker 1: is concerned now. In her capacity as a nurse, she
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Speaker 1: also has served as a director of the Royal Marsden
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Speaker 1: Cancer Charity, and whilst there, past of her remit was
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Speaker 1: to facilitate funding of drug development as well as rapid
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Speaker 1: diagnostic assessment center. And of course we see now in
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Speaker 1: twenty two five is exactly the direction that things have
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Speaker 1: gone in, have progressed in. And I think something that's
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Speaker 1: well worth drawing out is that not only this, but
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Speaker 1: in the full accounts of the charity from the year
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Speaker 1: ending two thousand and seven, which she's shown here as
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Speaker 1: a director of there was a surplus in the accounts
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Speaker 1: of nineteen point one million, and decided by the directors
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Speaker 1: that they would invest such funds. Now, what I would
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Speaker 1: like to point out is that they state explicitly there
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Speaker 1: was no restriction on the use of those funds, or
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Speaker 1: at least the way in which they may be invested,
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Speaker 1: except for a restriction on tobacco products. Now might be
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Speaker 1: strange for an ordained priest, as she was by that stage,
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Speaker 1: to put ourself in such a position, except that it
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Speaker 1: must be noted that this is absolutely consistent broadly, at
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Speaker 1: least with the policies of the Church commissioners and the
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Speaker 1: treatment of the Church of England funds. Now, there are
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Speaker 1: two articles on the UK column website which I've written
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Speaker 1: about exactly this issue, the so called ethical investment policies
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Speaker 1: of the Church of England, first of all shown on
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Speaker 1: screen here one dealing with the very limited restrictions concerning pornography,
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Speaker 1: weapons and embryonic stem cells. And then further the Church
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Speaker 1: of England talking themselves up as being in the room
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Speaker 1: with big tech effectively saying that they need to be
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Speaker 1: invested in these sorts of companies which harvest data and
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Speaker 1: all the rest of it in order to be able
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Speaker 1: to influence the decisions they make, whilst providing no evidence
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Speaker 1: that they have actually managed to have that sort of
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Speaker 1: an effect. Again, very interesting to note on this particular
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Speaker 1: issue that I was in touch with the Bishop of
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Speaker 1: Barton Wells earlier this year because at the General Synod
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Speaker 1: he'd raised issues about the when in which the Church
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Speaker 1: commissioners do spend their money, and I had drawn his
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Speaker 1: attention to these apparent inconsistencies with the Church commissioner's investment policies,
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Speaker 1: and he simply wrote back saying, if you have concerns
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Speaker 1: or questions about the church commissioners, please can I suggest
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Speaker 1: that you address these to the first Church estate commissioner
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Speaker 1: rather than thanking me for what I'd presented and committing
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Speaker 1: to investigate the matter himself. So it's not just the
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Speaker 1: Archbishop of Canterby that needs to be scrutinized, it's frankly
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Speaker 1: anyone within the church hierarchy. At a time where the
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Speaker 1: Church of England has in many respects entered into a
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Speaker 1: sort of a downward spiral, which tells a lot about
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Speaker 1: the way in which British culture may be reviewed at
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Speaker 1: this time. Now, going back to her Malalley's commitment and
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Speaker 1: involvement with the role Marsden, it shouldn't be any great
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Speaker 1: surprise to see that Marsden is now, of course referring
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Speaker 1: to the power of vaccines to event and treat cancer.
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Speaker 1: So it seems highly likely that the two disciplines of
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Speaker 1: religion and science, which of course used to be suddenly
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Speaker 1: in the distant past not necessarily separated from one another
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Speaker 1: or not in conflict with one another, but then have
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Speaker 1: become so it looks like there is a reunion of sorts,
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Speaker 1: although for a totally separate set of reasons. And then
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Speaker 1: moving on to other issues, we've got the continued failure
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Speaker 1: of the church with regard to safeguarding. And just given
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Speaker 1: insight as to the way in which Malai mad responded
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Speaker 1: to any of this, we'll just look at a short
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Speaker 1: video clip from twenty twenty three of her being asked
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Speaker 1: question about the issues raised by some Pride events.
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Speaker 3: Simchair, there is evidence of sexualization and grooming of children
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Speaker 3: at some Pride events. What is the House of Bishops
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Speaker 3: doing to protect children from that sexualization of pride or
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Speaker 3: from theory. Thank you.
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Speaker 4: That does not relate to the question, the original question
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Speaker 4: the infat.
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Speaker 3: It's about the bishop's position on pride share and whether
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Speaker 3: they're protecting children from pride. They should have a position
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Speaker 3: and be able to tell me. Because you don't want
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Speaker 3: to protect children and you dare not speak against pride
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Speaker 3: or queer theory. Shame on. You asked please.
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Speaker 1: Now if you're just listening, and you couldn't see that
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Speaker 1: the response should have come from bishop as she was
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Speaker 1: then Sarah Malali, but she stood there completely mute and
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Speaker 1: didn't address the question or the concerns at all. Now,
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Speaker 1: the articulation of all these various issues has been put
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Speaker 1: very succinctly by the Global Anglican Conference or gaff CON,
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Speaker 1: and they've written a long statement in response to the
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Speaker 1: appointment of Sarah Malali, and I will just read some
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Speaker 1: bit out because it does cover a number of the points.
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Speaker 1: They say that the news has finally arrived after months
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Speaker 1: of prayer and long way. But it is with sorrow
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Speaker 1: that GAFCON receives the announcement today of the appointment of
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Speaker 1: Sarah Malally as the next Archbishop of Canterbury. This appointment
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Speaker 1: abandons global Anglicans, as the Church of England has chosen
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Speaker 1: Eliza leader who will already further divide a split communion.
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Speaker 1: And at this point I should point out that the
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Speaker 1: Church of Nigeria has publicly rejected Malali's appointment for a
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Speaker 1: host of reasons, first of all that she is a woman,
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Speaker 1: and also that she supported the blessings of same sex unions.
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Speaker 1: But to get back to the GAFCON statement, they say,
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Speaker 1: due to the failure of successive Archbishops of Canterbury to
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Speaker 1: guard the faith, the office can no longer function as
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Speaker 1: a credible leader of Anglicans, let alone a focus of unity.
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Speaker 1: As we made clear in our Kigali Commitment of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, we can no longer recognize the Archbishop of
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Speaker 1: Canterbury as an instrument of communion or the first among
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Speaker 1: equals of global primates. Now these are fairly damning words,
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Speaker 1: and they go on to talk about the specific failure
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Speaker 1: of her to uphold her consecration vows. When she was
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Speaker 1: consecrated in twenty fifteen, she took an oath to quote,
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Speaker 1: banish and drive away all strange and erroneous doctrine contrary
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Speaker 1: to God's word, and yet far from banishing such doctrine,
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Speaker 1: Bishop Manali has repeatedly promoted unbiblical and revisionist teachings regarding
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Speaker 1: marriage and sexual morality. Now they go on in the
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Speaker 1: same vein, and the link to this will be in
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Speaker 1: the show notes. I would recommend not just reading it,
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Speaker 1: but sending it on because it does absolutely call into
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Speaker 1: question the underlying reasons for such an appointment, apparently very
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Speaker 1: much intended to cause the division that we're seeing, not
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Speaker 1: just in the Church of England, but of course across
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Speaker 1: all of British society. And I would just finish off
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Speaker 1: by pointing you towards a discussion that I had with
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Speaker 1: Alex Thompson entitled a Question of Faith? Why did the
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Speaker 1: Church of Fingland go wrong? Of course some of these
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Speaker 1: and other issues are addressed in this, so please do
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Speaker 1: have a look that. No, that's all on the archbition
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Speaker 1: of Canopy. Well, now go over to Vanessa, and of
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Speaker 1: course the mainstream version of events in Syria has very
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Speaker 1: much been at odds with first of all what you've
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Speaker 1: seen yourself and Essa, but also what you're having reported
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Speaker 1: to you. What's your feeling on the way things have
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Speaker 1: been reported and what has actually happened now.
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Speaker 4: Oh well, I'm sure in the West you're saying the
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Speaker 4: BBC and CNN and so on, declaring that democracy has
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Speaker 4: finally landed in Syria after the reign of the dictators
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Speaker 4: both Father Pfesslisad and Butcherlid, of course, but in fact
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Speaker 4: the opposite is the reality. Whatever democracy did actually exist
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Speaker 4: under both I said presidents has now been completely dismantled
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Speaker 4: and disintegrated. This is a tweet put out by Syria
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Speaker 4: Justice Archive, and I do recommend following them actually because
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Speaker 4: they monitor an archive all of the atroctees committed by
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Speaker 4: Jolani's Tech theory gangs in Syria. And what they point
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Speaker 4: out is that the majority of the minorities in Syria
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Speaker 4: basically boycotted the elections. In fact, they were not allowed
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Speaker 4: to vote. And another article put out by the Cradle,
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Speaker 4: which we use very often just to follow the news
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Speaker 4: in this region, the new Syrian parliament overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim
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Speaker 4: male following a controlled vote, so very few women, if any,
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Speaker 4: in the eventual parliament. And I would actually change from
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Speaker 4: Sunni to tech theory because the majority of those inadverted
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Speaker 4: commas elected were actually approved and selected by Jolani himself.
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Speaker 5: This I covered in a recent.
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Speaker 4: Article which can be found in the Syria centric section
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Speaker 4: on UK column Syria the looming civil war war while
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Speaker 4: external forces exploit the chaos, and this is the section
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Speaker 4: in the article that we published actually before the elections.
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Speaker 4: So the number of seats and the People's Assembly will
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Speaker 4: be two hundred and ten, distributed among provinces according to
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Speaker 4: their population. Seventy members even to begin with, will be
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Speaker 4: appointed by Jolani, but the remainder will be selected by
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Speaker 4: various subcommittees selected by the Supreme Election Committee, which is
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Speaker 4: appointed by Jolani. So that gives you a very good
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Speaker 4: idea of the sheer corruption and ridiculousness of these elections,
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Speaker 4: of course, again being heralded by the worst who brought
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Speaker 4: Jolani to power and Israel as democratic elections. This little infograph,
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Speaker 4: which people can freeze, frame and have a look at,
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Speaker 4: basically shows how dire the situation is. So effectively, only
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Speaker 4: six thousand people actually voted point zero two percent of
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Speaker 4: the Syrian population, and those that were effectively banned from
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Speaker 4: voting were in the areas of so called conflict as
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Speaker 4: Jiulani described them, which actually means, of course, the areas
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Speaker 4: where Jolani is carrying out the massacres and the ethnic
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Speaker 4: cleansing of Syrian minorities. And this map again, which is
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Speaker 4: rather sinister, but it shows they're the black and gray
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Speaker 4: the areas that are now under the control of all
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Speaker 4: of Jolani's henchmen selected by him in the so called elections,
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Speaker 4: and the grayer areas are basically tech fory factions under
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Speaker 4: his control. The rest of Syria, as you can see,
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Speaker 4: didn't partake in the actual vote. Again, you can freeze
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Speaker 4: frame it and look at the key there. This is interesting.
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Speaker 4: This was actually in the Syrian Christian town of al Skelbea.
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Speaker 4: People who've been following my work at UK Colin will
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Speaker 4: remember that I reported from there many times. If you
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Speaker 4: can just leave it on screen for a second, wenz Gerbe,
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Speaker 4: a Christian town in northern Hamar, was under attack from
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Speaker 4: the very tech fary factions that are now in control,
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Speaker 4: and this was the candidate of Assyrian Christian town.
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Speaker 5: Luckily she wasn't elected.
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Speaker 4: But I'd also like to point out that when there
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Speaker 4: are claims that Iran is enforcing veiling in Iran. This
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Speaker 4: is actually what is happening inside Syria itself. And then,
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Speaker 4: of course, in the midst of elections, who turns up
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Speaker 4: none other than the commander of Sentcom, Admiral Brad Cooper
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Speaker 4: and Tom Barrick, Trump's economic hit man in the region.
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Speaker 4: Here they're congratulating Gilani on the success of the elections,
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Speaker 4: and at the same time, of course, they met with
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Speaker 4: the Kurdish separatist factions in the northeast of Syria, and
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Speaker 4: what they're pushing for, of course, is the integration of
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Speaker 4: the Kurdish factions that control Syria's oil agricultural resources in
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Speaker 4: the northeast under Jolani's umbrella. Now, of course, the Kurds themselves,
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Speaker 4: who do they basically represent inside Syria the interests of Washington,
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Speaker 4: Tel Aviv and to some degree Russia, because of course,
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Speaker 4: the Kurds will be seen as the final link in
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Speaker 4: the chain that will be David's corridor that will go
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Speaker 4: from the south of Syria to the northeast, using the
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Speaker 4: Kurds as basically a link in that chain. And the
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Speaker 4: final picture is the Kurdish factions meeting with the various
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Speaker 4: Sentcom officials.
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Speaker 5: Now of course the Kurds will be.
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Speaker 4: Used and weaponized against Turkey and against Erduwan's Neo Ottoman
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Speaker 4: expansionist schemes, so very much.
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Speaker 5: They are a tool.
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Speaker 4: Of Empire, but particularly a tool of Israel and Washington
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Speaker 4: in Syria. And what this demonstrates, because they're have been
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Speaker 4: clashes between the two factions HTS, the Turkish backed factions
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Speaker 4: and the Kurds, is that Washington is very much in
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Speaker 4: control of events on the ground in Syria, and that
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Speaker 4: of course is in favor of Israel.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 6: Vanessa.
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Speaker 1: Also, I think pertinent to this is the recent discussion
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Speaker 1: that you had with Mike concerning sectarianism. We just give
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Speaker 1: it a sort of snapshot insight into that and encourage
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Speaker 1: people to listen to it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, very much so.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we discussed the similarities between what is now
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Speaker 4: being engineered in the West that follows on from what
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Speaker 4: has been engineered in the region, in particular in Syria that,
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Speaker 4: prior to the coup of December last year, was a secular,
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Speaker 4: inclusive country. Now, of course, the sectarian divides are being
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Speaker 4: not only orchestrated but exacerbated by the West.
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Speaker 1: Vanessa, thanks very much, indeed so much for bringing democracy
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Speaker 1: to the Middle East. Now we move on to a
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Speaker 1: persistent well reinforcing a persistent point, which is that renewable
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Speaker 1: energy is absolutely here and it is to be praised,
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Speaker 1: and indeed it is to triumph, and the BBC are
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Speaker 1: busy giving us the impression that it's now taken over
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Speaker 1: from traditional or fossil fuel sources of energy. But I
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Speaker 1: am going to introduce a UKC Verify button here because
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Speaker 1: the BBC headlines saying renewables overtake coal as world's biggest
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Speaker 1: source of electricity is not exactly founded in fact, and
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Speaker 1: the devil, as always is to be found amongst the detail.
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Speaker 1: So the first thing to point out, of course, is
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Speaker 1: that this claim does actually include nuclear power, which hides
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Speaker 1: the inherent instability of the forms of renewable energy. This
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Speaker 1: comes from a report printed by Ember which concerns only
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Speaker 1: the six month period at the beginning of this year,
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Speaker 1: but also and very specifically, we see it on screen now,
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Speaker 1: the Global Electricity Media Insights twenty twenty five. Now this
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Speaker 1: graph confusing as it may be, and I'm not necessarily
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Speaker 1: going to go through the detail of it, but basically
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Speaker 1: the green bit on the left is concerning solar and wind,
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Speaker 1: and the demand on the right, the increase in demand
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Speaker 1: is shown to be outstripped by the increases in solar wind.
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Speaker 1: So the main point to fall out of this is
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Speaker 1: that we're talking about the increase in demand, we're not
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Speaker 1: talking about total demand or total supply. So the way
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Speaker 1: in which this has been spun, not necessarily by the
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Speaker 1: BBC article shown on screen, but certainly by the way
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Speaker 1: in which it's being reported verbally and in a broadcast
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Speaker 1: news sense, is not strictly speaking, an accurate reflection of
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Speaker 1: what Ember is putting out. And of course it is
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Speaker 1: also worth bearing in mind that with Statis school analysis,
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Speaker 1: one can create the impression that almost anything is actually
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Speaker 1: happening if you happen to select the right time and
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Speaker 1: the right things to look at. Now that's not to
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Speaker 1: dismiss entirely what has happened, but just to set the context,
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Speaker 1: I will show you the energy dashboard from nine o'clock
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Speaker 1: this morning, which gives you the generation mix from the
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Speaker 1: United Kingdom, and there is very much at odds with
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Speaker 1: what's being reported, because, of course we see on the
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Speaker 1: right of the diagram shown here that over half of
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Speaker 1: the energy supplies being provided by gas with only seventeen
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Speaker 1: point eight percent coming from wind and an absolute fraction
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Speaker 1: from solar, and of course the point of drop out
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Speaker 1: of this, bearing in mind that the whole point of
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Speaker 1: renewable energy, so we're told, is to reduce carbon when
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Speaker 1: they say, of course mean carbon dioxide. But the carbon
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Speaker 1: intensity here is described as being very very high. So
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Speaker 1: in actual fact, the way this is reported is is
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Speaker 1: fairly disingenuous. Now to move on to something that might
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Speaker 1: seem unrelated, but it's in fact very much connected. We're
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Speaker 1: going to go to the European Commission and they've made
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Speaker 1: an announcement on what should really be described as protectionist
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Speaker 1: steel tariffs. I should just point out that their front
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Speaker 1: page for their website at the moment can't resist but
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Speaker 1: refer to the speeding up of AI uptake in industry
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Speaker 1: and science. But that's slightly by the by. So they
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Speaker 1: say the Commission proposes a plan to protect EU steel
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Speaker 1: industry from unfair impacts of global over capacity. Now in
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Speaker 1: their statement they speak about presenting a proposal to protect
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Speaker 1: the EU steel sector from unfair impacts of global overcapacity,
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Speaker 1: a vital step towards ensuring the long term viability of
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Speaker 1: a strategically crucial industry, and they carry on in that
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Speaker 1: tone now, all well and good, but it's somewhat at
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Speaker 1: odds with the way in which they reported the tariffs
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Speaker 7: On Thursday last week, I again headed down to maintain
29:48
Speaker 7: Connor's Court to cover the verdict into the quest of
29:50
Speaker 7: the death of Ploma Shemmarani, daughter of Kate. Of the
29:52
Speaker 7: course of the trial, I have been the sole independent
29:54
Speaker 7: journalist in attendance each day, and this time we've heard
29:57
Speaker 7: from Ploma's family, including a mother, Kate, a GP, the
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Speaker 7: main doctor who treated her in the incidant in December
30:02
Speaker 7: twenty twenty three, a psychologist to assess her capacity to
30:05
Speaker 7: make medical decisions and gave her supportive therapy, a number
30:08
Speaker 7: of alternative medical practitioners who treated her at various times
30:11
Speaker 7: between early and mid twenty twenty four, the paramedics who
30:14
Speaker 7: treated her when she collapsed, the doctor who took the
30:17
Speaker 7: decision to end her life shortly after the incident, and
30:19
Speaker 7: the pathologist to examine her body. Since my last report,
30:22
Speaker 7: we've also heard the testimony of another pathologist who spoke
30:25
Speaker 7: on the post mortem in question the lack of further testing,
30:28
Speaker 7: which would, she said, have enabled to clear a picture
30:30
Speaker 7: of alternative therapies available. The coroner set out to cover
30:33
Speaker 7: a number of fundamental questions the relevant medical history, diagnosis
30:38
Speaker 7: and proposed treatment, capacity to make decisions, what treatment and
30:41
Speaker 7: therapies were available her collapse, any delay in ambulance arrival,
30:46
Speaker 7: the actions of the ambulance service, further treatment at the
30:49
Speaker 7: end of her life, and the cause of death raised
30:54
Speaker 7: by Kate. Though were also the issues of the actions
30:57
Speaker 7: of the maidstone and the ambulance medications, as well as
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Speaker 7: issues with the post morton and finally raised by gabriel
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Speaker 7: Ploma's brother. There is the allegation that Kate had killed
31:06
Speaker 7: her daughter through curse of control. In the case of
31:09
Speaker 7: the cause of Ploma's death, the coroner ruled that it
31:11
Speaker 7: was caused by a number of cumulustive factors hypoxyc acemic
31:15
Speaker 7: brain injury, caused by cardiac arrest, caused by a primary
31:18
Speaker 7: media styin or B cell lymphoma mass. The coroner went
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Speaker 7: on to explain that the Gerson and other alternative therapies
31:25
Speaker 7: could not and did not help Ploma with cancer. This
31:28
Speaker 7: was not a surprising result given the general consensus and
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Speaker 7: medical practitioners who gave testimony. The corona found that the
31:34
Speaker 7: application of adrenaline were most likely have kept her alive,
31:36
Speaker 7: dismissing concerns by Kate it could have caused brain damage.
31:39
Speaker 7: Without much discussion, The most shocking ruling came in relation
31:43
Speaker 7: to the issue of Poloma's competency. Although the coroner, as expected,
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Speaker 7: willl Ploma to be competent to make decisions legally, having
31:50
Speaker 7: been provided comprehensive evidence that Poloma was able to make
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Speaker 7: her own decision, she had posited that Kate still held
31:55
Speaker 7: a role in her daughter's death, citing that other people
31:58
Speaker 7: collaborated with Ploma in her attestiment to the high core.
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Speaker 7: She essentially threw all of these signed documents out as invalid.
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Speaker 7: This is particularly controversial for multiple reasons. Firstly, these are
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Speaker 7: the most clear statements of Paloma's intention and signed by her.
32:12
Speaker 7: Secondly because it is common practice to collaborate on the
32:14
Speaker 7: wording of legal documents, and thirdly because these line up
32:17
Speaker 7: with sentiments expressed in Poloma's diary. In her own handwriting,
32:21
Speaker 7: the coroner has alleged that Kate, who cared for her
32:23
Speaker 7: daughter during this time, preparing food and driving her to appointments,
32:25
Speaker 7: acted as a medical practitioner. In particular, she cited that
32:29
Speaker 7: Kate directed Paloma to various medical practitioners or alternative therapies.
32:34
Speaker 7: As such, she said that Kate, by this role, acquired
32:37
Speaker 7: a duty of care which was derogated by the fact
32:39
Speaker 7: that she did not counsel Paloma to engage with conventional
32:42
Speaker 7: medical therapy. This is particularly unexpected considering Paloma continued to
32:46
Speaker 7: meet with her GP, for example, and with other medical
32:48
Speaker 7: practitioners such as a cardiologist seeking a referral. As such,
32:52
Speaker 7: Paloma had the opportunity to engage with conventional medical practitioners
32:56
Speaker 7: as was evidence in court, which should she be comptent
32:59
Speaker 7: as evidence and ruled would seem to enable her to
33:03
Speaker 7: be able to make her own decision against conventional medicine.
33:06
Speaker 7: With regards to Diploma's ability to form a clear picture
33:09
Speaker 7: and having formed consent, one of the most significant factors
33:11
Speaker 7: appears to be the decision to reject the scan to
33:13
Speaker 7: indicate progression or regression of the mass. I was privately
33:16
Speaker 7: told by friends and family Poloma wanted this delayed until
33:18
Speaker 7: after she had defeated her brother in the High Courts,
33:21
Speaker 7: something which she did not live to see. Further, the
33:24
Speaker 7: coroner has ruled that Ploma was convinced by Kate again
33:26
Speaker 7: despite Ploma's competence, that she had been poisoned against her
33:29
Speaker 7: contain from almost the moment she was first giving drugs
33:31
Speaker 7: at the Mainstone Hospital in December twenty twenty three. The
33:35
Speaker 7: coroner accepted seemingly wholesale the testimony of doctor Mohan, who
33:38
Speaker 7: of course left the country subsequently after her day in court,
33:41
Speaker 7: seemingly never to return. In contrast, she divided the testimony
33:44
Speaker 7: of Kate. Very Little if anything, was made of the
33:47
Speaker 7: lack of a consent form for the drugs to which
33:49
Speaker 7: we heard Ploma had an extremely bad reaction and sickness,
33:54
Speaker 7: and which hardened her against conventional medicine. This ruling appears
33:58
Speaker 7: to place a trust in the NHS, which contrasts were
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Speaker 7: the systematic in commonplace NHS malpractice most darkly exhibited in
34:03
Speaker 7: recent years. As such, in a controversial ruling, the coroner
34:07
Speaker 7: has accepted nearly every piece of evidence against Kate and
34:09
Speaker 7: ruled that Kate in essence contributed to Poloma's death, whilst
34:12
Speaker 7: dismissing nearly everything in her favor. However, the coroner stopped
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Speaker 7: short of declaring Kate guilty of unlawful killing, citing the
34:19
Speaker 7: involvement of other people who she could not deliberate. This
34:22
Speaker 7: has been a protracted inquest filtered almost entirely through the
34:25
Speaker 7: lens of mainstream media, as mainstream propagandas such as Marianna Spring,
34:29
Speaker 7: capitalized on this judgment to psue their political agendas. Unanswered
34:33
Speaker 7: questions remain as to elements of the ruling, which will
34:35
Speaker 7: certainly cast out upon its veracity as the full pitture
34:37
Speaker 7: in the eyes of many. This is Will Coles Hill.
34:40
Speaker 7: We bought it for UK column.
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Speaker 1: Well hurrowing a very concise report. Therefrom Will colds Hill
34:53
Speaker 1: might seem overly cynical to suggest that it was probably
34:57
Speaker 1: never going to go any way of than that. But Vanessa,
35:01
Speaker 1: I'd be interested to know your thoughts on it, either
35:04
Speaker 1: on the verdict itself or or the way in which
35:06
Speaker 1: Chimaroni has been treated, and indeed what sort of what
35:09
Speaker 1: would be next for her.
35:12
Speaker 8: Well.
35:13
Speaker 4: I mean, the first thing that comes to my mind
35:15
Speaker 4: is that there seems to be part of the operation
35:17
Speaker 4: to separate families, in other words, to take away the
35:22
Speaker 4: parental supervision or involvement in their children's health and education
35:28
Speaker 4: and so on. I mean, when a mother is going
35:30
Speaker 4: to be prosecuted on for effectively providing advice and consultation
35:39
Speaker 4: for her daughter, who they're saying basically was of sound
35:42
Speaker 4: mind and could make her own decisions, I don't know.
35:46
Speaker 4: It seems to me to be a sort of horrific verdict.
35:53
Speaker 1: I think horrific is exactly the right word, and it
35:56
Speaker 1: looks like an extreme case of cherry picking. We will
35:59
Speaker 1: have the chance to talk about this more an Extra
36:00
Speaker 1: because I'm glad to say that Will Coles Hill will
36:02
Speaker 1: be joining us in Extra, and not only will we
36:04
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to talk about this, but also his
36:07
Speaker 1: recent reporting on the protest concerning the prescribed group Palestine action.
36:12
Speaker 1: So please do hang around for extra if you are
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Speaker 1: up after the main news program. Now we're going to
36:19
Speaker 1: go back to Vanessa because last week you were speaking
36:22
Speaker 1: about the so called Gaza peace talks, and you've got
36:26
Speaker 1: more for us on exactly that issue.
36:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, basically we're heading for the big finale.
36:34
Speaker 4: But I just wanted to put it in a bit
36:38
Speaker 4: of context. So, of course, the big issue for Israeli
36:44
Speaker 4: commentators or pro genocide commentators, particularly like Benjamin Natan Yaho,
36:49
Speaker 4: is of course the return of the hostages. But I
36:52
Speaker 4: just wanted to bring this up on screen. This was
36:54
Speaker 4: from the Times of Israel, shortly after the seventh of October,
36:58
Speaker 4: in a conversation with families of the hostages, where it
37:02
Speaker 4: was stated by one of the family members. We later
37:05
Speaker 4: found out that Hamas had offered on October the ninth
37:08
Speaker 4: or tenth, so a few days after the seventh of October,
37:11
Speaker 4: to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the
37:16
Speaker 4: Israeli forces not entering the Gaza strip. But the government
37:20
Speaker 4: rejected the offer. And of course we know that this
37:22
Speaker 4: has been the pattern since the seventh of October, and
37:26
Speaker 4: it's very clear that Natanyahu is not interested in the
37:28
Speaker 4: return of hostages, is interested in the final solution in
37:33
Speaker 4: Gaza and the West Bank. And then of course the
37:35
Speaker 4: fact that the claims that are being reignited right now
37:39
Speaker 4: that seventh October was the two year genocide date yesterday,
37:44
Speaker 4: that there are in fact in the show notes, there's
37:46
Speaker 4: a nine minute video showing all of the testimonies from
37:50
Speaker 4: various Israeli forces and officials directing to the fact that
37:55
Speaker 4: they carried out the Hannibal directive, which was effectively to
37:58
Speaker 4: kill their own civilians soldiers on the seventh of October
38:02
Speaker 4: to prevent them being taken hostage by Hamas and the
38:08
Speaker 4: various resistance factions. So basically that's the scenario that these
38:15
Speaker 4: peace talks or so called peace talks, I see it
38:18
Speaker 4: again as a bit of a charade, are going to
38:20
Speaker 4: be conducted in Egypt right now. This is something that
38:26
Speaker 4: was published in Axios by Barrick Revide. Trump huddles with
38:32
Speaker 4: Jared Kushner, of course, his son in law, and the
38:35
Speaker 4: Garza waterfront property mogul and Steve Whitgoff ahead of crucial
38:40
Speaker 4: Gaza talks they've arrived today alongside the Katari Emir ahead
38:46
Speaker 4: of Turkish intelligence, and President Ceci has actually invited Trump
38:52
Speaker 4: to the signing of the ceasefire agreements. So there's a
38:56
Speaker 4: lot of pressure on the resistance factions right now to
39:00
Speaker 4: basically complete this deal. But of course there are a
39:04
Speaker 4: lot of points within that plan from Trump that simply
39:09
Speaker 4: are not going to be accepted by Hamas. So in
39:12
Speaker 4: my opinion, we're heading for the same degree of fall
39:18
Speaker 4: from these peace talks, but of course it's being raised
39:22
Speaker 4: up much higher than before, which in my opinion again
39:25
Speaker 4: means that the final aggression is going to be far
39:28
Speaker 4: more substantial than has been to date, which is saying
39:32
Speaker 4: a lot. So this is Trump basically digging up his
39:35
Speaker 4: own peace plan. We can just roll this video.
39:40
Speaker 8: We're in very serious negotiations to I guess you could say,
39:46
Speaker 8: depending on the way you count, three thousand years, you
39:48
Speaker 8: could say, five hundred years, you could say. But that
39:52
Speaker 8: it's been raging for a long time, and I think
39:55
Speaker 8: there's a possibility that we could have peace in the
39:57
Speaker 8: Middle East. It's something even beyond and the Gaza situation.
40:01
Speaker 8: We want a release of the hostages immediately, etc. And
40:05
Speaker 8: so our team is over there now another team just left,
40:10
Speaker 8: and other countries, literally every country in the world has
40:13
Speaker 8: supported the plane. I don't think there's anybody that hasn't. Actually,
40:17
Speaker 8: not that I've seen.
40:22
Speaker 4: I mean just Trumpet is best again three thousand or
40:25
Speaker 4: maybe five hundred years. I mean, the lack of accuracy
40:28
Speaker 4: is quite mind boggling.
40:30
Speaker 5: But this is one of the points. This was reported
40:33
Speaker 5: by Al Jazeera.
40:33
Speaker 4: This is one of the points that is going to
40:35
Speaker 4: be a sticking point in the entire agreement. An umbrella
40:40
Speaker 4: of Palestinian factions, the PFLP is now there. The Palestinian
40:44
Speaker 4: Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Islamic she had
40:49
Speaker 4: have joined the meeting. Today issued a statement promising resistant
40:53
Speaker 4: stance by all means, stressing that no one has the
40:55
Speaker 4: right to see the weapons of the Palestinian people.
40:58
Speaker 5: And I do find this quite extraordinary.
41:00
Speaker 4: Those that are being asked to seed their weapons are
41:02
Speaker 4: those that are effectively defending their homeland against an aggressive
41:06
Speaker 4: occupation force that is committing genocide. Surely it is Israel
41:11
Speaker 4: that should be disarmed and deradicalized. And this is as
41:16
Speaker 4: Zamir who made a statement yesterday there is no ceasefire,
41:20
Speaker 4: but a change in the operational situation. If the political
41:24
Speaker 4: effort does not succeed, we will return to fight. We
41:27
Speaker 4: will not allow Hamas to remain undefeated as a governing
41:30
Speaker 4: and military system in Gaza. This is General isle Zamir,
41:34
Speaker 4: the chief of Staff of the Israeli forces. Now interesting,
41:37
Speaker 4: There's been a lot of criticism of President Putin's reaction
41:41
Speaker 4: to the Trump Plan from many within independent media. Of course,
41:47
Speaker 4: China and Russia have until now failed to impose any
41:50
Speaker 4: kind of economic boycott on the Zionist identity. In fact,
41:54
Speaker 4: China is increasing trade with Israel, not only with Israel,
41:58
Speaker 4: but also with Arid nation that have normalized relations with Israel.
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Speaker 5: So let's just have a look at this.
42:03
Speaker 4: This was just a statement from RT Putin and Israel's Natanno,
42:08
Speaker 4: who just held a phone call. They discussed Trump's Gaza
42:11
Speaker 4: plan stalk sorry, talked stabilizing Syria and finding solutions to
42:18
Speaker 4: Iran's nuclear program and Natail who wished put In happy birthday.
42:24
Speaker 4: Now what's interesting. At Valdai Club, Putin was asked about
42:27
Speaker 4: the plan. He not only basically approved it despite not
42:31
Speaker 4: having received approval from either Hamas or the Palestinian authority,
42:35
Speaker 4: who of course, according to the plan, are going to
42:38
Speaker 4: be sidelined alongside Hammas. He pushed again the two state
42:42
Speaker 4: solution that we know is meaningless right now. And not
42:46
Speaker 4: only that, he praised Tony Blair as a very good
42:50
Speaker 4: statesman and talked about the times that they had shared
42:53
Speaker 4: coffee together at Blair's residents, sitting in their pajamas, discussing
42:58
Speaker 4: the state of world affairs. And of course, you know,
43:02
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody would approve of any kind of
43:06
Speaker 4: recommendation of Blair as a piece envoy in the Middle East.
43:10
Speaker 4: And finally, of course, one of the issues that is
43:12
Speaker 4: not being touched on by the peace plan is the
43:15
Speaker 4: existence of ISIS agents that have been weaponized by Israel
43:19
Speaker 4: against the resistance factions and who may raise their head
43:23
Speaker 4: in the future to basically target both civilians and resistance
43:29
Speaker 4: on behalf of Israel.
43:30
Speaker 5: And of course the fact.
43:31
Speaker 4: That Trump is using this as a rather gruesome and
43:35
Speaker 4: grotesque ladder to a potential of a Nobel Peace Prize,
43:39
Speaker 4: claiming that he's been recommended for it by the hostages
43:44
Speaker 4: families quite horrific.
43:48
Speaker 1: It is, indeed best I think we'll come back to
43:50
Speaker 1: that in extra Sure there's a lot to talk about there,
43:53
Speaker 1: but thank you very much. Indeed, now we'll come back
43:56
Speaker 1: to the United Kingdom, and indeed we will have a
43:59
Speaker 1: look at part of the government website which you may
44:01
Speaker 1: not necessarily be familiar with, and that is the Accelerated
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Speaker 1: Capability Environment ACE, which describes itself as solving rapidly changing
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Speaker 1: digital and data challenges facing law enforcement and national security agencies.
44:15
Speaker 1: And they bring together expertise from industry and academia to innovate,
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Speaker 1: collaboratively and create mission impact at pace. You can imagine
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Speaker 1: the tone with which it continues, all of which could
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Speaker 1: be entirely meaningless. Now this goes back some years in fact,
44:30
Speaker 1: but the reason I mentioned it today is because the
44:33
Speaker 1: government website is a wash with documents saying how the
44:37
Speaker 1: ACE has dealt with various departmental initiatives, innovations, and how
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Speaker 1: it's going to streamline all sorts of processes and deliver
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Speaker 1: things that may not have been possible before.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the influence to be drawn is there aren't
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Speaker 1: very many human beings involved in all of this, and
44:54
Speaker 1: indeed you would be rights to come to that conclusion.
44:57
Speaker 1: It's a home office capability, and it was at least
45:01
Speaker 1: it's not concidental at all to consider that it was
45:03
Speaker 1: founded by what was then the Office for Security and
45:05
Speaker 1: Counter Terrorism the OSCT back in twenty seventeen. It's been
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Speaker 1: reported on by UK column in the past. Now as
45:12
Speaker 1: it's grown, it's applied its approach to a lot of
45:16
Speaker 1: again what's described as being innovation and co creation and
45:20
Speaker 1: dealing with public safety and security and all that kind
45:23
Speaker 1: of thing. Now, the point to make here is that
45:26
Speaker 1: it's being made to look like it's owned and controlled
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Speaker 1: by the Home Office, but of course that's not so.
45:32
Speaker 1: It says that it's powered by vivase, a community of
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Speaker 1: multidisciplinary organizations and experts drawn from industry and academia who
45:41
Speaker 1: collaborate to deliver highly innovative solutions at pace. In other words,
45:46
Speaker 1: corporations involved in data harvesting and all sorts of technological
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Speaker 1: innovations and advancements which are going to be controlling on
45:54
Speaker 1: behalf of the Home Office. Things that pertain to all
45:59
Speaker 1: aspects of government. Now we listen to Ben and Brian
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Speaker 1: talking about Tony Blair's sort of intervention suggesting how AI
46:06
Speaker 1: can improve every aspect of government really being able to
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Speaker 1: articulate how during Monday's news program, and this seems to
46:13
Speaker 1: be exactly what's being referred to here. There should be
46:16
Speaker 1: a number of concerns falling out of it, but specifically
46:19
Speaker 1: with regard to policing, because they're talking about creating an
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Speaker 1: AI lab for policing. Now it almost seems like it
46:27
Speaker 1: would be made up because this is to deal with
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Speaker 1: the crime that has resulted from generative AI in the
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Speaker 1: first place. But they say it'll play a significant role
46:36
Speaker 1: in shaping the police service of the future, bolsterring capabilities
46:39
Speaker 1: by making investigations more sophisticated and efficient, as well as
46:44
Speaker 1: freeing up officers time. Now, going back to who controls
46:48
Speaker 1: or owns this capability and with the police operational very
46:53
Speaker 1: important criteria of operational independence in mind, it is again
47:00
Speaker 1: hugely concerning. This looks like an investigation process would not
47:04
Speaker 1: only be owned in effect, perhaps in name, by the
47:08
Speaker 1: Home Office, but in actual fact by private corporations, which
47:12
Speaker 1: would have an extraordinary amount of influence over the outcome
47:16
Speaker 1: of an investigation. Considering all the sorts of biases that
47:19
Speaker 1: may be introduced into artificial intelligence in the first place. Now,
47:25
Speaker 1: there are plenty of things to look at. Behind the
47:28
Speaker 1: scenes here, the government have also put out a document
47:31
Speaker 1: talking about keeping police one step ahead of criminals using AI.
47:35
Speaker 1: One wonders why it's only one step ahead. It doesn't
47:38
Speaker 1: really reinforce the point that AI is indeed the salvation
47:41
Speaker 1: to all these problems. But of course, as I mentioned earlier,
47:45
Speaker 1: these are in large part creations of generative AI in
47:50
Speaker 1: the first place, and so we are told on the
47:52
Speaker 1: one hand by the government that it is the answer
47:53
Speaker 1: to absolutely everything, but it seems to be the answer
47:55
Speaker 1: for criminals who are of course exploiting it to great effect. Now,
48:00
Speaker 1: the other thing to draw your attention to is that
48:03
Speaker 1: the oversight of this is from the Public Safety Group,
48:06
Speaker 1: which is headed up by Richard Clark, who sits within
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Speaker 1: the Home Office, and indeed he attended the Digital Policing
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Speaker 1: Summit earlier this year. And I'm just showing you the
48:17
Speaker 1: text which refers to the sponsors, principal sponsors being Palentteer
48:21
Speaker 1: Et and Amazon Web Services of course, among many others.
48:26
Speaker 1: But it demonstrates the ever closer relationship between the government
48:29
Speaker 1: and in particular tech corporations. Now from the report itself,
48:34
Speaker 1: they describe Amazon Web Services as working with public safety
48:38
Speaker 1: organizations to build the next generation of national security, justice, police,
48:43
Speaker 1: fire and rescue solutions, and they in particular quote sort
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Speaker 1: of palenteer and talk about how they're partnering police forces
48:52
Speaker 1: in the UK in support of challenges ranging from helping
48:56
Speaker 1: City of London police fight economic crime and so on
49:00
Speaker 1: and so forth. But again considering the tender notice for this,
49:05
Speaker 1: they talk about the private sector partner requirement is for
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Speaker 1: a supplier to work closely with the authority to act
49:14
Speaker 1: as a flexible commissioning and delivery partner with the responsibility
49:19
Speaker 1: for the dynamic ecosystem and collaboration platform to deliver commissioned
49:24
Speaker 1: ACE customer requirements. This is gobbledegoop, But the point is
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Speaker 1: the tender that was put out to the organizations that
49:31
Speaker 1: were going to be competing for this is also suggesting
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Speaker 1: with the concluding remark that it is to jointly protect
49:38
Speaker 1: His Majesty's government interest. Now it's very hard to see
49:41
Speaker 1: how that particular circle can be squared, and I think
49:45
Speaker 1: gives enormous concerns not just with the way in which
49:49
Speaker 1: AI is being rolled out across governments, but specifically with
49:53
Speaker 1: regard to the companies that are going to be given
49:56
Speaker 1: the very contracts with which to do that, and how
49:59
Speaker 1: they may exert their influence in this instance via policing,
50:04
Speaker 1: and the terrible results that could lead to. Now, AI,
50:10
Speaker 1: of course suggested to be the answer to everything, is it? Well,
50:13
Speaker 1: I would direct you towards the UK column website where
50:16
Speaker 1: you'll find an interview there Gen Warfare talking to jobs
50:20
Speaker 1: Lang Grub and Barry Smith will why machines will never
50:24
Speaker 1: rule the world. And there's a lot to learn about
50:28
Speaker 1: what's described with the sort of sentience of AI, and
50:31
Speaker 1: indeed whether such a thing does actually exist or not.
50:36
Speaker 1: So that concludes that particular report on AI and policing,
50:41
Speaker 1: and we're going to go back to Vanessa. Now, of
50:42
Speaker 1: course we talk specifically about Gaza, but you're going to
50:45
Speaker 1: tell us a bit more about about Natan Yahoo and
50:48
Speaker 1: what he's been doing.
50:52
Speaker 4: Yes, I apologize for the various videos of his recent
50:55
Speaker 4: conversation with Ben Shapiro.
50:58
Speaker 5: It's not pleasant viewing the first of all he talks about.
51:03
Speaker 4: He's of course speaking about two years of the Holocaust
51:08
Speaker 4: against the Israeli Jews. So anyway, let's just play this
51:13
Speaker 4: first video. First section of the video.
51:17
Speaker 6: The worst Atrocities committed on Juwe since the Holocaust, and
51:21
Speaker 6: everybody thought his role was doomed. Two years later, we've
51:25
Speaker 6: smashed the Iran access, smashed most of its proxies. Hamas
51:31
Speaker 6: not finished yet or we'll get there, Chrisbala, Syria is gone, smashed. Also,
51:40
Speaker 6: Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile program still there, but it
51:44
Speaker 6: rolled it really back with President Trump's help and the hooties.
51:51
Speaker 4: Now, of course this is these are not words of
51:54
Speaker 4: someone that is working on a piece tale, and of
51:57
Speaker 4: course they never have been.
51:59
Speaker 5: But I think said that they've basically.
52:01
Speaker 4: Smashed the entire as he describes it, Iranian resistance access.
52:06
Speaker 4: He then goes on to mention the threats from Iran
52:12
Speaker 4: that still exists.
52:12
Speaker 5: So let's just roll this.
52:15
Speaker 6: Shared the you know, the the labor and we achieved
52:18
Speaker 6: this neutralization of Iran, which could blackmail every American city.
52:23
Speaker 6: People probably don't believe it, right, No, we're far away, right, No,
52:28
Speaker 6: you're not. Iran is developing now ballistic missiles that are
52:33
Speaker 6: intercontinental ballistic missiles for eight thousand kilometer range. What does
52:37
Speaker 6: that mean? They add another three thousand kilometers and they've
52:41
Speaker 6: got under their gun, under their atomic guns in New
52:45
Speaker 6: York City, in Target, Washington, Boston, Miami, Mari Lago.
52:56
Speaker 4: So what this does appear to be doing, of course,
52:59
Speaker 4: is lining up for a potentil false flag to reignite
53:03
Speaker 4: war against Iran. And then as part of what he's
53:07
Speaker 4: talking about, you'll remember that we reported on UK column
53:10
Speaker 4: that back in twenty twenty two there was a report
53:12
Speaker 4: based on documents that have just been released talking about
53:16
Speaker 4: placing poison in the wells. Documents point to the Israeli
53:21
Speaker 4: armies nineteen forty eight biological warfare known as casts they bred,
53:27
Speaker 4: And of course that's nothing well, rather that has been
53:30
Speaker 4: continued with the use of white phosphorus, with settlers continuing
53:35
Speaker 4: to poison the wells and the occupied territories in the
53:37
Speaker 4: West Bank, the dumping of sewage into the Sea of Gaza, etc.
53:43
Speaker 4: But let's hear what how Natagno who talks about the
53:47
Speaker 4: rise in anti Semitism and what it's all based.
53:51
Speaker 6: Upon, lies perpetrated about Jews and these vilifications. You know,
53:57
Speaker 6: we poison the wells. We I don't know, we we
54:00
Speaker 6: drink the children, that the blood of children and all
54:03
Speaker 6: sorts of the crazy things, and that's repeated today. That's
54:07
Speaker 6: not new.
54:11
Speaker 4: Well, no, it's not new, perhaps because you do actually
54:14
Speaker 4: do the things that you're accused of.
54:17
Speaker 5: And very interesting. I took this just from Wikipedia.
54:20
Speaker 4: I can hear a shop in take of breath from everyone. Yes,
54:23
Speaker 4: I did use a Wikipedia as a resource. But let's
54:26
Speaker 4: have a look at what it says. So very generic
54:29
Speaker 4: Israel and weapons of mass destruction. They're of course believed
54:33
Speaker 4: to possess weapons of mass destruction and to be one
54:36
Speaker 4: of four nuclear armed countries, the only one in the
54:39
Speaker 4: Middle of the East, because of course they have under
54:41
Speaker 4: the Bacon Doctrine, not allowed any Arab nation to defend
54:46
Speaker 4: itself by developing nuclear weapons. It's not recognized as a
54:51
Speaker 4: nuclear weapons state by the Truty on Non Proliferation of
54:54
Speaker 4: Nuclear Weapons, but the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment
54:59
Speaker 4: has recorded Israel as a country country sorry generally reported
55:04
Speaker 4: as having undeclared chemical warfare capabilities and an offensive biological
55:10
Speaker 4: warfare program. Officially, Israel neither confirms nor denies possessing nuclear weapons.
55:17
Speaker 4: But this is actually taken from a paper written by
55:22
Speaker 4: dr Avner Cohen back in two thousand and one. Very interesting.
55:27
Speaker 4: I recommend reading the whole paper. In April nineteen forty eight,
55:30
Speaker 4: David Ben Gurion, Israel's founding father and first Prime Minister,
55:34
Speaker 4: wrote a letter to Ahod Avriel, one of the Jewish
55:38
Speaker 4: Agency's operatives in Europe, ordering him to seek out and
55:41
Speaker 4: recruit East European Jewish scientists who could either increase the
55:46
Speaker 4: capacity to kill masses or to cure masses. Both are important.
55:50
Speaker 4: One of the scientists Avriel recruited was a thirty year
55:53
Speaker 4: old epidemiologist and colonel in the Red Army named Avahan
55:57
Speaker 4: Marcus Klingberg. In the time, Klingberg became one of Israel's
56:02
Speaker 4: leading scientists in the area of chemical and biological weapons.
56:07
Speaker 4: He was among the founding members and subsequently the deputy
56:10
Speaker 4: director of the Israel Institute of Biological Research. So they
56:13
Speaker 4: clearly have offensive weapons of mass destruction. And let's hear
56:19
Speaker 4: natanieou you talk about that.
56:22
Speaker 6: That's defensive weapons. What about offensive weapons? Well, I can
56:26
Speaker 6: tell you we shared it with America, but I can't
56:29
Speaker 6: share it with you. Okay, the most advanced offensive weapons
56:34
Speaker 6: on the planet, things that none of the superpowers have
56:37
Speaker 6: developed by Israel shared with America. That's very important, because
56:42
Speaker 6: you know, you have to be strong. Everybody understands that
56:44
Speaker 6: that's what President Trump says, and he says it correctly.
56:47
Speaker 6: Peace through strength. You've got to be strong in order
56:50
Speaker 6: to get the peace. So Israel helps with offensive and
56:53
Speaker 6: defensive technologies, but also Israel helps with intel.
57:01
Speaker 4: So if I have to make a prediction, every time
57:03
Speaker 4: there is some kind of ceasefire, it generally means. As
57:06
Speaker 4: we saw with the ceasefire with Hezbala back in November
57:10
Speaker 4: twenty twenty.
57:11
Speaker 5: Four, which led to, of course the fall of.
57:12
Speaker 4: Syria, we see Israel effectively pivot towards another area in
57:18
Speaker 4: the region, and in my opinion it's going to be Iraq,
57:21
Speaker 4: also potentially Yemen and Iran. But what is interesting, there
57:25
Speaker 4: has been a push to disarm the resistance in Iraq,
57:28
Speaker 4: as this report states and we've talked about regularly. There's also,
57:32
Speaker 4: according to this report in Stars and Stripes, the US
57:36
Speaker 4: are withdrawing their troops from Iraq, so it begins reducing
57:40
Speaker 4: its mission in Iraq. And we've been hearing about the
57:45
Speaker 4: super offensive weapons. There is potential for use of bioweapons.
57:50
Speaker 4: In my opinion, with the withdrawal of the US troops
57:53
Speaker 4: against the Iraqi resistance factions. I hope not, but I
57:58
Speaker 4: don't believe that Israel is going to hold back on
58:02
Speaker 4: anything in the coming months.
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Speaker 1: All right, absolutely, I have to agree with you, Vanessa,
58:07
Speaker 1: and certainly from what now who says holding back seems
58:10
Speaker 1: like the least likely course of action. And of course
58:13
Speaker 1: the talk about you know, peace through strength seems completely
58:16
Speaker 1: discordant with his language about smashing absolutely everybody in sight.
58:20
Speaker 1: But yeah, of course we'll continue to keep na on that.
58:22
Speaker 1: But thank you very much indeed for that, and we'll
58:24
Speaker 1: come back to it in extra Now. There is a
58:27
Speaker 1: slim chance that you may be watching this program on YouTube,
58:32
Speaker 1: and that might not be such a surprise because we
58:35
Speaker 1: do have a YouTube channel that's been set up at
58:38
Speaker 1: some point this year. But in twenty twenty one, the
58:42
Speaker 1: original YouTube channel that belonged to the UK column was
58:45
Speaker 1: removed for a host of reasons. It's been a long
58:48
Speaker 1: running battle, and this morning Mike Robinson discovered that it
58:52
Speaker 1: has been reinstated. And this is in many ways a
58:58
Speaker 1: very significant We're not absolutely sure why it has happened,
59:03
Speaker 1: and there doesn't seem to have been any sense of
59:05
Speaker 1: fanfare or responsibility upon YouTube to explain the reasons why.
59:11
Speaker 1: And of course, if you have followed this, you will
59:14
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59:17
Speaker 1: which is, of course, but for how long? Because the
59:21
Speaker 1: track record with YouTube in particular has been extraordinarily bumpy
59:26
Speaker 1: and inconsistent, but also terrifically oppressive. And again this is
59:29
Speaker 1: something that Mike has illustrated very well in the past,
59:32
Speaker 1: which is that not only has YouTube sought censor UK
59:35
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59:40
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59:50
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59:54
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Speaker 1: to the UK Column website and look at the censored section,
1:00:15
Speaker 1: which charts a course throughout all of this. Just before
1:00:19
Speaker 1: we close, I just asked Vanessa for a quick comment
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Speaker 1: on the relationship with YouTube, in particular in this extraordinary
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Speaker 1: era of censorship in which we now are forced to operate.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, even uploading UK Column news excerpts was subject
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Speaker 4: to censorship quite often. My channel wasn't closed down, but
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Speaker 4: those excerpts were taken down. And as Mike pointed out
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Speaker 4: before we came on today, the Syria podcasts which were
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Speaker 5: Their former glory.
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Speaker 4: They're still missing, so hopefully they will come back if
1:00:55
Speaker 4: YouTube's feeling generous.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure about that, but still what we will
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Speaker 1: concentrate on the positives. UK Column is back on the
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Speaker 1: there is insufficient justification for taking material that we do
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Speaker 1: It is very important that we are seen to be
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