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Vincent McAviney: UK Correspondent on the sentencing of Axel Rudakubana for the killing of three children at a Taylor Swift themed dance class · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Joined now by Vincent Makerviny, our UK and Europe correspondent.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Vincent, Good morning. The Southport killer has been sentenced.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in the past hour he's been sentenced. This is
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  Speaker 2: Axel Ruda Cabana, who you might remember last July killed
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  Speaker 2: three young girls and attempted to murder ten other people
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  Speaker 2: and injured many when he attacked a tailors themed dance
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  Speaker 2: class just at the start of the school summer holidays.
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  Speaker 2: It was due to be a long trial, but when
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  Speaker 2: he appeared in court for the first day earlier in
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  Speaker 2: the week, he changed his plea to guilty and today
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  Speaker 2: there has been the sentencing of this now. He himself
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  Speaker 2: acted out in court this morning, yelling saying that he
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  Speaker 2: was unwell and that he wasn't being looked after. He
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  Speaker 2: was taken out of court for the disruption and it
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  Speaker 2: was felt he couldn't be brought back in for the
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  Speaker 2: reading of the sentences. But he is received. Because of
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  Speaker 2: his age, he cannot be given a whole life sentence,
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  Speaker 2: the most strict category in the UK. He was just
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  Speaker 2: under eighteen, but he's been given a minimum of fifty
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  Speaker 2: two years in jail, which is the longest jail sentence
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  Speaker 2: for someone under the age of eighteen, we think that
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  Speaker 2: has ever been handed down at that point. He would,
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  Speaker 2: you know, face potentially getting to a parole hearing, but
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  Speaker 2: the judge has indicated it's incredibly unlikely he will ever
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  Speaker 2: be released.
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  Speaker 1: Vincent. How is the US responding to President Trump suggesting
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  Speaker 1: that Europe needs to focus on increasing its defense to
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  Speaker 1: deal with.
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  Speaker 2: Pousan Well, as we speak right now, Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 2: addressing the World Economic Forum in Davas, and he has
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  Speaker 2: been reading Europe somewhat of a riot act, saying that
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  Speaker 2: they're still not contributing enough to NATO, that they've got
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  Speaker 2: too many tariffs, that they need to start making their
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  Speaker 2: products in the United States, and sort of saying that
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  Speaker 2: they've gone after too many US companies, too much regulation,
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  Speaker 2: particularly citing the tech companies, of course, which he has
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  Speaker 2: a close relationship with. But the other thing that he's
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  Speaker 2: said is that he is blaming. He seems to accept
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  Speaker 2: that Vladimir Puton is to blame for the war in Ukraine,
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  Speaker 2: that illegal invasion. He's warned him that Russia could face
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  Speaker 2: more tariffs and it's plutin to de escalate it. So
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  Speaker 2: it does seem like some of the overtures that Vladimis
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  Speaker 2: Lensky has made over the past couple of years to
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump have worked to secure his favor, and the
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  Speaker 2: Kremlin has responded saying they're ready for a quote mutually
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  Speaker 2: respectful dialogue on the issue of Ukraine. So we do
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  Speaker 2: believe that behind the scenes, the White House and the
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  Speaker 2: Kremlin are working on some sort of summit between Trump
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  Speaker 2: and Putin, But we might say as well, we might
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  Speaker 2: well also expect some proper dialogue later this year, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: a conference or meeting of the three leaders as they
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  Speaker 2: try to negotiate a ceasefire settlement.
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  Speaker 1: Vincent macavenny, thank you so much for your time. For
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