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Vincent McAviney: UK Correspondent on Ukraine, UK riots · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Our UK europe correspondent is Vincent Mekavinni. He's with US
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  Speaker 1: live this morning. A state of emergency has been declared
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  Speaker 1: in the Kursk region in Russia. Vincent, Yes, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: This is a surprise attack that the Ukrainians have mounted.
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  Speaker 2: We think about a thousand or so Ukrainian troops, supported
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  Speaker 2: by tanks and armored vehicles, crossed the border from Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: into Russia on Tuesday, and some three thousand people have
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  Speaker 2: been evacuated due to ongoing military altercations that have killed
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  Speaker 2: at least for people. According to this Russian region's governor,
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  Speaker 2: this has come as a surprise to the Kreminine. It
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  Speaker 2: is highly embarrassing to Vladimir Pusin. Of course, two and
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  Speaker 2: a half years ago he told his country that this
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  Speaker 2: would be a limited, small operation in Ukraine, it would
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  Speaker 2: be over quickly, and we're still here fighting and now
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  Speaker 2: his own country is being invaded in a surprise attack
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  Speaker 2: from Ukrainian troops. So quite a display of gumption and
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  Speaker 2: ambition from the Ukraine. Uses.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly, is Taylor swith these concerts that have been canceled,
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  Speaker 1: sounds like these suspicted attackers were very serious.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. A nineteen year old who was arrested
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  Speaker 2: on Wednesday apparently was planning to kill a large crowd
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  Speaker 2: of people in a suicide attack at one of the
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  Speaker 2: three concerts taking place in Vienna this weekend. Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 2: was meant to be playing to one hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 2: five thousand people over the three days. Those concerts have
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  Speaker 2: all been canceled. Local media is reporting that the suspect
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  Speaker 2: had stolen chemicals from his formal workplace, that he was
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  Speaker 2: in the process of building a bomb, had materials to
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  Speaker 2: that effect, that he was going to potentially use this device,
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  Speaker 2: but also drive a car into crowds and potentially go
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  Speaker 2: on a stabbing spree as well, so it would have
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  Speaker 2: been horrific. It's very similar to the Ariana Grande attack
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  Speaker 2: that took place here in the UK back in twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: where someone detonated a bomb at that concert venue as
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  Speaker 2: young young woman and their parents were leaving, and would
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  Speaker 2: have been a pretty horrific event. But so far, Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Swift keeping the rest of the era's tok going. She'll
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  Speaker 2: be back in the UK next week being Wembley. She's
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  Speaker 2: got a record eight nights are sold out at Wembley
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  Speaker 2: this summer, so she's coming back to do the rest
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  Speaker 2: of those.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty frightening there and you can see why the
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  Speaker 1: authorities have moved to close the concerts down. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for your time, Vincent. Vincent mcavannie are UK
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  Speaker 1: and Europe correspondent.
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