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UK Column News — 1st April 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the first of April twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK column News.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host Mike Robinson. Joining me by videoing today
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Speaker 1: are Charles Mullett and Vanessa Billy. Now later in the program,
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Speaker 1: we're going to be reporting on the ongoing saga of
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Speaker 1: offshore wind turbines destroying Britain's missile defense read OAR capability
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Speaker 1: on the east coast of England. This is net zero,
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Speaker 1: which is the gift that keeps on giving apparently. But
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Speaker 1: we'll have an update also on Israel's efforts in Lebanon,
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Speaker 1: and also the two terrorists allegedly occupying Downing Street yesterday.
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Speaker 1: But before we get to that, let's just have a
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Speaker 1: look at Keir Starmer, who was speaking just a couple
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Speaker 1: of hours ago. So if we just bring him on
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Speaker 1: screen here here he is. He's walking in of course
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Speaker 1: as usual, in front of the Double Cross. But he
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Speaker 1: was saying that event Cooper of the Foreign Secretary going
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Speaker 1: to be hosting a summit of international leaders to discuss
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Speaker 1: plans to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormos.
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Speaker 1: It's not clear how they tend to do that, but
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Speaker 1: they're going to host this meeting anyway. He said again
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Speaker 1: that the UK will not be drawn into the conflict
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Speaker 1: in the Middle East. Charles will have a little bit
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Speaker 1: more on that in a minute or two, and that
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Speaker 1: the best way to address the rising cost of living
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Speaker 1: is to push for de escalation and ensure that the
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Speaker 1: Strait of Hormus is reopened. He said that every diplomatic
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Speaker 1: avenue available is being explored. So as I say, he
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Speaker 1: walked out in front of the double cross, because that,
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Speaker 1: of course is what he's doing to the people of
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Speaker 1: this country. But anyway, let's just have a listen to
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Speaker 1: what he had to say.
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Speaker 2: But I also know that people have a deep sense
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Speaker 2: that this will affect their family and their household. They
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Speaker 2: can see it at the petrol pumps and they worry
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Speaker 2: about their energy bills. It is the job of government
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Speaker 2: to meet these moments, not just with immediate action, but
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Speaker 2: also with clarity about our direction. That's what I remember
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Speaker 2: about the nineteen seventies when my family could not pay
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Speaker 2: every bill. We struggle through the energy shocks when the
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Speaker 2: price rises of that decade, but we always believed in
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Speaker 2: the end that Britain would secure a better future for us.
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Speaker 2: And finally, as I say, we'll continue to push for
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Speaker 2: de escalation in the Middle East. But look, there's also
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Speaker 2: a bigger argument here because every one of these measures
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Speaker 2: is part of a long term plan to make our
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Speaker 2: country more secure and more resilient to shocks like this.
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Speaker 2: I mean, just look at what's happening today. Today, your
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Speaker 2: energy bills will be cut because of the action that
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Speaker 2: we took at the budget and whatever happens in Iran,
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Speaker 2: that price is now fixed until July today. If you
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Speaker 2: need a prescription, instead of rising as they used to,
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Speaker 2: the price will be frozen for a year.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to do that to everybody at lunchtime. I
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Speaker 1: know you're all trying to eat and you may have
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Speaker 1: trouble keeping it down, but anyway, that's what he said. Clearly,
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Speaker 1: he suffered as he was growing up, and he's hoping
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Speaker 1: that everybody else is going to suffer now as well.
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Speaker 1: But in order to solve this problem. It's great news
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Speaker 1: everyone because rather than stopping the war with Ran and
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Speaker 1: getting the streets and formos open again, because I don't
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Speaker 1: believe for one second they could be able to do that,
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Speaker 1: he has created a new web page called fuel Finder.
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Speaker 1: Here it is, and they say that fuel Finder scheme
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Speaker 1: is now delivering real benefits at the pump, with a
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Speaker 1: growing number of apps and websites making near live fuel
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Speaker 1: prices available to drivers right across the UK. And they're
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Speaker 1: saying this is another major milestone in tackling the cost
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Speaker 1: of living and another milestone well they don't say this,
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Speaker 1: but I'm just going to add this anyway in another
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Speaker 1: milestone and building the Panopticon. But anyway, they're saying that
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Speaker 1: developers including a confused dot Com, drive Score, fuel Finder,
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Speaker 1: UK fuel Spy, modern Mouth, Petrolprices dot Com and r
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Speaker 1: r SE fuel Watcher now using this data, meaning that
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Speaker 1: millions of drivers can compare prices at nearly at nearby
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Speaker 1: four courts without having to drive around to find the
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Speaker 1: best deal. So this is what the This is their
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Speaker 1: way of dealing with the massive price rises in fuel
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Speaker 1: and so on. The other thing they said was that
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Speaker 1: this was something that had been planning since the start
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Speaker 1: of the year, And my question is, how did they
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Speaker 1: know at the start of the year that such an
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Speaker 1: app would be necessary. I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
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Speaker 1: But coming back to Starmer's speech, he was asked about
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Speaker 1: Britain's relationship with the EU.
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Speaker 3: I wanted to pick up some of what you said
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Speaker 3: about close relationships with Europe. Do you believe you said
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Speaker 3: before that you don't think it's right for the UK
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Speaker 3: two rejoined the Customs Union. Are we heading towards more
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Speaker 3: of a rejoining of the single market? Is that's something
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Speaker 3: you think would improve? Second? Right, future?
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Speaker 2: Well, I do think that we should strengthen our cooperation
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Speaker 2: on defense security in it.
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Speaker 1: So defense security and the markets is what he was saying.
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Speaker 1: So that's the position that Starmer is taking every opportunity
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Speaker 1: to get us back into much closer relationship with the EU.
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Speaker 1: And of course none of this would have been possible
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Speaker 1: without Trump. But Vanessa, this wasn't the only thing that's
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Speaker 1: been going on in Dining Street in the last twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours.
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Speaker 4: No, they've been happily entertaining the head of al Qaeda,
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Speaker 4: or sorry, I should say the new regime brought to
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Speaker 4: power by, among others, Starmer's security advisor Jonathan Pell, who
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Speaker 4: groomed Joe Lannie to look as dapper as he looks
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Speaker 4: in this video in a that he looks like he's
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Speaker 4: been stuffed into as he goes forward to meet Starmer
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Speaker 4: who keeps him weirdly waiting on the doorstep, and then
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Speaker 4: there's a very odd moment where he literally pulls him
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Speaker 4: off the step to stand next to him. Awkward but nevertheless,
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Speaker 4: it's fairly disgusting, and not fairly it's very disgusting that
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Speaker 4: Britain is welcoming a mass murderer who currently is praying
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Speaker 4: on the Syrian Christians, in particular. In the last few
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Speaker 4: days and weeks he was also entertained at Chatham House.
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Speaker 4: Of course, strong links to MI six, so he was
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Speaker 4: given the rounds by those that basically brought him to
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Speaker 4: power and enabled him to conduct the ethnic cleansing exercises
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Speaker 4: for the last sort of fourteen fifteen years, including since
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Speaker 4: the fall of Syria in.
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Speaker 5: December twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 4: Now, among the things that were discussed, apparently both in
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Speaker 4: Germany he met with Chancellor Mertz before he came to
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Speaker 4: the UK was the forced deportation. Oh, I'm sorry, the
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Speaker 4: return of Syrian refugees to Syria. They've outgrown their usefulness,
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Speaker 4: so now they have to go back and live in
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Speaker 4: the hellscape that's been created by those governments for since
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Speaker 4: twenty eleven. But the other thing that was definitely discussed
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Speaker 4: is the situation in the straightfor Moose. So let's just
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Speaker 4: pull this up. This was just a post that was
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Speaker 4: put out on AX. If this goes through, Iran is
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Speaker 4: putting a bill through parliament to legalize demanding two million
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Speaker 4: per vessel passing through the straightfor moves in the future.
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Speaker 4: They're saying it'll be a huge loss for the Trump administration.
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Speaker 4: He might have just accidentally unlocked one hundred billion annual
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Speaker 4: revenue stream for Iran two million feet per vessel times
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Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty ships per day two hundred and
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Speaker 4: eighty million daily, which gives you nearly eighty to one
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Speaker 4: hundred billion annually if there are no disruptions. So, of course,
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Speaker 4: guess what Chadara is coming in alongside Bachrain and Saudi
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Speaker 4: Arabia to offer alternatives and basically saying, oh, look, guys,
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Speaker 4: Syria can now be used as the central thoroughfare for pipelines,
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Speaker 4: avoiding the Strait of hor Mood. So one very good
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Speaker 4: reason why Syria, of course was brought down prior to
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Speaker 4: the war against Iran, Iraq and Lebanon.
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Speaker 1: Vanessa in the chat box just Before the program started,
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Speaker 1: some purple Holks was talking about the meeting of Starmer
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Speaker 1: and Jilani and suggesting that Starmer was a trader, but
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Speaker 1: of course Jilani is an employee effectively of the UK,
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Speaker 1: so Starmer can't be a trader under those circumstances.
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Speaker 4: Well, he's a traitor to humanity, as is successive UK regimes,
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Speaker 4: let's face it. But no, Jolani is an employee of
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Speaker 4: the British government.
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Speaker 1: Correct, Yeah, okay, thank you for that, Charles. Let me
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Speaker 1: welcome you to the program. And well, what's been going
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Speaker 1: on with respect to the UK's position with this war?
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Speaker 1: Are they finally admitting yet that it's not just defensive.
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Speaker 6: That has not yet happened. But bearing in mind it
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Speaker 6: is April Fall's day, perhaps we should hold our breath
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Speaker 6: and good afternoon, might good afternoon all. Yes, we're going
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Speaker 6: to continue to examine the inherent contradictions and manifest dishonesty
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Speaker 6: in the UK's defensive posture, if we can just pop
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Speaker 6: that on the screen now, because we are at week five.
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Speaker 6: And of course the speech that you've just showed some
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Speaker 6: clips from began with the words we are working at
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Speaker 6: pace for the escalation and peace by the Prime Minister,
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Speaker 6: as I say on April Fall's day, Well, just to
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Speaker 6: get an idea of what that looks like and whether
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Speaker 6: it stands up scrutiny, We're going to look at the
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Speaker 6: Defense Secretary who's been dispatched to the Middle East, and
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Speaker 6: this is his update from Katar.
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Speaker 7: I'm here in Gatar with our joint squadron. They've been
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Speaker 7: flying missions to defend this country and the neighboring countries
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Speaker 7: since day one, and over the last couple of days,
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Speaker 7: I've also been in Saudi and I've been in Bahrain,
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Speaker 7: and I've been able to say, look, the UK is
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Speaker 7: standing with you, our allies in the region, and I'm
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Speaker 7: stepping up their defenses. Were putting into q eight, to
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Speaker 7: Saudi and into Bahrain and extending the UK typhoons here
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Speaker 7: in Guitar. We will stand with our allies, will continue
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Speaker 7: to protect our British personnel and our British bases.
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Speaker 6: Now he thinks he's articulating exactly who he is protecting
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Speaker 6: and how and to a certain extent why. But in
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Speaker 6: the name of consistency, we should consider the effects or
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Speaker 6: at least what is happening in the United Kingdom because
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Speaker 6: he's talking about protecting allies in the Gulf who have
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Speaker 6: of course been struck by Iran because of the capabilities
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Speaker 6: that they host, whether they be technically part of the
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Speaker 6: United Kingdom or the United States infrastructure. But we need
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Speaker 6: look no further than Arif Fairford, which I've of course
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Speaker 6: reported from hosting the B one bombers. We now see
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Speaker 6: B fifty two. This is filmed just a couple of
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Speaker 6: days ago, so we've now got B fifty two's and
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Speaker 6: b ones at RAF Fairford. And the question is if
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Speaker 6: he considers that states like Katart and Bahrain are targets,
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Speaker 6: then why not the United Kingdom. And on that very theme,
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Speaker 6: we look at Stars and Stripes, who've just published an
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Speaker 6: article about the return to service of the A ten
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Speaker 6: Warthog back in action during the Iran War, and as
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Speaker 6: to whether we are involved in supporting or at least
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Speaker 6: permitting you, the United States to run defensive operations. The
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Speaker 6: text says that the A ten Warthog is now in
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Speaker 6: the fight across the southern flank and is hunting and
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Speaker 6: killing fast attacks watercraft in the Strait and performers. That
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Speaker 6: does not sound defensive, and yet this is exactly what
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Speaker 6: the Prime Minister and indeed the rest of the government
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Speaker 6: are continuing to stick to the line of and this
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Speaker 6: would appear to stretch well beyond breaking point. The nineteen
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Speaker 6: fifty two Churchill Truman Communicate which said that the effectively
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Speaker 6: reinforced the Status of Forces agreement from nineteen fifty one
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Speaker 6: in saying this was an agreement for the common defense. Well,
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Speaker 6: it's very hard to see how that can in fact
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Speaker 6: be upheld. And they're just a banner across that slide.
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Speaker 6: They're saying, we will not be drawn into the wider war,
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Speaker 6: as we are drawn into the wider war. But the
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Speaker 6: point of mentioning this is that we have here a
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Speaker 6: tens seen at Lakenheath, and this was filmed again just
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Speaker 6: a couple of days ago. So there they are taxing
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Speaker 6: on the tarmac there and ready to take off indeed
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Speaker 6: to carry out these strikes. So the United Kingdom, despite
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Speaker 6: what the Prime Minister or indeed the Defense Minister might say,
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Speaker 6: is absolutely involved in the enabling of offensive operations in Iran.
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Speaker 6: Now there is of course precedent for all of this,
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Speaker 6: in so far as saying one thing and doing another
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Speaker 6: is concerned. And we look back to two thousand and
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Speaker 6: eight the House Commons Library Report on the UK participation
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Speaker 6: in US Missile Defense, and essentially this was the initial
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Speaker 6: stages of enabling or allowing the United States to have
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Speaker 6: a missile defense capability in the United Kingdom. It may
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Speaker 6: not surprise you to learn that a certain person said,
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Speaker 6: we will tell the House as soon as there is
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Speaker 6: something to say, as negotiations were underway in two thousand
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Speaker 6: and seven. That was Tony Blair February two thousand and seven,
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Speaker 6: exactly five months before not telling the House anything at all,
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Speaker 6: because of course when it was presented in July, it
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Speaker 6: was a FATA complee and that was that. Now, the
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Speaker 6: reason for mentioning that is that this relates very closely
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Speaker 6: to something that's been covered in an excellent article that's
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Speaker 6: just gone up on the UK column website by Christopher Hell.
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Speaker 6: Iran is blinding US airpart in the Gulf, and this
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Speaker 6: of course is something Vanessa's reported on. But the critical
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Speaker 6: detail here, or at least what I'd like to just
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Speaker 6: focus on a bit, is that an Iranian missile reportedly
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Speaker 6: strike the AN FPS one three to two early warning radar.
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Speaker 6: And this, as Mike mentioned earlier, he's going to be
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Speaker 6: talking about early warning in the United Kingdom, but just
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Speaker 6: I want to look at one particular thing because this
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Speaker 6: is this is one of only six such systems existing worldwide. Another,
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Speaker 6: of course, is in North Yorkshire Arif Filing Dales, And
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Speaker 6: we're just going to watch a short video from BFBS
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Speaker 6: which has just been put out.
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Speaker 8: Did you know this secretive UK air base is playing
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Speaker 8: a vital role protecting British troops and their allies in
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Speaker 8: the Middle East from Iranian bombs. Arif Filing Dales, in
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Speaker 8: the middle of the North York Moors, provides a continuous
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Speaker 8: ballistic missile early warning service to the UK and US governments.
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Speaker 8: The distinctive pyramid structure houses powerful radar capable of tracking
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Speaker 8: objects three thousand miles into space. Is designed to ensure
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Speaker 8: a surprise missile attack can't succeed. The MD has confirmed
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Speaker 8: Number two Space Warning Squadron, supported by Number one Space
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Speaker 8: op Oration Squadron, who work out of Firing Dale's are
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Speaker 8: monitoring Uranian missile activity and providing warnings to the UK's
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Speaker 8: armed forces and military basis in the region and help
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Speaker 8: them to keep partners safe. The man in charge of
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Speaker 8: UK spased Command Major General Paul Tadman described his team's
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Speaker 8: work as unprecedented and said it highlighted space now provides
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Speaker 8: the central nervous system of effective military operations. General Tadman
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Speaker 8: said the UK SPASED Command team has been working day
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Speaker 8: and night since the onset of conflict in the Middle
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Speaker 8: East to protect and defend our people and our interests
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Speaker 8: from missile and drone threats and provide vital space effects
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Speaker 8: to our forces. So the people and technology on this
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Speaker 8: Yorkshire hillside are the reason British forces in the Middle
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Speaker 8: East to get those vital extra seconds of warning of
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Speaker 8: an enemy attack.
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Speaker 6: Are There are a couple of questions and points to
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Speaker 6: make after that video, but we'll just take a look
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Speaker 6: at the website which has the logo the crest of
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Speaker 6: Filing Dales. Of course, they describe themselves as we are
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Speaker 6: watching that as their slogan, and they describe themselves as
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Speaker 6: providing a continuous ballistic missile early warning service to the
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Speaker 6: UK and US governments and therefore by association absolutely the
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Speaker 6: government of Israel as well, ensuring a surprise missile attack
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Speaker 6: cannot succeed. Well, the whole point that there is now
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Speaker 6: a task for Filing Dales is because one such capability
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Speaker 6: was surprised and indeed defeated, so that those words appear
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Speaker 6: rather hollow now. And in terms of return on investment,
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Speaker 6: these bits of equipment, the an FBS one three to two,
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Speaker 6: to just describe, is reckoned to be valued at about
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Speaker 6: half a billion pounds in a brand spent much less
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Speaker 6: than that defeating it. Filing Dales also, as you would
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Speaker 6: have heard in the video, talk about being under space command.
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Speaker 6: And this is a very relevant point because of course
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Speaker 6: this is becoming critical domain in terms of warfare. And
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Speaker 6: I don't think it should be seen as any coincidence
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Speaker 6: that the live Moon mission Artemist two, somewhat delayed, has
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Speaker 6: been announced to launch today. And this is effectively to
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Speaker 6: sell the lie that there is a delineation between military
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Speaker 6: activity and civilian in space and indeed corporate and something
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Speaker 6: Mike Stt talked a lot about before the confusion surrounding
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Speaker 6: dual use capabilities. I've recently written an article on this
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Speaker 6: space Wars Overboard on the Sea of Peace and just
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Speaker 6: to illustrate the point, just to put it out now
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Speaker 6: to nows AS collaborations. This is on the ARSMIS project.
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Speaker 6: There is said to be more than twenty seven hundred
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Speaker 6: of them. The main players are of course, all involved
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Speaker 6: in the business of war, so there is really no
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Speaker 6: separation between what's described as perhaps scientific progress and indeed
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Speaker 6: the business of war. Something to bear in mind when
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Speaker 6: we consider the UK's position in this conflict in Iran.
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Speaker 6: Now we've talked a lot about the specter of conscription,
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Speaker 6: and there's an interesting exchange in a debate on Iran
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Speaker 6: in House Commons the other day suggesting very mixed messages
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Speaker 6: from the government. We listened to the MP James Cartilage,
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Speaker 6: Conservative saying this House calls on the Government to increase
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Speaker 6: spending on the UK's Armed forces, specifically delivering twenty thousand
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Speaker 6: more troops over the next parliament. Now, Brian was talking
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Speaker 6: in great detail about the state of Royal Navy in
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Speaker 6: recent news programs. Of course, the Army should be regarded
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Speaker 6: no differently. It is absolutely deplete and depleted of all
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Speaker 6: those various things it needs. But the interesting response from
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Speaker 6: Al Khnes, the Minister for the Armed Forces, was to
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Speaker 6: say that the motion calls for troops, but it says
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Speaker 6: nothing about how they would be recruited, trained, housed or equipped.
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Speaker 6: Does not even begin to answer the most basic questions
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Speaker 6: about what those troops would actually be used for. Now,
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Speaker 6: bearing in mind this was during late March, when of
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Speaker 6: course this conflict was already well underwhere in the UK
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Speaker 6: had committed resources to it. That seems like a statement
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Speaker 6: that is absolutely inconsistent with what was set down in
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Speaker 6: the Strategic Defense Review and many of the other documents
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Speaker 6: that came out last year, and suggests that at the
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Speaker 6: heart of government there is absolutely no plan either for
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Speaker 6: the conflict in the Middle East or indeed for the
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Speaker 6: commitment of the so called Coalition of the Willing in Ukraine.
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Speaker 6: So it leaves a big question mark there. And I
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Speaker 6: will just finish off by considering the tone deaf nature
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Speaker 6: of the scrutiny of what's going on in the Middle
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Speaker 6: East and how this relates to relations between the United
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Speaker 6: Kingdom and the United States. Guardian here reporting that King
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Speaker 6: Charles's state visit to the United States will be a humiliation.
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Speaker 6: MPs have privately expressed concerns that there is potential to
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Speaker 6: embarrass the King if the US President continues his criticism
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Speaker 6: of the UK's armed forces. So the point that the
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Speaker 6: mainstream and the establishment are taken from this is that
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Speaker 6: it might be an embarrassment for the King, rather than
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Speaker 6: considering that for the United Kingdom to be associating with
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Speaker 6: the United States, who are prosecuting yet another illegal war
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Speaker 6: whilst using British capabilities and indeed territory seems to be
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Speaker 6: completely lost. So I mean, Mike, I don't know if
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Speaker 6: you've got any particular comment on that exactly, but this
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Speaker 6: idea of there being a defensive posture, and indeed any
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Speaker 6: coherent logic to follow such a statement, is absolutely all
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Speaker 6: over the place.
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Speaker 1: It absolutely is. And well, we'll talk more about that
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Speaker 1: an extra But you know, I'm just not sure what
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Speaker 1: to say about embarrassing the king under these circumstances. The
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Speaker 1: King does a good job of embarrassing himself in many areas,
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Speaker 1: and we might have come on a little bit of
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Speaker 1: that litter as well. But anyway, Vanessa, let me welcome
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Speaker 1: you back and bring us up to did with what
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Speaker 1: is going on in Lebanon.
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Speaker 4: It's funny that they didn't matt mention the embarrassment of
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Speaker 4: the Epstein links between the royal family and President Trump also,
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Speaker 4: I presume. But anyway, yes, Lebanon still very much at
20:55
Speaker 4: war as well as escalating very much so. So I'm
21:01
Speaker 4: going to just start with this as an article in
21:03
Speaker 4: the Times that was published yesterday, but it was also
21:05
Speaker 4: repeated across a lot of the Israeli media outlets. Zbalah
21:10
Speaker 4: learns lessons from Ukraine in Scorched Earth drone war. Now
21:15
Speaker 4: what I find quite interesting about this headline it is
21:18
Speaker 4: now converted into a war rather than the so called
21:21
Speaker 4: state of Israel fighting against a terrorist band of thugs
21:26
Speaker 4: in Lebanon, as it's usually portrayed. But in fact, what
21:31
Speaker 4: are they actually talking about. The tactics on the ground
21:33
Speaker 4: by Hezbolah are effectively to allow the Zionist forces to
21:39
Speaker 4: advance to a certain degree. The Zinis forces are then
21:43
Speaker 4: sending out sort of spy drones to try and figure
21:46
Speaker 4: out where the hes Balah fighters are. Often they are,
21:50
Speaker 4: of course underground. They emerge once the Zonus forces have
21:53
Speaker 4: gone past, and then once the Israeli forces have advanced
21:59
Speaker 4: to a certain point where they can easily be ambushed.
22:02
Speaker 4: The drones are first sent in to target the Macava
22:05
Speaker 4: tanks and to date, I think around more than thirty
22:09
Speaker 4: actually have been either destroyed or partially destroyed by hesbler
22:13
Speaker 4: In this form of warfare, so certainly for the Israeli
22:18
Speaker 4: forces it is scorched earth. Over the last three days
22:21
Speaker 4: there have been multiple, as they call them, serious incidents,
22:26
Speaker 4: and paramedic helicopters have had to come in to ferry
22:30
Speaker 4: out the soldiers, and the hospitals on the northern borders
22:36
Speaker 4: of the occupied territories and on the southern borders of
22:40
Speaker 4: Lebanon are full of injured Zonus soldiers. Again, I just
22:46
Speaker 4: want to draw people's attention to what the Zionist regime
22:50
Speaker 4: is intending to do. So the red area is effectively
22:53
Speaker 4: what they think they're going to turn into a security
22:57
Speaker 4: buffer zone leading up to the Latani River. But also
23:01
Speaker 4: if you look to the right of the Latani River,
23:03
Speaker 4: there there is the potential for another buffer zone. And
23:06
Speaker 4: I'll come on to that in a second. And Israel Katz,
23:10
Speaker 4: who's the Zionist Minister of War, put out a statement.
23:14
Speaker 4: He's been putting out such statements often recently, but he's
23:18
Speaker 4: talking about three security zones deep in enemy territory, both
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Speaker 4: all in sorry in Syria, Gaza and Lebanon. He intends
23:27
Speaker 4: to destroy all buildings in Lebanon's buffer zone up to
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Speaker 4: the Latani River and he goes on to say all
23:36
Speaker 4: houses near the Lebanese border will be destroyed in accordance
23:40
Speaker 4: with the model used in Rafa and Bethanan in Gaza.
23:44
Speaker 4: So effectively, he's saying we want to continue with the
23:47
Speaker 4: ethnic cleansing program of the entire region. Now, last night, interestingly,
23:54
Speaker 4: we heard three big explosions which were in fact apparently
24:00
Speaker 4: and Israeli worship firing at what is effectively a civilian area,
24:06
Speaker 4: targeted three vehicles. You can see the fires in the background,
24:10
Speaker 4: very close also to the Egyptian embassy and a number
24:14
Speaker 4: of other embassies. So they're moving in. If we look
24:16
Speaker 4: at the map, we can see exactly where that is
24:20
Speaker 4: on the coastline itself. So they're basically going further north
24:26
Speaker 4: from the southern suburbs and now starting to attack really
24:31
Speaker 4: civilian areas closer to Central Bay Route. And the blue
24:34
Speaker 4: circle was another attack yesterday.
24:37
Speaker 5: We're still not sure what that was.
24:39
Speaker 4: It could even potentially be an American assassination attack by Drome,
24:43
Speaker 4: but that hasn't been clarified yet. So the targeting is
24:48
Speaker 4: coming in closer to Central Bay Route. And I also
24:51
Speaker 4: just wanted to show the next map which demonstrates the
24:54
Speaker 4: importance of the fall of Syria. We talked about it
24:57
Speaker 4: reference the Straits of Allmus and the war against Duran.
25:01
Speaker 4: But here near Mount Vermont, which is the blue circle
25:05
Speaker 4: that you can see there, the Israeli forces are now
25:08
Speaker 4: gathering gathering that relates to the eastern buffer zone that
25:12
Speaker 4: I showed on the previous map, and they're looking at
25:16
Speaker 4: invading from this area. So, as I said, it was
25:19
Speaker 4: incredibly important for the Israelis that Sia fall.
25:24
Speaker 5: At the point that it did.
25:26
Speaker 4: And then just coming back to the concept of what's
25:31
Speaker 4: happening here in Lebanon itself internally.
25:35
Speaker 5: This is Amal Sade.
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Speaker 4: She's a professor at the American University of Beirut. She
25:40
Speaker 4: put out a thread the link will be in the
25:42
Speaker 4: show notes, and she discusses how, in fact, the Lebanese
25:47
Speaker 4: government is very much responsible of subverting the actual existence
25:55
Speaker 4: of a state in Lebanon. So what she's saying is
25:57
Speaker 4: this morning, the Lebanese army withdrew from the frontline Christian
26:01
Speaker 4: villages of Remenabelle and i and Ebel under orders not
26:05
Speaker 4: to defend itself despite protests from local residents. In fact,
26:10
Speaker 4: more recently today I found out that some of the
26:12
Speaker 4: soldiers who were from the area refused to withdraw, and
26:16
Speaker 4: they were told to remove their uniforms if they wanted
26:19
Speaker 4: to stay defend the Christian towns, and they did so.
26:23
Speaker 4: At the same time, sorry, if I can just have
26:25
Speaker 4: that back on. At the same time, the state has
26:28
Speaker 4: recently issued a directive to evacuate thirteen displacement centers in
26:33
Speaker 4: the Saar Governorate, so sort of midpoint in the southern area,
26:37
Speaker 4: in compliance with Israeli military demands, denying shelter to tens
26:41
Speaker 4: of thousands of inhabitants as Israel moves to ethnically cleanse
26:45
Speaker 4: in the south. In a parallel development that exposes the
26:49
Speaker 4: absurdity of the compliance, Israel declared today it's intent to
26:53
Speaker 4: demolish Lebanese villages along the Rafa model in trench, a
26:57
Speaker 4: permanent occupation line at the Latani within a wider security
27:01
Speaker 4: zone extending some forty kilometers north of the border to
27:04
Speaker 4: Zaharani and bar the return of hundreds of thousands of
27:08
Speaker 4: display Southerners, and effectively the Lebanese government is enabling and
27:12
Speaker 4: facilitating that.
27:16
Speaker 1: Thanks Vanessa. Now we'll move on then back to the
27:21
Speaker 1: sort of Iran and Patrick Henninson, as everybody will know,
27:26
Speaker 1: is still in the United States. He has sent us
27:28
Speaker 1: this report from on the ground in Arizona and Texas
27:32
Speaker 1: because he's been speaking to people over there about their
27:34
Speaker 1: attitudes to the war. So let's just have a watch
27:37
Speaker 1: of his report.
27:41
Speaker 9: The war in Iran is fast becoming a divisive issue
27:45
Speaker 9: in America. It's causing a visible split within the MAGA
27:49
Speaker 9: movement in Trump's base, and now in the run up
27:52
Speaker 9: to the midterm elections in twenty twenty six, images of
27:55
Speaker 9: death and destruction of US troop deployments into the Persian Gulf,
28:01
Speaker 9: bombing raids on Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, and Iraq. Accusations that
28:08
Speaker 9: the United States is being pulled into a war on
28:11
Speaker 9: behalf of Israel. All of these things are grading at
28:15
Speaker 9: the Republican base at the magabase, causing dissension among the ranks.
28:21
Speaker 9: The polling on this is stark. Latest poll show that
28:25
Speaker 9: in America the majority in fact strongly oppose this war.
28:30
Speaker 9: Other polling shows that in recent history, this war, the
28:34
Speaker 9: undeclared war on Iran, is the most unpopular war in
28:39
Speaker 9: recent decades, the most unpopular in fact since the Vietnam War.
28:44
Speaker 9: That's how contentious this issue is becoming. You have defectors
28:48
Speaker 9: like Marjorie Taylor Green basically accusing Trump and the GOP
28:52
Speaker 9: of betraying voters over this same issue. So the America
28:56
Speaker 9: First campaign or movement, the MAGA movement, is now fracturing.
29:02
Speaker 9: This is also being reflected in recent elections. During the
29:05
Speaker 9: recent special elections, Democrats flipped twelve state legislative seats, and
29:11
Speaker 9: I Pack candidates in Democratic primaries in Illinois were roundly defeated.
29:16
Speaker 9: So even the big money of the Israeli lobby isn't
29:20
Speaker 9: enough to sway voters who have very strong feelings and
29:24
Speaker 9: strong views on this issue. So we decided to go
29:28
Speaker 9: on the ground to do a temperature check, as it were,
29:31
Speaker 9: in a couple of red states, well ostensibly read you
29:35
Speaker 9: could say purple here in Arizona, but also in Texas
29:39
Speaker 9: as well, to try to get a feel for what
29:43
Speaker 9: Trump voters or people who may have supported Trump in
29:45
Speaker 9: the past or feeling about this warning run and how
29:49
Speaker 9: that can affect the upcoming midterms in the fall.
29:53
Speaker 10: We go to what side of the alire on red, blue, right, left.
29:57
Speaker 10: I don't think anybody likes war and appreciates Warren. I
30:01
Speaker 10: think historically, if you look back at a war during
30:06
Speaker 10: election time, it's more more times than not, it's hindered,
30:10
Speaker 10: hurt the the incomness.
30:14
Speaker 11: I mean, it will fit, it will affect the midterms
30:16
Speaker 11: because people are tired. People are tired of their promises
30:20
Speaker 11: being broken. People are tired of the bs and smoke
30:24
Speaker 11: screen you know that's out there. Uh it's like, hey,
30:28
Speaker 11: we got a war. Look over here, don't look over
30:31
Speaker 11: what we're taking away from you and you know and
30:35
Speaker 11: left you with nothing. So yeah, people are going to
30:38
Speaker 11: get out and vote, you know, And uh, I'm gonna
30:41
Speaker 11: be out there myself voting.
30:44
Speaker 12: I think what people voted for is not what's happening.
30:48
Speaker 12: The getting into what We've had such bad experience in
30:52
Speaker 12: getting in wars in the Middle East, and we don't
30:54
Speaker 12: seem to really have justification for going into war now,
30:58
Speaker 12: and so I just don't think that this is the
31:03
Speaker 12: way American democracy is supposed to be working.
31:07
Speaker 13: I respect that they felt like they were voting for
31:10
Speaker 13: the right thing, but I feel like he's just led
31:12
Speaker 13: to all these people, and he's making it clear that
31:15
Speaker 13: they were lies. He did not mean that he was
31:18
Speaker 13: to have warr. I can't imagine he would even want
31:21
Speaker 13: to get a Nobel prize, and yet he's the one
31:24
Speaker 13: putting us into wars.
31:26
Speaker 14: Yeah, the war is making everything worse. What people don't
31:30
Speaker 14: realize and Trump doesn't realize, oil is a global market.
31:35
Speaker 14: It is not the United States. He keeps bragging about
31:38
Speaker 14: how much oil we have here, more than anyone else,
31:41
Speaker 14: all right, But the United States has not set the
31:44
Speaker 14: price on oil. It's a global market, and so that
31:47
Speaker 14: is affecting the cost of everything.
31:49
Speaker 9: So there is a general feeling brewing under the surface
31:54
Speaker 9: that the longer this conflict goes on, the deeper the
31:58
Speaker 9: United States gets dragged into it, the more damage that's
32:01
Speaker 9: going to do to the GOP, to the Trump administration,
32:07
Speaker 9: to the MAGA movement, which is disintegrating as we speak.
32:11
Speaker 9: And also it means that it's very possible that, based
32:14
Speaker 9: on pulling right across the board, the Democrats, if the
32:18
Speaker 9: midterms were to happen this week, would basically be challenging
32:22
Speaker 9: for both the House and the Senate. It's a dead
32:25
Speaker 9: heat and those margins are only going to get thinner
32:29
Speaker 9: the closer we get to November. And meanwhile, the economy
32:33
Speaker 9: is reeling. Gas prices are steadily heading up. Certainly in California.
32:39
Speaker 9: We've seen reports in southern California as high as eight
32:42
Speaker 9: dollars per gallon of gasoline, and in this state of
32:47
Speaker 9: Arizona here we're pushing up above right around and above
32:51
Speaker 9: five dollars a gallon. Now, those numbers are only going
32:54
Speaker 9: to go up as pressure on the global oil markets increases.
32:59
Speaker 9: On the future markets, all of that is going to
33:02
Speaker 9: translate to more pain at the pump for American consumers
33:06
Speaker 9: and all those people who supported Trump and he promised
33:10
Speaker 9: we're going to lower gas prices and stop the wars.
33:13
Speaker 9: We're getting the opposite here right now in America. So
33:17
Speaker 9: it's going to be very interesting coming weeks and months.
33:20
Speaker 9: This is Patrick Henningson reporting for the UK Column News.
33:27
Speaker 1: And thanks to Patrick for that. Okay, let's move on
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36:45
Speaker 1: It answers a lot of questions about Zionism, about Israel,
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Speaker 1: about the relationship of Zionism to Tommy Robinson and that
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Speaker 1: interview if you possibly can. Let's move on then to
37:02
Speaker 1: airborne early warning, or at least not airborne early warning,
37:05
Speaker 1: but early warning systems for missile defense in the UK. Now,
37:09
Speaker 1: the British government, as everyone will know, has effectively shut
37:13
Speaker 1: down a North Sea oil and replaced with windmills. Except
37:17
Speaker 1: we're nigh on a war footing since that happened, and
37:20
Speaker 1: our biggest enemy is Russia, we're told, and Russia is
37:23
Speaker 1: of course on the other side of the North Sea.
37:25
Speaker 1: As we reported back in twenty twenty one, this means
37:28
Speaker 1: that our early warning radar doesn't work. And so the
37:31
Speaker 1: then Tory government launched a competition to try to sort
37:36
Speaker 1: out the problem, and they said that while reflections from
37:41
Speaker 1: the stationary elements of wind turbines can be removed by
37:45
Speaker 1: utilizing stationary clutter filters, the rotating turbine blades blades import
37:50
Speaker 1: in part a Doppler shift on the reflection that cannot
37:53
Speaker 1: be easily removed. So the Ministry of Defense has been
37:57
Speaker 1: explicit about the consequences and put that back on screen
38:01
Speaker 1: in an objection letter to the planning process. They say
38:05
Speaker 1: that when turbines have been shown to have detrimental effects
38:08
Speaker 1: on the operation of radar, including desensitization of radar in
38:11
Speaker 1: the vicinity of turbines and the creation of false aircraft returns,
38:15
Speaker 1: the probability of the radar detecting aircraft flying over or
38:18
Speaker 1: in the facinity of the turbines would be reduced. Hence,
38:21
Speaker 1: turbine proliferation within a specific locality can result in unacceptable
38:25
Speaker 1: degradation of the radar's operational integrity, reducing the RAF's ability
38:30
Speaker 1: to detect in the tear aircraft in UK sovereign airspace.
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Speaker 1: So the Ministry of Defense ran a multi phase competition
38:38
Speaker 1: to find what they're describing as mitigation technologies. It was
38:42
Speaker 1: funded through the net zero Innovation Portfolio and Phase one
38:46
Speaker 1: was in twenty twenty one. That was two million pounds
38:48
Speaker 1: in contracts awarded the Thallas Kinetic TWI Plextel sorry Plextech
38:56
Speaker 1: DTS in order to fast track ideas for coductor technology
39:00
Speaker 1: to could mitigate this. And then Phase two then took
39:03
Speaker 1: place in twenty twenty one as well, another three point
39:06
Speaker 1: eight million pounds in contracts. Solutions being developed including multi
39:10
Speaker 1: static staring radar systems. You can work out what that is,
39:14
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you have a look for passive sensors
39:16
Speaker 1: mounted on turbine the cells to transform turbines from radar
39:19
Speaker 1: disruptors into surveillance assets. I mean, the language that they
39:22
Speaker 1: use is so funny. And then concept demonstrations in twenty
39:27
Speaker 1: twenty two, including the Wind Farm Mitigation Concept Demonstration Program
39:32
Speaker 1: which is funded by members of the Offshore Wind Industry
39:35
Speaker 1: Council and delivered by the Ministry Defense. And then Phase
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Speaker 1: three happened in August twenty twenty three, another three point
39:42
Speaker 1: two million pounds awarded to two projects and so on.
39:46
Speaker 1: So this has been ongoing for years. Well, the latest
39:50
Speaker 1: is a new announcement and that is a new radar
39:54
Speaker 1: systems to unlock offshore wind. This was nine just a
39:58
Speaker 1: week or so ago. Up to ten gig watts of
40:02
Speaker 1: offshore wind capacity will be unlocked as a result of
40:05
Speaker 1: government upgrades to air defense radars. And they're saying that
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Speaker 1: these new radars will be installed from early twenty twenty
40:12
Speaker 1: nine and they're going to keep the British people safe
40:14
Speaker 1: by maintaining the UK's air defense capability. Radars like these
40:18
Speaker 1: are crucial part of UK's air defense, enabling the detection
40:21
Speaker 1: and identification of incursions within the UK airspace. So that's
40:27
Speaker 1: if early twenty twenty nine is considered soon. And this
40:32
Speaker 1: press release, by the way, was issued jointly between the
40:36
Speaker 1: Ministry Defense and the Department for Energy Security and net
40:39
Speaker 1: zero and really because the net zero agenda has completely
40:44
Speaker 1: wrecked their efforts to maintain defensive capability according to the
40:50
Speaker 1: Ministry of Defense anyway, but anyway, how much is this
40:52
Speaker 1: going to cost? Well, according to thed acquisition pipeline. It's
40:56
Speaker 1: likely to be around one and a half billion pints
41:00
Speaker 1: in total to roll this thing. So, Charles, I don't
41:03
Speaker 1: know if you've got any thoughts on that, but you know,
41:05
Speaker 1: big money being spent. I mean, not very much money
41:08
Speaker 1: on the competition itself, but neither the competition has finished
41:12
Speaker 1: and the contracts are ready to be awarded, it's going
41:14
Speaker 1: to be pretty big money.
41:17
Speaker 6: Yeah, it will be. And I think it's just yet
41:19
Speaker 6: another example of money being spent in a way that
41:23
Speaker 6: could have been done better, shall we say, to speak
41:25
Speaker 6: very diplomatically, but also I mean, you know what an
41:27
Speaker 6: insult to have money spent in effect to try to
41:31
Speaker 6: sort out a problem that had already cost an awful
41:34
Speaker 6: lot of money. And we see this at a time
41:36
Speaker 6: where we are setting the narrative against the backdrop of
41:40
Speaker 6: a war that of course is going to end up
41:42
Speaker 6: costing huge, huge amounts of money. And of course we've
41:45
Speaker 6: referred to air defense earlier. One thing that I should
41:47
Speaker 6: have included my previous reports. We've just committed to another
41:50
Speaker 6: one hundred million pounds to air defense in Ukraine. And
41:54
Speaker 6: so it is a terrific insult, and frankly why should
41:59
Speaker 6: the British people have any trust in the establishment whatsoever.
42:03
Speaker 1: Indeed, but there's more energy related news.
42:08
Speaker 6: There is, absolutely and I think this well, it does
42:11
Speaker 6: follow very neatly that. And essentially we have, yes, another
42:14
Speaker 6: situation that is presented as an emergency by the government,
42:18
Speaker 6: not just this government, of course, but in such terms
42:21
Speaker 6: as to suggest there was nothing they could have done
42:23
Speaker 6: to avert it, and yet it might make sense to
42:26
Speaker 6: turn to them in order to resolve it. I spoke
42:29
Speaker 6: last week about the International Energy Agency suggesting nudge behavior
42:35
Speaker 6: in terms of reducing travel working from home, that sort
42:38
Speaker 6: of thing. The EU was wrong. The European Commission has
42:42
Speaker 6: followed suit. We've got an article here from Politico saying
42:46
Speaker 6: Brussels says Europeans should consider traveling less to avoid energy shortages.
42:52
Speaker 6: And this is concerning a letter that they'd seen in
42:56
Speaker 6: which it's proposed that national governments should consider voluntary demand
42:59
Speaker 6: say measures, with particular attention to the transport sector. Now,
43:04
Speaker 6: I spoke about the Civil Contingencies Act two thousand and
43:08
Speaker 6: four as an article of legislation that would be able
43:11
Speaker 6: to facilitate this sort of thing being enforced last week.
43:16
Speaker 6: Now might just reference the Department for Energy and net
43:19
Speaker 6: zero and sorry, energy security critical word and net zero
43:24
Speaker 6: And don't worry, they've got it all sorted. They've just
43:26
Speaker 6: produced a fact sheet. Your questions answered on the impact
43:29
Speaker 6: of the conflict in the Middle East. First of all,
43:32
Speaker 6: the UK's gas supply will not be disrupted. Now, as
43:35
Speaker 6: mysterious as it might be to see them committing more
43:38
Speaker 6: defense resources to the Middle East just before the conflict started,
43:43
Speaker 6: and other such things that they claim not to have
43:46
Speaker 6: known about, how is it they can be certain that
43:47
Speaker 6: the gas supply will not be disrupted? An answered question.
43:52
Speaker 6: The biggest threat to energy security is the continued reliance
43:55
Speaker 6: on unstable fossil fuel markets. Again, why would that be
44:01
Speaker 6: a problem. We're also welcoming in a golden era for
44:04
Speaker 6: nuclear with a record investment. I think a question to
44:07
Speaker 6: ask there is, if the United Kingdom's considering doing such
44:11
Speaker 6: a thing, why is it beyond the bounds of credibility
44:13
Speaker 6: that Iran might also have been considering that type of
44:16
Speaker 6: an outcome. On the nuclear side, future expiration in the
44:20
Speaker 6: North Sea is too marginal to make a difference, so
44:23
Speaker 6: effectively we can't do anything, and all roads point back
44:26
Speaker 6: to so called renewables. So we look to the National
44:29
Speaker 6: Energy System Operator boasting here with a picture of a
44:33
Speaker 6: one wind turbine that's turning around. Not the greatest video,
44:36
Speaker 6: of course, because the other two aren't working, but perhaps
44:39
Speaker 6: that's a radar issue. They are claiming that they've got
44:45
Speaker 6: a terrific capability, but one look at their Twitter feed
44:49
Speaker 6: will show and this is just from a couple of
44:50
Speaker 6: days ago. The box highlighted on the left hand side
44:53
Speaker 6: shows that whilst wind and all these technologies might have
44:56
Speaker 6: the capability to carry quite a lot of the supply.
44:58
Speaker 6: In actual fact, gas here shown as running twenty five
45:02
Speaker 6: percent of the country's energy requirement. Now I'm going to
45:07
Speaker 6: show their solution to this, which I have shown a
45:11
Speaker 6: couple of years previously, but it does point to this
45:14
Speaker 6: idea that they are using Iran or indeed any other
45:19
Speaker 6: emergency as an excuse. What I'm showing now is a
45:22
Speaker 6: timetable for your day in which you're going to be
45:26
Speaker 6: encouraged to either switch on or switch off your electrical
45:29
Speaker 6: appliances according to supply and demand, and just I've picked
45:35
Speaker 6: out two examples here. So there's a high intensity, high
45:39
Speaker 6: carbon intensity between six pm and eight pm in this
45:41
Speaker 6: theoretical example, so you're encouraged to switch everything off, whereas
45:45
Speaker 6: between four o'clock and six o'clock in the morning you're
45:47
Speaker 6: supposed to get up and plug stuff in, presumably mostly
45:50
Speaker 6: your electric vehicle. So this is absolutely the direction in
45:53
Speaker 6: which this is going. But of course this is absolutely
45:56
Speaker 6: the result of, as Mike points out, net zero policy
46:00
Speaker 6: and a lot of financial schemes that absolutely have not
46:04
Speaker 6: worked out now on that very subject, and indeed the
46:07
Speaker 6: effects in so far as profiteering and government policy may
46:12
Speaker 6: be considered. We look to the Manx News from the
46:15
Speaker 6: Isle of Man in which they report the farmers are
46:18
Speaker 6: choosing survival over planting as cost serch. Now, this is
46:20
Speaker 6: a story about farmers choosing to withhold fertilizer that they
46:26
Speaker 6: have bought before the price rise in order that they
46:29
Speaker 6: may be able to sell it on to other farmers
46:32
Speaker 6: who are already committed to fertilizing crops that are in
46:34
Speaker 6: the ground. And this speaks really to government policy which
46:39
Speaker 6: has encouraged or put farmers, the majority of farmers in
46:42
Speaker 6: a position where they are slaves to a subsidy system
46:45
Speaker 6: based on the idea that synthetic and chemical inputs are
46:50
Speaker 6: required to sustain any form of production. But of course
46:55
Speaker 6: it'd be very easy to consider this to be a
46:57
Speaker 6: selfish move by the farmers themselves, but of course this
46:59
Speaker 6: is their livelihood and it's very much in keeping with
47:03
Speaker 6: the environmental land management schemes the government has been rolling
47:05
Speaker 6: out over the last couple of years, which of course
47:07
Speaker 6: are to put food production to one side. So as
47:10
Speaker 6: Ben Rubin might say, the purpose of the system is
47:12
Speaker 6: what it does. Of course he has quoted that many
47:15
Speaker 6: times and this appears to be case in point. And
47:17
Speaker 6: now I published yesterday on the theme of chemicals was
47:21
Speaker 6: the third quarter of results from twenty twenty five for
47:23
Speaker 6: the pestig Sorry Pesticide Residues Monitoring Program, a document you
47:28
Speaker 6: might not necessarily think about flicking through, but I would
47:31
Speaker 6: say you should, because during this year's surveillance program we
47:34
Speaker 6: are measuring up to four hundred and twenty three different
47:36
Speaker 6: pesticides in each of the foods we survey. That is
47:40
Speaker 6: an awful lot. And to give an idea of whether
47:43
Speaker 6: the government cares about you to continue about how little
47:46
Speaker 6: attention has been made to help farmers or indeed to
47:50
Speaker 6: set them off on the right track environmentally. We look
47:53
Speaker 6: at chlorate, or specifically the pesticide sodium chlorate, which is
47:56
Speaker 6: described as a residual broad action. We'd killer that is
47:59
Speaker 6: not authorized for use in the EU or the UK.
48:03
Speaker 6: However it is used in what's called food hygiene. So
48:06
Speaker 6: they go on to say that because these residues are
48:09
Speaker 6: unavoidable and important for maintaining microbiological control, vital for food safety,
48:15
Speaker 6: we are not treating these results as breaches of the
48:19
Speaker 6: maximum residue limit. Quite staggering when you stop and think
48:24
Speaker 6: about it, because of course we're talking about most food
48:26
Speaker 6: stuffs now again considering stables and horses bolting. The King's
48:32
Speaker 6: College London have just announced to one point my nine
48:34
Speaker 6: million grant to assess the follic acid policy impact. Now
48:39
Speaker 6: this is to come into effect in December of this year,
48:42
Speaker 6: put down in legislation that milling flour will have follic
48:44
Speaker 6: acid put in it. And only now are they going
48:47
Speaker 6: to commission a three year study to assess how the
48:49
Speaker 6: fortification of non whole meal wheat flour will with follic
48:54
Speaker 6: acid affects maternal and infant health across the United Kingdom.
48:58
Speaker 6: And again, if you're considering whether or not this affects you,
49:01
Speaker 6: and you do anything that has any grain in it,
49:03
Speaker 6: then I would advise that you do read the Food
49:05
Speaker 6: Standards Agency publication on fo acid and exactly what is
49:09
Speaker 6: happening and why. But just as a reminder, and this
49:12
Speaker 6: is very much in the same category as fluoride being
49:15
Speaker 6: added to water. Folic acid is prescribed. It is a medication,
49:20
Speaker 6: and therefore there is an issue of consent and indeed dosage.
49:24
Speaker 6: Not just that. But of course, as the NHS website
49:26
Speaker 6: sets out, there are side effects. Like all medicines, folic
49:30
Speaker 6: acid can cause side effects in some people. And we've
49:33
Speaker 6: heard this one before. In rare cases, folic acid can
49:35
Speaker 6: cause serious allergic reaction. And I'm not suggesting, by any
49:39
Speaker 6: stretch of imagination that I'm scaremongering with ideas that if
49:42
Speaker 6: you eat a piece of bread that has folloic acid
49:45
Speaker 6: in it, this thing this might happen. But it's just
49:47
Speaker 6: the general principle of the introduction of a medication into
49:54
Speaker 6: a food which you cannot control the dosage of, and
49:58
Speaker 6: indeed no consent has being given by the person who
50:01
Speaker 6: is going to be presented with that product. It's a
50:03
Speaker 6: very serious issue and it does speak absolutely back to
50:06
Speaker 6: the issue whether the government cares about you, and this
50:09
Speaker 6: is all wrapped up in the energy policy running all
50:11
Speaker 6: the way through to food, the food that you eat.
50:14
Speaker 1: Well, Charles, we can discuss whether we should be eating
50:16
Speaker 1: bread at all in extra anyway, But let's move back
50:21
Speaker 1: to the Middle East, Vanessa, what's been going on with
50:25
Speaker 1: in Israel with respect to Palestine.
50:29
Speaker 4: Yes, well, a lot of people will have been horrified
50:31
Speaker 4: to see that Israel in the Kinessa effectively voted in
50:37
Speaker 4: the death but pretty much only for Palestinians. Of course,
50:42
Speaker 4: that should come as no surprise, and I just pulled
50:45
Speaker 4: up a BBC report and you'll be surprised to learn
50:50
Speaker 4: that they came out pretty much in support. Now before
50:54
Speaker 4: people raise their voices against that, they certainly don't come
50:57
Speaker 4: out in condemnation.
50:59
Speaker 5: So this is the BBC report.
51:01
Speaker 4: Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks face death penalty under new
51:06
Speaker 4: Israeli law. So immediately they're framing it that it is
51:11
Speaker 4: perfectly justified for Israel to bring in the death penalty.
51:17
Speaker 4: They go on saying that there is some pushback from
51:21
Speaker 4: various civil rights groups, including Amnesty International. If we can
51:25
Speaker 4: just have this up year the Association for Civil Rights
51:28
Speaker 4: in Israel has already petitioned the country's Supreme Court against
51:32
Speaker 4: the law.
51:32
Speaker 13: The law is.
51:33
Speaker 4: Unconstitutional, discriminatory by design, and for West Bank Palestinians, enacted
51:38
Speaker 4: without legal authority. The Supreme Court will now have to
51:41
Speaker 4: consider whether to hear the challenge to the bill. This
51:45
Speaker 4: is the final sentence. Israel has only executed two people
51:49
Speaker 4: in its history, one of them the infamous Nazi official
51:53
Speaker 4: Adolph Weichmann, who played an important role in perpetrating the Holocaust.
51:58
Speaker 4: This is quite extraordinary from the BBC. They are effectively
52:03
Speaker 4: framing this criminal law as being again justified, because you know,
52:09
Speaker 4: Israel doesn't execute many people too in its history, and
52:13
Speaker 4: those were the Nazis.
52:14
Speaker 5: So they're basically.
52:15
Speaker 4: Bringing up the Holocaust concept again as a framing for
52:21
Speaker 4: this entire unbelievable law that Israel has been allowed to
52:26
Speaker 4: bring in. And this is even more discussed in considering
52:30
Speaker 4: the fact that during the vote, far right MPs wore
52:34
Speaker 4: a badge of a noose pinned to their lapel racism
52:41
Speaker 4: hate in plain sight. And the proposed law, as I
52:44
Speaker 4: said again, would apply to Palestinians accused of what they
52:47
Speaker 4: call militant activity would not apply to Jewish Israelis accused
52:51
Speaker 4: of similar acts. Palatinians are tried in military court, Israelis
52:56
Speaker 4: are tried in civilian.
52:57
Speaker 5: Courts, and then again, so all of them are wearing
53:02
Speaker 5: the noose pin.
53:03
Speaker 4: And Itamar Ben Gavier, who was one of the sponsors
53:07
Speaker 4: of the original bill, said, we all came with this pin.
53:11
Speaker 4: One of the options to implement death penalty. There is
53:15
Speaker 4: a possibility of electric chair, I have he's talking about.
53:19
Speaker 4: Hanging has been one possibility. There is the possibility of
53:23
Speaker 4: electric chair. And he says an anesthesia. Of course, that's
53:26
Speaker 4: a very euphemistic way to describe lethal injection. And he
53:31
Speaker 4: says he's received a hundred messages from doctors saying they
53:35
Speaker 4: are ready to administer lethal injections. And they said to him,
53:39
Speaker 4: it's ama, just tell us when he goes on in.
53:44
Speaker 5: Sorry.
53:45
Speaker 4: In the video of him celebrating the vote in the Kanessse,
53:51
Speaker 4: you also see him he brought in a bottle of champagne.
53:54
Speaker 4: He was prevented from opening it. He then came back
53:57
Speaker 4: in with celebratory cakes.
54:00
Speaker 1: Just play this.
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54:20
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54:41
Speaker 4: I have to say statements have been issued from former
54:44
Speaker 4: Palestinian prisoners in Zionas Giles saying, to be honest, the
54:49
Speaker 4: death penalty would be a relief for us after everything,
54:53
Speaker 4: all the torture that we endured in those prisons, which
54:56
Speaker 4: of course include rape and electric cure, beatings, starvation, and
55:03
Speaker 4: all sorts of other Guantanamo Bays style torture methods. So
55:08
Speaker 4: this is just a summary basically of what the death
55:11
Speaker 4: penalty actually is going to entail if we can have
55:16
Speaker 4: this up. So there's no age limit or exclusion of children,
55:20
Speaker 4: so there is potential for a kid that's thrown a
55:23
Speaker 4: stone at a tank that they will be hung.
55:27
Speaker 5: Death so far is by.
55:29
Speaker 4: Hanging, but of course you saw Ben Gavie, they're introducing
55:32
Speaker 4: other potential methods. The sentencing is mandatory and the right
55:37
Speaker 4: to appeal is an absolute fat Because I look this
55:40
Speaker 4: up at the Adamere Human Rights Center, so basically the
55:46
Speaker 4: right to appeal. The rulings are decided by a simple majority,
55:49
Speaker 4: no unanimity. Judges are not required to hold a senior rank.
55:55
Speaker 4: It's also allegedly right now, it's not retroactive, so in
55:59
Speaker 4: other words, it's not going to include people that were
56:01
Speaker 4: involved in October the seventh, But the Knesset has approved
56:05
Speaker 4: a separate bill, the Law on Trial of participants in
56:10
Speaker 4: October the seventh, so effectively it is going to be retroactive.
56:15
Speaker 4: At the same time, they are only given ninety days
56:18
Speaker 4: from the sentencing to the execution. Of course, heaven knows
56:23
Speaker 4: the amount of torture that can actually happen in three
56:25
Speaker 4: months prior to.
56:27
Speaker 5: The actual execution.
56:28
Speaker 4: It's applied through military courts, which has a ninety seven
56:31
Speaker 4: zero point five percent conviction rate. And as I said,
56:37
Speaker 4: it doesn't apply to Israelis. And right now, bear in
56:41
Speaker 4: mind those eleven thousand estimated Palestinians in prison, including two thousand,
56:47
Speaker 4: five hundred children. And I mentioned the organization Adamir. They
56:52
Speaker 4: have an appeal up on their website the linkers in
56:56
Speaker 4: the show notes, and I please ask people to go
57:00
Speaker 4: and do what is requested through that appeal. To prevent
57:05
Speaker 4: this law coming into effect, and they also say within
57:09
Speaker 4: the body of the appeal, it's not incidental that this
57:13
Speaker 4: has come in. It's the logical continuation of unchecked genocide
57:17
Speaker 4: and erasure of Palestinians. It's the normalization of systematic state murder,
57:23
Speaker 4: and it is the prison system itself is a central
57:26
Speaker 4: infrastructure of state terrorism. And then finally Craig Moreheiber, former
57:33
Speaker 4: Yuan official, came out with this on x immediately. The
57:37
Speaker 4: Israeli regime has just adopted a race based law to
57:40
Speaker 4: allow the regime to murder Palestinian prisoners by hanging. The
57:43
Speaker 4: regime's prisons, already notorious for systematic torture, abuse, sexual assault, beatings,
57:50
Speaker 4: and denial of food, clean water, sanitation, and medical care
57:54
Speaker 4: to Palestinian prisoners, will now officially be transformed into death camps.
57:58
Speaker 4: The new legislation adds to dozens of Israeli apartheid laws
58:03
Speaker 4: on the books and to the regime's long history of
58:05
Speaker 4: legalizing human rights violations against Palestinians. It is utterly appalling
58:12
Speaker 4: to me that this has happened, but perhaps not surprising.
58:16
Speaker 1: Yes, Vanessa, Okay, well, that's pretty grim news and interesting
58:22
Speaker 1: that criticism of the BBC was part of that. So
58:26
Speaker 1: let's just do a little bit more, because the Ministry
58:29
Speaker 1: of Defense in the UK has issued a press release
58:32
Speaker 1: growing that the RAF Regiment has been declared crack Gunners
58:39
Speaker 1: from the RAF Regiment have become issus for the first time.
58:43
Speaker 1: The press release said, having blasted Iranian drones out of
58:46
Speaker 1: the sky during operations in the Middle East, protecting British interests,
58:50
Speaker 1: partners and personnel in the region. Now, this is just
58:53
Speaker 1: one example of Starmar regime propaganda being pumped out at
58:57
Speaker 1: the moment. And so did the BBC challenge nonsense, will
59:00
Speaker 1: know they didn't and worse than that. To take one
59:03
Speaker 1: example is Nick that of Nick Robinson on the Today
59:07
Speaker 1: Program yesterday simply regurgitating the government line, including the Israeli
59:11
Speaker 1: government line by the way, no challenge, no accountability in
59:16
Speaker 1: anything that he was presenting yesterday, and I don't believe
59:19
Speaker 1: it's any different any other day. And then we have,
59:22
Speaker 1: of course the story of yet another BBC presenter sacked
59:26
Speaker 1: because the lid finally came off his alleged sexual proclivities.
59:29
Speaker 1: And once again the BBC already knew, and once again
59:35
Speaker 1: they apologize and the question has to be asked, how
59:39
Speaker 1: many times does this have to happen? How much pro government,
59:43
Speaker 1: pro war propaganda does the public have to swallow before
59:46
Speaker 1: people abandon the TV license wants and for all. Well,
59:50
Speaker 1: it looks like the message is getting through because the BBC,
59:54
Speaker 1: according to the Express here, issued forty six million television
59:58
Speaker 1: license fee warning letter in one year last year in
1:00:02
Speaker 1: a bid to reverse what the Express describes as plunging revenues.
1:00:08
Speaker 1: The Express said that households were sent the letters in
1:00:10
Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty five, during which time cancellations and
1:00:15
Speaker 1: fee evasion apparently cost the BBC over one point one
1:00:20
Speaker 1: billion pounds. So it looks like between the sexual well
1:00:26
Speaker 1: scandals in inverted commas plus the war propaganda, more and
1:00:32
Speaker 1: more people are switching off from that organization and are
1:00:36
Speaker 1: switching off from live TV altogether, apparently no longer paying
1:00:39
Speaker 1: their television licenses and that is costing the BBC dear
1:00:43
Speaker 1: So anyway, we will take that as a piece of
1:00:45
Speaker 1: positive news to finish the program on today. Thank you
1:00:48
Speaker 1: very much Finessa and Charles for your contributions, and thanks
1:00:52
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